My day is shot. All I am going to say…
…if you are the only one aware mistaken payments are being sent on behalf of the company to random people…don’t wait so damn long to tell anybody.
So here’s the news from south of the border!
The state department extends Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for certain disaster struck countries until October 2021. In English it means letting people from shithole perhaps less than ideal countries stay in the US and apply for work permits.
US and EU diplomats refuse to recognize the results of Venezuelan election. Feel free to guess why.
Sao Paulo the first city in Latin America to beta test a Chinese-developed vaccine. Boa sorte…
The BBC is on point today.
Blow.
Good tune, predictable video.
I just had someone send me an e-mail that basically was, “I’ve gotten some reports of issues with calls coming in, but no specifics, and I’m walking out the door in 3 minutes.”
Great. That goes right to the top of the priority list.
Tell him/her/xer to hang up on the heavy breathers.
Feel free to guess why.
White privilege.
What did I win?
More privilege?
Tenure at Princeton.
Vote for the man, reap the rewards.
Most of the shiny happy Dem voters will never associate any bad policy that emerges in the next 4 years with the vote they just cast.
Any problems will be blamed on not progging hard enough.
The reason CA isn’t the progressive paradise promised is because of the token handful of Republicans left in statewide office.
Both of them?
And the media will gladly help them maintain their willful ignorance.
But only if they put the new cover sheets on their TPS reports.
Exactly. They at least need to put in the effort.
Cornell requiring all students to get flu vaccine this school year. Well, not ALL students…
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-vaccine-mandate-only-applies-to-white-students/
JHTFC, not that “bodies” horsesh*t again.
Yes, absolutely agree about the medical experimentation and organ-napping. But WTF does that have to do with not getting a vaccine today. Oh, right, “underserved.” So rather than vaccinating these people they encourage victim mentality.
“At the same time, we know that long-standing social inequalities and health disparities have resulted in COVID-19 disproportionately affecting BIPOC individuals.”
Because vitamin D is racist?
Because the systems of systematic systemic racism makes people of color live unhealthy lives.
(This is what they actually think)
That can’t possibly be constutional.
BW*;DM
(Biden won*; doesn’t matter)
They know that it isn’t. But they also know how long and how much money it will take to fight this.
What do they hope to accomplish here? I hope that in my lifetime, people will stop seeing the Ivies as being the best places to educate our students.
Learn a trade or learn to code. I’m not great with my hands, but I can code, so I’m safe for now. But yeah, only send your kids to college as a last resort.
I was smart. I really was, when I was a younger <>…. But I decided it was more prestigious to go into an “artistic” field. Now I exist in a very small end-zone of that artistic field, which is the technical side. It actually feels like there’s some security there, but I’m going to be honest. I’m not fulfilled, and I wish more than anything I’d just…. “LEARNED TO CODE”.
Not smart-ass by the way, I really mean it.
If we get Civil War II, Republic Boogaloo I’d say the Ivies are on a list or two of targets.
Ah yes, because black folk are too poor to get free flu shots.
Dear Cornell,
Go fuck yourself. I’ll take my money elsewhere.
*smooches*
“Behavioral Compact”
Is that something that someone wrote, or is that some gL(ib)’s fever dream about one of the worst things that you can ever read about a real, existing institution? One that exists in, you know, this country, this day?
So they WANT black bodies to get Covid?
And the flu. How is this different from Jim Crowesque “You coloreds have to wait until all the white folk have had their shots first!”?
Direction of hatred arrow.
It’s different because this time it’s “You coloreds get to wait until all the white folk have had their shots first!” The policy is doing them a favor, not holding them back, so the racism is totes OK.
And here I thought the reason was, “It’s different when we do it!”
Am I the only one who can SCIENCE! around here? Vaccines cause blackfolx to develop syphilis. This was PROVEN by the case of the Tuskegee Airmen.
Argentina has recorded close to 1.5 million infections and almost 40,000 deaths from the coronavirus.
It has been hit hard by the pandemic, becoming the fifth country worldwide to report one million confirmed cases in October despite only having a population of about 45 million people – making it the smallest nation at the time to surpass that figure.
According to my calculator, 40 / 45,000 = 0.000888889.
DEVASTATION!
Jenny
More Jenny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3JUDO7USE
Jenny
So – apologies for an additional link so quickly, but it appears that the state of CA is trying to screw with how the rest of the country stops its cars in addition to how they power them.
