Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas and what a lovely morning it always is!
Georgia voter fraud hearing shows security video of ballot stuffing.
The list of voter fraud accusations in Georgia.
AZ finds 2% of duplicate ballots took votes away from Trump after judge allows sample to be examined.
40 states to join Antitrust lawsuit against Facebook.
Prepare for the eventual currency crisis.
IRS sent $1,200 stimulus checks to random European citizens.
Beverly Hills and Louisville revolt against dining bans.
Supreme Court gives victory CA church.
This is what happens when the country is inundated with too many fucking Super Hero movies.
Thomas Sowell on Walter E. Williams.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The House already has a Freedom Caucus. Join it.
I doubt it’s intentional, but the Freedom Force name was used in a thematically appropriate way earlier…
Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich
It’s a sequel for a superhero world where you have to fight time traveling National Socialists.
*dons tights*
I’m ready!
I trust AOC more than GOPers talking about freedom.
That’s a depressing thought (and likely reality).
Yeah, I don’t agree with her, but I think she’s earnest.
The Importance of being Earnest and Having a Nice Rack.
She is generally honest in her evilness.
The “Freedom Force” is all “people of color” – because the GOP follows the Dems everywhere they go, including identity politics.
So it’s basically the Power Rangers but they wear white pointy hoods?
Morning, Banjos
If the “Freedom Force” doesn’t have a sentient-but-subservient-AI-driven armored vehicle, I will be disappointed.
Gundam suits and/or LAMs would also b acceptable.
Seen, Unseen, or Reseen?
2% isn’t significant. Definitely not evidence of widespread fraud, which is the ony fraud that matters.
In Az. 2% is about 55,000 votes. Kinda widespread no?
2% of *duplicate* ballots, not all ballots.
“Shush, You!”
So under what reason would it make sense to tell people not to vote in the special election?
If you want a democrat senate.
But it’s the LPs fault the GOP couldn’t avoid the runnoff.
Well, all of you non-voters didn’t vote for the candidate who is entitled to your votes, dontchaknow
The beauty of that is that either party gets to say it when they are the loser.
From what I read, Powell and Lin were saying not to vote UNLESS the GOP takes action to prevent the widespread fraud we saw in the first one. It’s pressure on Kemp and the Rattenberg guy to do something both about the Nov vote and preventing this from happening again in Jan. What’s the point of participating if it’s a rigged process? Trump is still campaigning heavily for the GOP runoff candidates so it’s the dual carrot and stick approach.
The strategy also appears to be working. Kemp just announced they are doing a signature audit in response to the fraud, and it seems like they could revoke certification.
Some good news for a welcome change. I hope that racist fuck gets crushed come January. I don’t know anything about the other Dem but I assume she is awful.
This.
Kemp could call the GA legislature into a special session and they could quickly tighten up rules, even mandate the state police are at trouble spots to ensure observers have access to the counts.
So far Kemp has refused because everything went so great last month.
That is what Wood said and the way the media twisted his meaning is borderline libel/slander. In his intended context he’s 100 percent correct.
He dropped oppo on Loeffler. How is that not telling people to vote for her?
I admire your pluck and resolve during this shit-storm, Banjos. It’s a nice reprieve from the doom and gloom. Thank You! I mean that most sincerely.
+1
Merry Christmas
Nice.
Are you me?
I’ll Be You
Those boys didn’t lift.
In my house, it’s a minimum of 9 strings of white lights on every bush (make your jokes below).
I don’t do ladders or trees.
We have a nice, big lit wreath as well.
We just turn off the outdoor lights like Halloween and Judi visits family. #Notintoxmas
Sad!
No, apathetic. Burned by xmas too many times. Refuse to play along. Fuck it! I’m old enough. Have your fun but it ain’t me, Babe.
Okay, Festusneezer Scrooge.
^ gets it
I’m semi-sorta there with you, but a tiny part of it is that all my Christmas stuff is in storage. The major thing is That Which Was Lost. I did break down and buy a small Norfolk pine and decorated it. I allowed XY to do the house lights. The lights on my 300-light wreath all went out and I’m not restringing it. Well, I might. I do love that wreath. I didn’t put up the kids’ Advent Calendar this year, but they seem too old for it anyway and ignored it most of the time last year. So Christmas Eve, the stockings will get hung and maybe everybody will get some candy.
Even though I don’t participate, Daughter #1 always buys me a Big bag of tube socks every year. It’s a long standing tradition.
Appropriate for a Banjos links:
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/12/02/Reported-burglary-in-California-was-a-dozen-fighting-raccoons
Masks will fix this
Biden will take office at a crucial moment in the fight against drug addiction. Some states are contending with double-digit spikes in overdose deaths, sparse public health workforces are already stretched thin fighting the coronavirus and widening budget deficits brought on by the pandemic could force states to make painful cutbacks to public services.
More than 76,000 people died of a drug overdose between April 2019 and April 2020, according to the most recent preliminary federal data, the most ever recorded during a 12-month period. Federal health officials say the drug crisis has only been amplified by months of social isolation, high unemployment and the diversion of resources to combat the virus.
“Since the pandemic hit we have not been able to control the opioid epidemic,” said Nora Volkow, the long-serving director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in an interview. “Our vulnerabilities have just gotten worse.”
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Earlier this year, there were hopeful signs in the nation’s long-running addiction struggle. In January, the Trump administration celebrated what looked like a turning point: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths in 2018 declined 4 percent that year, the first drop in nearly three decades.
But months later, the public health agency reported preliminary 2019 data showing overdose deaths ticked up 5 percent, with a record 72,000 dead. About two-thirds of those deaths were related to opioids, but deaths from stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamine have also been rising quickly.
Just how much the pandemic has exacerbated the drug crisis this year is still coming into view.
Ohio recorded 543 overdose deaths in May, the most ever in a single month. Overdose deaths in the state this year may even surpass a record 4,800 in 2017, said Dennis Cauchon, president of Harm Reduction Ohio.
“I never thought we could top 2017 levels of death and I was wrong,” he said. “It’s a slaughter out there.”
Oregon reported a 70 percent increase in the number of overdose deaths in April and May compared to the same two months in 2019. In Maine, overdose deaths during the first half of 2020 were up 27 percent from the previous year. Spikes have also been documented in Colorado, Kentucky and Louisiana.
“While unacceptably high for far too long, prior to the pandemic, we were making good progress,” said Caleb Alexander, co-director of Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness. “There were many slivers of hope, and the pandemic has thrown a wrench into the wheel and really disrupted those efforts.”
Put them down as plague deaths. The plague killed those people, not despair or hopelessness. Certainly not government ineptitude.
It is a plague of despair and hoplessness. And the government did everything right, it was those stupid disobedient
tax cattlecitizens not doing what they were told to do that is the problem.that’s what the news media is doing we have over 100k excess deaths not covid related at all they are saying are because of the plague.
More than 76,000 people died of a drug overdose between April 2019 and April 2020
You mean 76,000 died of the commie-cough.
Republican officials in Arizona found that 2% of the duplicate ballots the party was allowed to examine were changed to take votes away from President Trump.
“We got to examine 100 of them,” said Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward. “Guess what? We found two ballots that were changed: One was changed from Trump to Biden; one was just taken away from Trump — for no reason that we can find an explanation for.”
Good enough for government work.
