You know what’s great? High velocity dog dryers. The downside, of course, is that wherever you use it on a great pyr, it’s going to look like a half-harvested cotton field.
But, Wonder Dog is at least clean and marginally fluffy so she can meet our visiting Glib dinner guest tomorrow night without being too embarrassed. (OK, she still needs her nails done and her coat trimmed. Neither of us could take any more today. It may or may not happen. Sorry in advance, visiting Glib!)
Golly, isn’t my life glamorous?
Well, let’s see what’s going on out in the world.
Here’s something heartening. My home county’s sheriff isn’t quoted, but I already know the official position there is something akin to “Fuck off, Slaver!” H/T WebDom
On the Danish Mask Study. The author is probably being cancelled as I write. H/T JW (In case you get a subscription pop-up, here’s a pdf)
“We definitely need more stuff.”
But what if it’s just one of those “opposites” nicknames?
It’s a huge blow to science.
Well, as long as people didn’t call you a wimp, it’s all good. Asshole.
Do we have Glibs in Ireland?
And here’s some music.
Have a great afternoon, Glibs!
I wanted to use this First to make a special announcement. I have completed my first book. Part biography, part how-to, The Fundamentals of Firsting : A History of Being First will be coming soon. It comes in at 573 pages. I am shopping it around to various publishers. No responses yet, but it’s only a matter of time.
No one wants to be first to reply.
To your book offer, of course.
573 — is that the number of times you came in second? Joy Reid wants to know.
Critics say Mr. Ward’s schtick lacks staying power and question whether his readership will…last.
It is one thing to be first. It is another thing to be first with calm tits.
When you take a shot at the champ, you better bring more than that.
Several sheriffs in upstate New York say they will ignore Gov. Cuomo’s order to limit Thanksgiving guests
And he is being a cunte about it.
“A lot of police officers don’t wear a mask … well, how are you then supposed to enforce other people wearing a mask when they see you not wearing a mask?” Cuomo asked, the New York Post reported.
“I don’t believe that person is a law enforcement officer,” Cuomo explained.
“I don’t want a law enforcement officer who says, ‘I’m only enforcing the law that I like or think should be enforced.’”
Perhaps it is a value judgement, asshole.
Maybe because it’s not a law at all?
It’s not a law. It’s a diktat or a ukase.
Yeah, they are pretending these are laws.
As are many businesses. Masks required to enter store due to “local ordinances.”
Last week the alternator in my car died and the car got stranded at an intersection partially blocking it. Later a police car arrived and called for a police towing truck. He wasn’t wearing a mask, didn’t care that I wasn’t wearing it either and wasn’t at all afraid to stay much closer than 6 feet from me when we were discussing the situation. That was a week after wearing masks became mandatory outdoors without any exemption for social distancing.
Police towing truck – we no have those here.
It was a normal tow truck but it was on call for several policy departments in the area. Also, it arrived about 15 minutes after the call by the cop. Unlike the tow truck that I requested through my credit card roadside assistance. I ended up waiting five hours for it to arrive–the police tow truck only moved my car off the intersection.
Same thing happened to me last year, dead alternator, high noon, stuck at a major downtown intersection. My “roadside assistance” was going to be 2 hrs+, cops had a tow truck there in 15 mins. only both my insurance and the cops use the same towing company so they at least towed my to the shop and didn’t charge me.
I wasn’t so lucky. I had to pay $108 to the police tow truck for towing my car 30 yards. And I spent six hours from 6pm to midnight on Friday night dealing with it.
No one offered to help push your junk heap out of the way?
People where I live are the best.
The proper response.
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/059/968/690/original/efe82ca97a4f1fa4.jpeg
What about the law enforcement in “sanctuary cities” not following the actual law? This clown wants to restrict things with the boneheaded diktats of a wannabe tyrant, which have no legislative teeth (well in NY and Commiefornia, they would probably jump to codify this crap as law).
Oh, right… FYTW…
If it weren’t for double standards, people like Cuomo would have none.
Dang, I should have refreshed before posting. ?♂️
“I don’t want a law enforcement officer who says, ‘I’m only enforcing the law that I like or think should be enforced.’”
No tyrant wants his myrmidons to question their orders.
I hope that Cuomo accidentally impales himself on a toilet plunger.
“I don’t want a law enforcement officer who says, ‘I’m only enforcing the law that I like or think should be enforced.’”
Isn’t that pretty much how cops operate?
And prosecutors.
Right?! What a maroon.
I’m confused, who is JW?
A blast from the past?
One of Glibs TPTB. Doesn’t post much, but reads.
Johann Weishaupt, father of the illuminati.
SSSHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
Very quiet.
The rat gets it.
Twacking wabbits?
What’s the libertarian position of leaf blowers? All my windows are shut and it’s so loud I can barely think.
I’m no mechanical engineer, but I don’t see why a machine that blows air would need to make that much noise.
