It’s coming!
“Good morning my dear Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious day it is!”
I mean seriously. How can anybody be that perky this early in the morning? I call shenanigans.
And here I would have expected an STD.
Good luck with the game of Hot Potato in the Middle East, Joe.
No, no. You first.
And they want us to think the monkeys in Thailand have it bad.
Now get to work, you slackers!
mornin’
Current titty status: calm
Titty status: Code Beige. Realized that all is for naught and winding myself so tight over events that I have no appreciable control over whether it be elections or my work situation was going to cause me to stroke out while mopping the stairs. Fuck it. I’ve lived through worse.
Indeed. I’m just going to keep my head down while trying to be more like Fred Kite. https://youtu.be/3a9OAvqyjn0
The times! They do not change. Thanks for that I0bOt. That was a good film but I didn’t really grok it when I was a child. It all seems so clear to me now as the specter of the light draws nigh. They’re running about the farm yard like a bunch of chickens with their heads off. Maybe it’s best to stand aside and let them topple and bleed out, clean the mess come February.
Wait, that’s a thing?
And here I would have expected an STD.
Convid probably transfers through sexual relations. Unless you wear a mask, of course. That is an ironclad defense against the coof because science.
Nothing stops viruses quite like spending long periods of time breathing through a warm, damp, quite permeable cloth.
So you’ve been to my Ex’s for Christmas Dinner before, too? How’s Uncle Joe? Still got the gamey leg?
There’s a reason that movie whores have a “No kissing” rule.
I think someone did finally come up with a link to a study saying that yes, the virus does shed from the anus.
HM is a SCIENCE DENIER!
Good morning Spuds.
Those Indonesian women have it good compared to college educated American females, who are subjugated by the patriarchy on a daily basis.
Mz. Gambolputty agrees, in fluid solidarity.
Caution- shit flinging howler monkeys at work
Noem can certainly claim to be an A-grade student when it comes to generating conflict. The 4 July Mount Rushmore event was one of two huge public gatherings that she blessed against the advice of health experts.
The other was the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally which Noem actively welcomed. The gathering attracted almost 500,000 people over 10 days and is now widely thought to have been the mother of all super-spreader events that helped trigger the Covid disaster that the midwest is now suffering.
Even as the crisis has exploded around her, she has stuck to her guns and led by her maskless example. Last week she attended a high school football championship in an indoor sports dome in which masks were required for everyone present – she violated the rule and went ostentatiously bare-faced.
Yes, boys and girls, Sturgis’ Festival of Dirtbags is the source of each and every “infection” in the midwest.
SCIENCE tells us so.
Wasn’t Sturgis like four months ago?
Shush you
Widely. Thought.
Self-proclaimed open minds. Think. Widely.
So open minded, their brain fell out.
I’m guessing there wasn’t a whole lot of thought involved
Models, my good man. Whereas, the science of yesterday, primitive though it was, required many men to don white lab coats and pontificate on the way the world works, today in our modern era of progress and technology, we have those same men, who are all now also women, and vice versa, leave the lab coat aside and don sweatpants instead, if they must to avoid Toobin themselves, and write up a bunch of computer code. Then we feed numbers into the computer, and voila! It tells us what will happen, like the gypsy woman from that movie where Tom Hanks was an adult but really a kid. This is just science, and everyone knows science is like magic, but better.
Who are you to question the SCIENCE?
And there was 1 Rona death attributed to it and maybe 100 infections. Nice superspreader event.
There was that group of “experts” that published a study based on cell phone data that “proved” that hundreds of thousands were infected, but I think they might have been pulling our legs.
So it was that biker event, but all the rioting and peaceful looting in your areas produced zero Rona cases?
Shush, you.
Black bloc masks are even more effective than the regular masks everyone else is wearing.
What happened to women make great leaders, should be in charge of everything, and we should do everything they say?
Majority rules! Whitmer and Brown out-woman-vote Noem.
I don’t think this cunte has thought this through. Kristi is hawt and commands respect. I will do anything she says.
Can I become member # 302 in this newly founded Party? Do I get a lapel pin and and armband to wear to the rallies? ‘Cause I totally will join.
Now that the media believe they have rid us of Trump, they feel it’s time for them to destroy all potential 2024 Republican candidates. Noem will soon be wishing they were as kind to her as they were with Sarah Palin.
Yep.
If any of these “journalists” had spent some time around Bikers they would soon realize that pretty much every bug on this planet has already run through them and then left for shall we say, greener pastures…
We were in the Black Hills a few years back a week or so before the Stugis rally and all the bikers we saw were lawyers and orthodontists on their 75K Hogs pretending to be outlaw bikers.
Maybe real bikers show up for the actual rally, but the ones we saw were all LARPing posers.
Exactly what fraction of Harley owners are “real” bikers? HD is only in business becasue of LARPers.
Less than 10% of Harley owners are “real” bikers would be my guess.
I did a project a few years ago with Harley. They were very concerned about the future of the company. No kids are riding Harleys now because they are too expensive. Sure HD is making a ton of money now, but in 30 years when the kids are older will they be willing to buy a Harley? Or are they going to stick with the bikes they are riding now?
So good for them for thinking about that. Unfortunately their solution wasn’t to build a cheaper bike for that end of the market. Nope, what do kids love? SOCIAL MEDIA! What if we put in a IoT module that would automatically track your bike (speed, location, etc) and upload it to the cloud and integrate with your Facebook/Twitter accounts? Kids would love that!
Oh, and HD’s attempt at building an electric bike didn’t go so well.
HD lost the young biker 5-10 years ago. They cranked out a few Street 750s and called them “low price bikes” that attempted to look cool. They were underpowered, unrefined, and still started at nearly $9K. For $9K you can get a used Japanese bike, new Japanese bike, or a used/new Triumph that performed and looked better.
That is truly sad. The new Triumphs don’t perform for shit either. Made for old men reliving their Dylan albums. If the intro Harley is worse than that…
Ouch.
Most of the HD owners I know are gay leather queens. They look all bikery and stuff but when they open their mouths a purse falls out.
LOL
I’m reminded of the 300lb leather-chaps-wearing grizzly dude I met at a Village People concert in Baltimore who had a name tag that read “Bucky”
That is how they afford the Harley.
That’s Gold! Tonio! Gold!
Back in the Seventies/early Eighties I knew some guys in the Sons of Silence MC chapter in eastern Iowa. Those guys were anything but. Nice enough guys, unless you crossed them.
The chapter owned a house next to where I was working third shift in (to my eternal shame) a 7-11, in the crappiest part of Waterloo, then and now known as “Little Chicago.” The bikers liked me because I gave them advance notice of beer sales and got them kegs at cost off the truck.
One night two guys started hassling me because I wouldn’t sell them beer ten minutes after the 2AM cutoff. It was summer, a warm, humid night, so the store’s doors were open. As the two guys started getting loud and agitated, I looked over and noticed about ten members of the Sons leaning over the fence listening.
A minute or so later the two assholes were surrounded by ten big bikers in club colors. One of them, an enormous guy I knew only as Wolf, demanded “You two assholes aren’t bothering our friend, are you?”
Word got around that I was in tight with the Sons of Silence, and everyone in the area treated me with great respect after that.
Yeah, I’ll allow it. Just don’t make fun of me when I buy that convertible and stylish hat to go cruise for chicks someday.
“Positivity rate.” Rate of positive tests. No context. Would be nice to know what the positivity rate is nationally. The only thing the author says is that they are second only to Wyoming in this shame. But are all the state positivity rates clustered in the upper fiddies or what?
Also, the writer puts the words freedom and liberty in scare quotes.
A high positivity rate means your testing is well targeted. The low national positivity rate means we seem to be missing a lot of cases (and at one point you had to be symptomatic to even get tested).
^^This. The national Positivity rate is about 10%.
Math says if you’re randomly testing people without symptoms and the test is 95% accurate, then you are likely to get just as many false positives as true positives when the result is near 10%.
I think NH is around 4% or 5% currently.
In the Spring, when NH only allowed testing for people with symptoms, positivity rate was around 10%.
Now anyone can get a test in NH.
Security officials worry Israel and Saudi Arabia may see the end of Trump as their last chance to go to war with Iran
On the plus side, a Saudi/Israeli alliance.
European security officials worry that they may be asked to do something about the shitfest in their backyard.
^^^THIS^^^
That is why they liked things the way it used to be…
That and the fact the guy they told us was an inept bull in a china shop got this done while they never did, making it obvious they are either lying shits when they say they are trying or basically just fucking inept (I think it is both).
The refugee crisis in their own countries is someone else’s problem while this is theirs to deal with. Much better the Obama/Biden policy wonks be back in charge to make this go away (from them).
Yeah, the guy who wants troops out of Afghanistan (and has been disobeyed by his generals) and didn’t escalate the war with Iran after the Solemeni affair is really itching to start a war.
Won’t he feel stupid when the history books are written! They won’t be able to give him credit for starting any wars.
Trump should get on TV and broadcast to the Iranian people, “This is your last chance. If you don’t rise up now, Biden will throw you to the Mullahs.” Even better would be for them to take him up on it. Then when they are interviewed they can all say “We knew Biden would be a disaster for us”
“Won’t he feel stupid when the history books are written! They won’t be able to give him credit for starting any wars.”