Now we’re starting to see some of the harder evidence come out. I know in my heart of hearts that this is all gonna be swept under the rug and nothing else will happen, but I’ll still feel a tinge of disappointment when that happens. This is one of those watershed moments in this country’s history, and TMITE and the DNC and the GOP will make sure that it’s good and dead before Biden is inaugurated.
And Big Tech… can’t forget big tech.
Can you imagine if the election was legit, and Trump won and we were seeing this ballot stuffing and other anomolies we are seeing now–but that all went Trumps way? 24/7 coverage on every station.
If we were seeing ballot stuffing the other way, the election still wouldn’t be legit.
Sure. We’d have mass mask burning parties. I could get behind that.
https://youtu.be/-N_RZJUAQY4
The only correct answer to someone who asks you the trolly problem.
The correct answer is to throw the “ethicist” into the trolley mechanism to gum up the works and save the innocent people they tied to the tracks.
“You are correct, Sir!”
Id watch that for a dollar !
Freedom Force, eh?
“We’ll force freedom right up your ass!”
*Your freedom may vary
*Side effects may involve anal leakage
Only the freedom to be good people as we see it. Wouldn’t want any of that messy kind of freedom where people do stupid shit to themselves. But this is ENTIRELY different from the freedom those despicable Democrats want to force on you.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! What crawled up your back-side since 11/3? They are all asshoe. Everybody know. If you hate the climate move to one that more suits your mood. I’ve always respected your comments and opinions, juris but lately you are just acting like a fucking jackass.
Check your sarcasm detector.
It’s just that you have nay-said any and all about election impropriety for weeks. I don’t have any dog in this fight but I do own a finely honed sense of “fairness” and “honor”. This election and the events leading up to it stink to high heaven. I’m sorry for being so fucking crass. Do the new video releases nudge your meter in one way or the other? I’m sincerely asking this question.
I have nay-said stories while waiting for facts. Yes, the video is exactly the kind of evidence that to this point has been lacking. That is entirely different from a guy driving a truck that *might* have contained boxes of ballots, or what someone said he heard was supposed to happen (but had no first hand knowledge that it did).
Thanks for that. Still friends?
That depends, pineapple on pizza with Canadian bacon?
I think it’s really the haughty avatar that puts people the wrong way … ; )
Rumpole of the Bailey is pretty near the antithesis of haughty.
I like Hawiian pizza. And deep dish.
Don’t make me call STEVE SMITH in here…
I went to CNN website to see if they mention anything about the Ga. video catching those cunts red handed—absolutely nothing.
There is an article about the Trump childrens plans to profit off of their fathers fallen legacy.
Still no mention of Hunter smoking meth with Asian teens tho. Surprising.
Too local.
ha ha
“News” persons/networks used to be only biased. Now ones like CNN are part of the DNC apparatus. Grinds my gears that they still pretend to be anything but that.
Portlanders actually fighting back against the pigeon feeding parasites in city government.
What a shitty situation.
Homelessness is porto the problem.
You know urinal lot of trouble when Portlanders fight back.
That stretch smells of desperation.
They should cart all of them over to the mayor’s house and drop them there.
I’d chip in for a helicopter delivery.
people experiencing homelessness
*rolls eyes*
Sinks and toilet paper dispensers have been stolen; units have been spray-painted, burned and tipped on their sides; objects have been thrown in toilets, making them unusable.
Hafer said around 30 of the units had been declared a total loss.
*shocked face*
I bet most of the damage was caused by bums.
Sorry – doesn’t fit the narrative.
*MASS NARROWED GAZE*
That Sowell link was beautiful.
Thomas Sowell is one of my personal heroes. So was Walter Williams. The world is a poorer place without Dr. Williams, and it will be a sad, sad day when Dr. Sowell leaves us as well.
^^
+1
We have lost 1/2 of the Dynamic Duo. I cut (some) of my baby libertarian teeth on the those two gentlemen. Both write in a way that newbies can understand. There may be others out there but not have emerged to be the successors of Tom and Walter. Still a few of their books I’ve not read, though, so I can still enjoy their writings.
Thanks, Banjos, for the link.
RIP Walter, can not be said often enough.
+1 RIP
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9017489/Guests-Brussels-daddy-orgy-thought-cops-act-host-claims.html
Lmao.
LOL
Dude has a seriously nasty neckbeard. I hope those hookers were paid well.
Ha!
Unpossible. Badthinkfullness is America-only.
pssst – every Muslim ruled country in the world.
You only think that because you’re an Islamophobe! Any apparent badthinkfullness by noble PoC is an illusion caused by colonializaiton and hte white cisheteropatriarchy!
Just heard on the teevee:
“The people I talk to think we’re going to come out of this okay.”
How many of the people you talk to have missed a single paycheck this year, you odious fucking blockhead?
jfc. Gitmo.
Sure, take ’em to Gitmo – then throw them over the fence to their paradise.
On this and many other questions, we can agree.
I don’t get what a signature audit is gonna do. the signature envelopes should already be discarded.
Even if not discarded, are the ballots back inside them after counting?
Georgia voter fraud hearing shows security video of ballot stuffing.
And yet the calm of my tits remains damaged because the GOP is a bunch of useless cucks that is more OP and less G. Powell/Wood have a point about R voters not supporting party candidates if the party does not support the president and de-facto party head that enjoys 95% support among party voters.
Example: This faux conservative and carpetbagging cunte.
Romney said, “Well, the attorney general has said there’s no there, there. The courts have all looked at the evidence and said there’s no evidence there. Now, of course, there will be circumstances where one or two, or a handful, maybe even 100 ballots were incorrectly sent in or counted, and those things get adjusted and get fixed, but the idea of widespread fraud is simply not been shown to us. And if that evidence does exist, please show it to us. At this stage, we don’t see it. So, for the president or anyone else to go out and allege widespread fraud and say the election is rigged, and the election was stolen, that obviously strikes at the very foundation of democracy here, and around the world for that matter. People watch America. If we can’t have a free and fair election, how can they have it in other nations of the world? This is critical for the whole cause of democracy. Russia and China have to be laughing, smiling from ear to ear. This is critical for the preservation of the very democracy and freedom that’s important for our country and for others.”
Translation: Roll over and die so we can sell out the country to a leftist, globalist cabal.
…to a leftist, globalist cabal
Davos – the ultimate cocktail party, amirite?
[golf clap]
I’d like to see Romney smiling from ear to ear, but I might mean something more permanent than a grin.
Who are you going to believe, the Dems or your lying eyes
I’ll believe whatever tall tale that your Gelfling babbles next! She’s friggen adorable!
DOOM!
BabyDOOM is the cutest ever. I hope all of you are doing well!
TUNDRA! We’re doing pretty well. We had a great Thanksgiving, and got to see half the family.
The other half is mad we broke the rules by seeing another human being.
A fortnight from her first birthday!
Good for you. Most of my family are Branch Covidians, so I feel your pain.
Fuck ’em. You have a short time on this rock and wasting opportunities to be together is downright immoral.
Ladydoom was saying “they’re going to kill themselves looking back and missing her first birthday and Christmas for no reason”
It’s just sad. She changes so much every day.
Some of them haven’t seen her since before she could sit.
“Look everybody, I’m being interviewed on teevee over the phone. Yesterday, I ordered some caviar from Amazon. We’re innovating our way out of this economic hiccup. Let the good times roll!”
The list of voter fraud accusations in Georgia.
But before that I am calling a stop on the commenting. We have to stop for the morning for, um, reasons. *thinks* Uh…there was a pipe-burst or something. So yeah, we are done here until further notice.
