How now, Swiss Brown cow?
Frankly, I am getting burned out. So you will have to do with some pretty unremarkable set up and some bland links.
Not that this will stop the links post from serving its primary purpose…comments! In honor of my links being so blah, go OT right away and fear no cow butt. Whee.
Uf weiderluge.
Neither do I
So much so that you couldn’t even muster 30% of the far left party vote.
Like that matters /Kamalala
I agree / Gerald Ford
**Stomps feet and slaps bare tummy before charging forward ** — Kamala the Ugandan Giant
To be fair, if you counted infants and kids under 18, and possibly some dead people, as natural leftists, wouldn’t that get the far-left up to 50.1%+ ?
Actually the majority of Americans do support the minimum wage thing. Have for over a decade.
The majority of Americans just shut up and do what they’re told, by CNN and NBC. I don’t care what they want.
Raising the minimum wage is always extremely popular. That it’s an extremely bad idea doesn’t seem to matter.
Yup.
I am also jealous. In our case, maybe one of the three wouldn’t be Trump or Biden. But with our luck the third would be Harris.
Bernie is correct. Most people want the far left agenda, that’s why the Dems won so many House and Senate races.
As President-Elect, I promise to ban polling and daylight savings time.
“…ban…daylight savings time”
Well, Hello, President ‘Tater
+1 I thought I was killing time, but it turns out, time was killing me.
Ban standard time. Set it at summer and forget it.
^^^^THIS!!!!!^^^^^
Keep going left guys! You’re only one more election from complete vindication. Never mind that cliff, no, no, you just keep going left.
Question for those Glibs more in tune with current thinking: Do I have to wear the memetic uniform to join in a group activity? I don’t like hawaiin shirts.
Flannel. It’s America’s fabric.
form your own Battalion with your own rules. And Hookers.
General Hooker seconds the motion.
Nope.
Bring bourbon and bacon though.
And ammo, plenty of ammo.
I prefer Indonesian to Hawaiian.
Hey, I like those, are they made in China?
Peru. Unaffiliated outsider taking on Peru’s deep state. Unsuccessfully impeached once and then it stuck. People got pissed and protested. Whole thing sounds a bit familiar. Maybe we should just start growing bananas and give up.
“If there is a Hungarian veto of the budget, there will be a crisis,” a senior EU diplomat involved in the preparations for the ambassadors’ meeting said.
Everyone will go hungry?
Boo! Boo! Boo, da pest is making bad puns again
Bad puns are more popular here than a hung Aryan in a nazi whorehouse.
It’s twue, it’s twue
Send him to the gulash.
I am guessing Bernie’s seat is safe? With that razor-sharp margin wouldn’t it better to stay where you are until after 2022 to see if you pick up seats? Of course, this is all on the assumption that everything is on the up and up.
If they push it will be hilarious when they get a 2010 style wolloping in 2022.
Less funny when they up the tempo of their cheating and never lose another seat.
This.
Unless there is a some serious reform, the cheating just moves down ballot in two years. Then when people realize that they’ve been stripped of any voice in the government, for real right-wing violence starts.
They have a magic vote making machine. All of their seat are safe, except the ones they sacrifice for the sake of appearances.
What appearances?
You can’t win them all and be believable.
Sure you can. Fidel wins all his elections and they believe it!
When Biden tells voters to their face that he doesn’t need their votes and has the biggest vote fraud organization in history I dont think they give a shit if you believe them or not.
They have given up on appearances.
From what I heard Stein say on the radio on the way home today the evidence of massive fraud is starting to pile up. I am thinking there is a good chance this may go before SCOTUS. What a fucking shitshow. It is looking more likely than zero that Trump could end up with another term.
When it gets there, there will be three justices who have been personally excoriated with lies by both of the candidates on one side. Should be interesting.
So from what someone says huh? Show me (and I’m not even from Missouri).
This massive fraud in Philly supposedly delivered less Dem votes to Joe than Hillary scratched up, and Trump outperformed his ’16 effort. Sooooo?
I’m sure the ones they sacrifice for appearances will all be yucky moderate Dems from flyover country. The ones who are worried about pushing so far left. Those guys will get axed.
Well, there is one bright side of all of this. Instead of standing in a line all morning on a random day between November and December, Great Lakes is doing an online reservation for the 2020 Barrel Aged Christmas Ale release.
Has anyone done a dutch auction for there limited releases?
s/there/their/
Not that I’m aware of. But (as I’m sure you’re aware), there’s a large segment of craft beer fans who rail against anything like auctions when it comes to rare beers.
I’m also not sure if it would be legal in every state to do an auction.
Christmas Ale is overrated. The good one is Dortmunder Gold.
Edmond Fitzgerald, Ohio City Oatmeal, Nosferatu, Blackout Stout, Elliot Ness, and Burning River are my preferred ones from GLBC. It’s entertaining to me that they have never really been able to nail a solid IPA. They’re drinkable, but they’ve gotten overshadowed by the rest of the breweries up here that nail IPA’s.
If a majority of Americans support a ‘far-left agenda’ then why couldn’t Bernie win the Democratic nomination against a corrupt corpse?
The Democrats in power first cheated against someone who was nominally one of their, to preserve the establishment against both left- and (sorta) right-wing threats?
They did cheat like hell to get mumbly Joe through the primaries.
I like to smash the DNC as much as the next guy, but i really don’t belive that claim. Playing politics to get the centrists to fall into line behind you to screw the outside guy is not cheating. It’s Politics.
Look back at it, Bernie _never_ managed to get more than 40% of the Vote. Rarely did he get more than 30% of the vote in the Primary. The thing was that He was the only person representing his bloc, when the “Centrists” had 4-5 people running, and they split their vote, so he ended up taking the “win”.
Who won the Iowa Caucus? Are they still recounting?
The real cheat was the ordination. When they had everyone except Biden, Bernie, and Elizabeth Warren simultaneously drop out right before some big primaries, it made it impossible for Sanders to win because he would always have to split the crazy vote with Warren. It was well orchestrated and took all the drama out of getting a dementia patient nominated.
That’s called Politics, not cheating.
I agree with Leon. I was going to point out that the Dem establishment forcing out everyone not named Joe Biden just before the SC primaries isn’t cheating. It is just a twist on smoke filled back rooms.
Bernies other problem was that his supporters – while passionate – never seemed to show up to actually vote in the primaries. Didn’t he underperform in just about every primary?
It’s the same stupid, transparent lie that every politician uses to stake out some credibility for their own stupidity. Sure, there are SOME voters that believe in you. You’re fucking delusional to believe any majority does.
And you lot don’t care one iota.
Hurricane Iota is nearing Central America as a dangerous Category 5, where it will bring potentially catastrophic rainfall flooding, mudslides, storm surge and damaging winds for the second time in two weeks.
Late Monday morning, Iota became only the second Category 5 hurricane on record in November and the record latest-in-season hurricane ever to reach that intensity in the Atlantic Basin. The 1932 Cuba hurricane reached Category 5 intensity from November 5-8.
It’s global warming what done it, according to some guys I know: one with a master’s degree in electrical engineering and two with master’s degrees in mechanical engineering.
That region just got soaked by Hurricane Eta, and with a powerful storm approaching, we could have another Hurricane Mitch scenario if already-saturated soils let loose in massive mudslides.