You are not giving the revisionists that have been spewing lies & propaganda for 4 plus years any credit here your holiness. After that shitshow I am sure they can find a way to make him look like a baby eating monster before they are done.
Iran deal! Strategic patience! Fund terrorism in the West Bank and Lebanon! Call Israel a “friend” out of one side of your mouth, and pander to the BDS lobby out of the other! Do everything possible to upset as many people in the Arab world as possible instead of facilitating groundbreaking, historic accords to broker unprecedented peace and cooperation!
That general approach worked so well before, didn’t it?
Coronavirus in South Dakota is running at an intensity only surpassed in the US by its neighbor North Dakota. The state has an alarming positivity rate of almost 60% – nearly six out of 10 people who take a Covid test are infected – second only to another neighbor, Wyoming.
Viewed through the lens of cases and deaths, South Dakota is also at the top of the league table. More than 66,000 South Dakotans have contracted the disease and at least 644 have died, a number likely to rise as hospitals reach breaking point.
All is lost. Abandon hope. Pray for a swift and painless death.
60% positivity? Some people might the the wrong idea, and think they’re on the verge of herd immunity. Whatever you do, don’t mention the symptoms.
Who knows if herd immunity is possible or what it even really means. We get the cold and flu every year in cycles. But how can we possibly still be living in the fantasy world where the spread of this disease is somehow going to be contained?
People tell me that “herd immunity is not going to be possible because the antibodies only last 3 months” * and those same people also say that a vaccine would wipe it away overnight.
* I know that memory T-cells play a part in immunity and the antibodies are not the whole story, but hey – this is the I Fucking Love Science crowd we’re dealing with. You can’t expect them to know this stuff.
Why is it alarming that only people with symptoms are getting tested?
Because until 99+% of the people taking tests don’t need to, we won’t be shoveling enough money to
donorsthe health care system!They could solve their problems simply by making everyone get tested every single day. That would drop the positivity rate way down. Problem solved!
All these stories about the Dakotas keep harping on rates. They never mention that there are only 750K people in NoDak and 800K in SoDak. That means that any time you see a statistic that says “x per million” that means that the ratio is higher than the actual cases.
Interesting that they say “second only to another neighbor, Wyoming” because they have the same problem. If I were a betting man, I’ guess that Montana will soon join the coalition of dumb rube states that are getting the Rona they deserve.
It is hard to tell exactly beyond the top 10 without digging into numbers, but it looks like South Dakota is 16th or 17th in deaths per million. How is that top of the league table? And who writes like that outside of Britain?
As I said yesterday, North Dakota is now #8.
It’s like it got cold outside or something …
Harris County official gonna Harris County official.
This ain’t Lina Hidalgo’s first attempt at executive decreeing from the bench.
Remember when that Honolulu person mass-texted that there were incoming nukes? At least that was an accident.
I would giggle if she was hit with a million lawsuits demanding compensation for the $0.15 that receiving the text cost them.
Don’t blame all Texans for the shittiness of a Houston government official, or the voters who put that idiot in office.
It’s like we’re just supposed to forget that the test was only authorized for emergency use because it never actually went through the proper trials so nobody really knows if the test is any good.
1 Easy Tip For Abiding By Your Governor’s Holiday Restrictions
My sister says she’s going to call me today to discuss the holidays. She & my BIL usually host Thanksgiving, but I suspect she’s gonna weenie out. Looks as if Tom T & I are having Arby’s deep-fired turkey sammiches next Thursday.
(S/B “deep-fried”)
If you dug a hole in the sand, built a fire and let it burn down to coals, wrapped your turkey in a few layers of foil, covered it in and waited until the next day it would be “deep fired”. That’s the method that my parents generation used on “Camp-outs”. Delicious!
Also known as an imu in Hawaii.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
STRANGER DANGER!
Jackass-Elect was on my teevee whining about why President Cartoon Villain hasn’t just turned over the car keys to the Ship of State.
Because you’re not President, maybe.
Patience. It’s not even time yet for the time-honored tradition of the outgoing administration entrapping and indicting a member of the transition team.
There will be a smooth transition…to a 2nd Trump administration.
I heard somewhere he held some gathering or something as “Office of the President Elect” at some theater, which would be appropriate since it is all theater.
It was a press conference or speech…had Office of the President Elect printed up in big letters behind him. Then again, why not engage in blatant propaganda when half the country apparently have sub 80 IQs?
Yep. Swissy pictured it above quite succinctly.
Who knows if herd immunity is possible or what it even really means.
If that “60% positivity rate” is a actually real, I assume it is because the pool of test subjects is a very narrow and symptomatic one. But it frightens the rubes, and that’s what matters.
Indeed. Everything is all about spreading panic in the service of tighteningthe grip of state power over the rubes.
“Never let a crisis go to waste”
I cannot understand in the slightest bit anyone who is frightened by this anymore. The media’s usual lying and misrepresentations aside, it’s been 9 fucking months. The streets are not full of bodies, the cemeteries aren’t overflowing, the crematoriums aren’t running ’round the clock, get the fuck over it. The vast majority of people are still at the same or less risk of dying from this than a host of other things in their lives, and those who are at higher risk of dying from it get consideration from others and oftentimes can take actions of their own like moderate daily exercise to build up lung strength and capacity.
You don’t get what it is like to live in a prog echo chamber, listening for hours each day to CNN or MSNBC, where all you hear is be very afraid TM. We’re having Thanksgiving at Chez Prolefeed with just my wife and me because my wife’s family are all scared to get on a plane or visit relatives, and my brother has You Are Dead To Me TM attitude because I had the audacity to opine that flimsy masks won’t stop a virus, thus revealing myself as an evil person.
The level of evil of the DNC propaganda is breathtaking.
Yeah, the level of scaremongering on broadcast news is insane. The other day I heard a radio promo for a local news report on “covid, guns, and kids”, and they used the word “scary” three times. They kept repeating “covid, guns, kids, it’s scary” over and over, like a parody of a news ad, except it was real.
Women, the answer is women. I know a whole host of men who pretend to give a shit, because they’re wives are emotionally invested in this. They can’t let themselves believe they have adhered to all of these restrictions for nothing.
Women, the answer is women. I know a whole host of men who pretend to give a shit, because they’re wives are emotionally invested in this. They can’t let themselves believe they have adhered to all of these restrictions for nothing.
Whoaaa, man! (to continue my Axe Murderer theme)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ETPRsJ-exZw
You haven’t been on Twitter where owners of restaurants have been blamed for the (nonexistent) deaths of their staff and families.
Fucking tinpot dictator Walz has closed Minnesoda down for 4 weeks. Interesting to note that Indians are immune to the Rona
Uffda, this is depressing.
We’ve got a race to the camps here in Ohio. Cuyahoga county (containing Cleveland) has enacted a stay-at-home advisory (with no enforcement mechanism, that’s why the jackass is only a mayor) until December 17th. Then today, the day when the state wide curfew goes into effect we get this lovely article:
Will Ohio’s overnight curfew reduce coronavirus spread?
I’m going to go with… no.
Likewise the “stay-at-home advisory” here in Montg’y County. Took the precaution of making my lap swim reservation at the Y in the as-yet-unadvised adjacent county, since I wouldn’t be surprised if the ones here scale back operations somehow.
Hey, I picked wild rice years ago, that should make me an honorary member of the Chippewa band of Ojibwas. Free at last…
Christ man! You white eyes will never be allowed to be affiliated with any tribe as long as we have our casinos and fishing rights.
Sovereign nations and all. Same reason Michigan couldn’t force the casinos to close. (But then they threatened that the State would go after their customers and they capitulated)
If the Indians were smart, they’d be running bars and restaurants and having all sorts of concerts on their reservations. Not only do they get to make more money, but they can get all the white eyes infected. I’m sure they will be sorely disappointed about how much less effective the Rona is compared to small pox, but still…
And the progressives won’t have the stones to say anything negative about those noble savages because they rate really high on the intersectional scale.
‘Morning, Spud.
Our cunt-face governor shut down the gyms again. And the bars/restaurants. And gatherings beyond a single household. Pretty much anywhere that strength and (non-governmental) communities develop. Funny how that works.
It isn’t so much that he would do this – it’s what tyrants do after all – but the number of people I know personally who think this is just peachy-keen freaks me the fuck out.
Optimistic Tundra is on life support. Rage-filled Tundra is ascendent.
Winter is coming.
/buckle up
I feel like “cunte” has become too regularly used in my daily vocabulary but it seems to apply more and more. Though I am worried I might let it slip at an inappropriate time.
Mrs. Holiness is 100% behind the new lockdown.
There may have been some yelling in Vatican West last night about this. I’m with you Tundra, I feel like my nuts have been kicked repeatedly. Not only by the govt (which I expected) but by my fellow Minnesodans.
Hmmm…. Fat out of shape people have a much harder time with the Rona. SHUT DOWN THE GYMS!!!!
And even then, Chris Christie is just fine.
He flew too close to the sun.
My guess is that his final moments involved flying too close to the ground,
“He died loving what he wanted to do!” read the obituary.
Still one my favorites.
