Bunch of Maryland pussies.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! Maryland, you bastards. Well, at least The Masters is about to start. Let’s see how that goes. With the way DeChambeau is playing, it might be a blowout. But golf is a weird sport. And he’s a weird guy. Anything could happen.
What a pretty lady.
Women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on this day. She shares it with sculptor Auguste Rodin, argon discoverer John William Strutt, Nazi piece of shit Amon Goth, beer magnate Joseph Coors, lovely actress (and royalty too!) Grace Kelly, psychopath Charles Manson, sportscaster Al Michaels, butthurt Canadian singer Neil Young, nutcase politician Hassan Rouhani, tiresome writer Naomi Wolf, white hispanic (at times) baseball player Sammy Sosa, figure skating trailer trash Tonya Harding, actor Ryan Gosling, and the lovely looking Anne Hathaway.
Man, what a fucked up list. Anyway, on to…the links!
Fact check: true
I’m gonna rephrase the headline for accuracy: Joe Biden hates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and doesn’t want them to apply to men on college campuses. Because that’s what this is about. I guess these assholes don’t think it’s possible to sympathize with alleged victims and at the same time ensure the rights of the accused are respected.
They’re leaving a lot out of this headline too. Like how you’re not allowed to have more than 10 people IN YOUR OWN HOME at any given time. Also, I always wonder, why do they always set start dates for these urgent and totally necessary orders a few days out? If they’re so urgent, why not impose them immediately? Oh yeah, because they’re more about controlling people than a virus. Also, Cuomo is an anti-Semite, so expect the Jewish community to have these orders enforced on them a lot more harshly than others.
Oh wait, it said Crips, not Creeps. My bad. This photo probably doesn’t make sense now.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Thanks, DM. I needed that.
The state’s budget is a metaphor for his waistline. Or vice versa. Either way, cuts are needed. Drastic cuts.
Uh, no shit buddy. “It’s shocking that as temps drop, viruses spread in urban areas. Absolutely shocking!” said nobody ever.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Sadly, the blame is placed on the wrong people. I swear, people should be showing up en masse at school boards with torches and pitchforks. Instead they’re suing the people who have a responsibility to maintain operations for their shareholders and customers.
A decent one hit wonder. Right at the end of a generation of great music. Hope you enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
Good morning everyone, let’s see if we can spot the cognitive dissonance here:
I read most of that, but then I got a sharp pain behind my R eye, and my arm went numb.
Do you smell toast?
Dark coffee. But Ive been up since midnight and drinking.
☕️? Cheers, big ears!
You have a Republican eye? Weird.
FB acquaintance?
Authoritarian how exactly?
How’d you guess? Went to college with him.
I think most people feel that Trump is authoritarian because he didn’t bend the knee to the administrative state. When in fact, the administrative state has been attempting an overthrow of the elected office.
“Dear dillhole,
Your sanctimonious condescension is rich. I have no interest in playing the role of cordial loser to the party of #resist and #notMyPresident. Go suck an egg.
Smooches,
Scruffy”
Feel free to use whichever parts you find most useful.
That’s my comment on every NPR article.
Trump is my kind of authoritarian. And yes, I do not respect your views.
No one has ever claimed the election was stolen or rigged before.
He’s trying to have it both ways.
My response:
Sorry, I don’t read copypasta.
You posting that is the blogging equivalent of “oh God, this tastes like shit. Here, try it.”
???
I’m the sharing type.
Relevant…
That, that right there is what I like the least about social media. Having to read those stupid open letters to Trump voters, or [insert your opinion here]. What sort of person feels the need to write shit like that to their ostensible friends? Lots of people are heading to Parler, etc, but I think I’m just going to let the account go zombie and stop with social media. It just provides one more platform for self-righteous pricks to yell at me.
The format is:
1. Establish cred
2. Indicate sympathy
3. Concern troll
4. Make threat
It’s so incredibly narcissistic. “If you cared about me… you’d mindlessly agree with whatever I think.” I’ve dumped boyfriends who tried to pull that shit, why would I let some rando guilt me into something based on my supposed affection for them? I always just keep scrolling, but whenever I see one of those, I mutter, “Fuck off, slaver.”
I signed up for Parler and i dont understand what to do.
As soon as i signed up Mark Levin started sending me messages every ten minutes. I read them and move on. I just dont get it. Is it like twitter cuz i never tried that yet.
If you voted for Trump but aren’t willing to contact your elected officials in this matter, then I ask that you please unfriend me. I might still conduct business with you and I would certainly help you if you were bleeding in the street or otherwise in distress. But if you don’t speak up, then any affection or interest I had in you and your life doesn’t really exist anymore, because you obviously do not respect my views or rights.
This asshole sure has a lot of demands.
Puh-leaze. He ain’t gonna be helping shut. He’s the kind of personality that will end up using “i was just following orders” as an excuse despite being extra despicable to the people he’s herding into cattle cars.
helping shit*
Trump has always had authoritarian tendencies.
Can you provide an example that would be outside the norm of the past few presidents?
Trump trying to do a run around the normal workings of the electoral college
He isn’t.
(and popular vote)
Lol, you moron.
Speaking of the criminally insane (not to mention mind-bogglingly stupid)
A nationwide lockdown would drive the number of new cases and hospitalizations down to manageable levels while the world awaits a vaccine, he told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday.
“We could pay for a package right now to cover all of the wages, lost wages for individual workers, for losses to small companies, to medium-sized companies or city, state, county governments. We could do all of that,” he said. “If we did that, then we could lock down for four to six weeks.”
It could work. Especially as a national weight loss plan. Or will the government just pull food out of its magic hat?
I’m ashamed that I ever took that asshat seriously.
“Yeah well, be sure to take pride in some of that fat, porky!”
“220, 221, whatever it takes!”
Not an authoritarian at all..
How are they gonna determine who gets paid what? They make me shut down for an entire auction cycle, do they plan on stroking me one big-ass check? Or am I gonna get $600 a week like everyone else and get told how demanding what I’d have actually earned is being selfish?
Man, fuck these fascist fucks.
I’ve been unemployed for 30 years. I want my money and I want it now, including back pay. I’m up for the $600 a week, I’ll forgo the interest ’cause I’m not greedy.
This is the true goal.
Yep. This is the extra double Fuck you to the governments that didn’t boot to neck their citizens. They’re going to make everyone participate so they cna justify some ridiculous Blue state/city bail out.
Well of course the groceries store
Would be open and everyone would be allowed to transmit the virus to each other there.
number of new cases
Irrelevant.
and hospitalizations
Show me the evidence.
Hospitalizations are definitely up in AZ. Not to the level we had in July, but we’ve gone from high single digits for COVID to nearly 50.
System I work for in GA is definitely up, but by about half of what the “models” and “experts” said we should be. No idea on ICU or deaths, that info isn’t making it down to IT plebes anymore.
Hospitalizations also include you checked in, we looked you over and gave you some treatment, and then sent you home after about 3 hours.
ICU and death rates are the most important and those have still been within the same range as a month ago here.
Our ICU rates are up. Death rate is slightly elevated, I believe.
We had some idiot on our medical staff ask us if we had a plan to deal with a surge of COVID patients.
“Err, yeah. We just did that, you know.”
After they lied about “just 2 weeks to flatten the curve” why would we believe this would actually end after 4 to 6 weeks?
“My fellow Scrantonites :elbowed from Jill: Americans, i wish i could say that our long suffering is over, but due- due- due- to unfortunate shnresistance of thshe who don’t wanna- that don’t belive- wanna challeng the expert science, we are going to extend these covid measures until we have beatten them. The virus.”
Good song.
“I’m gonna rephrase the headline for accuracy: Joe Biden hates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments and doesn’t want them to apply to men on college campuses.”