1 – Small 4-stroke engines are loud, primarily because they have limited muffler volume and the engine wall thicknesses are insufficient to reduce the noise transmission from the cylinder.
2 – Turbines are loud
I don’t remember them being this loud in the past.
If I wasn’t worried about damaging my ears I would go out there with a decibel meter.
Go out with a suppressed pistol. Much more effective.
Who needs a suppressor? I could fire a .357 magnum and no one would hear it.
I dunno about the libertarian position, but I am agin ’em. They start with that crap here about 0530 in the morning. Everyone in the neighborhood (except us) uses landscaping services.
So, I guess I’m saying it’s all Pud Paisley’s fault!
Hey! We are much more courteous than that. Only time a leaf blower starts before 8am is in commercial areas with no houses.
They are an amazing time saver and have increased productivity more than anything else in the last 20 years.
I love my leaf blower (it’s actually battery powered, so greenies also love me).
But I never really use it for leaf cleanup. I use it after mowing to blow clippings back in the yard, clear sidewalks, and I’m always using it to blow debris back out of the garage.
I don’t mind leaf blowers.
I even like using them. It’s cathartic.
You should start this post with “Dear Editor”.
Dear ZARDOZ…
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN SILENCE LOVING ONE….
Leaf blowers are a wonderful invention but should only be used between say 9 AM and 5 PM.
I find leaf blowers less annoying than people who complain about leaf blowers.
I’m blown away by your comment.
The lawn/snow service for our HOA received strict instructions from our Secretary-Treasurer (me, the guy who cuts the cheques): no leaf blowers, summer or winter, prior to 8 A.M.
Silence ain’t golden; it’s platinum.
I use my pressure washer. Much more effective. Also, I moved where I have no neighbors to speak of.
Maybe it’s a leaf sucker (with collection bag).
The downside, of course, is that wherever you use it on a great pyr, it’s going to look like a half-harvested cotton field.
Relevant
Less than a week after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo instilled an executive order limiting the number of people at Thanksgiving gatherings, several upstate sheriffs say they plan to ignore it.
Good.
“I took no joy in any of this. It didn’t make me feel powerful,” Obama wrote.
“This will hurt me more than it hurts you.”
Or “I didn’t want to do it, but I owed it to them.”
Or “I didn’t want to do it, but I owed it to them.”
In short, the Danish mask study doesn’t answer every question, but it was well done, thoughtful, useful, and what we need more of. I commend Christine Laine, MD, MPH, and her fellow editors at the Annals of Internal Medicine for publishing it. The investigators will not get the praise they deserve, but I will praise them. They are scientists, and there are still a few of us left breathing who can recognize that.
Just what a Nazi would say.
That was a pleasantly even handed article.
FUCK
Gov. Chris Sununu is imposing a statewide mask mandate, starting Friday, in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19 in New Hampshire.
The twitter thread where the Clown Prince justifies what he did. No science, except in the replies where someone links the Danish mask study.
Somebody should sell a mask with the Danish mask study printed on the front of it.
This raises an interesting issue. What happens if people wear inappropriate or offensive masks? Do they get told to remove them and get to run around mask free, or are they asked to leave the premises?
They will be handed a Governor-approved, State-Partner-manufactured, Taxpayer-funded mask and told to comply.
Sadly, I expect that’s the true answer.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnKSTYFW4AANL4J?format=jpg&name=medium
Incoherent angst
More than 800 people between the ages of 16 and 30 expressed their feelings about ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and their growing resentment against older generations who, they say, have failed to be leaders in nearly every country. The Financial Times survey published Tuesday revealed scores of young people are frustrated and angry over student loan debts, pandemic restrictions and the highest-ever recorded rates of 18- to 29-year-olds living with their parents. The survey shows how the brunt of anxiety from low wages and unemployment is felt by young people, while a seemingly uncaring elder generation reaps the benefits of their efforts and youth.
On top of the economic pain, many young respondents said “misguided” people over 40 are often the ones defying public health guidelines and worsening the pandemic.
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The FT survey authors wrote that “these difficulties are translating into growing resentment towards older generations, which are both better off and holding greater political sway.” Feelings of worthlessness, anxiety, anger and even considerations of suicide dominated many of the survey responses. “We are all being blamed for a crisis in leadership,” a 23-year-old French man lamented.
Respondents in the United States, Europe and South Asia said older people are adding insult to injury by not embracing public health regulations. But many people in their mid-twenties said they are fighting back by not following social distancing recommendations. “The [older] people in power have no skin in the game. I refuse to stop enjoying life when no one has a plan,” one Montreal woman said.
“I was very strict when living at home with my older parents, said American Mary Finnegan, 23. “Now, after becoming an alcoholic nun for six months, I will risk COVID for a chance to go on a date again.”
Bless her heart.
Whatever you do, don’t put the blame where it belongs. Do not look behind that curtain.
Whatever you do, don’t put the blame where it belongs. Do not look behind that curtain.