Playing Devil’s Advocate:
I’ve seen a lot of allegations here that vote reporting software was used in key swing states to manufacture or delete votes by assigning Biden votes values greater than 1.00 votes, while assigning Trump votes values less than 1.00 votes – thus manufacturing predetermined vote percentage that flipped key states to Biden.
Question: wouldn’t that mean a manual recount of paper ballots, such as is going on in Georgia now, would discover this seemingly obvious and easily proven fraud?
How brazen would someone have to be to deploy this cheat, where they knew or should have known, that an almost certain recount would expose them to jail time?
And, if the recount has results insufficient to flip Georgia to Trump, would that falsify the fractional vote theory? If not, what facts, if anything, would be sufficient to falsify the theory to your (dis)satisfaction?
They have the media running cover for them, and AGs on “their” side.
It’s walking like a duck. Fractions or fantasy votes, it sounds like a duck.
Another question i have is that if it was so easy to find/get/manufacture etc ballots, why did they “oops” and forget to push the downballot?
That’s exactly what they will say when questioned about voter fraud.
If I had to guess, the presidential race is the only one common on all ballots, so in theory you’d have to write up the code for multiple races in multiple states, counties, congressional districts, legislative districts, local races, judges, ballot initiatives, etc.
This is just one race all these voting districts have in common.
why did they “oops” and forget to push the downballot
A couple of reasons:
For House elections, there’s no reason to cheat in the deep blue municipalities where you can manufacture enough votes to throw a state-wide race.
For Senate elections:
The Michigan and Minnesota Democrats won.
Wisconsin didn’t have a Senate race.
Both Georgia races are going to runoffs.
In those states, at least, the Dems didn’t lose the statewide Senate races. Hard to say how that undermines claims that the Dems wouldn’t have lost downballot if they were cheating so hard.
And if shenanigans really exist in GA, we may find the R got 50% in the regular race and doesn’t need the run-off. The special election never had a chance for anyone to get 50%.
Ok. So the Fraud was concentrated in areas that house races were already going to be won by Dems so they didn’t worry about that, and the Senate seats either went dem or were going to runoff. That is a good explanation, more than “They was dumb”.
Question about the GA runnoff. I thought it was only one of the seats that was going to Runoff, is that not the case?
Nope, the 2nd one originall was about 51-45-4, so no runoff, but as more votes were “counted”, the GOP candidate has drifted down to “just a bit under 50”, triggering a recount.
49.7-48.0-2.3 right now.
Still only 99% reporting.
and in Michigan the Senate candidate James was winning by a similar margin to Trump at the point when the halt was called and then lost in similar fashion to Trump. I am skeptical that any of this gets overturned for three reasos. 1. I suspect the cheating was done on the ground by zealots filling out mail in ballots, 2. The courts are not overturning an election absent indisputable proof of fraud on a scale that clearly changed the results 3. I don’t trust the rep[orts of clear proof of fraud coming from Trump partisans any more than I trust the reports that there is no fraud from the TDS brigade. I think there was fraud, but I think ballot harvesting is the real secret weapon.
There is a large population in the big cities that simply never turn out to vote because they are deeply apathetic and uninformed. This has been a truism my whole life, usually expressed as ‘rain favors Republicans’ or ‘turnout favors Democrats’. With mail in ballots and the strong ‘activist’ movements the Democrats have on the ground in urban centers it is relatively easy for perky college progs to go door to door helping ‘voters’ cast their ballots, and how do you fight that? Republican voters already vote, so you can’t just do the same thing in Red strongholds.
“I suspect the cheating was done on the ground by zealots filling out mail in ballots” Deep rabbit hole lined with tin-foil all the way down and a Faraday hatch time:
How long do you think it would take to sort say 6000 ballots at a time as you receive them and then get at minimum, voter registration rolls with party affiliation and then just manufacture on the spot and slide them in the machine?
Assuming a republican voter is voting for Trump and a democratic/no party/independent voter is voting for Biden – you just fill out president and scan it on through, replacing your filled out ballot as the counted and disposing of the mailed in ballot.
Need to come up for air and a signal to send this…Not that I believe that, but was fun going through the exercise.
With mail in ballots and the strong ‘activist’ movements the Democrats have on the ground in urban centers it is relatively easy for perky college progs to go door to door helping ‘voters’ cast their ballots
When I was looking up PA data, the discrepancy in ballot return ratios certainly caught my eye:
Party Returned Ballots Freq. Distribution Requested Ballots Return Rate
Democrats 1,694,719 64.8 1,945,499 87.1
Republicans 620,282 23.7 787,752 78.7
Minor 19,873 0.8 25,496 77.9
No Party Affiliation 280,171 10.7 337,321 83.1
Age Returned Ballots Freq. Distribution Requested Ballots Return Rate
18 to 24 202,508 7.7 261,640 77.4
25 to 34 329,274 12.6 410,166 80.3
35 to 44 312,939 12.0 379,936 82.4
45 and 55 315,669 12.1 379,439 83.2
56 and 65 488,714 18.7 570,090 85.7
66 and up 965,845 36.9 1,094,296 88.3
The old folks are VERY concerned about their futures.
Note also the breakdown of actual mail in ballot votes. Trump’s totals don’t even match total Republican ballots returned, while Bidens is about equal to all Democrats plus all Independents.
BIDEN, JOSEPH ROBINETTE JR (DEM) 49.93%
Votes: 3,425,190
Election Day : 1407649
Mail : 1982054
Provisional : 35240
TRUMP, DONALD J. (REP) 48.92%
Votes: 3,356,286
Election Day : 2728947
Mail : 592314
Provisional : 34438
JORGENSEN, JO (LIB) 1.15%
Votes: 78,831
Election Day : 53270
Mail : 24638
Provisional : 909
Perhaps shenanigans were played with the machines themselves only where there were insufficient pre-manufactured ballots to throw the election to Biden? For precisely the reason you state: a manual recount will overcome machine shenanigans, but will be blind to manufactured ballots that are facially valid. And that would include any mail-in ballots where the envelope(s) have been discarded. As I have heard (caveat: everyone lies) that those envelopes have been discarded in multiple locations. Without the envelopes, the courts will be in the uncomfortable position of throwing out every mail-in ballot, as none of them can be fully validated, or allowing every facially valid mail-in ballot, thus cementing the fraud coming from dumping pre-manufactured ballots into the big pile of mail-in ballots.
Guess which one I think the courts will do.
They could split the baby and grant the votes and order the immidiate and unappealabe execution of every single official in state and federal government.
I’m thinking SCOTUS judges, aka federal officials, might be hesitant to order their own executions.
A man can dream though… A man can dream
Georgia is reportedly keeping observers far away from the counters and not providing the Republicans with voter lists to compare to actual votes.
https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump/posts/105221062485924371
High gain, low risk. Everyone here knows that sort of thing doesn’t happen on accident, someone had to program it that way. But most people will be satisfied with it being a “computer glitch” and nobody’s fault. Either way, how could you prove that one person was responsible?
Yes, that was my first question. If there are paper ballots and you can manually recount them then we can get the definitive answer.
With the assumption that every ballot is a valid ballot of course.
If paper ballots were manufactured anyway then there was no need to resort to the voting machine fraud.
Belt and suspenders after 2016
Also, and this is just hypothetical, if you cheat 3 different ways, even if one way is caught, it might be less than the marginal of victory and so “isnt really fraud”.