*drags box of undocumented ballots from under table*
Why are you using Mexican ballots?
He would use Australian ballots, but they were all locked down.
They’re doing the voting that Americans won’t.
Perhaps should of said “untraceable”.
And “comments”, not ballots. Fucked up the entire joke. *gets coffee*
everybody at that polling place needs to be carefully interrogated.
in all honesty that video completely fits my cognitive biases to a degree that I’m suspicious of it.
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/12/fact-check-video-from-ga-does-not-show-suitcases-filled-with-ballots-pulled-from-under-a-table-after-poll-workers-dismissed.html
Here’s this morning’s alleged debunking.
That totally explains why Fulton county was trying to (and partially successful at) wiping the voting machines. Nothing to hide at all.
Here’s a thing that sticks in my craw.
Why does the word of officials constitute a “fact check”?
Sure, run an article showing their side of the story but the word of officials is not to be automatically assumed as fact.
Fact checking is the process of making inconvenient facts conform to the narrative. Nothing must bring the narrative into question.
This can cut both ways, as narratives are not the exclusive domain of the left.
It doesn’t but most people don’t think.
The officials are the ones that should be under investigation.
I want sworn statements from those people and blonde braids woman. Among other things.
Cross examination under oath, or them taking the 5th.
Yeah, me too. But I went to school in GA, the state is generally dumb enough to just brute force things in the dumbest way possible. Probably all uga grads.
Hey now! Just because some of us went there after Reactor Physics (and the German speaking, unintelligible instructor for 2nd order DiffEqs) kicked out butt, doesn’t mean we’re less…. capable… than Tech …. um… I’ll just see myself out.
Congrats on making it as far as Diffy-Qs. Usually if you get that far, its downhill form there.
Reactor Physics may have been my favorite class ever.
Story time: my roommate was a math major, his senior year he was TAing freshman calculus. A friend of ours asked for requirements to get the job, my roommate said basically you needed straight As thru the calculus series. Our friend replied, “I was hoping having taken them all twice would be in favor.” He is an ME, he graduated with a GPA just barely above 2.0, but he made it through. His grades got dramatically better once he got to ME classes. He spent most of his first 3 years bouncing on and off of probation.
You lie. I didn’t go to school in Georgia.
My roomate in my Sophomore year was back after being probationed for being in the Square Root Club during his Freshman year.
Agreeing with robc here.
I’m a lifelong GA resident and quite the yokel, even when wearing my Engineer hat. I don’t know about other states, but to me it’s hard to imagine a state government more classically dumb/corrupt/forceful. And they all think it’s normal.
Louisiana? At least historically….
But on the county level, Fulton and Dekalb have been setting the benchmark for decades. If they’ve got their machine tuned enough to spin the state gov now, it isn’t surprising it is corrupt and laughably so — they’re not really used to being called on it often.
Dekalb seems even worse than Fulton to me. I think that is because of the large bulbs on the north and south of Fulton that kind of keep the center in check.
Illinois snickers behind its hand.
I present to you the dumbest idea proposed through this entire shitshow of a year:
To Save Lives, Let’s Move Christmas To July (TW: New woke Cracked).
In local news, surprising no one, DeWine (Cunte – OH) vetoed the bill that would remove his authority to issue statewide orders. It currently looks like it’s on track for a veto override in the state Senate next week, but the state House needs a couple more votes (3 Republicans were not present at the last vote).
To Save Lives, Let’s Move Christmas To July (TW: New woke Cracked).
LOL
The good news? The COVID vaccine will start rolling out this month to select high-risk groups, and it looks like 100% of Americans who want it can have it by June. The ones who don’t want it will, presumably, receive an ass-beating instead.
And then we all have a Merry Christmas.
Said every craft store ever.
We had all the same bs restrictions this past July…
This person is not serious. (or is seriously a mendacious, tyranny-enabling cunte.)
If we’d just rename it ‘Winter Holiday’ so that no one is offended, then we could safely move it to July. Makes perfect sense, in a prog sort of way.
Jobs Report day:
“Some people probably still have jobs, but we don’t really know how many.”
Hey everyone! Hope everything is going well. It feels like Ive been away forever.
Babydoom is fully walking. So, toddler doom?
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/short-bed-1981-toyota-sr5-comes-with-rare-black-and-silver-overalls-152474.html
Hey, Doom. Enjoy the kid!
This the first kid?
Always amazing the horrifying spills they take as they learn to walk/run.
The first kid is always scooped up and hugged/inspected after they wipe out and bonk their heads on the coffee table as they fall. The the third kid, you just yell at the kid for spilling the beer you had on the coffee table.
If I had a toddler running around now, I would cringe just thinking of how long it would take me to recover if I wiped out like that. Amazing how much of a beating their little bodies can take.
Also: Enjoy discovering that they will use their newfound mobility solely to find dangerous objects to play with. They will toddle right around all their nice safe toys just so they can go pull out drawers and climb up on the kitchen counter to get a knife. Bonus points if wife comes back from shopping to find her baby toddling around the living room with scissors while you nap on the couch.
Yeah she’s number 1.
She’s very fast and prefers things that will hurt.
She also learned what an ear is.
And then put her first in my mouth. Then gave me a wet willie.
Then laughed.
I live with a tyrant. L
All toddlers as asshole! Some grow out of that phase.
But a cute little tyrant.
2,506 felons voted.
66,248 underage registered.
2,423 voted w/out registration.
1,043 address a Post-Office.
4,926 registered late.
10,315 dead people.
395 cast ballots in another state.
15,700 filed national change of address.
40,279 moved.
100+ affidavits.
According to juris, that isn’t real evidence.
Now, on each of those lists, I bet 20% is BS. Probably only 8000 or so of the dead people are really dead, the others are legit voters with similar names/addresses or something. Like if I still lived with my Mom, I could end up on a list of dead voting because me Dad is dead.
Of course, for every wrong person on the list, there are probably 3 that were missed.
I’m just stuck on “biden is more popular than Obama, even though Trump gained share in almost every demographic”
2 ways to explain that
1) suburban white women went for Biden, hard
2) there were ballots unaccounted for in the exit polls
I’ll leave it as an exercise for you to decide which is more likely.
“1) suburban white women went for Biden, hard”
Trump increased his share of white female votes from 2016.
And he increased his share of the black vote and his share of the latino vote.
I guess that leaves white men? It’s laughable that white men lost the election for Trump.
Even if he tripled his share among D voting blocks, an increased turnout still helps Biden more.
I have trouble believing turnout was as high as indicated, or required. Especially in areas where the required turnout would need to be 90-120%. Gropey Joe couldn’t get people to show up for rallies, he’s not going to get record highest ever people to bother to vote.
Also, an increase in turnout should be nationwide, not just in key strategic districts in key swing states.
Apparently he only motivated voters in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona.
*and then only in select few areas of said states where othee questionable things went down.
I think that’s a myth. Turnout was never that high anywhere.
This.
How is that not plausible? Unless you believe that campaign activites are nothing but placebos, You would expect increased results in areas with better resources and/or more competent people involved. Biden outspent Trump. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that his GOTV game was more effective than Trump’s in some places.
So much more so than every previous and more active campaign had? With fewer ‘boots on the ground’ and no new strategies? So effective that in some places they got more people to vote than lived in the area?
//Metoo
It is complete bs.
