Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful morning it always is!
It’s the Monday before the day Antifa will riot in all major cities regardless of what happens in the election. Hope you are boarded up or already bugged out.
$300 million has been wagered so far on this election.
Over 320 lawsuits have been filed.
The best part of this year’s election has been Bloomberg pissing away his fortune.
Biden campaign canceled events across state after receiving a Texas welcome. And the FBI is now investigating.
Lindsey Graham says John Durham’s report coming after election, will be “shocked” if there are no indictments.
As new lockdowns are ordered across Europe, Sweden’s Covid death rate has fallen sharply.
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave ya’ll with a song. Stay safe and enjoy the ride and the meltdowns.
Morning, Banjos.
Should I do the FIRST! thing? Or does Brochetta only show for 2nd shift?
Mornin’ banjos
Even if Brochett shits on a thread, you shouldn’t validate his actions anyway.
Point taken, but Ive been up all night.
Funny, I didn’t see you this morning at 5am when Yusef and Sean were here. FAKE NEWS.
You do you.
Mornin’ banjos. Happy Riot “Week” Eve.
FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP!
Man I love that cheesy cheesy movie…. T-bird’s final scene particularly..
I rewatched it last week — it holds up remarkably well. Unfortunately I forgot that I have a blu-ray of it so the picture quality was lacking.
Morning Banjos and UCS
Just as MN has lots of Swedes (more than Sweden?) the Covid rages as surely as as it does in the Old Country.
Terrifying statistics
One more person has died from COVID-19 in the Northland on Sunday, Nov. 1., an Aitkin County resident between the ages of 95-99 according to the Minnesota Department of Health. This is the third death related to coronavirus in Aitkin County since the start of the pandemic.
It was one of 18 new deaths reported in Minnesota on Sunday, ranging in age from 55-99, 13 of which were residents of long-term care facilities
Everyone of those people would never have died if Trump wasn’t President. It is known.
BloOd On hiS HaNDs
“ranging in age from 55-99”
Makes me wonder what the total was for the ages ranging from 85 – 99?
17/18, probably. And the 55 year old probably had emphysema, lung cancer, COPD, and weighed 400 lbs.
..before he was hit by a truck.
^this^
Don’t worry everyone. Joe Biden has decided to campaign in Cleveland today. Democracy will be saved!
Lucky you.
I thought the Browns already let everyone down one last time yesterday.
If that’s the last time they let everyone down, I’ll call it a win. 🙂
Word of the day: pre-symptomatic
The world is full of pre-symptomatic dead people.
And they are all pre-terminal!
Only 1 option but for now I’ll skip it…
Good morning, Banjos!
And thanks for the fantastic song! I love that album so, so much.
My cop pals tell me that 100% of the force will be out this week. No days off, etc. Also, the NG is waiting in the wings.
My gut tells me that the riots here will be put down quickly.
Sweden continues to lead the way. Read this and weep.
We’ve been fucked over. Hard.
Have a great day, peeps! Push back a little, huh?
They follow their own constitution?! That’s cute.
“the Swedish infectious diseases act, which allows certain limited restrictions to be put in place, but it doesn’t allow for a general lockdown. ”
But is it supposed to be a suicide pact? Don’t they have the sense to just tell them all what they’re supposed to do?
The American founding fathers were very foolish to put that “except for a novel coronavirus” asterix in our constitution
*Pre-1St Amendment*
*Persons with CV-19 will shelter at home, wear a large scarlet 19 on their outside underwear and don a full mask made from scientifically approved material, while maintaining a 1/2 rod distancing from others.*
**Unless restrained publicly in stocks, distancing not required**
You know who else had a Constitution?
$300 million has been wagered so far on this election.”
I heard the Biden campaign managed to raise and spend at least three times as much, if not four. I even heard a rumor that the polls were so insanely skewed to help the Biden campaign raise money and then spend it and now is letting go of the crazy to make sure they are not called out as having done this. I have to admit that I doubt that the poll numbers are shifting this drastically now back to show a closer race, especially since voters in this election picked whom they were voting for and were not changing their votes months ago because of polarization.
Has Paddy Power or whoever it was paid out for the Biden bettors yet?
I have to agree…. the number of undecided was very small, so a shift of 10 points in a week when nothing happened is silly. That does not just happen, particularly when more than half of the electorate has already voted.
One of my Clash faves
Excellent selection.
Here’s another.
As Gawd is my witness, I don’t get the idolatry of this band.
might be apropos?
One of my favorites too. The story behind the song makes it even more awesome.
‘Mornin’ Banjos!
My take on the Trump “road warrior attack” on the Biden bus is they were just doing a friendly fly-by. Like the Trump pick-up truck honking his horn at the guy putting up a Biden sign in his yard (in Maryland last week) – with the Biden guy whipping out a shotgun and shooting at the Trump guy – if the Trump people had menace in their hearts they would have done more than drive along at a safe distance. The idea that the red team were intending to do harm is mere prog-jection.
This. Unless there was some very different stuff happening off camera, this is a big pile of nothing.
But the FBI is investigating!
“Well, I watched all the videos. Done ‘vestigatin’.”
Did they ever catch those terrorists who put up the “It’s OK to be white” flyers?
It must be serious! The FBI has so much integrity that I can’t imagine they would investigate unless there was sufficient cause.
Especially in sensitive issues like politics
They can’t investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop, but they can investigate this.
The staffers on the bus called 911 – shouldn’t they be denounced? DEFUND, DEFUND, DEFUND!
“f the Trump people had menace in their hearts they would have done more than drive along at a safe distance.”
The whole “Side Swipe” appeared to have been caused by Trump supporters doing more than driving along at a safe distance. To my eyes, the Biden Bus was trying to get to an exit- changing lanes to the right- and the trucks were not letting them in. In the video I saw, the Trump truck was trying to get up close to the Bus, so that it couldn’t finish its lane change. The white CUV then tries to lane change behind the Bus in order to give the bus more room, and the slowest game of lane-change-chicken in the world then commences.
I don’t think that was nearly the “OMFG Violent Road Warriors!!!” event that the Biden supporters insist it was. But keeping a bus from changing lanes is a dick move, and that specific Trump truck was clearly not driving safely, and at the least was guilty of tailgating.
I am a bit of a “manners make the Man” type. Dick move is right.
According to lefty rules, if they would have blocked the highway and started trying to pull people out of the bus to beat them, that would have been peaceful protesting. Do I have that right?
*ding-ding*
We have a winner!
According to worldometers.info, during the last three months from July 27 to Oct. 27, Sweden suffered 198 deaths, around two per day. To put that in perspective, the average number of cancer deaths during that same period in Sweden is 6,000.
Whataboutism!
That’s just an attempt to distract us from the real danger.
Joe Biden Reiterates Plan to Ban ‘Assault Weapons,’ ‘High Capacity’ Magazines
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2020/11/01/joe-biden-reiterates-plan-to-ban-assault-weapons-high-capacity-magazines/
“ A push to incentivize states to license would-be gun owners. Biden’s campaign website says, “Biden will enact legislation to give states and local governments grants to require individuals to obtain a license prior to purchasing a gun.””
A license to exercise something found in the Bill of Rights? Something something bad precedent…
Feature or bug?
I always thought Congress passed legislation.
Oh, you.
So you have your trial by jury licence updated? Oh I see you registered as a republican and since it’s a may issue voting license you aren’t going to get it.
That precedent has already been set in several blue states.
A license to exercise something found in the Bill of Rights? Something something bad precedent…
Well, the Democrat party historically is the party of the poll tax, so making people get a license to exercise a Constitutionally guaranteed right is just a return to their roots.
Fun fact: the right to vote only became an explicit Constitutional right with the 19th Amendment:
And even then, it does not prohibit restrictions on the right to vote, but only requires that any such restrictions be applied equally.
So the Minister Of Sport in America’s hat has decided the OHL cannot have body checking this coming season.
A free country would never have a Minister of Sport.
Soccer on ice? Will French Canadians be falling on the ice and crying for the Refs?
What happens when the refs don’t enforce it?
So stupid. The NHL has proven that on-ice contact doesn’t exacerbate virus spread.
This is going to be en exciting election for me. All you feel high and mighty cause you got guns and I don’t. Well over to terms Kamala will confiscate all the guns and you will be just as gunless as me. And as we say in Romania “let the neighbor goat die as well”
TAKE THEM ALL TAKE THEM ALL
When she comes to my house, I’ll just tell her I don’t have any.
If they are actually brave enough to go door to door, I think they are not going away just because you say that.
That’s a terrible attitude. Though it would be consistant with a crab bucket mentality.
Don’t be a crab, Pie.
…
mmm… crab pie.
I though it was crab cake
Crab cake is one thing, but this is a new inspiration.
Shame I have no idea how to make a crab pie that fits in with my diet. I even have crab meat in the freezer.
🙁 most of the crab ‘pies’ are quiche-based dishes in a crust.
My past experience with crabs is certainly different from yours.
You’re not supposed to be that personal with them.
Not in the picture, but I am wildly applauding Fourscore as well.
But they still had a crust on the pie, right?
Pie is better than cake. No matter the pie. No matter the cake. It is known. Do not be fooled by the cake eating lizard people.
Look “sa moara capra vecinului” is an ancient Romanian saying…
There was a popular joke two guys meet at the pub and have a chat
Do you know why I drink?
Out of spite?
Yes out of spite! But I am not spiteful because I am having a hard time, I am spiteful because others are doing better.
The term “Molan Labe” is specific in its grammar as being a challenge not for Xerxes to send his men but for him to personally come and take them.
Does Romania have elections? When is the next one, so we can make fun of them. You will need to keep us up to date on all the happenings.
December 6! You need to inform us of the teams.
I second this. I hate reading about foreign election news while stateside. Too much nuance and reality is lost in translation.
This december most likely
Moldova had an election yesterday. That’s Romanian for all intents and purposes.
@#$%stirrer!
Are you staunchly pro-tits? Cast your vote for Mammary Monday to secure the squishy, bouncy future we deserve!
https://archive.li/hfGuW
“Cast your vote”
Are we still doing phrasing here or not?
He didn’t say pull the lever.
Yes to 12, 46, and 61for looking relatively normal, but hot. 3 is nice. 44, but pretty sure she’s shopped in the waist.
71 for the lulz.
18 has some stretch marks going.
#8. Dirndl. Done.
Took vacation days Thursday and Friday. Dropped daughter off at school Thursday morning and wife and I went to the beach at Sullivan’s Island. Based on signage, Biden is very popular with Bill Murray’s and Darius Rucker’s neighbors. People who can afford $3MM dollar beach houses vote Dem.
However, while I didn’t see a single Trump sign on Sullivan, I saw plenty of signs for Mace, who is the R running for congress. So the shy voter may explain the lack of Trump signs. On the drive home, as soon as we crossed the bridge from Sullivan to Isle of Palms (more touristy, Sullivan doesnt allow short term rentals, IOP does) there were Trump signs.
Is that your neck of the woods? I’m moving to the general area (Moncks Corner) later this month.
People who can afford $3MM dollar beach houses vote Dem.
That’s one of the things I find absurd about the whole “libertarianism/conservatism is for rich people” claim. First off, it flies in the face of observed reality. Secondly, it only makes sense on a very superficial analysis. Sure, rich people save money on lower taxes. Wow! Deep and thorough insight! How about the fact that rich people are inevitably those with the greatest access to those in power? How about the fact that rich people are those most able to ensure that government spending just happens to pass through their hands in the distribution channels? How about the fact that they can get the government to shift market conditions in their favor in the name of whatever the latest fancy happens to be?
If I were a multi-billionaire every bit of my self-interest would favor being a loyal Democrat. And I’d denounce anyone who wanted to interrupt the gravy train as “greedy” and “selfish”.
I am in Charleston County, but I could hit a wedge (maybe a 7 iron) into Berkeley County.
Well then, a pre-mature “Hi, neighbor!” from me.
And if you were beach-house wealthy because of your connections, and/or the money your grandparents had made, and you’d just grown up that way, then you’ve spent your whole life being “in”. And so have a bunch of your neighbors. It’s just your tribe. “Country-club Republicans” are generally only R when that’s the way to stay in the club. Nowadays R is more associated with the deplorables, so of course they’re not like those people…
But, it’s not even just that. If it were, I could write the whole thing off as inevitable and understandable. Like I said, it isn’t. The whole thing is a scam.
Let me give you just one example.