This. A lot of the disaffected youth turn around and double down on the things causing them problems.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think instead of sneering at them, taking the time to meet the younger generations at their level and educate them about concepts like self-ownership is a better strategy.
People happily outsourced parenting to the government. I don’t think they are primed to teach self-responsibility.
“failed to be leaders in nearly every country”
They simultaneously haven’t told us what to do nor have they catered to our every whim. A real failure in leadership.
“‘Did you all watch My Cousin Vinny?’ Sweating Rudy Giuliani presents ‘evidence’ for ‘massive voting fraud’ as hair dye runs down his face – alongside ‘elite legal strike force’ who claim Joe Biden’s win is a Venezuelan plot they uncovered on the internet”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8967203/Rudy-Giuliani-presents-evidence-massive-voting-fraud-bizarre-press-conference.html
WTF??
I didn’t know that grifter had any hair left to dye…
Trump should can Giuliani and put Powell in charge.
I’m pretty sure Colin is a nevertrumper.
That’s some fine editorializing there from the Daily Fail. I didn’t watch but its the content that matters, not the sweating and that other bullshit.
It still looked completely ridiculous.
^^^
I watched it, only good part was how Rudy and some other lady ripped apart the media while they all just sat there and took it.
Evidence they brought up is pretty much the same stuff ive been getting ffom the Gateway Pundit.
I don’t understand why no evidence can be given.
If there were any, though, I would not allow the media to present it. Put up a website with all the information on there.
Another lawyer, Jenna Ellis, also lectured the press, who were forced to sit silently for an hour of presentations in a cramped room where none of the speakers wore masks as the pandemic reached record levels.
Ok, If you are debunking something nonsensical you respond to the argument. If you are attempting to discredit something you cannot debunk you attack the speaker. Much as I dislike Giuliani articles like this tend to make me more likely to believe his claims.
It is the daily mail. The published that Ivankas farts was a scandal yesterday. I don’t think the traffic in honesty and good faith.
needs more Ys, They help…
Danish Mask Study.
Kinda difficult to eat one of those with a mask on.
*narrows gaze*
She said the mask tickles too much…
“Two boys describe how they were abducted by men then tortured for ten hours, raped and buried alive in a Swedish cemetery looking like they’d ‘showered in blood’ before finally escaping
Two men, aged 21 and 18, have been arrested over the assault. Police have not yet identified the pair.
On Thursday, police released the findings of their investigation along with the first images of the scene and the attackers which were published by Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Images of the accused were pixellated by police.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8966591/Two-boys-night-terror-hands-two-kidnappers-Sweden.html
Gosh, I wonder what they could be hiding.
Sven and Ole are notoriously camera shy.
In some countries they don’t release full names or pictures until after the trial, and maybe only in the case of a conviction. It helps preserve the presumption of innocence and actually is not a bad idea.
How can the press predetermine guilt and innocence then?
If applied equally, it is a good idea.
Boys with a dragon tattoo?
If you really don’t want to look like a wimp, you just stand up for yourself a do what you believe to be right.
Bingo. That is a concept Obama has zero grasp of.
Suspect nicknamed ‘Psycho’ wanted after 3 sets of human remains discovered in Colorado
First name, “American”?
But, Wonder Dog is at least clean and marginally fluffy so she can meet our visiting Glib dinner guest tomorrow night without being too embarrassed.
I admit, I am not a dog person, so I may be utterly ignorant, but I did not think that embarrassment was an emotion dogs were capable of feeling. They always strike me as the most shameless, blissfully ignorant creatures there are.
Oh no, they are completely capable of both shame and pride. It goes hand-in-paw with them being social creatures with a developed theory of the mind.
Good to know.
It goes hand-in-paw with them being social creatures with a developed theory of the mind.
So dogs are more advanced than we are?
I have yet to see a dog with a muzzle on in 2020.
I had a beagle that would go to the corner of a room and face the wall when he felt like he did something that would get him punished.
These lads got around Ireland’s Covid restrictions by booking cheap flights and then just drinking at the airport
What self-respecting Irishman drinks Coors?
“Don’t make masks more political than they have become! Experts on twitter do not realize what they are doing.”
Lol! Yeah right. They know precisely what they’re doing.
Obama said he couldn’t afford to look soft on terrorism as a ‘liberal president,’ but that he ‘took no joy’ in ordering people killed
And giving all that cash to Iran to help fight terrorism.
And everyone gave him a pass on being the murder drone President. The Democrats love war as much as the GOP but at least the GOP admits that they have a war boner.
They both view war as a profitable spectator sport. The difference is that the GOP roots for the USA, the Dems root for whomever the opponent is.
What? A legislature taking back their power from the governor? That would be a DISASTER!
Tar and feather would be more appropriate
And the bill passed. Assuming DeWine (Cunte – OH) vetoes, if the state senators vote the same way, they can override it. If one of them flips, the veto stands.