Biden also was behind the VAWA.
Are you okay with his scorched earth policy, which includes firing his Secretary of Defense that didn’t back up all of his past uses of force?
That was my favorite part.
I am interested in Trump’s beef with Esper. I highly doubt I will ever get an accurate telling of it.
Slow walking the withdrawal from AF.
Trying to FORCE those troops to withdraw! Unforgivable!
…and unforgettable, that’s what he is…
Biden will send them back.
I’m assuming AF means Afghanistan.
All foreign shitholes…
The “S” is silent..
Shitholes are seldom silent.
But frequently are deadly.
“his past uses of force?”
Like what, exactly? Bombing an airfield in Syria one time, or …
The Trump administration’s Title IX regulations prioritize students accused of sexual misconduct instead of their accusers, victims’ advocates say.
What is “due process”?
Victims advocate saying that no accused person should be treated like a human. Color me shocked.
I don’t think it’s “victim advocates” pushing it.
Even if he didn’t victimize this woman he is bound to do it to someone else, so the punishment is just. /title IX specialist
Authoritarian how exactly?
If we look at what he did with the EPA, for example, by relaxing regulations, President Cartoon Villain sought nothing less than to coerce Americans to actively rape and destroy the environment and turn the earth into an uninhabitable cinder.
Man, fuck these fascist fucks.
Calm your tits. They’re saving you from an horrific death.
Victims advocate saying that no accused person should be treated like a human. Color me shocked.
Revenge delayed is revenge denied.
“Tucker Carlson reveals list of 25 dead people he says voted in the election as Nevada’s Trump campaign co-chair doubles down on claim they’ve found fraud but don’t know how widespread it is”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8940473/Tucker-Carlson-reveals-list-dead-people-says-voted-election.html
“Kayleigh McEnany reveals more affidavits will be released as she doubles down on ‘election fraud’ claiming votes for Trump were changed and 120-year-olds voted”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8940835/Kayleigh-McEnany-reveals-affidavits-released-doubles-election-fraud.html
That’s “voter fraud” not “election fraud”. Now, I’m sure voter fraud happens. It always does. However, it is election fraud that is way more serious.
Pray tell, where do you draw the line between the two? How many grains of sand make a heap?
Voter fraud happens individually. Election fraud is coordinated.
It’s not a matter of quantity. Voter fraud is deliberately casting illegal ballots. Election fraud is deliberately miscounting or changing the numbers.
If either of these or true
http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/scUpSRkNoJ9g/
that there fractional weighing was built into the software; or that the numbers could be changed via internet, or by so many people at so many points, then election fraud is too easy not to have occurred.
Voter fraud involves voters – Election fraud involves the counters.
Not sure about sand, but for Russian composers, the answer is five.
Is this like that weather, not climate, thing?
“Data deep dive on Dominion Voting Systems offers incontrovertible proof of election hack”
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/11/data-deep-dive-on-dominion-voting-systems-offers-incontrovertible-proof-of-election-hack/
We’re getting to “the rooshins flipped the votes!!” Levels of conspiracy. That needs a lot of proof for me to begin to believe.
I don’t think so. From what I can tell, election fraud is so easy, expecting people not to do is like expecting a crackhead not to pick up a $20 bill laying on the sidewalk.
Yep. It’s interesting that Texas reviewed the Dominion voting machines in 2019 and refused to use them after having concerns about the machines being “suitable for its intended purpose; operates efficiently and accurately; and is safe from fraudulent or unauthorized
manipulation”
https://www.sos.texas.gov/elections/forms/sysexam/dominion-d-suite-5.5-a.pdf
So legitimate concerns about these machines being used for election fraud are already out there and documented before all this went down.
That’s kind of it. Always has been, though. If you don’t want to check IDs, and you want mass mail-in balloting and you want everybody who walks in to be able to cast a ballot with the claim that you’ll check them after the election to see if they were valid (which they never do) and you want election officials to be able to collect the mail-in/absentee ballots themselves from the voters and bring them to the polling places…
…well yeah, the people who have invested their entire lives to obtaining higher office are gonna use these ridiculously lax rules to their advantage. Theoretically both sides cheating their asses off should even out, but the Democratic control of all the large population bases makes their efforts far more fruitful.
The only thing that’s changed about 2020 is how much mass mailing ballots were done “because” of the goddamned virus. Theoretically that’s greatly expanded the Democrats advantage by jacking up turnout in precisely those areas which are to their advantage.
The best way to fix this, I suppose, would be to find all of the instances of _Republicans_ doing this and prosecuting them. Then use that as a pretext to put a stop to it all. Unfair? Absolutely. But as of 2020, I’m a little light on sympathy for folks claiming how unfair things are.
https://noqreport.com/2020/11/11/data-deep-dive-on-dominion-voting-systems-offers-incontrovertible-proof-of-election-hack/
If that is anywhere near correct… Somebody better go up a lamp post or war is coming.
Answer me this. Where is this data coming from? How can they tell a vote was “Switched” how can the tell a vote was “Destroyed”. These are basic questions that anyone who is writing about this should be able to answer, but i can’t seem to figure out. If we have the data, where is it so anyone can look at it?
The problem with Pede’s work is that it’s the feed to the news stations, not the actual voting machines data. That’s not probitive in and of itself.
Exactly. To use this as proof of vote switching, one would have to establish the path the data takes from the counting stations through Edison to the NYT.
The article Cy linked to has a walkthrough of the analyses used and links to where the data comes from. I don’t know if either are credible, but the data and analysis methods are presented for anyone to take a look.
I downloaded the data and scripts, and the results of the script correspond to the results posted there, but the big question is where do the data come from, are they true time series fed right from the counting systems, and do the supposed changes really mean what he says they mean. I’m skeptical, to say the least. What causes a subtraction of votes from one candidate in these supposed time series is another question. In principle, there should never be a reduction in votes absent a mistake in entering the data.
The only thing that can really resolve these questions is a hand audit of actual ballots. If the so called “changes” were initiated in the counting software, as described in the blackboxvoting.org series and video, the hand recount would work. If there were actual insertion of fradulent ballots and the provenance of them could not be verified, then a hand count will just reaffirm the reported results.
The one thing that stick out the most to me are the cases where Bidens numbers go up at the exact time Trumps go down, by the same number of votes, at the same time.
There should be something in the programming about the ability to change the numbers. Whether it be through a manual intervention and algorithm or even a form of AI. Maybe an obvious mismatch in the origination/destination numbers.
I remember reading something about how scorecard intercepts the packets to/from voting terminal and poll counting servers. If that were true, it would simply come down to manually counting all of the votes.
I really hope this doesn’t get quickly memory holed as soon as a clear winner is determined. This needs to be investigated heavily and I know that takes a lot of time and funds.
I work a lot with systems designed to capture time series data on chemical and other industrial manufacturing processes. Almost without exception, the systems are designed to allow editing the time series data, but it is impossible to do so without setting a flag on each edited/altered data point. Even if you open the data point for editing and just simply re-enter the original data, that point is flagged as altered.
One would think an election system would recognize the importance of such a thing.
Imagine if election systems had to abide by the same QA/QC practices as automotive parts and pharmaceutical manufacturers. GMP for elections?
Are you kidding. Any kind of Integrity of the electoral process is Voter Suppression!
It shouldn’t be more complicated than an adding machine hooked up to a scanner.
It should not be on the internet.
I get it. What we’re seeing is smoke. A LOT OF FUCKING SMOKE. But at some point, saying “I wonder if there’s any fire over there” makes you look a bit silly.
In the article he goes over how he used the number on the timestamps. I understand what he did and his outcomes. I don’t know about the accuracy or authenticity of his original information. I’m not a Voter Fraud inspector or a journalist or a YouTube personality or a constitutional scholar or a lawyer or an accountant or an FBI cocksucker… hell I havne’t even ran drugs for the CIA in my lifetime. But, I know what a spade looks like. I know when I’m being pissed on.