Warren Buffet goes on television and tells everyone about how he opposes repeal of the inheritance tax. And all the media gush about how noble and caring Grandpa Warren is. What don’t they tell you? Oh, yeah, one of Berkshire Hathaway’s major businesses is selling tax-free life insurance policies to high net worth individuals. Oh, and did I mention, for all the headline grabbing investments Berkshire makes, their bread and butter is buying mid-sized businesses on the cheap, just the sort of illiquid family-owned businesses likely to get shafted by the inheritance tax if they don’t sell out to BRK.
This. I hate that decrepit, rent-seeking vulture with a passion.
And he’s just one example. That’s the con.
These guys go around getting lauded for how they’re willing to “pay their fair share” and nobody thinks to bother to look under the hood about what they’re getting out of it. Inevitably, when you do, you find out they stand to suckle at the government teat for orders of magnitude more than they stand to pay in extra taxes.
And nobody bothers to call them on it. Shit, you’d think the hard left would at least raise an eyebrow. But, they seem perfectly fine with it.
“His secretary pays a higher rate in taxes than HE does!”
Well the hard left is fine with it ’cause they know that that’s where they get their money. The con is the whole point – “the objective of politics is graft”.
“His secretary pays a higher rate in taxes than HE does!”
Oh, yeah, that one. Just keep quiet about the fact that he takes the bulk of his compensation as unrealized capital gains. That isn’t part of the equation.
Funny-ish/ironic part of the Buffet thing:
– People look at his public statements as “Grandpa Warren” who’s smart, and has made lots of money, and seems like a friendly old-timer. So surely they’re all wise and magnanimous, etd.
– But what he’s really doing is sticking strictly (like all of us here think he should) to his fiduciary duty to shareholders. He’s the CEO of BH. When he makes a public statement, that’s the hat he HAS to wear – so whatever comes out of his mouth is specifically intended to maximize BH shareholder value.
Folks are largely ignorant of the latter.
Also, the truly rich just game the system and don’t pay much anyway(as a % of income), compared to the middle class who pay tons in payroll taxes.
The upper middle class is who gets shafted. The middle class- i.e. the people earning around the median income- tends to do ok. But there are a significant number of professional, dual income families that make significant salaries, but do not get income from tax-preferred sources. These are the people who got shafted by Obama’s tax increases *and* Trump’s removal of the SALT deduction. My parents/in-laws and my family fall into this group. They have been around since at least the Clinton administration.
The reason you don’t hear about this is that it is really difficult to feel sympathy for someone who earns in the top 25% of houses. But they exist, and they are always the first ones to pay, while the 1%ers- as noted above- do just fine.
I think I’m in the top 25% of household incomes, but SALT removal made no difference to me. So I think your parents are likely in more rarefied air than top 25%, maybe top 10%. I still count anyone who makes their money through labor as middle class (upper middle is just a subset).
Because of the new standard deductible, the SALT removal only affects incomes over ~125K which is well above the median even in NYC.
The Dems crying about this are being deceitful – surprise.
Not exactly true…I am a bit under 125k and had a very minor salt hit last year.
My situation was odd with owning two houses in different states.
I doubt it happens again, as I don’t think I will be itemizing any more.
I’m in the top 15%. Very very very far from rich. I can’t even afford a home in which SALT will make a difference.
I figure if you guy a million dollar+ home and go around bragging about how you want to pay more taxes, don’t cry when you get the opportunity.
Maybe in Charleston County. Up here in Horry it’s the opposite. Which makes sense as Charleston is one of the bluest counties in the state.
Actually, the bluest counties are across the middle of the state. Charleston Co is light blue but trending bluer. All the yankees in my neighborhood are probably not helping things.
Unless there was some very different stuff happening off camera, this is a big pile of nothing.
THEY FEARED FOR THEIR LIVES!
Shy Trump voter?
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/231/707/original/bd09d909b1e579c5.png
Okay, I laughed.
#metoo
I just get a blank page.
He said shy . . . that’s as shy as you get.
It’d be an epic troll to buy a copy of that shirt for Hunter’s niece.
Also-
I just adore how the Biden campaign is all about “bringing us together” when they and their surrogates have done nothing but sow fear and discord for months.
Since the last election, basically.
Bringing us together… on boxcars.
And the camps when the boxcars arrive.
Yup. We must be United as a country be agreeing that everyone who voted for Trump is really bad.
DespicableDeplorable Me.“sow fear and discord for months.”
Yeah, 2008 to 2016 was a few months.
Well the reconciliation committee will fix that good and hard
Joe Biden Reiterates Plan to Ban ‘Assault Weapons,’ ‘High Capacity’ Magazines
It’s like a “get out the vote” campaign.
*crosses fingers*
Yeah. “get out the vote – and if you don’t have a reason yet…”
This weekend when visiting my mom my uncle (lives next door) was pulling plants out of the ground, last stuff in the garden and gave me some. It turns out to be ginger. The really fresh stuff smells better than the stuff usually at the supermarket. I don’t know what to do with it, but for dinner I am sous vide ing a pork chop and I grated some over that.
Based on your anti-gun trolling, I’m going to suggest figging.
that’s not very nice of you
*kicks pebble*
I guess you’re right. Sorry Pie.
Just chalk that up to “misery loves company” and he certainly knows how to yank a Yank’s crank.
HE DID IT. THE DUDE MANAGED TO PULL IT OFF THIS TIME. IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU CHEESE MAN
https://twitter.com/shxtou/status/1322931022162501633
Apart from being used in a variety of Asian style dishes, ginger root can be used to make very good cocktails. And for you men who prefer parasols in your liquor (like me), ginger makes a great simple syrup. Whatever is left, pickle it and throw it on a salad or sandwich.
Woops wrong thread. Still works though; less tangential than some of my other comments.
If candied ginger is wrong, then I don’t want to be right.
He’s excited about a cheese fountain? We have them every 10 feet in Wisconsin.
So I guess we get to see Grahms shocked face.
Will it be any different from his O-face?
Veto Party is in full campaign swing! Today, I plan on holding no events and not talking about my candidacy to anyone.
BangingLC1 2020
“I don’t really like Pringles, but I’ll still eat them.”
“I don’t really like Pringles, but I’ll still eat them.”
So I guess there’s truth to their slogan that “once you pop, you just can’t stop”.
Police departments are set to cancel days off, prepare tactical response teams and gather intelligence about possible election unrest as Nov. 3 quickly approaches, according to two police union officials.
The police are intending to do their jobs and actually quell riots? 0_o
As the left had taken fancy to do: look what Trump hath wrought!!! He is the worst. People are planning on rioting after an election!
Only if Biden wins.
What will 2020 bring next?
If stupid games shows is the worst of it, I will feel very relieved.
I… uh…does that come on after Ow My Balls?
SUICIDE CULT
The Utah County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a large party on the west side of Utah Lake, south of Saratoga Springs near the Knolls about 10 p.m. Sheriff’s Sgt. Spencer Cannon said “several thousand” people were in attendance, with the estimates from those who were there ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 people. The party included a stage, a professional sound system and lights, and DJs.
Cellphone videos of the event posted on social media show people, who appear to be high school or college age, packed together in a large group with no social distancing and very little mask wearing.
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This comes just a week after Utah Tonight announced it was canceling an event it described as the biggest Halloween party in Utah. For a month, both Utah Tonight and The Tribe Utah had advertised an event called “The Protest on Halloween,” with the location of the event being announced on Saturday. As part or the promotion for the “full concert production,” organizers posted on their flyers “gatherings are essential for public health” and that by attending, “you assume all risks associated with COVID-19.”
But on Oct. 26, after their event had gained public attention, the groups announced that the party had been canceled and refunds would be given. In announcing the cancellation, Utah Tonight blamed those “in positions of power and authority, including the media, (who) have done nothing but intimidate, harass, and seek to build consensus to shut this event down.
“We find it both disheartening and concerning that some within our society have allowed fear to supplant basic rights of assembly, giving individuals within the media and some public servants the ability to control what we consider to be a ‘pursuit of happiness,’” the group said in their prepared statement.
Somewhere between two and ten thousand? That’s some mighty fine calculating, Deputy.
Just think; each of those kids will go out into the world and infect dozens of hapless victims, who will then infect dozens, et c, until the depopulation of Utah is complete.
I call dibs on Park City.
Got to fight the covid zombies for it.
Everybody thinks it’s like that scene from that first Planet of the Apes remake, where the guy gets on a plane with flu symptoms, then they show a globe where the virus travels to every land and spread all across the world, the first step to the Apocalypse followed by apes ruling over men.
So, if the Dems do sweep the election – is that what you’re saying?
“BATTLE for the SOUL of the NATION,” as it says on the side of their bus.
Do you want the nation soul going to the 7th circle of hell or the 8th? You decide!!
Violence or fraud, seems apropos.
OK, several pints of Guinness in so I feel like necro-posting from the tail end of the last thread just to get some input from the gliberverse…
I’ve been thinking about it and one thing that stands out to me is how 2020 must look to the large swarth of people who don’t really belong to either team red or blue*.
They have no problem, or at least no heavy issues, with a lot of lefty causes – gay marriage, abortion, gun control, etc. But they increasingly feel that they are being targeted for being racist which they know they aren’t. This year they see that democrat governors are gleefully overstepping their bounds to enforce lockdowns, business closures, face diapers, etc. They see democrat mayors letting riots take over and burn out businesses with no regard for the safety of their business owners and residents.
It is as if the Brownshirts in the form of antifa/BLM have appeared, we’re having an ongoing Kristalnacht in our streets against the un-Woke, now all the left needs is the right leader to take control and make this the standard for America. Anybody with half a brain can see that Biden is just a delivery vehicle for Harris – either in the first year or two after inauguration (for those who are paying attention), or after Biden gets his two terms in office (for those still following the old script). And she is obviously the kind of leader for the vast social-political change we see happening in our streets.
I am expecting/hoping that this formerly politically ambivalent group will show up on Tuesday to vote against the DNC. I think the DNC overbid their hand on this election.
*I postulate here that a there are lot of people who mouth the words to go along with the usual blue team sentiments because those feel better – but don’t really swallow to party line whole.
“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.” – Hoffer
And I’d say we are in the consolidation phase right now
I’d say materialization. Lots of fanatics. Don’t see the men of action.
The transition point to consolidation only becomes clear after the fact. Usually at about the time that the man of action orders the fanatics rounded up.
Agreed. Anonymous voting gives them the opportunity to make their secret beliefs known on a grander scale, and hopefully after an election victory it’ll be ok to express those beliefs publicly.
hopefully after an election victory it’ll be ok to express those beliefs publicly.
Look at the optimist over here!
Seriously though, the left owns the media, the education system, the bureaucracy (both federal and local), the nonprofit sphere, and many of the biggest corporate boardrooms, HR departments, and legal departments. This doesn’t go away without a purge of those institutions.
Its totally find to express your beliefs as long as you don’t need to be gainfully employed. You don’t think that’s stopping anyone from bringing their wholeself to work, do you?
*whistles innocently while chatting with my conservative coworkers through a backchannel*
I am an optimist, and I think the social pendulum will swing. Just like the hippies were born of the Cleavers, kids will free-range themselves from their helicopter parents. I’m studying “The Anatomy of Revolution” now. The next step is for the intellectuals to flip.
Pendulums do swing – until they are seized up.
It must be lubed from time to time with the blood of patriots?
“I think the DNC overbid their hand on this election.”
You ain’t seen nothing like you will see if they actually win. They will take that as a sign there is a mandate for a far left agenda and will just run with it.
Give Team Red a foot and they take and inch. Give Team Blue an inch and they (at least try to) take a mile.
Good morning Banjos!
For those of us that are anime fans:
Sony Reportedly Set To Buy Crunchyroll for More Than $957M USD
Sony owns Funimation so with this it will essentially own the entire global anime streaming market. It makes Netflix a distant second followed even further behind by Amazon. I’m not sure what this will do for pricing. Neither Crunchy nor Funi are huge money makers, so possibly combining them may make enough share to actually make a decent return. They may be able to squeeze the studios, but they are already running on vapor thin margins.
They may be able to squeeze the studios, but they are already running on vapor thin margins.
Is this due to pirating? When I think anime, the pirating is implied in my mind.
The actual studios make very little money on broadcast and streaming rights. They need domestic DVD sales to get much of a profit. The fans will spend insane amounts of money for merchandise and DVDs. It makes the difference between a profitable title and a loss.
I can’t quantify piracy, but now that there are legitimate outlets that stream with subtitles at broadcast time I’m guessing there is less piracy. In the old days folks used to fan-sub, but that took days after broadcast. My feeling is that ex-Japan most of the money is now found money. So I’m not sure how much domestic piracy was/is an issue.