One scenario: they panicked when they saw the size of Trump’s election day vote was bigger than they had planned for. They had pre-manufactured ballots in hand, but not an infinite supply, and maybe not enough. Or maybe enough, but it would require so many to be dumped that it would be implausible, so they deleted Trump votes to make it the vote dump less obvious. The pause in counting certainly sounds like panic, to me. They had to do more, maybe much more, than they were really prepared to do, so they had to stop counting to recalibrate and line up their response.
I had “3 Clue Endings” written out to this and I hit refresh instead. Oh well, robc and RC captured two of them.
I think the focus is the mail-in ballots and the mechanisms that states rammed through their legislature (except California, the Governor did that on his own) using special sessions under the cover of COVID.
At least, I know that is one of the Nevada issues, among other things.
It would if they were doing a for-real manual hand-recount. It sounds like they aren’t.
They’ve promised to do one but the “results unchanged so far” news reports are not based on hand-counts.
They can also generate and throw out paper ballots. Why do you think PA democrats would appeal a decision to allow observers?
Another reason is by making the margin of victory larger, it doesn’t trigger an automatic recount.
How brazen would someone have to be to deploy this cheat, where they knew or should have known, that an almost certain recount would expose them to jail time?
Probably about as brazen as one would need to be to blame Lybians overrunning a US consulate on a YouTube video, or insisting there are chemical weapons in Iraq. Its not like the average voter reads above a 4th grade level.
You just made me very sad
I was going for cynical, and should’ve considered you were already there.
You have my apologies.
Never apologize.
Nah it was sad in a silly cynical way.
Jail time?
You make me laugh!
I’ve did find over 5000 gas shells. They were showing up as roadside bombs when I was there in 05-06.
I used to live down the street from a weapons inspector. That was an interesting guy to listen to. “Iraq may not have had WMDs when we invaded, but they sure did 6 months earlier. I’m betting they’re all sitting in Syria somewhere.”
What I’ve seen is a collection of screenshots of major news networks showing the sudden change in ballot totals. The timestamps have been matched up with data pulled directly from the same source that supplied the media with vote totals. Data scientists constructed a convincing explanation that showed the only way those vote totals were possible were for Trump votes to be removed and to be reassigned to Biden based on a weighting algorithm.
A Glib downloaded the data and ran the algorithm and confirmed it matched up. That leaves me with :
A) Every media screenshot with vote changing has been a photo-shopped fabrication, the official data source hacked and replaced with false data, and an elaborate algorithm created that matches up with the false data.
B) This is all accurate and is proof of widespread election fraud.
C) This is all accurate but is not proof of widespread election fraud. Devil’s advocate question in return: For what non-election fraud reasons would these vote totals suddenly change with votes being removed from Trump and with fractal votes being registered?
If Trump’s legal provides proof that A is not the case, I don’t see how this couldn’t be a stolen election. As Crowder said, they only have one shot at this and need to make their case air-tight when the cards are laid down. If those cards don’t provide solid evidence, then I guess maybe 4Chan has been at work.
This all seems way too good to be true for the Republican Party. I think there were some shenanigans, but this should be easily provable.
Some of those shots showed the gross number of Trump votes going down after 10pm. It’s right there in the raw data and I’m really sure that’s not how you count votes.
I just went back to look at the video I linked this morning, and of course Youtube spiked it. I’ll have to look on Bitchute.
Here’s the video YouTube deleted.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/SD3SkeYjBWku/
I think it’s unlikely that the code would do something like that. An audit of the code should catch it, as should a manual recount unless there is no paper trail.
To me the more likely scenario is that Trump outperformed the estimates, so paper ballots had to be manufactured and fast so the manufactured ballots only dealt with the Presidential election and ignored down ballot candidates.
I’m going to note that all of the “statistical evidence” of voting irregularity is very similar to the statistical evidence of systemic racism.
How can you explain the decrease in Trump votes in several states on election night? That isn’t how election statistics work.
That probably didn’t happen either.
I think the extent of it is poll workers putting their thumb on the scales by not really curing or validating ballots properly, which would benefit urban democrats enormously.. in some cases by a significant number going from 10% expected rejection to basically 0 rejection. It’s an extraordinarily easy way to influence the outcome that — thanks to changing rules in blue states — has never been easier. No direct fraud is needed and no one would ever be able to prove anything.
I think that the problem really came down to “they believed their own bullshit.” In other words, they thought Biden was a slam dunk due to Trump hatred. And, in the middle of the counting, it became obvious that the hate wasn’t enough. That people actually liked Trump and were voting for him in record numbers. So, a quick fix was put in, but put in clumsily and would be picked up if anyone actually looked into things. But that wouldn’t matter if Trump conceded, like every other loser. But he didn’t, and in fact, he kept on talking and not shutting up about it.
And this is why they are pushing for not conceding, acting like a recount in close or suspect states was out of the pale, something no one would do (never once admitting that it is what the Abrams did, in Georgia no less.) They are trying to get the hardcore Trump supporters to look foolish, and the Republican establishment to abandon him.
/wearing on tin-foil superman cape. Winks while brushing the side of the nose.
David Frum is a mendacious cunte.
“I noticed something that happened over the weekend,” Domenech said on “Fox and Friends,” “Which is that for George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, now at The Atlantic, tweeted out something comparing the marchers of these peaceful law-abiding Americans in the cities, in Washington D.C. supporting President Trump, to Nazis.”
Frum is a despicable shit, a filthy little man that more closely resembles a Nazi himself than most in modern politics.
He was repulsive as a Republican, when he insinuated anyone not on board with war in Iraq was a traitor, and he’s just as repellent now that he’s a Democrat.
Can’t we force Canada to take his disgusting ass back?
He was okay back when he wrote for the National Post (pre-millenium).
We don’t want him back now. He’s your problem, compadres!
Ahh, and we’re gonna just ignore that polling is in an absolute state of bullshittery?
How many of them would be in favor of unicorns, pink elephants, and unlimited ice cream rations? Stated preferences are bullshit.
I am sure close to 100% of minimum wage earners are a firm yes.
I am sure a high percentage of way above minimum wage earners are a sure?
And the ones making $1-2 above the proposed minimum wage that may have worked for that salary are like WTF? Will I get a bump to?
It wasn’t till i had graduated college that i earned a wage of 15/hr. I now have worked and established myself to earn more than that. I also worked throughout college, along with the wife, so that we didn’t have debt. Yes i had scholarships that helped, but i’m not going to apologize for that, that’s what you do to get through school. I’ve saved a great deal so that i could afford within my means a house out of town. I’m not saying this to complain or to brag, but to put it this way. I was raised to do things the “right way”, save up, don’t get into more debt than you can handle, etc.
Biden’s admin could easily be one of the biggest Fuck You’s to me that i’ve ever had.
I remember snagging a job with IBM as a repairman while going to college. It paid $10.20/hr and I would have stabbed people for that amount of money back then.
Then I got a job in ’95 for $31K and I was beside myself with joy. I think I bought my first monocle then (and put a few orphans on layaway) because I felt so rich.
Now anybody with job will be making that much money.
My first engineering job with an MSEE in hand was for $34k in 94.
I doubt I could hire my fresh out of school self for less than $90k now.
72% might not be far off the mark if you include in the poll people too young to vote, and too youthfully ignorant to understand how this bright shiny idea might go terribly wrong.