The data and scripts he used are linked in his article. The article itself is a jumble of random thoughts and assertions, so it’s really difficult to understand what he’s claiming.
I don’t think “Pede” is the best shorthand for “Centipede”, especially in this election year…
“A decent one hit wonder. Right at the end of a generation of great music. Hope you enjoy it.”
I loved that whole album when it came out.
Another good one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ie4x8hWYYE
“Stutter” is indeed the one I remember. It’s actually on my music shuffle rotation.
Starting Nov. 13, bars and restaurants in New York will be required to close at 10 p.m.
Viruses are like Mogwai.
Fuzzy and adorable?
“And never, ever, get them wet.”
(I never saw that movie…)
“Don’t feed them after midnight.”
Its a good movie…that I havent seen in 30 years, so maybe it isnt.
It depends on the criteria used to call it good. There are certainly things you can point to that are elements of ‘bad movies’ from a craft or storytelling perspective.
I was entertained by both gremlins movies, that’s good enough for me.
Red Letter media has ya covered. https://youtu.be/OxV2-Z-1rdM
I can at least comprehend the logic of later one stays = more one drinks = poorer decision-making = not maintaining distancing/screaming/laughing in faces.
But no one ever really says that part out loud, do they?
Closes at 10 = slams down drinks before 10 = poorer decision-making = not maintaining distancing/screaming/laughing in faces.
A glorious future awaits
The 10 executive actions Biden has said he will take on his first day as president to combat the crisis and reduce emissions are:
Require limits on methane pollution for oil and gas operations.
Use the federal government procurement system to work towards 100% clean energy and zero-emissions vehicles.
Ensure US government buildings and facilities are more efficient and climate-ready.
Implement the already-existing Clean Air Act, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by developing new fuel economy standards to ensure all new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be electrified, and annual improvements for heavy duty vehicles.
Double down on liquid fuels like advanced biofuels and make agriculture a key part of the solution to the climate crisis.
Reduce emissions and cut consumer costs through new standards for appliance and building efficiency.
Require federal permit decisions to consider effects of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, and ensure every federal infrastructure investment reduces climate pollution.
Require public companies to disclose climate risks and greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains.
Protect biodiversity, slow extinction rates and conserve 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030.
Permanently protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, establish national parks and monuments, ban new oil and gas permits on public lands and waters, modify royalties to account for climate costs and creating programs to enhance reforestation and develop renewable energy on federal lands and waters to double offshore wind by 2030.
Stef Feldman, Biden’s campaign policy director, tells CNN that Biden’s climate plan is an “all-of-government agenda,” and will be worked on across departments and agencies.
GOOD
AND
HARD.
Modify royalties?
Translation: Energy sector go by bye.
“Stef Feldman, Biden’s campaign policy director, tells CNN that Biden’s climate plan is an “all-of-government agenda”
See I was going to say it looked like every point in there was an opportunity due graft.
I can just feel the coming prosperity.
And lots of new batteries for my computer (and flashlight to find it)
I feel like I took a nap and woke up in a village in 1803, I can’t smell the horse residue yet but it has to be on the way.
There must be a pony!
In every pot.
“Double down on liquid fuels like advanced biofuels and make agriculture a key part of the solution to the climate crisis.”
IOW, make food producers compete for acreage with gubmint subsidies for ethanol corn. You tried this before, FFS. It wasn’t an unintended consequence then and it won’t be this time.
Doesn’t the fertilizer start out as a petroleum base, then the processing, hauling , storage and application somewhat control the price of this ‘free energy renewable fuel?’.
Logistics and production are clearly expenses. But what happened with ethanol was that it was more lucrative for farmers to grow ethanol corn than to grow food. So ag-based food prices went up, supply/demand et al. Gubmint meddling in ag benefits me personally – accurately predicting commodity volatility – but it sucks for the people who think dems are out to save them. I’m sure Biden will just blame greedy capitalists when food prices inflate.
I’ll propose one. Based on the US Dept of Energy’s recommendations, every Federal Building should be set to 80 degrees for cooling (their 78 plus 2 degrees since we are all about to die).
Shut off all energy consumption for heating/cooling. No half measures.
“Shut off all energy consumption for heating/cooling” for the deplorables so we can insure that the federal (union) employees are comfortable in their never relenting tasks of doing the people’s work.
With an agenda like that, who could have any doubt that Biden really won Pennsylvania?
There’s a Beachcomber column from the 1930s where he observes that the Franc is volatile and states that it should be made more stable:
Prodnose: And how would you achieve that?
Beachcomber: By a process of stabilisation. You see, one stabilises-
Prodnose: (Feeling very foolish) Yes, yes I see.
Quite a lot of politicians’ environmental proposals are like that – they’ll green everything by a process of greening.
They don’t seem to have any plan beyond creating (more) burdensome legislation that will make things more expensive for consumers and add (more) barriers to entry.
It’s also amazing how the expansion of the federal government increases the unchecked power of the presidency. It’s like King John making more and more of England a forest, or Charles I saying all counties are subject to Ship Money.
It is almost like there is ongoing litigation, no certification and the EC has yet to convene.
Reporter: “Senator, have you congratulated Vice President Biden yet?”
Sen. Ron Johnson: “No.”
Reporter: “Why not?”
Johnson: “Nothing to congratulate him about.”
And didn’t Lyin’ Biden say that he would wait for said certification before proceeding with the transition?
They hoped that with Trump defeated the GOP would revert to 2012. This isn’t about Trump.
Hence all the concern trolling about how this is unprecedented, they want you to get back in line.
At least there’s some local pushback against DeWine’s threat to shut down the bars, restaurants, and fitness centers again:
Cleveland-area restaurant owners express frustration, anxiety, anger over Gov. Mike DeWine’s shutdown threat
This isn’t to flatten the curve this time, it’s to protect the staff who continue to get infected with the ‘vid.
/looks at the place that just reopened after remodeling their interior to comply with the old orders
I get that I’m not in the middle of it, but we’re i faced with those choices, I’d rather risk them fining my company to death than going out with a whimper. Company’s D E D dead either way.
What this country needs is more central planning. That’s what “we” voted for, and that’s what “we” are gonna get.
Vice President Glampers will wipe out inequality, just you wait and see.
And when that doesn’t work, more of the same should fix it.
It’s a good thing this attitude about heaving due process wasn’t around when you know who was accused of digitally penetrating that one broad right out of the blue. If we apply the same standard the dude’s a rapist.
We need a poll on when the DOJ (totally not at the direction of Biden) indicts Trump for obstruction of Justice with regards to Mueller:
A) first 100 days
B) after midterms
C) never
A)
If I was Trump I think I’d relocate to a country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with us. Maybe he can move in with Snowden and they can do a reality show.
That might inspire some right-wing rioting, and rightly so.
But as far as the poll goes, it’s either A or C. B is useless to them politically.
I’m going with C. Instead they’re going to sic the IRS on him until he dies.
C, but I’d say District Attorney of New York instead. They’re just chomping at the bit to trump up charges on him from what we’ve seen.
And yeah — if Biden does come out of this the winner, I wouldn’t blame him one bit for getting out of Dodge.
D) There never is a Biden Administration.
C) Same reason that Obama’s admin never went after Bush/Cheney – sets a very dangerous precedent
Politicians are more than happy to set/break precedent if they think it won’t have an impact on them.
But this would be like normalizing assasination as a tool of international diplomacy–no way do they expose themselves to that.
It would, but I think they’re so arrogant and convinced of their own majesty that they might not think about that. Undermining the 2016 election through fantasies about Russia set a bad precedent. They still did it.
