Good morning, Glib friends and others.
I hope everyone is well today and life proceeds as calmly in your world as possible.
In wonderful weather news, we’ve enjoyed two days of highs in the mid-60s, and look to be on track for a high of 70 today! WOOHOO! What’s it like where you are?
On this day in history
- 1793: Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin
- 1919: Wayne Wheeler came up with a nasty liberty-stealing act which Volstead championed, leading to a story in links below
- 1965: Construction is completed on the world’s tallest arch, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri
- Weapons manufacturer Eliphalet Remington (1793)
- French culinary writer and chef Auguste Escoffier (1846)
- Wardrobe pro Edith Head (1897)
- Jonas Salk (1914), the man who nearly eradicated polio in post WWII USA, long before the WHO started to pretend to care in 1988
- Anne Perry (1938), murder mystery author who writes about that which she knows
- Well-known woman, Bruce Jenner (1949)
- William Gates (1955)
- A pretty woman, Julia Roberts (1967)
- Former wrestler Christy Hemme (1980)
So, it’s a good time of year to shop in Philly! I hear the prices are almost a fire sale!
If you take your car there it too might be on fire….
I think it’s time to MOVE on.
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Dang…still can’t edit. *insert slow clap gif here*
It’s nice to learn about Achille’s Heel! *runs*
Its been a Rocky year for Philly.
This was seen and shelved. So it is written, so shall it be done!
No re-match!
Mornin, SP.
Looks almost too fancy to be the lynx.
I like it’s simplicity. Kudos to SP.
My brain hurts thinking about the back end formatting that was required to produce that.
Div, table, list items, linkeys.
I like the day in history links, showing some of the accomplishments of Western Culture before it’s all memory holed and cancelled and we accelerate on our steep decline into the new dark ages.
Poor guy stored all his booze and forgot about it.
I wonder if he moved away from the home while prohibition was still in effect. Even then, I don’ think that explains why the whiskey would still be there. Sudden death or arrest?
Maybe it’s a stash from late in Prohibition and he was planning ahead in case it was reinstated again later.
My husbands grandfather was a bootlegger in Illinois during prohibition, and he left copper stills in the walls.
The couple who bought the house sent us pictures when they found it a couple of years ago.
Why’s he keep it? Probably thought he might need it again.
“It cost me enough and it’s a real pain to try to get it out, just wall it in.”
Your husband’s grandfather was a moonshiner, which does not exclude bootlegging. Moonshiners did (and do!) produce distilled spirits illegally. Bootleggers merely move the product, whatever its origin.
Now I’m starting to think of idiomatic relationships between religious groups and their boozy counterparts.
Baptists and Bootleggers,
Mormons and Moonshiners,
Druze and Distillers.
Benedictines and Brewers… wait, those are the same people.
wait, those are the same people.
As are the baptists and bootleggers.
He was both. He had stills for home use but also grew a bootlegging ring.
He had the misfortune of being too close to Chicago so he had to curtail his actions to avoid Capone’s operation.
My grandfather and his nephew were bootleggers in west Texas up through the early sixties. One of my dad’s first memories is of the cops coming into the house in and walking right up to the panel in the wall where all the whisky was stashed. Someone had tipped them off. That was during WWII, when they were selling mainly to the solders at the base outside Abilene. When they really got going in the ’50s, they had several farmhouses outside of Lubbock that they used as stash houses. I wonder if my dad can remember where they are, might be some nasty 70 year old whiskey to find.
oblig: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oELWmTVR_j4
Well now I have to post my favorite Darlings clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecUudG64c-w
I do believe that’s the purdiest thang I ever heard too. They added an extra verse much later, “Life is like a rolling river…”
Poor guy stored all his booze and forgot about it.
You’re talking about the pastor, right?
In what most people would consider a lucrative mistake, a Detroit-area man who accidentally bought an extra lottery ticket has won two $1 million jackpots.
I could use some of that kind kind of luck.
It looks like you just used up your accidental double in that post
“Old Smuggler”
LOL
If that’s not already a brand of alcohol, someone needs to start it.
It is. The brand is currently used by a distributor of blended scotch.
I’ll bet that “Copperhead Road” distillery is a thing.
You forgot the quotation marks around ‘scotch’.
Is it too soon to go meta?
After various morning tasks, I checked back in on Yusef’s post — lo and behold, the up & down, etc., arrows were back to solid black. Then I read your links and the arrows are very light gray. Weirdness on Wednesday 😉
And the ‘go to top of page after submitting reply’ issue persists. Safari, iPad Pro, iPadOS 14.1.
alo on Firefox, PC Win10.
I’m so addicted that I just asked my Brother-in-law for a loan. Crack finds a way.
Whoa, you are up early.
Is it up early if you never went to bed?
Depends on the Acid.
Devil incarnate
President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) during a rally in her home state, triggering a “lock her up” chant and arguing that the men accused of planning to kidnap her were entitled to a presumption of innocence.
Trump blasted Whitmer at length during remarks to supporters in Lansing, railing against the restrictions she imposed earlier in the year intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus. At the first mention of the governor, the crowd broke into a chant of “lock her up.”
Trump smirked and looked on silently before adding: “See, I don’t comment on that because every time if I make just a little bit of a nod, they say, ‘the president led them.’ ”
Trump then added: “I don’t have to lead you.”
How dare he? She’s only trying to save the unwashed rabble from their ignorance and base animal instincts.
The reason we should put Biden in charge! These fucking ungrateful serfs are just too fucking uppity and demand we actually do the right thing for them (and not for our elite credentialed class itself as we all know we should)!
/progmasters
Plus, “presumption of innocence” is one of the most beautiful ideas ever concocted. Right up there with “freedom of speech” and “freedom of religion”. But here’s the problem we always run into with this: presumption of innocence only applies when you’re innocent. And I can tell by looking at you or reading your name whether you’re innocent or not.
I am all for presumption of innocence – something this crowd now trying so hard to bury the story only feels should apply to their team – until you like try to hide the story. At that point I assume the reason you are doing that is because you know it is going to be confirmed as true and done qucikly.
I’m for presumption of innocence in all cases, regardless of Team status. The state has enough powers without giving up one of the boxes we use to redress grievances against tyrants: The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box. In that order.
Make the state prove their case, ever damn time.
How you gonna do it when they bury the case?
arguing that the men accused of planning to kidnap her were entitled to a presumption of innocence.
Whoever wrote the article apparently thinks those men aren’t entitled to a presumption of innocence.
…those men aren’t entitled to a presumption of innocence.
Maybe after the election.
Well, only Team Blue players can be innocent – that is a known fact amongst goodthinkers.
Aren’t antifa types included in those accused of the kidnapping plot?
Yes.
And I think the FBI guy was the ringleader.
I have a article idea in the works that is indirectly related to today’s first link. I may see if I can crank it out this afternoon.
Phrasing?
Which part set that off? Related, Link or Cranking it out?
“I may see if I can crank it out this afternoon.”
Hey, keep that to yourself, man!
Hey buddy, stop doing that.
he thinks you should wait until evening apparently. I say crank one out at any time!
Does he have an upcoming Zoom call, perhaps?
Toobin’ the little Jeffery.
Just don’t get in any zoom calls with him.
Doing the Toobin.
If it’s one where Eli Whitney pisses on a woman who is using a cotton gin on an airplane you’re going to have a lawsuit on your hands robc. I’m just telling you now.
“Police ID pastor accused of urinating on female Delta passenger: ‘He peed on me!’”
Looks like this guy was just doing a baptism by holy water?
But did she like it?
[golf clap] for Alex
I usually have to pay extra for that. She got it for free!
Baseball birthdays suck. #1 is Tommy Tucker. Who!?! He is a 19th century player so obscure I don’t recognize his name.
And you call yourself a fan.
I don’t, so I’m not bothered at not recognizing obscure players.
Hey there SP. Too late in the morning to give your wonderful links the perusal that they deserve but when I was a kid, I actually thought that the Arch stood athwart the river like the Colossus of Rhodes. I was a dreamy, dull child.