Ahh yes.. I forgot. It is imperitive that we look to our youth for public policy.
You would have better result if you asked should we have the same minimum wage as Sweden.
https://twitter.com/baseltourmaline/status/1328440701034524675?s=21
And the immediate leftist response is that it is a gift to Putin.
What a hot fucking mess the left has turned into.
Maybe now the Biden administration will finally deal with that noted GRU agent Синди Шихан.
Code Pink? Never heard of them.
The two founders are such nice people. Former SDS activist & Cuban commie and an IRA supporter
Libertarian Man Reminds Everyone That All Elections Are Illegitimate
Skynet Introduces New Line Of Voting Machines
I made that joke in the last post.
No cow butting for OT? Next Switzy will lay off the gaze narrowing punnishment.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8955209/Demi-Rose-sizzles-poses-topless-racy-bath-snap.html
Extremely. Can’t imagine how that poor thing walks.
knee replacements by 50
Nope. VERY ample assets.
Fogd be a szád, te kommunista disznó. “Rule of law” has a very different definition in the Eurocrat dictionary than it does any where else.
“made conditional on goverments adherance to Progressive ideology”
Sounds more correct.
The EU has a 7 year budget?
Hungary will veto unless the requirement that governments abide by their own laws is removed?
Euro politics is weird, yo.
“Rule of Law” translates to “The whims of unaccountable bureaucrats” in Belgian French.
Yeah, hungary and Poland are refusing to abide by the rule of law where the courts overrule the national legislature and the EU dictates every facet of life. They are vassals refusing to accept their vassalage, and the emperor is displeased.
Hungary is bad because Orban. Orban is bad because Trump. Therefore, anything Hungary says is bad.
Well, Orban was bad long before Trump. I recall driving to NYC to vote against Orban in something like 2006.
Well, true, but nobody really cared until Trump. For that matter, nobody seemed to care about Lukashenko until Trump, either.
Though… you have Hungarian citizenship? I realize Americans think all Eastern Europeans are the same (except for Romanians, who are vampires), but I thought you were Russian not Hungarian.
Russians choosing Hungarian leaders has a lot of precedent.
Hungary is in central, not eastern Europe, and they will fight anyone that says otherwise.
Well, it’s on the border at least. Czechia and Austria are the countries I think of as “central” Europe, with their neighbors (sans Italy) being one way or the other.
It could go either way, and it really doesn’t matter much, I just know that many Hungarians are very adamant about not being part of Eastern Europe. Calling a Hungarian eastern European would be like calling a person from Kentucky a Midwesterner.
calling a person from Kentucky a Midwesterner
Wait, they’re not? /Marylander
Kentuckians are Hillbillies.
The East begins at Landstrasse.
/random Viennese
No, my partner, who is Hungarian, voted in the consulate. I should have said that I drove an anti-Orban voter to the polls. All his family is very anti-Orban.
Well, that does make more sense. I don’t really know much Orban except by inverse image of whatever the U.S. media says.
Grrizzly is correct, Orban is a grade ‘A’ asshole, and has been for years. The issue is the EU is a collection of grade ‘A’ assholes numbering in the thousands, and given a choice between the two I’ll stick with Orban. At least he occasionally does the right thing, even if it is for the wrong reasons and in the least efficient way.
I remember several months ago that the good thinkers were upset that Hungary passed a Stage of Emergency law with no expiration date to deal with Covid and Orban was going to become a dictator for life. In the meantime, the Parliament has rescinded that law, and the governors in the US are going hog wild.
That’s what I was thinking….’rule of law’ coming out of the mouth of a EU official….well, I already know what that means without having to ask.
Solid NO.
Speak English dammit. Nem tudom Magyaru.
@zwak (response from previous thread re: WA new restrictions)
I’m on the west side of the Cascades. Grew up in King County, which is appropriately named, as it gets to determine the course of the entire state. In fact, if you take that one county out, Culp would have won the election (for those that don’t know, the challenger to Inslee was the Republic, WA sheriff that last year made headlines when he refused to enforce the unconstitutional new gun laws).
Extended family is scrambling to figure things out, because while most of us don’t have an ethical issue with civil disobedience, there’s the practical aspect of being reported by some Karen, etc. And while I’m blessed to have an extended family that truly gets along, it makes these kind of decisions that much harder (do we disobey? If so, by how much? who gets to visit whom?).
Anyway, this place helps to keep me sane. Thanks for commiserating.
We will be attending an outlaw T-giving meal this year. We won’t be having it at my aunt’s house like we usually do. My aunt and uncle both would be considered to be at a higher risk than most because of age and ill health. They politely declined to host this year and we all understood.
The reason this year will be an outlaw event is because my kids are at college so that technically pushes us beyond the scientifically approved number of households. And my kids who are in college are probably the most likely to be Carona Cassies, spreading the Rona inadvertently.
The current setup is only about 10 people. Back in the day my maternal gramma would put on the dinner and there would be at least 40-50 people (10 kids in Mom’s family and a ton of cousins too). I can only imagine how poorly our gov’s demands to restrict T-giving would have been received by Gramma.
Yeah, we’ve got an outlaw Christmas queued up and ready to go. Filthy, COVID-covered gift exchange and everything!
I can hardly wait.
I was actually born on the east side, in the one liberal spot out there, Pullman. But after many years wandering around, I am down here, an hour south of Portlandia. So, I commiserate with you on the fucked state of our states. One-party rule and all of that. I used to do a lot of business in Seattle, from downtown to the east side, and even then you can see a real difference. I was talking to a client of mine on Mercer Island, and she was saying that the whole identity of that little island was changing, and moving to a kind of throw-away society. People/kids would work for one tech company and change jobs on a whim, not invest in the community at all, not spend any money, and so on. Kinda sad, really, But then I would go do some work in Skagit or Whatcom, and outside Bellingham, it is deeply conservative. But, Bellingham is what pays the bills. Not very different than Eugene or Corvallis down here.
Or the college town I grew up in. Nor Pullman, just another left coast college town.
The one thing I like about this video is the clear shot of the woman’s face who stole the cell phone.
That’s some white fragility right there, and a black life that matters.
I hate those videos. One coward sucker punches some unsuspecting person and no one steps in and floors the coward. And other cowards steal the victims stuff. How low can you go?
Not only is there no peak derp, there is no lower limit to cowardice.
This video is why I avoid all of these protests. The long version has him stomping up and calling out all of these assholes. One of them sucker punches him and boom! he’s out. That’s exactly how I envision my interaction with these lowlifes.
The guy in the jacket did start some shit before this punch was thrown, TO BE FAIR.
@RC Dean, You got me interested in looking at Real Estate in Uruguay. I’m more of a country man myself found this ranch that looks fun:
Plus the Real Estate agency is Engle & Volkers. Why wouldn’t you trust Germans from South America?
Can’t see it:
Not interested in trying to maintain a ranch in my dotage.
We have an Engel & Volkers office in Tucson. I saw online that they have an operation in Uruguay. Could be interesting to drop in.
https://www.realestate-in-uruguay.com/listings/historic-ranch-near-cabo-polonio/
fixed link.
I understand about the ranch too, just fun to look around at.
“Plus the Real Estate agency is Engle & Volkers. Why wouldn’t you trust Germans from South America?”