Crunchyroll is just barely skating the line past “better than free”, but not by much if you don’t care about simulcast. I think they’d make more if they they were profoundly better than free.
I always thought Congress passed legislation.
You probably wear a powdered wig and carry a sword cane, too.
It’s the 21st century, man. Get with the times.
Anecdotal data point: family friends who are all-caps DEMOCRATS just told me yesterday that they voted for Trump. I was actually left speechless; these are people (both lawyers) who volunteered for Obama’s campaign and were the most obnoxious of the obnoxious Shrillary supporters. It was like listening to a cat bark.
That said, for the past few months I have been making a conscious effort to decouple myself from the stupidity as much as possible and, galdernit, things are pretty damn good. I mean, they objectively suck, but they are also objectively awesome. I voted, which is the extent of any real influence I have over the situation; beyond that I’m working hard to not get too upset about things over which I have no control. Remember: the media is a psyop designed to make you feel hopeless while simultaneously preventing you from taking your eyes off it. Out in the real world, there’s boundless beauty and peace. I make my purpose trying to lift people’s spirits with cheesecake and jokes.
https://archive.li/6YX6S/0832f159fdc79966331e06392e1af93ba246fd2d.webp
” I’m working hard to not get too upset about things over which I have no control.”
You and me both, bro.
^Correct attitude. My life won’t change regardless.
well you live in Japan
Yeah. Even I lived in NY, it’d be the governor not the president making my life hell.
As someone who is married to a woman working in healthcare, the dems having the presidential slot may really affect our income assuming they go through with single-payer. Also, having to use single payer for myself or my son… not terrifying, but not a benefit to me to be sure as we currently have a great doc for him.
I’m glad that this pregnancy will be over before the next legislative session fires up. We got reamed by Ocare with the first pregnancy. This one hasnt been cheap, but being on employer plans has made it so much less of a headache.
Why not both?
????
that poor girl needs money to buy clothes that fit
Yeap. Other than here, I don’t really get worked up about this stuff at all. Life goes on more or less as usual.
I’m very concerned what might happen with the economy.
I think the economy is hosed either way. We’re on the path towards stagflation, and nobody has shown the inclination to try to start combating it.
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However, Biden’s plan would make it much worse.
That is a concern. But not like an “immediate” one I spend brain cells worrying about.
And not really like one party is going to do better than the other.
Wait until you see the Afternoon Links…a better pair of choices awaits!
STEVE SMITH/ZARDOZ 2020?
“At least when you’re done taking it up the ass from us, we leave you a gun”
Life goes on as usual until it doesn’t.
OT, but when did everybody start using .webp as still-image files? I’ve seen that a lot lately. I don’t get it.
Blame Google.
I generally try not to get too worked up as well, but I also work in an industry the left desperately wants to abolish (that hardly narrows it down in 2020) so it’s hard.
I am constantly called by pollsters (on my land line) and occasionally I pick up when bored. to play with them….
I have repeatedly told them I will be voting for Biden this year. The last one had that trick question they put in asking about some local candidate to see how many people that said they were voting for Biden were also voting for a republican otherwise. I told the guy I don’t vote for the local guys cause that doesn’t matter, and that seriously stumped the poor guy based on him then asking me if I would vote whom would I vote for. When I said that in a hypothetical situation I would vote for Karl Marx, he was not too happyy.
I have not had many of the pollsters call me after that one, so maybe I fubared that. Oh well, back to fucking with the Indian asshats calling me from the IRS or Social Security agencies telling me they need me to send gift cards to avoid jail time….
Somebody had a link the other day that lead to a heavily pro-Trump site (Reddit, maybe?) and a lot of Trump supporters there were saying they were doing the same thing. I don’t know if it’s enough to significantly skew poll results, but it’s interesting.
Not sure if being facetious about Reddit being a pro-trump. Subreddit maybe? Reddit on the whole is more leftist than twitter.
Don’t remember if it was Reddit or not, but yeah, it would have been a pro-Trump subreddit.
Last Kayaderosseras Pistol match of the season this Saturday!
Come and try a low-rules, straightforward-scoring, low-pressure, no-prize-money, absurdly fun pistol sport!
Non NYS residents can attend since this is an NRA sanctioned event. You’ve just got to be out of the state within 48 hours of the match.
Since it’s off-season, rooms are available for pretty much nothing, and I have a limited number of guest rooms available to select Glibs.
Bring 150 rounds of ammo. I can lend magazines for 1911s (in .45 ACP), Beretta 92s, and M&P Shields. Holsters are required. The highest round count I’ve seen on a stage is 32.
Jesus man there’s a pandemic going on
Is that how I would get around not having a NYS pistol permit? Cuz when I looked online, most of the info I saw was “NYS – don’t go there”. Stories about how NY troopers not following FOPA and such.
There is no way I would willing enter either NYS or NJ with any firearm from out of state.
The attitude of both the police and the prosecutors here in NJ is arrest, jail, bail and let the court sort out if we did the right thing.
They all immune so why worry about making a mistake let’s just get the guy with the gun off the streets.
Kayaderosseras does SASS national/world championships and manages to keep drawing hundreds of out-of-state shooters.
I’m much less familiar with NYS than NJ.
Yeah, you should print out and carry the event flyer with you. Also, you are NOT required to inform po-po if they don’t ask.
A buddy of mine, many years ago, moved to NYC for a job. He arranged for a purchase right out of Taxi Driver – got a cheap hotel room, guy shows up with a suitcase of guns, and he pays (cash, duh) for three small envelope pieces he would be able to dump and run if needed.
That’s your only option in most of NY.
Outside the city things are much better. Carry is even a possibility.
If I were a multi-billionaire every bit of my self-interest would favor being a loyal Democrat. And I’d denounce anyone who wanted to interrupt the gravy train as “greedy” and “selfish”.
Those higher nominal tax rates are just another cost of doing business. A good consulting team will minimize the pain.
Good morning, Banjos
The 2020 election season has seen an unprecedented number of lawsuits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and changing voting laws, which could ultimately sway the election’s outcome, according to experts.
If we had any semblance of election integrity this would not be a problem.
Border and elections. Things politicians are completely ok with doing nothing to maintain their integrity.
“It’s the Monday before the day Antifa will riot in all major cities regardless of what happens in the election. Hope you are boarded up or already bugged out.”
I disagree, if the Democrats win both the presidency and the senate they will call off their soldiers. Except for in Portland and Seattle. Those people are just doing it for fun now. Also if the Dems sweep there will be little to no violence from the right.
All the violence over the last few years has been from the right. Don’t you even TV News, bro?
Sure, the right all runs around with freaky hair and ear & nose piercings.
A commenter on another site I frequent said that Proud/Poor Boys were standing by to destroy ballots on 11/4.
Sure, and aliens.
Lately I’ve been coming around to the idea that 2020 is an unremarkable year. There is no global war. Africanized honey bees were far more scary and ubiquitous than murder hornets. Fires always fire. Viruses always virus. The riots, while awful, don’t really compare to the entirety of korea-town turning into a legitimate war zone. And the police are not nearly as evil, racist, or corrupt as they once were… For the love of god, they literally bombed and burned down a city block in Philadelphia…. On purpose.
2020 is remarkable for only one thing; how easily the global populace can be worked up by multinational media conglomerates presenting information in such a way as to garner attention. Which is nothing new. Men and women of years past used to look through the dire headlines, read the articles, rightly grumble to themselves, get on the bus, and go to work. What the fuck happened? Social media? A direct link to our narcissistic tendencies? Historically, and to some extent still, if you read an article in a paper, and went around screaming at all those around you about said article, you’d be locked up in a state institution. But that’s exactly what the world does now, albeit without uttering an audible tone.
Ted K. (I can’t spell that shit) was right.
Lately I’ve been coming around to the idea that 2020 is an unremarkable year. – that’s rather strange. the amount of panic and disruption of peoples lives has few precedents.
. What the fuck happened? – social democracy and gradual removal of personal responsibility and general pussyfication due to prosperity. It is now the job of government to keep all safe, and this requires lockdowns and propaganda on the government/MM side.
My point being that previous years were far worse in reality 2008/2009 for instance. Iraq and Afghanistan wars were still full swing, there was also a pandemic, oh and the global economy collapsed… The current disruption is self made rather than due to unforeseen or extraordinary external factors.
The riots, while awful, don’t really compare to the entirety of korea-town turning into a legitimate war zone
Wellllll……’92 was more intense but also a limited duration event. What we have now is medium-intensity rioting that never seems to go away completely. Kind of a “six of one, half dozen of the other” situation.
I think it’s pretty remarkable, as in, SUCKS MAJORLY.
1. The riots have been going on for MONTHS, nearly every night in some cities. They’re isolated, but buildings have been burned and those arrested have been let go within a few hours, apparently without charges. Call me old-fashioned, but if you had told me even last year that angry mobs would be attacking police stations and community buildings in major American cities and face no repercussions, I’d have thought you were making it up.
2. City and state governments forcing people’s small businesses to close (while WalMart and others are allowed to remain open – no corruption there) for months on end, to the point that a lot of the owners end up having to shut them down permanently and seek employment elsewhere.
3. People all across the land forced to wear a little piece of cloth wherever they go, despite the fact that it may do very little if anything to stop a virus with a 99.9+% survival rate. Consider that, if people had been forced to wear or do something more elaborate, people everywhere would have rebelled early on, but wearing a stupid little piece of cloth is annoying but just innocuous enough that people will only grumble and do it.
4. The fact that all of the above things are politicized to the point that everyone is divided into two basic warring camps. If you disagree with any of the above, you’re considered a racist hate-monger who wants sweet little grandmothers to die alone and afraid, and the media is on the side of the righteous Karens who will call you out on your hateful, bigoted beliefs.
5. etc…
I may not have made my point clearly.
All the ill that we are facing are reactions to events that are, on the face, unremarkable.
Yes the riots have been going for months. Normally they wouldn’t be, because peoples reaction to them historically would be different? Why have they continued for so long? They aren’t even bad riots, there just band of kids running around stirring up trouble and breaking shit. 92 was an actual race riot.
The pandemic reactions are just that reactions. We have never reacted in such a way before. Even when pandemics have been much worse or very similar. So why have we?
So what makes 2020 remarkable? Is it the events, or is it the reaction to the events? I contend it’s the reactions and I wonder why our mentality has changed so severely in just a few short years (2009) being the most recent year with bad shit happening.
I think I see.
As a conspiracy theorist, it seems to me that a lot of ‘elites trying to take over the world’ type events have really ramped up over the past few years. Usually these would be done quietly in the background, under the radar, but now it’s pretty well out in the open. Why? I have no idea.
I firmly believe that Trump’s election threw a monkey wrench into a lot of long-term dastardly plans. Not that the guy is a saint, but he possesses the right combination of traits that he’s been able to survive the past four years despite all of the crap thrown at him, his supporters, his family, etc. He also serves as a focal point for people who want to sling shit at… whatever they disagree with. So, since his first (and possibly only) term is ending this year, the bad guys decided to pull out all their tricks? I don’t know.
They aren’t even bad riots, there just band of kids running around stirring up trouble and breaking shit.
Wait what? Head over to Andy Ngo or All Lives Matter twitter feeds and take a look at what really is going on.
These are organized groups using squad based tactics. They have body armor, firearms commerical-grade fireworks being used as mortars, industrial lasers, legal protection, and heavy financing. There are some younger adults, but also include the homeless, felons, etc. Many ex-military are counted among their ranks.
I’d say what happened with Rittenhouse or the murdered Trump supporters went far beyond “kids stirring up trouble and breaking shit”.
Bunch of kids breaking shit because the government isn’t squelching it. I still stand by that. The fact is that the actual riots aren’t bad from a historical perspective. They endure due to inaction by the police. Two isolated shooting incidents don’t add up to the riots being worse than other riots. They really are just a bunch of soy boys running around with skateboards breaking windows and ass holes stealing shit. And then because no one is stepping in to stop the mahem, the moltov cocktails begin to fly. But like any riot, moltov cocktails are not new, skater punks are nothing new… The inaction is new.
60+ people died in 92 with 2000+ people injured and 12,000 arrested. That’s extraordinary. These riots are not any different then the 2000 dnc convention riots, but unlike in 2000, there’s no police presence.
I think you have an interesting perspective.
And I really think this would be an unremarkable year altogether except for the forced lockdowns in first world countries.
