Bring back sports like this, please.
Sports aren’t even sports anymore. This is getting totally out of control. Nobody can be expected to handle a little adversity, real or imagined, on a field of play. That’s pretty much what happened yesterday, aside from the Astros, Yankees, and Rays winning their playoff series and moving on. Some more teams will do so today.
Big birthdays today are Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, aviation pioneer William Boeing, martial arts instructor Ip Man, baseball player Jimmie Reese, outlaw Bonnie Parker, acting great Walter Matthau, president Jimmy Carter, SC justice William Rehnquist, the A-Team’s George Peppard, the lovely actress Julie Andrews, baseball HOFer Rod Carew, pitcher Jeff Reardon, British PM Theresa May, steroid aficionado Mark McGwire, and bigmouth actress of limited ability Brie Larson.
Now on to…the links!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
This ought to be interesting. We could really use some European discord. It’s long overdue, to be honest.
This should go over really well. Especially with a lot of hispanic immigrants who recently became citizens.
They supposedly have this guy.
Looks like the LA Sheriff’s Dept has got their man. And if this adds up to you, can you show me your math? Mine works out to a different solution.
The march through the institutions continues. This is getting totally fucking retarded.
Miami-Dade and Naples (Fla) Counties…you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. The rest of the state, you did a pretty decent job. Now time to pardon the “fines” that were levied against people who had broken no law.
It’s a story as old as our education system. The kid, in this case, was refreshingly honest.
Business as usual in Chicago. Because they couldn’t just grant the tax collection permit to all applicants and let them set up business as they want…you know, something called freedom.
Still closed in the face of all the evidence…idiots.
Wait, they’re still fucking closed?!?! You know, the kids being indoctrinated in that city are fucked up enough. Now they’ve apparently not even been able to play for six months? Wow.
I hope they toss these asshole kids in jail for a long time. And I hope the police rethink their strategy of busting down doors with guns drawn.
Just a song about a car. And a damn fine one at that.
Now go have a great day, friends.
Mornin… sloopy
Well… that picture certainly woke me up.
something, something, innsmouth look.
The UK should stop wasting their time talking to the EU and just throw the last of them out, and anyone fishing in their waters is poaching, arrest them.
Note – I did not read the CNN article, it was CNN
The San Diego Loyal walked off the field in protest Wednesday night, saying a Phoenix Rising player used an anti-gay slur directed at midfielder Collin Martin in the first half of their USL Championship match.
There was many a “anti-gay slur” lobbed during my soccer playing days. These pussy-assed fags can’t take the heat.
“Our guys, to their immense credit, just said, ‘We’re not going to stand for this,'” Donovan said in the video. “They were very clear in that moment that they were giving up all hopes of making the playoffs, even though they were beating one of the best teams in the league handedly. But they said that doesn’t matter, there’s things more important in life and we have to stick up for what we believe in. And so they made the decision to walk off.”
Looks like they were winning 3-1, and perhaps fell for the only thing that could get them to lose the game.
I can’t even fathom the level of verbal abuse Landycakes must have endured while he was playing. Anyone who thinks the US is one of the worst countries in the world when it comes to this sort of thing is not paying attention.
Two years ago during the World Cup, he was doing commercials trying to get Americans to root for Mexico, a team whose fans notably hurl all sorts of abusive language toward opposing goalkeepers.
Fucking hypocrite.
Just a song about a car
*EDIT FAIRY CONFUZZLED*
You sure?
Just a song about a car
A better song about a car.
This song has a much higher concentration of songs per lyric though
Good one.
Here’s another.
I am dissapoint that no one linked this classic driving song or this one about home ownership.
Good one.
Seconded.
Southern Culture on the Skids and Caddies
I prefer Hot Rod Lincolns
I went through two Town Cars. I considered, for one of them, doing something like what the owner of the Cam Master did.
Still better than his usual links. 😉
Looks like that link was like this car.
So I screwed up….
Just a song about a car.
I’m a little disappointed today’s music wasn’t The A-Team theme music.
We could really use some European discord. It’s long overdue, to be honest.
The UK needs to learn to use the words “Fuck off, you cuntes”.
Progress!
We shouldn’t be told about their racial diversity. We should decide for ourselves after seeing their published mugshots.
Seriously, SWATting needs to result in very long sentences. I hope these people get one.
Can you really blame the cops though? A college cheerleader, who probably rooms with other cheerleaders, has scissors. Which means everyone’s lingerie is probably in tatters…
But yeah, SWATting = attempted murder.
Every 80’s college movie should have ended in a SWAT raid.
https://itsalwayssunny.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gang_Hits_the_Slopes
Are we using the academic definition of diversity, or the shitlord definition?
What’s the difference?
One believes diversity is diverse in anything but maters of core held insane beliefs, while the other believes individuals are individuals?…
Under academic diversity, a group made up entirely of marxist black women is “diverse” while under the shitlord definition, there is zero diversity.
Historic California law establishes path to reparations for Black people, descendants of slaves
Every person alive is descendant from slaves and slaveowners. I am so tired of this stupid horseshit.
No one alive in the US was legally enslaved or legally owned slaves. It is time to move on.
Not to mention that the population of California (even setting aside outside of the country immigration) bears no direct resemblance to the direct descendants of ante bellum California.
Or that California was a free state that only really grew just before the war.
If they’re going to study reparations (and I know, I know… it will be coming) — the Chinese/Asian community and what’s left of any Native American tribes have more to talk about [though the Native Americans should send the bill to Spain, frankly].
Hopefully work-from-home will continue to grow and I can stand a good chance of getting work if I move further from Silly Valley (like back to the South East)… and hopefully I could actually find someone crazy enough to buy my house… because it is really looking like past time to get out of this insanity.
“The march through the institutions continues. This is getting totally fucking retarded.”
Getting?
When you have people that are willing to destroy those that call out the idiocy that wants to make a mockery of biology (the party of science!, indeed) already happening, by government fiat and because they codify it, do you not think they will not see anything wrong with deciding any and all laws of physics/nature/human nature can simply be reversed by government diktat?
The Soviets used to always do their science and anything else couched in the marxist drivel, and while some of them managed to figure important shit out, in general it was disastrous and lead to body counts in the millions.
That’s where these people are taking us today. I blame stupid movies where skinny short chicks under 100lbs beat up burly 300 lbs of muscle dudes for this idocy.
Yep exactly, have you seen “Citizen X”? Nyet, nyet, serial killer is symbol of western greed and decadence, we do not have one here.
A former Wisconsin school staffer accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old student was sentenced to six months in jail — with the judge branding her “the nightmare of every parent.”
She ain’t exactly a 10, but also not a nightmare. ///jk
This kid though: The boy confirmed he had two sexual encounters with Roznowski, who allegedly told him that he was “special and deserved special things.”
He also told detectives: “Well, it is every kid’s dream to do a teacher,” according to the report.
*salute.gif*
Good morning, Sloopy!
Wow, that image…
Sports aren’t even sports anymore.
Well, it is soccer. Interestingly, in almost 50 years of playing, I don’t think I’ve ever played in a hockey game that didn’t include gay slurs. Or worse.
Sack up, buttercup. This fragility is toxic for everyone.
Man there’s some golden derp in your lynx today. The SEAL thing is absolutely hilarious. Prediction: no woman will ever serve in that capacity. Sorry, ladies.
What the fuck are those idiot cops going in like SEAL Team 6 for that bullshit anyway? Send someone over to check on the situation. These stupid fucks just can’t wait to get their guns out.
“Well, it is every kid’s dream to do a teacher,” Was the kid’s name Waldo?
Great song from a great time. I saw that tour and it was everything an over-the-top rock show should be.