If that’s just a set of numbers you made up – yeah not real. Not sure what link that is from.
Again as for Biden, in PA his best performances (over Clinton and Obama) were not in Philly or Pittsburgh, it was in the Philly suburbs and the rest of the state. No, I don’t think people loved voting for Biden, but plenty loath Trump. It’s like people here can’t see that, which is weird because they know Trump is an asshole but then seem to think that just doesn’t matter.
I’ve dealt with the flip side of this on FB with my friends. I’ll point out something that Trump is doing (or at least attempting) and get them to agree that it is a good thing – and they still fall back on “but Trump”. So policy, economics, all of the stuff that is supposed to matter, doesn’t seem to really matter. I believe people voted that way, as stupid as it might seem (either their voting, or my belief).
I agree. About the only thing I liked about Trump was his attack on the “deep state”. The funniest think is he would have been a gawdawful president if Pelosi had been willing to work with him. He would have gone along with all kinds of things. But Rand Paul seemed like the only person who got it. He will make a “deal” on just about anything is you are willing to let him take credit for it and talk about what a great deal he made negotiating.
Their hatred of him made him into a semi-decent President.
From a link above.
I didn’t vote for Trump, I criticized on here those who said they were going to vote for Trump. I don’t care if Biden wins, but I think the statistics look wonky. I just want non-fraudulent elections…you probably saw my posts before the election pushing national change to the ME/NE plan. I was right, that would make any fraud that did occur much less effective.
I just want non-fraudulent elections
Good luck with that especially when you have 50 states running them.
Maybe that’s the amendment we need – take away the state winner-take-all allocation, and make it by Congressional district with the statewide vote winner getting the other two EVs.
So you want the federal government dictating, to the ostensibly autonomous states that ostensibly granted few and limited powers to the federal government, how to choose electors?
Yeah, that’ll rein in the federal government.
Of course, it would need to be a Constitutional amendment, so it wouldn’t be the feds dictating to the states.
And for that very same reason, it will never happen.
You just need the 38 smallest states to support the idea.
The big ones don’t want their power dilluted. CA and TX and FL and NY don’t want their vote split up.
But the smaller states? It doesn’t matter as much to them, and as this election shows, it allows states like ME and NE to assign their electors more in line with the people. 1 Trump vote from ME, 1 Biden vote from NE.
Yes. The Amendment process specifically allows for that. Maybe we could pair it with getting rid of the direct election of Senators?
Now you’re talking.
That is exactly the Amendment I have been suggesting. For fraud protection. Since before the 2016 election. Maybe longer.
Just think how much better America would be if people would listen to me?
Well, if you didn’t advocate land taxes, you wouldn’t come off as crazy.
Oh no, I have plenty of ideas that make me sound crazy.
The Town Flake stood up to speak. He is an old and addled gentleman with hair in long, white tangles — WASP dreadlocks. He’s been making a complete and utter pest of himself at town meetings for over thirty years. He owns his own mimeograph machine and runs off reams of smudgy philippics accusing town government of incompetence and waste. He knows all the regulations in Robert’s Rules of Order and uses them until he has to be shushed by the moderator or shouted down by the townspeople. And he is always and invariably right on every issue. — PJ O’Rouke, from Parliament of Whores
Look at these wideeyed optimists-
https://www.axios.com/mayors-survey-covid-worries-dacfada2-0eeb-4707-8b71-d943c3d5b199.html
This year, 45% of mayors foresee “dramatic” cuts to school budgets, while 38% expect big cuts to parks and recreation and 35% to mass transit.
“Only around one-third expect small businesses that closed due to the COVID-19 economy will be quickly replaced by new ones,” according to a news release.
The mayors paint a bleak outlook for city centers, with 60% anticipating a permanent reduction in in-person retail shopping and the same percent saying that downtown office buildings will become “less desirable.”
Yeah, the company that was going to move into the space vacated by my shut-down creperie has backed out of the deal. Unfortunately, I am no longer plugged into the downtown merchants gossip loop, so I don’t know what’s going to happen now.
I’m surprised when anyone floats the idea of moving to or opening up in New York. It’s such a toxic business environment I’m surprised I don’t see more rows of abandoned commerical real estate than I already do.
LOL. I had a customer tell me that I should open a store up there. I actually laughed at him and had to apologize.
it’s pretty horrific. Noone wants to take an L either so you have clearly abandoned business’s noone wants to admit are closed forever on either the land lord or the business owners side. Like 2008 noone want’s to admit it’s over they’ll put off writing off the bad debt as long as they possibly can. It’s going to be very very ugly when the dust settles.
Yeah… in the long ago, whenever there was a new brewery planning on opening, by default I would add 18 months to the estimated opening date (12 if it was their third location), even then I was usually undershooting the delay in getting up and running. Now, take people without the capital (because they lost their previous jobs, and had to burn through savings), and I’m expecting a huge number of empty store fronts.
Not to mention, who’s going to want to open a sit down restaurant or bar when you now know for a fact that the government will change your hours and the rules on a fucking whim?
My falafel joint has closed until 2021 according to a sign in their window. I’m rapidly running out of reasons to go downtown.
We’ve got some places that have closed until next Spring (outdoor seating on the shores of Lake Erie in winter doesn’t work too well) as they weren’t making enough in dine in/take out. Some places shifted just to take out/catering (no idea who the fuck they’re catering to). Some closing for a couple weeks at a time here and there. Some places permanently closed, never to return again (including at least one 100 year old business).
It used to be the girlfriend and I would go to Tremont once a month, grab some drinks, and some food at one of the restaurants in the area. I think the last time we did that was back in June.
“Only around one-third expect small businesses that closed due to the COVID-19 economy will be quickly replaced by new ones,” according to a news release.
The mayors paint a bleak outlook for city centers, with 60% anticipating a permanent reduction in in-person retail shopping and the same percent saying that downtown office buildings will become “less desirable.”
But- Entrepreneurial Spirit!
Nobody would ever look at the last six months, and the crypto-Stalinist phenomenon of random government functionaries declaring businesses to be non-essential based on nothing but whimsy and personal preference, and say, “I can’t justify the time, money and effort, in the face of that sort of risk.”
Would they?
that was the one part of the poll that surprised me I figured that number would be much higher given how retarded are managerial class is.
Every single cunt GOP or Dem hack that concern trolls about disenfranchised voters having their ballots tossed need to remember that every fraudulent vote disenfranchised a real constituent, and that the dead and made up voters aren’t the ones that will be rioting with pitchforks.
the dead and made up voters aren’t the ones that will be rioting with pitchforks.
‘Sokay. Neither will the live ones.
Good morning, Banjos!
Both pistoffnick and I heartily approve of your musical selection. Thanks!
Sowell’s tribute to WW is fantastic! So thanks for that as well.
I have no real insight on the election stuff, other than I can’t see how this is sustainable. Whichever way this breaks, half the country (more?) sees the government as illegitimate. As a libertarian this fills my heart with joy. As a dude who has taken 53 trips around the sun, I am concerned about how the understandable anger manifests and what the powerful are willing to do to maintain. Interesting times.
I hope all of you have a great day. I’m going to ponder what people will write about me after I drop and correct as necessary!
I pray for peaceful divorce.
I fear the worst.
“Both pistoffnick and I heartily approve of your musical selection. Thanks!”
Indeed, I do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxeg5a4-epw
Punk rock changed our lives!
It makes me happy every time I hear it.