Yes, but you’re our (my) dreamy dull child (and he has a job, unlike some of my own dreamy, dull children)
And nice format, SP, you da ma…, oops, lady . Thanks for your efforts to make my life easier and way more enjoyable.
Damn, Fourscore. Don’t be doing that when I’m feeling a little overwhelmed by life. Great. Now I’m drunken, maudlin Festus, the least popular Festus of them all!
The Volstead Act implemented and provided an enforcement apparatus for the Eighteenth Amendment, which forbade the manufacture, transportation, and sale of “intoxicating beverages.” Circumvention of the law led to bootlegging and the rise of organized crime.
At least the need for a constitutional amendment was acknowledged for the prohibition of alcohol.
That’s why I make it a point to ask drug warriors why there was an amendment for alcohol, and why there isn’t one for (some) drugs.
Ditto. The “best” answer I have received was “It wasn’t really necessary for booze either, not sure why they did that.”
You see, the Constitution actually gave the Federal government the power to do whatever the (legislature/executive/courts/bureaucracy — pick the one currently held by right-thinking people) wanted to, but for some strange reason found an awfully wordy way to go about that bizarrely implies maybe that wasn’t really the intent, but we know better now.
All us decent people like to tie on a bender, but only people like Hunter Biden want to do drugs!
/moron
Giving the Split-Tails a Vote was a huge mistake *ducks and runs for cover*
Giving the Split-Tails a Vote was a huge mistake *ducks and runs for cover*
I’m all outta excuses and I don’t chew gum.
From the squirrels?
This morning, the Bloombergers put up some scary graphs. Spiking “cases” in Europe, by country.
First I asked the empty room, “Where is the chart for Sweden? I wonder what that one looks like.”
Next, I started thinking about how charts are made, and scaled. If you magnify the edge of a razor blade sufficiently, it looks frighteningly jagged. If you only take the very top of a nominal numbers chart, it looks extremely volatile. If you charted fluctuations in a population of three hundred million, you’d get a pretty flat line.
I wonder what a chart of weekly “extra” deaths as a percent of total deaths would look like.
Of course, you’d need clean and reliable numbers for that.
“If you only take the very top of a nominal numbers chart, it looks extremely volatile.”
I see someone has read How to Lie with Charts or its predecessor How to Lie with Statistics.
Either that or we have a few generations that weren’t taught to not steal from the cookie jar or insert bobby pins in the electrical outlets.
Yeah, it’s truly frightening! Belgium deaths have nearly doubled in just a few weeks from 0.2 people dead per 100k to 0.45 people dead per 100k!!!
Curious as to why Belgium was leading the pack, I found an old NPR article from April explaining that Belgium’s deaths are so high because they are being sure to conclude that any possible COVID related death is marked as a for sure, no doubt about it, can’t put nuance in the data, death. You know… Same ol’ bull shit. I never thought I’d see the day when otherwise intelligent people were so helplessly unable to question the reality presented to them by “Scientists”. Then again, most of these people KNOW Trump has aspirations of becoming King.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/22/841005901/why-belgiums-death-rate-is-so-high-it-counts-lots-of-suspected-covid-19-cases
I think my Firefox add-ons are set such that I cannot see the font options. So sorry, no hyperlink for you. And hell no I’m not typing in some >>// bologna. I do virtual legos, I don’t code.
Oh hey, it linked! I so smart.
Rates–especially overall rates as percentage of the population–are going to continue to go up, since the denominator is more or less constant. Worldometers attempts to estimate population growth continuously, but most other sources just take the latest census estimates so the population remains constant. Meanwhile, the overall case/fatality/whetever total goes up, as overall totals are wont to do.
SJWednesday: Why Western Civilization Is Doomed
Because my cat exists.
Yeah, lets change society and experiment with humanity because of your pet rat sob story…
Fuck me some people are stupid.
I don’t know about you, but I want to be a rat in a cage.
Agreed, but only if I’m impeccably dressed.
Someone has read Not Adahn’s bio blurb.
Honestly, the quality of the cage matters a lot less than the quality of the does that are in there with you.
Despite all your rage?
Damnit!
CPA – “Despite all my rage, I still can’t refresh the page!”
Despite all your rage?
The misspellings really made the idiocy POP!
She’s arguing for slavery. And making the exact same argument the slaveowners made that their slaves were better off under the slaveowners care than as free men.
What’s funny is that by making reading anything by the slavery apologists taboo, they don’t have a clue that they are repeating the same arguments.
Even funnier – the link I just provided is about a researcher named John Calhoun.
I C.
Exactly. And she’s too poorly educated to know it.
” I genuinely believe there is more than enough to go around for everyone, ”
Hmmm, make the pie bigger or pieces smaller? Either way there will be enough for everyone…
women’s liberation may have been a mistake as it’s clear most weren’t ready for it emotionally. Don’t get me wrong men are kind of in the same boat but they aren’t nearly as mewling and annoying about it as women are online because if they are they are ignored as the spineless pussies they are. Women have far too much outsized influence on social media and internet platforms.
I don’t know why this is but their outlying crazies are given far more outsized platforms than men’s crazies or possibly it’s just confirmation bias.
we do have sad beard, reich and peter suderman to answer along with several others.
Or maybe (present company excluded on this fine site) Men have better things to do? I can’t imagine being gutted by a political decision that didn’t influence me or my family’s life. Any win for THEM is a catastrophic loss for US! It doesn’t feature.
I think it’s also worth considering that women transfer information among one another differently than men do. Perhaps that amplifies female authors more reliably.
I’m really hate this line of thinking, because in my view giving freaking everyone over 18 (or 21) the right to decide how to dominate their neighbor was a bad idea.
Agreed.
Also using the word “most” was a mistake.
this. I’m not sure that any alternative method I’ve heard has been issue free, but universal suffrage is not working.
Robert Hienline had a few thoughts on the matter.
“Service guarantees citizenship.”
How you would prevent it from being a militarized state and guaranteed the rights of those that chose not to earn the franchise is another matter entirely.
Robert Heinlein had a few thoughts on the matter.
“Service guarantees citizenship.”
How you would prevent it from being a militarized state and would guarantee the rights of those that chose not to earn the franchise is another matter entirely.
Yup. The problem is not who’s doing it, who does it less (or more), or who ‘should’ be doing it, it’s that it is being done.
I’ve always gone with a simple rule about men – for any group of men, the collective IQ will be the average IQ of the men there, divided by the number of men. If alcohol is present, it will be the square root.
So its a distributed average of the individual IQ’s
seems optimistic.
Men are fucking dumb apes that would have accomplished nothing without women and would still be living in caves without them.
Men are fucking dumb apes that would have accomplished nothing without women and would still be peacefully and blissfully living in caves without them.
+ 1 gambol
I see. You’re a moron.
“the lives of all people, regardless of creed, color or sexual preference. ”
Cancel this bitch now!!
Unless it’s Christian, White, and Straight.
It’s like some people never read.
Yes, your rat is lucky. The hundreds of thousands of laboratory rats not so much.
Her cage is always open and i’m always there to protect her
Freedom is having a cage!
This one is well on her way to duckspeaking.
“My blind rat is too stupid to escape its cage, therefore all of my political views are right”
That’s actually a stronger argument than some Bernie supporters I know.
Rats are in the uncomfortable position of being both great pets, and great food for pets.
That’s pretty much it.
Oh man, so much to unpack!
“I have been told that you can’t have both freedom and safety, but today i started to wonder just how true that is.” No need to wonder! True doesn’t have degrees; it’s like pregnant. It either is, or it isn’t. And this one is!
“Even though she has every chance to leave her cage, she never does. She quite obviously feels free and safe.” No comment provided.
“whilst they fill their pockets well beyond their needs at the expense of the environment and their fellow human beings.” Same thing I told Jim Sterling back when I patronized that lump of goo: you live in a system you have no comprehension of.
