A good win.
Liverpool bounced back after the Everton players tried to injure them all over the weekend. Real got beat by a Ukranian team. Bayern picked up where they left off. And everything else went about as expected in the first round of UCL matches.The start to college football (for me) is just two days away. And the World Series is gonna be a banger. And that’s it for sports.
Legend.
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt was born on this day. He shares it with railroad tycoon Hollis Huntington, actor Curly Howard, HOF first baseman Jimmie Foxx, Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai, actress Joan Fontaine, LSD proponent Timothy Leary, Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, soccer manager Arsene Wenger, acting legend Jeff Goldblum, figure skater Brian Boitano, and baseball great Ichiro Suzuki.
Right, now on to…the links!
Look! There’s a country we can sell influence to!
Yeah, no shit. Because everybody does it (including us) and they always will. Because nations will always try to influence things that will impact their people.
Corona vaccine trials patient dies. Of course, people are freaking out even though the person was receiving a placebo.
Is hurricane season ever gonna end? I mean…it has to at some point, right? Ooh, maybe after Election Day, when “the seas begin to recede and the earth begins to heal itself.” Or some such nonsense.
I know the last debate is happening today, but this should be the top story. I guess we won’t know how it’s going to be covered until the media finds out what names are in it. Then they can determine its newsworthiness.
“Yeah, whatever. It’s still uncorroborated until we independently corroborate it,” says the networks who refuse to try to corroborate it. Or report on it. Or even bring it up.
Coming (again) soon to a(nother) Wisconsin Illinois city near you!
I assume some Wisconsin Illinois town is about to burn. That’s the way this works now, I believe. I’m curious why the officers were “investigating a vehicle”. Perhaps saying why would go a little way into determining why they’re standing in the road trying to stop a car and why that car backed up.(Edited to expose my failure to properly know where the state line is.)
Damn, that’s a lot of zeroes. I’m curious how many people were given the drug against their will and how many doctors were forced to prescribe the drug by having a gun put to their head. Oh, I guess that would be two more zeroes if the story reported it.
In a radical break from church dogma, Pope Francis endorses gay civil unions. That’s great news (no snark). Now if he would just go ahead and endorse all civil unions between consenting adults and advocate for removing government from the marriage business altogether, it would be even better. But he won’t because he’s a commie and wants government to control everything (as long as it has the church’s blessing).
Have a listen to this classic. Just pure genius. Enjoy.
Now have a great day, friends!
Corona vaccine trials patient dies. Of course, people are freaking out even though the person was receiving a placebo.- well it mean corona is so bad it makes placebos kill you
That is pretty bad indeed.
if the placebo causes death what do you think the longterm affects of the drug could be?
It will turn you into a Democrat.
Voting for Biden is the little-death that brings total obliteration?
Double Death!
Is hurricane season ever gonna end? I mean…it has to at some point, right? Ooh, maybe after Election Day, when “the cease begin to recede and the earth begins to heal itself.” Or some such nonsense. – well it no stopping it now. the cease is here to stay.
I guess talk to text autocorrected that in my brain before I typed it.
Damn, that’s a lot of zeroes. I’m curious how many people were given the drug against their will and how many doctors were forced to prescribe the drug by having a gun put to their head. Oh, I guess that would be two more zeroes if the story reported it. – also I am sure laws and regulations had nothing to do with it at all
This pope is a doormat for the left. It’s pretty embarrassing for everyone involved.
Makes me happy that I was never much of a joiner. You never know which way the wind blows. I agree with him but he’s basically thrown out the established doctrine.
I have some friends who are still devout Catholics. If you want to hear a heavy sigh, just ask them about Pope Francis.
^Can confirm.
He’s also thrown out a lot of scripture which is supposed to be the foundation of the church. That bodes very poorly for the future of the church.
The church has gone downhill since vatican II
Let’s be real, Charlemagne was the high point.
Jesus.
6th and 7th Century Christian Gothic kingdoms / Byzantine (per-Muslim invasion).
The American left has managed to elect politicians to office who hate America, and the College of Cardinals has managed to elect a Pope who hates Catholicism.
I may be detecting a trend here.
Well said. I’m not Catholic but I attended Catholic high school along with my brothers. Makes me sad to see the old church that had been a key ingredient to western civilization fall to the left.
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
– Iowahawk
It’s what they plan to do with the Supreme Court as well.
So I went to 11+ years of Catholic school, until I got kicked out of junior year for cutting class. My oldest sister and my mom are the only ones in my family who are what I would call “traditional” catholics. But a ton of my classmates are super in support of the pope right now. He’s gold to them. They are also pro-choice, progressive, SJW, etc.
I am confused. If you’re a practicing catholic I would think you _can’t_ be pro same-sex unions, pro-choice, Because why be Catholic otherwise? just throw off the faith and go to a UCC church or some such place.
I’ve never understood the appeal of calling yourself a religious person and then proceeding to ignore 90% of what your holy text says.
I’ve got enough cognitive dissonance to deal with as it is.
I’ve never understood the appeal of calling yourself a religious person and then proceeding to ignore 90% of what your holy text says.
Faux humility. You get to point to your religion and say “it’s not all about me” despite the fact that you only select the parts of the religion, cafeteria style, that affirm your preconceptions and stroke your ego. Its skinsuiting on the individual level. An outward appearance of “cloaked in righteousness” without any of that icky “die unto yourself” crap.
I consider it a very good thing when my faith challenges my worldview. That means I’m exposing where pride has set root in my soul. It’s a very uncomfortable feeling, though, to be indicted for what I feel is right.
Your average holiday Christian isn’t familiar enough with the scriptures to even get to the point where their worldview would be challenged. Makes for a very convenient faith.
Meh. They’ve been doing that for at least 1700 years.
Why doesn’t he just get it over with and become a presbyterian?
We already have more commies than we need.
at least if he became a pres we could more or less gather all the commies in one place.
Uhhh… Unitarians? They are like super-commies.
Ding!
And you wonder why we left… One flawed human (we all are) purporting to basically be the ambassador of God ain’t right.
/Protestant
Huh. I thought Swiss was a Catholic.
Left the Methodists, trying to become a Lutheran.
Started Catholic, tried Episcopalian (that was…interesting), and landed at a nice Lutheran church.
Although they’ve been too compliant in this age of plague.
ELCA or Missouri Synod?
If you are still unsure that TMITE, know that CNN et al won’t talk about the Biden Emails but did unload like a Toobin on the utterly fake story that Gulianni tried to seduce a 15 year old.
Thanks for that bit of context! I’ve been wondering what ‘TMITE’ meant for the past few weeks. “The Media Is The Enemy”?
Linking it again – Media Sensation.
/lead singer of the band has been outed as a Ron Paul libertarian (at the very least)
Sweet. Never would have guessed that was a woman singing until I looked them up. I lead a double life as a rock singer and it’s always fun to find out there are other deviants out there.
I was sure at least one of the “T’s” was for tits. But they aren’t the enemy.
Sacha Baren Cohen and several of his producers aren’t American citizens, MuH EleCtIoN INterFearAnZ!
Rebel Scum on October 21, 2020 at 9:24 am
First result when searching “Hunter Biden”: Fearing a loss, GOP senators keep distance from Trump and begin to ponder party’s future
CNN: Facts
First– uh, what are those?It’s this now. But point remains.
https://www.cnn.com/search?q=hunter+biden
Guliani seems like a total creep, too, but the Biden story is a bigger one.
Guliani is not running for the POTUS job: Biden supposedly is….
Biden is just the bridge to the glorious Progressive future, to be crossed as quickly as possible.
I assume some Wisconsin town is about to burn. That’s the way this works now, I believe. I’m curious why the officers were “investigating a vehicle”. Perhaps saying why would go a little way into determining why they’re standing in the road trying to stop a car and why that car backed up.
From the link ” the officer, a Hispanic man,” – ehm does it matter?