As a dude who has taken 53 trips around the sun
If he’d just stop and ask for directions!
– Mrs. Tundra
A good war oughtta be able to pull left and right together.
The state Republican Party is also putting forward a data scientist testifying to over 100,000 unique cases of illegal ballots.
Sure, but where is your evidence?
Let’s be honest. My Sunday column is as good as the median data scientist.
So what I am wondering about…federal law allows a fine and up to 5 years in jail for election fraud. Is that a one time charge, or can we stack them and charge someone per ballot?
If you faked 10k ballots, could you get 50000 years in jail? Or still just 5 max?
Honestly the way the law reads, I would think the latter, but the way prosecutors tend to charge in other cases, I would expect the former.
Having said that, I still think it would be one charge per race, so if you mucked about with both the presidency and the senate race, that would be two charges.
Five years plus one day per faked ballot.
The Biden/Harris administration will begin with one hundred days of universal atonement.
One. Hundred. Days. Such a conveniently round number. Not bolstered by any evidence of why that number works so much better than 86 or 107. Just a vague assurance that this act of public penitence will cause “a significant reduction.”
“On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask – not forever, just 100 days.”
Where have we heard that before?
Seems like an appropriate place for this:
Shut Up and Take It
Local press has been running scare stories this whole fucking week (all of them requiring a subscription… so no):
EXPERTS! EXPERTS WILL SAVE US!
“Should Governor DeWine recind all of his orders and commit appology seppuku?”
Enemy of the people.
This is not ever going to end without violence is it?
People In Massachusetts have been wearing face masks everywhere, indoors and outdoors, non-stop for the last 200 days. And the cases/deaths are rising again. But I’m sure another 100 days will fix it.
I’ll take the blame on Mass cases. I don’t wear a mask when I’m doing yardwork or driving by myself in the car
Fuck off, slavers.
Dear Joe,
We’ve been wearing the fucking masks forever. They don’t fucking work. Go piss up a rope you addled hair sniffer.
“ask” – if Biden were to actually ask, rather than order, I’d ask him to fuck off.
Prepare for the eventual currency crisis.
With the runs on tp resuming I am going to need something with which to wipe my ass.
If you lived in GA, you’d probably have enough junk mail ballots for the runoff to last awhile.
every fraudulent vote disenfranchised a real constituent, and that the dead and made up voters aren’t the ones that will be rioting with pitchforks.
Those voters were probably white. They deserve to be disenfranchised for their blood guilt.
IRS Sent $1,200 Stimulus Checks to Random European Citizens
Not random, the people running the US election servers in Frankfurt. *adjusts tinfoil*
The stimulus checks are still the least-worst part of CARES.
“On the first day I’m inaugurated, I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask. Just 100 days to mask – not forever, just 100 days.”
And if that doesn’t work, we’ll make you wear them for another 100 days, and we’ll start executing anybody not wearing a mask.
We’ll whip this virus one way or another.
I actually put a high probability that he asks and then the press and him pretend it worked magic as cases fall because the vaccine and coming out of winter.
Someone screenshot this fuckin nostradamus
Is he going to ask or “ask”? My firm belief is it’ll be the latter.
I need to start working on a way to stamp
“DISPLAY ONLY”
on a mask.
So nobody walks in LA?
LA Mayor Bans Unnecessary Walking As Part Of New COVID-19 Restrictions //NotTheBee
Good thing all of my walking is necessary.
But this guy hardest hit.
White Injun hardest hit.
I believe there may be a gamboling exception
Axially, I wonder how much custom stamps cost, these days.
A long time ago, I had a friend who owned a body shop. He had a stamp with “BULLSHIT” in big block letters, just for correspondence with insurance adjusters.
I kinda like this mask
Too niche for me. I like the “Remain Terrified Question Nothing” mask, except I could do without the “Remain Asleep” at the end.
Not much, you can get them for under $20
A real stimulus would be ending all licensing and red tape to these people who have lost everything.
Make it almost free to get back to producing.
this a million times. It won’t happen though in fact I expect the opposite, the muni’s are going to do anything and everything possible to avoid the coming haircut which is enormous.
Vermont just said they’re going to raise property taxes 9%
blood from a turnip. I hope they are happy with all the worthless property they are going to have to maintain in the coming years. That shit is actually insane though.
the muni’s are going to do anything and everything possible to avoid the coming haircut
Oh, pish. I think we all know the money printer will bail them out.
You’re absolutely correct but we’ll only get that in the United States of Fantasyland.
Newly elected GOP politician vows ‘Freedom Force’ will form to counter AOC’s ‘Squad’
Something like this?
Can the GOP outstupid The Squad? Stay tuned, same Freedom Force time same Freedom Force channel!
Friday Funbags wants to do some ballot stuffing.
https://archive.li/keHLB
#55 FTW
Cucks.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/22/meet-the-men-offering-their-sperm-to-strangers-online-but-only-if-they-can-do-natural-insemination-8166317/
If they do that they’re on the hook for child support.
Henny Youngman did that joke first.
Self-described philanderthropist donates sperm all over town?
Don’t care if you don’t like Ayn Rand, but CNN and Joe are behaving exactly as the villains in Shrugged.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoZJu-9XUAIOdkE?format=jpg&name=large
They’re worse than Pravda.
If anything the past 8 months have shown Ayn was too charitable to her villains.
Repeating my joke:
People criticize Rand for having 2D cardboard cutout villains. This is a fair criticism, because they have 1 less dimension in real life.
Surprised they can type with a cock in their throat.
Joe looks a little confused in that picture.
LOL
Imagine being that pathetic.
“Now now, let’s not go on arguing and bickering over who impeached who. This is a HAPPY occasion!”
My 78 year old dad is asking me about Bitcoin and Coinbase. Libertarian moment? He is very worried about inflation and I can’t blame him. I have to help him do basic stuff on his PC. I can’t imagine him loosing $10K because he didn’t remember what the website or password he used was. I’ll suggest he goes for Au or Ag coin instead.
I’m WFH this week, but I’m getting by by having a soundtrack today. Love this song and this artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht9vaZDS0u8
Oh, good choice.
Is he set on currency trading? Seems like a great way to lose or gain a lot of money. High risk, high reward.
Bitcoin has surged like 100% over the last month. I’ve really not seen anything to indicate that this is a permanent change in price level, rather than a speculative boom. I’d stay out of buying it for now.
The US gov has printed 26% of it’s total currency in the last 8 months so like bitcoin might be a decent investment.
That’s what was driving me to look for some sort of stable non-Weimar republic type of wealth storage beyond stocks or bonds. My cash savings are for emergencies, if everyone has the same emergency, my bucks are worthless.
I’m trying to keep my dad away from any risk these days. He ate a big shit sandwich after retiring in 1999 by keeping all of his retirement in stocks. He is not the most savvy when it comes to computers, the internet, or investing in general.
Having some Au and Ag coins would be a better way to balance risk against the market. There is little one can invest in that will beat inflation today away from the volatile market. Precious metals are no way to grow your investment, but they will always have some value (barring alchemy or SMOD dropping Au rocks on us).
There is little one can invest in that will beat inflation today
Assuming adequate storage space, but non-perishable goods that you know you’re gonna need in the future. With the impending inflation, those things are selling at a discount right now. If you can’t increase your income, decrease your expenses.
On that note, I’ve noticed some non-perishable goods have been in short supply at the store recently. As an example, red beans have been gone from the local grocery store for the past month or so.