Here’s Why You Can’t Order a New Chevy Camaro SS or ZL1 in California and Washington Anymore
Fuck
Gee, I would have guessed asbestos.
“Chemicals known in the state of California to cause cancer.”
Everything.
Everything
I was rather hoping it was that.
I’ve got Bembos on the Subie. They’re a bit flashy, but work well.
Dude…
The stock brakes on the Tesla Model 3 both performance and regular are OEM’d by Brembo.
The performance model is larger, naturally red colored which always decreases stopping distances, and different pad compound.
What is hysterical here is Brembo/GM can’t get a new compound brake pad made in cost or volume that allows sale in CA and WA.
Red would blend in too much, so they went with lime green
The aesthetics of this car were designed by a 14 year old. Still rived good tho.
CA is now seeing corporations and individuals vote with their feet, and CA needs their filthy lucre and doesn’t want to lose them.
Fact: CA laws and taxes are indeed driving people and companies away.
How do we make them stay? ask Cali Progs.
Option 1: ease off on the taxes and especially ease off the regulations so that companies want to stay.
Option 2: force the rest of the country to operate under the same shitty laws and regulations as California so that leaving does no good anyway.
Guess which way they’re choosing?
The people that would resist them are leaving. They interpret this as an opportunity to go whole hog, because who’s going to stop them?
The really unfortunate part is that the only people that will be left are the people that are too poor to leave and the rich that can afford to stay and likely stay because they think that what the state is doing is just fine and dandy.
Finally, equality in CA!
NJ Resident says – well are well on the way to CA progressive lunacy, but without the weather and scenery of CA. So Option 2 does seem to make the most sense.
Wait until they hear about copper pipes.
California hasn’t had waterways in 70 years.
Once the inevitable “big one” earthquake hits, California will all be waterways.
Wait… Maybe that’s just wishful thinking.
Learn to Swim
Learn to Swim
Learn to Swim
Learn to Swim
Learn to Swim is the new Learn to Code?
Only if you make it to Arizona Bay.
So what you’re trying to tell is that you’re praying for mayhem and praying for tidal waves?
Don’t just call me pessimist, try to read between the lines.
That’s totally not bitchin’.
California stops have been a thing for a while.
+1 Citation for running a stop sign here’s your court date
In KC we called the Cali Roll.
Oh, and autocorrect can suck my fucking dick.
And CA has banned lead bullets for hunting. Which are replaced by… yep, you guessed, copper.
Argentina has passed a new tax on its wealthiest people to pay for medical supplies and relief measures amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
AOC just got a tingly sensation down there.
Those affected will pay a progressive rate of up to 3.5% on wealth in Argentina and up to 5.25% on that outside the country.
Good luck with that. The national sport of Argentina is not fútbol, but hiding economic activity from the government. And AFAIK, Argentina doesn’t have a FATCA that they can enforce.
Argentina has lived under stringent lockdowns since last spring. They did everything right. I remember linking an article about it. And that’s what they got in return. Also, more deaths per 1M than Brazil.
AOC just got a tingly sensation down there.
If her legs are tingly she should see a doctor.
I don’t care what you all say, I’d help her with that tingle.
Those affected will pay a progressive rate of up to 3.5% on wealth in Argentina and up to 5.25% on that outside the country.
AFP news agency reports that of the money raised, 20% will go to medical supplies, 20% to relief for small and medium-sized businesses, 20% to scholarships for students, 15% to social developments, and the remaining 25% to natural gas ventures.
Sounds legit.
The reason CA isn’t the progressive paradise promised is because of the token handful of Republicans left in statewide office.
Wreckers! Hoarders! Profiteers!
Mystery illness suffered by US diplomats in Cuba was most likely caused by directed microwave radiation, a US government report has found.
The report by the National Academies of Sciences does not attribute blame for the directed energy waves.
But it said research into the effects of pulsed radio frequency energy was carried out by the Soviet Union more than 50 years ago.
It must have come from inside the house.
Senators passed the one-off levy – dubbed the “millionaire’s tax” – by 42 votes to 26 on Friday.
“one-off levy”? Heh.
I had cold-like symptoms yesterday, nothing that slowed me down. But then at 3 in the morning I awoke gasping for breath.