I hope y’all have a groovy day!
In 1989, I was in the 7th Infantry Division (Light), out of Ft. Ord, CA. We deployed to Panama that December. Upon our return to CA, that song became the unofficial anthem of the Division and was played absolutely everywhere (every ceremony, after the anthem at the post movie theaters, every platoon picnic, etc.). I’ve been trying to avoid it for 30 years.
Quebec is in police state mode now.
What a disgrace this place is. Legault: May you rot in hell.
It’s unbelievable to me how many here seemingly don’t realize what’s happening/going to happen in the big picture. I think they’re honestly not pushing back because they’re completely delusional about the effect of what’s being forced on them.
Good baseball list, I won’t even bother looking up who you missed. Plus history’s greatest monster!
Walter Matthau is not history’s greatest monster!
Drumpf debate kills democracy.
Rice said, “Let’s be clear how the rest of the world reacted. Our friends and allies, I believe, did a collective faceplant of just shame and embarrassment and despair. Vladimir Putin is doing the happy dance in the Kremlin tonight because, leaving aside the white supremacy comments or lack of comments about white supremacy, what Donald Trump did in his unhinged ranting and raving was to discredit civil discourse, disparage the American people, to whom he didn’t even give the dignity of serious responses, and to get up and say before the American people yet again that he will not respect the results of this election unless he himself is the winner, which is the idea of democracy. So Vladimir Putin is doing the happening the happy dance and, in Beijing, state media is crowing that the debate was chaotic, disorderly and shows democracy is a form of government that should be discredited and discarded, and their form is in fact correct.”
Says the proven liar, Susan Rice. Yeah — like we care what she thinks.
what democrasy?
“Did I get ‘white supremacy’ in there enough? I don’t want to record this again.”
Well at least something good came out of it.
Last night. I was remembering last October when the big news stories were how awesome the economy was and some fake Russia stuff.
The kid, in this case, was refreshingly honest.
I don’t think he was right though, because I didnt have that dream. It never really occurred to me.
Really, only the art teacher.
My Spanish teacher was muy calienete.
^this.
Those curves.
Ay Chijuajua!
nerd.
Localish news gone national. Makes me proud?
This one’s not a 10 but she’s at least 2.5 points higher than any teacher I ever had, which made it rather easy to avoid fantasizing.
^^This^^
I only remember one “young” teacher in my high school, and she was okay, but not especially attractive. And I didnt have her in class.
9th grade science teacher. Built like a brick house. Dressed like a Republican senator’s wife. Discipline of a dominatrix.
12th grade history class, student teacher two years older than all of us, rocking the black hair / black eyeliner / black glasses / black dress thing that was in the air in the late 90’s.
My heart is aflutter.
I had a few teachers in grade school and high school that caught my eye. More in grade school than in high school.
Strangely, I don’t remember any female professors during my undergrad catching my eye. One or two TAs did.
WTF is wrong with the Irish? For that mather with most of Western Europe in that EU shitshow. this HAS to be a joke, right. I am no fan of Subway, but that the Supreme Court has to make a ruling on what constitutes bread tells you these people have abdicated their adulthood.
Commence with the long PP jokes
“a nine-person task force that will study the impact of slavery on Black people in California”
Maybe Plisade and the other California Glibs can verify this, but I don’t remember any plantations and slavery in California from my history classes. Must’ve been those days I was asleep.
Commifornia joined as a free state.
In the past few decades, it has become a slave state.
Ouch…. the truth, it stings…
Not African American slavery no… you could have a discussion about the Spanish colonial caste system and pseudo or actual slavery there. But again — that bill should go to Madrid.
I thought that some Asian immigrants where kept in slavery-in-practice if not slavery-in-name during the railroad expansion.
I know that some Asians and Asian-Americans were kept in slavery in the 1940’s….
Yea, but that was probably the doing of some hardcore Republican.
/sarc, but not too far off from what some people actually believe
Scruffy Stones update:
Holy sweet baby Cthulhu, the last 16 hours have been like a trip to hell. The trapped gas in my intestines would not release and my abdomen has been distended a good three inches. I thought I was going to pass out. The pain from the gas was on par with the stone, but it just would not stop.
Finally farted this morning and was thankful that I don’t have to go back to the hospital because of an intestinal blockage, which I was beginning to think I had.
Take your Metamucil, people.
I’d make sure my wife was in earshot. Glad you feel better.
My poor wife was massaging my stomach last night like she was back taking care of our newborns.
Remember how much sludge you’ve feed through those pipes over the years. Time to show a little TLC and heal up.
Did she let you suckle her breasts too?
If I had tried she would have solved my gas problem by perforating my abdomen with a sharp object.
See? Problem solved!
So a win-win?
Ouch. Good luck.
Glad you feel better. Did it sounds like this?
>Metamucil
Bruh let me introduce you to the wonder drug polyetholyn glycoll.
Its not a dessert topping, but it is a floor varnish (https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/chemical-hope)
Wow.
I’m happy you are doing better.
Sorry 🙁
Hope you are feeling better.
The ‘White Supremacists’ of Kenosha and Portland, and Other Media Fairy Tales | Debate Recap
I missed the part of the falsely premised question where the Kenosha Kid was implicated. Perhaps Chris Wallace should have a defamation suit against him along with Biden.
“White supremacy” is an absolute joke at this point.
It just refers to stuff white people are good at.
It is code word for meritocracy. Especially when it pertains to people that feel it is unfair that those that sacrifice or give up on things things they would not setting them to a disadvantage. These people tend to be members of the elite credentialed class, where ineptitude runs rampant and accountability is a dirty fucking word.
thissssss
The critical race theory stuff that says that “being on-time” is white supremacy is the most back-handed racist thing I’ve heard in a while. I worked with a black guy who was a former Commander in the Navy. I would have loved to have been in the room when somebody said that to him.
Shooting other white people?
woman gets surgery to look like a twisted sociopath.
https://www.wivb.com/news/woman-will-have-multiple-plastic-surgeries-to-look-like-kamala-harris-texas-surgeon-says/amp/
I still regret my surgery look more like Walter Mkndale back in 1984.
Wtf is wrong with people?
Higher intelligence has some drawbacks.
Mike judge was wrong Idiocracy is already here.
If she wants the full look, she needs to incarcerate a bunch of POCs doing non violent crimes.
That’s dedication to Halloween
Debates commission plans to cut off mics if Trump or Biden break rules
Debates commission plans to cut off mics if Trump
or Bidenbreaks rulesThe next one is a town hall format, can’t Trump just keep walking and shout?
Biden can do the old man shuffle and whisper.
Any rules against hair sniffing?
So you’re saying 7 of the students involved were nonwhite? But lets point out that 3 whites were involved. FFS. Why is it even relevant?
because fomenting a race war polls well
So my thoughts on the reaction to how the debates went. The general “it was a shitshow” reaction leads me to believe that it didn’t look good for Biden. If he had looked good they would be crowing. Add in that they want to change the rules now, makes it seem like they think they need a rule change to protect Biden.
In short, it was probably shitty but the reaction indicates that people think Biden lost.
Disclaimer: I didn’t watch it
It wasn’t really a shitshow in my opinion. Fair amount of mud-slinging. Generally entertaining.
they need a rule change to protect Biden
Yeah, two moderators to make it 3 v 1 against Trump.
One of my biggest Dem friends seriously asked me if I thought the debate moderator was biased towards Biden like he did. I almost died of a heart attack.
He looked lame.
They tried to tag team Trump and he went all WWE on them.
There is nothing smart about you, Joe.
For me the interest paid to these so-called ‘debates’ is a great indicator of how mad society can get.