I propose a Bill to Increase the Load Limit of Lampost Crossmembers.
I am in the middle of yet another plea to my legislator to actually do their job in which I will get a ‘thank you for writting…as you know we are the greatest democracy in the world” bullshit.
But I at least aired my grievance and can still do that.
Baffling
It will likely be months until pollsters can study this year’s misses thoroughly (a comprehensive study came roughly six months after the 2016 election). However, for now, pollsters have some educated guesses about what may have thrown polls off.
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Importantly, not only did polls underestimate Trump’s performance in the presidential race, but they also appear to have underestimated Republicans in congressional races.
One telling statistic: Of the seats that were considered “toss-ups” by the Cook Political Report, which NPR often references, every single one that has been called by The Associated Press so far has gone to a Republican. Not only that, but nearly one-third of “lean Democratic” House races ended up going to Republicans, whereas every “lean Republican” seat thus far has gone Republican.
Stupid voters.
So much re-education to do, so little time.
It can literally be dangerous – at least to your career – to tell someone you’re voting Republican.
You’re welcome, pollsters.
Wow the comments are just wonderful. They don’t even realize this is all propaganda.
https://youtu.be/GrNPCyj0M0s
JFC, that’s like something straight out of the Stalinist Soviet Union.
She could have made a tik tok.
What is that sound? Credibility, decency, patriotic, Leader!! President Elect Biden!!??
If you say so…
Almost as credible as the East German communist government calling the Berlin Wall an “antifascist bulwark” to protect the “socialist people’s paradise” from outside evil wreckers.
That, to me, is the most galling thing. Biden has a similarly low character to Trump, and yet his sycophants go around proclaiming he is some sort of model of morality? GTFO.
Consider that to them, he may be a moral person. I don’t consult progressives on issues of morality because of this.
I get that different people have different moral systems and different standards, but Biden seems to be immoral in the same way that Trump is immoral, which is what is causing me frustration. Trump is bad because he’s authoritarian, a liar, a creep, and has said stuff that could be seen as racist, but Biden is good, even though he’s authoritarian, a liar, a creep, and has said stuff that could be seen as racist – I just don’t get the dichotomy.
I mean in the sense that I don’t think those people are good people, not moral relativism.
Maybe I’m just not empathetic enough, but I don’t understand why the Dem supporters keep harping on empathy. Empathy tends to lead to bad decisions.
Democrats may talk about empathy, but apparently they don’t seem to understand it or show much capacity for it.
They are good at finding sob stories and leveraging those to make bad laws.
I recently read a book called Against Empathy where the author said this is one of the reasons empathy can be bad.
Same as their festishization of “democracy”. They talk about it a lot, but exhibit no understanding of it.
It’s just a Good Word, like “racism” is a Bad Word, stripped of all real meaning.
“Happy #InternationalMensDay to all the male allies around the world who support women, defy gender roles, fight gender-based violence & stand up for equality.
@UN_Women invites everyone, everywhere, to support #GenerationEquality. https://unwomen.org/en”
https://twitter.com/UN/status/1329441047940898817
CWAA
I thought International Mens Day was the day we were all supposed to wear something from International Male.
I think I had that issue.
who support women
Financially?
Otto Titzling!
Of course they make it about them.
Get your own fucking day. Jesus.
In Somber Press Conference, Governor Newsom Announces COVID Has Killed Santa
A Bad Sign? Trump Holds Blowout Clearance Sale On MAGA Hats
All features, no bugs.
Amazon: profit up 100%
Walmart: profit up 80%
Target: profit up 80%
Lowe’s: profit up 74%
Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google: stock at record high
Small businesses: 21% closed; revenue for rest down 30%. They’re gonna go extinct in the lockdown without help.
https://mobile.twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1329277596685709315
The small neighborhood Hardware Hank’s was cleaning up last spring because they didn’t make you wear a mask inside. All the big boxes were. Then the gov put in place the mandatory mask edict to force everyone to kowtow to the Karens.
I am as guilty as anyone. Now that I have to wear the facemask, I go to the big box because they have better selection and prices. But when I had the choice, I chose Hardware Hanks.
My guess is the big box guys were as happy as pigs when everyone was forced to have mask rules.
This is a hard thing for me: I have no issue with companies becoming wildly successful.
Yet we see these large companies being able to weather these regulatory storms in part because they lobby for (or at least don’t lobby against) those restrictions, knowing they have the economies of scale to handle it, thus pushing out small competition, not from market choice, but gov’t diktat.
I don’t know what an ideal solution would be, other than the obvious lowering of gov’t power in the marketplace.
There is only 1 possible solution and you nailed it.
Yup, that’s how it works.
They’re gonna go extinct in the lockdown without help.
And any monetary support would ultimately be a shell-game, as it would come at the expense of higher taxes (most likely levied against businesses) or greater inflation (again, a bad thing for business). Ending the lockdowns is the only true help.