Reminds me of Blonde hair blued eyed Argentinian girl I met in college.
I knew an elegant blonde Uruguayan lady.
“TikTok star Nathan ‘Doggface’ Apodaca pays $320K in ALL CASH for new home in Idaho Falls… after previously living out of his RV
The 37-year-old TikTok star, who also goes by the name Doggface, recently purchased a house in his hometown in Idaho Falls, Idaho, according to TMZ.
The house contains five bedrooms and three bathrooms; Apodaca reportedly paid $320,000 in cash and will receive the keys to his new place some time next week.
The entertainer was notable for previously living out of an RV with no running water parked outside of his brother’s home, where he would go to use the bathroom and shower.
In late September, Doggface’s car broke down on the way to his job at a potato factory and the content creator decided to use his longboard to get to work instead, filming himself lip-syncing to Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 song Dreams and drinking Ocean Spray cranberry juice.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8954377/TikTok-star-Nathan-Doggface-Apodaca-purchases-new-home-Idaho-Falls-living-RV.html
Damn, boomers love some Fleetwood Mac.
*guzzles prune juice on unicycle while listening to the Eagles*
Ocean Spray gave him a sweet truck, too.
I hate the Eagles man.
Listen, you want to get in on that sweet boomer money or not?
Say wha??!?!? Skip to about .50
Wait, This is what I had in mind.
Do you even Lebowski, bro?
Wait, a POTATO FACTORY?
Forget it Jake, it’s Idaho.
“Eating just ONE egg a day increases your risk of diabetes by 60 per cent, study warns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8954561/One-egg-day-increases-risk-developing-diabetes-60-study-warns.html
Bullshit.
If Eggs weren’t healthy for you, why would chickens lay them?
That’s why I have two eggs for breakfast.
Duh.
Welp, now you’re 120% likely to get the diabeetus.
It says “eating just one egg” increases your risk of diabetes. I don’t eat just one, I eat two. Therefore, my risk of diabetes is not increased.
SCIENCE!
Oh hell, I have three every morning, so I am doing a 180% away from Diabeatus.
Ah back to the egg are bad cycle.
Buried in the article “The study specifically focused on people in China, which has undergone a transition away from a traditional diet comprising grains and vegetables, to a more processed diet that includes greater amounts of meat, snacks and eggs, according to Dr Li.”
It was the eggs…
Eggs are processed?
Yes, except in Rocky, eggs are processed by application of heat.
“a traditional diet comprising grains and vegetables”
I don’t think crushing, communism-induced poverty is in any way “traditional”.
You probably don’t wear a mask when home alone, and do use fossil fuels! Science denialist!
Yep bullshit, get fucked antieggers, you bunch of dicks.
IFLS
“You’d better run, egg!”
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S06E12/320169
Something, something, brain on drugs…
We’re just in hell when it comes to science. I’d love to point the finger at Chinese researchers but we’re no better in the US or UK. Folks figured out a long time ago how to game the system and get their weak science in front of the media, particularly when it’s something the media want to hear.
I don’t see a solution
The first thing we do, let’s kill all the scientists.
“Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s refusal to start transition means ‘more people may die’ as he warns of ‘dark’ time before COVID vaccine arrives after talks with CEOs and unions about economy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8955281/Joe-Biden-says-Donald-Trumps-refusal-start-transition-means-people-die.html
People will die!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
more people may die
Is that a threat or a promise, Joe?
One of Remmy’s best.
I don’t see how security clearances for bidens team would stop people from dying… Indeed i think more people would die…
Yes, but those are just brown people. No one care about them unless a Republican in in office.
People will get taxed!
Transition to what? *shudder*
Danish wood oil is the bomb. I should have used this stuff years ago.
Ummm…?
Are you advocating for using greasy pastries to masturbate? Just asking. Personally, I’d much rather talk about this more than voter fraud or other election stuff.
Just, lets not start talking about people’s nuts hanging over the edge of the commode, please!
Are the nuts splayed out over the top of the toilet seat?
Or are the nuts sandwiched between the toilet seat and the rim of the bowl?
Asking for a friend who says only one of those scenarios would be of interest to him.
I got PTSD last time, don’t make me relive it.
Interesting Times Afoot.
(Unfortunately, not a Steve Smith story)
Interesting that the Army US Marshalls would be seizing a CIA server. I imagine that is one of the things we’ll never know about until 70 years from now.
Et tu, Sweden?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/16/sweden-limits-public-gatherings-to-eight-people-amid-covid-surge
Sweden limiting public gatherings to eight people.
Saw that this morning and thought “This is why you don’t have heroes – they only let you down.”
Just expect the worst of everything and everyone and you’ll never be disappointed.
It’s worked for me (more or less) so far.
Eight is enough, I saw it on TV.
Well when all the world’s media/press is basically shitting on you, eventually the people start believing it. Maybe they are doing it for a good reason now, who knows.
Lukashenko’s Belarus remains the last bastion of freedom and sanity in the world.
Why is this a surprise? Sweden was hardly a do nothing country from the start, despite the fantasies of some. It just wasn’t full on authoritarian like most European countries and was more like the less iron fisted states here.
Let’s see if anything comes from this. If nothing else, it provides a decent list of businesses that I’m going to tend towards supporting going forward.
My new prediction is that the shot that sparks the next revolution will be fired by some restaurant owner who is about to lose everything shooting an inspector in the face when he gets a bullshit ticket for $10K for some Rona infraction.
Thumbs were sucked
Put simply, it’s another data point in a saga of national exhaustion and media overload — particularly in the can’t-get-away-from-it era of the coronavirus pandemic.
“If we are burned out with the presidency, how do we go forward in terms of how we consume media?” wonders Apryl Alexander, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Denver who studies how people and communities meet challenges. “I have a text message from friends the minute I wake up about something (Trump) said. I think Biden and his camp are going to have to navigate this.”
In many ways, it transcends Trump. The primacy of the presidency is so deeply embedded in American culture that it’s often hard to look away when the occupant is saying, “Look at me.”
Though the U.S. government has three branches, the chief executive has come to embody the national psyche, the national mood, the national character. It’s hard to imbue a legislative body or a court with the personality of a nation. The president, though, is expected to channel all of that — and so, in a society weaned on heroes and outsized figures, commandeers the attention.
“We don’t look at the office; we look at the person. And Donald Trump has been the ultimate personality,” says Anthony DiMaggio, a political scientist at Lehigh University who teaches media politics and propaganda. “It’s not the greatest way to have a nuanced understanding of our political system. But it’s easy.”
And, of course, it never ever occurs to these people that perhaps the President and the government play a greater role in our daily life than necessary or proper.
What we need is the *right* all knowing omnipotent Messiah; not that jerk Trump.
Never mind policy.
Just another reason, I am so glad I have reset my professional life and no longer am involved in managing people. I wouldn’t last 15 minutes as a manager today.
I absolutely hate everyone in this story. The shitty employee who got herself fired and then says it was racially motivated to the manager who grovels so that the mob doesn’t come for her.
Nothing $15/hr won’t fix I guess
I think she has a choice to make:
Run a business, or fostering an inclusive culture.
Pick one.
Ugh, a horde of bitchy women. Nightmare work scenario right there.
They are all jealous of Sven, the waiter who can bring a dozen donuts and two cups of coffee out to a table in only one trip.