“A little Rat can achieve this illusive ideal”: the intended word is “elusive”. Grammar Nazism is a thing, but smart people tune out when you can’t speak your own language.
“Beyond the horrors of rasism, politics, the industrial elite, mindless multi-media junkies, and dare i say it, an economy that follows a scourged earth policy” Racism is the intended word, see above sweetheart. Also, there is no horror there. You are however right about “politics, the industrial elite, mindless multi-media junkies”; horrors indeed.
“live a full life of freedom in a caring environment” Who’s the societal surrogate for you as rat-momma? Big Daddy Gubmint?
“how hard would it be for us to rebuild our society” No thanks, it’s already built.
“I genuinely believe there is more than enough to go around for everyone, if we just choose to come together, rather than allow politics, religion and culture to drive us appart.” ‘From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” Unless of course, the religion is one of the more…. shall we say…. “Western” ones. Also, it’s “apart”, not “appart”.
“live a full life of freedom in a caring environment” Who’s the societal surrogate for you as rat-momma? Big Daddy Gubmint?
You’re hitting on one of the obvious issues that somebody learns through real life experience. It’s obvious that this is some young 20-something who hasn’t had to pay too many bills or live on her own very long.
Why? Scalability is a major concern that you learn through real world experience. I’m reminded of my first lawyer mentor (who never worked as an engineer) asking me basic questions about the differences between capstone projects and real world software systems. The game changes when you can’t have constant focus on the entirety of the system. Dump 30,000 rats into this blue hair’s apartment, and I guarantee she starts to see a change in the happiness of the rats, despite them being free and safe(ish).
True enough. Central vs. localized. One of these things is a lot harsher on the individual.
So, has anyone had someone claim that this guy that was there and aware of the Biden crime syndicate’s dealings can’t be trusted because he was working for/with the crime syndicate? Seriously. That was the logic I just had some moron use to tell me why he is dismissing the story. And man was he pissed when I just replied that at least he finally admits that the Biden family is a crime syndicate and that he is not just cool with that, but that they are bought and paid for by China. He didn’t like that I used his own idiocy against him. This seems to be the level of intellect of this mendacious credentialed class that feels Trump is an existential threat to their ability to stay on top despite being fucking criminally idiotic.
You know how I know this guy is 100% telling the truth?
There’s an MSM blackout on the story.
If he was exaggerating, or lying, or the data was fake, they have had a week for the Biden campaign and the DNC to show them how so they could have a full court press of “debunking the disinformation”.
Jack Poso on Twitter has been openly offering access to the laptop to various people all week. He’s offered it to Jake Tapper, for example. Straight news, straight shooter, loves the troops Jake Tapper won’t touch it.
Good morning, SP!
Lovely links, as usual. How’s the weather here?
Fucking cold.
That was no pastor!
Have a wonderful day, everyone! It ain’t easy, but I know you can do it.
Now that’s a song I feel is totally apropos, Tundra!
Every time I get to the “your body, your body, is a port-o-potty” I can’t contain it. Even though I knew it was coming, I still chortled coffee out of my nose. Thank you for the trip down memory lane… And the sinus infection.
This is the remix edition/Of the song about pissin’
I was wondering what Police ID Pastor was.
At least he wasn’t Pastor Gas.
Pie needs to step up his game:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/wastewater-exposes-dutch-europes-greatest-nose-candy-fans
wuz that suppos’ ta mean?
Romanians are not snorting up their fair share of coke, yo….
Well-known woman, Bruce Jenner
And woman of the year, no less. Proof that men really are better at everything, up to and including being women.
The feminist movement really screwed up when they allowed men pretending to be women to hijack it.
Its really the best argument about a patriarchy they have
Only the latest in a long series of missteps. Which is why we now have Amy Coney Barrett on SCOTUS.
The first thing I thought when seeing that idiotic tampax ad was “men! Always sucking the air out of the room and making it ALL about them!”
It reminds me that every time there is something good for women, there is some asshole man explaining that this is because it’s good for children and families. Because just being good for women is never enough. And now even tampons have to make sure they don’t hurt the feelings of some mentally ill man. FUCK!
Well, It seems that someone is PMS’ing
/runs, ducks, cries, begs for forgiveness.
You forgot the Posies.
I forsee the term VaginaSupremacist being used to brow beat women who take this view.
There’s already a term – TERF
I love lurking on TERF forums.
Reddit killed their TERF and TERF-adjacent subs.
Yep they moved to saidit.
https://saidit.net/s/LGBDropTheT/
https://www.saidit.net/s/GenderCritical/
Fourscore, I didn’t know you were in the area!
And just to keep reminding people it isn’t just Democratic governors who are asshoe: Mike DeWine: ‘Don’t go to Halloween parties.’
Oh, oh, my disguise isn’t working. Can’t fool a Glib. I thought I was undercover.
Need to step up your game Fourscore!
Your B-game isn’t cutting it.
Hey Mikey? Go fuck yourself. I’m going to a Halloween party this weekend, and I’m not even taking a mask with me.
I *am* taking bacon-wrapped hot dogs with Sriacha ketchup, broccoli and cranberry slaw, a few pitchers of a Tequila-white wine-and-fruit concoction known as Liquid Lust, and a bunch of guns.
^
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This guy knows how to party!
“broccoli and cranberry slaw”
Sounds interesting…
It’s really good, and vegan. Amazing, I know.
I don’t know about you, but I want to be a rat in a cage.
But it’s so hard to find your way home
Do you want to be a rat in a cage, despite all your rage?
I, for one, would move there in a heartbeat.
The Case for an American Alberta.
Although an independent Alberta would be better.
Alberta/Puerto Rico combo bill (no DC, you don’t get statehood) works for me. Alberta is slightly more populous, it would be about 7 representatives, and PR about 6. So bump congress from 435 to 449 (and make one other state happy!).
Nope. PR Independence, Alberta annexation.
I am for that if PR is for that. But I would think the Alberta annexation would need a trade off to pass.
Also, if we are going to finish manifest destiny…from sea to sea, Boffin Bay to Tierra del Fuego, you can’t just be giving up islands.
Giving that many socialists the vote would be catastrophic.
So unless we revise the suffrage rules, hemispherical annexation is impractical.
slow and steady. You dont annex until they are reasonably ready. Alberta good, Ontario bad, for example.
Seattle?
Seattle, then. It’s settled.
I’m thinking the opposite might be better. Can Minnesoda become Friendly Manitoba’s southern neighbor? We’ll cede Minneapolis/St. Paul to the Sconnies or someone.
Why does everyone want to give Wisconsin the crappy cities near
our border? In the last couple days, I’ve seen it suggested
that we take both Chicago and Minneapolis? What did
we ever do to you?
OTOH, I’ll take the UP. Why should Wisconsin lose territory
just because Michigan lost its war with Ohio?
Did they really? I mean Ohio got stuck with Toledo.
Yeah, I always heard that Michigan won, so Ohio was forced to take Toledo.
Ontario is closer for us, (Tundra and me and some others) and fishing is better.
Uffda, Fourscore. We want to join Manitoba. Not fucking Ontario? Manitoba is full of nice wheat farmers and there is some fine catfish fishing to be done on the Red river in Winnipeg. Ontario is just full of dumb canucks.
Ontario is full of Trudeau voters isn’t it?
Nevar happon. I’d move there if I was younger but my roots run deep.
It would make a map of the U.S. look retarded though.
It could be the feather on America’s cap.
The bump on America’s noggin.
Enjoy the weather now, it will be back in the 90s by Friday.
Hmm, looks like we’ll have highs in the low 80s for the foreseeable.
I don’t know how you folks live with the heat . . .I certainly wasn’t made for that kind of weather.
I hate hate hate it. But I go where the work is, and the work is here.
Mendacious hack is mendacious and a hack.
Here’s @BretBaier justifying Fox taking Trump’s rallies live, by noting the channel also took Obama and Biden live as well. It’s classic bothsidesism. Trump uses air time to brazenly lie and spread misinfo, including about the coronavirus. Obama and Biden do not.