He wasn’t flying, he was falling with style.
Indeed.
Indeed.
Indian givers.
The two Republicans in Michigan who are on the Wayne County Board of Canvassers reportedly want to rescind their votes after they voted to certify the county’s election results late last night after initially voting to not certify the results, which led to a 2-2 deadlock.
“In affidavits signed on Wednesday evening, the two GOP members of the four-member Wayne County Board of Canvassers allege that they were improperly pressured into certifying the election and accused Democrats of reneging on a promise to audit votes in Detroit,” The Washington Post reported. “Jonathan Kinloch, a Democrat and the board’s vice chairman, told The Post that it’s too late for the pair to reverse course, as the certified results have already been sent to the secretary of state in accordance with state rules. He lashed out at the Republicans over their requests.”
Maybe threatening a peoples children and calling them racists was a bad move, you cuntes.
I am with this guy…
Just another white-supremacist Drumpf supporter.
I have noticed a lot more minorities voicing Team Nazi opinions lately.
Worth several reposts. I like this very much.
Awesome!
It isn’t so much that he would do this – it’s what tyrants do after all – but the number of people I know personally who think this is just peachy-keen freaks me the fuck out.
Watching family members, who I have always thought of as intelligent and independent thinkers, falling for the hair-on-fire “cases SPIKING!” crap is really depressing.
We are now getting to watch what happens when you apply the rotten management culture that has infested government, business, and nonprofit for 20+ years to society itself. Metrics without context are useless. Monitoring and optimizing for metrics you don’t understand is actively detrimental.
Look, people were about to start having thanksgiving together. And if people get together and don’t die, they might figure out it’s all bullshit. So it’s time to lock down and make sure the rubes don’t have any fun.
Side note, just got an email that my dad’s cousin died of the the ‘Vid. I don’t know anything about him, but I’m guessing there is more to this story.
Look, people were about to start having thanksgiving together. And if people get together and don’t die, they might figure out it’s all bullshit. So it’s time to lock down and make sure the rubes don’t have any fun.
Side note, just got an email that my dad’s cousin died of the the ‘Vid. I don’t know anything about him, but I’m guessing there is more to this story.
I’m in the mood for a little Solzhenitsyn.
Live Not By Lies
Wisdom right there…
Tundra has passed me on the lit scale. I love it. Keep firing.
I recently bought an abridged edition of The Gulag Archipelago and am slowly making my way through it. If there is one single book which had the biggest impact on the world while I was living this is the best candidate and I should know more about it.
Jordan Peterson did a couple really worthy podcasts you may enjoy:
Foreword to The Gulag Archipelago: 50th Anniversary
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)
I’m gonna tear into it again, too.
Watching those, along with his Interview with Jocko Willink, was the impetus of my decision to buy the book. I want to be able to spit some of his words into the faces of any emboldened Marxists I may run into.
The sad thing is that all they will respond with was that the USSR was NOT true marxism… Which they somehow think their incarnation will magically be…
You can’t use logic & facts to convince religious fanatics of anything.
You can’t reason someone out of a conclusion arrived at via emotion. Different halves of the brain. To abandon said beliefs, they have to be bitch-slapped around by reality because they are delusional about how the world works, and need an emotional reaction to said bitch-slapping, plus an epiphany about why the slappage is occuring to them over and over.
“In affidavits signed on Wednesday evening, the two GOP members of the four-member Wayne County Board of Canvassers allege that they were improperly pressured into certifying the election and accused Democrats of reneging on a promise to audit votes in Detroit,” The Washington Post reported.
“I hereby proclaim to all and sundry: I be a gutless cuck, whose word means nothing.”
I don’t know. I get how many people feel that when the emboldened crazy angry democrats tell them they plan to punish people for supporting Trump in any way, some people actually cave in because they worry they will have a lot to lose…. Not everyone is in a position to fight back or to risk their loved ones, and you damned well know the left will keep its word when it comes to bloodshed.
I think it took some guts to recant and bring this back out to the public eye.
I’m not going to talk trash about them.
My guess is not guts, so much as a spineless recantation because now they’re getting shunned by all their GOP friends.
These are very low level officials. They don’t have giant salaries. They aren’t independently wealthy, and one of the Democrats on the board threatened her children.
Honestly, this is the biggest act of courage in the whole post election kerfuffle. Rudy Giulianni and Sidney Powell will be ok whatever happens. This woman’s children are going to be bullied by their teachers and fellow students, on the orders of the Democrats. They’ll do their best to get her fired.
This.
Populist right and populist left. I’d take it.
https://twitter.com/spirit_llama/status/1329260196850405376
That guy hopefully didn’t get an aneurism doing that speech…
Not saying he isn’t right to advice the troop pullout, but when the deep state ignores Trumps orders for draw downs (and then actually admits with pride they did so), one has to wonder what he things will happen if Trump orders this now (especially if he doesn’t get to stay in the WH becuase the deep state manages to steal the election).
The only thing you can really hope for is that the people whose kids are being fed into the meat grinder get the opportunity to see what is happening. After that, well, it’s up to the people. I’m with Rothbard on this: the worst thing the state can do is wage BS wars.
No question about that… And this war turned into BS about 18 years ago…
Regardless of what happens I think they are determined to get him marched out by the SS and the joint chiefs as a publicity stunt for the cameras. They’ll coordinate the entire thing with the media to get some iconic footage that will be played ad infinitum for decades to come. They are so looking forward to this “march of shame” moment to become their most potent piece of demoralizing propaganda ever.
Or I’m way off base and nobody influential wants anything like that to happen at all.
If they use the standard Trump journalo measurement scale*, they will find one of his old socks under a bed in the White House and write all sorts of headlines about Trump refusing to leave the White House.
* Like when Trump said “Sure” 3 or 4 times during the debate when asked if he’d repudiate white supremacism, but the headlines the next day were all about him giving commands to the Proud Boys and refusing to condemn white supremacy.
I heard that when it aired. It was hilarious. Dore was egging Trump on knowing that Trump watches Carlson. “C’mon you pussy! Pull the troops out! I dare you to do it!”
Same thought in my head. Dore is the type of lefty that would actually give Trump credit for doing it.
He’s honest, which is more than I can say for the other 99%.
Guy(?) who submitted analysis request yesterday was literally named Karma Lama.
named Karma Lama
He’s a ding dong
AMEN!!!! I don’t often agree with Dore, but he seems to be an honest partisan and he is spot on here.
Honestly, given the fix is pretty clearly in, I’d love to see President Trump do a troop pull-out coupled with presidential pardons for Flynn, Assange, and Snowden.
It would be the most historically massive “F**k You!” to the Establishment of any leader ever. Just to watch the bastards stuck trying to rebuild the house of cards he knocked down.
Come on, Donald! You know you want to. Stick it in the face of the bastards who cheated you out of re-election. Make them redeploy. Make them trump up new charges. Don’t continue giving them the illusion that they’re normalcy.
It’s so adorable the situations in which journailismists decide to use the work “man” v. “teenager” or “child” or “student.”
Well, I doubt they would use the term “Buffalo soldier” even if the person in question was a resident of Buffalo and currently serving in the US Army…
Anyone else getting a teensy weensy bit bitter?
Just the tip…
Esepcially after I see things like this…
At this point I’m probably too jaded to be bitter.
At this point, I’m resigned to reality. If anything was going to ever change, it would’ve happened in May.
Im just focused on carving out a decent life for me and my family in a country in decline.
yeah I’m shuttering my business in the next month or two in all likelyhood because of this shit. It’s fucking bad. We’ve been zombeing along for months at this point and there’s no end in sight looking at a 3-4 month dead period and I can’t afford the overhead.
That’s horrible. Sorry dude.
3rd generation company. Looking at the changing commercial landscape we just aren’t set up to survive this and adapting is proving to be impossible given the capital we’ve already burned through it’s just too much risk.
I’m sorry to hear that. That’s got to be hard on everyone involved, but the pressure on you must be immense.
I’m running a second-generation company myself, so I have a notion of what that must feel like.
Im in my late 20’s with an accounting degree and a resume that includes managing a small construction company so I’ll be able to get a job pretty quick I’m just pissed because of my dad and it feels like I’m letting my Grandfather down.
I’m really sorry. But Gramps would understand that you didn’t fail, you were fucking torpedoed.
We had an amazing first six months this year then it went dead. Fucking Jay Inslee.
I’ve got enough cash for five months of meeting all my obligations if there is no more work. The last six weeks have been dead. The last four months really slow.
I’m feeling you.
So sorry to hear that. Sucks.
Sorry.
Rand Paul was just on Fox Business talking about the senselessness of covid lockdowns and school closings. Why does he always sound like the only sane, not completely corrupt person in DC?
Because he’s better at hiding his corruption than most people who believe that a) you need someone else to run your life for you and b) he is the guy to do that for you.
I miss the days when our leaders hid their corruption and insatiable thirst for power.
You clearly don’t know him very well.
I’m thinking he’s hiding something more dangerous. Liberty. Maybe he’s going the practical route, unlike his father, but it seems to me he actually is pushing the right direction.
Yahhh, they’re not even lawyers.