It doesn’t help that almost all the news media used to be balanced (i.e. a city of any size would have two papers and their editorial slant would not be in lockstep. ) Now, so much different. I bet that Barry Goldwater, who got killed in 1964 in both popular and EC vote, had more major newspapers endorse him than Trump has now.
Trump supporters escort Biden-Harris tour bus in Texas, Biden supporter responds by calling 911
Grow a pair.
The FBI said on Sunday it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trump’s re-election bid surrounded a tour bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway.
Why? //rhetorical
Supposedly it’s because Wendy Davis (yep, her again – why don’t people ever just go away after crushing political defeats?) was on the bus and is a congressional candidate.
*cusses under breath*
“Grow a pair.”
They did. Unfortunately, they needed a bra for those.
Dear Christians, next All Saints Day, before posting all those medieval and Renaissance paintings of “the Saints” assembled in the clouds or around God’s throne, stop and consider why they’re all white, and whether this truly reflects the “cloud of witnesses” surrounding us.
https://twitter.com/RevDaniel/status/1323102395577049089
OFFS ?♂️
stop and consider why they’re all white
Because they’re European pieces of art and Europeans are white. Art from around the world depicts Jesus and his followers as looking like the locals.
I think Indian Jesus is my favorite. Cuban Jesus looks shady as fuck.
I agree about Indian Jesus. I want my deities to be easily identifiable in a crowd.
Also, for like a thousand years a vast majority of saints in a European based church were gonna be European.
As long as he’s got washboard abs, it doesn’t matter what shade they are.
Rock Me Sexy Jesus
Billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is trying to make good on a promise he made when he exited the Democratic primary: spend whatever it takes to beat President Trump.
Something something money in politics.
But I think 2016 showed that you can’t just buy the presidency.
Bloom’s can drop a couple of billion, with a b, and not even notice – he’s that fucking rich.
Lindsey Graham says John Durham report coming after election, will be ‘shocked’ if no indictments
*yawn*
I’ll be shocked if there are indictments, of anybody of any significance, that is.
I am expecting/hoping that this formerly politically ambivalent group will show up on Tuesday to vote against the DNC. I think the DNC overbid their hand on this election.
I am attempting to nurture a feeble flame of hope. There are a lot of people whose livelihoods have been severely damaged, if not destroyed, and they just might correctly identify the true perpetrators. Or they might believe the fabulists who claim some mythical President not-Trump would have “saved” us from the panicdemic, and vote for
Bidenchaos and ruin.Yes, I think the media getting people to blame Trump for the pandemic is the main reason he might lose.
What’s the story in Texas? I keep hearing Texas will flip. I refuse to believe that.
Maybe not this election but maybe the next
Many of us called BS in 2016 regarding the polls. Fine, they got it wrong. It was a weird election. This time their is no excuse. If Trump wins, no one should ever trust those polling people again.
The WSJ put out a poll a few weeks ago that showed Biden up +14. They made the mistake of including the methodology, which included correcting for race/education/etc but not political affiliation.
So by manipulating the race/education/etc. percentages and not correcting for party affiliation, they were able to generate the +14 Biden outcome. The article comments ridiculed the poll and the WSJ has kept polling methodology out of their articles since then.
The pollsters aren’t wrong in that the polls are showing exactly what they are designed to show. It’s very deliberate.
I live in Texas, and I’m skeptical about it.
The Dallas Morning News here (which is now far left) keeps running stories that Trump and Biden are tied in Texas. These are from their own polls. Every single day they release one of these polls there are 2 or 3 other polls released which show Trump as a favorite. They don’t report on those polls.
The other Republican Allen West was on the radio. He said over 7 million people in Texas had already early voted and this favors Republicans over 6%. How does he know this? Does the party have its own exit polling? I have no idea. But the man certainly seemed confident about it. If the early voting favors Republicans that much, Democrats are not even in it.
other *day*.
“What we see right now is a rapid fall in the number of cases, and of course some kind of immunity has to be involved in that as nothing else has changed,” says Sweden’s coronavirus response czar, State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
Fake news. The coof is going to kill us all unless we eliminate commerce for a few months, which will not, itself, have any negative consequences.
Every time I see an article about Sweden I lose a wing.
*envisions Rufus dropping buffalo wings in shock*
I finally got around to watching JoJo Rabbit, last night. I don’t know if it’s a movie one “likes” but it was very well made and unique.
Funny in some parts, and definitely not funny at all in others.
High marks.
Agreed. Well worth watching.
I liked it, but it is one of those movies where I felt bad laughing. Another one that’s like that is Look Who’s Back (Er Ist Wieder Da). The idea is that Hitler comes back in modern times.
If you must face a superior foe, challenge them on the terms least favorable to them
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1323043679616073731
It is damned curious as to why this is happening, ain’t it?
I never thought I would see so many buildings here in the nation’s capital boarded-up on the eve of a presidential election in anticipation of possible unrest. And it’s not just in DC. It’s happening in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere around the country. So sad!
I blame either Trump or climate change
Why not both?
Surprised the Dems running these cities haven’t made the practice illegal yet.
Morning Banjos!
Song is a favourite (I like the soft/reggae Clash too but prefer the angry/loud Clash) and also has a COVID/lockdown applicable message
“Everybody’s doing
Just what they’re told to
And nobody wants
To go to jail”
Think there will be a future presidential election where the public basically says, “Uh, this time it’s not really that important”?
We’d have to get rid of the de facto monarchy for that to happen.
That’s pretty much how I felt about 2016 at the time.
Yep.
Kamala’s second term
Yeah, by that time it won’t matter anyway.
No. It’s almost a tautology. Future elections are always less important than the current and past elections are history.
Yes, once someone gets a strong enough hold to shed the two party mask.
Here’s another classic for Lockdown Boris
where do you find all this obscure music?
Jimmy Pursey is a legend
I recorded that song off of “Mods & Rockers” on CIUT (U of Toronto radio) when I was 15 or so and fell in love with it from the first note. Actually now that I think of it that show introduced me to quite a few artists.
The other thing that helps is that I have really crazy long-term memory. I often joke that if I ever went to prison I wouldn’t even need to lock the door and put on the record player like Andy because I have almost every song that I’ve ever liked stuck somewhere in my head 😉
It’s seems odd that the betting odds favor Biden but most of the cash is on Trump. Shouldn’t the fact that people are heavily voting on Trump change the odds?
Only if it is parimutal betting.
Maybe they see through the Team Blue bs?
“I don’t even know where any blacks would be coming from that would be voting for Trump,” she said. “It just hurts me so bad to see blacks talking about supporting Trump. I don’t know why they would be doing it. I don’t know why it is on their minds.”
Waters also seemed to express a lack of confidence in the polls. “But if we don’t turn out this vote and turn it out huge, this man could end up winning again,” she said. “This country would go backward. The divisiveness that this deplorable human being has caused, the confrontation, the dog-whistling to the right-wing, the white supremacists, the KKK, and they are coming alive. They are emboldened because they have a leader.”
“He’s a racist,” Waters continued. “He does not have any appreciation for black people and black women in particular.”
Waters is a lifelong race-hustler who ignores her constituents while securing sweetheart deals for her hubby’s bank. Maybe they’re finally wising up in her district.
HOW DARE THEY!?!
I finally understand white privilege. It’s the privilege of being brow beaten for your vote, because of what you voted, not the color of your skin.
black women in particular
A telling admission. They’re much more aware of the gender split in black voting this cycle than they let on.
It matches the broader split. Democrats are the feminine party. Republicans are the masculine party.
Yep. Been saying it for years: there’s no reason any taxpaying man should be voting Democrat. You’re just a milk cow to them. Any color, any religion, gay or straight, in America men are just tax cattle.
I found that theory noteworthy too. Been listening to Scott Adams’s podcast?
Diving deeper into references on the RD-600, the Soviet-era research effort into a multi-GW, MHD-controlled gas-core nuclear rocket engine that operated at 1000 bar, was to achieve 2000s Isp and also have a second electricity-producing mode.
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1323006905229389832
Page is still jumping to the top.
I’ve noticed that it navigates correctly for a second, and then the offending script grabs control and shoots the viewport to the top.
I’ve never had that behavior.
Latest desktop Safari, some ad-blocker, Eyepiece
I’m on mobile, so it may be executing much more slowly on mine.
If I find some time this week, I’ll push an update to Eyepiece that includes a workaround.
Doesn’t do that for me on either Firefox or Safari.
I get it from time to time in firefox when things are congested. You’re probably loading the site too fast.
?
I just said I didn’t have a problem.
Were you responding to someone else?
So what’s a “circuit-breaker?”
A circuit-breaker is a tight set of restrictions – it could feel a lot like the original lockdown – but crucially it would be for a fixed period of time.
?♂️
It won’t hurt this time, honest. We changed the name.
Yeah, like “two weeks to flatten the curve”.
SERENITY NOW!
No word on when bars can go back to their regular hours, nor when the other restrictions will be lifted. But there’s all sorts of ads that were playing during the game yesterday about how Ohio needs to hold the course, and stay strong. One of the commercials showed that if you let your guard down for even a moment, you’ll kill thousands of people you’ve never met.
This is almost exactly what I thought.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1323077280617422849
Blue Virginia still ticks me off. It’s all Fairfax County, they rule this state now.
I remember back when it was a toss up. Then again, other states like Minnesota may flip the other way.
The difference being that Fairfax is never going to vote any way other than blue unless the federal government implodes. It’s nothing but professional civil service and government contractors up there.
I think in the spirit of Washington D.C., if you work for the federal government you should not be allowed to vote in federal elections. Same principle. Direct conflict of interest.
Why do you think they want everyone to have a 100% guaranteed government job?
Yeah the Bush/Obama expansion of the federal government means there’s just too many fucking parasites up there, it swamps out the rest of the state.
Virginia is basically Illinois at this point.
Yep. Sad but true, and it happened so damned fast, really. We never even got to be a “purple” state – it just whiplashed from red to blue within a few years.
I don’t see the point.
The autonomous racing league broadcasted its Season Beta 1.1 race on Thursday, ideally to showcase the potential of high speed auto races that don’t endanger human drivers. Unfortunately, a car belonging to the team SIT Acronis Autonomous had other ideas, per Engadget.
One of the engineers behind the self-driving speedster took to Reddit to explain what happened. It turns out there’s an initialization lap before the race in which a human driver guides the car to the start line. For some reason, the steering mechanism was locked all the way to the right during this process, so when the race started for real, the car decided to take a detour straight into a barrier on the side of the track.
I think it’s a good way to push the technology along, much like auto racing used to do.
Harder Gs, more extreme tracks, hell you could add surprise changes to the course to test adaptability.
Today, in not good looks:
“‘Condescending’ Lady Gaga is slammed for appearing as a ‘redneck’ in video trying to drum up support for Joe Biden in battleground states”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8903897/Condescending-Lady-Gaga-slammed-mocking-swing-state-voters-rednecks-Biden-video.html
“MAGA convoys take to the freeways across the US and clog the Mario Cuomo Bridge over the Hudson River ahead of Election Day”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8904093/MAGA-convoys-clog-freeways-nation-support-Trump-ahead-Tuesdays-election.html
“‘Condescending’ Lady Gaga is slammed for appearing as a ‘redneck’ in video trying to drum up support for Joe Biden in battleground states”
One good thing about being married. I’ll never have to worry about being so successful that I won’t have anyone willing to tell me I’m being a fucking idiot when I’m being a fucking idiot.
I literally thought she was mocking Middle America.
If there is an impending break up of the US I think we should be ahead of the curve in coming up with names for the new countries. Middle America isn’t terrible but I think we could see do better.
Leonringia is an alternate.
I think we should throw off the shackles of our Leon oppressors and call ourselves Urthonia.
The Greater Swiss Confederation.
Freedonia
Hail! Hail!
Deplorida.
Clingon
Fuckoffistan
Includes video of the incident in Texas for those interested. Start around the 1:55 mark.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR25dSeu0FOyOeg7nVtpTym2v5mPoIKHIKOPjT4M-S4x_T0QVtdJMYUolQI&feature=share&v=QrnvnWh2Rm8
I saw it. Meh.
Remember when far left dude in Portland murdered someone literally for just supporting Trump?
Indeed. Wake me when lefties are arrested for blocking city streets, interstate onramps, etc.
“‘Disturbing’ anti-Semitic and racist graffiti including a swastika is scrawled on the street in New Jersey neighborhood”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8904607/Disturbing-anti-Semitic-racist-graffiti-including-swastika-scrawled-street-New-Jersey.html
Is that even a swastika?