Obama and Biden are just like Honest Abe. (By that I mean they are lying, conniving, ruthless politicians…)
They tell all kinds of lies at their rallies, there’s just no one there to spread them to.
” It’s classic bothsidesism.”
Being Evenhanded is wrong because these people are bad, my bias tells me.
The reaction to what Trump said after Charlottesville gave this away beyond all doubt.
“There are good people on both sides” is pretty much the height of statesmanship and diplomacy. That he clarified he was talking about the debate over statues and not white supremacism is icing on the cake, but strictly speaking not necessary.
However, so thoroughly do the left believe that they deserve to own the culture that that statement, moreso than any other Trump has made (not even “some, I assume, are good people”, which is certainly more indictable, animates them as much), has become the centerpiece of their campaign against him. It’s the core of Biden’s campaign, it’s replayed every time race comes up as an issue (but, of course, not the following seconds where he clarifies), it’s almost inarguably the symbol of how much they hate him.
Yet, it is the most uncontroversial statement he’s ever made. There’s nothing to disapprove of there. It’s what a President should say when a dispute he has no real stake in comes up on the national stage.
But it is an unforgiveable sin to admit that there even is more than one side, that the arc of history may not always bend to their side, that people who disagree with them exist and shouldn’t be discounted. The overculture is theirs by birthright; the government and the institutions are owed to them. Any admission that the “other side(s)” have a point or at least shouldn’t be discounted outright is a challenge to their presumption of, well, superiority.
These people are really so invested in saving the Obama Biden legacy, despite the fact these two ran the country like it was their crime syndicate, that they simply are not able to realize we are all dismissing them from the getgo.
Going further than my Snark, I think it is interesting that you have seen a concerted push from the left (from Pelosi to the stupidest columinst) to completely de-legitimize Trump as President, and right wing thought in general. The man is the fucking president, campaigning for re-election but you think it is wrong to cover his rallies because? Because they might convince people to vote for him?
What they really want is that people who have right wing thought are no longer allowed to speak and participate in society. Some have said as much. For the most part they have achived it. Now what bothers them is that those damn wreckers are not speaking but still bad-thinking and bad voting because of it.
That’s why we need to get rid of the un-Murican Australian ballot.
You can’t get full IngSoc until you’ve outlawed badthinkers.
Caesar Andy successfully drives evilmurderdeathkillers from the People’s Paradise:
https://www.wkrg.com/state-regional/kimber-arms-names-troy-al-as-new-corporate-headquarters/
I’m sure he will scheme up some kind of corporate exit tax. I’ll be disappointed if he doesn’t even try.
So now we can blame Alabama for all our gun crime.
And they’re hiring, no less? Hopefully this means that Kimber will start producing decent guns again.
Years ago there was a Kimber Mountain Rifle at my local Dicks; curious, as I’d read some mostly positive reviews about it, and liked the fact that it was CRF, I asked to see it. I opened the action and holy shit, it felt like there was sand in the action. It was the roughest action of any gun I have ever actuated. I’m serious, that thing was an incredible piece of shit!
My Micro 9 ESV is a great lil carry pistol. It’s nice and easy to shoot.
I mean, guns are like any other product – even if the manufacturer is generally crap, you can luck into a single good example.
Guns are actually worse than most in this regard, because most of them rarely get used. Hence, no one has any real data on how good they are.
SJWednesday: A Peek Into The Mind Of Self-Loathing Nihilistic Hedonists
Nicki?
…Nikki?
This is why it’s ok to murder toddlers too. Best to get them before they experienced too much pain and heartache
The vindictive side of me says “off yourself already”. The compassionate side says “suck it up buttercup”.
Nickie?
Nicki
Nikki
Nickie
Where ever she is now, that chick’s ears are burnin’.
Just don’t look in a mirror and say her name three times and spin, or else Nikki will summon the cops to arrest you for not shoveling your sidewalk.
“That’s nice, dear. Why don’t you go play outside now?”
Nicky?
Nicckiee?
Nic’ee
I think I figured out the major changes for the site in the near future. Like all respectable places, glibertarians will get rid of the comments section.
Interesting how NPR (which eliminated comments) is running so many stories on why section 230 is needed?
A tech trade association rep was on NPR a couple of days ago saying that they need Section 230 to protect their users from hate speech and other icky ideas.
Worth always remembering that the point of the Communications Decency Act, and the other safe harbor provision of Section 230 in particular, was to encourage censorship on the Internet. The change in emphasis from the protection for speech to the censorship of speech is a cultural, not legal, shift.
We are not a respectable place.
Yeah, no Respectable Street around here!
Abortion is a moral obligation. If one does not abort their child they are a sadist, not figuratively but literally. They are deriving pleasure and possibly meaning from the act of intercourse and birth whereas the child is crying helplessly and will suffer it’s entire life.
It wouldn’t take much tweaking to turn that into a moral justification for random serial murder.
It takes no tweaking at all to turn it into a moral justification for forced sterilization.
So, IOW, it is true.
Kavanaugh said “most states” require absentee ballots to arrive by Election Day to get counted. That’s technically true but really misleading. “Most” in this case is 28 states. The other 22 states and DC accept ballots that are postmarked on Election Day but arrive later.
Yeah but it’s misleading because it would lead you to believe something I don’t want you to believe.
“It’s misleading because it gets in the way of our cheating!”
Merriam-webster will clear that up I am sure and add a new entry to the word “most”.
“Most” is actually 34 states, according to 10 seconds of googling:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/these-states-invalidate-mail-in-ballots-after-election-day/ar-BB17qlWM?ICID=ref_fark
And yet Clinton “won” the popular vote with less than 50%.
I think I figured out the major changes for the site in the near future. Like all respectable places, glibertarians will get rid of the comments section.
Nonsense. Our comments are now being forwarded to the a consortium of Big Tech Morality Police to be data-mined for seditious wrongthink.
Charge the cops with a knife. Predictably get shot. The looting begins.
On the ground in Philadelphia for @townhallcom and I surveyed the damage from last night’s riot after police shot Walter Wallace, who was armed with a knife.
This is the aftermath of the looting at the Foot Locker.
Didn’t momma call the po-po to help her deal with her boy (grown ass man)?
What do you expect cops to do when you call them and tell them someone is armed and dangerous?
Knives, gun fights, cage match, coming to WWE. Place your bets. Almost like picking a lottery winner.
And yet these states will still vote blue.
I’m not sure about that. This probably helps Trump more than any campaign rally.
Yeah Biden absolutely needs the Philly suburbs to take PA. The question is, do those voters blame Trump for the riots, or do they blame Wolf and whoever is the Philly mayor for not maintaining basic order on the streets?
Thing is, you see these sustained riots in places that are sufficently far left that they don’t have to worry about them being put down. See Portland. Portland isn’t going to all the sudden become red because of the riots. They will still vote Left. Likewise the riot in SLC were put down in 1 night and there was no mass looting.
My hypothesis is that such places are so thouroughly lost to leftist ideology, and that is why they can sustain riots like this.
The suburbs around Philly contain a lot of swing voters who have to commute into the city (at least pre-covid).
Yeah they had to board up buildings on the Drexel campus.
Maybe Drexel student is still gonna vote against ORANGE MAN BAD. His dad always votes Republican. But his mom is on the fence, and watching an angry mob looting and burning near her precious kid’s dorm might swing her to vote Trump over Biden.
Pre-riot, poll of Drexel students showed only 29% for Trump. Some things never change. I got blackballed from a Drexel frat because I wore a Goldwater button.
Wolf is sending in the National Guard.
Alex Jones was on Rogan yesterday, proving that he is a puppet of Spotify employees.
“free speech activist”
“You keep using that word – I do not think it means what you think it does.”
Alex Jones is far closer to the truth and honest than any corporate news journo. And he’s basically a caricature.
but I guess so are they at this point.