Dominican invasion?
Precious metals are kind of scary because if/when hyperinflation crushes us they are just going to artificially set a ceiling on it’s value and buy it from you under the threat of a gun. See the Trading with the enemy act 1917 and Emergency Bank act of 1933
My gold? Oh, you mean the bags of gold coins that fell out of my boat into the lake last year.
but they will always have some value
The value they have is not all that different from the value the dollar has. It is all about what people believe.
In any normal circumstance, the dollar would already have devalued, but because it is the reserve currency of the world, everything else floats along with it. If the euro project had succeeded, we’d be in a lot more trouble, and no one in the right mind would jump to the yuan from the dollar. So here we are.
I advise against Bitcoin as a strategy for a 78yo. It’s too volatile.
Considering Kommiela’s naked ambition, what are the odds Joe even makes it to inauguration?
If she can hold out for two years before pushing him aside she can run for two more terms after the first one where she takes his place. That just might be enough to stay her hand.
The real power struggle will be between Jill Biden and Kamala Harris.
“Ha! The jokes on you! I have sucked cock.” NTTAWWT.
https://twitter.com/ThePlaylist/status/1333488101159694337
He strikes me as more on a salad tosser.
When will they go after Will Smith, Robin Williams and all the other straight actors who have played gay characters?
He should have said “will you cocksuckers just give it a rest?”
Facebook has taken down the video of ballot stuffing in GA. Citing “false information”
Where is my shocked face?
Explanation—-
Does security camera video show a Fulton County, Georgia, election supervisor suspiciously pulling suitcases filled with ballots from under a table after telling poll workers to leave the room? And did that election official continue to illegally count ballots without required monitors in a manner that calls into question Joe Biden’s narrow win over Donald Trump in Georgia? No, those claim are not true: Two high-level officials with the Georgia secretary of state’s office and a state elections board monitor each told Lead Stories that their investigations revealed nothing suspicious in the video. The officials said the ballots seen in the video were in regular ballot containers — not suitcases — and they had been removed from their envelopes and processed while news media and election observers for the Republican Party and Trump campaign were present. The media and party observers were never told to leave because counting was over for the night, but they apparently followed workers who left once their job of opening envelopes was completed, the chief investigator for the secretary of state told Lead Stories. The observers were free to return at anytime, she said. Georgia law allows observers, but does not require them to be there for ballots to be counted, she said.
The claims made at a Georgia state senate hearing by a Trump lawyer appeared in a video posted on YouTube on December 3, 2020, BY Trump’s campaign titled “Video from GA shows suitcases filled with ballots pulled from under a table AFTER poll workers left” (archived here). The video description read:
The explanation is more damning than the video itself. lmao. good lord.
As I said above, this does sound plausible and deserves to be printed as news.
However, i’m unclear how the word of any government official — especially an anonymous one — constitutes a fact check.
A witness says they were sent home. An anonymous government official saying they weren’t is not a “fact check”.
Those were legitimate boxes and not suitcases ? ok then. that should be easy to fact check for real. how does an official word count as that fact check?
Why did every single news organization say they were closing the polling place and stopping counting? did they just simultaneously all decide to make that shit up? this is fishy.
I could be persuaded by the fact check if the journalo had gone to the GOP poll watchers and asked them – on the record – if they had left because they followed those other workers out or if they had been asked to leave.
And yes, the officials providing the explanation should all be named.
Election officials should also be pulling in each and every one of the people seen in that video and grilling them about what is shown. Were you told to leave? Were those actual official vote containers? And the testimony from those workers should all be public.
* I thought I heard the lawyer on the clip explain that they wondered if pulling votes out from under the table was normal and had gone back to look at the rest of the day’s voting and that was the only time votes were “stored” under a table.
the officials providing the explanation should all be named.
Named / on record with the journo’s and have no problem signing sworn statements.
“without evidence”
I was under the impression that poll watchers were told to leave because of a non-existent water leak.
no that was fake news they are going with something different now. We have always been counting without poll workers.
*watchers.
As noted, we haven’t always had them – the law allowing but not requiring. And of course if you should happen to be in Chicago, and not a trusted operative of the one party in power, well then, Chicago
muscleLE would be happy to escort you from the premises.Election integrity (or in Chicago, et al, the lack thereof) was always a given.
I believe the leak happened earlier in the evening.
This was the “Hey, we’re shutting down to get some rest we will be back in the morning.” thing.
I thought a leak never occurred. Somebody actually checked, and nobody was called to fix a leak, or something like that.
See this
The official reaction, from unnamed officials because it’s too hard for journalists to ask the person spinning events what their name is, is that it didn’t mean what it looks like it means, and so our friends running social media are gonna label it as fake news or scrub it from your search feed entirely.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Well, the Russian collusion investigation ended when an unnamed White House official stated that it didn’t happen.
I just view FB banning a video or a statement as a “Fact Check: True but inconvenient” now anyway.
I assume the videos are from fixed cameras. It should be easy enough to watch the table uninterrupted to see if the containers were placed under the table after the ballots were placed in them or if they magically appeared from under the table.
The tapes just have a couple of failure points where nothing could have possible changed.
Citing “false information”
The video/cameras can be located, there is time/date information, etc. Wtf is Zuckerbot playing at? We are full Orwell at this point.
Looks like the Gaston Glock Style webstore is shutting down, and their prices are ~75% off. Meaning they’ve gone from being stupidly expensive to just very pricey. However, if you’re looking for backpacks in moose or yak leather or knives made from scrapped Hun battleships it’s an option. I’m thinking of picking up some socks and/or boots.
Ah man, that knife’s sweet.
Tee Hee. For $40 and this description, I’ll buy a pair:
although I hunt neither ibex nor marmot.
If I want to hunt marmots. I can shoot them from my office window. No need for fancy boots.
If I’m going to pay that much for a knife, I’m going to find the craftsman and have it done custom to my specifications.
I don’t care where the steel comes from as long as it’s quality and properly forged.
They have meteorite ones available too, if you need it to kill a particular supernatural creature.
But the blade geometry of pretty much all their knives is not to my liking. Neither aesthetically nor functionally.
The chef’s knives and the leopard steel bowie were the exceptions.
The one with the
unicornnarwhal grip?Yes, but I’m not shelling out five grand for it.
The grip shape should be a little more ergonomic at that price.
I have a knife with that blade shape. I’ve field dressed several deer with it. Probably my best knife for that particular task.
I’d get arrested if I shot the whitetailed rats around here.
Aaaand you might want to check out: https://www.gastonglockstyle.com/hunting-apparel/mens-hunting-clothes/hunting-apparel-gloves.html
“finest reindeer leather”
They look like women’s gloves.
And the same product page is linked from the women’s attire side too… Same picture, same price, same description.
https://www.facebook.com/LiontribeDesigns/
This guy does some interesting stuff.
Also available: goat leather underwear
Not my fetish, but surely there are Welshmen lurking.
Sriously, how could you resist this ad copy?
I can already feel the goat caressing my balls.
GOAT or goat?
Dude, that underwear used to be exclusively the purview of submarine captains!
Goat ropers everywhere get as hard as Tirpitz steel thinking about this.
Moose leather backpack incoming because why the fuck not?
Nice. All the feather Indians that I’ve ever known just chuck the remains into the nearest body of water. Gee, wonder why we have a endemic problem of tainted drinking water on reserves up here? It’s a riddle wrapped in a sausage casing.