Found this little nugget in the Detroit Free Press comment section tonight:
Recently we have been seeing more comments that are false or otherwise serve to misinform or disparage others. Please be polite and share either your opinion or only what you know to be true.
“I hereby shall refer to you as the Detroit
FreePress”From my experience the comments there are much more anti lockdown. The anti Whitmer comments always get the most upvotes. And the lefties are always the ones to do the name calling.
It seems that they are moderating pretty much every comment now and deciding what can be posted.
https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/11/oregon-governor-orders-2-week-coronavirus-freeze-restricting-bars-and-restaurants-to-takeout-closing-some-businesses.html
State modeling released Friday omitted projections about how many more Oregonians will become sick enough in the weeks ahead to require hospitalization or who may die.
A staple of previous reports, the state used new software this week and calculated but then decided not to include information about those severe cases because it didn’t appear to “give us the right numbers,” Sidelinger told The Oregonian/OregonLive.
Asked if the number of severe cases appeared too high or too low, he said he didn’t have details but would look into it.
Sure.. “I’m obviously lying but what are you going to do about it?”
State modeling
I’m out.
Ouija boards were on sale last week.
There have still yet to be any consequences for the weeks and months of wrong models. All is hand waved away because they were merely for capacity planning purposes and not predictive (despite be used as the basis for state actions).
And Sidelinger is a pædiatrician by training and trade.
Not everyone can be as accurate as the Minnesoda Model 3.0
(Emphasis is mine)
I’m stunned by how brave this guy was to predict that total deaths would continue to go up. Who says bureaucrats are afraid to stick their necks out?
They keep referring to this as a disease. I am not a health care worker so please help me understand. Is a coronavirus actually classified as a disease?
Yes? So is the flu, a cold, bubonic plague, small pox etc.
Disease:a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
Not sure what you are getting at?
*clears throat*
Coronaviruses are viruses, not diseases. Someone who has a sufficiently virulent active infection with a coronavirus has a disease.
Right now, everybody has some coronaviruses active in their system. They are quite common. They only occasionally reach a point where someone can be said to be sick with a coronavirus infection.
Nominally, this is the distinction between SARS-CoV-2 (the virus) and COVID-19 (the disease caused by the virus), a la HIV and AIDS.
Yup. Couldn’t resist getting my pedant on.
I punched my bucket list ticket today, Jimbo, I’m home free for this year but still a week to go and got another ticket. Got a little gift for Tundra, too.
Wooohooo!!!
Mrs. Shpip just called to me from the other side of the house…
Her: Do you ever get a shooting pain across your body, like someone’s got a voodoo doll of you and they’re stabbing it?
Me: No.
(Pause)
Her: How about now?
?
I needed that {SensibleChuckle} today, thanks.
Finally our MInnesoda nightmare is over. Biden is going to turn the refugee spigot back on (because he is totes not a racist monster like Trump).
I am a fairly open borders guy. What irritates me about these stories is how they portray refugees as entitled to a spot here in Minnesoda with a ton of govt subsidies. If you dare to suggest that maybe we might want to slow the rate of these refugees coming here, or say that it might be better to give green cards to immigrants from non-shithole countries you are accused of being a raving racist.
Have any of these refugees been deported when the conditions that caused them to flee no longer exist? This idea that refugee status entitles you to permanent residency is false.
Refugees like Omar? Refugees, migrants, whatever….my ass. They are importing Dem votes because they can’t get enough pre-dead to vote for them.
I dont think I have heard a Dem argue in good faith since…..uh….Tip O’Neal?
It should be false. But in reality it isn’t.
There were a few sob stories in the local press about the Bad Orange Man wanting to kick out 200K refugees from El Salvador.
The 200K refugees came here in 2001 because of a devastating earthquake in El Salvador. Still can’t go back safely according to their advocates here.
This is why the refugee program pisses me off. Because it is a dishonest way to bring immigrants into the country. The plebes are told that it is only temporary and is for humanitarian reasons. Then they never ever get sent back.
Immigration is, like trade, one of those issues where I see the current situation as impossible for there to be an actually libertarian result in the current political environment. I don’t find taxpayer subsidized importation of penniless people any more or less libertarian than immigration controls.
How does this jibe with locking us in our homes and preventing people from going to work?
Millions of Third World peasants willing collecting welfare or willing to work for next to nothing. That should really help the economy and the American working class.
Biden wants only 125,000 refugees per year? One of the woke immigration activists at church says the U.S. can comfortably admit 1% of the population each year – or more than 3 million people. 125,000 will just be a small down payment on what the progs end up demanding.
I don’t suppose it crossed her mind to go where they live and try to solve the problem there.
I was reading Biden is actually reluctant to loosen that much of Trump’s immigration policy because it turned out to be way more popular than Democrats imagined.
Immigration restrictions used to compose a significant portion of Bernie’s platform.
Hell, Democrats used to campaign for the blue collar vote and immigration was a hot topic for them.
According to the Book of Knowledge (Wikipedia) we were letting in about 70K per year during the Obama years, though the quota was higher. I guess Biden is going big.
Fuck refugees. I don’t want people here that didn’t choose to come before their own country went to hell. I want the people with the foresight to leave BEFORE that happens. Those are the future Americans.
American leftists shiver with anticipation just thinking about this kind of Lysenko show trial.
https://www.dw.com/en/could-germany-be-charged-with-ecocide/a-55585186
If you can’t do the time, don’t steal Greta’s childhood.
Uh huh… Historic like the Soviet Purges.
She should be in school! SHAME ON YOU!
All of watched the last couple of days is football and Alex Jones. So I think I’ll skip MNF. The announcers are awful.
Anyone have any movie suggestions?
How about a film noir from the 40’s – 50’s? I’ve recently watched Double Indemnity and Out of the Past.
Tubi has the Cheap Detective. A 70s movie with peter Falk that satirized 40s Detective movies
Leave Her to Heaven
Niagara
The Narrow Margin
The Big Heat
Thanks, Ted.
(I hope I punctuated that correctly.)
For earlier noir, there’s several movies with tragic Laird Cregar at Fox: I Wake Up Screaming, The Lodger, or Hangover Square.
The Killing is on Prime, Touch of Evil is a good one but I don’t know that it’s streaming anywhere.
OK, thanks.
Justwatch.com is where you can see if something is streaming.
Cool, thanks for the link.
The announcers are awful?
Uffda. The Vikes and the Bears are awful.
Unfortunately the stupid Vikes will probably win somehow instead of tanking and trying to get that kid from Clemson in the draft.
You think the Jets are winning three games?
Yeah, Lawrence belongs to the Jets unless they trade the pick for a big haul of picks.
First pick should go to the NFC East – is there any more pathetic collection of teams you can name?
I saw this morning that the Cowboys managed to not lose for the first time in several weeks.
Of course, that’s probably because they had a bye week. Probably.
Eddie Muller is annoying blow hard who needs to STFU but his movies are solid
https://noiralley.tcm.com/schedule
Wtf is this doing here?
Ahh, the replied threw me.
Watched Nightfall, The Desperate Hours (avoid the remake), and The Killers recently. All enjoyable.
Also Dark Passage, Dead Reckoning, and The Big Sleep if you don’t mind Bogey.
Unfortunately, two of those have Lauren Bacall.
What’s wrong with Lauren Bacall?