I haven’t started it yet, still working my way through the crazy Kayne interview. But I read that every time Joe tried fact checking Alex, Alex was right.
I haven’t watched it yet either. It’s over three hours long.
I have a friend who is deep down that rabbit hole and I say all the time that even though he is “crazy” he is still probably way closer to the truth than most of my friends.
I listened to it during my overnight shift and it was wonderful. Tim Dillon was there as well (Pie linked to him recently and I’ve become a fan) and it was quite evident that the three of them were all friends; the banter and camaraderie were great. Rogan is doing his “Sober October” so was getting a bit snippy with an increasingly inebriated (and very high) Jones. It actually reminded me of our Friday/Saturday Glib Zoom thingies.
I need to get some snooze soon so I won’t belabor the point. The way that this election is framed might just set the American Experiment back for decades, even centuries. Up here it was more or less a steady drip that ended most of our freedom from the State and they couched it in terms of “Inclusion” and a “mosaic”. Please don’t fall for that bullshit. This is a power grab led by Marxists and everyone of your votes counts (maybe). Hold your nose and your balls and vote for the Asshole-in-Chief. I would if I could.
More tyrannical horseshit.
“Gatherings are defined as social situations that bring together people from different households at the same time in a single space or place. When people from different households mix, this increases the risk of transmission of COVID-19,” the CDPH said in a statement.
All gatherings must include no more than three households, including hosts and guests, and must be held outdoors, lasting for two hours of less.
“The longer the duration [of the gathering], the risk of transmission increases,” the statement noted.
“Gatherings that occur outdoors are significantly safer than indoor gatherings. All gatherings must be held outside. Attendees may go inside to use restrooms as long as the restrooms are frequently sanitized,” the statement added.
And on along those lines of retardation.
As long as you invite the family patriarch/matriarch it counts as one house.
OT: Well, I’m back…with cap in hand. Without going into too much detail, I basically had a nervous breakdown last month. I managed to claw out of it without hurting myself too much but I kinda put myself in a dicey position in the process. In short, important bills are due and I’m a shameful beggar right now. So…
Hi, I’d really appreciate it if you would share or donate to this GoFundMe. https://www.gofundme.com/f/trigger-hippie-screwed-the-pooch?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=more&utm_campaign=p_cf+share-flow-1
If you do help, please allow me to pay you back when I can…I absoultey hate
asking you all for this but my friends are few and far between, I’m pretty much estranged from my immediate family, my credit sucks and I don’t know where to turn next…I’ve got nowhere else.
Thanks in advance, and if you couldn’t care less, I understand. Not your problem or responsibility.
I’m glad you’re back.
Welcome back. Sorry to hear of your troubles.
Know that they are temporary and that you have the power to dig out.
All the best, brother.
Sorry about the breakdown. Glad you’re doing better.
Wow,nearly halfway to what I needed already. You all fucking rock..
Is that dust in my eyes? Sure let’s go with that.
I don’t have the money to give right now, but just looking at how quick these fine folks have jumped on things to help you out is astounding to me. There’s some really good people here.
Right?! I was blown away at the response. Best/Worst website on the planet.
Glad to see you back TH. Hang in there.
Goal met, guys. I’m at a loss at how quickly that went. You all saved my ass more than you know…forget the dust excuse, I’m weeping in gratitude right now.
I love you all, I truly mean that.
A decent person would reject all that money and march down to the local welfare office and demand that the govt take care of them.
I was glad to help. Got some helping hands back in my past too. Glad to be able to repay that.
Right back at you.
Fuck me this site rocks!
I don’t swing that way, Festus, but I agree about the site.
Bigot.
Well I never liked artichoke hearts before…
I’m late to the party, as usual. Just tossed some change into the hat.
Got ya.
Sorry to hear about the breakdown. We’re here for you.
Sorry about your troubles. I’d help but I’m kinda whelmed right now too. Cash is short and we have to do physical labor that I’m not really capable of. Good luck to you, Friend! I’ll keep you in my thoughts if that’s any condolence. Aren’t you a boxer? Punch the fuck back!
I’m glad to see you’re back and hopefully continuing to improve. I hope you stick around here more as well.
Glad to see you around TH.
Dude, nothing shameful at all about asking for a hand from your friends. Even if they are a bunch of snarky internet friends.
Glad to see you back around.
Sorry to hear that. Only a $300 goal?
Glad you are back, and I hope everything works out.
I’m glad you’re back.
We’ve all been worried, we need each other.
Ass Wednesday brings ham hocks of love.
https://archive.li/ZPk6z
Huh. Most of them weren’t ginormasses. I think you may have a future here at GlibCorp! Good to see you back, Friend!
If FAWGs (flat ass white girls) ain’t your thang, this chiver’s page is the antidote:
https://i.thechive.com/dwray32
Fine and Fit Ass White Girls hardest hit.
Nice.
Didn’t momma call the po-po to help her deal with her boy (grown ass man)?
As usual, I have studiously avoided seeking out any factual information about this. Did she call 911 for police assistance, or did she call 911 for an ambulance or other medical help?
Apparently, it is SOP for cops to tag along on ambulance calls, in case there is somebody what needs tazin’ or shootin’.
If the call was for an ambulance, then yeah, I’ll find fault with the cops for jumping it.
But in the video I saw, it was only cops there, no ambulance, so until we see a 911 call transcript we won’t know.
It’s not impossible the ambulance called the cops.
Apparently, it is SOP for cops to tag along on ambulance calls, in case there is somebody what needs tazin’ or shootin’.
Well, sometimes there’s good reason for cops to tag along. This could be one of those times. What are the EMTs going to do when somebody charges them with a knife?
Caveat: not at all familiar with the details of this case.
I guess defund the police if all they do now is tweet “police yourselves please.”
Should we offer them Oreos and a glass of milk to incentivize them to stop?
Hey! It worked in Robocop!
I thought it was shooting rapists in the ‘nads that worked.
This is why it’s ok to murder toddlers too. Best to get them before they experienced too much pain and heartache
Philip K Dick gave us the road map.
Welcome to the PKD club Brooks.
Back to back comments by Trigger Hippie and Q. Was that the surprise thing? Because if it was, I’m good with it.
Agreed
Tedious, tiresome and probable child abuse.
Duron describes himself as having a “gender identity” that is male, but a “gender expression” that is female.
“To me, gender is over,” Duron says in the video, shrugging. “We don’t really need it. It’s kind of unnecessary.”
At age 11, Duron served as grand marshal of the Orange County LGBTQ Pride parade, an experience he describes as “magical” and “powerful.”
Not only is it over, it never was. “Gender” doesn’t exist – biological sex exists, ignoreLander says in the comments, shrugging.
Fuck off, Tulpa!
And welcome. Apologies if not Tulpa.
NEVER APOLOGIZE
Especially to Tulpa
I wonder what other things you could make the crazy people with low self esteem do if you showered them with attention as a reward?
I bet you could make them eat sneakers. “As a 13 year old, I think that keto, vegan and other lame diets are over! We just need to eat a pair of Keds and everything will be fine”
My dog agrees!
Do they get to cook it first or must they eat it like it was sushi? Instead of fruit sushi they get shoe sushi!
Fire is a tool of the Patriarchy!
If someone is “eating shoe sushi” it kinda sounds like the N.A.P. is being violated. It’s probably a Lil Ai lyric.
AKA getting kicked in the face.
Could you make them vote for Republicans?
Keds? Hell, you probably put ketchup on them too 😉
“I don’t believe in the meaning of words”
I also don’t like labels.
Duron is a trademark violation and should cease and desist immediately.
So, I again forgot that I’m running for president.
Y’all should vote for me, or someone, or not at all, it really doesn’t matter.
Here is your campaign speech:
To those of you that will not vote for me I say: FUCK YOU ASSHOLES!
And to those of you voting for me, I say: FUCK YOU TOO!
“I promise to end the grift! Starting with the next President!”
Chipotle doesn’t want my money anymore.