I try pointing this out the progs who just love themselves some local businesses, but to no avail.
Progs are now the party of corporate oligarchs and war in the Middle East.
The Democrats love war as much as the GOP but at least the GOP admits that they have a war boner.
The shameful selfdeception makes it extra titillating.
Well, as long as people didn’t call you a wimp, it’s all good. Asshole.
And yet, he comes off looking like a wimp. Killing terrorists because you believe it is the right thing to do, or not killing terrorists because you don’t think it’s the right thing to do, both of those are stronger positions than killing terrorists while thinking you’d rather not but you think it’s a good look for your reputation.
Buzzfeed acquired Huffpost? HAHAHAHAHA.
Now that’s sad, being so lousy that you get bought by Buzzfeed.
Sad that the great Glibs Buyout and skinsuiting of Huffpo isn’t going to happen.
Just to prove that I do read the linx sometimes…
What is the deal with saying you like “High velocity dog dryers” but the link goes to a page of ” High velocity dog grooming blowers”
If you had one of the latter instead of the former, I bet OMWC would be shampooing WonderDog every day.
Would a 4 stroke leaf blower work? It would have to be a particularly loud one, I believe. Optimum dog-blowing hours are between 0530 and 0700.
https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1329433143280095241
OFFS!!
SA Police News.
Do they wear brown shirts?
So you’re saying there’s a chance.
“The clock is a double-edged sword in this election because if they don’t have enough time but if they can put forward a sufficiently strong case then they may be able to get some Republican secretaries of states or legislatures to say, ‘Look, we just don’t have enough time to certify these electors’ and if they can bring down the number of electors, 35 [to] 37, from the 305 and bring it down to 267 or 268 then the election goes to the House, where the Republicans win,” he explained.
Then somebody better get to releasing the goddamn Kraken.
The Dominion theory is just not real though. Otherwise the Georgia recount would show it.
This thing looks over.
Is the GA recount a hand recount of paper ballots? My understanding is it is the SoS doing a non-manual audit, not recount, of how the SoS handled the election, and concluding they did GREAT!
yup. hand recount.
GA is doing some weird things. Hand counting but not allowing challenges to ballots. And not reporting results until they are all funneled through the Secretary of State who has already said Biden is going to win.
I honestly have not been following. Did they do a full recount?
I don’t buy the Dominion theory because it seems so easy to uncover if looked at.
Well, if the people who would be charged with uncovering wrongdoing are the wrongdoers, it seems like a low risk endeavor.
Hand counts would have nothing to do with software tabulation cheats.
The software that tabulates votes scans the paper ballot already printed.
If it were cheating by altering counts via software a hand recount would prove it. We are hours away from officially debunking the Dominion theory.
Devils Advocate and really far down a rabbit hole – but lets say zealots on the ground had to switch or knew what the software numbers switched were, are we verifying the ballots to be eligible or are all ballots at this point deemed eligible?
Precinct A flips 5000 votes for candidate A – poll watchers know how many are flipped, produce 5000 ballots to make up for that count/glitch/fraud/whatever.
Not saying that is what is happening at all. Just that mail in ballots with no verification allow for that sort of thing in my opinion.
Who is going to uncover it. Tge FBI that sat on the info for years that Hillary invented the whole Russia story? The FBI that sat on Hunters laptop for a year?
I love my leaf blower (it’s actually battery powered, so greenies also love me).
But I never really use it for leaf cleanup. I use it after mowing to blow clippings back in the yard, clear sidewalks, and I’m always using it to blow debris back out of the garage.
You can dry your dog with it, too.
We joke about this, but…
A construction worker who died after plunging from a 10-foot ladder in Croatia was actually killed by the coronavirus, doctors said in a report.
The unnamed 51-year-old man fell into a yard while building a home earlier this year and suffered cuts and bruises to his head, according to the Journal of Forensic Pathology.
The builder was declared dead at the scene, but an autopsy later revealed that COVID-19 had indirectly caused the accident because effects of the illness were disorienting, the journal notes.
During the autopsy, doctors found that large swaths of the man’s lungs were blocked. The finding led scientists to conclude that he suffered from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) — a life-threatening condition that can be caused by COVID-19.
We had a local guy die the same way. At the time it doubled our count covid death count from 1 to 2. That made a lot of people suspicious.
Meh, falling ten feet isn’t likely to kill you, could be that he fell because he was having some other problem, like people who have a heart attack while driving and crash, you’d say the heart attack killed them not the car crash. Now whether the other problem was ‘vid related or not is a different question.
No I wouldn’t. Just like I don’t say that booze or putting on makeup killed someone when they crash their car.
Seriously? 10 feet and landing on your head is plenty to kill you. 6 feet is enough to kill you if you hit your head.
I’m going to state without evidence that the survival rate of falling ten feet is better than the survival rate of catching the ‘Rona.
Depends. People survive heart attacks and car crashes. Some kind of forensic analysis would be needed.