Their base will be positively screaming for some sort of action.
They think that tomorrow belongs to them thanks to demographic inevitability and (more plausibly) their control of various agencies. There’s no phlegmatic resignation to the idea that the wheel will turn and they’ll be out of government.
C is the answer. Although the IRS and the NY DA will be all over his ass for the next decade or more. I’m hoping he focuses his energy on creating a new media empire to taunt the shit out of the Dems. His talent for riling people up should not go to waste. I’m looking forward to his grand exit from Twatter.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks for the lynx, especially the pic of Princess Grace. Top five for sure.
So, our fuckwit gov instituted the 10 person limit, too. I will be violating the shit out of that one in a couple weeks, so we’ll see what kind of enforcement appetite they have. I’m fucking done.
That’s a good song, but they had more than one. Like this one!
I wish it was 1993 right about now. Good luck out there, peeps.
I’d like to be 23 again too.
It seems that where I am at the diktats regarding personal behavior are mostly ignored.
The swamp is deep and Baton Rouge is far.
Nice happy rat as the lead-in photo Sloopy. Thanks, I needed a smile.
Yeah, I agree. That’s also a good song. 🙂
The second “new normal”.
Analysis: Job growth will slow during a Biden presidency: The easy gains are almost gone
That’s some mighty fine preemptive narrative setting. It is almost like they understand that big-government policy is bad for the economy but they advocate it anyway.
That’s not so much advocacy as it is coverup.
Look slower job growth in the US is a price I am willing to pay for climate change mitigation
They need to state it now so they can set it up for blaming Trump, rather than the fact that Biden will burden companies with more regulation.
Hence all the concern trolling about how this is unprecedented, they want you to get back in line.
Speaking of concern trolling… there was a commercial running (repeatedly) on Pluto this morning as I was checking the weather, about how “unprecedented” and downright shameful it is that Trump hasn’t accepted defeat and turned his keys over to Biden. It featured a series of clips of previous election losers, including Hillary, all of whom were graciously accepting the Will of the People. I imagine we’ll be seeing a lot of that one.
I expected to see a Lincoln Project credit at the end, but it was some other group I did not recognize.
Bloomberg would be my guess. That shrimp has his hands in everything.
“Meanwhile, changes in how students communicate with one another have enabled new avenues for harassment.
“Dating apps like Tinder did not exist, just as an example,” Vitchers said. “It’s just a very different world than it was 10 years ago.””
OFFS!!
Dick pics used to be sent in the mail like God intended
God intended dick to be delivered in person.
Con subtítulos.
https://vimeo.com/139855775
Honk honk
The president creates a perfectly innocuous and gracious post on the occasion of the Marine Corps’ 245th birthday and our big tech masters can’t help but feel the need to troll with their bogus and unrelated “fact check.” These people are clowns.
honk honk is a racist dog whistle
WTF?? That’s a new low.
Easy solution: don’t use Twatter anymore.
Never mind that’s Instagram, how is that a solution? You would have to get everyone else to stop using it.
The object is to preserve your own sanity, no everyone else’s.
That would be fine if everyone else left minded their own business. They don’t.
First time a Wikipedia entry has made me chuckle heartily.
https://twitter.com/SpookyHooga/status/1326708053857677312
the chuckle is from the tweet author not from me. People chuckle at weird things
The New York Times went on a diversity hiring spree. They then discovered that their performance review gave lower scores to black and Hispanic employees.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1326705067324366848
Well, if you don’t hire on merit, you’re not going to get merit. You’re going to get grifters, wannabes, and nevercans who have the attribute you’ve switched to. Of these, only the wannabes have a shot at ever getting good, but that will end up being curtailed by getting the job too soon and without incentive to improve.
What kind of merit could be applicable to working at NYT?
Judging by the output of that publication of late, getting a bad performance review could be a compliment.
Reviewer: “Maria, we are really disapointed with your coverage of Venezuela”
Maria: But i was on the ground, getting raw footage and interviewing people in the area.
R: Yes, but you seemed to lay a lot of blame on Maduro’s Socilalist Policies
M: Yes… and
R: We don’t like using that word with negative things. Next time use “State Capitalism” and do try to blame the Yankee Imperialists sometime…
M: –
R: Well i think that’s all.
In a similar vein,
A: “You didn’t contribute much to the 1619 Project.”
B: “I don’t care about the 1619 Project, my parents are from the West Indies”
A: “It’s very important scholarship”
B: “It’s nothing but whining white women and geriatric communists”
A: *shakes head, sighs, gives a bad review*
Thot Thursday provides properly distributed adipose tissue.
https://archive.li/h4YpW
I hope when Blade Runner becomes a reality that all the Replicants look like #15.
Number 8 is Yay4Cosplay, and she is lovely.
The “Squishy” posts are the best. A lot of Woulds in that archive.
Sat down and randomly pulled up “V for Vendetta” to watch with the teen. HOLY SHIT that movie aged well… It definitely has some over the top theatrics but GOD DAMN! Between the virus/fear/media/quarantines/dystopia/riots it was firing on all cylinders.
You realize the entire crowd at the end died when the bomb went off and he aborted his own revolution, right?
Still more succesful than the OG Fawkes
Always keep your powder dry.
Just maybe not under the parliament building… If you don’t want to be flayed alive.
LONG LIVE THE MARINUS VAN DER LUBBE INTERNATIONAL FIREBOMBING SOCIETY!
+1
Also LOL
I finally got the girlfriend to give Mr. Robot a try. I’ve already watched all but the final season, she’s now only just over half way through the first season.
I haven’t seen this. It shall go on ‘the list.’
It’s on Amazon Prime, and not exactly light or family friendly. It’s about a mentally ill, drug addicted, dysfunctional hacker who works at a security company who has a vendetta against “Evil corp” (yes that’s what they call it in the show, neat little trick for everyone to include their favorite multinational in its place).
I keep wanting to write a post about how that show along with a handful of others (like Orphan Black) changes how we watch TV. In particular how the ending of The PrisonerOrphan Black only has one plausible interpretation if it were released today.
Odd copy-paste fail.
Should be
In particular how the ending of The Prisoner only has one plausible interpretation if it were released today.
And what would that be?
a) spoiling and
b) strangling the post before it’s born.
Excellent show.
watched 12 monkeys feel like that is more the direction we are going.
Theme for pretty much everything.
https://vimeo.com/179313507
“Norway Has Made Biphobic, Transphobic Speech Illegal
Buy us a one-way ticket.
Bi, trans, and nonbinary folks in Norway are celebrating a huge win after the country recently expanded its penal code that previously only protected lesbian and gay people from hate speech to include gender identity and all forms of “sexual orientation.”
These amendments to the penal code, which was first passed in 1981, comes at a time when the ultra-liberal country has seen a rise in LGBTQ+ hate crimes.
According to the advocacy group, ILGA-Europe, the bill was approved on its second reading without a vote given that it was already backed by lawmakers on its first reading last week.
The penal code states that those who are guilty of hate speech face a fine or up to a year in jail for private comments, and a maximum of three years in jail for public remarks. Furthermore, those charged with violent crimes that are motivated by a victim’s orientation or gender identity will receive harsher sentences.
The amendments expanded the language of the penal code to outlaw discrimination based on “gender, gender identity or expression” while also changing its original “homosexual orientation” language to “sexual orientation” to include those under the bisexual umbrella.”
https://www.out.com/news/2020/11/11/norway-has-made-biphobic-transphobic-speech-illegal
Up to a year in jail for private comments?
This word is hateful to the people who are sexually attracted to 71 of the 72 genders.
Up to a year in jail for private comments? – and 6 months if you are just thinking about it
Orwell was an optimist.
Buy us a one-way ticket.