*wheels tv into classroom*
@BillNye wants to show you how Chipotle ingredients can help reduce the impact on the planet. Learn more: http://chipotle.com/realfoodprint.
never has the word shill had a better example.
I have no idea how people decided that Bill Nye was so smart and believable. I thought his show sucked when I was a kid, And He seems 1000 time more arrogant now.
I was a Beakman’s World kinda guy, myself.
Fun Fact: The chick on that show was the crazy waitress in the film Waiting.
Its so angry
^
This guy gets it.
Weren’t they all crazy? 😉
The really angry one, right?
All you need to know about Bill Nye
“My vagina has its own voice.”
Mr. Wizard was far superior, in no small part because he treated the kids on his show like complete idiots.
He learned it from Mr. Science
Changing their handle to “Chi-vote-le” is worse than having Bill Nye on.
That irritated me as well. I don’t care for the “get out the vote” virtue signalling by businesses.
*adds them to the list*
Not that I would intentionally eat at Chipotle ever again now that I’m back in TX, but now Ill be motivated to provide an alternative if somebody else suggests eating there.
It’s all part of their plan to start framing people who prefer actual Mexican food as Science Deniers.
Which would be a funny Bee article but most likely will end up on NotTheBee. Praise be to 2020
I think some of this is reactionary. Sure, Bill Nye sucks and I don’t eat at Chipotle, but there must be some data that shows that Chipotle’s customers are interested in this. We will see if any of this works for them or if it drives potential customers away.
Why would you eat at Chipotle. The roach coach around the corner is usually far better.
This is how you deal with them Uncle Toms!!!!
The uppity ones need putting in their place.
Considering I ran ~125 shooters, I did an amazingly good job of staying off camera. A perusal of youtube shows a distinct lack of footprints. As such, I’m not on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MoDnSJlTA
(the stage I ran starts @ 6:04)
Cool!
Good stuff.
Did you wind up going to race gun nationals?
Nah, I ended up passing this year (with regrets.). Combination of too much work and not enough practice.
Next year is also going to be a question mark, as I’m planning to take six full months off from shooting, to bum around the AT. But we’ll see how that goes.
I did just buy a Carry Optics gun. Should arrive at my local arms dealer today.
I am never going to shot carry optics until my eyes crap out. Having to store 20 round mags out of state is just unworkable.
After having played with the toys at the Federal booth, I am going to buy a Limited 10 gun.
CK Arms made one with a grip that actually hurts. I think it’s got embedded glass fibers, and then they dissolve the polymer so they stick out a bit. Spooky fast acquision.
I think Q being back has something to do with the baby coming soon and him getting bored with doggy-style.
Well too bad for him. His wife isn’t in any shape to try more complex positions. He’s just going to have to bend over and accept that he’s stuck with doggy style for the next couple months.
I think I see what you did there…
Yeah. That was really funny!
I thought you had more imagination than that!
Minorities are supposed to vote Democrat I thought?
States within States within States are an abomination, even if the puppet regime aligns with your political leanings. Granted rights are despicable.
Don’t get him started on the Holy Roman Empire…
One of the main reasons that team blue and their usual propagandists are so fucking off the rails is precisely because these groups that formerly were reliable votes are rebelling and pointing out that they actually need to get something to stay bought. Team blue wants none of that. If these minorities actually find out they should be expecting something for their vote other than some lip service, it will hurt their racket.
The Crow Nation Indian Tribe endorses PRESIDENT TRUMP.
He says that ALL tribes benefit under THIS President.
How?
😉
??? ?? ???? ?? ??? ?
Didnt come out as clear as I thought
I for one, call on all the College Students who are upset with this to renounce their Tribal Membership!
*applause*
That’s a congressman I can stand behind. Cause there’s no way I’m standing in front of him.
Ugh I am being beat to death by our operational risk management program and managements desire to capture “what of the sun explodes! Its a risk!”
Trying to explain that walking into any of our sites is a risk yes, but its not credible to even note is lost on them.
Risk = likelihood x potential cost. Ridiculously unlikely scenarios are not worth mitigating.
I know that, all my peers know that. My boss knows that. Upper mangememt most likely knows that… but chose to ignore it.
That’s why they are upper management…
They can ignore reality and blame you working stiffs when the shit hits the fan…
When our org put out the official “no concealed weapons” policy, I talked our Risk Management leadership through the Expected Value calculations for an “active shooter” event, to show that the new policy was the way to maximize employee deaths/injuries – and now you know… Didn’t work. We still get along great, but now I get asked at the beginning of each conversation whether I’m going to say that again.
^^^^ Exactly. If something could cost 1 Billion dollars of damages, but the risk is 1 in a Trillion, you should spend no more than a tenth of a cent mitigating it.
You left out potential benefit.
An unnecessary action (low to zero benefit) with a massive potential cost and very low likelihood is still to be avoided.
An example is flying military jets over urban centers. There’s no tangible benefit to do so and even though the likelihood of an accident is miniscule, the potential cost is huge.
“There’s no tangible benefit”
I like seeing my tax dollars at work. I mean, I see it every time I’m stuck at the grocery behind someone using food stamps, but jets are way cooler than a fat woman in stained and too small sweatpants bitching that she can’t buy booze with her EBT card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnpAAoVeYQ
This gets you grounded.
F18s just off the deck…nice. I miss that we will have no airshow this year.
Wear your “SMOD 2020” tee to work on casual Friday.
I’m reminded of a conversation with my FIL. He was doing (lean six sigma) consulting with his former company to make some spending money on the side. The original agreement was informal. After a couple years, they wanted to renegotiate and do a formal contract, but they require all vendors to carry liability insurance. The cost of carrying liability insurance would basically wipe out all of the profit that he was making, and there was no discernable risk profile for what he was doing, so he would be paying for insurance solely to check that box. He was presenting PowerPoint decks to engineers, so “bored to death” was the highest likelihood.
Anyway, they wouldn’t budge on it because “it’s a rule” and “we do this to protect you”. So he closed shop because they “protected him” from the risk of a horrific PowerPoint accident.
I run into this with a third party financers. My customer wants to buy capital equipment thru me but he wants to finance it thru his Sherwin Williams corporate credit account. SW wants me to up my liability insurance to $5M in order to do the deal.
The cost of the increased insurance wipes out my profits on the deal and then some.
I was talking with a buddy who does a similar kind of project work here. He had an American based company, which he was negotiating with for a contract to do a small number of jobs in other countries around Asia. The guy he was dealing with from that company asked him if he had insurance – to which he told him he did.
The truth is that he doesn’t and neither of us knew of any way he, as a sole proprietor, could get liability insurance here in Japan – particularly to cover work for a US based company doing work in another country. He figured that, for a half-dozen, 4-to-5 day projects it was a small enough risk that anything would happen so as long as the company wasn’t asking for proof he would say what they wanted to hear.
– Sorry, beer is kicking in. He had an American based company ask him if he had insurance.
Here’s how I would handle it. “Let me explain it to you in a way that’s so simple that even an executive can understand it. The likelihood is so small that it’s not worth worrying about. And if it does happen, we’re all screwed anyway.”
This is why my career has been such a success.
Is it me, or has Matt Taibbi been red pilled?
Also, I apologize, I do not know how to properly link.
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/10-ways-to-call-something-russian?fbclid=IwAR1tPFT-HLw4-mVOSDODxSmGLCuNJ5Jg0rZfYqn2MHwCUfAWm7-hsU9v640
Every once in a while I go to CNN.com just to see if they’re as terrible as I remember. Today, no mention at all of the Hunter Biden thing (not even to say Fox is reporting it). But the top stories are how Trump’s economy wasn’t as good as he said, and also Trump had some business loans forgiven. They’re not even pretending anymore.
I channel surfed past Fox and Fox Business this morning. Both were talking about the shady Biden deals during the minute I watched.
What I fear is that not only do I have to live in Canada, if Harris wins I’m going to be living in Canada squared…
Newsweek is all over it, with the “Republicans pounce” angle.