Never met the man, never intend to, would estimate the probability that I ever do to be ridiculously low, and the probability that I spend enough time with him to actually know him is orders of magnitude lower.
But Bayes has me rejecting the idea that he’s a selfless public servant unlike all those other senatorial verimin.
An exception that tests the rule?
Well I have had that opportunity, and best I can tell if there is an exception to the ‘rule’, then he is it.
My new headcanon is that you’re a Rand sock.
He wears tweed….definitely not me.
This is what I was thinking yesterday:
If this virus is so contagious and deadly, why is it necessary to take a swab from deep in the sinuses? It should be easy to obtain a sampled by capturing a faint puff of breath on a microscope slide.
Have there been experiments in the real world, using actual symptomatic patients, to attempt to ascertain the distribution patterns and concentration of the virus, itself, as it is expelled? I’d probably do that, if I were an epidemiologist.
*Of course, it might be necessary to sit on that information, if it did not advance the narrative.
Don’t forget to add in the cold and flu season, and I’m pretty sure the hospitals/states are still reporting “believed COVID” deaths as COVID deaths.
We have finally won our centuries long war on the flu and common cold!
Last spring I remember reading an article where scientists were complaining how it was nearly impossible to grow a Rona culture from a swabbing taken from a surface that they new a Rona victim had touched. This was back when touching things was how you died. The scientists said they had to swab right away and even then they didn’t have much luck growing more Rona from that swab.
I like your idea Brooksy about testing the air instead of nasal swabs. What we need is a Rona detector that can be hung in your car like an air freshener. Then as you drive around exhaling deadly clouds of Rona, an alarm would go off and you’d know to drive back home and shelter in place.
*quickly scribbles notes on patent application
*reads patent application*
A random number generator hooked up to an alarm? Nice!
Canucks are getting fucked hard, too.
FUREY: The important COVID data from Alberta that all Canadians need to know
2% of the deaths in Minnesoda have had no other co-morbidities. That would be 60. I’d love to see the ages of those 60 people. I bet they were all old.
Well, since the survival rate of infected people under the age of 60 is something like 99.95%…..
I was just looking at the numbers. 91% of the deaths have been over 60 or over. More importantly (because that is where Mr and Mrs Holiness belong) 50-59 ring up 5% of the fatalities. So 150 people statewide in our demo. Still doesn’t do anything to calm the wife down. She’s convinced she will be #151 and it will be because I didn’t obey the governor and flouted lockdown rules.
If only Asian women felt as strongly about traffic rules.
Rules are different when you’re busy.
The problem I have is that, as far I as I can tell from only reading the things that looked at actual real world transmission, not computer models, is that it seems that it spreads through ~15 minutes or more of indoor contact within 6 feet.
Like, leaving aside being scared…..if you wash your hands, keep a Glib distance from strangers, and don’t hang out indoors with crowds, you should be totally fine.
More hosers bragging.
Elections Canada does not use Dominion Voting Systems. We use paper ballots counted by hand in front of scrutineers and have never used voting machines or electronic tabulators
Show offs. Yeah well, that means you elected Trudeau far and square or his party or however it works up there, so live with that.
Yeah I saw that.
“We actually elected this guy on purpose.”
?
Remember, the only reason we have voting machines in the good old US of A is because Al Gore lost in 2000 and the Republicans in Congress, not wanting to appear as a bunch of old fuddy duddies, did the grand bipartisan compromise thing they love so much (second only to giving concession speeches) and “reformed” our election system so that a bunch of states that had no real problem administering elections got encouraged to use computers, so that we could placate the media dog wagging over “hanging chads” and other spoilt ballots.
Scruntineers….worst Disney characters ever
I just see scrotum headed Mousketeers now.
I’m sure that will be the name of the Disney Brigade charged with sanitizing all old Disney footage to make it conform to the new woke standards as laid down by Head Scrutineer Noam Chomsky.
They wish someone would try to steal their elections!
Self indulgent, but I’m self indulgent.
https://i.imgflip.com/4n0ejt.jpg
I don’t think I’ve ever seen you rant about the Jews here…
Yeah, but he does love to go on an on about baking….
The only Jew I know is a pedophile.
Anyone else remember in July/August when Europeans were making fun of America’s reaction to Covid? I remember.
European Union Double Hump
^^^This is a very specific example of ***NOT*** flattening the curve.
Isn’t this a new cold-and-flu season?
There aren’t any more colds or flus, because masks and social distancing eradicated them. Don’t believe me? Just look at the reported cases.
If the lockdowns worked, why are we doing another one?
If the lockdowns didn’t work, why are we doing another one?
Depends on your criteria for “worked.”
They worked until they didnt work.
Duh.
Yup. The mitigations “worked” when it wasn’t cold-and-flu season but they don’t work when it is cold-and-flu season.
The graph ranges between 0.2 deaths per day (DPD) to 0.7 DPD. If you charted that with the Y axis range between 0 and 10 it would be nearly flat.
That is deaths per 100k per day, not dpd. And previously they were doing per million so it ranged from 2 to 7.
I am not sure your point.
The actual numbers, instead of rate, is between 70 on the low end and 3500 on the high end.
The delta, on a percentage basis, is huge because it is so close to zero. But in real numbers 2 out of a million compared to 7 out of a million is not that big a change.
Factor of 40-50 between bottom between the peaks and top of the peaks. It doesn’t matter the scale, that is pretty big difference.
I think you both are right. Yes, the increase is an issue that needs to be dealt with, but the scale used in the graph makes it appear worse than it is.
Had a fun, although short, hockey practice last night. It’s not official, but our coach is pretty certain that due to Illinois restrictions, this will be our last one until January. A few days ago the Chicago Park District sent an email mentioning “Essential recreational activities.” But the state’s mandates override that. It’s interesting that there’s a bit of push back from the city.
Sword affidavit from a Democrat poll observer in Georgia.
We may be using sword affidavits before this is over.
I clicked thru just to see who pulled a sword on who.
Oh, Sharyl.
Rocks are racist.
UW-Madison is moving forward on a plan to remove a boulder from Observatory Hill after calls from students of color who see the rock as a painful reminder of the history of racism on campus.
The 70-ton boulder is officially known as Chamberlin Rock in honor of Thomas Crowder Chamberlin, a geologist and former university president. But the rock was referred to at least once after it was dug out of the hill as a “niggerhead,” a commonly used expression in the 1920s to describe any large dark rock.
Remove all large rocks!!!
Universities are now centers of primitive animism.
Wow!
But the rock was referred to at least once after it was dug out of the hill as a “niggerhead,”
So we are down to removing things one person once called a racist name?
Joe Biden is a niggerhead.
Oh shit! Wait until they find out what the spanish word for black is! Oh… it’s not ‘that’ kind of university.
Morning, all. Slowly getting back into the larger world. Baby L has hit that point where he figured out that he’s stuck out here in the world and nobody is going to put him back in the womb, and he’s pretty grumpy about that.
Give him about 16 years and he’ll be trying to get back in.
A lot sooner if he realizes how much fun that can be..
That’s one of my father in law’s standard jokes. “I came out of one and I’ve been trying to get back in ever since.”
Duuuude.
Love that kid. Barbaric Yelp intact. He’ll need it.
He’s crying because you put him on that bargain basement carpet.
I’m not letting him vomit/shit/piss on the good stuff. And its a blanket!
LOL
I was just sitting on our ratty couch last week thinking that the idea was that we’d have crappy furniture while the kids were little. Once they had gotten older and we could count on them not destroying shit, then we’d get nice stuff.
So much for that plan. I’m too cheap to go get fancy stuff.
I have literally never bought a couch in my life. Our last upgrade was when my parents got a new living room set. I’ve scrounged every other couch I’ve had before that as well.
I’ve never bought any furniture or appliances (unless an air-fryer and a vacuum count as appliances). (I did buy a futon mattress, but not the futon)
Do you have pets? Because between children it’s a toss-up for who wrecks more furniture.
This is why I have a crappy couch in the basement with a washable cover on it.
LoL. My wife and I just had this talk. Kids really are rough as hell on everything. As a side note, looking at the cost of new furniture, Have people gone insane? Most of this stuff is junk and they want thousands of dollars for it.
Hah!
I understand, kid.
Congrats Brett! I missed the news that the new version of L had dropped.
Have you tried using possible Rona exposure to get out of those late night feedings yet? I sure would.
I’ve started leaving the “breast is best” propaganda all around the house. Mrs. L don’t give a fuck about the ‘rona.
Yup. That was my line too. “Honey, the baby needs your breast milk. The baby also needs that emotional connection only you can give it”
Oh I scored big points with doing the midnight feedings, cause I could drop right back to sleep when it was done.
Congratulations! Yeah, it’s somewhat challenging when they find their voice.
*glares at trash baby*
(in seriousness, she’s a chill baby. No complaints)
Congratulations! My sincerest hope that this one learns to sleep through the night quickly. It took my youngest 9 months to learn that.
Congratulations!
Serious question — is there any studies/evidence of superspreader events happening at weddings/etc with normal flu/colds/other? I would expect it would be the case, but we get these stories now and I never heard a story of 50% of a wedding attendees getting the flu in previous years. But surely its been studied?
I’ve certainly heard of events where norovirus was spread. But that illness has a different vector of transmission.