The rest of us should be so lucky.
Are they still using Scandanavian resort prisons?
You mean I could get the Norwegian taxpayers to support me indefinately in comfort just by insulting alphabet people once a year?
If you commit mass murder you get the resort. If you hate speak you get thrown in a pit with starving dogs.
In a totally unforeseeable turn of events, in 20 years Norway’s cadre of “hardened” criminals who all met in prison for hate speech, end up only slightly less effete than the military and government, and take over.
Do the criminals have their own labor union yet?
Thieves Guild Local #2849?
Oops, it was Sweden and their unionized military I was thinking of.
That sounds like a whole yarn of fun.
Norway’s military is also unionized (though I couldn’t find out easily what proportion of members are unionized, it appears to be at least a third, especially officers).
The Michigan recount is going to be must-watch-tv.
Lawsuit Claims 40,000-Plus Fraudulent Ballots Pumped Through Detroit For Joe Biden
I see the lawsuit is supported by affidavits. Like the ones cops use to get warrants?
What would you use?
Just commenting on how much we should trust what someone swears to, even under oath. Perhaps there will in fact be hard evidence produced, something like more votes cast than eligible voters.
Unlike the cops, the people swearing these affidavits would be subjected to perjury charges if false. So probably not the same.
Like the ones cops use to get warrants?
I can think of two differences.
(1) These aren’t affidavits by cops. Some of them are affidavits by pubsecs who have know they are putting a crosshair on themselves (see, e.g., the two hour “interrogation” of the USPS worker who reported his supervisors backdating ballots).
(2) This isn’t supported by a single affidavit, or maybe two or three, like most warrant applications.
It could be the affiant here is someone just like us, who is reporting what they saw that probably all but defied belief.
It could also be some crank, knowing the consequences are low or just not caring.
I’m going to wait until more proof emerges before I blow up about it.
No question. But at this stage of a lawsuit, when you have zero subpoenas, affidavits are about all you can expect.
I have seen a couple of the statistical analyses that I found pretty convincing, especially the one showing that the ratio mail-in ballots for each candidate abruptly changed around the time of the inexplicable pause in voting in the 5 swing states. Now, some of what is in the affidavits wouldn’t have caused that, and I suspect that if there were shenanigans that matter they weren’t at the retail level that the affidavits likely describe (haven’t reviewed them, but the ones I’ve heard about sound pretty retail).
The statistical anomalies are likely driven by something fishy at Vote Count Central. Bad software? Mixing bad ballots previously manufactured for just this eventuality into the mix of uncounted mail-in ballots? Who knows? The latter is probably impossible to unscrew on a recount, but the former shouldn’t be.
Oh, and as I predicted, PA has destroyed the envelopes necessary to cohort mail-in ballots. Unless they kept them cohorted from the moment they were taken out of the envelope, its just a big undifferentiated pile, in which case a recount can’t unscrew that mess.
Are there any statutes that govern chain of custody that prohibit taking actions that prevent establishing the provenance of these ballots?
No idea. This goes to Drake’s burden of proof. Do we assume all ballots are valid unless proven otherwise, or require that ballots be proven to be valid?
The more doubt Trump’s team can sow about the process, the better their chances of getting the second standard adopted by the courts.
The burden of proof is going to vary widely by court. Some will expect the states to prove they maintained proper chain of custody.
Joy Reid: Uncle Clarence hates science.
Justice Clarence Thomas turned to the coronavirus pandemic Tuesday as he interrogated the issue of standing in the Affordable Care Act case at the Supreme Court.
“Putting the chief justice’s question in today terms: I assume that in most places there is no penalty for wearing a face mask or a mask during Covid, but there is some degree of opprobrium if someone does not wear it in certain settings,” Thomas said. “What if someone violates that command — let’s say it’s in similar terms to the mandate here, but no penalty — would they have standing to challenge the mandate to wear a mask?”
Michael Mongan, California’s solicitor general, who is defending Obamacare, argued that without a threat of enforcement, there can be no harm.
How is it a mandate if there is no enforcement?
reports are that SCOTUS is going to save Obamacare again. I guess when you say “Hey this has to be tax or else it’s unconstitional”, and then “Well there’s no tax so it’s not really a mandate so it’s not unconstitional” is squarable.
In other words: As long as something has a penalty => Ok because it’s a tax. And if there is No Penalty => Ok, because it isn’t a mandate.
In short there is nothing that congress can’t do via it’s taxing powers, because everything else isn’t law.
Oh, there’s lots of things Congress probably can’t do with its taxing powers. For example, I’d only be mildly surprised if a flat tax were struck down for violating equal protection somehow. Heck, we’re probably not that far off from tax cuts being struck down on similar rationale. Also, at least according to the First Circuit, Congress can’t exclude Puerto Rico from SSI benefits even though Puerto Ricans don’t pay personal income taxes, which are the primary source of funds for SSI (found this out yesterday; the case is from May 2020).
I enjoy our system where the courts get to tell the legislature How they _must_ use their delegated powers.
There is a certain perverse consistency to it. The Constitution is really only about achieving equality, equality means no disparate outcomes for minority groups, and minority is measured with respect to whatever criteria are currently fashionable to consider.
That Rubicon was crossed some time ago.
Without so much as an “I’m sorry” from the judge.
This fuggin’ guy
https://twitter.com/SouthPoleRJ/status/1326534029139726336
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13171012/sex-boss-cheated-partner-pregnant/
I work in a petrol station and my boss is lovely. He’s 39 and married with a little boy. – lovely dudes don’t cheat I would say
then again I don;t get things like this. If you go into a relationship you should take all factors into account. 27 and wanting kids and 44 with a vasectomy don;t mix
Bold strategy
A Utah man arrested for hitting speeds of 130 mph while driving impaired claimed that he was on his way to kill former Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill “if she wasn’t dead already,” according to a police affidavit filed early Wednesday morning.
At 12:45 a.m., a Utah Highway Patrol trooper spotted George William Stahl, 36, from Cottonwood Heights, driving at 115 mph on Interstate 80 in Summit County, according to the affidavit obtained by the Deseret News. Stahl was booked into the Summit County Jail that morning and under investigation for making a threat of terrorism, failing to stop at the command of police, reckless driving, speeding, DUI and drug possession.
——-
Authorities say that Stahl had an empty 12-pack of Budweiser beer in his car, along with another 12-pack that had been partially consumed.
“Stahl was belligerent and appeared heavily intoxicated… There was an empty 12 pack of Budweiser beer in his vehicle as well as a partially consumed other 12 pack,” said the affidavit. Stahl also told police that he was on Adderall and LSD in addition to the beer.
He was transported to the North Summit Fire Station to be medically evaluated and began belligerently claiming that he had planned to kill McCaskill.
“He stated that he was on his way to Missouri to kill (former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill) if she wasn’t dead already,” Summit County police wrote. “Stahl made several real threats to Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill. He stated that he was on his way to Missouri to kill her several times.”
Needz moar time travel.
can’t give him the DUI if hes confessed to trying to assassinate a former federal officer
It’s nice to know we’ve made so much progress as a society. back in the 70s, those empties would have been littered on the roadside.
+1 lachrymose Italian actor
He stated that he was on his way to Missouri to kill her several times.
Well, since he planned to kill her more than once.
My erection is so confused.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/half-naked-models-cover-curves-22997235
Q is not all about that bass.
Quit carping at him!
Yeah, let it skate.
It’s not your plaice.
I would just flounder
Pikers, the lot of ye.
Better than getting catfished.
+1 Red Snapper
Nurse charged with murder over baby deaths at Cheshire hospital
Lucy Letby is due to appear at Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.
https://news.sky.com/story/nurse-charged-with-murder-over-baby-deaths-at-cheshire-hospital-12130273
well this is fucked up. What the fuck is wrong with some people?