“Tucker Carlson’s Tony Bobulinski Interview Sets Conservatives Ablaze”
https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-tony-bobulinski-conservatives-ablaze-1542726
Leaked audio of Hunter Biden complaining about his first world problems.
Wonder who recorded that. Seems that Hunter’s associates are starting to scurry for the exits and covering their asses along the way.
Hunter is starting to become so big a liability to so many people way beyond his own family I wonder if he might be found OD’d in a hotel somewhere.
That cop ran her right over.
11 people shot while looting in Philadelphia so far since last night. “Looters were shooting looters.” “50 yr old man that had his car filled then was carjacked and had all his stolem stiff re-stolen from him”
Dude.
Oohh. If you steal stolen goods, isn’t that like a loophole?
JFC
Hunter/gather division of labor.
THOSE ARE MY NIKES FOOL! BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!
Is that how it went down?
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia TV shopping episode.
Clearly poverty and inequality are the primary cause, as our looters can barely afford even sunroofs on their luxury cars.
Now you see why Biden wins big in PA, free stuff at the Walmart, forever!
“What’s it like where you are?”
Rain. It’s starting to get depressing.
*Squeals with glee*
My favorite podcast/YT channel, Fall of Civilizations, just released its newest video:
https://youtu.be/f8JVdpWCKeM
Back to work tomorrow but for today, a little housework, a couple bowls, and this playing…
As an aside to those who donated to me this morning, don’t worry about me spending your dough on frivolous crap. I can honestly say I haven’t bought weed in a few months(I have ziplock bags full of roaches to get by on) and haven’t had a drink since a couple days after the first presidential debate/Grumpy Old Men 3.
Imma be watching that one.
All of them are excellent. They helped me through my self imposed sports drought tremendously.
Wish I had two hours. Love me some Aztecs. I watched the intro, interesting how they just decided hey, your building is now the property of the state and as such will be destroyed in the name of history. I will admit, the world is more interesting with these discoveries unearthed rather than buried… cough confederate monuments, cough.
I listened to the original podcast before the video release. They do an excellent job of sourcing various accounts from both sides of the conflict..Cortes was a ruthless, arrogant, manipulative, lying sonovabitch…but damn if he didn’t have balls of steel.
Very few people are crazy enough to burn their own ships.
As an aside to those who donated to me this morning, don’t worry about me spending your dough on frivolous crap. I can honestly say I haven’t bought weed in a few months(I have ziplock bags full of roaches to get by on) and haven’t had a drink since a couple days after the first presidential debate/Grumpy Old Men 3
Be careful what you say, some might see this statement and want their money back.
Srsly. You now have a bit of cash beyond your initial ask, so after you pay your bills and set some aside so that you don’t fall back in the same position, you should take some to go blow on fun.
Maybe intoxicants aren’t the best use of the money, but $20 gets you a
night10 minute block with Winston’s Mom. ? Leaving the stress at home and forgetting about regular life for a couple hours may be just what the doctor ordered.You are certainly free to spend my contribution on frivolous crap. The ziplocs of roaches is just sad. Get something fresh!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8887655/Demi-Rose-puts-sizzling-display-deeply-plunging-pink-beach-cover-up.html
Nope. Sizzling physique.
“‘I drive better when I drink’: Driver swigs beer and brags on Facebook Live – moments before smashing into a pickup truck and killing three people including his girlfriend”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8886501/Video-shows-man-drinking-wheel-saying-drive-better-drunk-moments-crash.html
So good thing he wasn’t sober?
As long as they mailed their votes in already
everything is fine.
“Joe Biden has 17 point lead over Donald Trump in Wisconsin where COVID is surging and is ahead seven points in Michigan in new poll”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8888547/Joe-Biden-17-point-lead-Donald-Trump-Wisconsin-seven-points-Michigan.html
17 points?
Who are you going to believe, the pollsters or your lying eyes?
This is one of the main reasons why I hope Trump wins. I’m dying to see if the MSM’s credibility can sink even lower than the bottom of a toilet.
A lead so big you shouldn’t even bother voting for anyone except Biden.
I notice the lead story on the Daily Mail is the Tucker interview about the Biden crime family.
This poll is an incredible outlier. Obama carried the state against McCain by only 13 points. His best performance in the state.
In short, this is complete bullshit.
Yeah well you think the media is going to treat it as an outlier?
Looks like the vid is in 2nd place!
The WaPo is so damnably bad that I immediately assume anything they print is a bald-faced lie.
And the rumor on the street is that Bezos might be looking to buy CNN.
What is wrong with that guy?
So, just when you thought CNN couldn’t get any worse?
They want to give MSNBC a run for their 20-30 viewers.
Can’t let Microsoft have all the fun.
Media conglomerates can exist but people should not trust them. But they do, and here we are.
lol
New rule: before someone can vote in a state they’ve moved to, they have to pay off all retroactive state debt incurred in their by their last state during their stay, before they can vote in their newly moved to state.
This would help eliminate the obvious high-jacking of WI and TX by people fleeing IL and CA.
Considering buying/moving season for houses is just prior to any given election, States absolutely should have a minimum time-in-state requirement.
I would wager there is an operation funded by deep pockets that “moves” devoted party members to states to vote in. No inside knowledge but just seems like an easy thing to do to bolster your numbers where you need them. Probably a low number though.
Okay tin-foil was slipping off a bit
Interesting. So the left’s turning a state into a shithole actually helps to spread the left’s gospel.
…like a shit-clogged toilet that’s overflowing.
Why did they restrain themselves with a measly 17 points? That’s what I want to know. They should have gone for 38 points. Or maybe even 73 points. If you’re going to lie, lie big.
It’s not so much that they are lying, it’s that they are only polling democrat voters. With democrat voters, Biden really is up by 17 pts. Which is not really that great.
I’ve been saying this for months. GOP voters, along with any Trump supporters, and many libertarians, are NOT going to talk to the media. And all of these pollsters are the media. If I talk to them, I’ll just troll them ‘Hell yeah, I’m voting for Biden, free stuff from the Walmart on looting night out!’.
I ran across an internet poll (that will probably eventually be cited somewhere) according to my responses, I’m a disgruntled republican who voted Biden. Fuck the polls.
Sure…
Im spoiling myself. I pulled out bacon from the freezer with glee last night only to be mildly upset its the butcher block bacon and not my homemade.
“Hunter Biden’s former business partner releases audio of ‘Biden family friend imploring him not to go public’ – and claims Joe’s brother chuckled and said ‘plausible deniability’ allows the family to ‘get away with it'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8886515/Releases-clip-Bidens-imploring-not-public.html
DM headline: WHISTLEBLOWER: JOE’S CROOKED
Not so much in the U.S. press…
I wonder if the Clintons owe Biden a favor? Bobulinski didn’t kill himself.
Tobias Funke predicted 2020.
Posted this last night about PA and Gov Wolf
“If you haven’t already, voters with mail ballots should immediately hand-deliver your ballot to your county-designated location,” said Gov. Wolf. “Don’t wait until election day. Hand-delivering your own ballot now will give you the peace of mind that your vote will be counted, and your voice will be heard in this historic election.”
Reading that last part sounds like he is claiming if you don’t vote early, it won’t be counted. Could be just poorly written I guess.
Also great message while the cities burn.
I thought the whole point of “voting by mail” was so you didn’t have to risk visiting a location infested with cooties.
Thats kinds why I question his motives. PA is pissed about Bidens dedication to destroy fracking jobs and Wolf is carrying that water so people don’t rethink their potential vote.
I hate 2020
Hand-delivering your own ballot now will give you the peace of mind that your vote will be counted,
Hard to read that any other way.
And, of course, the longer your ballot is in the hands of a corrupt machine, the more likely it is to be lost, altered, etc.
Wolf also insisted that a riot where three dozen cops were injured and there was widespread looting was a Peaceful Protest(tm).