Two inveterate liars stand there lying, ‘answering’ questions posed by a third liar. Every liar is hoping to trick audience members into an action that they fear the audience members would not take if they were told the truth.
Everyone knows this. if you were to put the propositions in the above paragraph before people in the US, my guess is that 95% of the population, 19 out of 20, would agree with it wholeheartedly, and another 4% would secretly agree while publicly arguing that they’re wrong.
Yet, despite the almost universal awareness of the utter worthlessness of this exercise, it actually sways elections. Despite it being meaningless drivel, people persist in giving it attention and making decisions based on it.
in a sane world, the presidential debates in their current form would be watched by nobody except the intellectual equivalent of sexual masochists. Yet, here we are…
Hispanics thought Trump won 66-34. That is not good for Biden.
My reaction after review is that Trump pulled a real fast move that most of us failed to see. The guy is cunning as fuck. I am suspecting that Team Trump has realized that this election will NOT follow the mold of previous elections where candidates do these debates to try and convince undecided voters to vote for them. Does anyone here think there are undecided voters out there at this point in numbers that actually might make a difference? Cause I don’t. Team Trump knows that it is now a reality, and it looks to me like Trump went out to be his bombastic self, which invigorates his already high energy base, and encourage them to turn out en masse, while at the same time forcing Biden to say things that would dispirit the coalition of nutjobs who who really don’t support Biden, but are just Trump haters. And Trump won this fight IMO.
Trump repeatedly got Biden to say shit that would piss off one or another of these groups. For example, when he accused Biden of being a socialist and got him to say he was not, he basically got him to disown the Uncle Bernie/AOC wing of the nutjobs. Biden had to say he was not for the economy crushing green deal while then claiming he was. Biden was compelled to tell the audience HE – an old shithead with declining mental health and a penchant for lying while abusing the system he has been part of for close to 5 decades – was in charge of the democratic party (and not Kamala, AOC & Bernie, Liawhata, or any of the other radical, by definition), in order to stave off the accusations of him being a mockery and pawn of the nutwing of the democratic party, which will piss off those Biden promised he would turn America into the new USSR if they supported him. This will hurt him with many in this cabal of insane fucks, which now feels betrayed that Biden promised them he was on their side repeatedly (including on his website) but when push come to shove has to lie.
And he got Biden to contradict himself, repeatedly, on issues that appeal to all that social justice wealth redistribution talk to try and salvage his fucking up with the collectivist mass of idiots, but don’t appeal to centrists and actually scare them. He got Biden to dance around the law enforcement and Antifa issue, making sure that the Trump hating housefraus that see this chaos as anathema will now feel dispirited. He got him to lie again about the revelations of the corrupt nature of his family – his son Hunter – which has to piss of the centrists too. And there was plenty more.
Yeah, I know many Trump people shook their heads and wondered WTF thisshitshow was all about. But I have heard nobody in that group say they now will not vote for Trump. However, the reaction from the left which now wants Biden to skip further debates while claiming he won, is telling. Seriously, if you thought your guy won and the other guy was hurting himself, would you call off other opportunities to allow your guy to fuck him over? I wouldn’t think so….
Well, aren’t you an optimist.
I don’t think he went into that with any 3D chess plan. He just shoots his mouth off. It so happens that his base likes what he says when he shoots his mouth off, and his reluctant and kicking-and-screaming voters just sigh, close their eyes, hold their noses, and pull the lever because Biden is just that much worse.
I give Trump a little more credit. He’s savvy at what he does: sell Trump.
And he knows that…
The other side however is far more brittle, doesn’t like Biden, is only motivated by Trump hatred, and is composed of people that have diametrically opposed needs/wants.
I ain’t calling it 3D or 5D chess, just cunning.
Note that it can still backfire, but I suspect this guy has an instinct to see these things before the credentialed elite crowd does.
He might still be doing this for naught considering the level of cheating I am expecting, though.
He might still be doing this for naught considering the level of cheating I am expecting, though.
Even sans cheating, there’s a very real risk that the “style over substance” crowd swings the election in favor of Biden. I think there are a lot of people turned off by Trump, and the question is whether they’re turned off enough to 1) stay home or 2) vote Biden.
There are three kinds of people…..
And Trump is the dick…
Biden’s party is obviously the assholes…
It took Trump spending a couple trillion to buy votes just to be able to squeak by Biden. Things are not good.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m still bearish on Trump being able to win the actual election. Just my analysis of the analysis of the debates. Since every news station is just a propoganda arm of one party or the other, what you end up getting is the official line after the debate. Since they aren’t crowing victory for Biden, it must not have looked good.
There is an alternative interpretation where the main goal is to get Biden out from doing any more debates so they would have called the debate a shitshow from the beginning, just to be able to give him cover from not going to anymore.
The left is also hitting hard on the “white supremacy” bit, which seems tired, and i doubt will be effective at switching many voters.
I have not idea how the visuals played out. They both looked silly to me and that makes me happy. It has been a charade for years and finally people are seeing how absurd it is. I guess we’re going to find out who’s echo chamber is bigger.
The left is also hitting hard on the “white supremacy” bit, which seems tired, and i doubt will be effective at switching many voters.
I think they overplayed their hand with this one.
My wife saw all the people pushing that narrative and said “it’s not too hard to find the actual video clip, and it’s disgusting what they’re trying to turn it into.”
She’s convinced that there’s a substantial shy tory contingent because suburban white moms are being browbeaten constantly by the leftists. it’s never ceasing and a lot of people have become conspicuously absent from the conversation since it has become clear that the left is willing to ruin lives for expressing wrong think.
I think it just revealed there’s no escaping or paper overing just how fucking stupid and pointless our ruling class is and that frightens them. Our betters rigged the system for Biden and they are reaping what they sow and it’s hilarious. The scariest thing for them is just how redpilled people are going to get at this point. Even the people reluctantly voting for Biden understand he’s not really in charge of anything because he’s a blithering imbecile. This is a positive for liberty in general imho.
That is a good point. Debates used to at least pretend to be civil. But this time it was two people interrupting and talking over each other, and trying to score cheap points. This is exactly what a political discussion on Facebook or Twitter looks like. You reap what you sow.
Went to zerohedge today first time in months. I think I need a cigarette and stiff drink.
too much optimism over there.
Are they still swigging colloidal silver and blaming (((them)))?
well yes. It’s zerohedge.
Sounds like he got off…
close. Not enough blaming of wasps though I only get off on posts that blame the upper class wasps along with the ((((()))))).
Minnesota lockdown fucks are starting to panic.
Hospitalizations and death rates were trending down so of course they changed the way they report the numbers.
Fuck off, slaver.
The more I learned about your state, the more I feel you guys have it as bad, or worse than we do in The People’s Republic of Connecticut…
You have to wonder what motivates these people. If love to hear recordings of their meetings
Annual cold-and-flu season has become an annual panic. This has been brewing for a few years now, what with doctors all in lockstep about telling everybody to get a flu shot. These would be the same lazy fuckheads that decided the best way to decide if something was viral or bacterial was to put everyone on a ten-day round of antibiotics to see what happened. Only to sound an alarm years later that antibiotic effectiveness was being compromised, yet somehow it was always somebody else’s fault.
Virginia Values.
Three Christian schools and a Christian network of pregnancy centers are suing Attorney General Mark Herring (D-Va.) in order to prevent Virginia from implementing two pro-LGBT laws that force “people of faith to adopt a particular government ideology under threat of punishment.” The two laws purport to prevent “discrimination” against LGBT people but, in reality, they force Christian ministries to choose between violating their sincerely held religious beliefs or paying hefty fines, as much as $100,000 per offense.