Oh this makes sense. Im sure it will all be on the up and up. And if not CNN will be all over it.’
https://m.theepochtimes.com/firm-that-conducted-audit-of-georgia-voting-machines-has-long-history-with-dominion_3604466.html?utm_source=parler
“Noah Cyrus apologizes after Candace Owens calls her out for a racist term in a social media post defending Harry Styles after the conservative pundit’s call to ‘bring back manly men’
Noah Cyrus said Thursday she was mortified after using a racist remark to defend Harry Styles after Candace Owens’ call to ‘bring back manly men.’
The 20-year-old sister of Miley Cyrus was defending the Watermelon Sugar singer when she made the remark, presumably at the expense of conservative commentator Candace Owens.
The Nashville native said in an Instagram Stories post that Styles looks ‘better than any of u nappy a*s heauxz’ in his dress.
In response, Owens hit back saying: ‘Any one of woke liberals care to explain to me how @noahcyrus calling me a ‘nappy a*s hoe’ is not racist? I’m all ears. You guys love cancel culture. @mileycyrus come get your sister!’ ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9016525/Noah-Cyrus-apologizes-using-racist-remark-defend-Harry-Styles-amid-Candace-Owens-row.html
heauxz??
Faux French makes it extra hip. And Noah, for a girl? WTF Billy Ray.
Dear Dierdre in Appalachia.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13374892/wild-sex-hot-cousin-cheat-girlfriend/
|She pulled me in to her and said, “You’ve always been the cousin I fancied.”
…as opposed to the other cousins she banged ?
Nice brag.
example #1000000239974 that british people are trashier than the worst peckerwoods in this country.
Well, it is an island nation. Expect some sort of cold sore about three days after visit.
C’mon man! I keep doing my best to uphold the best white-trash standards due SW Ohio. Sadly, I dont have any hot cousins or siblings.
Real white-trash doesn’t care if they’re hot – just as long as they’re available.
The stimulus checks are still the least-worst part of CARES.
Yes. If the government is going to expressly forbid people to go to work, they bear a responsibility to them.
I’m very much against this. Attempting to ameliorate government overreach will only lead to further overreach. The less “stimulus” being printed out, the quicker the torches and pitchforks come out, and the quicker they stop playing at public health saviors.
Besides the government doesn’t have any money, it’s just taking from the left pocket of the public and putting it into the right pocket.
Same here. Compounding authoritarianism with robbery (or forgery, depending on your view of freshly printed fiat currency) doesn’t really make things better.
Come on man, I bought one round of 9mm with that check.
“California to be locked down for THREE WEEKS: Gov Gavin Newsom announces stay-at-home order for regions where ICU capacity falls below 15% – with most areas closing within days and the entire state by the end of the month”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9015871/California-Gov-Gavin-Newsom-announces-stay-home-order-regions-ICU-capacity-falls-15.html
Just three weeks…
Just the tip. I promise!
I won’t come in your mouth!
The check is in the mail!
I am resolutely ignoring the prior comments in this conversation and am reading this as Mojeaux soliciting Festus for prostitution.
I could probably make more money with that. Rule 34 and all that.
I stand with Jarflax!
“I won’t come in your mouth!”
That’s when you educate her that taking a load in the mouth is preferable to taking one in the eye.
She won’t complain after that.
Did he send the order from a beach in Hawaii?
Anyone seen/heard from Pan Z recently? Got some language questions I need to bounce off him.
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/528482-john-kerry-reveals-bidens-devotion-to-radical-great-reset-movement
For a conspiracy theory to be just a conspiracy they have to conspire in secret.
That Biden said “climate change” is the fourth greatest problem faced by the U.S. is frighteningly stupid.
He’s michael scott.
No, he’s Creed.
How much you wanna bet that he keeps active mung beans in a drawer of the Resolute Desk?
I’ve heard him say “above all” in reference to “climate change” and his plans to fuck over America. I believe he actually thinks it’s the most important problem.
In contrast to polls, which indicate that Americans largely don’t give a shit about it.
The only thing that makes me think the great reset is doomed to fail is if John Kerry is the brain behind the scenes all will be well.
“That Biden said “climate change” is the fourth greatest problem faced by the U.S. is frighteningly stupid.”
It was the most stupid until we learned what the first 3 are.
I think it was linked here last week, but this covid study out of France is super-important, IMO.
Read the main findings at the bottom.
Also, Figure 6 is great for the math nerds.
This analysis shows that higher Covid-19 mortality rates are mostly found in countries experiencing higher life expectancies and showing a recent slowdown of this progression. Most of these developed and aging societies are latitudinally located over the 25° parallel. They also have higher GDP and chronic diseases levels (e.g., CVD and cancer) associated with major metabolic risk factors (e.g., inactive lifestyle, sedentarity, and obesity).
So old doddering people die. Huh.
Old, rich, fat, in temperate climates.
Where do I sign up? Specially for the ‘rich’ part.
Its a world-wide standard, you qualify.
I think it is more accurate to say:
1. The virus kills old people in poor health (Full stop)
2. Prosperity allows for increased life expectancy and better medical care, which will necessarily result in a larger percentage of the population reaching advanced age, and remaining alive despite poor health.
Therefore:
3. Wealthy nations will have a higher percentage of their population made up of those at risk of dying from the virus
The temperate climate thing may have something to do with virus spread, but it is also likely to be a non-causally connected correlation as the temperate zone is generally the more prosperous portion of the world.
That last part is specifically mentioned in the article. Apparently research suggests that the temperate zone drives prosperity, there is a causal link.
Also mentioned is it is worse in countries where the increase in life expectancy has stalled or declined, in other words, countries who have lots of old people but also lots of people with poor lifestyles, like obesity. Figure 6 shows the cross-correlations. Like one of the big inverse correlations with covid is infectious disease deaths. But that is even more strongly inverse correlated with life expectancy. Not dying of infectious disease while young leads to having a large old population.
The temperate zone link to prosperity exists, and may possibly be causal, although it may not as it has not always been the case. It is a sensitive subject to discuss because it has a lot of history being used to dress up various racial theories of ability and prosperity. I have some skepticism about it and think it is likely based on two cultures that happened to arise in temperate regions being very successful. (Western European Enlightenment culture and Japanese Culture).
If the link was directly to temperate climate it would be difficult to explain the earlier Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Egyptian cultures that were the wealthiest of their time, not to mention India, which has been wealthy for a very long time, and Persia (although I suppose parts of Iran are temperate). Nor does it match up with pre Columbian Americas, where the temperate cultures were little beyond neolithic, but the tropical cultures were wealthy and advanced.
AKA the culling.
I keep checking over at TOS to see if theyve apologized for the ten articles calling the president crazy for claiming election fraud.
Not there yet, i’ll keep you updated though.
They really are doubling down.
Places where people die young don’t have old people dying of a flu bug.
Thank you. This is super interesting.
https://twitter.com/A_Dixie_Girl/status/1332490347851747329
I’m actually surprised there is more of this unironically. Fire and brimstone christianity and metal seem a perfect match.
Church Metal. Let’s do this.
Um, “unsurprised”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbpKGb8aHTw&list=PLF6EcfRcCBYnKMzG9VKxabUo6Rty6F3ZW&index=6
But also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsL0DO-c1E
“These hanging bats were filmed upside down it makes it look like a Goth night club lol”
https://twitter.com/A_Dixie_Girl/status/1334724316668305408
I really like Victor Davis Hanson. Young Mr. Larson’s butt is going to take a long time to heal from that beatdown.