I honestly can’t imagine this. Having a baby die and then being told that the baby may have been murdered by the hospital staff…
Unfortunately, I can imagine what I might do in response.
The NHS is a slaughterhouse for newborns. The Alder Hey scandal put their vileness out for everyone to see and the British people did not nothing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal
It’s not in the article, but it’s been convincingly alleged that not all babies died naturally when organs or parts were needed.
“Was that wrong? Should she not have done that?”
/NHS ethics review board
Prediction/opinion based on previous cases: The hospital figured out what she was doing about halfway into her crimes, and was afraid to say anything for liability reasons. And waited for somebody else to notice and initiate a real investigation.
When healthcare is run by the government, why wouldn’t they act like every other government agency does when there is a criminal in their midst.
Promote them?
Exactly! The Criminals are the ones who really understand the job of government.
Democrats Propose Sending Republicans To ‘Unity Camps’
Entire Staff Of The Babylon Bee Commits Seppuku Over Loss Of Glorious Leader Trump
Neoconservatism is when a straight white bloke drone strikes a wedding.
Neoliberalism is when a black gay woman drone strikes a wedding.
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1326619385344176128
That’s probably the best definitions of those terms I’ve heard yet.
I missed the overnight thread, but one of my “I know I’m successful when” crtieria has been to have enough resources in terms of money, land and free time to have my own flyball team.
The Origins of American Vote Fraud
I’ve tried to explain to people that politics in the USA (and everywhere) is the same as politics in Afghanistan: bad guys vs bad guys. Even the people who eventually nod and acquiesce, immediately want to start arguing about who the “worse guy” is. The Union side during the Civil War was responsible for massive amounts of pure evil. And they were the ones fighting against the unmitigated evil of slavery.
It’s a fair point. I would argue that pursuing the slow road to hell is still a valid option over the Autobahn to the Ninth Circle.
While that’s true, that’s a really easy way to wind up arguing yourself back into a “good guys vs bad guys” mindset, thereby opening things up for the “good guys” to seize power. That’s how the Democratic party has grown into the monster that it is: they’ve convinced a whole bunch of people (including my sister) that the Republicans are unspeakably evil and are planning on destroying them all. Think about what they said about Mitt Romney for Christ’s sake.
Next thing you know, you have Gavin Newsom as dictator of one of the largest economies in the world. If you find yourself on the slow road to hell, you need to turn the fuck around.
I’m all for taking a U-Turn. Unfortunately, well more than half the passengers on the bus do not agree with me.
Autobahn? You’d let individual drivers chart the course? Oh, no, no, no – we need high-speed rail! Get on that train – woo! woo!
I always wonder why socialists love trains so much, but then remember that that is how they get the prisoners to the death camps.
Nothing quite says “we are against slavery” like imposing slavery to force people to fight in your war against slavery.
except that…. nevermind
OK I’ll do it: Civil War I was about congressional voting blocs and control of tax (tariff) and protectionist policy. The slavery nexus was about expansion into new states and territories because it impacted voting-bloc size and power. And secessions finally started when it went past the tipping point and one of the blocs figured out their side would no longer be able to have any impact in the system (permanent majority), so they left.
The Civil War was about slavery to the people who actually fought it. If you’re speaking of the “leaders” of each side, well then it was simply about the pursuit of power like it always is. For some people, that’s their only itch. They disproportionately wind up in government.
Slavery was doomed without expansion. The South knew that, and I suppose the North did too. When the South lost control of the ability to expand the reach of slavery, they had one choice if they were going to preserve it.
Articles like this are useful to remember that the Republican party has never been the “Party of conservatism” but the party of progressivism that got moved to the right of the party of the Fascist/Socialists (FDR et.al)
…and just when Trump was going to balance the budget in his second term. C’mon people, don’t you like fiscal responsibility?…
Seems like I remember that, oh so long ago. Was that a dream, too?
One shouldn’t forget the influence that Tammany Hall, and Boss Tweed especially had over establishing the modern urban political model. Ironically, New York City in the latter half of the 20th century was less machine-oriented than many other cities, but that was mostly because Tammany Hall foolishly made an enemy of FDR.
https://notthebee.com/article/remember-this-awful-coward-who-nfl-kicked-a-dude-in-the-head-from-behind-during-a-portland-riot-almost-killing-him-hes-going-to-prison-for-nearly-2-years
Only 2 years? Thats, erm, something.
Out in less than a year, guaranteed.
20 months, means he’s out (with a bracelet) in 6 and a half months. Probably go on work release (most of the day out, nights and weekends in) after a couple of months.
That was handled pretty quick, I assume he took a plea?
From click-thru…
alcohol treatment
I didn’t need a court order for that.
Oh, you mean anti-alcohol treatment? Come and get some, copper!
Speaking of shows:
Currently watching Utopia. I like it. I especially like the
Tried watching Tales From the Loop(?). Unbearably slow. Couldn’t stand it.
I tried Mr Robot a long time ago and didn’t make it through the first episode. I think it was the kkkapitalism bad stuff that put mr off it.
Tales From The Loop was supremely irritating. While plots shouldn’t be rushed, I shouldn’t be falling asleep while watching.
See also the third season of Hannibal.
Did you (or anyone else) watch Dick’s Electric Dreams on Prime?
I haven’t made it through yet. It also has pacing issues.
I did, it was OK. It has hits and misses like most anthologies, but is worth watching if you’re into this sort of thing. It should have been a lot better considering the acting talent they managed to get, but the writing just isn’t at the same level.
Thanks!
Go back to Mr. Robot. The lefty crap is really just a MacGuffin.
Also, the first episode makes it seem like this is going to be a monster of the week procedural, which is a lie. The first few episodes are cranking the car up to the top of the coaster. The ride doesn’t really begin until he goes to buy some smack.
I enjoyed Utopia as well, minus the idiotic disclaimer at the beginning of every episode.
I’m in the middle of Truth Seekers. It’s pretty good, although I was expecting it to be more of a comedy.
Well, I know what I want for Christmas.
That’s pretty sweet.
I like it.
I can’t imagine ever leaving.
“Permits, please”
You can’t just do what you want, you know?
That is just wonderful. I’m not sure why they put it in the backyard, though. As opposed to in the living room where it belongs…
What? No pool table? Oh hell no!
Hmm. We can build that and make it look like a shed…yeah that is now my new desire. Screw a pool.
Want.
Well that is definitely nicer than my Cheers knockoff. But then, I can’t decorate worth a damn
Derp.
Utopia- I especially like the “THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PANICDEMICS, LIVING OR DEAD, IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL” disclaimer.
/raises a mug of coffee
re: Origins of Vote Fraud
Let’s get back to cash bribes. Who will start the bidding?
10 bucks?
“The Drunken Crab”
I resemble that remark.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/11/12/vista-outdoor-behind/
More than a year’s worth. Guess prices won’t be normalizing anytime soon.
I expect that if Biden takes office, we won’t be worrying about the price of ammo, but whether (a) we will be permitted to buy it at all or (b) the ginormous excise tax on each round.
Where are you gonna shoot it if you’re not allowed to leave your house?
By the time the lockdown ends, I expect the EO banning shooting ranges will be in effect anyway.
Good luck with that.
Hey, you might be allowed to one a gun by the courts, but have they said anything about owning ammunition?!
/ Someone who thinks they are very clever.
There’s some truth to that.
Normally, with this huge of a backlog, all the ammo plants (there are only a few in the country) would be running 24/7, hiring more machine operators, and starting up new production lines.
But with the present political uncertainty, it doesn’t make sense to dump a bunch of money into capital investment that you won’t be able to recoup.
‘The Government Fucks Up Everything it Touches’, exhibit 45,349b.