None of it fucking matters. Including the certainty that this will be “national”—probably “international”—news.
If Waukegan burns, ‘Sconnies gonna be jealous of Illinois.
My family lives there so I hope nothing happens to the deplorables or anyone else.
Oddly enough, Waukegan is in IL, not WI…not sure why the Cheeseheads would burn a town.
I did my Combine Armed Services Staff School at the Army Reserve center in Waukegan. The mob has permission to burn it.
When I was a teenager in the mid 1970s we used to cruise the main drag in Waukegan, “American Graffiti” style. It was a good half hour from where we lived, but where the action was those days. I think we’d say we were “cruising G-Street”, maybe it stood for Genesee Street, I can’t remember for sure. I recall a few run-ins with cops and some with bullies, but mostly a lot of driving back and forth hoping to meet girls, which we usually didn’t.
Same in Podunkville, circa ’50s. Only no cops, no girls and no sidewalks. Didn’t use much gas though
Ok grammar nazi’s. Wouldn’t it be ‘plead’ not ‘pleaded?’
“Maxwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to helping Epstein recruit and groom underage”
PP;DK
(Past Perfect; Don’t Know)
Pled and pleaded are both acceptable.
Imma go with “pled”, but I’m a high school dropout, so there’s that.
You’re on target, none the less, BJ.
That’s the correct past tense of plead. Pleaded is also correct, but I’m a go with you on pled.
How about punctuation Nazis?
You leave Ted S. alone!
Hey. I didn’t mention capitalization of proper nouns, which may be even more important. It’s the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Heh… My formal education in english ended my Freshmen year of high school. It’s one of my few regrets.
In legal usage it’s always “pleaded.” I don’t know why. I’ll ask.
If you get differing answers, the jury will be hanged.
I prefer them hung.
If the jury is hung, you get sprung?
Pled or pleaded are both OK. (And I write sentencing memorandums sometimes. And I miss criminal defense -it’s cleaner than divorce).
“pleded”
I thought that was phased out in the ’80s.
That match was complete shit. Especially the refs.
How Pickford was able to remain in the game will be one of the season’s great mysteries. And that offside VAR decision is still a head-scratcher.
Apparently, anything goes after an offside.
In a radical break from church dogma, Pope Francis endorses gay civil unions. That’s great news (no snark). Now if he would just go ahead and endorse all civil unions between consenting adults and advocate for removing government from the marriage business altogether, it would be even better. But he won’t because he’s a commie and wants government to control everything (as long as it has the church’s blessing). – maybe drug and sex work decriminalization is next.
I assume some Wisconsin town is about to burn. That’s the way this works now, I believe. I’m curious why the officers were “investigating a vehicle”. Perhaps saying why would go a little way into determining why they’re standing in the road trying to stop a car and why that car backed up.
I’m going with “female teacher and male student on Lovers’ Lane”.
Waukegan is in Illinois.
I borrowed Banjos’ car and got a mild sunburn driving yesterday. In late October. And that actually makes me happy.
Banjos is now fully committed to always having a convertible (which I’ve been telling her for years). Either she enjoys it too or she’s trying to figure out a way for me to get skin cancer.
mini convertible? mazda mx5?
Convertable Tatas
That looks an awful lot like the old (and hideous) Lexus ES430.
Sounds like the female Transformer.
Arcee or Alita One? ….Trick Question! They are the same character! #NerdBurn
Black Arachnia Lives Matter.
BMW 1-Series. I gave my oldest daughter her car because she was driving an unreliable shitbox, so I bought Banjos a 1-series a couple weeks ago to prove a point about droptops.
We needed a convertible that seated 4 (so she could drive the girls places when I had the SUV out of town). My Boxster doesn’t suit that purpose.
I’m a huge proponent of having a convertible. Me being a bit of a pragmatist, I’m going to get a Kia Telluride with the giant sliding glass roof. It’s on the list of ‘to buy’ just not as high on the list as I’d like it to be.
https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/kia/telluride/2020/photos-interior/2020-kia-telluride-133-custom
Not on your hands though, right?
It depends on how big your life insurance policy is. Although it is possible the former is true but to me the appeal of the convertible is like the appeal of owning a boat cool on paper but the second you start thinking about it a total nonstarter imho. Sunroof is the move.
We also have a boat. And since two negatives equal a positive, I’m winning.
Not if they’re additive negatives.
what a meetcute.
Crazy talk.
Boats suck, but convertibles are the best! Even here where you tuck them away from Nov to April.
Fun engineering facts: Convertibles are slower, heavier, and less stiff than their sedan/coupe counterparts. But they are statistically safer, most likely due to the lack of blind spots.
Fun personal fact: After riding a motorcycle exclusively for months (it was my only transportation), when I got in a car again, the frame really disconcerted me and I had a hard time seeing anything.
I drove my car with a motorcycle helmet once. That was a very odd feeling.
That’s the monkey that is about to be forced onto Sputnik 3, isn’t it? Either that or he just caught a glimpse of 2021.
Maybe he just ate his first bowl of bat soup a couple years ago .
Solid music choice, Sloop! I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for Roxy and Ferry’s later work. I want to party with his back-up singer/dancers about forty years ago.
I’m no expert in Catholic dogma, but is this a big break? He’s not advocating for allowing gays to accept the sacrament of marriage.
I think it is, yes. Advocating for the social acceptance (not necessarily religious acceptance) of unions between consenting adults is always a good thing.
Now do Married Clergy, Commie Pope. I’m waiting…
From a former Catholic, it’s a pretty big break. The position of the Church is that being gay isn’t a sin, but acting on it (specifically in reference to sexual acts) is. Of course, any sexual acts outside of marriage are also a sin. A huge break would be offering the sacrament, but endorsing a celebration of a sinful act (unless you think the Pope is referring only to chaste civil unions) is still a big break.
Hopefully this will make life better for gay people in Catholic countries.
Sodomy remains a mortal sin, though, and there’s no way he can wiggle out of that. Not even with a 55-gal drum of Jesse brand lube.
2 drums?
Now you are just reaching…
Around?
Sodomy remains a mortal sin, though, and there’s no way he can wiggle out of that.
That’s really the crux (heh) of the issue. The church (at least churches that are literalists) can (and must) get to compassion and tolerance. Acceptance is really a non-starter, though.
Thus, the attention from attorneys general. Drugs are a fucking goldmine.
Ok grammar nazi’s. Wouldn’t it be ‘plead’ not ‘pleaded?’
Pled.
Fun fact: pled in Romanian means a small blanket
Plaid?
Damn Scots!
Is it plead or pled?
Historically, “pleaded” has been considered the correct past tense and past participle form for several centuries now. … The form “pled” goes back to the 1200s, and “pleaded” goes back almost as long. In British English, “pleaded” came to dominate, while from what we can tell, “pled” became more of a Scottish form.
I love extortion rackets. Oh you’ve been making a product for a 100 years we just discovered has long term health defects or externalities you warned us about fuck you pay us. Gov of course is exempt from all the things they do that have negative externalities.
“After all, they traveled together to China on Air Force Two, where Hunter landed a $1.5 billion commitment from a government-controlled Chinese bank.”
What’s crazy to me is that this is a matter of public record and everyone’s willing to just let it slide.
I’m old enough to remember plenty of those insane “fin cars” on the road when I was a wee lad.
And Volkswagens. Just about every fifth car on the road was a Beetle.
Huh. Brooksed a reply to Brooks.
mini convertible? mazda mx5?
Something like this, I hope
Three generations of Gypsies could live in the trunk.
One of Joe Biden’s ways of contrasting himself with President Trump has been to declare the election a battle of Park Avenue values vs. Scranton, Pa., values.
Now we learn that Biden has secretly been playing footsie with China.
The statement Wednesday night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make millions of dollars by partnering with a shady Chinese Communist firm is a singular event in a presidential race already overflowing with drama and intrigue.
Something something norms of public service.