She’s not my favorite actress. I also never got why the Bogart/Bacall romance was supposed to be so much more romantic than all the other Hollywood couples.
Nothing. I went to HS with a girl who resembled her and early Bacall movies remind me of that.
If you put Clemson or Notre Dame in the NFL East, they’d probably be the division leaders.
Also, outside of your time frame but if you’ve never seen it The Friends of Eddie Coyle is a great “neo-noir”
Mildred Pierce (caution: stars Joan Crawford who didn’t understand the role; Stanwyck would have been much better)
I have been seeing lots of doctors and therapists and all sorts of shit. I’ve ‘graduated’ from most of my therapy, but I have these weird visual hallucinations, which aren’t really hallucinations. Ghost perceptions, or something. They only show up in my periphery–I’ll see something out of the corner and occasionally I’ll think it’s someone/something else. Like a towel over a tall chair sometimes becomes a figure in the bathroom with me. Lasts about a tenth of a second at most. My brain knows they aren’t real and I just move on. See also: I’ll see a leave on the trail and my mind may sometimes think that it’s a mouse and the stem is the tail. Just confusing images. My eyes figure it out in a sec or two.
Today I went to a neuro ophthalmologist. And…it was mostly boring…except for my doctor. She was probably even younger than me. But at least close enough to me in ballpark age mode. Oh. My. I couldn’t imagine a more lovely lady, designed for what my brain is immediately attracted to. Midway through she had to leave to check a scan. I used that time to download an audio recorder on my new phone and recorded the rest of our time. With her typing and talking.
And she was holding my eyes open! And doing many touchy things! *Flutter!* Oh, the love I could fall in with her. She did have on a wedding ring. I notice things like that. Sigh. I can only say one good thing about masks, and that has a caveat. It makes people look at each other right in the eyes when speaking. That isn’t always good, but with eyes like hers…I was glad I got to sink into them for as long as I could.
Carry on! I…no joke will be in my bunk.
It makes people look at each other right in the eyes when speaking.
I’ve noticed that.
Pics or it didn’t happen. ;-)
You want pics of Evan in his bunk?
We don’t judge around here.
Well…maybe a little.
Yes [she does] most people do. I go strong with my young, cute-ish personality, combined with my earned gritty explorer reputation. I’m going for Indiana Jones heroine-wants-to-play-rought style of lady.
It seems to work. Except that little girl who stabbed me in the stomach with a pencil. Damn three-year-old! Well. She was laughing. Maybe the Charming Teacher mode took over and she just still thought I was amazing. Maybe I shoulda gotten her OMWC’s number…
More for Agent Cooper but might apply here too.
I do that seeing things in my periphery or thinking a leaf is a mouse momentarily and I’ve (as far as I know) never had my skull caved in. IANAD but that sounds perfectly normal to me.
Yeah, me too, it seems…well normal’s not the word…not abnormal maybe.
I know there an explanation for how our brain likes to find faces in objects and patterns and such (I’d look up the word but lazy), I assume it’s something like that.
Pareidolia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
That’s just the leprechauns.
Me as well. I’ve only had ONE legit visual hallucination (I have legit audio ones every day–meh. I’ve gotten used to those and know how to figure out if they’re real or not—most of the time). I was still in Thailand and smoking on the balcony. Second floor. A dude came out of the main building and lit a smoke as well. But we was green. Like the John Belushi ghost in Ghostbusters green. I think wearing a hat. He had his smoke and then went back inside. I asked Lady, who was next to me, if a person had come out. She told me that no one had. HUH!
I think with everything like that, and I’ve said this to multiple docs/therapists, is that I’m just so primed to look for stuff because of my past that I see more of it. You see more of what you’re looking for. I’m not shocked when my brain plays a little sec-long trick on me.
A really strange thing is that I’ve come to enjoy them, for the most part. There was a time when they were WAY too powerful and they made life impossible to live through in a “normal” way. Not bad enough that I couldn’t find a way to go to work and teach, but bad enough that it ended up…uh…let’s just say not working. I think the little sound things that happen now kinda add a soundtrack to life and make it that much more interesting/exciting. This is different from back in the day when I was tied to a hospital bed and would hear loud noises and banging. My brain, depending on the time, was absolutely convinced that they were Nazis, Soviets, or even North Koreans (was in Thailand for most of these) going to break in my room, rape Lady and do other terrible things.
Those were fucking terrifying. Those things *were* happening in my brain. But that time has gone. Now I just find playful pleasantry in them whenever they happen. Sometimes they take me on mystery exploring missions, where my fun task is to find out “where” in my mind the hallucination is coming from (the washer/dryer, oven, etc). Look on the bright side!
Have fun Toobin
supposed to be areply to Evan
“I thought this was supposed to be a conspiracy theory. But here it is, straight from Trudeau’s mouth. The pandemic is the excuse for a “Great Reset” of the world, led by the UN.”
https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1328020783596269568
Well, Canuck Glibs? You didn’t rebel with us in 1776, isn’t it about time?
Wait, so Canada’s gonna whole-heartedly embrace capitalism? Well, fan my ass with a blowtorch.
In all seriousness, it’s Justin True-dope. He’ll figure out a way to fuck it up.
In fact, just by actually stating that we’re all going to move in that direction, he probably already has.
Funny how in the last 2 weeks I keep hearing about the rona vaccine on the news. 60 minutes did a bit on it the day after biden was anointed by the media.
My boss has moved on from complaining that Trump did nothing to get us a vaccine, to complaining that he is doing nothing to help get it distributed and injected.
I am counting the days. Unfortunately, there are more than 700 of them to go.
He bribed the shit out of pharmaceutical companies who almost certainly would’ve come up with a vaccine along the same timeline anyway, and all Democrats will complain about was that it wasn’t fast enough. The only way it could’ve been faster is to take phase 3 out of the approval process like the Russians did.
I thought Pfizer passed on most of the government money? Or was it someone else?
I don’t know if they took money from Warp Speed but they did have a guaranteed purchase order, so one way or another they were getting money from the government.
Exactly. They ‘kind of” did pass, because they partnered with a German company (BioNTech) and that disqualified them from some of the program.
Still getting millions for distribution but that’s kind of the point I’m making.
The program was unnecessary overall. They stood to make billions. No real need for government involvement except to loosen the rules and bureaucracy standing in their way. Which Democrats tried to argue was were dangerous changes until the election happened.
https://twitter.com/Imamofpeace/status/1327597849849131008
“extremely dangerous to our democracy”
We pretend there is some future level of this crap where we will spring into action and start a violent uprising against the tyrants, but the reality is we are well past the point where it was called for and we did not do it.
#economicCollapsitarian
^This…they’ve ruined people’s lives, destroyed their businesses, wrecked their savings, and are in the process of canceling Thanksgiving and Christmas while ramping up for a nationwide mask mandate and a ruinous lockdown and no one’s done shit nor will they. We’re fucked and we’re going to bend over and ask for more.
Damn, should have clicked. Oh well, my comment still stands.
One of the few downsides of living in a peaceful society is that people are loath to upset the peace even if there is just cause. I think rebellions were more common in earlier times because wars were more common, so it was less unthinkable.
I’m curious if that is just regular news footage that was dubbed over. Would be really easy to do.
Sinclair owned outlets being told to what to do.