That was a pretty pathetic swastika. He should go back to Hitler school.
No, that’s a buried utility line symbol used when tracking cables for maintenance and road work. It may not even be related to the graffiti.
Yup, that’s a utility markout. And the rest is low-level mischief night vandalism.
Yet somehow this is news?
What about the assault TP???!!!eleventy!!
“The TP rolls were coming at us out of the trees.
OUT OF THE TREES, MAN!”
Wait, wait, wait, I thought there was a toilet paper shortage.
Get those Hoarder Trees!
White is intent marking, not utility marking. I’ve never seen anyone mark intent like that but anyone can call so who knows.
“Jew”? What about the “Jew”?
How do we know the graffiti wasn’t in favor of the Jews?
I don’t know what utility markings look like. I do know a fair bit about WWII militaria – that looks like it could be an (incorrect) attempt at the emlem of the 2nd SS Panzer Division.
Did you see a month ago there was a TikTok trying to get kids to tat that on themselves saying it was the symbol of Generation Z.
Why was Bill DeBlasio roaming around in New jersey?
Utility marker. The presence of the phallus suggest some teen prankster for the “JEW”.
Oh no! Not a penis!
The Daily Fail doesn’t even read itself.
I need a vacation.
I am trying to not yell, despite being at home, because of the actions of a coworker. We told him where to find the information needed to put together a firewall change request. Instead of taking just the relevant data as direct (the port numbers) he grabbed the whole darn tab out of the spreadsheet, changed a few cells, but left all the unrelated stuff in, now I can’t tell where his new request ends and the old one begins.
The only upside is that he can’t submit the change request, so the mess stays in the unit. But I have to clean it up.
This had the biggest plot twist ever
https://twitter.com/OriginalYoni/status/1321115600371044353
Why’d that kid hump the floor?
He was doing pushups.
That was freaking hilarious.
Political ad snippet heard walking through the break room, “…I’ll stop Special Interests that WANT to pollute our water.” These people think Captain Planet was a documentary.
Nice people.
Matilda Williams
@katherinewill27
So, realistically speaking: how do we get rid of the racists, white supremacists, militia, Trumpers, MAGAT’s, etc? Re-education camps? Like China deals with Uighurs? Jail the leaders? Shut down their access to all media? Seriously, how?
Bryan Campbell
@NormFThomas
Replying to
@katherinewill27 and @ericcervini
Something easily done in the near future would be to cross referent voting rolls from 2016 and 2020 and prohibit those who registered as Republican in both cycles from voting for 10-20 years, or upon satisfactory completion of civic re-education.
But if you vote Trump you are a Nazi.
My wife was a never-Trumper Republican. Suburban Republican. Not exactly a house wife because she’s also a bad-ass executive for Goldman Sachs. But can’t stand the man. Can’t even watch him speak for 3 seconds.
After she watched the Amy Comey Barrett treatment by the media and Democrats, she went right to the polls and voted for Trump. They managed to disgust her even more than Trump.
Well Hell yeah! Your wife worked her butt off to get where she is and then saw what the left did to a successful woman who also worked her butt off to get where she is. Which side was she supposed to identify with?
Democracy means after all you vote like I want you to
“like China does with the Uighers”
Celebrating genocide is ok by the Twitter tos
When it is necessary (if unpleasant) and for a greater good.
Four years ago as a joke I said I’d be disappointed if Trump didn’t put all Democrats into death camps.
Now the Democrats seem dead serious about putting Republicans into death camps. Democro-fascists.
What is the best Doc Holliday quote from Tombstone to reply to this crazy commie bitch with?
A. I’m your huckleberry
B. Say when.
C. You’re a daisy if you do.
D. All of the above.
Hopefully, by the end of this week (Zod willing) it will be a Curly Bill quote :
“Well,… bye!”
*Sighs. Places order for overpriced ammo.*
See the difference? Me neither.
Yeah, sure…
The Hitler w/dog and Biden w/dog one was perfect.
These twats are really off their rocker, why do you guys keep using it?
I hate that everyone in the media is in lockstep in calling this shit “unrest”. I guess it’s a step up from calling looting, destruction and random beatings a “protest “, at least.
Doubleplusunrest
Platypuses just keep surprising us – a new study finds that they fluoresce under UV light. But we don’t know why.
https://twitter.com/JackDAshby/status/1323170479130202112
they should also test ducks and beavers to see if they are the same
There are a ton of sea creatures that do. Perhaps they consume one of them.
Australia man has been busy with some weird fetishes
There was a Law & Order episode where James Earl Jones played a Civil Rights defense lawyer defending a white supremacist, and the white supremacist compared him to a platypus because a smart black guy was such an anomaly to him.
So, realistically speaking: how do we get rid of the racists, white supremacists, militia, Trumpers, MAGAT’s, etc? Re-education camps? Like China deals with Uighurs? Jail the leaders? Shut down their access to all media? Seriously, how?
Send the filthy deplorables to the showers. Cleanse them.
It’s the only way to be sure.
The wife and I were kicking around ideas for Thanksgiving supper this year. We don’t plan on having family beyond maybe my in-laws swinging by. I am kicking around the idea of dishes from our varied heritages and do about 5-7 small dishes.
So far I would have to make a Scandinavian (Either Norwegian, Swedish and/or Danish; yes I am that white), British Isle dish (Irish, Scottish and/or English), Mexican/Native Mexican dish, Colonial British/American and traditional American dish.
“Scandinavian (Either Norwegian, Swedish and/or Danish; yes I am that white), ”
Smørrebrød appetizers.
“British Isle dish (Irish, Scottish and/or English),”
You could do the traditional roast beef as a main, with Yorkshire puddings. Or just do the puddings as a side to the turkey.
“Mexican/Native Mexican dish”
A pot of pozole? Tamales would be a lot of work for a smaller group, but I have heard they freeze well.
“Colonial British/American”
Boston baked beans are an American Indian food that was adopted by the colonists. The native preparation used bear fat and maple sugar.
“and traditional American dish.”
Green Bean Casserole.
Thanks for the ideas! I love the traditional turkey spread, but I think giving thanks to where we came from and where we are is much more meaningful and much more delicious. I don’t have bear fat, but I could find some duck fat and maple sugar. My sister has some of our old-world recipes from our great-grandmother that I can use for the Scandinavian portion. The pozole would definitely be on the menu (I would do menudo but only one kid would eat that).
I wouldn’t use bear fat even if you get it, that shit is funky strong tasting.
We always make a pot of posole for Christmas, which at the Rancho Dean is pretty much New Mex anyway.
We have a good friend that is a professional baker and the one thing she will not make is Yorkshire pudding…but a cake, my god is there ever a difference when a professional bakes you a cake and I am not even a sweet tooth.
I made an angel food cake for XX’s birthday one year. Those things are quite labor-intensive.
Sadly, I realized that the bakery angel food cakes they pump out at ridiculously low prices are indistinguishable from my angel food cake. So now we just buy them.
Adjacent: One of my pet peeves is when somebody on Pinterest posts a recipe that touts MADE FROM SCRATCH! (I’m looking at you, Chili’s lava cakes) and then they use a box cake mix. Um. No. Made from scratch is following the recipe on the Hershey’s cocoa box.
I find that making cakes from scratch, while they do come out better, just isn’t worth the payoff. The difference in scratch v box is so slight to my uncaring family that I don’t bother. The last chocolate cake I made turned out delicious, but a mess because I didn’t have the right plate to put it on. (Devil’s food with mouse and ganache)
Exactly this. Our friend does the from scratch down to using her own milled flour. But that is because she has the tools and expertise. For our household which we are not bakers by any stretch, from the box it is and as you said, they still eat it and are satisfied.
I know two things about making cakes
Always remember a release agent
and
There is always another option.
Though I don’t always fail.
Butter and sugar your pans. They come out easier than butter-and-floured pans.
Also, don’t over-butter a springform pan. It WILL leak.
Yes, cupcakes are always an option, but I hate icing the fuckers. Of course, that was when I was using a knife and not a piping bag.
With the broken cakes, I had forgotten to apply any release agent.
I understood that. I’m offering an alternative to the traditional butter-and-flour.
+parchment paper
I find that making cakes from scratch, while they do come out better, just isn’t worth the payoff.
kitchen setup and available tools have a huge impact. IMO, the stand mixer is the great equalizer. If I can mise en place the ingredients and just dump them all into the stand mixer, the marginal effort over box is de minimus.
I don’t do cakes very often (and I usually do box cakes because the consistency is desirable when I’m icing a birthday cake), but I’ve found pancakes to be night and day different when made from scratch. I don’t use the stand mixer for them (the lumps are desirable and the stand mixer is way too efficient), but the box mix is basically flour + baking soda + baking powder + powderized vanilla flavoring.
Pizza dough is another that benefits mightily from the scratch treatment.
Oh, tangential question (Mo, I think you’ll be able to point me in the right direction)… I just bought 100lbs of flour from Costco. What should I do with it to preserve it longer than 3 or 4 months? Freezing is out of the question (no space).
I would suspect it would be the same as with rice. Air tight containers, kept in cool/dark location. Sift through to ensure no mold growth before use. Maybe Mo has a better answer.
I don’t have the containers but should get some because of rice, beans and flour might be what I will have for dinners for the next 4 years as I tighten the belt, figuratively and literally.
If I stored flour, which I don’t (I don’t bake enough and I wouldn’t bake even if STHF), I would put it in a 5-gallon mylar bag, seal, and then put in an airtight food-grade 5-gallon bucket.
I found this thread informative.
I use the muffin tin method for making Yorkshire pudding. Super easy.
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/12/the-best-yorkshire-pudding-popover-recipe.html
Hm, that is one more egg than I use.
But yes, especially if you have the muffin tin with a raised edge, otherwise you definitely want a pan under them to catch the oil.
Pickled Herring tacos.
Don’t you dare talk about my wi….oh, a food dish. I would eat it but no one else would.
Pickled herring folded in lefse?
Jansson’s Temptation! https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Janssons-Temptation-Aquavit/
Green bean casserole dates only to the ’50s, I’ve read.
The national flag is a public display of force, or something.
I have no idea what she is upset about.
Regarding Biden cancelling the Texas event, I think I know the real reason (drink): because people were following the Biden bus, they would actually know where the event was.
Yesterday, with Biden having 2 events in my city, I tried to find out where they were taking place, and the info was not easily available. I found plenty of articles about the events but bo indication of locations. I even waded into the comments and saw people commenting on this and asking where Biden would be.
So I am convinced they keep this info under wraps and only staffers and media are at his events.
Oh they deliberately kept the info under wraps here. Kamala’s showing in Ft. Worth was a complete secret to all but insiders.
They were completely faked rallies.
Sure. Plus notice the media always has a close up on the speaker and doesn’t show the “crowds “. I’m surprised they don’t pipe in fake crowd noise.
Yes. Michael Tracy has been talking about how Biden’s events are open only to staffers and major donors. They aren’t open to the general public.
I’ve heard it, but now I’ve actually witnessed it with my own eyes. The funny thing is you never hear any complaints about it from Dems, so that must mean nobody wants to go anyway.
I think the only true enthusiastic supporters Biden has is a gaggle of Karens here and there.
I used to only be half-joking when I said “Kommie-la.
“So there’s a big difference between equality and equity,” Harris lectures. “Equality suggests, ‘Oh, everyone should get the same amount.’ The problem with that, not everybody’s starting out from the same place. So if we’re all getting the same amount but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount but you’re still going to be that far back behind me. It’s about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.”
…
“Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place,” Harris concludes, as the video shows the two characters standing on the hill together.
That place being poor and starving.
If you’d stop being such a problem, they could increase the gruel rations.
So progressives are still trying to change the very essence of human nature, I see
They’re going to create the perfect Soviet man this time. Just need to make more omelets.
I’m guessing she thinks she’s absolutely brilliant. There’s no other explanation.
I’ve been saying for years that it’s not about equality with progs, it’s about envy and payback.
Now that the mask is completely off, it’s terrifying and infuriating. I mean they are telling everybody what they are going to do, and dopey wealthy white liberals keep voting for them.
Sounds great…your favorite NFL team is going to end the year 8 and 8 no matter how many interceptions Wentz throws or how many brilliant plays the Steelers or Chiefs pull off? And their rosters will, of course, have an ethnic-proportional makeup no matter the talent.
And we have to let girls play since they are in every way as strong and athletic as males. And no tackle because we can’t hurt the girls.