Trump Team Press Conference
https://youtu.be/buQCdCSDWQQ
I watched the whole conference and have to say this is very damning, country breaking shit if true. And they’ve presented a compelling case. This isn’t the vague Russian fever dreams. A detailed plan has been laid out and corroborated by hundreds of sworn affidavits, including Democrats and a Dominion employee whistle-blower who helped design the ability of the ballot machine to fabricate numbers. Powell confirmed the raid on the data server in Germany, something we all thought was a conspiracy theory, did actually occur. Most of the evidence remains to be presented in court and I will hold final belief on seeing it, but I don’t get the feeling this is all a bluff. These are serious and well supported allegations that deserve a fair hearing.
The argument is basically this:
-Every state in this country has been using electronic ballot machines where the count is altered according to a preset algorithm (weighted to the Dem). The capability of the Dominion machines to do this is documented in the user manual, brought up as past concerns by prominent Dems, and stated by the whistle-blower. They are machines designed to steal elections.
-The weighted the algorithm according to the polling data. After it became clear that Trump was gaining enough votes in swing states to beat even the preset weighting, those swing states shut down counting. Fake ballots… 100% for Biden… were brought in using coolers, wagons, etc and fed into the machines. Each ballot was often triple fed. Again, all stated in sworn affidavits, including by Dem counters. Ballot counts were also altered electronically.
-After false ballots were fed through to give Biden the lead, the algorithm was changed to bypass weighting and just assign the same vote proportion (different in each swing state but roughly 50.5 Biden vs. 49.5 Trump) for every single additional batch of ballots.
Sounds fantastical
It sounds less fantastical than what the Obama administration and the deep state did to the Trump team in 2015-19.
Georgia uses Dominion. Georgia just did a recount.
There was not a huge difference.
It looks like they are hand counting all paper ballots, so the Dominion allegations are either going to be disproven, or all hell is gonna break loose.
It’s over. The ballots have been counted.
I’m seeing very different info than you on Georgia’s recount. We’ll see what happens.
Powell confirmed the raid on the data server in Germany
How did she confirm this?
She texted back a “C”?
She acknowledged it happened. You can believe her confirmation or not.
You and I have vastly different definitions of confirm apparently.
That’s a bit much Hyp. You’ve never heard confirm used as acknowledgement or corroboration (Jess confirmed they still had the item in stock?).
Yes, but Jess is usually someone who would have direct knowledge of whatever is in question. Unless I am missing something I don’t see how Trumps lawyer could have that kind of knowledge. She may have confirmed that someone else told her about it or that she personally believes it but that’s not confirmation of the underlying issue. Much like if Jess from you’re example didn’t actually go back to the stock room and see said item with his own eyes but relied on Randy to check or worse yet the computer inventory.
Well, it was a government agency that supposedly did the raid yes? Trump is still president and should have access to such raids yes? So a confirmation could be seen as direct knowledge in this situation…taking for valid reports of government agents of course.
Who knows at this point really. Like a officer involved shooting, this needs wide berth to wait for information that comes out in court.
If we stop voting and start expressing our political wishes with helicopters and lampposts, it avoids a lot of this sort of uncertainty.
She acknowledged it but also said she didnt know who took possesion of the servers–good guys or bad guys.
Rudy had some shit-eating grin on his face when she said that.
Who knows why. Maybe just drunk.
I can believe that. Even if we don’t descend into a red versus blue civil war, I could picture different factions in the swamp going to war against each other late Rome style.
Gateway Pundit. Keep up, man.
Wisconsin and Michigan are where this will really get fun. A lot of MI precincts will get tossed out if they recount because ballot counts are way below vote counts. If they start recounting there you’ll see a freak out.
WI and MI do not have enough EC votes to flip the election back to Trump. Massive cheating discovered there, however, would be … interesting.
Even if these recounts don’t change the results, it’s good to chase down these allegations. If they turn out to be true but insufficient to change the results it will be fun to watch the Dems say, sure we cheated, but not THAT much.
Already seen it with the “There is no widespread fraud!” bullshit.
I posted this morning I believe. Local rag ran article stating “NO FRAUD!” but a week before, local rag op-ed ran a report they submitted successfully 8 separate ballots, with forged signatures, and the system accepted all of them as verified.
That is fraud. Maybe not intentional, but it muddies the waters.
What this democracy needs is some good old fashioned iron fisted despotism
President-elect Joe Biden’s team is discussing ways to persuade resistant Republican governors to get on board with mandating masks to stop the spread of Covid-19, according to sources familiar with those conversations.
The Biden transition team is treading lightly so far, saying little about how the incoming administration plans to address what is likely to be among the first tests of Biden’s ability to bridge political divides and find consensus.
Before engaging with any of the 13 Republican governors who have yet to pass statewide mask mandates, sources say the Biden team is reaching out to more amenable governors — including holding staff level meetings with Republican Larry Hogan of Maryland, who was an early adopter of mask mandates and other preventive measures.