When my Dad was in the hospital, they said his rhinovirus was more contagious than covid. Less deadly, although not to him, as its just a cold. But they kept him in isolation as they didnt want that loose in the hospital.
yeah. But it’s not the event itself. there are literal people superspreaders. for whatever reason a small percentage of covid carriers spread it to nearly everyone they come near. no one has yet figured out why a tiny percentage of people spread it to nearly everyone whereas ordinarily it has pretty normal spread from person to person.
But is this true for other viruses? I am just wondering the comparison?
no clue
Like economics, this shit is never studied, only modeled.
It’s akin to Paul Krugman being in charge of public health.
What drives me crazy about models is that so many are based on assumptions. Then they present the results as if they are fact.
I suppose you could describe a tautology as being frequently true. Models are definitionally based on assumptions.
Yes, definitionally the inputs are assumptions. That’s obviously not what I was referring to.
Local story here is that there was a 300 person wedding in Ritzville, WA, and 40 people got the coof from it. Must have been a hell of a party.
Local story here is that there was a 300 person wedding in Ritzville, WA, and 40 people got the coof from it. Must have been a hell of a party.
Well we first have to discuss just what we mean by “getting COVID” don’t we? Getting exposed to COVID and getting a test soon thereafter is likely to generate a positive test given the way they’re doing the testing. But whether it necessarily counts as an “infection” is up for serious debate. If your immune system immediately says “get that weak ass shit out of here” and never even generates antibodies because it doesn’t need them, does that really count as an infection?
You were a plague carrier and probably cause the death of everyone you came within 50 feet of.
Saw one about a Long Island wedding. 30 people infected. No deaths.
HORRIFYING!
It’s odd. I really don’t feel like a Nazi.
Yes, you are much more supple.
Maybe lose the toothbrush mustache?
That’s because like not realizing you are a racist, you simply are not woke enough to understand you are by default unless you fit in the grievance matrix.
How does a Nazi feel? Smooth like fine Corinthian Leather or nubbly like the bottom of a bath sock?
Canadians werar socks when taking a bath?
OH! Because the water is so cold! I get it now.
Do you use your hands to feel? Nazis used their hands to feel.
Definitely a Nazi.
This is anecdata but my main postal plant is swamped. It seems that the regular folk are freaking the fuck out about new shut-down orders. We are seeing unprecedented volumes of packages trying to squeeze through a tiny sphincter. They went to 24 hour rotation two days ago, a week out of the forecast which until last year was unheard of. Letter mail has been shunted to a tiny room with one Bob Cratchit keeping all of the spinning plates aloft. Poor Brandon! All of the masks are gone, now. Everyone knows that we are about to be rodgered good and hard for the next two months. Bad news – I can’t do my job. Good news – it ain’t my fucking problem. When I started this gig the parcel line never ran at night.
This dishonest, tyrannical cunte.
Virginia posted a record number of daily cases this week, according to Northam. Amid a nationwide surge, he noted that the commonwealth’s growth rate is still lower than almost every other state.
The Governor said the “most rapid and concerning” spread remains in rural Southwest Virginia, where the percent of positive tests regionally is over 11 percent. Meanwhile, Northern Virginia–an early hotspot–is once again seeing its percent positivity rate grow to more than 8 percent.
“We don’t want to wait until we’re seeing overwhelmed hospitals and double-digit positivity rates in every region,” Northam said. “I’ll tell you what really motivated me was seeing mobile morgues because there’s no place to put the dead — we don’t need that in Virginia.”
And where, exactly, did this happen?
China.
Or maybe it was that Monty Python movie. Why are you denying Northam’s lived experience?
Was blackface involved?
I am going to randomly guess Peru. Or in his imagination.
There were pics of one in NYC during their height. It was basically a reefer trailer with bodies in it. Still, what the hell does that have to do with Virginia?
Well, our geniuses bought a $7 million refrigerated warehouse to store dead bodies. It’s empty.
But Brother in law who sells refrigerated warehouses is happy.
The important factor, right there.
I have been lead to believe that there is no fraud, waste, or abuse in any governmental actions. The government even confirmed it.
Hey, Minnesoda has a never used Rona morgue you can buy for $5.5M. Sure it is located in Minnesoda, but given that it will never be used, that shouldn’t be a deal breaker.
Just put the sick people on trains and by the time they get there … voila!
he’s such a fucking asshole.
And where, exactly, did this happen?
I believe there were a few smaller NYC hospitals who ran out of morgue capacity during Cuomo’s Great Triumph Over the European Virus.
The “morgue trucks” shit is some sort of propaganda that’s being spread around as my sister (who has gone pure loco over this) was yelling about it to me as well. I think she said El Paso was where it was happening.
My assumption is that this is like the “mass graves” stuff from New York, where something that normally goes on all the time has been repurposed as a scare story for the neverending COVID theater.
Nevada not to be outdone will soon issue its new “mitigations”. Never mind that our Guv has the vid and his symptoms are “head congestion”…uh, that sounds more seasonal but whatever.
Texas announced there will never be any more lockdowns.
yay.
That’s a happy daisy petal!
Until glorious new leader Biden uses his pen and phone to order a two-week lockdown and mandatory masks to flatten the curve again.
Lucky you. Here he has been wagging his finger at us and looks like he is ready to give us our smack bottom.
I’ve had post-surgery “smack-bottom” before. Yes. Please!
Was it like this?
https://tenor.com/H090.gif
Link?
Why am I not surprised to find out that the guy that was fired because he was denying the deep state’s effort to steal the election actually used his job to aid in the steal. I have said this before but stand by it: I will absolutely not be surprised to find out the CIA/NSA played a role in this attempted steal. Their imprimatur of mediocrity and ineptitude is all over it.
I suspect this woke shit will result in actual destructive and murderous cuntes being released back into the population to keep destroying & killing, while people with the wrong beliefs will be sent to gulags…
Uh yeah, that’s pretty basic leftist historical pattern. You empty out the prisons, recruit the common criminals and psychos into the death squads, and then fill up the prisons with your political enemies.
Don’t forget the interesting part where one of the particularly organized criminals figured the system out, puts himself in charge, and the people who emptied the prisons and recruited the criminals are either shot or join their political enemies in prison.
Phase one of the lockups and deaths are always reserved for the people that opposed the revolution. It tends to be bloody, but you pretty much have the revolutionaries killing those that cockblocked them.
Phases 2 and on are to get rid of the new enemies of the one guy (or small clique that will only survive until one guy wins it all) which has taken power while everyone was too busy exacting revenge. You know, the new boss that needs to get rid of the people that actually believe in the revolution and are harshing his or her power grab. These are never ending and often result in people that when they end up in the camps or under the guillotine, are completely taken by surprise and cry about how they are true believers, did everything for the revolution, and don’t belong wherever they landed. Then they get taken care of and realize they were played.
I hate when cops go on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/SAPoliceNews/status/1328946386071654408
Should have some strikeouts on that comment, Friend.
You’re right, but I forgot how to do that. Sorry, Trashy. Don’t do monocle on the PC.
Yowza. That’s fucked up.
Good lord, what the fuck has happened to Australia? They need to extract whatever it is that makes Mel Gibson so cantankerous and put it in the water supply.
I keep a little vial of it with a dropper beside my shaving cream.
Of Mel Gibson? Kinky
Hi Andrea, You cannot leave the house to walk the dog or to exercise.
Hi, fuckface. You can eat shit and die.
All well and good and also the correct answer but they’ll throw you in prison for saying that about COVID-19 down there.
I dunno…Andrea must be fun to live with.
My thoughts as well. I’d be looking for a good divorce attorney.
The kind of man married to the kind of woman that does shit like this will open his mouth and take that bullshit with a smile.
Toecutter and Bubba Zanetti are gonna run roughshod over those guys
On one of my trips to Australia, an Aussie regaled me about how South Australia is the real Australia, old Australia, not like Sydney or Melbourne where criminals run wild.
South Australia was a free colony. No convicts allowed. I wonder if he knew that?
Gah! Too much fun hanging out here. Not allowed! Gonna go eat some beef strokenoff and hit the hay. I won’t even ask if the Hay gave informed consent, I’m that hard core. Good Day, Glibs!
Good Day Festus
Las Vegas Review Jounal declares no fraud in Nevada yesterday, after one of their op-ed writers penned an article last week showing he sent in 8 ballots with forged signatues and all were accepted.
Go figure.
They were mostly accurate and fraud free.
One guess who will actually be prosecuted for ballot fraud?
He had the actual people write in the forged (i.e. non-matching) signature, so he should be good.
I think words mean the opposite of what you think they mean.
JohnBrennan: Biden will need to “repair the damage” of “Donald Trump’s actions on Middle East policies.”
Brennan’s words usually are the opposite for that congenital liar.
Seeing Brennan drawn and quartered for sedition wouldn’t bother me one bit.
Brennan, along with Obama and Biden and Evan McMullen and all the other architects of “Fund AlQueda” fit the actual definition of traitors.
Yep. Along with the swamp critter who was openly bragging that he lied to Trump about how many troops were in Syria.
With regards to the foreign policy establishment, I wish Trump was the dictator they pretend he is. I’d love to see those lying warmongers dangling from piano wire nooses.