She’s not being equitable if she doesn’t give me a blow job.
You really want a Willie Brown special?
No, it doesn’t. It means everyone is treated equally (under the law, with opportunities, etc.). It doesn’t mean anybody “gets” anything.
How a statement that POCs, women, whoever can’t compete unless they are given some kind of leg up isn’t bigoted has always been a mystery to me. But this is pretty much stand-issue “critical race theory”/corporate diversity and inclusion training.
+1 white man’s burden
Past injustices put them unfairly behind from the womb, thus even though everyone is equal, and even given equal opportunities it is unfair to blacks and advantages whites. True justice won’t happen until all outcomes are equitable. /DA
“CNN Is Just The Latest News Outlet To Prove Deliberate Lying Is Not An Impediment to Employment”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1323080299014737920
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cnn-is-just-the-latest-news-outlet
So I read a book about Waterloo, and noticed a small piece of info about an individual that seems incorrect. The author got the info from a source written in 1846. But if you check the British military records from the time, the info doesn’t match.
Would it be worth it to contact the author (a history Prof at Cambridge) to query him and ask what he thinks of the disconnect in data?
I’m not tryna be an asshole – I’m genuinely curious about who the mystery person is that is referenced in both the modern and 1846 books. But I’ll leave it be if contacting him would be a dick move.
RC Dean especially – thoughts?
Author/Prof may be an ahole, but real historians appreciate correction questions that are done in a suitably polite manner. I don’t think I’ve ever written anything historical that hasn’t had an error creep in that I wasn’t glad to correct later.
Unless you write your email like an asshole, I would expect the prof to respond to you. Especially if the book was peer reviewed.
If he’s not a “public intellectual” he probably is more into this topic than you and would be excited to have a pen-pal who is interested.
Here’s the details: the 1846 author cites a “Sergeant George Stockmann” that did something heroic at Waterloo. But there was no George Stockman that was a Sergeant, according to the muster & medal rolls of the British military. There WAS a Private by that name.
There was also a Sergeant named George whose last name begins with “St”, however. But not “Stockmann”.
Why would you believe government records?
Was he Private Stockman during the battle and Sergeant Stockman when he mustered out of service 20 years later, and the 1846 book uses his retirement rank?
The Waterloo Medal rolls, given out many years later, lists Stockmann as a Private. Now, that could mean he was a Private at the time of Waterloo, so his prize money would be that of a Private. So, it’s possible? But why not refer to him as Private if he were a Private at the time of the incidents recounted in the book?
Alternatively, could’ve been a battlefield promotion, and afterwards he retrogressed to his original grade. I know that is common in officer ranks (historically), not sure about enlisted.
The records I’m looking at are for immediately following Waterloo (June 24 1815), and Stockmann is listed as a Private. The only thing I can think of, besides a simple error in name/rank, is that what juris said – field promotion, reverting to his original rank.
Another question: if he were field-promoted from Private, wouldn’t he have gone to Corporal first and not Sergeant?
Custer went from Captain to Brigadier General.
Sometimes contemporary articles about a person will address them by their current rank, not by the rank they held at the time of the event. Are you sure this isn’t the case?
I got an MA and BA in History (appeal to self-authority) – please send your questions to him.
Not sure why me, especially, but I would absolutely contact the author. Worst case, he sends you an abusive reply which you can post here so we can mock him. I would hope that even an abusive reply from an English history professor would be well crafted.
Sorry – I thought you were a historian, given our discussion about writing fiction/non-fiction 🙂
Undergrad degree only. Professional
obfuscatorlawyer.I would absolutely contact him. Detail the sources you used and phrase it as a question not a gotcha and I suspect you will get a pleasant response.
Democrats are the feminine party. Republicans are the masculine party.
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
Elizabeth, I’m coming to join you baby!
Fish-eyed fool.
Would it be worth it to contact the author (a history Prof at Cambridge) to query him and ask what he thinks of the disconnect in data?
He might be flattered to know somebody actually read it.
I think I saw the rest of the movie on the Hallmark Channel. Go for it KK!
Good morning Glibs! I’ve been messing with mobile app development lately and was thinking about making an app for Glibs. It would incorporate a lot of the features that you can get through Monocle, push notifications and probably more. Before I give it a shot though, I wanted to gauge how much interest/use there would be
Do it! I’ve toyed with the idea myself, but never got past the investigative stage.
Can I get it without going through Apple or Google stores?
Usually builds like this they can create the package and host on this site if TPTB allow. But you also have to allow unverified app installation on your phone I believe.
I can publish it without going through the Official stores (at least for Android) fairly easily. It will be Android only for now unless someone has a Mac to donate to the cause ;P
“Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place,” Harris concludes, as the video shows the two characters standing on the hill together.
Not shown: mass grave on the other side of the hill.
Just voted. “Emergency” voting, because “Early” voting closed on Friday, or summat. I had to swear (on penalty of perjury!) something about not being able to vote early. Whatevs.
Nice and quiet, in and out the way I like it. Voted to remove every judge, because why not? Turnover in government jobs is a good thing, all things being equal.
Voted for legal pot, because taxes and graft, while hardly optimal, are preferable, IMO, to cages. Voted against a tax increase and new bonds for schools. The local community college has some kind of spending cap that is less than the amount of taxes they are allocated, or something, so they wanted to lift the cap. Good one! No.
Even though I didn’t vote for the sole Libertarian on the ballot (Jo), it was a pretty libertarian ballot – no tax increase (well, other than the one on legal pot, I suppose), no increase in government debt, no increase in government spending, throw the bums out.
What the hell happened to the Greens, anyway? The only Prez candidates on my ballot were Team Red, Team Blue, and Team Losertarian.
The DNC put a hit out on the Greens after 2016. They’ve been embargoed and in their case, nobody gives a shit.
I speculate a deal was cut. The Greens stand down as a party, and the Dems adopt the Green agenda wholesale.
How do we cut that deal with Repubs?
They drop their agenda completely!!!
Kanye write-in, natch.
That’s what I’m doing. If I’m being forced to vote for a crazy person, I’m voting for the craziest Motherfucker.
Will someone rid us of this meddlesome, destructive garden gnome?
“We’re in for a whole lot of hurt. It’s not a good situation,” Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s leading infectious-disease expert, said in a wide-ranging interview late Friday. “All the stars are aligned in the wrong place as you go into the fall and winter season, with people congregating at home indoors. You could not possibly be positioned more poorly.”
Meet the new garden gnome, same as the old garden gnome. I think of Fauci as more of a chipmunk. Sessions was the original garden gnome.
Still not as bad as it could be if Biden wins and we get a monstrous new health bureaucracy, complete with police powers which we will never be rid of.
I thought we were supposed to stay locked in our homes. Is he now saying we should be forced to go outside?
Is anyone else starting to see a heavy push of “We won’t know the winner until days after the election, and anyone who says differently is fake-news?”
My inbox has suddenly been bombarded with this shit. Doesn’t sound like they are optimistic about a fair Biden win.
That’s been the narrative for awhile. All things being equal Trump would be winning in a landslide. But they (Dems) need to muddy the waters to have enough time to procure enough ballots in the right places to swing the election.
Watching the financial channels (CNBC, Fox Business) the narrative has moved to “the markets are up today because they know Biden will win” and “Biden will ‘control’ the virus”
All of the big internet companies have banned any claims of a winner on election night.
Ever heard of anything like that before? Every network said they won’t be calling a winner. (Well not if it is Trump, anyway).
And a democrat analyst issued a report back at the start of the school year that said that it would probably appear that Trump won in a landslide on election day, but after all of the votes are counted and all of the lawsuits are settled, it will be Biden who wins in a landslide. Remember, Biden had a double digit lead at that time, and there were no campaign events to speak of because of the covid. So there should be no reason to suspect such a scenario. Yet that was his prediction and warning.
They have been screaming it from the rooftops for 8 months and for some reason people keep pretending they didn’t hear it.
“Count ALL the votes.” will be the mantra, regardless of whether or not said votes are legitimate.
I suspect that in Broward County there’s a cache of those that will be just enough.
Yeah, we have a very sordid history on that front.
I succumbed and voted early, worrying that some event might occur that prevented me from voting. Most of my friends also voted early – in person. One lady didn’t. White and fairly young – early 30’s. I never saw her as a conservative… or even very political. But we were carving pumpkins with the kids the other night and she said “I’m going to vote on election day. I’m afraid they will find a way to lose my vote if I do anything else. I don’t trust them at all. They are going to try to rig the election, you watch!”
Wow, don’t hold back! I was stunned. I think it was the first political thing I have heard her say, and I’ve known her for at least 7 years.
“I succumbed and voted early, worrying that some event might occur that prevented me from voting.”
Did the same, it was quiet and peaceful. Saw my ballot scanned into the machine with all the right choices, not sure what more you can do at that point.
“They are going to try to rig the election, you watch!”
No doubt, the Proud Boys with their overwhelming numbers are going to shut it down!
I think she was on the Trump bandwagon. I was just surprised she was up on the issues. There is a very real argument for Trump supporters to wait and vote on election day – and not just some fear that their ballot might accidentally get lost in the post.
By voting early, corrupt election officials know exactly how many votes they need to manufacture early on. You are tipping your hand, allowing the other team to take action. If they know they need an additional 20k votes in Florida, they can flood Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties to drive up totals. If they are safe, they can use those resources elsewhere.
It is actually a very sophisticated understanding of election game theory.
Equally surprising as her knowledge of election issues? A super-conservative guy from church was there. Dude has a stick so far up his butt he looks like a puppet walking around.
We all assumed he would be one of those alt-right website guys.
Nope.
Never heard of Burisma. Never heard of Hunter Biden being in Ukraine. I was like “You missed the fact that Trump was impeached over this??” but the wives broke us up before he could respond.
It was astonishing. Dude is a highly paid corporate accountant. And he had no idea bout any of the relevant issues of the day. I suppose I could see not knowing about Biden’s laptop issue, but not knowing about Ukraine? There was an effing impeachment over the thing, for crying out loud!
Strange times we live in.
“why are you here?” is the question that comes to mind for those people who don’t have the first clue what’s going on. Not that you have to be a political junkie to vote, but being informed on a basic level seems like a barebones requirement.
Except for those that were ‘lost’ – can’t trust those.
I realize this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never seen it pushed so heavy. For me at least, this is the first time I’ve received emails about it or seen it as the leading article on the WSJ main page.
I would guess they would tamp the narrative down (while still keeping available) if the confidence in Biden was high. Instead, they’ve tripled down on it right before the election.
My news feed had a headline from the NY Times that was along the lines of: We’ve never known the winner of the election the night it happened. I’m sure that if I clicked through it would be a thoughtful discussion on how the popular vote doesn’t mean anything, and the real presidential election is done by the electoral college.
My news feed had a headline from the NY Times that was along the lines of: We’ve never known the winner of the election the night it happened.
That tells me they think Trump has the edge, and the Dems are likely to need cover for post-election challenges/shenanigans.
I don’t recall any hesitancy in announcing that Obama won. Or even Trump last time. It was their website I checked election night that called it for Trump.
Repeating my prediction from last week:
Trump rides the red mirage to victory on Tuesday
Biden leaps to the lead based upon late ballots (absentee and mail-in)
Everyone sues everyone
SCOTUS rules 5-4 (Roberts on the losing side) that Trump is Prez
Blue cities go up in flames.
This story was everywhere.
It is not true.
We have always known election night.
We didn’t know in 2000. That’s it.
Bonus, in 2000 all of the networks called it for Gore the second the polls closed on the east coast, in an attempt to suppress the vote of Republicans across the rest of the country. So not only were they not hesitant to call it that year, they intentionally lied about it. They called Florida before the polls even closed in the panhandle (central time). They also said Georgia was “too close to call”, which shows what a resounding victory Gore was headed for. Georgia went Bush 60/40. They were lying. You can miss 55/45 and say it was 52/48 and too close to call. You can’t miss 60/40.
They are being pedantic in that thinking. Technically they are right, we never know the winner of the election the night it happens, that we learn once the electors are counted. They are playing games with that to provide the cover as RC states above.
It sounds like there will be a coordinated embargo on calling the election tomorrow night. That is frightening.
Unless, one assumes, Harris/Biden wins.
I wonder how many news organizations are going to suppress calling a state for Trump and immediately calling another for Biden.
“We don’t have a crystal ball, but when Trump spokesman Jason Miller said “We will be over 290 electoral votes on Election Night,” it’s important to note that’s impossible: Electoral votes aren’t cast until Dec. 14 and won’t be counted until Jan. 6.” -Politifact Fact Check. Its their new narrative.