The so-called Virginia Values Act (S.B. 868), which Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) signed on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) in the middle of a pandemic, compels churches, religious schools, and Christian ministries to hire employees who do not share their stated beliefs on marriage, sexuality, and gender identity. A companion law (H.B. 1429) requires ministries and others like them to pay for transgender surgery in employee health care plans, a procedure that violates these ministries’ convictions.
“The faith of many Americans inspires them to act for the good of their neighbors and also requires them to abide by its teachings,” Denise Harle, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the law firm representing the Christian ministries, said in a statement. “Our clients offer spiritual guidance, education, pregnancy support, and athletic opportunities to their communities because of the religious beliefs that motivate them. But Virginia’s new law forces these ministries to abandon and adjust their convictions or pay crippling fines—in direct violation of the Virginia Constitution and other state laws.”
“Such government hostility toward people of faith has no place in a free society,” Harle argued.
Thomas Jefferson rolls in his grave.
My wife worked for the Christian Academy of Bowling Green part-time before we moved last year.
They had trouble hiring people for their daycare for these reasons. They got a number of applicants who were single women living with their boyfriend…immediate disqualification. They had another applicant come to the interview in a very low cut shirt and very short skirt. That didn’t go over well.
This kind of discrimination (which totally should be legal, and I agree with a Christian org having these kind of rules) makes it easier for other competing businesses to hire workers. The non-religious daycares had a larger pool of applicants to choose from because of this.
>This kind of discrimination (which totally should be legal,
It is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe_School_v._Morrissey-Berru
Virginia is rapidly moving up on the list of “Locations that might deserve a nuking”.
as long as I can smoke one last cig while waiting for the fallout.
Just aim at DC, NoVA and MD can take the fallout.
I guess DC was already on my list. So maybe that is all that is needed.
what the hell is happening there? VA turned into a nutter butter blue state overnight.
The deep state flexing it’s nuts happened. it’s hard to even talk to the lizard brains walking around here.
Dems, being Dems, took the majority in the legislature and immediately started ramming thru every item on their wish list.
For as evil as they are, you have to give them credit when it comes to imposing their will. They get no dissent on these close votes, even if it’s going to cost some first term pawn the next election.
Yeah. I’ll admit with eveyrthing the left has said, the idea of them getting control of congress and the presidency is kinda terrifying. They have committed to destroying our system so that they can have total control for at least the next 40 years.
Make your peace with it; it’s going to happen.
The good news, the US government is doomed to collapse in the next decade or so. It’s going the way of its good friend the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The mask slipping off is a necessary first step in removing the fraudulent notion that the U.S. government is run by the people.
The good news, the US government is doomed to collapse in the next decade or so. It’s going the way of its good friend the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
You are optimistic.
The left takes care of their own. There is a whole racket industry put in place to keep the sacrificial lambs paid off and willing to throw themselves under the bus.
“A companion law (H.B. 1429) requires ministries and others like them to pay for transgender surgery in employee health care plans”
Maybe I can get them to pay for my penis enlargement too.
want to go all the way to 5 inches?
He’s getting a metric conversion so it sounds bigger.
Dream big
Applicable to mosques and temples? No? Hmm …
Selective enforcement
NJ has long been top 10 in the country for income, sales, and property taxes. Now we are finally catching up with an appropriate gas tax.
A gallon of gas today will increase by about 22%, or around 10 cents a gallon.
My “Republican” State Senator sponsored and voted for this shit a few years ago. I informed him at the time that I’ll never be voting for him again. It was supposedly earmarked to fix roads. Of course the roads are no better than they were 4 years ago.
Still not going to get to proper levels
Subway bread too sweet for the Irish tax authorities
Franchisees lose Supreme Court appeal as judges rule that bread sold by chain has five times the sugar content allowed in statutory definition
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/agribusiness-and-food/subway-bread-too-sweet-for-the-irish-tax-authorities-1.4367663?mode=amp
Ha I knew American food had too much sugar.
Goddammit stupid wordpress
The Ministry of Bread strikes again.
The Irish are Americans now? I wasn’t even sure they were considered white yet.
Subway is quintessential American food. Don’t try to avoid that.
Liar, it’s crap no one eats if they can avoid it.
But the sandwich was invented by the british.
It is neither fried, biscuit, nor burger.
Denied.
Subway isn’t food, it’s distilled disappointment.
It’s going encourage people to move to the state to help offset all the migration.
Meanwhile it is subsidizing insanity like this:
NJ Launches $5,000 Rebate for Purchase of Electric Vehicles
So, for example, Kia still has I believe the full federal $7,500k subsidy on its electrics. So you could conceivably buy an EV here $12.5k of subsidies AND no state sales tax. It’s CA level of stupid.
why do you hate Gaia?
The next 6 months are going to be insane with stories of the gov trying to hilariously tax people who have no money
“ It was supposedly earmarked to fix roads”
That’s what we were told too when they did it in CT. All that money goes into a general fund and is used to do anything other than fixing roads. The crowd that passed this needed the money to keep buying votes. Now they are telling us they need to bring back tolls, something they promised would never happen back in 1991 when they stopped that stupid practice in lieu of a state tax that was supposed to be temporary, because our roads and infrastructure are crumbling. You better believe that this will not help at all.
For anyone with an interest in Japanese popular music.
TW: List can’t be correct as it has both Shonen Knife AND Perfume. Now I’ve got nothing against Perfume, but they should never be on anybody’s Top Album list.
Ten Japanese albums Rolling Stone missed on its ‘500 Greatest’ list
Shonen Knife
Doesn’t include my favorite Japanese album of the ’70s:
Flower Travellin’ Band – Satori
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ploqMlpJG9I
Other than the mandatory YMO, just Jpop from the past 20 years. Not much depth at all.
Yup. Nothing awful, but didn’t seem particularly deep.
Also the obligatory X Japan.
Although with cover I keep feeling like the dirty old man with the bass player.
X JAPAN – Rusty Nail (Full Band Cover 2019)
I saw Guitar Wolf live one time. They were pretty entertaining.
The Woke Navy Seals, an organization where you’ll get rewarded for killing people and blowing shit up but your career will be ruined if you fuck up your pronouns. What a sad fucking joke unless you’re Russia or China.
“the only thing little Johnny was certain of growing up was he wanted to be a killer what bathroom he left before he kicked ass was another matter for another day”
Speaking of American food, I purchased a bottle of Four Roses Single Barrel and overall I still like the Wild Turkey Rare Breed better.
I think I agree. Rare Breed is very good…although I had a bad interaction on my 40th birthday.
I think I put the 4 Roses above the 1792
WE’RE ALL DOOMED – Trump vs. Biden ft. “Weird Al” Yankovic
It would be funnier if they through in some shots at Biden as well, but what you gonna do, it’s Weird Al, can’t get upset with him.
I had another online safety training and it had some bad cartoon and a stupid animated robot and a bunch of glitches. I don’t understand. A company of mostly engineers. Who likes this infantile crap? Who thinks this shit up? Who got the idea of putting poorly animated cartoons in a training material? Why? How? Fuck.
Is it unlibertarian that I wish bad things to happen to the people who design these trainings?
Hey, they need to appeal to companies’ secretaries and HR people too so that kind of training is always lowest common denominator garbage.
Sounds like a lucrative market for me.
We had about two months where we were required to do one “Security Training” every month at my job, and every one was just a shitty “Bill Nye The Science Guy”-esque music video. It was rather insulting. Aparently i wasn’t the only one who objected, because that shit ended fast.
My bet is the people producing these are doing so under duress, and this is their way of protesting?
Training videos are totes important!!! Don’t be Klaus.