Living in Big College town, I’m used to seeing those yard signs with a list of vacuous tautologies, e.g., “In this house we believe…”
So this made me chuckle (TW: twatter)
Where do people get those anyway?
There’s a b/w BLM one that looks hand-lettered until you see two neighboring ones.
Oh how I want to do this (living in a college town as well). But I’ll probably just vote Trump instead.
Yessss! I live in the virtue capital of my metro area I think. Can’t go more than a few houses without seeing one
I’m sharing your chuckle.
Living in Big College town, – what do the chicks average?
8/10 at my large state college.
However, 5 out of 10 are a cabal of shrill and uninteresting dopes. The kind that play music while hiking and can’t form a simple sentence without using like at least three times.
Sounds like an idea for South Park.
TW: twatter
No worries. I turned on TwatBlock in the latest version of Monocle.
Reading that last part sounds like he is claiming if you don’t vote early, it won’t be counted. Could be just poorly written I guess.
I read it more as, “Don’t trust your sacred vote to the mailman.”
(TW: twatter)
Virtually every time I click on a twatter link, I wish I hadn’t. I think I’ll stop.
That’s a good price even without the cheese.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1321267502761070592
Legit lol
This is Looney Tunes stuff right here
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1321229039491756032
This is the most important election of our lifetime (For real this time)
https://twitter.com/ShaineScalph/status/1321210621875073032
Why free market think tanks are neither evil nor geniuses
https://thecritic.co.uk/why-free-market-think-tanks-are-neither-evil-nor-genius/
Because Andersen must tie everything back to the “vast right-wing conspiracy”, he cannot paint a more nuanced picture that might feel more plausible. Can it really be the case that a small group of libertarian-leaning economists and lawyers are responsible for America’s economic problems? If anti-state fanatics have been calling the shots for decades, why is the federal government bigger today than it was 40 years ago? Andersen’s account leaves no space for some of the quirks of contemporary American corporate culture: the well reimbursed managerial class — the big winners from the market-friendly reforms that has Andersen so upset — increasingly vote Democrat. On social issues, the firms they run often produce policies and literature to the left of the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.
Earlier this Summer Sapporo came out with a new line of “Happoshu” – which is beer that contains less than 67% malt and for that reason is taxed at a lower rate resulting in a price to the consumer which is almost half of what regular beer costs. This new line was “Sapporo Gold Star” and had a kinda retro package.
This became my “go to” brew and was a regular feature in my fridge. Unfortunately, it seems that was only a brief marketing fad and I don’t see it on the shelves anymore.
So this evening I went out and bought two other Sapporo Happoshu products. I opened both of those with my last can of Gold Star and have been doing a taste test. As far as I can tell they just repackaged one of their other Happoshu brands (Rich Malt) – which I will be buying from now on.
I think straff also drank that non beer stuff
When the line between “beer” and “non-beer” is nothing that you can actually taste – but the taxes drop about 40% – I don’t see the reason to pay so much more for a truly insignificant difference in quality.
well proper hipster beer is anyways 3 times the cost of regular beer. And I doubt Sapporo is anything but mainstream.
And more bitter than an old cat lady in coyote country.
I like it too
So the wifey ordered something off Amazon (.com not .de) where the seller was in Germany. Not only did it arrive on time (Jawohl!) but the seller sent, via regular mail, a printed invoice. No, not just a printed invoice but also date stamped the invoice too with a stamper rather than just printing the date in the invoice field. Fucking Germans. No wonder they allied with the Japanese.
do not generalize based on one experience
Thanks Trigger for that link to that YT channel. Great background for work from home.
Conversations over the dinner table that incite hatred must be prosecuted under Scotland’s hate crime law, the justice secretary has said.
Journalists and theatre directors should also face the courts if their work is deemed to deliberately stoke up prejudice, Humza Yousaf said.
The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill has been condemned by critics including the Scottish Catholic Church, police representatives, academics and artists. It will introduce an offence of stirring-up of hatred against people with protected characteristics, including disability, sexual orientation and age.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hate-crime-bill-hate-talk-in-homes-must-be-prosecuted-6bcthrjdc
If Wallace wasnt dismembered, he’d get out of his grave and bury himself somewhere else.
Humza Yousaf
I’d love to hear the drunken Scot pronunciation of that name.
Billy Connolly must be dead.
Thanks for all your hard work SP
Kiss ass
Smooches!
In all seriousness its a nice corner of the internet we occupy and ai am grateful for it and the hard work put in.
“corner of the internet we occupy and ai am grateful for it”
I knew it. You are a sock bot.
SP, I don’t really know what’s going on website-wise, but running a website of this size is tremendous. Thank you for that, and the links rock.
I mean it’s not bad, but it’s not exactly brain surgery, is it. Brain surgery is very difficult.
I have no doubt SP could do brain surgery if she felt like it.
reference
Brain Surgeon – That Mitchell & Webb Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
Well, so could I.
It wouldn’t be very successful, though.
Oscillating saw and ice pick #FTW!
Just ask Ben Carson, then call him a House N*****, seems all the rage with the left.
“Red exclamation mark symbol
Philly
Red exclamation mark symbol
Media vultures have descended to yr town on the grift. They like to film things that will put your ass in jail. Stay aware of these folks
-Julio Rosas
– Daily Caller 3 Shelby, Richey, Jorge
– Eliejah Schaffer
– Drew Hernandez is livestreaming
#phillyprotests ”
https://twitter.com/DrewPbutBgone/status/1321273601480257536
OFFS!!
“PHILLY: black bloc anarchists, black lives matter, & socialists get into a fight over who should lead the protest and where to head
They were actively pushing press back to prevent people from filming
It’s a tactic commonly used to prevent bad optics”
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1321237420185190400
Problems you don’t have with a libertarian riot. When they disagree, everyone just shrugs and walks off in a different direction.
You forgot everybody flipping the bird at everybody else.
Finger gestures are violence.
They like to film things that will put your ass in jail.
Or, you could not do things that will get your ass in jail.*
*SLD: “things” refers solely to violence and property crime.
“Black Lives Matter rioters in Philadelphia threaten, assault, and chase out Jewish residents claiming “you don’t live here” and call them members of the “Synagogue of Satan.””
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1321397398002786304
remember it is just antizionism
I imagine this will be an angle of attack if Trump does exceptionally well with the Black Vote.
“Of course the anti-Semitic blacks voted for they guy with Jewish people in his family who has put together a deal with several ME states recognizing Israel!”
Makes as much sense as anything else I her from the DemOps.
Given that the majority of BLM rioters are white…
However, Drummand says he found plenty of reasons to believe earlier this month. “We were just working on removing old finishes and everything and that’s when we found those first secret compartments,” he told Today. “I was trying to get the trim off (outside). I was taking this thing off and this whole thing fell out. At first, I assumed it was just insulation or something then I was like, why is there glass?” Drummond threw on the camera and documented that the entire area was packed solid with imported whisky dated from 1923.
Nice!
I’d love to know the story about how it got abandoned. That was really early in Prohibition (1920 – 1933).
I wouldn’t trust any booze from that era. Who know what it was cut with?
“Jack says the New York Post can log back onto its account, delete their original offending tweet, and then “tweet the exact same material from the exact same article.””
https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1321475060058755072
WTF??
Somebody who totally doesn’t get the story about splitting the baby.
Solomon was just a man. Twitter is God.
I don’t get that but I’d rather just see the NYP tell Jack to GFH.
SP, I want to thank you for the Christy Hemme pics.
Just wanted to say again how absolutely blown away by all of you here. I’m just about speechless over your generosity and encouragement. I don’t deserve any of the love shown here today but I’ll sure as hell take it. But please, enough. If I can’t make do with what has already been given then I don’t deserve to.
Again, I love you guys.
[insert libertarians are stingy joke here]
Sends TH a list of government agencies waiting to help him.
It appears that the navigation bar has returned. Thanks SP!
Only forward, no back.
It was there before, but barely visible.
Trigger warning, these people are insufferable cunts who refuse to learn anything.
Deplorables!
TMITE