I’m getting spammed with texts from Working America (who have a terrible system as they keep texting someone who’s told them to fuck off multiple times). The most recent one talked about the mom and pop shops in Ohio struggling, but Joe has the know-how to help small business.
“We’ll help you with the red tape that we institute. Then we’ll make it easier for you to navigate through all of our useless regulations. After that you’ll be rewarded with a 15% tax bump that in no way will hurt the average American business owner! I’m Joe Bidernnnnxghjkkwjvsa5458 and I endorse this message!”
I keep getting those too, and report them as spam to my provider. What’s weird is all the stuff from republicans and Trump are going straight to spam, but all the stuff from democrats and Biden get delivered normally. Sprint is my carrier.
Same thing happening here (T-Mobile as the provider).
Back in the day the selling of benefits from your office was a capital crime. MEPGA!
Back in the day the selling of benefits from your office was how you got paid. You paid the crown, or at least someone up the ladder toward the crown from you, for the office.
Fair enough. MEPG For the First Time.
Great song. That Avalon album is one of the best ever.
I still have the title track on rotation.
Just remember “Love is the Drug” was on an earlier album – now I have to listen to both.
Stranded is arguably their strongest album, though there are better tracks elsewhere. If There Is Something, for example.
The surround sound remix is probably the finest surround recording ever.
If you like Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music AND Dixieland, this whole album is great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndf3I0gA4Ao
Cool! I’ll listen later. Bedtime for Bonzo pretty quick.
Liverpool bounced back after the Everton players tried to injure them all over the weekend.
I was waiting for this. Van Dick (I think I spelled that right) should have had two yellows for his fouls on James Rodriguez before he got injured. Okay, maybe not two, but both were deserving of consideration. The strategy was clearly to foul James as much as possible until you get the first yellow. So boo fucking hoo. This starts to even out a little bit the injury ratio in past derbies.
Please Pickford is too incompetent to do anything intentionally.
s/Please/Plus/
Weird typo.
Is hurricane season ever gonna end?
Runs through November I believe.
And It’s the worst on record till the next one, because you dump boomercons don’t worship science hard enough.
I didn’t realize the vaccine death involved a placebo condition participant. The media pumping up that story shows they’re either morons who have no, and I mean no, clue what they’re talking about or they’re well aware and absolutely full of shit neither of which is good.
Oh the media is both stupid and duplicitous; you really have no reason to assume better of them.
Baseball birthdays….Waaaaaaayyyyy down the list is Jamie Quirk. 18 seasons, 0.7 WAR. That is a long career made out of a whole lot of nothing.
Along with future HoFer Ichiro, there is future HoFer Robinson Cano.
I wonder if Ichiro would have surpassed Pete Rose had he played his entire career here? Probably not but Man did that guy have the slasher bat.
It feels like catcher is that kind of position partly because nobody catches in games except for catchers, even in a desperate pinch. Even if you stink, as long as you’re still willing to squat and catch they will let you keep doing it somewhere in the org and then you’ll still have a chance for a call-up when Engelberg eats too many hot dogs and has to sit out a game or whatever 😉
Yeah, but in theory positional adjustments should account for that. I think it works fine for everyday players, but replacement level for a backup catcher is way lower than replacement level at other positions. All it takes to have a long mediocre career is to become Greg Maddux’s personal catcher.
The limited playing time thing also affects how we look at it though, no? 0.7 WAR across “18 seasons” sounds more crazy until you find out it was barely 2,500 PAs.
Yeah, totally. And guys like him who play for 8 different teams, it is because they are right at replacement level. Easy to replace, easy to find another job.
The catcher runs the field and calls the pitches. We were the lynchpin of the defense.
Most games played in a season was 109. But with Cleveland, he totally balled out.
‘If the unsealing order goes into effect, it will forever let the cat out of the bag,’ and ‘intimate, sensitive, and personal information’ about Maxwell might ‘spread like wildfire across the Internet,’ her lawyers said in August.
Well, yeah…and eventually adapted into a Lifetime movie.
Pornhub has been on the case for a decade or more.
Pornhub has been on the case for a decade or more.
has anyone actually seen her since get arrested or in court or is all this theoretical? We got a fucking roger stone perp walk for “lieing to federal agents” yet we don’t get a Ghislaine perpwalk for being the most notorious human trafficker and madam since Hiedi Fliess?
Learn to code
Bank tellers are out and robotics engineers are in, according to a new report that says the coronavirus recession is accelerating technological changes that could displace 85 million jobs within the next five years.
“Automation, in tandem with the Covid-19 recession, is creating a ‘double disruption’ scenario for workers,” said the report published Wednesday in Switzerland by the World Economic Forum, which warns that inequality is likely to increase unless displaced workers can be retrained to enter new professions.
More than two-fifths of large companies surveyed by the WEF plan to reduce their workforces due to the integration of technology.
“For the first time in recent years, job creation is starting to lag behind job destruction — and this factor is poised to affect disadvantaged workers with particular ferocity,” the WEF said in its report.
The artificially intelligent robots are coming to take your job.
This is why we need universal basic income and free unlimited health care for all.
I think history is doomed to repeat itself even if we are aware of it.
Been hearing that a robot is going to take my job for decades. Yawn.
The day a bot can interact with an ignorant technophobe is the day support positions may finally go away.
Ignorant technophobes will be encouraged to go off and starve in the dark.
I’m not entirely sure that this is a bad thing.
Fool-proof technology leads to the evolution of bigger fools.
Its like using anti-bacterial soap.
I’d say events over the past 4 years have made it pretty clear that the correct phrase is ignorant technophile, and the modifier for technophobe is wise. When President for Life Harris signs the Communal Association Made Perfect act into law an awful lot of the steps that got us there will have come via silicon valley.
https://youtu.be/fcIMIyQnOso
My body is ready for back to back economic punctuated equilibriums. This is the societal equivalent of playing russian roulette with more bullets instead of less. Who knew it would be the science nerds and not AI that doomed america with their wifi, social media and mindless automatons.
I wonder how many American work-from- home jobs will eventually be done by people working from home in Mumbai.
That is what happened to my previous job. Although not work from home, I think wipro has an office.
We’ll go 5 years of working from home with until some MBA writes a new york times best seller about his genius new business idea called business idea pods where people working for the same company can come to one centralized location in a giant open room with a network of personal separation barriers and a shared meeting place where different departments can collaborate on ideas.
will the walls of the pods at least reach the ceiling?
Will they at least have doors?
Well you’ll need to have a sealed environment so the people who purchase read the book after reading about it in the newyorker can smell their own farts. After a couple of years though the poors will make some modifications probably resulting in an open type concept where everyone will have to look at each other and be subject to eachothers oddities and flaws until some new MBA writes book about a concept a strange concept where you only have to commute from your bedroom to your livingroom.
I honestly think the office has benefits. Not sure if they outweigh the cost of the office. Especially in high rent areas. I think the big advantage of Silicon Valley and etc companies going to WFH is that they can hire bases on national average wages instead of San Jose average wages.
Of course, the “danger” is that it eventually leads to world average wages. But, meh, those companies hiring the best will always be paying a premium.
Any project manager who is being honest will tell you that co-located teams are far more effective.
Is that worth the price is the question.
Of course they would. It’s easier to get people who don’t report to you to do stuff if they can’t duck you.
You are not wrong.
Theoretically It’s a math equation, if the loss of productivity is less than the rent you make the switch, if it isn’t you don’t. Of course this being a human endeavor most of it will be as the herd moves.
For the last five years or so, my boss has been in Charlotte and my report in Dallas. I have two or three regular co-workers I work with on any regular basis who are in my office. The rest are scattered over the country. And even the ones in my location, I to their work spaces maybe every week or two weeks. At most.
Before COVID, my company was doing a push to have everyone go to offices. Just offices. No alignment based on meeting demands. Just so they could say they were in an office. Somehow, this was supposed to foster collaboration.