My last employer was a big German company and that video got passed around a lot by us untermenschen. The first 3 minutes are spot on for real training videos. Then it gets pretty funny.
I love the Klaus videos.
“Wait, they’re still fucking closed?!?!”
The day before school started this year, they fenced off the school playground. My son used to spend hours there after school playing with his friends. Ridiculous.
On the plus side, the local teachers union called for a strike this Monday, to protest their unsafe working conditions. Out of about 1600 teachers, only 69 went through with it. They’re all getting disciplinary action. (Nelson laugh)
People have torn down most of the “closed” signs on playgrounds around here. The fitness trails in the parks still had the signs up, and the equipment (when it could) taken down.
Yuri Bezmenov called all this shit – now I have to go find the full interview.
Have no doubt that the current green, blm, or antifa movements are children of the old USSR KGB machine. People like Putin are kicking themselves that they didn’t hold the union together for another decade or two, cause the west was destroying itself from within.
I’d argue that as soon as the USSR was gone, the crazies here were safe to openly drag the country hard left with only token resistance from most “conservatives”.
Well once the USSR fell, people no longer considered these people a threat. That was a major mistake s we all clearly see now. The “Peace Dividend” from the end of the Cold War is that the marxist elements, now ignored, managed to implement what they had been tasked with by their masters in the USSR without the resistance that otherwise existed, and they seem to have won that battle.
The Biden Team must be operating under a different charter known as the ‘Cuntestitution’.
Politico contributing editor Adam Wren noted that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett “was a trustee at a South Bend private school that described ‘homosexual acts’ as ‘at odds with Scripture’ & said marriage was between ‘one man and one woman’ years after Obergefell v. Hodges.”
Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, responded, “Wait, why is this news? Isn’t this the standard position for any orthodox Catholic?”
At this point, the Biden staffer chimed in. Nikitha Rai, deputy data director for Pennsylvania at Biden’s campaign, responded to Hamid, saying, “Unfortunately, yes.”
Hamid responded, “to be fair, it’s the standard position for any orthodox Muslim or Jew as well…”
“True,” Rai acknowledged. Yet the staffer insisted that this perspective must be marginalized. “I’d heavily prefer views like that not be elevated to SCOTUS [the Supreme Court of the U.S.], but unfortunately our current culture is still relatively intolerant. It will be a while before those types of beliefs are so taboo that they’re disqualifiers.”
No religious test….
They want you dead, but will settle for your submission.
So this person would reject THE FIRST EVER MUSLIM WOMAN NOMINATED FOR THE SUPREME COURT!!!!111!! as well?
OT, but you astute religious scholars might know this: Why did the Orthodox Church get the “Orthodox” name, whereas the Catholic church just got to be the Roman Catholic. I know Catholic comes from Latin or Greek for “Universal” but why didn’t they get Orthodox? Were they more radical back in the 1100’s?
Orthodox means traditional, hence why unorthodox means out of the ordinary, non-traditional. The orthodox church rejected changes made by the Catholic church and tried to stay more traditional. But over the centuries they to have changed their orthodoxy…
Why did the Orthodox Church get the “Orthodox” name- because it is the only non-heretical one?
So….. Christian more likely to vote for who *doesn’t* want to outlaw their religion again?
Stupid rubes in flyover. Don’t they know they’re voting against their own interests!
Nikita Rai…
Sure are a lot of leftist Indian women these days.
Without the internet, we wouldn’t have known this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjPeI3VXkAE8xXx?format=jpg&name=900×900
Is that Wallace hanging with Epstein?
And why does he tuck his shirt in while on a Caribbean island?
To be fair, I have no idea where that picture is from. Fuck him, though.
It’s an innocent picture!
/progs
And who is that long tall mama next to Bill Clinton?
Oops. Small screen, no glasses. That’s Epstein, not Clinton.
It’s easy to confuse them, they were almost inseparable.
Steven Tyler.
All i know is that you should be an asshole to anyone you don’t know, because you never know that they might be a serial child trafficker and pedophile and someone might have snapped a picture of you being nice to them. Best to play it safe.
The shirt tucking thing is beyond the pale though.
True. Wallace should hang for that alone.
I have nothing but contempt for mainstream media and if a little skulldrudgery is behind this. oh well.
I think that is Georg Clooney. He was supposed to have hung out with him on some 4 day vacation thing.
Is that the Eastern European knock-off version, or the Chinese knock-off one?
Good morning everyone. I just got an email from my union. They have been fighting the store for a few months as our COVID Hazard Pay stopped on July 5th. After many meetings, pickets, and (I assume) bribes, we will getting a lump sum in our pay packets over the next couple weeks. That’s great and all but, per union demand, the store will observe a ‘moment of silence’ every Labor Day in honor of all the grocers who have been lost to the ChiComPox… FUCK THAT! Give us more money!
Labor Day?! You mean Commie Fuck Day! When i’m president there will be a “Capitalist Day”, always observed on a Friday, where you are required to work an extra 8 hours to make up for the 8 you got for labor-day.
Now here is Leon, an LP candidate for president that we all could support!
the store will observe a ‘moment of silence’ every Labor Day in honor of all the grocers who have been lost to the ChiComPox… FUCK THAT! Give us more money!
?1?!?!?!?!
The grocery store were I shop, sans mask and the staff don’t say anything about it (*), has given some of their employees shirts which read “HERO”. Barf.
I would have rebelled or gotten a new job had all of this bullshit taken place when I worked at a grocery store.
(*) The chain has a mask required policy, but there are exceptions. I have on good authority that the staff at many stores in this chain are tired of Lil Rona Panic theater. They assume that if you walk in without a mask, you must have one of the exceptions and so won’t ask. If a customer gives an unmasked customer shit over not wearing a mask, the staff will throw the shit-giving-customer out.
PROOFRAD!
“?1?!?!?!?!” refers to the “moment of silence”. They should definitely give you more money instead of that bullshit.
I know you people don’t care but that is literally not allowed.
Schumer said that Senate Democrats are “using all the tactics we can” to slow down Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation.
Host Joy Reid then asked, “Would that include adding, if the Senate becomes a Democratic majority, adding D.C. and Puerto Rico as states and ending the filibuster?”
Schumer responded, “I would — believe me, on D.C. and Puerto Rico, particularly if Puerto Rico votes for it, D.C. already has voted for it and wants it. I’d love to make them states. And as for the filibuster, I’m not busting my chops to become majority leader to do very little or nothing. We are going to get a whole lot done. And as I’ve said, everything, everything is on the table.”
The only legit thing would be to cede the residential land back to MD.
As far as PR you’d need to control both houses of congress and the presidency to admit it as a state and PR would have to ratify the Constitution.
I think they would need to pack the court first before they do that stuff.
What if Republicans win? Should they pack the courts?
Why pack the court first? Doesn’t the Constitution permit new states be admitted by Congress?
Not DC, it’s constitutionally set aside to be apart from any state.
I don’t know if DC can be admitted as a state is the question. That congress has the power to admit new states is true. That DC can be one is at least under contention.
I’m perfectly fine with sending the parts of DC that aren’t federal buildings back to Maryland. But that wouldn’t accomplish the aims of getting 2 more solid democratic senators.
It would add one more solid Dem rep. But I am okay with that.
For PR, no need to pack any court, that is Congress’ duty, though there are some court cases and legislation that help frame how we bring it into the Union.
D.C is much more complicated and it depends on how the original land is viewed and who ‘owns’ it. It was given by MD and VA, so one view point is that MD and VA legislatures would have to approve of D.C statehood. Then you have the question of 10 square miles for the constitutionally mandated Federal district. Even packing the court, I don’t think it will give them what they think it will give them.