I checked my lung peak flow meter: 250 l/min. That is terrible. So I did a couple of nebulizer sessions until I got up to 325 l/min.
If it happens again, I might go in to the clinic. Where they will hear my symptoms and dismiss me to the parking lot COVID test tent. They’ll take the swab, tell me to go home, and email me in 48 hours that I am negative for Covid-19.
And that’s all. No attempt by the clinic to return to the original respiratory problems that brought me in.
Ok, I’ve talked myself out of going. It won’t do any good unless I’m already in emergency condition.
I am routinely amazed at the poor service I get from medical service providers. It’s almost like I’m not the actual customer.
My wife gave up and left an ortho’s office after spending 2 hours in the waiting room. The receptionist was amazed when she asked for a refund of the copay she made after registering.
I gave her crap for waiting so long. I have a 30 min limit before walking. Time is too valuable to be treated that way.
2 hours? Usually by then they at least have the dignity to take you back into a patient room and tell you that “the doctor will be right in, he’s just finishing up with the guy before you.”
Right! It’s harder to ask for that refund when you are mostly naked and freezing.
At least airlines have the decency to give you some sort of voucher when they overbook.
I can’t remember the circumstance, but I’d been made to wait at my kids’ shrink too many times and that day was particularly egregious. They said, “You have an XXXX balance.”
“No, I do not. I am self-employed and I have soent HOURS waiting for Dr, XXXX. I can send a bill if you like. I kept records.”
Suddenly I didn’t owe them anything.
They’ll take the swab, tell me to go home, and email me in 48 hours that I am negative for Covid-19.
Idk, sounds like you have
aidscovid.Feel free to guess why.
They use Dominion as well?
No…ALIENS
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/media/former-head-of-israels-space-program-the-aliens-asked-not-to-be-revealed-humanity-not-yet-ready/2020/12/05/
They can’t share their great wisdom with us until we’re all totes woke and towing the proggy lion. We’re not worthy!
An economic plan in Argentina. What could possibly go wrong?
When are they issuing new bonds? I have some investment cash that needs investing and I’m growing tired of paying capital gains tax.
*checks Facederp*
What’s with all the John Lennon shit?
40th anniversary of his murder.
Oh, that is an occasion for celebration.
The king of the hippies is still dead.
There’s all kinds of reasons to hate that asshat, but his anthem for the Church of World Government is numero uno.
Sing us a few bars, and we’ll all hum along. NOT!
You’ll just have to imag…
He was actually a hard nosed capitalist too.
This. The hippie shit sold records.
But George was the best. He wrote Taxman (and While My Guitar Gently Weeps)
Ringo.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Best Beatles song. Period.
“While My [Friend’s] Guitar Gently Weeps”
While Clapton’s Guitar Gently Plays?
@Hyperbole
I’ve heard that Ringo was a temporary choice while they were looking for someone else. Suddenly they were famous so Ringo was retained. Made him “the luckiest man alive” and he knew it. Up until he got too old he would personally answer every piece of fan mail that he received. World-class guy.
@Swiss {fist bump}
As you said.
Best Beatles song. Period.
@Hobbit
It’s hard to be the world class drummer that people can appreciate. He was functional. Good enough for a pop/rock band of that era.
Well, he met this weird Japanese chick and then everything went downhill pretty fast.
Though in her defense (or whoever actually raised him) Sean comes out with some rather sensical things on Twitter. I’m sure he’s still a lefty, but at least he’s not full throating the media complex.
No kidding. He seems to be one of the more reasonable people on Twitter. 2020, man.
I mean, it’s the anniversary of the tragic and untimely death of a true prodigy of rock music.
RIP Dimebag Darrell.
Truth.
Oh, it’s Dime’s anniversary? Man that seems like a million years ago.
This guy gets it.
‘Havana syndrome’ likely caused by directed microwaves
That explains this.
Possibly this as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzFlPdHt1Gk
Huh.. I was expecting microwaved popcorn.
Remy ruined this for me. https://youtu.be/rw7PUrgU3N0
Thicc?
https://thechive.com/2020/12/06/hipwaist-ratios-when-going-pear-shaped-is-a-beautiful-thing-42-photos/
or
https://archive.is/StN0E
I had to get creative to run #2’s picture through Google image search, but it paid off with her instagram page.
I didn’t have to get creative for searches of #3. The first hit from Google image search is the wikipedia page for cleavage (crystal). Her instagram page is here.