Another option under consideration is using economic incentives, which would likely be implemented in an upcoming spending bill, to induce mask mandates, according to one person familiar with the plans being discussed inside Biden’s transition team.
No matter what approach Biden and his team take, experts say the reality will likely be something of a patchwork set of rules and guidelines across thousands of localities that will rely as much on social pressure as legal mandates to enforce.
“I think the issue of a nationwide mandate is going to be tricky,” said Dr. Marcus Plescia, the chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health officials. “With a lot of these public health laws and regulations, we really depend on social enforcement.”
We should just disband all the state governments, and put the federal government in charge of everything. Then we wouldn’t have to concern ourselves with a bunch of pesky quibblers from Flyoverlandia.
What is “withhold Federal hiway funds” Alex?
If they use that cudgel, I hope Noem says fuck it and doesn’t remit the fed gas taxes collected in SoDak. Just uses them for her state instead.
The same funds judges said Trump couldn’t withhold from sanctuary cities?
Like that matters with Joe.
AKA sanctions.
My fear is that even the more liberty-loving (or at least -friendly) states will knuckle under because of sanctions like this. When the Eye of FedGov turns upon you, it’s tough to not collapse under that gaze.
Interesting: Obama-Trump counties mostly stuck with Trump in 2020
I wonder if that’s a Trump-specific trend or if a larger realignment is afoot.
Federal health officials have long been frustrated by the lack of mandatory mask mandates in states and local jurisdictions — and sources in agencies like the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say Biden will have his work cut out for him.
“Let’s be clear. When it comes to masks and that sort of thing, the CDC can only offer up guidance. It’s not a regulatory agency. The CDC would have no power to mandate the wearing of masks,” a federal health official told CNN.
WHYCOME WE NO CAN HAZ SWAT TEAMZ?
Black Lives Matter except when we kill a few of their infants with flash bang grenades when trying to control too much Thanksgiving. /and no one rioted
“I don’t think the Constitution allows for the infringement on the number of people in your own home,” he said. “He has authority to do a lot but not to tell law enforcement to get into someone’s house and count who is there.”
This guy is obviously unaware of the FYTW clause and that 1984 has now been officially declared an instruction manual.
Speaking of Great Pyrenees, my brother has one and she apparently had a fling with a Golden Retriever.
I may be picking up a floofball in March.
How long before the AKC recognizes the Great Golden Floofball?
Eh, we’ll have to see how it turns out. Hopefully it will have a higher drive to please than its mother.
If I had the moolah, I’d get another one of these. Amazing animal.
1984 has now been officially declared an instruction manual.
Speaking of…
I have been seeing a commercial for some sort of “mirror” interactive fitness thing.
All I can think of is the woman in the viewscreen yelling at Smith to touch his toes harder.
STEVE SMITH TOUCH TOES ALRIGHT…
AND HIM LOVE BIG BROTHER. BY LOVE, MEAN RAPE.
aw no pic of the Super Floofy WonderDog?
(yes I pay attention to the important part of the links!)
Agreed. Need to know what my wife might be up against if she grooms the wonder dog
My godz, I have written bout 40 eleventy googles of JavaScript code this week. I am soooo freaking tired and burnt. I think maybe 2 more beers and I’m asleep at the wheel, and fuck I promised to patch something into production tonight. *puts on pot of coffee*
Thoughts and prayers. I loathe Javascript.
Amen!
I feel like if I had 2-3 weeks and got to start from scratch, I wouldn’t hate javascript itself.
It’s all the shitty undocumented toolkits/frameworks/globs-of-shit that get used on top of it that are the problem.
It seems to me that the only way to perpetrate an election fraud that will stick is if you have the paper ballots to back it up. Shenanigans by the voting machine would be discovered so long as there is a paper trail. Are there any jurisdictions that don’t produce a paper trail?
At my voting location we entered our choices on a screen, and when we were done, the machine printed out a paper ballot with a QR code and the choices written in readable text. A separate machine then counted the ballots. If programmed properly the QR code should have a unique identifier to prevent a ballot from being scanned twice.
I have heard that some counting machines have the ability to mark the ballot, which seems to be a huge flaw. If no choice for president then mark Biden. I don’t know if this is actually true though.
It seems to me that the most likely way to perpetrate a fraud is to collect a lot of unused mail in ballots and fill them out for your preferred candidate. If the recount is not allowed to validate the signatures, then the recount won’t overturn the results.
agreed
one thing i did notice that piqued my curiosity:
An article says this: “there was a ballot discrepancy in x county Georgia forcing them rescan all the ballots again”
wait a minute.
a hand recount is just scanning them back into the same system again?
surely there is something checked by hand right?
The warm liquid splashing on your leg is rain.
I had assumed this would debunk the Dominion theory but if they are doing nothing but scanning votes back in there is little point to all this. It should produce the same results.