Brennan is a unique creature, he never had to play-act that “neoconservative” thing, he’s gotten to be a Trotskyite without pretense all along.
I still find it astounding that someone who voted for a communist Presidential candidate made it to the top of the CIA.
Of all the ways in which our institutions have been hollowed out, the removal of anticommunism as de rigeur is probably the single most severe.
Look Trump did horrible damage to ME policies. I mean some of those countries are starting to get along!
Have any of you thought about what that means for our heroes in the State Department? If the ME starts cooperating like normal countries it means no more junkets to Switzerland and other fun places to have serious discussions about what to do to resolve the crisis in the ME. It means no more talking about fun stuff like war and atrocities and instead have to focus on boring shit like trade and tariffs. And worst of all, no more sleeping with ideologically addled young college gals who are impressed with your work to stomp out the Zionists.
Brennan wasn’t lying this time. Trump fucked the pooch ME-wise.
As I say above, I hope Trump gives an epic “F**k You” to the likes of Brennan and Biden by actually giving them “damage” to repair. Pull the troops home. Make Biden and Brennan and all the rest of the bastards redeploy them. Pardon Flynn, Snowden, and Assange. Let the flow of scandals go full stream.
Don’t get overly excited, Trump isn’t actually getting us out of Afg/Irq – just reducing our presence.
A Snowden pardon would be the ultimate fuck you to the DC establishment – along with immediate declassification of everything that Snowden exposed (with who signed off on everything).
Declassify everything.
Wouldn’t matter. He’s already ordered extensive declassification of stuff related to the Russia Hoax. The Deep State has slow-walked it, redacted the hell out of it, and most of it will never see the light of day.
Why can’t he just leak it like every other normal politician?
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/11/new-ordinances-in-2-oregon-counties-direct-police-to-ignore-most-gun-laws.html
Now do immigration nullification laws.
These were modeled off the “sanctuary city” bullshit, but the left is too dishonest to admit that.
In the absence of Q – Thicc Thursday!
https://thechive.com/2019/08/22/something-squishy-this-way-comes-69-photos/
or
https://archive.is/W8wH7
#15 and I need to have a discussion.
Flip the numbers to #51 and you got my fav.
Okay, just one more that popped up in my feed – https://youtu.be/c8kx5ubiSp0
That was… wow. Made my day.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8965221/Demi-Rose-PIC-EXC-Model-wears-clingy-dress-boots-PrettyLittleThing-shoot-Ibiza.html
“Trump officials slam ‘McCarthyist’ petition from Harvard students to BAN administration officials from teaching, speaking or visiting the university”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8965431/Harvard-students-launch-petition-ban-Trump-administration-officials-campus.html
OFFS!!
The institutions, being wholly captured by leftist assholes with no commitment to free speech, will not object to and will probably encourage this type of behavior.
Unity!
The document initially proposed an outright ban on Trump administration officials speaking, teaching or attending the university
So, outright discrimination.
They are “literally” Nazis Rebel…it is a righteous compaign.
Harvard provides a clue to what’s coming in a putative Biden administration.
TL;DR version: be afraid.
https://wtop.com/stafford-county/2020/11/stafford-co-public-school-employees-to-get-pandemic-stipend/
this makes me seethingly mad.
Fuck these motherfuckers in the ass.
“No profession has been asked to modify their delivery of services in response to COVID-19 more than the education profession,”
Oh really?
Unionized teachers are rising in my list of detestable professions so fast, they’ve managed to usurp the crown from the thin blue line.
Cops are so widely detested they ALMOST have become sympathetic characters of late.
Policing in some form is usually accepted until somewhere around minarchist to anarchist. Public schools not so much.
yeah they’ve only done what every other person has had to do adapt. Also many of the people weren’t drawing a check while the gov were waiting to tell them they could open again. This is straight disgusting.
An extra grand for half time instruction. This is the sort of thing that the GOP Senate better damned well hold the line on not giving a bailout to state and local governments over.
If rhywun, or another Brooklynite, is listening, I could use some help. The thread the other night about visiting the old homesites, put me in the mood to so some research. I discovered that the home built by my 9xgreat grandfather, Pieter Wycoff, still exists at 5816 Clarendon Road, East Flatbush. It was built before 1641, so is probably the oldest Glib’s ancestor house still standing! Having not been anywhere near Brooklyn neighborhoods in forty years, I’d like to know if the area around the Wycoff farmhouse is safe or not to visit?
You’re one of those dirty Dutch.
Mostly kraut, therefore must be a neo-Nazi.
I’d like to know if the area around the Wycoff farmhouse is safe or not to visit? I’d like to know if the area around the Wycoff farmhouse is safe or not to visit?
Of Course not, haven’t you ever heard of the coronavirus?
The Clarendon Rd. house is a museum to which my kids have been on field trips – https://wyckoffmuseum.org/. There is another very old house, built by a Hendrick Wyckoff in 1766 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyckoff-Bennett_Homestead. It is the last privately occupied Dutch frame house and is for sale for just over $3 million. All of Brooklyn is safe to visit.
Congratulations, that is NYC’s oldest building.
I haven’t been to that area but my feeling is it’s pretty sketchy.
Has anything been built in England since 1641? I am sure limey is living in an older building!
There’s that giant glass pickle and ferris wheel.
Used to live in Brooklyn, that address is in Canarsie. Not the worst neighborhood, but def not the best either. If you are taking the train there you will be passing through some really rough spots. I would go if i were you, you’ll be fine.
Conversation with a partisan Dem colleague yesterday evening. Its pretty well known that my political views are non-standard, although nobody really knows the specifics. This followed a sort of post-meeting chit-chat about the election, transition, etc. in a group where only partisan Dems are safe to say what they think, so I kept my mouth shut. To their credit, they keep it very civil and not really much outside the former bounds of “polite” conversation about politics. Anyway, as we were breaking up one of my colleagues asked me, more or less:
“R C, what do you think about all this?”
I said I really didn’t think it made much difference who the President was. Congress long ago made itself more or less marginal to governance, and we have learned that the administrative agencies are no longer really subject to control by the President. They do what they want: “#resistance” if they disagree with the President, and if Trump really is illegitimate and as bad as they say, aren’t they justified? I think our institutions are broken, including elections, and no President can or will fix them. Our biggest problem, in the long run, is that spending is completely out of control and we have passed a threshold that no currency has ever survived – our national debt exceeds our GDP. So I see a serious economic and social collapse someday, and who the President is, or who controls Congress, won’t change that.
“So do you think the Democrats stole the election?”
I said I was following the accusations of fraud with some interest because (as is well known) I do have a weakness for a good conspiracy theory, but then I realized, so what? Whether Biden won honestly or by cheating, he’s still President. If Trump really was illegitimate and as bad as they say, then cheating to get him out of office would be justified anyway, wouldn’t it?
I think she was kind of stunned. I guess people don’t like having the bare bones and obvious implications of their beliefs spelled out. I was being very careful not to challenge any of the partisan Dem orthodoxy, because I think easily the biggest risk to my job would be doing so. In any event, I doubt anyone will be asking me about politics again any time soon.
You called that right… I bet she was hoping you would not catch on to them cheating because that would make a Biden presidency as illegitimated as they claimed the Trump one was. And I am sure she was not happy to hear your argument that you found it wholly plausible that people that were more than just emotionally invested in blocking someone like Trump (the deep state sees him as a mortal danger to their credentialed aristocracy and way of life) would do anything to prevent him from being in a place where he could dismantle their racket. You should see the heads exploding when I point out this will now be their time to have those they stole the election from (for real) calling their guy pretending to now want unity as illegitimated.
I have had similar conversations with other team blue cultists, and you can tell they are not happy so many people are seeing this powergrab for what it is despite the desperate propaganda attempts. They hoped people would be swayed by the manipulation and suppression. What I do get is that they feel regardless of how it plays out, the deep state will not go down without burning the house down, so that leaves them in power, and that is all they care about.
I was careful not to challenge any of their premises; I was not as blunt as you. I basically said, not in so many words, that once you accept the premise that Trump is as bad as “they say”, then all else is justified, including refusal to follow the President’s directives and rigging an election. Isn’t it?
Once you accept extreme premises, you are in no position to complain about results that ordinarily you would find abhorrent. Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures, right? What’s a little electoral fraud, freelance military action, etc. compared to *spit* Trump?
…obvious implications of their beliefs spelled out.
No, no they do not. They work really damn hard to avoid having to confront that and they will resent you worse for that than for any other political thing you might say. However, I think it a safe bet that you will not be asked again, because getting that kind of lesson again is something they will avoid like the plague.
That is the desired result.
https://twitter.com/DavidOAtkins/status/1328898661569363969
They win one election and start thinking they need to treat the other half of the country like an occupied people.
And if you want to see people who don’t get it, read the comments. Full of “Here’s what we have to do to flip them to us” which often involves “Get rid of all their sources of information!”
I am still absolutely convinced that if we have a civil war what comes out the other side will be a deeply authoritarian state with all that that entails. The thing is, it is starting to look like not having a civil war simply guarantees that those who hate me and whom I hate will be on top in that authoritarian state.