There was also uncertainty of how long the demand surge would last. After the last shortage, manufacturers and retailers got left holding the bag when demand collapsed/returned to normal.
*when the surge receded
My best friend works at the Lake City Ammunition Plant around the KC area. The government contract for it was recently awarded to Winchester after many years of being ran by Northrop Grumman. He’s been offered twelve hour shifts through all his days off for the foreseeable future to meet demand.
They’re trying, anyway.
I thought I read the other day that it was a lack of primers for the most part.
But overall, is this just an actual spike in demand, or are there other supply chain disruptions that are also affecting the ability of manufacturers to make product?
I’ve also heard about a shortage of brass feedstock, but that was a little while ago.
A shortage of brass. In a First World economy.
Brass is so 1890.
Bronze, of course, also 1890. BC.
I am no metallurgist but bronze seems like a poor choice for ammunition casings.
😉
Bronze might work for a good number of firearm fittings though. Wood or plastic spacer (or some other anti-corrosian method) to avoid direct contact with those parts that must be steel. It could look pretty, and change color over time.
Sry, I was just making date jokes at that point, no longer connected to ammunition.
The only people who make primers also make ammunition, and their entire primer output is going into their loaded ammo.
This, of course, knocks on down to the smaller ammunition manufacturers who buy their primers. Not to mention home reloaders like myself.
backlogged ammunition orders worth more than $1 billion
Sounds like a new futures market.
I want my <$0.13/round 9mm back.
I bought 1000rds when it was at 0.30 per and i feel like i was avant-garde
I think I paid a little more than that – maybe 35 cents each? Flinched at the time, feeling pretty damn smart now.
How’s the market for reloading supplies look?
I am temperamentally unsuited for reloading, I think – precision work isn’t really my bag – but I’m thinking about it.
Heh, I just found (no, really!) two boxes of 9mm I had in another box in the garage. Probably 15+ years old. Cheap stuff anyway, but the (sale) price tag on them said $5.99.
** Wistfully considers the Before Times **
I stumbled across 3 boxes of .308 from probably 20 years ago. I’m pretty its corrosive, so its the last ammo I will use. Cleaning an M1A after shooting corrosive ammo is No Fun.
Now that Joe and the ho are in, it’s peace and unity all the way down. He’s even got Beto to run his peace love and forcible removal of all firearms campaign. We don’t need ammo anymore. We’re like 2 years from world peace!
MarksmanTV, really enjoy his perspective and commentary btw, says his wholesale cost on ammo has gone up a little but almost entirely all of the retail price increase is by the retailers.
Price gouging!!!11!1!1
/derp
Wholesale cost has gone up a little, and wholesale supply has gone down like a thirsty camgirl.
Camgirl?
(Yes, SFW)
SFW? How dare you! That shows someone smoking! SMOKING!
I’ll be on my hump.
Somebody’s over feeding Hilldog.
Did you (or anyone else) watch Dick’s Electric Dreams on Prime?
I did. it was… spotty, but not “I regret watching this” bad.
Thanks.
https://rumble.com/vatbzz-bears-having-a-blast-in-backyard-pool.html
Haunebu II
This item was permanently discontinued in June, 2018 at the request of the German government on the grounds that it could lead children to believe that the kit was of an actual nazi craft.
I think the name is supposed to be pronounced, due to the Roman numeral, “Honey Booboo”.
Kristi Noem is hot – and calls Mitt Romney a sissy back-stabber.
If i had known that Biden would cleanse Utah of the Scourge of Romeny as senator, i would have voted for him.
Mittens will claim he was brainwashed by the Republican Party.
https://gellerreport.com/2020/11/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-slams-romney-for-conceding-to-biden-dc-elites-are-eager-to-return-to-business-as-usual.html/
Maybe Mitt can give Democrats advice on concession speeches.
Kristi 2024!!
“The DOJ indicted Kristi Noem on charges of Logan Act violations, pedophila, and foreign influence peddling today based on a laptop that was turned over to them by an anonymous informant. As a result, her campaign suspended operations, issuing a statement that they expected these groundless accusations to be cleared up shortly and that Gov. Noem would return to the campaign.”
Anyone ever get a letter 4883C from the IRS? Easy to resolve?
Is anything from the IRS easy to resolve? I have the simplest taxes you can have and I still want to strangle a muppet when I’m done filling out the 1040ez.
Hmmm… calling and listening to 5 minutes of a littany of letters that can go online but 4883C has to stay on the call, then the call informing me that due to volume I can’t be assisted today, I’m going with no.
“British researchers have analysed a host of Hollywood films to see which female stars strip down to their lingerie and flash the flesh the most from Margot Robbie to Megan Fox”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/hollywood-babes-who-cant-stop-22997821
Go away, researching.
What metric are they using? Exposed skin over time? Do exposed naughty bits count extra? Has there been any real nudity in hollywood recently?
Ok, I think we could actually secure grant money for this.
Astonishingly, actresses with the most toned bodies take their clothes off the most. More at 11.
Also, White.
Also, the first episode makes it seem like this is going to be a monster of the week procedural, which is a lie. The first few episodes are cranking the car up to the top of the coaster. The ride doesn’t really begin until he goes to buy some smack.
Maybe I’ll give it another chance. I’m going to be looking for something new after Utopia is done.
*I might actually re-watch Utopia, to see how much I didn’t pick up on the first time.
“1/ Florida’s @GovRonDeSantis
has drafted legislation that would, in effect, empower armed white vigilantes to kill black people.
DeSantis wants to *expand* FL’s Stand Your Ground law to allow armed citizens to shoot anyone engaged in “criminal mischief” that disrupts business”
https://twitter.com/igorvolsky/status/1326598186794938375
Because only black people commit crime?
Florida just wants to be recognized as part of the south man.
anyone engaged in “criminal mischief” that disrupts business
That’s predominantly white people at the moment.
Self-defense =/= vigilante, you dishonest cunte.
Honestly, I don’t think I’m in favor of this. Not that I think it’s being reported accurately or truthfully, but still…
Not clear on the details of FL law, but generally stand your ground laws mean you have no duty to retreat. They do not change the requirement that you shoot in defense of yourself or others in response to an “objectively” reasonable threat of death or serious bodily harm.
The duty to retreat is bullshit, anyway. I see no reason to confine “stand your ground” to your house.
Something, something, win the battle, lose the war
Expand it too much and you run the risk of a national backlash.
Fact check: Because this is a left-wing argument, and because it uses a magical phrase like “in effect” that lets us read any meaning we want into it, we give it the benefit of the doubt, so “mostly true”.
legislation that would, in effect, empower armed white vigilantes to kill black people
I suspect its drafted without reference to race, in which case its equally accurate to say that it in effect, it empowers armed black vigilantes to kill white people.
“Which is how you’d state it if you wanted to achieve your expressed goal.”
-Dave Chappelle.
Because now there is zero chance you will ever face consequences for your crimes.
“I am feeling better than I have felt in four years,” Clinton told Melanne Verveer, the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. “I feel really happy and relieved, very grateful, excited about the team of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, looking forward to seeing them take the office of president and vice president and bring our country together and get us back on the right track for the future.”
Selling out America. Gotta get that graft train running again.
Melanne Verveer? You KNOW she’s got punch
facecunt.I bet she voted for Trump really. Like when you lose to Germany in the World Cup and you hope that they’ll win it so you can say you got knocked out by the champions. I mean the fact that a senile plagiarist with a crackhead son did better than she did against Trump must feel pretty bad.
Feelings? Minions of the elder gods surrendered their human feelings at the beginning of their servitude. Precondition for employment.
Trump or she wrote in Herself.
W. T. Absolute. F?
I’m guessing the entire thing is an homage to Albright and Clinton, both of whom never did a damn thing for peace and security, and might be women but I’m damn sure not going to check.