One office for everybody might make sense. But, sticking people in high rent buildings just to say they can say they’re together is utterly pointless and counterproductive.
AT n tee?
That just means the rents will come down. It’s a pretty basic economics problem. Covid disruption + increased willingness to use work from home put downward pressure on commercial rents; at some point you find the new equilibrium (or the whole system breaks, I won’t discount that possibility these days) and things move on.
Actual robotics or robotics process automation (aka macros and scripting)?
The statement Wednesday night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make millions of dollars by partnering with a shady Chinese Communist firm is a singular event in a presidential race already overflowing with drama and intrigue.
Tony Bobulinski did not kill himself.
I think he’s taken the approach of getting it out in public before somebody decides he’s too much of a risk to have around.
Probably a smart move given that there’s hundreds of millions of dollars, foreign state actors, and DC corruption involved.
Trump should just ask Biden to comment on John Bobulinski tonight and cede his time to him while making a flourishing gesture of pressing his own mute button “I’ll wait for your answer.”
He better take a megaphone in there with him as the use of the mute button for what he wants to say is going to be quite liberal.
Every time Trump responds it will sound sorta like this – https://youtu.be/8YzSHIYxdRs
Yay old funny Simpsons, here’s some new not funny Simpsons to show how far they’ve fallen (50 Reasons to not vote for Trump, painfully unfunny and mendacious):
https://youtu.be/Isp_KJY9RZU
Fuck.
RC Dean has been sure the Dems are going to cook up undiscovered ballots to put Biden over the top. I think we already have our ballot controversy here in PA. Naturally, this law must have been snuck onto the books by evil, sneaky Republicans to disenfranchise the poor and minorities (i.e. Democrats) who can’t fucking read the instructions.
As someone working in IT support. If you can’t follow directions, you should be punished.
Follow directions? I write the directions.
As do I. But I keep getting tickets from people who can’t log into extensions (that aren’t registered), phones not registering (because their desktop support changed the device name without telling us), and people who say that their 25% packet loss is obviously a phone system issue (because everything else is just slow).
“Please do the helpful”.
Vote in person. Problem solved.
I’m expecting crazy long lines when I go this year. Don’t even care. Trump 2020.
Get ready to be intimidated by those Dem toughs in front of the polling locations (sarc).
NPR is running with the “rising concerns that right-wing militias are going to intimidate voters”
Sounds like fun. Where and what time?
LIke they do every 4 years. Because no one ever calls them out on their lies and they are never held to account for them.
No, no, no. The threat to elections is from Trump and his goon squad of special forces. At least according to our AG Brother Keith.
Professional wrestlers have more credibility at this point than the govt or journalists. If you read the story, it is pretty obvious that some troll posted a help wanted ad and instead of snorting derisively the Dems are pretending it is legit.
That was my point to RC earlier this week. I though that the more we had inexperienced voters using the mail in ballot the more likely we would have invalid ballots. The instructions are a bit confusing and many don’t bother to read or care about the instructions. They also believe that the rules don’t matter if they marked a box and put it in an envelope.
Moments later, another officer spotted the car near Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and South Avenue, police said. As that officer approached on foot, the car reversed and the officer, a Hispanic man, fired his pistol out of “fear for his safety,” police said.
You mean “white-Hispanic”.
I’ve probably given the cops more slack than many Glibs, but this is just dumb.
If you can stop an SUV with a pistol, they weren’t trying to hit you.
Or you froze in place, rather than stepping out of the way.
Joe Biden did a 60 Minutes interview and laid how how he plans to destroy the last government institution the left has yet to skin-mask.
Also notice the soft lighting and their respectful demeanor – versus the spite they directed at Trump.
He’s going to appoint a commission that’s going to recommend court packing which will provide him cover.
“Come on man, I’m just following what the experts are recommending.”
We all no where doing what the ‘experts’ advise leads to. One word. Lysenkoism.
bipartisan commission…reform the court system…not about court-packing
Sure.
Yes, bi-partisan…. Cindy McCain, John Kasich, and Jeff Flake!
How dare you leave out Mittens!
Chris Hayes is a liar.
Huh – tried to post on Facebook, but Facebook is blocking it because “other people have reported it as abusive”.
Gotta protect the left at all costs.
Mic drop…..
https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1318266036383326208
Queue the media “TRUMP WANTS TO IMPRISON THE MEDIA! CALLED REPORTERS CRIMINALS!!!”
Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Is that any relation to Purdue chicken? No wonder they sell a lot of it.
So you’re saying Oxycontin tastes like…
a *narrows gaze*?
I didn’t realize the vaccine death involved a placebo condition participant. The media pumping up that story shows they’re either morons who have no, and I mean no, clue what they’re talking about or they’re well aware and absolutely full of shit neither of which is good.
That lab rat would be alive today, if they had given him the good stuff!
BUT WE NEED DOUBLE BLIND SSTA STAAAA STUDIES BEFORE WE CAN EVER TREAT A DYING PATIENTTTTT!!!!!
Does Trump show restraint and not bring up the Biden pedo stuff and just focus on the corruption or does he unload both shotgun barrels?
There is a 100% chance that any mention of Hunter will lead to the moderator yelling at Trump and his mike being cut off. The responses from the Powers That Be to that info tells you they know it’s an issue that needs to be smothered in its crib.
Streisand Effect, they lose either way.
I joked yesterday that it should just be called “The Hunter Button” and I’m sticking by that.
It’s Trump. He won’t even know what he’s gonna do until he hears the words coming out of his own mouth.
I get that but I really have zero idea how I’d even play it strategically even if Trump was capable of nuance. most people don’t know about the pedo stuff yet do you talk about the corruption because the independents will just dismiss it as nonsense or do you try to mindfuck everyone by dumping it all out at once?
smoke em if you’ve got em
I’m going to need a crack pipe for the next week and a half.
It’s Trump, he’s going to throw it all against the wall as best as he can. Hopefully he stresses the corruption and mentions the pedo stuff in passing though, that’s Joe’s son and not Joe after all.
“I’m a great President, the Best! I would never take kick backs from China! Or pressure a foreign government to help out my son, like Sleepy Joe did. Because I’m not only a Tremendous President, but also a Fantastic Dad. Don and Eric don’t smoke crack and look at kiddie porn…Barren, well I’m still not sure, that kid is weird.
that’s pretty plausible.
From seeing one of his kids, not sure which one, being interviewed on Anthony Cumia’s show a couple of times I wouldn’t be so sure about the not smoking crack part. The dude was freaking wired.
Crack/meth is for people with a problem Don jr. does amphetamines and coke which are classier rich people drugs.
Yeah, Adderall maybe…
I don’t know the whole thing is bannanas especially if it was indeed his granddaughter nude and they knew about it. It’s almost to incredulous for me to believe and I’m like one redpill away from needing my prescription refilled.
It’s Trump. He won’t even know…
Now this guy really gets Trump.
And by the end of the sentence, Trump may have changed his mind.
Trump is like a squirrel with ADD. He’s going to mention it in every answer. “Do you think tax cuts help the economy?” “Sleepy Joe and his son took dirty money from China. My tax plan was the best!” That’s why this format is going to be great. They won’t be able to interrupt him, and if the moderator does, it’s going to look pretty bad.
the mom and pop shops in Ohio struggling, but Joe has the know-how to help small business.
If they can make it worth his while.
Because of all that time he spent in small business / blue collar jobs?
How has nobody in all these decades ever called out his bullshit?
I’m seeing a lot of twenty-something know-nothings running for local offices. They’re overgrown children who have never employed anyone, most likely never worked in anything other than a non-profit, and graduated with a degree in public policy or even worse, a grievance subject.
And they desperately want to sit on high and solve your problems by telling you what to do.