Because Reconstruction was a glorious success in converting hearts and minds, and not just an exercise in carpetbagging by the politically connected.
Well this is the biggest transfer of wealth since then this Biden recovery is going to be reconstruction 2.0. They’re currently wiping out small business’s and whole sectors of the economy that all kind of vote red with this virus shit and are going to spend about several trillions giving money to the approved class of municipal drones and gov workers throughout the country. Biden admin is going to steal everything not bolted down and funnel money to the approved class at a level never before seen.
We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan.
So, execute or imprison the leaders of the previous regime, and impose a “protectorate” of some kind until you judge the population ready to “elect” the right kind of leaders?
Strip everyone who supported trump of the right to vote, bar them from holding office. etc.
Look RC, they’re trying to be understanding with us. We really should try harder to appreciate their efforts.
“I wish you’d stop bein’ so good to me, boss”.
These people are so pissed Trump exposed and almost ruined their racket, that they can’t move on without their need for a pound of flesh. They want revenge more than they want anything else, because they need to make sure nobody will dare stand up against them again no matter how bad they make things for the serfs. When you hear them call for unity,. what they mean is that those that dared to rebel will bow the knee and accept this fate they have in mind for them.
This shit is scary. These people are fanatics and they will not surrender. If the serfs will not accept the reality where they now are the country’s new credentialed and hereditary aristocracy, then they will burn down the country around the serfs. They will not let the serfs deny them their destiny.
What’s scary is how top heavy this country is becoming. they are going to succeed in completely hallowing out the middle class that supports the high level jobs and support the structure. This thing is going to topple over from the weight of the bloat relatively soon.
They went from the resistance to the empire really fucking quick.
That’s cause they were the Empire pretending to be the resistance, against the real resistance of all things, from the getgo.
Oh i know, it’s just funny to see people swap their Twitter from #we are a rag tag small group of resistance to # fill the trains.
Give them an ultimatum to renounce their freedom-loving ways or else?
Give them someone else to follow – I don’t think it’s a coincidence so many are evangelicals. These are followers.
Leftists are well known to be free thinkers.
*escapes that cesspool*
If they refuse to follow Marx instead of that bullshit fake carpenter. then they need to be turned into plant food!!
I wonder, when they have the struggle sessions at the outdoor sports stadiums, will they allow full capacity attendance, or will the ‘rona limit attendance to 25% capacity?
Well, with 75 million to have to deal with, ‘rona exceptions will have to be made.
There really is a complete and total lack of empathy among these people. They refused to submit to the minor annoyance of Donald Trump being the 45th President. How the fuck would they respond if somebody really waged all-out cultural war against themselves?
They’re going to find out. That backlash is coming.
“Sex trafficking ring of 178 people are arrested in Florida for trafficking ONE teenage girl who was 13 when the abuse began”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8964067/178-people-arrested-sex-trafficking-network-involving-one-teenage-girl.html
WTF??
I’m not sure how the first part of that sentence and the second part can co-exist.
One of things I have noticed with horrible shit like this is that the women, be they mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, aunts, foster mothers, whatever, often get to be lumped in as a quasi victim.
Like, foster dad pimps out a foster child, hes a monster who deserves the needle, but foster mother is under his evil spell and so she had no choice but to drive the girl around to various motel rooms because Big Evil Man abused her and made her do it.
Karla Homolka springs to mind as a high profile example. She, along with her husband, raped and murdered three young girls, including her own sister, but she managed to get out after 12 years, and has since married and has three kids of her own.
State Attorney’s Office Felony Chief Lorena Vollrath-Bueno said approximately 50,000 people are trafficked in the US each year…
Good lord, based on this case that must mean there are 8.9M people involved in that trafficking!
State Attorney’s Office Felony Chief Lorena Vollrath-Bueno said approximately 50,000 people are trafficked in the US each year
QAnon CONFIRMED
I smell desperation.
Lemon said, “If you believe that this was —the election was rigged despite all of the evidence otherwise, if you believe all of the lies that the president has been putting out on the tweets, again, I don’t want to talk down to people, but you are being played. The president, state-run media, conservative media echo chambers. They are playing you for suckers because it is not the truth. Wake up, people! No one is looking down at you. No one is looking down at you. There are people trying to help you, trying to help this country come together. You’ve got to reach out, but you have to believe in facts and reality. There’s no way to do it if you don’t. If you don’t, there is no way we’re ever going to come together, and we’ll continue in this loop, this feedback loop of disinformation.”
He added, “I’m here to inform you. I am telling you the truth. Wake up, please, for the good of yourselves and the country. You know why? Because this president, he’s running out of road in his attempt to overturn this election. He’s running out of road in the courts, so he is resorting to Hail Mary recounts.”
So why doesn’t he want an investigation to prove these people wrong?
That’s simple to answer: he knows the investigation will find the massive fraud effort he is part of.
They have a problem in that the number of indicators this election was rigged/stolen is impossible to hide. Trump ended up with too much of a victory margin for the steal to remain obscured. The efforts to revers the landslide simply required too much cheating to hide the mountain of evidence that would show the only way this worked was by cheating.
The correct result was arrived at – there is no need to understand anything else.
If the incorrect result had happened, he would be in the front ranks of screaming for recounts and investigations/prosecutions.
Lemon has taken a penchant for saying this. I wonder if he will call himself State-Run media when Biden takes office. Anywho I like to think it is because the right has taken to calling CNN et. al “Corporate Press”, and it stings for him, so he thought he would be clever and refer to anyone who supports Trump as “State Run Media”.
would be cool to get a fact check on that.
We’re not looking down at you, but you need to wake up because you’re being played for a sucker.
Okay.
See, the problem is somebody else is playing you for a sucker. But really, it’s Don Lemon and his kind who should be playing you instead. You’re being played by the wrong person, really, is what it’s all about.
Is there really anyone left watching CNN who isn’t already fully-on board with their nonsense? I mean, who does he think he’s convincing?
It’s International Mens Day, which means no one gives a shit.
Never heard of it, but I appreciate men nonetheless.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7rq9OvaJyRc
Officials in Harris County, where Houston is located, appealed to the public to forego gatherings with anyone beyond their own immediate households during the holiday season in an effort to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
Go fuck yourselves.
Meanwhile, all the Latino families that have Grandma, aunts and uncles all living together are laughing their asses off at the gringos.
NH Link dump. NH AFL-CIO on quixotic quest to have a Democrat Speaker of the House in the Republican controlled NH House
My name is Glenn Brackett and I am the President of the New Hampshire AFL-CIO. In the wake of November’s election results, organized labor faces a genuine crisis.
Anti-worker zealots in the legislature and the Sununu administration want to destroy unions and the workers’ protections we fight for. We need a labor activist to help us in Concord – That’s why I write today asking you to support Representative Doug Ley’s campaign to become the Democratic candidate for Speaker of the New Hampshire House.Please contact your State Representatives and urge them to support Rep. Doug Ley!
Nobody ever said they were grounded in reality.
Probably figures they can raise money for it.
Dave Smith pointed out something that i found interesting and hadn’t really thought about. A big part of the impetus for bad polling numbers may be because it generates huge amounts of donations. Take Lindsey Grahm. His poll numbers had him neck and neck with his competitor. Lincon Project was able to turn that into millions to spend (and of course skim) into the election (“look at this huge seat we could flip”). Then you have Grahm win by 10% in the election. Fast forward 4 years and you get Nate Silver up to tell everyone that they are morons for thinking the polls were wrong last time, they were actually very accurate. Rinse. Repeat.
I was driving around listening to the radio on election night. At around, oh, 9 pm EST, Nate Silver said the odds of Trump winning the election had gone from 1 in 10 to 2 in 3. That’s a lot of getting it wrong in a short time.
Dave Wheeler (Rebuild NH endorsed) wins recount for executive council seat
The Merrimack results showed a small decrease for both, reaffirming Wheeler’s ultimate lead. After all present carefully reviewed challenged ballots, no-notes and ballot counts, Pignatelli announced she believed her recount challenge would ultimately not prevail in a full recount.
NH government fucks over businesses. And smiles
The state has fined three restaurants and warned two others for violations of reopening regulations, particularly rules requiring workers to wear masks while serving customers, that were reported by patrons.
The words “guidance” and “guidelines” do not mean the reopening regulations are optional, the letters from the Attorney General’s Office warn. To operate, restaurants must make sure their employees are wearing face masks.
Remember boys and girls, when the Clown Prince calls something a “guideline” or “guidance”, it is really an edict.
Patrons reporting on restaurants pisses me off.
If it upsets you, leave, you sanctimonious assholes.
Stukachi are scum, always and everywhere.
I wish the COVID paranoids would stay shutin and leave the rest of us to live our lives.
They are the second hand smoke people given a new mission.
Sometimes i used to wonder who would turn the Jews in to the Gestapo. It must have been some sort of “You knew so we’re going to get you in trouble too” kind of thing, and they did it because they were scared.
But no. I don’t think so. I now see that there are lots of spiteful people out in the world.
When you have a consensus in government, academia, media, and science telling you that X is a huge problem and must be reported and dealt with, it’s hard for the average person to resist.
Of course, that consensus can be manufactured by simply neutralizing dissenting voices.
that were reported by patrons.