Ouch
Mr. Larson needs to occasionally lift something heavier than a computer mouse.
https://stanford.edu/~mwlarson/index.html
Bonus, he writes like a middle schooler:
The hardest question facing the students and staff at Stanford right now, do we skinsuit Hoover or just cancel it?
To add to all the other sad news, today I officially hit the point where I can never be considered young again. My life odometer now reads six-oh.
Two months old and still commenting?
Happy birthday
, TulpaHappy birthday?
I am happy and sad for you. –Lazlo Hollyfeld
I feel you I turned 30 7 days ago and my bones hurt.
I started playing rugby just before you were born. I’d shake a fist at you, but it would probably hurt me to do so…
I was playing smear the queer (gets banned from life for saying a thing that was) when he was born, so close enough.
Starts to type “You ain’t close to being old yet . . . ”
Remembers Fourscore, and decides to keep quiet.
Happy BD! I am four years and six days behind you. You would have been the cool guy that we all tried to emulate.
Sorry, now you’re
Soilent Greengonna die of the Covid.Soy, Lent, get it?
Welcome to the club.
There’s lots of things you can do to turn the clock back.
Castro swore that having sex with 18 year olds multiple times a day slowed aging.
Someone needs to jump on that grenade and test it for SCIENCE.
Happy Birthday!
Hey Mojo, is that Nina Hagen?
Her avatar? At risk of being a mansplainer, it’s Sia, from the cover of her Christmas album.
I believe it’s Sia. I just saw the image and liked it, so I didn’t know. But after a search, it appears to be a Christmas album by Sia.
Live Long and Prosper!
I’m right behind you and ahead of Festus
Congratulations, you old fart.
After all the work I’ve already done on the cockpit for the stormraven model, I realized that if I glued the canopy in place, most of it would be impossible to see.
After thinking it through and looking at the model, I figured out I could still magnetize the canopy, allowing it to stay on but be removed when I want to show off the paint job.
Starcom!
This please, that’s a lot of detail to hide under a canopy,
Cheating actually saves marriages.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-christmas-affair-saved-marriage-23101778
You heard it here first.
Ugh.
“Steve was working unsocial hours in the fire service and we just let that side of the relationship slide.”
Sufficiently advanced britspeak is indistinguishable from Madlibs.
“We worked together at a working-class holiday resort in the northwest of England.” (Ain’t you seen “Tommy”?)
Re: the suggestion that a Constitutional amendment change the electoral college to one elector per congressional district won, and two electors per state won – yes, it would change how candidates campaign, and how congressional districts were gerrymandered, but based on the provisional current House totals of 222 Ds and 213 Rs:
Does math *
Instead of Trump having to flip three states that were called for Biden, he’d have to … flip three states that were called for Biden.
You have to look at presidential vote, that doesn’t necessarily match exactly with House vote.
Clinton would have been closer to Trump in 2016 with this in place. Romney would have won in 2012. Obama would have still beat McCain.
Of course, campaigns are different with this rule, as you target swing districts instead of swing states.
“Roger Stone Says North Korean Boats Delivered Ballots Through Maine Harbor As Trump Boosts Fraud Claims”
https://www.newsweek.com/roger-stone-says-north-korean-boats-delivered-ballots-through-maine-harbor-trump-boosts-fraud-1551937
https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1334292563994533888
Ridiculous stuff like this does nothing to help the argument.
Focus on real shit like the sworn affidavits and the video.
Focus on real shit like
the sworn affidavits and the videohow the covid comes in the night, yet these counts went through the night, against covid restrictictions! They killed my dead grandmas!I don’t know what’s plausible at this point. Tracing back Dominion ownership through the shell companies appears to place ownership of the ballot counting machines with the PRC and with heavy involvement of Soros.
If China has infiltrated the election through the machines, why not through through the ballots too. The affidavits state that hundreds of thousands of ballots were hastily filled out while the count was shut down. It makes sense that those fake ballots wouldn’t be printed along with the real ballots. Easier to cover up and keep secret.
I’m not saying this happened, but it’s not a exactly a great leap to make. Manipulating elections is an easy and much safer approach than outright war for China to weaken the United States. I’d be very surprised if outside actors weren’t trying to influence and undermine our elections.
The Press is sure an excellent ally of the CCP.
Somebody smack Roger for me please.
Places where people die young don’t have old people dying of a flu bug.
Yes. Shrieking, “We have 4% of the world’s population and 20(?)% of the plague deaths!” is pointless. It just means we’re better at keeping old sick people around.
Cheating actually saves marriages.
Surprise! Look, honey, I got you a new camera. Take some close-ups of Bob’s balls slapping my ass.
#ASSSLAPPERS
Chump lady disagrees.
Thanks to Google Voice, YouTube, and range ear protection, I successfully sent my colleague to Whamhalla without having to kamikaze myself.
https://www.whamageddon.com/
I dont think I have ever heard that song, despite all the talk about it. And I aint clicking a link to change that.
It wouldn’t be very sporting for them to put the song on the web site with the rules of the game
where is my goddamn 1200$ I ask you.
Same place as mine.
Also you people seem weirdly attached with these election things. Move on.
I can’t help thinking a lot of people are going to look back on Trump’s America as the Good Old Days, in a year or less.
For all the good it will do us.
Meh, the kids will grow up thinking Trump caused Nuclear Wars and beat women and minorities in the streets, just like Reagan did.
And Goldwater started the Vietnam War.
I though he nuked the planet
Well, he would have but the glorious LBJ saved the world and put the blacks folks on the Democratic plantation where most of them reside to this day.
They do this in the UK with Thatcher. The current teaching is that Thatcher wrecked the UK’s economy.
Thatcher wrecked the UK’s economy
Man, she done wrecked it good. To replace thirty years of decline with forty plus years of growth is a form of wrecking heretofore unseen.
Also, one wonders if the British Left ever suffers much cognitive dissonance over hating her for killing off the British coal industry while also pining for the Green Revolution that is supposed to kill off fossil fuels.
Don’t worry, in 10 years we will hear about how Trump’s “laissez faire” policies wrecked Obama’s economy.
He’ll find a strange new respect when the GOP chooses it’s next candidate who will be the new Hitler.
Whelp, cutting out for now. Judi has a final show before Xmas and she’ll need some help setting up. Good thoughts Bless you, each and every one!
I got onto it with my mom about lock downs. She is 74, 5’5″, weighs about 280lbs and had chemo last year, so I understand her fear.
She is so glad Biden will have a national plan and everything I say is met with “in your opinion.”
She also has a friend on a ventilator so she will continue to”believe the science.”
I offered to send her Tom Woods’s video to show her the effects of the lock downs and masks. (I didn’t mention him by name, though I doubt she knows who he is.)
This is a direct quote” Nah…can’t teach an old dog new tricks. I’m pretty happy as is.”
Luckily this was a text because I kind of lost it a little. I could not imagine sending that to anyone, I am more of a send it, let me see what I think, maybe I’m wrong, or maybe I can poke holes in whatever it is.
Bottom line, she still doesn’t want us to go visit her in PA. If I go stay with my brothers, she won’t let them come visit either. She hasn’t hugged her Grand daughters since February because my brother is still working, they are 7 & 9.
I don’t know, just ranting I guess.