What else are they gonna do? Most of them have probably been kicked by their parents for being exhausting rude little brats, and Starbucks and Domino’s ain’t gonna keep them in style…
To be fair you almost have to have no record, life experience or done anything to run. Who else would subject their family and life to that bullshit, noone I know who I’d consider to be a decent leader could ever survive the gauntlet if the eye of sauron decided to focus on them and their past. You’d have to be fucking dumb or a sociopathic monster.
That bullshit has been called innumerable times – people that want to believe it still will.
Why can’t everyone should just get a 500k consulting gig/board seat like hunter? If he can succeed as a incestual pedo crackhead anyone can.
Yes but we can’t all be the sons of Senators and Vice-Presidents.
It ain’t me
It ain’t me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0XKhAHR5I
Happy Birthday to Youngstown, OH born Stiv Bators. He was an evil boy. https://youtu.be/mfWMB71vp5Q
Love the new avatar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftTOEJfzdq0
Dean Martin met Stiv Bators in rehab, true story”
Dont know how to timestamp. 12:18.
Government healthcare will totally be private… Police get access to NHS Test and Trace self-isolation data
See, having a written constitution might make this sticky. Luckily in England they don’t have one so the courts can say “sure this is a total breach of everything we’ve ever said, but its ok.
Ok. so the same thing happens here with our written constitution.
The did have a Bill of Rights – it was a groundbreaking document for the cause of freedom. But they decided it was yucky and got rid of it.
What does it say when my first reaction to that headline is that I assumed it was the BBC pointing people to a site to lookup the NHS data?
I’m sure that won’t be abused.
The police in the UK rush to assure everyone that no criminal will possibly be inconvenienced by this.
In his soccer update, Sloopy didnt mention the failed Liverpool/ManU coup attempt.
We’ll go 5 years of working from home with until some MBA writes a new york times best seller about his genius new business idea called business idea pods where people working for the same company can come to one centralized location in a giant open room with a network of personal separation barriers and a shared meeting place where different departments can collaborate on ideas.
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Was the car that “reversed” on the cop a GM with automatic headlamps? Wondering because they automatically turn on the reverse lamps in dark/shaded conditions when the ignition is switched off. Had a friend recently stopped for speeding find this out the hard way when he was dressed down and drawn on for “putting the car in reverse” when all he had done was shut the engine off. The cop stayed at his car screaming for about 30 seconds till the feature timed out. I’ve always hated that feature as it proves confusing in parking lots as well.
Interesting, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Institutional paranoia+no useful training+wimpy hiring standards, and Officer Donut sees the parking lights come on and panic-fires through the rear window.
Whatever happens to this cop, should also happen to his hiring manager, his training supervisor, and the head of the department.
Great point!
Everyone I know despises the lamps while driving in a parking lot.
I can’t feature that our Countries are being led by the nose by Schoolmarms and Soy-boys. It baffles me. “We have nothing to fear but the fear of fear itself!”
Could you believe that despite all of Justin’s criminal and scandalous behaviour, HE’S the one in a position to arrogantly call a snap election? 2020 is absolutely off the charts in its inverted reality.
Of all the damn retards to be in power during this hard time. It’s a double whammy that can’t end well for citizens.
That’s why all the Lefties are calling snap elections. Using the fear of the populace as a lever. It’s gonna work, too.
I know. It’s astonishing and appalling they continue to buy into this scamdemic. At the very least they should be aware it has a 99.91% survival rate. They should know about unreliable testing. I’m not asking they put 2 and 2 together. I’m asking to lower the degree of difficulty to adding 1 +1.
This is how ill-informed and absurdly ignorant the population is.
Isn’t this the point when we kneel and pray as the barbarians burn the church down while we’re barricaded inside?
Why would Trump agree to a mute button? The moderator is a DNC hack so I can see them muting him. Also, if there’s a mute button why have a moderator? Heck, I’m surprised they didn’t ask for a 7 second delay in case that idiot criminal says something stupid as he’s apt to do in order to protect his clueless ass.
Trump should give a soliloquy.
On the gripping hand, Biden might hang himself if he goes “unscripted” for more than 30 seconds at a time.
I’m hoping to hear Biden hang himself just because Trump isn’t talking over him half the time. Hopefully the moderator won’t be able to rescue him from is own brain farts.
Out of curiosity I checked out CNN today. Top story was about Trump desperately needing to do well in this debate. (The narrative is set, he needs to clear the unreasonably high bar they set. Biden apparently has to just show up). Still zero mention of Hunter Biden.
If they don’t face some kind of justice, the process of the erosion of trust in institutions will only increase. Same up here. This POS running the this country aground should be out of office and investigated by the RCMP.
This is how you lose the public trust. You don’t see it but it will happen.
And fuck Ontario. This province is the one keeping this idiot ahead in the polls. The country wants him out. But bitch ass Toronto likes this moron for some reason.
Toronto and Vancouver. I expect huge returns for the anti-industry Greens on Saturday. NDP and Greens have it locked up. It’s like how the Premier stated that he was really torn about calling this election and yet all of the electoral stuff passed through my Postal plant two days later. It’s always a power play.
Ah, you’re dyslexic.
Fuck you are quick-witted.
Brian “I don’t mind if you jack off to meee” Stetler did a segement on it. Called it a bunch of hoey, invented by maybe the russians, so we shouldn’t listen to it because we don’t even know if its true or not.
It’s most certainly true. That Crisco sweating porker is the worst person on cable TV. At least Rachel Maddow doesn’t pretend to be a sort of fact checker.
She’s pretty cute, for a guy.
Set the bar artificially high, doesn’t meet the artificially high bar, declare him the loser. Do you think the undecideds will buy it?
At this point, people who let CNN set their opinion are not undecided.
In “how to propaganda” news, NBC doing a full segment on “alarming developments in foreign interference” in the election. Scary threatening emails purporting to be from “The Proud Boys” were sent to Florida voters. This came from Iran. Somehow NBC is unable to tell that Iran would be anti-Trump and this would be an attempt to tie Trump to hate speech attempting to suppress the vote.
But they knew it was a loser, so they immediately pivot to Russia, and their expert tells us that he has spoken with experts from both parties who say that the Hunter Biden laptop has all the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. This, after multiple lines of evidence have confirmed the laptop details, and the DNI has told us that there is no indication of Russian involvement.
It was interesting that they mentioned the laptop, since they have not covered that story.
They did see fit to spend an entire segment on Borat pranking Giuliani. Commercial to commercial, only the Borat story. In his defense, Giuliani says he was tucking his shirt in. But NBC still ends the segment with the sinister overtones that he has repeatedly refected requests for a statement on the issue. (Really weird, since they read from his statement in the issue)
So that is where we are on propaganda and fake news. We are covering literal election interference from Iran as if it were designed to be true and not disinformation. We are covering literally fake news as in a comedy prank fake news interview as if it were actually news. And we are covering an actual scandal where the presidential candidate for the Democrat party appears to be directly implicated in accepting bribes from foreign countries as if it does not even exist.
That and the woman was actually 24 not 15 as insunated by the media. The joke in the film is that he is being intevewed and then Borat comes in and says his 15 year old daughter is too old for him. The story has no basis in reality as it was made for a movie. But lets focus on that rather than evidence that somoene with good chance of becoming president was whoring out the office of vice president.
I forgot to mention one other propaganda angle.
They did a story on the campaign trail. They showed a picture of Trump”at a rally in North Carolina where there were few masks in evidence”. they followed this up with about a minute of clips of Obama attacking Trump on various topics, including the already debunked secret bank account in China. They played about 30 seconds of Obama talking about Trump having nefarious secret dealings in China and a secret bank account to hide his ties to China.
TMITE
Giuliani has brain worms. If I didn’t know it was true I would never really believe that retard single handidly saved new york city and wrecked the mob. I will forever owe Trump for exposing the simple fact we have always lived in clown world and the Emperor was born naked.
I wish more people could see this.
Researchers in Denmark were working on one of the largest studies of its kind on masks. When it was complete, the authors discovered journals like JAMA, NEJM, and The Lancet refused to publish it. I’m not sure why but the story is on-going.