The VA land was retroceded by an act of Congress in 1847.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_retrocession
Congress could do the same with MD, perhaps with a rump DC, and have MD allow a new state to be split off. Or just create the new state directly with a redrawn DC.
The land was ceded to the federal government so even if the district was redrawn, the other land would remain a federal territory.
They’ll cede it to VA and rename the state Panem.
I really think the White House should be the only residency in DC.
What about the Navel Observatory? /and that was on porpoise.
No need for navel-gazing.
Is that where the Orange Man should live?
It’s terribly evil that we still own that remnant of imperialism, PR. We should grant them independence immediately. It’s only fair.
And stop sending them any fucking money.
Miami-Dade County and Naples account for more than 85% of the fines, due to a variety of reasons, including disobeying mask ordinances, staying out past curfew and parking by the beaches when they were closed.
I’d be willing to bet that the vast majority of the Naples fines are for parking. There’s a massive shortage of public parking near the beach at the best of times, and I’m sure they took full advantage of the opportunity to make up for lost hotel room taxes.
[PS–Naples is a city in Collier County. The sentence in the article is poorly worded, so it’s easy to read as both being counties.]
A wee bit north of Naples, in the town of Cape Coral, work vehicles (any placarded or liveried motor vehicle) and trailered boats are prohibited from being parked overnight on streets OR IN ONE’S OWN DRIVEWAY. The CCPD takes great delight in driving around overnight, issuing tickets.
Where are you supposed to park your boat? Pay through the nose for a slip in a marina?
Specifically the one owned by the police chief’s wife.
Circus Time Again
And.nothing.else.happened.
Why are they doing this? They’re not going to do anything. Is that the role of Congress now, to run constant charades like this? Every one of these fucking assholes that were in on the coup attempt should be in fucking prison already. But none of this is serious and the disintegration of the rule of law continues unabated as planned.
The goal of these assholes is to destroy the rule of law so that they can do whatever they want on their way to destroying Western civilization. And they’re succeeding at an amazing pace.
Dishonest horseshit.
It’s OK when they do it.
Bwahaha, “HEIL WITMER” is Nazi? The point of the sign is literally to say their opponent is a Nazi, so Nazi = bad. Fucking tards.
“Comments are turned off for this video.”
They can still get ratio’d
Guess I got booted from Twitter. Oh well, that only took five months.
My 7 day ban ended today, they sent me a notice, but I still can’t post anything; I just get an error warning. Your twits are still visible and I was able to like one of them but not post a reply.
I tried from two different devices, but it wasn’t working. Maybe it will work in a bit. I’m very jealous of your week long ban.
Nevermind. I guess everybody was locked out.
All I did was call Biden a retarded kleptocrat and tell Preet that in a just world, he would be fed into a woodchipper. You know, bog-standard libertarian positions.
*looks for shit eating grin e moji*
Don’t expend too much effort, just take the default 😀
Yeah, “retarded” is what did it.
We’ll see.
https://twitter.com/AndoBaruka/status/1311672564872220672
OK, turn in your Glib card, that should have taken less than a week, at most.
12 years for me, not banned yet.
Oh, holloween Mo is back.
Yes, yes I am.
That’s because you’re too nice. Just hit em with some of your literary smut pr0n and claim to own orphans, that’ll do it.
One aspect of this election which I find mildly amusing is how it seems blindingly obvious that the game which the DNC is playing is to use Biden as a delivery vehicle to get Kamala into the Oval office as POTUS by hopefully winning the election and on the aftermath using the 25th amendment to kick SloJoe to the curb. The part which amuses me is that a large swath of progs are internally bubbling over, just imagining seeing a Democrat WOC as president of the US – but they have to choke back their glee because that would be giving the game away.
I think Biden can hang on past the 2022 mid terms. Then he will resign and Kamala will be president for his remaining two years and eligible to run for 2 terms of her own. Ten years of Harris pinkoism, new secession movement, etc. Buy popcorn futures.
Fire this cunte.
Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, reported on Wednesday night that CIA Director Gina Haspel is reportedly blocking the declassification and release of critical documents related to the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
“I can report here tonight that these declassifications that have come out, those weren’t easy to get out and there’s in fact far more waiting to get out,” Davis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Unfortunately, those releases and declassifications, according to multiple sources I’ve talked to, are being blocked by CIA Director Gina Haspel, who herself was the main link between Washington and London as the London station chief for John Brennan’s CIA during the 2016 election.”
“Recall it was London where Christopher Steele was doing all this work,” Davis continued. “And I’m told that it is Gina Haspel personally who’s blocking continued declassification of these documents that will show the American people the truth of what actually happened.”
Just burn the CIA to the ground. They’ve never been useful or trustworthy.
Sure they were. It’s just when the Soviet Union vanished, they needed something to do. So they turned their attention to American citizens. Russians!
And.nothing.else.happened.
This is where an Executive order to an Executive agency would be entirely appropriate.
Fire her ass and send in some people to clean out her desk and throw all her stuff out on the front lawn.
If Trump is reelected I think there will be a night of the long knives. FBI and CIA should get a thorough housecleaning.
Haspel was nominated for the job in 2018 by President Trump. This further solidifies his reputation for making poor personnel choices. Sometimes it just is wrong to “keep your enemies closer.”
I remember seeing that, and being floored that he would choose somebody who was not only deep deep state, but linked to Brennan.
?
Never put a career CIA stooge in charge of the CIA.
I bet there aren’t a lot of willing and qualified people out there who aren’t deep state.
Another defection.
On Tuesday, a female Democratic Ohio state representative endorsed President Trump for reelection. Bernadine Kennedy Kent, representing the 25th District located in Columbus, Ohio, wrote, “Today, following in the bold first step of Georgia State Representative Vernon Jones, I am both honored and humbled to be the second Democrat State Representative to publicly announce my endorsement of President Donald J. Trump.”
“From my perspective as a lawmaker who was elected for the first time in 2016, following a lifetime as an educator and child advocate, I have admired President Trump’s dedication to law and order and his respect for our Constitution,” Kent continued. “His strong leadership and willingness to fight for educational and economic empowerment for minorities has brought unprecedented hope to the American people.”
“President Trump has provided a record number of Black Americans with a real shot at the American dream,” Kent wrote. “Under President Trump’s leadership, Black Americans have experienced record-low unemployment and the poverty rate among the black community has fallen to its lowest level in U.S. history. A large part of this success is due to President Trump’s willingness to listen to the ideas of Senator Tim Scott and the concerns of invested citizens from diverse communities in economic distress. This effort produced a groundbreaking solution called ‘Opportunity Zones,’ a way to create jobs and spur investment in disadvantaged communities. We all recognize that gainful employment and economic development is the best deterrent against violence and social unrest, so I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to ensuring the success of the Black community in every way.”
Trump is such a devilish white-supremacist he can even get poc’s to support him.
She’s just an Aunt Jamyma!
Doesn’t count until we get Tulsi. Titties, mmm, show em to us.
Non-Southerner Who Says ‘Y’all’ Accused Of Cultural Appropriation
Fuck, I say that at least 20 times a day. See, this is why ya’ll can’t properly get banned from Twatter.
I believe it’s “All Y’all” in this context.
Pedant! You ain’t got no real hillbilly folk in ya’ll family!
Peace, gentle Glibfolk.
Needs more sexy rabbit.
See!!! You allow gay marriage and next thing you know you have trans rabbits seducing honest God fearin folk.
“Y’all” is the proper second-person plural.
Pedant! You ain’t got no real hillbilly folk in ya’ll family!
Well bless your heart
As my name alludes, I am Tar Heel born, and Tar Heel bred. A true hillbilly from the beautiful hill country of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I am officially conferring on all y’all Glibs a y’all pass.