The conservative version of Journolist, except that we know those stations all have the same ownership. Unlike the major media outlets that coordinate behind the scenes and pretend to have different viewpoints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WfZuNceFDM
The media is the reason people have turned to fake news. One of the basic realities of management is that, in the absence of reliable information, rumors run rampant. The media’s absolute rejection of what is required for their credibility has left the public with no reliable standard to judge fake news by. Shouldn’t trust that story you picked up on Facebook? Who’s telling me that? The same clowns who spent the last four years babbling about “Russian collusion”? The people who assured us that “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” was mostly true right up until they declared it the “Whopper of the Year”? Or should I defer to the “experts” who tell me something is mostly true when Bernie Sanders says it, but mostly false when Donald Trump says the same thing?
Is the media really worse now? Remember the Maine, Iraqis throwing babies out of incubators, Gulf of Tonkin, etc. It’s just that people know they’re scum now.
I think you’re probably right. But, I do think things have changed. As the public has discovered the media is dishonest and agenda-driven, the media itself has grown more desperate for blind acceptance for their narrative and has mostly abandoned its earlier pretense of objectivity.
The existing product has been shown to be wildly insufficient. All that’s needed is for an enterprising person to figure out the workaround. I think they know it and are desperate to prevent it.
The problem is that credible and unbiased news is boring. There’s some room in the market for right wing news outlets to get traction now that Fox has committed hari kari but successful news outlets thrive on drama. They’ll always wallow in the mud while the more intelligent minority will seek out meaningful information on the fringes, at least until those fringes are deplatformed by the media conglomerates and their allies. Should be an interesting next four years…
Not many people are doing actual journalism. It seems like even people that are skeptical of the media are just taking apart news stories from the MSM and not doing their own. I suppose you’ve got The Blaze, Daily Caller etc, but a full on news network that does original journalism with the corporate woke shit would be nice.
Costs money, requires competence, doesn’t get clicks.
I’ve said it before. Blaming “the media” for being biased/sensational/liars is like blaming Bud/Miller/Coors for making bland, boring, watery beer. Both are simply giving people what they want.
It’s brainwashing and even if they think they want it, we can and should call it out.
So you’re following the Chomsky line there. The masses are always fooled, so it really just comes down to who is doing the fooling.
“We have met the enemy and he is us”
The masses are always fooled
Not familiar with Chomsky so maybe? However I’d say there is a small difference in being fooled and in getting what you want. The Bud Light drinker isn’t being fooled into thinking that Bud Light is a great beer, it’s just what they like. The masses aren’t fooled into believing MSNBC is hard hitting journalism, they know it’s biased but it’s the bias they like. Given the option of watching a “straight” news program they’d still choose MSNBC.
So you’re saying the masses need someone to lead them because they’re incapable of or unwilling to use critical thinking?
Not at all, in fact that is what I dislike about the whole TMITE bit. In my mind TMITE is the view that hinges on people being stupid and not knowing what is good for them. I figure people may be stupid but I’m in no position to tell them what’s good for them and neither is anyone else. No one is forced to watch CNN or FOX, no one is forced to follow Twitter or Facebook feeds, until that happens I can’t get worked up about how people chose to inform or not inform themselves.
This is where I hop off the libertarian train. If I can’t identify evil in the world simply because it is not a coercive evil, then my ideology is ineffective.
TMITE because their product is misleading and corrosive to society, and they have an unearned aura of legitimacy. Yeah, I can and do take my business elsewhere, but screw the entire media and journalism industry. The world would be a better place without them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group#2018_journalistic_responsibility_promos
These stations are all owned by the same company, a pretty simple answer.
I saw the same mashup (or very similar) over a year ago I think but certainly nothing’s improved since.
Sooo, I think I signed up for this online a while ago – totally dropped off my radar.
Just got a check in the mail – nice surprise and appears legit.
In other military news: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyvgBP9bmEr_ao9Iud4AaABCQ
https://bongino.com/new-york-sheriff-stands-up-to-cuomo-refuses-to-enforce-his-anti-thanksgiving-decree
??
Why hasn’t a warrent been issued for Andy’s arrest yet?
Yeah, it’s a real mystery.
Only twenty more minutes until middle kid comes out of quartet practice and I can go home and get in bed.
These 5 am to 8 pm days are too long.
Barbershop?
That wouldn’t be very COVID friendly.
Strings
“There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative.
The Covid-19 crisis, and the political, economic and social disruptions it has caused, is fundamentally changing the traditional context for decision-making. The inconsistencies, inadequacies and contradictions of multiple systems –from health and financial to energy and education – are more exposed than ever amidst a global context of concern for lives, livelihoods and the planet. Leaders find themselves at a historic crossroads, managing short-term pressures against medium- and long-term uncertainties.
As we enter a unique window of opportunity to shape the recovery, this initiative will offer insights to help inform all those determining the future state of global relations, the direction of national economies, the priorities of societies, the nature of business models and the management of a global commons. Drawing from the vision and vast expertise of the leaders engaged across the Forum’s communities, the Great Reset initiative has a set of dimensions to build a new social contract that honours the dignity of every human being.”
https://www.weforum.org/great-reset
GO
FUCK
YOURSELF
WITH
A THOUSAND BARBED PENISES WITHOUT LUBE.
Did I do that right?
I was thinking “KINDNESS”. Y’all are kind of violent.
Wow. That really escalated.
Reset? Did they try unplugging it and plugging it back in?
New Soviet Man. Guess we didn’t win the Cold War.
Does anyone else notice that it’s the same leaders that are fucking up so badly, that they require more of their own vision and leadership to fix it?
We’re sure we’ve got the best TOP MEN NOW.
“ World Economic Forum DELETES Video On The Great Reset That Says “You’ll Own NOTHING” After Backlash”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhetP9yL8jE
Trigger warning, it’s Tim Pool.
If I could travel back in time, I’d kill Plato in his manger.
Didn’t Plato teach Aristotle?
Yes.
And Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
The quintessential first Top Man.
That would be some nativity scene.
I haven’t watched much Tim Pool, but the one he did with Micheal Malice and Alex Jones was great.
There is an urgent need for global
stakeholdersskateboarders to cooperateMaybe I’ve been skating too much lately?
I keep seeing politicians saying they will self isolate after being exposed to COVID. My brain changes the “s” in “isolate” to “mm”.
so, politicians?
DP. Always happy to be reminded of them.
That’s scary, considering your avatar.
A New World Order, if you will. Is Alex Jones not crazy? Is their headquarters in the Denver airport? Did Trump do 9-11?
Alex Jones and David Icke are beginning to look like prophets as far as Im concerned, lizard people notwithstanding.
Well, a new social contract will certainly NOT be valid unless signed to by all the people that will be bound by it. No, not political leaders, every last person you pretentious asswipes.
So, international communism. It’s what they have been shooting for for 100 years except it looks more like fascism to me….potato, potatoe.
“Imagine waking up to this giant painting every morning.”
https://twitter.com/ArtValley818_/status/1328426155146424321
No.
Big Brother’s little sister is a bigger cunt.
She should be in school, SHAME ON YOU!!!!
I would brick up my window.
When this guy shot my stage I immediately noticed how bizarrely high his support thumb was. And then I thought, “wait, is that a subcompact with an extendo shoved up its ass?”
Yes it was. Apparently he’s a savant of some sort. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHe81qKET2k
There’s some really good advice in that video.
Bookmarked for later.