We’re waiting for the pre-print but it looks like it’s going to confirm 100 years of masks studies showing they suck. These days, that’s a no-no to speak heresy of these mouth diapers.
https://twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD/status/1319037534668718080
There’s always Plos One.
Alright. That confirms it. Don’t step on this snek! Fuck it, I’m done. Have a better one, Glibbies!
Multnomah DA is on a roll. Prosecuting another protest participant
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/10/retired-portland-cop-indicted-in-alleged-hit-and-run-of-vandalism-suspect-during-protests.html
Vandalism suspect is shading it. They burglarized a skate shop. Not to worry, their charges were dropped.
Of course, the shop owner is a koolaid drinking racist
Lots of petard hoisting going on these days.
So they support the Bolsheviks but want to cry foul when their property rights go away?
Only because the criminals were white, there force taking advantage of the riots.
I guess it was technically hit and run but with the way he ran off it also looks like no harm no foul. Only a fool would stick around in that kind of situation after striking a rioter/looter, on purpose or by accident be damned.
So… Steal stuff from a store and the DA gives you a pass. Interesting.
As a storeowner, you get three choices:
1) Suck on it and deal
2) Close and/or move
3) Ventilate the next robber
Actually, you cannot even complain loudly about the next smash n grab. You might get prosecuted for your efforts.
At what point does the DOJ investigate a DA for selective prosecution?
Is there a law against it?
Live by Disparate Impact, Die by Disparate Impact.
I humbly plug my website on masks. I’ve looked into just about all the major studies I could find on the matter both for and against. The against are way ahead. People don’t realize the onus is on the those who support masks to disprove the established science. One interesting thing I’ve learned along the way is the particle size of influenza is larger than the coronavirus. Many studies before 2020 of course looked at influenza. So if masks failed to stop influenza, what chance does it have against coronavirus?
And people need to get off the ‘yeh but N-95 work!’ First of all, kinda yes. But even so, they’re not practical in community settings. We don’t produce enough for large scale mass usage. They’re single-use items and can’t be worn for more than three hours and are very uncomfortable.
Another stupid comment “How dare you go against the doctors!” Doctors know shit about PPEs.
And another: “They save lives and businesses”. If they did we’d be wearing them, like, all the time since 1918. Retards.
https://masklockdowndata.squarespace.com
Doctors know shit – I would leave it at that
The onus is on people like you to prove #consensus and #whydoyouwantokillgrandma wrong. Do you even love science?
The new studies specifically looking at COVID are showing the same thing as the old ones – masks aren’t effective. That includes N-95, unfortunately. The studies showing they are effective actually measure mask effects, like reduced droplet transmission, that are assumed to reduce transmission. But it doesn’t seem to work that way, and like I said the other day, the most interesting question arising from all this is, why not?
That’s your website? Cool; I’ve seen it linked from a few other completely non-Glib places lately.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1318920190898311169
“Harvard Research estimates COVID has cost americans 2.5 Million Years of Life”
Is this due to the shutdowns caused by government?
Most people don’t understand life expectancy, he said. It doesn’t stay the same from the day you’re born until the day you die.
The longer you live, the more likely you are to keep living. A 70-year-old man might have an eight-year life expectancy, but by the time he turns 80, it might still be eight years because he’s skated past a lot of the problems that would have killed him earlier.
Ah, sounds super sciency.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.18.20214783v1.full.pdf
If I am reading his graph correctly, people over 85 account for 300k years.
Getting past your 50’s and 60’s is the big deal in longevity.
Unless you’re from the inner city, and then it’s surviving your teens/twenties.
There is a missing but implied word. Average.
Average life expectancy.
That matches pretty good with my math from April: https://www.glibertarians.com/2020/04/calculus-of-death-a-love-story/
I had a high estimate (because I ignored comorbidities) of 12.1 years lost per death. Multiplying that by 200k or whatever we are at puts you around 2.5MM. I think his estimate has to have a lower average years lost than mine.
The thing is that if the virus kills the sick more, than the average life expectancy at 70 is not the same as the average life expectancy at 70 with 3 preexisting condition.
The usual morons keep telling us Obama was a great president and keep working hard to hide how horribly criminal and corrupt the Obama administration was, but in general, the guy that was foisted on us because of a well orchestrated liberal campaign of misinformation about his past, without fail, reminds us by saying things like this that he is a scumbag.
He was a criminal.
“ Your generation could be the one that creates a new normal in America.”
Fuck off, I’ll take the normal normal, you know, the one that gave us a country where most of our “poor” had better lives than 99.999% of humans that ever existed.
Researchers in Denmark were working on one of the largest studies of its kind on masks. When it was complete, the authors discovered journals like JAMA, NEJM, and The Lancet refused to publish it. I’m not sure why but the story is on-going.
Studies of masks under theoretically perfect conditions don’t appear to show a compelling success rate. Just wait ’til somebody does a study based on real world everyday use of masks.
Like the fucking stupid lady that got pissed off when someone standing behind her in the supermarket checkout lane complained that if every time she coughed or sneezed she removed the mask, it was useless, and then told the lady that called her out that she was not going to breathe through a mask dirtied by coughs and sneezes?
Lol.
More news from Denmark. They are locked down, but have so few deaths, undertakers are asking for a bailout.
They should open an onlyfans
Pie, living up to the Romanian stereotypes.
They should start a war!
We know what it’s good for!
https://kval.com/news/local/mckenzie-school-board-takes-stance-against-15-million-bond-following-wildfires
If this was a big city school district, it would have been a giant “FU, give us our money” instead.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Christ, what a crazy morning.
Thanks for the oxy story. One more reason to stay the fuck away from medical ‘professionals’.
Great music for a gloomy, cold morning in Minne.
Bah.
Get them before they get you, people!
Here too, by the sunlight outside I’d swear it’s only 7am, but it’s 9am.
50’s and rain all day here. So much for finishing the house / garage paint job.
You left your MN weather behind here. 35F right now and snow at pass levels tomorrow night. It’s only October.
Minnesota has a ski hill already open!
My car temp says it’s actually 28F. With the sun shining.
Oh great. A supposed training meeting that’s been talking about politics.
/checks work calendar
Shit. I’ve got other meetings today, I think dumping a pint of whiskey into my coffee would be frowned upon by the people I would need to meet with.
Remember silence is violence so make sure to be vocal in your support for the Democratic party. Otherwise the Nazis win.
You know what you call a farmer who supports Trump? A planter fascist! /wastes word-play on non-native english speaker.
I assume you mean plantar fasciitis and if so, that is still a bad pun. Not that there is such a thing as a good pun.
That’s a flat-footed joke.
FFS… it gets worse. The trainer joins, and is playing Christmas music in the background loud enough to hear over the meeting.
IT’S OCTOBER!
Yeah, even the radio station I used to work at didn’t switch to ALL CHRISTMAS until after Thanksgiving. Something I won’t miss this year.
But keep your ears open, if they play the real version of ‘Baby it’s Cold Outside’, you get to call them a patriarchal rapist shitsmear!
Well, this could get interesting. Fairy tale of New York just started playing on the Christmas music rotation. I’m fairly certain the wokesters won’t like the “cheap lousy faggot” line.
Heh, another night in the drunk tank…
Also, they’re british, she’s obviously talking about cigarettes!
Did you just call a Mick a Limey?
Damn, those are fighting words.
Kristy MacColl was born in London, Shane was born in Kent….where’s the Mick?
Pouges for the win.
Seconded.
Sinatra was singing . . .
Do a Toobin…
?do the toobin?
Is that do the mashed potato? Oh..the cool whip. Ill allow.
Just looked over at my days off next month. I’ve got Nov 3rd and 4th off, any chance for some Zoom drinking games as the results come in?
I’m willing to set one up if you’ll host after 10
Just don’t invite Toobin.
Done!