Well, damn. Now I feel stupid.
It’s pretty obscure. You’ve got to really be into logging or pine trees to know that creosote can refer to pine tar.
Naw. I’ve known creosote was tar since I was a kid and my dad was laying railroad ties for a compost pile. I guess I just never thought about it, but usually I get those jokes immediately.
I learned it as a kid when the creosote that had accumulated in the chimney caught on fire. Thank God it didn’t burn down the house, but that’s where I learned the word. Standing outside in my pajamas while the fire department went in and dealt with it left an impression. It is a miracle I didn’t turn out to be a pyro.
Citation needed.
Damn you guys are going to shame me into spelling ya’ll the damn Yankee way.
I’ll put that next to my pardon from Walter Williams.
I thought you were a greek sailor.
Since the UK government has not pulled this legislation, the Commission has written a letter of formal notice to the UK government, the first step in an infringement procedure — something the EU commonly uses when parties breach agreements with the union.
“The letter invites the UK government to send its observations within a month and besides this the Commission will continue to work hard towards full and timely implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement. We stand by our commitments,” von der Leyen concluded.
A strongly worded letter.
Green wrote: ‘The SEAL Ethos and SWCC Creed are our community’s bedrock guidance. In order to provide more inclusive language, we have revised them to better reflect our diverse ranks now and into the future.’
I didn’t know there are women SEALs.
He also told detectives: “Well, it is every kid’s dream to do a teacher,” according to the report.
I like his honesty.
According to Evans’ attorney Randall Kallinen, a “racially diverse” group of 10 students were involved in the dangerous stunt, which placed his client, a Black woman, at the end of officers’ guns. Three of Evans’ white roommates were involved in the swatting, he claims.
What assholes.
Better Van Halen song.
Woodchippers.
https://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2020/09/hot-mic-moment-lawmakers-admit-masks-are-all-political-theatre-2760772.html
And nothing else happened.
My preferred solution is that every single fuckhead mayor or governor who has enforced a lockdown mandate, should have to repay every dime of economic damage to both businesses and individuals, every single dime of it, out of their own money. And for the money they owe that they are unable to pay, they work it off in hard labor in prison.
TIL, starting in the 1920s there was a Russian group called the Biocosmist-Immortalists, who believed there were two basic human rights:
1) Immortality
2) Space travel
https://twitter.com/ZachWeiner/status/1311663396610363392
We live on an old farm, and this washed up during a rain storm. Anyone know what it is?
https://twitter.com/ZachWeiner/status/1311284168454819842
Piece of rusty metal is my best guess
robot cockring?
Part of a hinged assembly
Obviously a Pilgrim belt buckle.
Terribly outdated linoleum?
My guess? A link from some sort of chain that ran between two toothed gears to run some kind of equipment. Possibly farm equipment.
The only human rights that matter.
Constitutional Scholar.
In a local news interview with Pittsburgh’s WTAE on Wednesday, anchor Shannon Perrine pressed Biden on the issue, noting that viewers wanted her to follow up on the question that went unanswered the night before. Biden gave a similar response.
“You know, that’s exactly what they want me to talk about so we don’t talk about how they’re violating the Constitution now,” Biden said. “I’m not going to play Trump’s game. Right now, my entire focus is seeing to it that the American people get a chance – the election has already started – to have their say on who the next Supreme Court justice is. And that’s what I’m focused on.”
Biden was then asked how Republicans are violating the Constitution.
“The Constitution says that the American people – I taught constitutional law for over 20 years – says the American people get an opportunity to choose who they want on the Supreme Court by who they pick as their senator and their president,” said Biden, who began teaching classes at Widener University Delaware Law School in 1991.
A sitting Senator is allowed to double dip like that?
*not sure if serious*
Ahh yes. I remember. Every time there has been a vacancy we have waited until a new president and Senate were elected to fill it.
The Constitution says that the American people – I taught constitutional law for over 20 years – says the American people get an opportunity to choose who they want on the Supreme Court by who they pick as their senator and their president,
So every time there’s a vacancy, we postpone filling it until after the next Presidential election?
I taught constitutional law for over 20 years
*squirts author with spray bottle*
Bad law prof! Bad! Dont do that in the house!
Really, I think you would have to wait at least six years to make sure everyone got a chance to vote for a Senator of their choice.
Most Americans, regardless of party affiliation, support proposals to raise the minimum wage
Most Americans (72%) support raising the minimum wage, including most Republicans (62%), Democrats (87%) and independents (69%). That’s up from 66% of Americans who supported raising the minimum wage in February before the pandemic shuttered the economy in March.
Lisa Toner, a registered Republican, is one of those Americans who supports raising the minimum wage. She works as a certified home health care aid in North Tonawanda, New York, outside Buffalo, making $16.50 an hour. She favors a system where low-skilled workers would start at minimum wage, setting a floor from there to boost wages for those with more experience.
“People who are older and have more experience should have their starting pay above the minimum wage. It makes me upset that someone flipping burgers is making almost as much as me,” says Toner, 49, who is still on the fence on whether to vote for President Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the U.S. presidential election in November.
Most Americans support large corporations at the expense of small business. Also, Lisa Toner is a moron.
“Are you in favor of increasing unemployment and automation?”
I’ve said this before, but at my old start up, raises in minimum wage were great news.
All those restaurant owners who wouldn’t even talk to us about various IoT solutions would come running back. Great for business.
We didn’t automate anything, we just instrumented all the processes so you could tell if they were getting done. When minimum wages are low, owners would just hire more kids and hope one of them had a work ethic or got bored and did the job they were hired to do. At high minimum wages that was impossible, so less people were hired, but they were now tracked to make sure they weren’t fucking off.
“Bob, you didn’t filter the fryer at 3 like you were supposed to”
“Jane, no one took the garbage out during your shift”
“At 10am yesterday the drive thru lane went to shit with bad times and lots of pullouts, care to explain?”
At both BK and the Clown burger here in NYC, it is quite common to be asked to drive off from the window and wait for one’s order to be brought out. Gaming the drive-thru timers is ubiquitous.
When I was in high school, just about all of my friends worked at a particular fast food chain restaurant.
They had some computer system that measured the time each car spends between the speaker box and the drive-thru exit, and for each shift these would be averaged together.
My friends used to give me free food to do laps around the restaurant so that it would knock down that average time. You’d think the management would be smart enough to check for implausibly short times or make sure each car actually placed an order, but my friends told me they only looked at the average time.
I never heard about this ruse being discovered, even though there was actual drive-thru camera footage on top of everything else.
Fight For Fifty !!!!!
I am in fact curious what percentage of US small businesses could actually afford to pay 50$ an hour
Almost none
I’d be out of a job and i consider myself low to middle of the road middle class. That’s a 6 figure salary.
Not if you can live the dream and only
haveget to work 4dayshours a week!I would venture to say that approximately 90% of US businesses, large or small, could not afford a minimum wage of $100K per year for every single full time employee.
Should be 99%.
Sure they can, it’s a write off.
Something something use the obscene profits…
It’s funny to me how some disciplines require credentials for an opinion to be taken seriously, but other disciplines (like managing a business) are so obviously simple that any idiot could do it better.
The fact that this loon is being given a microphone is ludicrous.
All of them once inflation eats away the increase.
Of course they do. A wave of economic populism has taken hold of America. You have the Left wing populists (socialists et al) and the Right wing ones (Trump et al). They are mostly only split on views of cultural differences.
If it holds, i suspect the next person to run as a GOP guy after trump will be a christian socialist.