Yeah, that concerns me too. They should do both: run it through the scanner and count by hand to validate.
Something that pisses me off about this whole thing is how opaque the process is. They should explain how it all works. How do they validate signatures? Can a rejected signature be challenged? Can an accepted signature be challenged? How do they prevent double counts? What happens if a machine can’t read a ballot? Who does the counting? Who gets to observe? What is canvassing? How are ballots transported from the voting location to the counting location? What security do they have? I get that every jurisdiction is different, but I’d love to see some enterprising reporter take this on instead of waving it away and saying “trust us”.
Maybe there needs to be a Schoolhouse Rock revival for this. I’m just a ballot, only a ballot. Found on a wooden pallet.
I feel like the media is just not doing much. All i get is “Trump’s team made a baseless claim today”.
How about some of these media sites produce deeper dives w/ more information that you can click through if you want? let’s actually use the web for something.
I don’t think reporters are smart enough or motivated enough to even ask the questions. They just reprint what they are told to.
They just take phone calls from PR flacks and leakers.
For the record I absolutely do believe ballots were cured for Democrats in blue areas of PA.
But it looks like Republicans will lose this battle. The reason this should not be allowed is its inherently biasing. Red counties complied with the rules and blue counties didn’t.
But that wouldn’t be enough to win anyway.
In dinner news, we had Checcar Sausage, Giant Brat patties with Bush’s baked beans, and this for dinner,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/3zUcpUZZWeA4yyd4A
truly a Brandywine at 16% plus, very tasty, and it get’s you drunk!
Also Rogan called Belgian Malinoix dogs Brains with Teeth, sums up Bella pretty well
Cheddar? jeez….
Yummy.
Thot Thursday is heating up.
https://archive.li/MeEbT
Very nice set, and a few Redheads, Hawt!
What a shame #1 is a RealDoll. A real woman built like that and looking alive and smiling would be delightful.
Recommended iChive galleries: #5, #12, #17
#9 is cute, and I can run Google Image searches on archive pictures again. That picture comes from reddit. She posts some NSFW content on reddit.
#23 looks like a RealDoll.
Is #26 old enough to be in this gallery? Same with #41.
https://twitter.com/xXshink3nXx/status/1329506814350733313
LOLOLOLOLOL
That actually makes a good metal song…me like.
A good use of talent right there.
Re: Arecibo. We all know the “too dangerous to operate” is a cover-up, right? The real reason they’re closing it is because they don’t want us to know about the message.
They had to cover it up. They got a long string of encrypted data, and when they decrypted it it said “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”
D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E
Due to the rise in #COVID19 cases, CA is issuing a limited Stay at Home Order.
Non-essential work and gatherings must stop from 10pm-5am in counties in the purple tier.
This will take effect at 10pm on Saturday and remain for 1 month.
Together–we can flatten the curve again.
They expect people to actually understand what those color tiers mean? I don’t even know what the colors on the LGBT flag mean yet. What am I? A Benjamin Moore salesman?
Together–we can
flatten the curvedestroy more small businesses again.FTFY
“Flatten the curve” should be less acceptable to say in public than the N word.
Good to know we have such a brain trust at the CDC
https://twitter.com/phelan_hobbs/status/1328341491761115138
I am just picturing the process of deciding on this:
T. Roll the new intern: You know what would really send the message of all of us pulling together to stop the spread?
M. Oron career bureaucrat; What?
T. Roll: We should create a website where users can register and upload a picture with a pledge to wear a mask. That way all those doubters and deniers out there will see the broad appeal of masks and will be won over.
M. Oron: I love it! Can you get it up and running today?
T. Roll: Sure!
Later, at a location off CDC grounds that shall remain secret, but which looks like a 20 year old’s bedroom/command center
T. Roll via text to his friends: THEY TOTALLY BOUGHT IT!
Haxxorz6969: No wai!
Titties4lyf: Registering now as A. Dolf Hits Her
Ididurmom: Posting picture of my cat’s butthole
URaFAg: Registering as Dick Stroker, guess what I look like
Dipshittery abounds.
There are so many people out there that cannot see beyond their own perspective on anything. They simply cannot understand why people disagree with them and why any system that can be abused, will be abused, even if it’s just for shits and giggles.
Well nuts. Base CO just closed the gym again – to everyone except active duty and base first responders.
Never mind that Reservists have the exact same fitness requirements and I work in the exact same building with hundreds of active duty folks every day – and I’ve only had access every other day for the last few months since they reopened and I’ve never seen a crowd in there.
Drafting an email tonight to send to the CO tomorrow after I check a few more details when I get back into the office.
And – per the Unit I work for – the gyms on base in Norfolk are still open for reservists.
Military intelligence, same as Civilian I guess,
Everyone knows military age people working out are at extreme risk of Covid, it is a virtual death sentence.
Tom Woods is on Come Hang With Malice tonight.