On a school night? You crazy
My parents will be gone, I’m gonna throw a rager! Got 2 6 packs of Bud Light from the bum at the 7-11!
whos bringing the vodka?
Dude, you were supposed to get the Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers so the chicks would drink.
That takes me back.
chicks ? to a board-game party?
*Sobs because youtube doesn’t have a clip of Bartles and James gag from Son In-Law.8
Romanichthys is a genus of ray-finned fish, one of two genera in the tribe Romanichthyini which along with the tribe Luciopercini forms the subfamily Luciopercinae of the family Percidae, alongside the perches, ruffes and darters. The genus is contains the single species Romanichthys valsanicola, known as the sculpin-perch, asprete, or Romanian darter.
Romanichthys valsanicola is a small, greyish-brown fish growing to about 10–12 cm (4–4.5 in) long, covered with small, rough scales. It can be distinguished from other European perches by the two clearly separate dorsal fins, the first with eight or nine spines, the anal fin having 7½ branched rays and there being 58–68 scales along the lateral line.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanichthys
This is in the news for being discovered in a place it was thought extinct. What is it with this wish to save a meaningless fish varietal from extinction?
U guess the Dems boycotted the vote to push Amy on to the full senate.
I think it’s so later they can say “Look we boycotted that vote because it was illegitimate, and that is why we must
packbring balance to the court”Oh how I wish we had an honest and blunt journalist that would simply ask:
“Senator, if the processes is illegitimate, why did you spend three days grandstanding and questioning the candidate? It cannot be legitimate when the microphone is in your face and you get your time to basically campaign and create sound bites and then no longer legitimate because you are a whiny little asshole/bitch”
But we don’t and no one will even bother to question that or care.
So… you’re saying you want people to ask politicians tough questions? Should they record the question and answer and upload it to Youtube?
/remembers the old days
They should record the question, then edit the response, then post it to youtube. /worked in media.
LGBT students at Durham University felt “threatened” and unsafe after Zoom meeting “hijacked”
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1319284164189773824
what a bunch of fucking pussies, pardon the expression. Grow a pair, pardon the expression.
Where was Jeffery Toobin when this happened?
/Will this ever get old?
I think he was pulling the late shaft
More proof Trump wants to kill all teh gheys
What is it with this wish to save a meaningless fish varietal from extinction?
whycome you no luv Gaia?
Facebook is standing by its decision to censor and punish the satirical Babylon Bee website for making a Monty Python joke,
https://twitter.com/heymiller/status/1319230042329784320
Of course they are.
The pandemic is a plot by President Cartoon Villain and his co-conspirators of the .01% to steal from the poors
The nation’s 644 billionaires have enjoyed a staggering rise in wealth since the pandemic shuttered the economy in March, with the group gaining almost $1 trillion in total net worth, according to a new analysis. The spike in wealth coincides with what some economists are calling a K-shaped recovery, with the rich regaining their footing while poorer Americans struggle with lost wages and jobs.
The wealth of the nation’s billionaires rose to $3.88 trillion as of October 13, a jump of $931 billion from March, an analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies, two left-leaning groups, found. That’s almost twice the $2.1 trillion in wealth held by the bottom half of the U.S. population, or about 165 million people, they added.
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Much of the billionaire wealth spike stems from a rise in the stock market since March, with investors betting that the economy would rebound once stay-at-home orders lifted. But the recovery tide hasn’t lifted all boats, with low-income workers struggling to regain their footing.
“It shows how delinked the stock market is from the real economy and the experience of most people,” Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies and a co-author of the report, told CBS MoneyWatch. “I would argue that it has a social cost [because] it undermines the solidarity we need to get through the pandemic.”
Bleating about how “unfair” it all is will bring us together. So will expropriating those paper windfall profits.
Off with their heads!
At the same time, they’ll call for more money to be printed.
I read somewhere that 20% of all the dollars in circulation were printed in 2020.
Money printers go brrrrrrt
Who made the claim? Because that doesn’t pass the smell test.
https://medium.com/discourse/do-you-realize-the-massive-amount-of-money-printing-happening-due-to-the-coronavirus-pandemic-1f4347cc0404
Those are not printed. It’s all digital fake money.
Buy silver.
A) The original statement “20% of all the dollars in circulation were printed in 2020” was a joke.
B) Does it matter? It’s traded like cash.
C) I lost my shirt on silver. It hovers between $15 and $25 an ounce and occasionally spikes during prepper panics. Precious metals are a prepper “investment”, and you can’t eat silver.
D) If you were making your usual deadpan jokes, it was lost on me and I apologize for the well ackshually.
It was a deadpan joke.
The only silver I’ve ever bought was for the artistic merit of the design, not as a currency hedge or investment.
Fact Check equals false, that money wasn’t printed as it was digitally added to the economy, with an AI Booster and Machine Learning Cloud Based BlockChain…
Maybe because the jobs poorer people have got shut down for ‘safety’? Nah.
“How could this thing we did to you possible have happened!?”
Just when you think we’ve reached peak retard.
These claims are utterly fucktarded. Does anyone in their right mind think Jeff Bezos is going “Bwaaahahahah!! Now I’ll buy three more mega-yachts!!!”? It’s a paper profit. Probably something that the ultra-rich pay little or no attention to on a daily basis.
And let’s not kid ourselves. It’s the “solidarity” these bastards are after in all this. They have this delusional idea that, if we can just make everyone sufficiently miserable, they’ll all become willing pawns for whatever their grand agenda is. They look back on World War II as just a wonderful time of sacrifice and deprivation that just happened to have the happy side effect of stopping the Nazis.
Much of the billionaire wealth spike stems from a rise in the stock market since March – this I would vote for dishonest shit of the year really. What happened to the stock market in January February?
And how many trillions did we send to the people for not working since the lockdown? I get it is more than the $3.88 trillion that the uber rich allegedly made.
Using the word “solidarity” instantly makes me think that the speaker is a commie fuck. Now I’m imagining “Imagine” playing in the background of this dumb ass screed.
I still have partial association of the word with Polish anti communists.
I can imagine (heh, heh) that it could be used in a non-commie sense, it’s just every single time I’ve heard it has been in a “workers of the world unite” type spiel.
“In my pre-writing life, I was a conservatory-trained violist, graduating from Juilliard pre-college and the Eastman School of Music. “
What’s the difference between a commie and a violin?
The commie burns longer.
The violin also plays more than one tune.
LGBT students at Durham University felt “threatened” and unsafe after Zoom meeting “hijacked”
Did somebody connect them to a heterosexual porn feed?
Well cuckhold pr0n. Bull Durham if you will.
A Bizarre and Revealing Biden Interview
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-bizarre-and-revealing-biden-interview/
William Voegeli of the Claremont Review of Books brought up a strange Joe Biden interview from 1974 I hadn’t seen before in which Biden emerges as arrogant and determined to make more money, one way or another. Biden also speaks of his first wife Neilia, who had died two years earlier, in unusually frank ways: His Senate office was then something of a shrine to her, decorated with dozens of pictures including a large one of her tombstone, and he spoke about her for three hours.
In 1974 Joe Biden was only 30 years old and had only been in the Senate for 1 year. C’mon Man! Push-ups at noon you dog faced pony soldier! (that’s right, Joe Biden was elected to his first term at 29, when the legal age for a senator is 30, because when was sworn in he was going to be 30, and there he sat until they plucked him up for the VP job, and after 4 years out he’s trying to get back in)
Why else are all his “I’m like you blue collar workers’ stories are about when he was a lifeguard as a teenager. He has no experience as a regular person.
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“Then we hired a nanny so Neilia could come with me on campaign and to Washington, so then I only satisfied the nanny in bed.”
Hey, the guy loved his wife and thought she was hot. Stop trying to make me like him.
With this guy all I can imagine is him buzzing with all the sympathy votes he’s gonna wring out of the system for a few decades.
So he was basically Trump until he learned not to be.