I fucking hate people. Just don’t go back there you Karen-dicked PoS.
More on the Manchester homeless encampment. Hopefully better written and edited than yesterday’s story.
Activists opposing any effort to force people out of an encampment outside Hillsborough County Courthouse anticipated some move to clear the camp Wednesday, but the camp was still intact Wednesday evening.
The state had announced it planned to clear the camp site Monday. Monday morning, activists started flocking to the courthouse lawn to protest the prospect of removing homeless people from state property without providing another place to stay.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2020/11/19/mexican-ambassador-lets-restart-mass-migration-into-u-s/
How about no?
Somebody tell them Biden isn’t in office yet.
C-130 fuselage moved through Concord, NH
If you’re wondering why an enormous Air Force plane was hauled through Concord on Wednesday, you’re not alone.
The fuselage of an Air Force Hercules C-130, weighing roughly 55,000 pounds and so large that traffic had to be halted, went through Concord around noon on Wednesday. Its wings were hauled separately, but we’re not sure where they were going.
“C-130 on a one way trip…
Mission top secret
Designation unknown…”
*destination
Fucking autocorrect
Sig Sauer, welfare queen
Despite concerns from human rights advocates that New Hampshire could be liable for guns getting into the wrong hands around the world, the state Executive Council approved a package of funding for firearms manufacturer Sig Sauer to expand in Rochester.
It approved, through the Business Finance Authority, $21 million in financing and an unconditional state guarantee of up to $19 million for Sig Sauer.
Unfortunately that is the game every company plays with the cities and states now. My last employer got a massive pay-off to stay in NJ and move to particularly hard to commute to location – then started scolding people for not coming in to the office often enough for their tax credit. Now that covid has at least temporarily ended that racket for office jobs, manufacturing is even more valuable to lure in.
Parler appears to be on the fritz. App doesn’t load anything in my feed, just gives a timeout error, and the login function on the website just dead ends after the captcha.
It does that a lot.
Error 2020: VRWC is offline. Please contact your shitlord administrator.
It’s been happening at Glibs a lot too. Curious if it’s just random errors or if someone is messing with alternative media.
Last night SP dropped a comment about the site running up against capacity on a daily basis. I guess we’re a chatty bunch.
I find that really hard to believe. I assumed it was some combination of ad spammers and botnet attacks
I believe it’s DB constraints we’re running up against. Hence the questions about potentially purging some of the older comments and the like.
“Don’t overthink it. The places schools are closed, it’s bc a teacher union doesn’t want them open & allied political leadership won’t buck them. It’s not science or misplaced community priorities. Some fight to open, serve their customers, a lot of public schools do the opposite.”
https://twitter.com/mkhammer/status/1329216689326710785
QFT
QFT? I’m generally hip to all the acronyms, but i’ don’t know this one.
Quit fucking talking?
Quite flippin’ true
Quoted For Truth
Queefs for trannies.
“Hold-up” – I think there onto something:
Financed through a crowd-funding campaign and directed by former journalist Pierre Barnérias, the film claims to reveal the French government’s lies about Covid-19 and a global conspiracy to control the public. It features testimonies from ordinary citizens and well-known personalities, including former health minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, who has since distanced himself from the project.
https://www.france24.com/en/culture/20201118-hold-up-french-documentary-lends-voice-to-covid-19-conspiracy-theories
eXpErTs! facT cHEckErs! DEBUNKED!!1111
Oh good. Another round of free money I’m too “rich” to receive. At least I get to pay all my taxes and receive so many other benefits like schools for my non-existent children and police that will probably be killing me under the Biden regime. But I’m not bitter.
<a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/11/second-stimulus-check-gop-will-move-forward-with-stimulus-once-trump-exits-biden-says.html" Second stimulus check: GOP will move forward with stimulus once Trump exits, Biden says
“Congress will be more likely to negotiate on a second coronavirus relief package after President Trump leaves office in January, president-elect Joe Biden said Wednesday.
Speaking to a group of frontline workers, Biden said he thought Republicans would move forward with the bill – likely to include another round of direct payments to the public – once they no longer fear “retribution from the president.””
What a lying sack of shit. Trump has said on multiple occasions he would pass large spending bills, while the Republicans have refused to pass large spending bills.
WTF is wrong with people using the power rack for everything. There are benches and floor space. Get out of there!
The power rack is strictly for curls.
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fuck you
Don’t try and ban these guns brah!
Our gym has a shit-ton of racks now. So even if a couple of scrawny kids are tying one up doing barbell curls, I don’t have to wait.
What i hate at my gym is the ((only) pad, specifically for Clings, Deadlifts etc is located right next to all the dumbells, and every once in a while you’ll get a mouth breather doing bicep curls on the pad.
I do get worried that people get mad when i do my overhead presses in the power rack though…
I use the rack for military press, but I’m in and out. There are currently four guys leaning against 1 rack chatting and a woman in the other rack laying on the floor doing bench press. Then she leaves her towel there so she can go do other sets and comeback.
Why the hell… I don’t… The bench…
I’m sorry man. I would be tempted kick someone mid bench press if they were doing that.
Annoying as fuck.
One of the things I love about working out at home (barbell set with 300 pounds was only $130) – nobody else jacking up my routine.
Of course, I don’t have squat racks so I have to do Zercher squats, but it’s all good.
I wish I had room and not sharing a membership with my wife. She loves all the classes they offer.
Same. However, I’ve worked at home a lot for the last bunch of years, so going to the gym is my time of sanity.
I’d like to thank the city fathers/mothers/xrs of Bend for putting dining, concrete blocks to “protect” said dining tents, and other obstructions out onto the streets. Because with icy roads, crowding into traffic lanes is awesome!
(*onsite dining “temporarily” not allowed so fuck you all businesses that spent cash to set up those outside beer gardens)
Dover, NH and Somersworth, NH keep masks voluntary. Rochester, NH to add to mask requirements.
In both Dover and Somersworth, it appears masks are being kept voluntary for now. Dover City Council voted 6-2 Wednesday night to essentially table a vote that could have required the wearing of masks both inside and outside in certain public spaces. Somersworth is also keeping face coverings voluntary.
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Rochester, however, is stepping up its requirements and masks are now being required inside and outside in certain public spaces. The mandate does not apply to private businesses or pedestrians walking on sidewalks.”
From the completely unpredictable consequences department:
Ohio sees jump in new unemployment claims
Guess what happens when you threaten to close down businesses you fucking jackasses? Some of them just close now instead of burning through capital to try to keep the doors open for another week.
Crazy
Post-election, many conservatives, and some extremists, have been heading to Parler, a conservative social media app funded by Republican megadonor Rebekah Mercer, which bills itself as a free speech Twitter-spin off.
But billionaire Bill Gates isn’t a fan of the platform, calling some of its content “crazy stuff.”
If somebody goes to Parler, they are saying, “I like crazy stuff,” Gates said Tuesday at The New York Times DealBook Summit. “If you want Holocaust denial, hey, Parler is going to be great for you,” Gates said.
STFU, you goggledeyed nitwit.
Gates has revealed himself to be one of the biggest pieces of shit on the face of the planet during all of this. Must not like the people over there shit talking his vaccine efforts.
Going to Windows is like saying “I like crashes and viruses”.
But if you want Tankies and Hmoldor appologists, stick around on twitter. Don’t pretend that there is no extremists and crazy folk on twitter. It’s only the Nazis that are bad :eyeroll: Fuck communists.
Only nazis get kicked off of twitter. Therefore, if you want a twitter alternative, you must be a nazi.
Q. E. Fucking-D you nazi!
Somebody should roll up all the Windows-is-shit twitter threads and dump them on him. Nope, you’re right Bill, no crazy here.
And people thought Steve Jobs was the asshole …
Also crazy
Good morning,
A leaked White House taskforce report has described the Trump administration’s efforts to control coronavirus as “inadequate”. The report warned of “aggressive, unrelenting, broad community spread across the country, without evidence of improvement but, rather, further deterioration”, saying that “current mitigation efforts are inadequate and must be increased.” The leak came as the US passed the grim milestone of 250,000 deaths from coronavirus. For the past two weeks more than 100,000 people have been infected every day, with the country recording soaring cases in almost every state.
‘What we have been doing is completely ineffectual. We should keep doing it, only more harder!”
Apparently, not a single death currently attributed to the Commie Sniffles would have occurred if Hillary Clinton had been running the show.
Sounds legit.
Gah!
They’ve added some software/camera that displays the room you’re in and puts a 6′ ring around you. It’s green if you’re goodspaced, red if you’re badspaced.
It looks waaaaaay too much like you’re a selected target in a video game.
Fucking overfunded EHS department.
Is that the Amazon distancing stuff they were promising to infect other companies with?
Just finished up tech shopping for the new house. I got shipped a couple of Firesticks from Amazon (the cable company says they’ve replaced set-top boxes with them) and I just went out and picked up an Eero mesh wifi. I still have to figure out if I want to sign up for the security system (the current owners have ADT and left the cameras.). Really looking forward to the move. We leave NYC next Wednesday and move in on Friday (well, we’re staying at a hotel on Friday and moving in Saturday to meet the movers).