She favors a system where low-skilled workers would start at minimum wage, setting a floor from there to boost wages for those with more experience.
“People who are older and have more experience should have their starting pay above the minimum wage. It makes me upset that someone flipping burgers is making almost as much as me,”
We mostly had that system before this insane push to raise minimum wage to astronomical levels. The reason the burger flipper is almost making as much as you is because of that, not that you “deserve” more. Minimum wage is hollowing out your wages.
If i looked at my income as a multiplier of minimum wage, it’s downright depressing. I’m almost better off twenty years ago than I am today and that before inflation adjustment.
Most Americans are painfully dim. But we already knew that.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/10/bear-rides-on-top-of-pa-garbage-truck.html
I hope they gave that bear a ticket.
More likely a mail in ballot.
Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander was punched over his role in Pretty Woman
Actor Jason Alexander said he was absolutely hated by people after he starred in the hit flick Pretty Woman, and was even punched over it.
https://www.thechronicle.com.au/entertainment/movies/seinfelds-jason-alexander-was-punched-over-his-role-in-pretty-woman/news-story/a7aa84a4dd2be5dcc7203a8c3b4507f9
That people take actors’ roles seriously and carry the expectations over to real life tells you pretty much everything you need to know about average intelligence.
this
Such a weird movie. He was the only character in it who didn’t immediately forget that she was a street hooker (as if there are hookers on the sidewalk who look like that).
Yes, teachers are underpaid. Here’s how much high school teachers are underpaid in each state
Underpaid?
Public high school teachers in the United States earned approximately 19.2% less than other college-educated workers in 2019, according to the report, “Teacher pay penalty dips but persists in 2019,” published Sept. 17, 2020 by the Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank.
On average across the United States, a high school teacher working in a public school earns $65,930 a year. The average occupation in the U.S. that requires at least a college degree pays $92,175 a year – according to government labor force data for May 2019.
What about people who have college degrees that aren’t required for the jobs they are qualified for?
Just off the top of my head, looks like 80% of pay for 75% of the work (or less).
I have a cousin and her husband who are teachers. She made a snide comment about my new sports car when I was relatively fresh out of college, and how she and her husband couldn’t afford things like that even though they were further out of school because they were teachers. “Well, if you had a full time job, maybe you could.” That pretty well ended any more of their attempts at pity parties in front of me.
This is why teachers are so underpaid, because a bunch of shitlords cannot appreciate that they should get paid more than anyone else for
teachingindoctrinating our children in the holy wokeness.I like that they have added the qualifier of comparing it to other college educated people, because everyone realized that teachers make more than the average individual earner. At what point did the left become the squeeky wheel for the privledged?
I’m wondering how much their administrative colleagues get paid? Diversity officers don’t come cheap, ya know.
So many stolen bases. At a minimum, they are including all advanced degrees, and not just jobs that require a bachelor’s degree.
Alternatively (and likely worse), by at least a college degree they are including all jobs that require both a degree and a license, so they are comparing teachers to doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.
Sure, I know plenty of people with masters or even PhDs who do not make that much.
Learn to code.
It would also be nice to compare the academic qualifications of education majors with the other majors. I’m going to guess that the people in that major would have a tough time getting into the other majors that lead to all that loot.
And shouldn’t those teachers take into account that they have a calling to teach and it isn’t just a dirty job like all the other occupations? That satisfaction should count for some of that missing money.
makes me wonder how they stack up pay wise to people who went to a seminary.
they have a calling to teach
Oh, I think that particular bit of PR fluff has been put to bed by the refusal to teach during the Current Unpleasantness.
And yet most school systems have waiting lists for teachers looking for jobs. Weird.
LOL… to relate this topic to one upthread about minimum wage, my Baby Mama make a wee bit over $50 per hour as a NYC public school teacher. It took her 14 years to reach that level and it will increase slightly over her next 11; it would increase even faster if she went back to school and got her PhD (because a high school/middle school English teacher is better with a doctoral degree). NYPD recruits reach that level of pay after 5 years.
Teachers get 3 months off with full pay and benefits and at no cost to their VTO, plus they get every weekend and holiday off. They have pensions so good that states are going bankrupt paying them. They enjoy job security that the rest of us could only dream of.
I get tired of teachers whining about how terrible their lives are.
Fuckin recruiters sending me jobs with the word “junior” in the title. Get fucked.
Heh. I don’t know if i’m at that level yet.
I could take Junior Vice President of Technology.
This is exactly why they can’t ever get qualified candidates for jobs at the Junior Mints factory
I would like the floor to acknowledge the Junior Senator from [insert joke here] has resigned.
Damn misogynists, it’s Juniorette.
Junior Mint?
Waycool Junior
It’s better then the recruiters who keep sending me job offers for entry level help desk roles down in the Cincinnati or Columbus area.
“Coffee before breakfast could give you diabetes: Drinking caffeine first thing in the morning can raise blood sugar by 50%, experts warn….
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After then having a sugary drink – similar in calorie content to cereal or toast with jam – their blood sugar was around 50 per cent higher than when they went without a coffee. The caffeine in the drink is thought to prevent muscles from absorbing the sugar.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8792249/Coffee-breakfast-diabetes-experts-warn.html
SCIENCE!
…So (without reading the article, because why would I) If you have a coffee AND a soda in the morning you could get the bedis? I would think the soda is the offender there myself, but I don’t have #Science degree.
I have a study that says ‘nuh uh, neener neener!’. SCIENCE!
Uh-oh – Lean-In (Sheryl Sandberg’s organization), is reporting that 1/4 women are looking at downshifting their careers due to Covid and Black women have been disproportionately impacted and health/safety fears are causing them to drop-out of the workforce. All the gains are going to be erased in Just. One. Year.
Everything has to fit their narrative, or it will be stuffed in no matter what.
Isn’t that their choice? She’s got a problem with that? I guess it would be better to force them to work against their will.
*insert Handmaid’s Tale meme*
“She’s got a problem with that? ”
Yes, all women should be hard driven top level executives, or they’re not real women.
No. It’s totally fine if a woman chooses to work from home. But if they do so because of religious or conservative beliefs, they are evil.
The high standards and empathy of the NHS strike again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-essex-54301564
Love how the NHS/BBC isn’t allowed to say “abortion”, but says “termination” instead. Took me a minute to realize the story wasn’t someone getting fired.
Imagine being the baby…
In this case there were medical reasons to abort. She wanted to have a child.
Well sure, make me feel like the asshole for not reading the article.
You didn’t hear of it’s loss, you heard of a bureaucrat’s decision that it was an undesirable and that you should murder it.
Sorry, I do differ with many libertarians on this issue, though I do concede to a right to remove and re-transplant an embryo as a compromise, though that won’t stop people from bitching on either side, because #science?
I do concede to a right to remove and re-transplant an embryo as a compromise
I’m not sure that’s actually possible (with any degree of likelihood) for an embryo much further along than a freshly fertilized egg. I’ve never heard of it, anyway.
If all the money dumped into pro and anti abortion campaigns was instead funneled into research on a third option, maybe one day we could achieve it. I’m no #scientist.
Those campaigns exist to raise awareness, raise funds, and fund employee perks.
Even if it were possible, I don’t think you are going to find the required millions of surrogate mothers per year it would take to offload all those inconvenient embryos.
I thought the third option was the artificial womb.
You’d need orphan mines.
Someone’s never met a catholic woman over 35.
(porn videos don’t count)
If the child was not developing normally, and it was X number of weeks behind, it would be a miscarry or a stillbirth eventually. Having actually been through pregnancy, I would not wait for that day.
Woot! Mojeaux’s Halloween avatar is back.
Yuppers! I have a Christmas avatar all lined up.