Ouch???
“I talked to your mother today” ?
“You might want to get a job, jackass” ??
Hunter Biden emails are the grift the keeps on giving.
Kamala Harris Listed as ‘Key Contact’ for Biden Family Business Venture in China
And here we go!
LOL there isn’t enough popcorn for this
“The list, included Harris, D-Calif.; Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo; New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; former Virginia Gov. Terry McCauliffe, among others.”
This is just too convenient. I’m gonna go with this is bullshit.
I’m leaning there with you.
Seems to me that Biden was farming out the grift / spreading the wealth. And we all know Terry McAuliffe has never met a grift he didn’t like.
When something too perfect comes up at exactly the right time, that’s a red flag for me too. Just like the last 6 Trump “scandals”. Trump calling the military losers seemed like it could have been written by a Dem operative… and so it was.
If anyone can give advise about getting rich off the Chinese, it’s Dianne Feinstein.
When people said our politicians had sold us to the Chinese, i didn’t then they meant it so literally.
It’s even clearer when you keep this in mind whenever you read what the CCP says with regard to anything happening between the US and China. The Chinese mouthpiece you are hearing is fully aware that a huge number of our “leaders” have sold out to them.
Including all of the governors that implemented lockdowns, which was exactly what the CCP wanted them to do. They knew their economy was going to take a big hit, so they wanted to make sure as much of the world suffered alongside.
Just like I said yesterday, the reporting on Trump having a Chinese bank account can be taken as near-proof that Biden has a China problem, which is going to be exposed by Hunter’s laptop.
I noticed that on Twitter, people are already starting to fall back to the “even if true, it’s not illegal” and “everybody does it” positions.
I was wondering if and when that was going to happen?
Being corrupt isn’t illegal? And if everyone does it seems like a good reason to wall off DC and forbid anyone to enter or leave.
No, let people enter. And allow a one time exit.
But of course, everything Trump does, anywhere anytime, is a violation of The Hatch Act and or the Allurements Clause. Check and Mate.
EvilSheldon on October 21, 2020 at 7:29 pm
The US averages about five fatal snake bites per year, out of maybe 5-6k venomous bites.
LOCKDOWN THE RATTLESNAKES ALREADY, WTFF?!??!111oneone
I’ve been poking at my leftie Facederp acquaintances that are making ridiculous statistical assertions about COVID.
It’s the typical “TRUMP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MORE DEATHS THAN (insert war here)” tripe
Or “FOR EVERY COVID DEATH THERE ARE A HUNDRED LONG TERM COMPLICATIONS FROM (insert chronic disease here)”
Nah man. We just need to make sure everyone who goes hiking in snake country is properly trained and has a snake avoidance permit, and license to hike.
Looking at Wikipedia, it’s way fewer than that now. Like 2 or 3.
Random question/observation time:
Some employees at places I go have switched from masks to face shields. Not once have I seen any evidence whatsoever of condensation, aerosol collection or spittle on those shields. What does this mean (if anything)?
This is how we normalize people dressing up like storm troopers.
If it fucks with the facial recognition systems, I could consider buying in.
It means the average IQ is lower than we thought.
You know, the average IQ is always going to be 100, because blah blah blah…..
At least we know what the temperature is supposed to be. /SCIENCE
There are a lot of vampires in your town?
My workplace just axed face shields. Must be a cloth facemask…which means no N95s…which means WTF?! Forget it Brooks, it’s clown world.
Do like Nassim Taleb just to be sure: two masks and a face shield. One mask surgical, one N95
I’m not sure when I will next get the chance to travel in the US – but if it is still during this mask-erade I’m very tempted to be wearing a Hannibal Lecter mask while out in public. If challenged by a Karen my instinct would be to reply “Oh, yeah, I’m wearing a cloth mask too. Do you need to see it?” – as I reach down to unzip and undo my belt…
See: Andy Reid
Piggybacking with a random thought: There is nothing more pathetic and loser-looking than a bunch of NFL coaches wearing masks. Outside. When their players are grappling. Without masks.
But, the NFL fines them for not wearing a mask. The funnier bit I’ve noticed is they are still using the play sheet to cover their mouths while already wearing a mask.
Yes, I know.
Doesn’t make it any less loser-pathetic.
Oh man, that photo. Whenever I think 2020 has reached peak idiocy it keeps scaling further heights.
(And that reflects more on NFL dumbass rules, rather than Andy, but man, he looks like he might suffocate in that damn thing any second).
That’s hilarious. Is that a goldfish bowl on his head?
We just need to make sure everyone who goes hiking in snake country is properly trained and has a snake avoidance permit, and license to hike.
Don’t forget your snek repellent.
Haha, just kidding. That snake has a right to be here, and you don’t.
Please don’t kill the snakes. This baby albino Hognose just wants to be your friend (also, to eat toads.)
https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/closeup-pink-pastel-albino-western-hognose-snake-heterodon-nasicus-isolated-on-black-background-sergey-taran.jpg
Love me a good hoggie when I’m herping!
In Denver for a few days – went from shorts and A/C to bundled up with my heavy leather jacket. ?
Yesterday I took my boys to the play park down the street. My five year old was trying to join in a game with a group of girls about that age and one of the little madams told him he couldn’t play with them because he didn’t have a mask and was going to spread corona. I heard and waited for him to come back to me with the inevitable question, “dad they said I’m spreading the coronavirus, is that true?” No son, they are weird, play with those normal kids over there.” In this whole shitshow you have to look for positives. My kids are learning early about herd mentality. If anything has shown that progs have substituted government for God (and I’m not a religious person) it has been amply demonstrated over the past eight months.
When I get serious about PPE, this is what I’ll get
How bout this one?
Scary is better.
I’d go with this.
Learned today that federal contractors have a requirement to have 7% of their workforce identifying as disabled.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/faqs/section-503#Q3
I can think of one way to achieve that goal…
* polishes resume, increases salary requirements by 3x *
Well, see if you go around breaking the legs of 7% of your work force, you really are benefitting the economy: think of all the new jobs that will be created to staff the emergency rooms, and to process the insurance claims, and handle the administrative details of determining the extent of disability!
We make similar jokes on my sled hockey team. For some reason we have a really hard time recruiting new players. Everything is provided, they have to pay nothing and make no commitment, yet we hardly ever get new players. So we talk about running people over with our cars and then recruiting them.
Good to hear there are still people out there who aren’t afraid to do the difficult work of the evangelist!
Make pedophilia a disability?
Only 7%, and besides OMWC has a job.
The government already has plenty of pedophiles. They don’t need any more.
That’s the beauty, they can attain the goal, even surpass it, without any new hires. I thought we were for small government!?
Barely legal government?
Just like I said yesterday, the reporting on Trump having a Chinese bank account can be taken as near-proof that Biden has a China problem, which is going to be exposed by Hunter’s laptop.
The other thing I think I saw is that Trump has been trying for years, without success to gain a foothold in China. Not a very good corruptocrat, is he?
Biden would have more hotels than you could count, if that’s what he wanted.
Every business guy I ever talked to who made a deal in China latter regretted it. Maybe Trump’s just smart that way.
* polishes resume, increases salary requirements by 3x *
After kickbacks, you’ll still be getting a small raise, Kevin. Probably. Maybe.
loser-pathetic
Highly descriptive, but it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue (not mine, anyway). Howzabout “loser-iffic” or “loser-tastic”?
If anything has shown that progs have substituted government for God (and I’m not a religious person) it has been amply demonstrated over the past eight months.
I have a hypothesis along those lines. If I understand Freudian psychology correctly (I’ll be the first to admit, I only have – at best a layman’s understanding), God figures in the psyche as sort of a substitute father figure. If that’s so, the Oedipal urge toward the father was to kill him. Hardline atheism then, is an acting out of that urge. But, it doesn’t replace the drive for that father figure to want to kill. So, people just cook up another god (Government) to take His place.