In addition to battlespace prep for post-election counting shenanigans, its also battlespace prep for flipping Trump electors.
One shudders to imagine what the Dems would be willing to threaten or do to flip a Trump elector.
So, we all heard about Trump Flag Waving Trucks surrounding a Biden tour bus that didn’t have a Biden in it and nothing else happened. That requires FBI attention and is covered as if it is newsworthy by every network.
No, I’m not going to mention the story that they won’t cover that clearly demonstrates that Biden has been on the take.
I’m going to mention a story that you know nothing about. Because it isn’t covered. Ever.
A buddy of mine texted me about a truck rally in Richmond VA on Saturday. His college roommate went. Hundreds, maybe thousands of trucks, apparently. They went to drive through Richmond and down the main drag. They were attacked by a bunch of Biden/Harris people. They broke out windows, dented trucks… at one point he says a big black dude started punching a driver through his broken driver’s side window, and a bunch of guys got out of other trucks and kicked his butt until he ran off. I suppose we would have seen that part had it been caught on video.
So they turned around at Monument Avenue and left the city, lest someone get hurt.
But, you know, a bus that said the word Biden on the side got harassed by trump emblazoned pickups that honked their horns. So that’s a big story.
Local coverage
Lots of finger-pointing going on
I am so happy that we live in a world where wearing a hat that says Trump or MAGA on it is a provocation justifying a violent response. And we live in a world where one political faction can own a city and anyone from an opposing viewpoint who dares show their face in that city “came down here to instigate a confrontation”.
That’s pretty much every conservative or right wing rally in Portland for the past 3-4 years.
Covered here.
Complete with passive voice suggesting the Trump people started the altercation.
“We talked to the BLM crowd and they said that they were attacked”
Nice reporting. At least he got actual sources instead of making stuff up.
I also love the girl who claims she was pepper sprayed by someone in a car. No follow up question there? No reason to ask why? No reason to ask how you happened to be close enough for pepper spray to hit you from a car? I suppose you could have bear mace that has a range of maybe 35 feet. But if you weren’t attacking the people in the cars, would you really be closer than 30 feet?
Also fantastic, the dude who claims he avoided being run over by jumping on a hood. No follow up? No question about what he was doing at the time? No question about how he “narrowly escaped being run over” when traffic was moving at 5-10 mph?
Fantastic reporting by a remarkably incurious press.
“We talked to the BLM crowd and they said that they were attacked”
#BelieveAllcommies
At least the reporter is identifying them as leftist protesters. Usually they write up a hardcore antifa radical as “concerned local citizen and educator who is nice and peaceful”
Joe Biden Finally Talks Gun Control
He has been for awhile, except during this stage of the election.
It’s long past time we take action to end the scourge of gun violence in America.
As president, I’ll ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, implement universal background checks, and enact other common-sense reforms to end our gun violence epidemic.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 1, 2020
Great messaging for the final push. I though you guys knew better than that.
Quite telling that he and Kamala decided to actually present their platform this late in the game. Kamala is straight up talking about communism and Joe is now straight up talking about gun control.
And a lot of people, even around here, are sure they will win, maybe win big.
If that happens after they ran the worst campaign in history and despite Biden being senile and Camela being an outright non-apologetic commie, Biden talking about banning guns and saying he’s going to lock the entire nation in their homes, we are totally fucked.
I don’t think there’s any way to save a country that fucking dumb, no matter how much wealth there is to steal. Hello Venezuela do Norte.
So many early votes have been cast, its unlikely to have any effect on the outcome. If they win, though, they can say they ran on it, so its totes legitimate that they ram it through.
Yeah that is the telling part. Now that they got their useful idiots to vote a month ago or whatever the time frame was, they can A: release their platform to the socials and openly talk about it.
It could be their internal polls have them optimistic and they just want to ensure turn out.
This just in…. Lindsey Graham is full of crap. And so is Durham.
Based on just what I know off the top of my head from public documents and public statements, there’s plenty there for indictments to have been flowing.
But they let the lynchpin guy off the hook. They could have leveraged the lawyer who forged an email to get a warrant. Properly motivated prosecutors would have puffed that up into a life sentence hanging over his head. Instead they let him go without even an admission of guilt in his guilty plea.
That’s all you need to know. They have no intention of holding anyone accountable. And if Trump loses, you can damned well bet that no career prosecutor is taking this case up.
Yup. When you start your investigation by announcing that under no circumstances will you indict the guy who heads the organization you are investigating, it kinda gives the game away.
Based on everything we publicly know – particularly the new stuff that broke from the Flynn discovery documents in the last several weeks – Obama and Biden should be in line for charges.
For those who do not follow these things, as a part of Flynn’s discovery, a new document was produced that showed that CIA director Brennan briefed Obama on a plan by Hillary Clinton back in the summer of 2016. She intended to manufacture a story that Trump was in bed with the Russians and use that against him.
The Obama administration immediately began spying on Trump, claiming that they had “High level intelligence that the Russians were trying to infiltrate the campaign”. We now know that this was a lie, it was a lie that was directly tied to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, and that Obama knew that it was a lie directly tied to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Remember “what did the president know, and when did he know it?” Well, we now know. The president knew from the beginning and he approved the whole thing.
Heck, with just what we know about the prosecution of Flynn, they should all be up on charges. Obama and Biden personally directed the plot to frame Flynn and prosecute him for lying to investigators. We have it in handwritten notes from at least to senior officials who were present at the meeting when it was decided and the orders were given.
This It is the more corrupt scheme in the history of the united states. Even if evidence came out that LBJ did in fact work with the mob to dispose of JFK, these actions by the part of our betters are almost more incredible. The entirety of the Federal government engaged in a plot to upend the united states constitution, of which they are bound by threat of treason and thus death, in order to bestow upon their lackey the most powerful position of power in the entire world…. How the FUCK is this not THE news? This isn’t a conspiracy theory like 911 or JFK. This has actually happened, has been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt. And yet, here we are, talking incessantly about maskless trump rallies and cases of the cold.
My comments above about 2020 not being that extraordinary still stand because this took place in 2016 :P.
The public needed a show investigation, and got one.
Some further info on the new UK lockdowns which I came across this morning…
Before going into that, I should note that the rules which previously were in force were ridiculous. The government allowed attendance at theaters and concert halls. They did not, however, allow attendance at elite sports. When it came to football, this meant the top 6 tiers of the English system. The games could be played but no fans. Ostensibly, this was because they feared close contact among fans when they traveled to the ground. So, people who go to the opera can travel safely but not football fans (a mentality which I think is indicative of the class issues still prevalent in English society). But what makes this particularly obtuse is extending it down to the top tiers of non-league football (National League, National League North and National League South). Most of the teams in NLN and NLS are part-time teams with small fan bases. Although small, it’s fan attendance that keeps them in business. And most of these teams play in front of crowds which come nowhere close to filling stadiums. Torquay United, for example, has a 6500 seat stadium but a good attendance day for them would be 2000. Now, below elite level, fans were allowed. Which meant small community clubs who could not possibly afford to test players or fans or sanitize stadiums had fans.
Under the new rules, elite sports can continue but grassroots sports are still being discussed. However, the first round of the FA Cup is coming this Saturday and the government has already said that the 10 non-elite teams can play their games regardless of whether or not other non-elite sports are banned again. The government has also declared driving ranges, golf courses, and outdoor tennis courts must be closed. But you can go for a walk in the park. So, if you want to stand on a driving range you can’t. But if you want to attend a football match with 300 people you can. And you can’t walk on a golf course but you can walk in a park.
The inconsistency is maddening. Not to mention there was a week between the announcement and the implementation. If things were that bad, everything should have been shut down immediately.
Just consider it’s all politics and the people making these rules are not the sharpest tools.
Government edict inconsistency? Get out!
*cue mental images of the Hillsborough Opera House disaster in formal wear or opera fans getting travel bans for hooliganism in foreign countries*
Constitution is Suppression
So woke, many brave.
And?
Since 1988, Republicans have won the popular vote in a presidential election just once, in 2004. Their future depends on suppressing your vote. Don’t let them.
Did the democrats win the popular vote anytime either? Usually they get like 49% not 51% due to third parties. I think Clinton1 got like 37% of the popular vote or something dumb.
Sorry, BO did get the popular vote, but Clinton(either of them) never did.
Yep, popular vote elections would lead to the House deciding almost every election.
Here’s an article at RCP discussing the real (although rather unlikely) possibility of a tie result tomorrow. Since 2020 has been a crazy year, nothing is off the table. Worst case scenario is Pelosi as acting president, but it is also a possibility that the Senate decides for a return to normalcy and makes Pence acting president. Actually, worst case scenario is a faithless elector swings the election, cause that would more than anything else make the winner illegitimate in most eyes.
That would be totally legitimate and perfectly in line with the will of the Founders.
While an independent electoral college is perfectly in line with the will of the Founders, all electors who attend in the present time have pledged how they will vote beforehand, and breaking a pledge will not sit well with the people who the pledge was made to (nor should it). Faithless voting is perfectly legal, but not legitimate, at least in the sense of legitimizing the results.
Technically, I believe some states have made it illegal, or punishable, although it doesn’t negate their votes.
For some reason, I thought the voting on a tie happened in the lame duck, not after the new Congress was sworn in. Yikes.
Can you imagine the pressure/bribes to get an elector to go faithless and switch their vote to break the tie?
That is easy to prevent. If you are sure your candidate will win in the House, then have enough of your candidates go 3rd party faithless and prevent a rogue from flipping the election.
Heck, if I were the democrats, you could throw enough votes behind someone you think the anti-Trump republicans might support over Trump and that the Ds would be happy with and win in the House.
electors, not candidates.
Lets say we have a 269-269 tie and there is worry that a Trump elector or three will flip to Biden. In response, find a dozen Trump electors willing to vote for someone else instead, so that the faithless electors arent enough to throw the election and it still goes to the House.
I think Trump wins in the House barring a D landslide, which wont result in a tie anyway. Of course, it would be funny if that 3rd candidate won.
the Ds would be happy with and win in the House
How do you figure – the House vote is 1 per state – and as I recall there are more Republican led House delegations than Democrat (currently 26 to 23 with MI dead even). Now, the Dems could flip a couple of the single-district states, but those are probably the least likely.
Like I said, they would have to pick someone that could peel off some R states, which might mean picking a squish republican or something.
President Susan Collins?
We already are at the worst case scenario, and we have John Roberts to thank for it.
The supreme court decided to punt on deciding key questions in battleground states like Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania had a court decide that they could arbitrarily change state election law on their own nickel. The law says that ballots must be postmarked and must have a matching signature. The state court said, “no, you have to count them unless you have ironclad proof that they were not sent by election day”. So there will be 3 days of off-the-books voting in Pennsylvania. 3 days for DNC operatives to collect “unpostmarked” ballots.
Why is this the worst case scenario?
Because it means that we will know what those illegal votes mean before the court decides. So instead of deciding a legal issue – namely “can the pennsylvania court directly contradict state law in a federal election?”, the court will be deciding “which way should this state’s vote swing? They will be choosing between Trump and Biden, directly.
So unless this is rendered moot by a clear and convincing result, we will have an illegitimate president, no matter what happens.
So great job, Roberts.
3 days for DNC operatives to collect “unpostmarked” ballots.
I am quite confident they already have them ready to drop, and are just waiting to see how many they need.
That is the entire point that everyone on the “it never happens” train seem to be intentionally avoiding. Allowing post-election voting is not just an opportunity for election fraud… it practically guarantees it.
Strange that having an ID and presenting yourself at the polling place on election day is standard fare everwhere else in the world, but here it is “disenfranchising minorities”.
preliminary results of my dinner experiment: grating fresh ginger on a pork chop is correlated with the pork chop having a ginger taste. Being just one data point I am unsure if causality can be established.
Holy shit, this is just fucking scary to me. And they blame the bad orange guy for COVID deaths.
“In announcing her departure, Raven Rodriguez had said there is an “oppressive status quo” at the School of Nursing, and that “no title or salary imaginable” was worth continuing to deal with the racism there.”
Try me.
I’m confused. On the one hand, they’re saying that black-specific conditions are not addressed and on the other they’re saying they feel picked on when black-specific conditions are addressed.
The fact that blacks and women have historically been left out of medical studies because doctors thought white male conditions were the default is well known. Women’s heart disease research, for example, is just coming into its own because it was only a few years ago that science “discovered” that heart disease/myocardial infarctions manifested differently in women and is a lot more prevalent than previously thought. Heart disease has always been a “man’s disease.” Um…no. HD kills more women than all cancers (including breast cancer) (which is a racket) combined.