‘Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security”
And to think Georgetown was once a respected institution. This is just pathetic identity politics on top of what should be serious issues, but usually aren’t anyway, so whatever….
I bet the Biden/Harris “win” celebration at the Clinton Foundation was off the chain! I wonder how many hookers Bill through on his expense tab.
New Malice today is fucking awesome.
Phil Labonte, metal libertarian and all around cool guy.
Both guys are in rare form. Fun conversation that will make you laugh out loud a lot.
Semi-serious question:
The link is over an hour long. How much of it is actual “new” info, and how much is re-hash of stuff they just talked about 13 minutes ago?
I ask because one of the reasons I got away from listening to talk radio is that in a 3-hour block, there might be 30 minutes of actual information, and 2.5 hours of repeating and commercials.
^^^ Tim Pool is the wost at this. He’ll have a 30 min video, where the first 28 min is him restating the same thing over and over again.
Malice is generally pretty good though.
Heh, or like the place \I worked years ago that would have Rush Limbaugh on every day, and by the end of his show, I felt I had relived the 22 minutes of my life 8 times!
No. Malice is a great interviewer and funny as hell. Phil holds his own.
Thanks – I’ll check it out!
https://twitter.com/i/events/1326803089400098816
At first i thought it said “another Bonaparte Restoration”. Was super intrigued.
Here’s an idea, if you care about really old stuff, stop fucking touching it.
“Hey, buddy . . . .”
Artisanal, Fine-Aged Penises Excluded.
“ Passenger Aboard First Caribbean Cruise Since Shutdown Tests Positive For COVID-19”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/passenger-aboard-first-caribbean-cruise-shutdown-tests-positive-covid-19
COVID Ship II, Electric Boogaloo
That was predictable.
Endemic diseases are endemic. Don’t tell our infectious disease “experts”, though.
However, because Education Secretary Betsy DeVos put her framework in place through a formal rule-making process, unless there is congressional action, the Biden administration will have to go through the same procedures to overhaul the Title IX regulations, which could take as long as two years. DeVos has said her team was “methodical about our rule-making and regulatory moves” to make it more difficult for a subsequent administration to make changes.
Very smart move DeVos. Very smart.
In response to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the state and in an effort to slow the spread, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that “any establishment with a state liquor license, including bars and restaurants, must close at 10 p.m.”
Gauleiter Cuomo can go fuck himself.
“We’ve trimmed across the executive branch throughout the last two years, and there’s more to be done than just trimming,” Pritzker said. “Now we’re going to have to make some serious and, frankly, painful cuts. Those aren’t things that I can do alone. The Legislature has to be right there with us.”
Prediction: No cuts. After Harris…errr…. Biden takes office there will be a bailout of state governments.
A computer model using cellphone data to map the places people frequent every day in large cities may indicate that most COVID-19 infections occur at “superspreader” sites such as full-service restaurants, gyms and cafes.
My first thought was this is an exercise in GIGO and question begging. Then I read the article. It’s an exercise in GIGO and question begging.
unless there is congressional action, the Biden administration will have to go through the same procedures to overhaul the Title IX regulations,
Only if you think the Biden administration will have to abide by the same rules as the Trump administration.
Pretty much. But also it makes Obama’s “Pen and Phone” style of executive decree seem even more stupid in retrospect.
Very smart move DeVos. Very smart.
She’s Education Sec for a reason, ya dummy.
An intelligent and thoughtful SecEd? Do you have any idea how rare that must be? We’re talking albino unicorn here.
DEG: did you hear anything from Commodius Spittoon after Saturday night?
He had some money, cause he just got paid. Last I heard…
I think he posted either Sunday or Monday, I don’t remember which. I remember replying to that comment, but have seen no other response from him.
OK, thanks.
Commodious posted on this thread the day after. I haven’t seen anything else from him since.
It’s an exercise in GIGO and question begging.
I personally know of a pretty good-sized gym that has been operating (“illegally”) at full capacity throughout the panic. Not a single member has gotten the ‘Vid. Anecdata, I know . . . .
Punchline: they have had sheriff’s deputies parked in their parking lot the entire time. They use it for a speed trap.
Not a single member has gotten the ‘Vid
Cmon. They got it. And Nothing Else Happened.
A lot of them work in health care (and the physicians in particular freely ignore the “guidance” from on high). If they were symptomatic, they would get tested because health care workers with symptoms are nearly always tested – hospitals and most physician practices require it.
They lost some members early on, when they complied with the shutdown. I believe the owner realized if he didn’t reopen, he never would, so he just . . . reopened. Because they are one of the few gyms that DGAF, his membership rebounded nicely.
And this is in AZ, where our Gov. Ducey (Idiot – AZ) has made a particular target of gyms, since one in Phoenix had the unmitigated gall to challenge His Royal Authority.
Question. Are you able to kick off cops doing that from your property? I’ve seen cops do it and often wonder how much they get permission to do it vs they just sit and do it without asking for permission.
In theory, yes.
In practice, unwise.
IANAL, but I think that shared parking lots can be considered quasi-public property, i.e, you can restrict to a degree, but can’t just block access.
Also, many times the actual right-of-way for the road is much wider than people think, often well behind the sidewalk, so depending upon their setup, they can claim they’re still in the roadway (and they might be right).
Or, what Scruffy said.
Who are you going to call to enforce a trsspassing complaint against them? Do it yourself and you’re ventillated.
I don’t know who the parking lot belongs to. Probably not the gym. If you are operating illegally, hassling law enforcement seems unwise in any event.
An actual Hypothetical question for the Glib Lawyers.
As Libertarians, we are all very versed in the fact that Cops have no obligation to render you as an individual an services of protection or saftey, etc. However would that hold if it could be shown that a policie department intentionally and in a pre-meditated fashion were refusing to provide services to an individual. For Hypothetical let’s say there is a dispute between a business owner and the police, and then it could be shown that in “unofficial” means there was a general rule against ever responding to a call coming from your business, if one were to come.
a policie department intentionally and in a pre-meditated fashion were refusing to provide services to an individual
If they have no duty to provide services to an individual, then not doing so is not a violation of any duty, whether its negligent or intentional.
Yep
But i think there is a difference between just not providing the service out of course and actively withholding the service from someone.
There is, but the gateway question is “Is there a duty?” If the answer is no, it doesn’t matter why you withheld service.
So it should be totes cool for Depts to start collecting revenue and doing nothing, then.
Oh, wait, nm.
There’s a reason why police departments spend more time on revenue generating activities than on crime-solving activities.
I think, anyway. Based on the number of cops doing things like traffic enforcement and going after victimless crimes, compared to those working on violent and property crimes.
I’m saying, the riots have given them the opportunity to drop any pretense of providing protection and now they can just go full-on highway robbery.
Besides the “going home safe is our #1 job” culture now, I’d suggest that many PDs have become utterly dependent upon the income from their revenue generating work.
It’s now impossible for them to meet their budget if they don’t collect their quota from the populous, and since budgets can’t ever go down, then of course those activities must continue to grow as well.
One small town I lived near for a while had stores with bumper stickers: “, WA: Come on vacation, leave on probation!”
Come on vacation, leave on probation!
HAR DEE FUCKING Eat a bag of dicks, SmallTown,WA.
If the police were a privatized they would be in breach of thier contract.
Their contract pretty explicitly exempts them from an obligation to provide protection.
Of course, they wouldn’t tell you that.
Sounds like Maryland is forfeiting the game. Should go down as a W for an Ohio State University, shouldn’t it?
The object is to preserve your own sanity, no everyone else’s.
Everyone else losing their goddamn minds is going to get ME killed in the process. Hence my interest in preserving THEIR sanity as well…