Why yes, HD is my hobby horse. Why do you ask?
Heads they win, tails you lose, Mojeaux. Do you even diversity and inclusion?
*hangs head in shame*
(including breast cancer) (which is a racket)
And also applicable to your overall theme, isn’t limited to women either.
Some diseases make more money than others, that is true.
+1 Shaft
“Various students complained that a professor who noted that blacks are at higher risk of hypertension is an example of “anti-black rhetoric.””
Wtf, we hear this all the time from black activists. And it’s whitey’s fault for causing blacks stress through systemic racism.
Yes, but by being a white male of privilege he was abusing his minority students by saying hatefacts- thus perpetuating their high blood pressure in an effort to traumatize them.
Look, the only solution is for all whites to quit and let blacks have their
jobssalaries. The whites can keep working to make up for slavery, but they don’t get paid.One of our Glibs posted his experience at the VA last week where some nurse was giving him shit about “your President”.
Imagine if you pissed off some leftist nutjob nurse in the hospital by watching Tucker Carlson and she decided you could wait to drink water or get your pain meds.
That will become known as protocol in a couple of years if Fox News is even allowed to continue as currently constituted. We’ll see Murdoch’s kids are going to turn it into MSNBC given the chance, doubt Tucker or some of the more interesting people will even be there in the next 5 years.
I ‘member, years ago, when I first started commenting on TOS and Tucker was on CNN I labeled him libertarian, because at the time that’s what he referred to himself as, and someone jumped down my throat. Now he’s too far left for me and you lot praise him all day long. Why can’t I ever libertarian right?
I don’t particularly care for Tucker at all. But he’s still one of the better people on cable, I know high bar.
There’s always OANN (which I have never seen, as it isn’t on my cable package last I checked).
OANNanism is a sin.
Sure, if you find Fox to close to MSNBC, then jump right on over there. [No I haven’t watched, but I’ve gotten some references from my SIL.]
They have ridiculously hot talking heads. Just turn down the volume if it gets too right wing for you.
Tucker, Hannity and Ingraham will be on newsmax or OAN within 2 years. Or some new station. Or in the camps.
Shit like this makes me literally angry with rage. It’s just so. damn. stupid…
Ask anyone who ever worked in military medicine how they feel about nurses – it’s like pretending chefs are scientists.
But I learned from TV hospital shows that nurses actually do everything and the doctors are dumb sex fiends
*ponders*
Not entirely wrong, in my experience.
White people are more prone to skin cancer. The sun is one big anti-racist baby (in astrological time).
We are living in the middle of a religious reformation. We live in a radically antiintellectual society in which an outsized portion of the population thinks they can live comfortably working from home and that food and power will just magically keep being pumped into their home. They feel free to criticize anyone not able to work from home as selfish retards. Everyone buy belts because you’ll need to beable to tighten your pants for the next several years at least if we are lucky.
One of my covid insane prob friends says just get a grant if your business is closed.
Sounds like Yale (like Princeton) needs a DoE investigation good and hard.
Grasping at straws
Why Clarence Thomas is a clear-cut case for impeachment from the Supreme Court
Thomas should be impeached on charges of perjury for allegedly lying in his annual financial disclosure statements for over a decade and, more fundamentally, for lying in his 1991 confirmation hearing about his disgusting history of sexual harassment.
Yes, by all means. Get rid of the only decent one on the court.
Financial statements, some bullshit from 1991, whatever works. Why do they hate black folks so much?
He ain’t Black, he’s a House Negro, an Uncle Tom, an Oreo! And only racists would disagree!
I feel like I could wear myself out each day tagging stories as “things that should result in right wing street violence if they come to pass”
Just a good old fashioned low-tech lynching, right?
The reply is easy peasy. Democrats hate Thomas because he’s black.
Biden is obviously going to win, and that’s why stores are being boarded up.
They expect “celebrations”; of the sort seen when the Flyers win the Stanley Cup.
Mostly peaceful celebrations
If Trump wins, riots, if the election’s up in the air, riots, if Biden wins, riots…I feel bad for the people that live in the various riot prone blue areas.
Also, also….
Remember when democrats were worried about big money affecting politics?
And remember how HRC outspent Trump 2:1 and still lost?
What is it going to be this time around, when you total in all of the Soros, Clinton, Obama and DNC machine organizations along with the Biden/DNC campaign?
I know it is running 10:1 here in Florida in terms of what Biden is spending versus what Trump is spending. And the fundraising gulf is vast, and we have Soros and Bloomberg pledging hundreds of millions of their own spending.
I guess we aren’t worried about that this time around……
I think the senate race in SC is going to be interesting. I refused to vote in the race, as I cant stand Lindsay Graham. But his challenger has spent approximately $3000000000000000000 (maybe add a few more zeros). If Graham wins, the money myth is over.
I can see not supporting Graham…..
But just remember… if they win the senate, they are packing the court.
Riots can’t be far behind that sort of behavior.
I already cast my null ballot for that race. No LP candidate. There was a Constitution Party candidate on the ballot, but he dropped out, supported Graham, and Harrison has been buying ads for him (against his will).
So I just left my ballot empty. I thought about voting for myself, but I was afraid I would win.
“Wall Street’s financial support for Biden is more than what Barack Obama received in his two presidential runs combined. It exceeds the amounts raised from Wall Street executives in support of Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 cycles. The total will be less than Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run; she saw just over $87 million from the securities and investment industry.”
I know it’s stupid and cliche to be all MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION EVAR, but I really really don’t want the doddering corpse backed by Wall Street, Big Media, Big Tech, the permanent bureaucracy, the FBI, the CIA, and the violent mobs in the street to get control of the White House.
Mornin’ Banjos.
U.S. Attorney John Durham will release a report on his inquiry into the Russia investigation that will warrant indictments, according to a top Republican senator.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, insisted on Sunday that Durham’s team remains very active even as his investigation has fallen out of the spotlight after it became clear in recent weeks that there would not be any more developments before Election Day.
I’ll believe indictments when I see them.
From the Yale Nursing link:
Professors teaching the “contested theory” that race can be factor when it comes to certain diseases. (One student said “When asked to elaborate, many faculty have replied, ‘I don’t know,’ or even worse, attributed it to differences in metabolism or some other biological difference which we know has no basis because race is a social construct.”)
Yeah, okay.
Somebody deserves a tuition refund.
Race is a social construct, but genetics isnt. There is no genetic way to define a race, but that doesn’t mean there arent strong genetic trends within them.
This is true.
Cycle Cell Anemia is a Social Construct!
3 per 1000 white births have sickle cell anemia. 2.2 per 1000 for asian.
It is over 70 for blacks. Which goes back to my point above.
Race doesn’t exist, but if you don’t factor race into your policies, then you are a racist.
And failing to use representative minorities in your medical studies is racist. But race doesn’t exist.
Everyone really should be reading up on their Orwell right about now. It really is more descriptive than I thought at the time when I read it.
Funniest timeline:
260-269 tie, one faithless elector votes for Biden instead of Trump, and another votes for Faith Spotted Eagle instead of Biden, leading to a 269-268-1 result and it still goes to the House.
Why would the Dems send it to the House (assuming they would win in the House) if they flip a Trump elector to give them the win at the Electoral College?
Our Twitter Masters have decided who is allowed to tweet about the election results: Driving the news: The list includes ABC News, AP, CNN, CBS News, Decision Desk HQ, Fox News and NBC News — all outlets that experts agree have verified, unbiased decision desks calling elections.
That is it. Everyone else gets ‘warnings’ or whatever they do.
XD
Is that real? Why do people keep using twitter? The format is trash, the people are trash, the moderating is trash…
That is what Axios is reporting
https://www.axios.com/twitter-names-7-outlets-to-call-election-results-b89a043d-ed50-4478-8d8a-de27b271ea85.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=email
I don’t use twitter except links from here. Which I should stop because you are correct, it is trash.
“Russian ‘Sausage King’ killed in sauna with a crossbow”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54782634
These things happen.
Was his son a dwarf?
Not Abe Froman.
Business insider has a report about a google user who got locked out of everything for “violating their terms of service”. No explanation of what the violation was. No recourse. Everything gone. Email gone. Files gone. Photos gone.
They claim that there has been a rash of these of late.
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-users-locked-out-after-years-2020-10
a slashdot user conquers…
also, google dictate didn’t know what concur was, and i missed it.
That happened to my daughter, and we’re pretty sure it was due to some malware on her chromebook that somehow got attached to her Google account. Whatever the malware was doing violated the TOS and got her account killed. Not sure if you can get them reinstated, she decided it would be easier to just start a new account.
I had a similar thing happen to me, but it was my Yahoo email. Suddenly, in June, my email was unavailable. When I tried to get access, I was told I had violated their terms of service. I had no idea how I had done so. About the only person I emailed was my wife. I had that account for about 20 years and used it for various online accounts. It was a real pain to switch over the email address to a Gmail account that I rarely used. A couple months later I tested the account and it was working fine again. Never got any warning and never got an explanation as to why it was “terminated” for a couple months. Now my Gmail account is my primary account and the Yahoo is a backup. But my experience and this article is making me uneasy.
That would seem to be a potentially enriching lawsuit for an enterprising attorney firm.
Rick Beato testified about a similar issue in congress last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxLuFx-Sbc&ab_channel=RickBeato
He has a youtube channel that is interesting if you are in to rock music. I check him out from time to time – he does breakdowns of songs and musical tropes – “what makes this song great”. He’ll break down the music theory behind a popular song, explaining things that they layperson misses about how a song is constructed.
He frequently gets demonetized and taken down due to copyright claims. He’s way, way more narrow on his personal definition of “fair use” than I am, but he gives some compelling, if dry, testimony on the topic.
I love his channel!
Reason #426 I don’t use gmail unless forced to by exigent circumstances and have everything forwarded to my real email address.
Yr. 2020 has left me very pessimistic. ChiCom-19 killed the Trump administration. My final prediction: Joe gets more than 300 EC votes and the result will be evident by Wednesday morning, not after all the early votes are counted. Senate swings to 53-47 Dem majority. Dems increase their margin in the House.
No riots. New Tea Party forms by 12/1; Harris administration shits the bed and there is some chance in 2022 they lose both House and Senate. Popcorn futures soar.
I hope you are very wrong.
You are describing a Blue wave election. While the RCP “no tossups” map for President shows Biden with over 330 EC votes, even the RCP “no tossups” map for the Senate shows the Dems gaining three seats for a 50-50 Senate.
Harris administration shits the bed and there is some chance in 2022 they lose both House and Senate
I’m fairly confident that if the Dems sweep the field, they will make election “reforms” at the federal level which will make it very difficult indeed for them to lose control of anything.
A year ago, I would have said they wouldn’t dare go with something that potentially catastrophic. Now, I’m not so sure.
National Vote By Mail Reform Act, everyone gets a ballot sent directly to their house, and people who’s last political thought was put in their head by a leftist schoolteacher check straight ticket Democrat and put the ballot back in the SASE.
Yeah, I think DC statehood is a done deal. Puerto Rico not so much – those folks would have to start paying Federal income tax, so the appetite for statehood will be way reduced.
You’re way too pessimistic.
“Wall Street’s financial support for Biden is more than what Barack Obama received in his two presidential runs combined. It exceeds the amounts raised from Wall Street executives in support of Trump in both the 2016 and 2020 cycles. The total will be less than Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run; she saw just over $87 million from the securities and investment industry.”
Why, just this morning, I read a story about some Wall Street guy who said he was supporting / voting for Biden, “despite the fact that it was clearly not in his best financial interest”.
I got a good chuckle out of that.
I don’t care too much for Fix News but when I clicked on that link, I saw a link for another soty:
POLICE DECLARE UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY IN BEVERLY HILLS AFTER TRUMP SUPPORTERS AND COUNTERPROTESTERS CLASH
Hmmm ‘unlawful assembly’. ‘Unlawful assembly’? That doesn’t sound right. ***checks pocket Constitution” “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
“or the right of the people peaceably to assemble”, Unlawful? Hmmmmmmmm. So, this is a “I feared for my safety” kind of thing, where all a pig has to do is plead cowardice, and the simpering courts will back him up. In this case, it’s “they weren’t assembling peacefully, Your Honor”. And case dismissed.
Damn the lack of an edit button, but you get the gist.
Rational Basis standard of review.