#4 is hot.
#9 is the-aphrodite on reddit.
#15. Face diaper. Blech.
#17 is pinkandpeachy4 on reddit.
I wonder if #23 is real.
#26 is laurendrainfit on instagram.
Not bad gallery.
So Kristen doesn’t feel left out, lumberjack competition.
Oh, 23 is real except for the boobs, possibly trans female, but look at the wrist details – currently no one is going to spend the money for that kind of detail.
I see.
Well, that was a fun $125 at the range! I forget who said it, but ammo doesn’t do much for you hanging out in the closet.
Knocked the rust off, got the red dot sighted in, had a boating accident.
*bows, doffs cap*
Glad you had fun!
2 boxes of 9mm?
At range prices, I shot $75 in 9mm (2 boxes) and $60 in 223 (2 mags), plus just over $20 in range fees.
I calculated using the online discount: $25/box for 9mm and $0.75 per round for 223.
You’re using pre-election prices. .223/5.56 is going for $0.95/rd now at sgammo and bulkammo.
*faints*
*whimpers softly, cradling wallet*
Yeah, I switched to rimfire so a steel match doesn’t cost $50 worth of ammo.
I think I’m developing bad habits without needing my support hand for recoil control
This is one of the reasons that I don’t like or recommend .22LR for pistol practice.
I object!
“Why?”
Because it is devastating to my case!
JUST IN – #Pennsylvania has filed its brief (requested by Alito) to the Supreme Court. They basically urge the court not to open pandora’s box even if federal laws of the US constitution have been violated.
LOL, that is some serious weak sauce. It’s almost like Roberts wrote it.
I doubt Roberts wrote it, but you can convince me he told them what to file.
Why We Fight
A Detroit woman died of COVID-19 after giving birth to her son without ever being able to hold her newborn baby.
Erika Becerra became ill with the coronavirus when she was 8 months pregnant, despite following “every rule in the book” on COVID-19 safety, her brother Michael Avilez told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday.
Beccera was initially admitted to the hospital in November after having a hard time breathing. After a few days without any signs of recovery, doctors decided to induce her labor. Beccera gave birth to a healthy baby, but was immediately whisked away to be intubated.
She passed away three weeks later on Dec. 3, leaving behind her newborn son, a young daughter and her husband.
This anecdote completely refutes your phoney-baloney “logic”!
She passed away three weeks later
Why so long after? Isn’t the ‘vid a couple week thing tops?
Now do diabetes during pregnancy.
Erika Becerra became ill with the coronavirus when she was 8 months pregnant, despite following “every rule in the book”
Well, by all means, let’s follow every rule in the book even harder! That’s sure to do it!
I thought they weren’t intubating any more?
Then how did she get it?
Evil spirits.
It makes as much sense as all the Lil Rona Panic measures.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9031655/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-figure-hugging-leopard-print-dress.html
Nope. Voluptuous physique.
Hand crafted by the finest silicone sales-force!
An Army of Surgeons!
“14 fired or suspended at Fort Hood: Army acts after investigation sparked by Vanessa Guillen’s death finds ‘chronic failures that fostered widespread pattern of violence including murder, sexual assaults and harassment’ at base”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9030623/Army-reveals-results-independent-review-Fort-Hood-following-Vanessa-Guillens-death.html
It’s just workplace violence.
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2020/11/11/fort-hood-leaders-meet-with-vanessa-guillens-family-say-gate-will-be-named-in-her-honor/
I remember when namings were made of prominent military figures or at least battlefield KIAs. Now it’s for crime victims. When is Ft Campbell going to hold the dedication ceremony for the PFC Barry Winchell Memorial Barracks?
And they named all the bunkhouses after Obama?
“Texas AG files Hail Mary legal bid to overturn Joe Biden’s victory by asking Supreme Court to rule out millions of ‘unconstitutional’ mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9030743/Texas-files-hail-bid-overturn-election-asking-SCOTUS-o-rule-ballots-states.html
“Donald Trump claims ‘the next administration will be the Trump administration’ if Republican legislators or the Supreme Court have ‘the courage’ to overthrow the election and says: ‘Life will be much easier for our country'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9032015/Donald-Trump-claims-administration-Trump-administration.html
Never give up. Never surrender.
After reading that Washington Examiner article you posted earlier, I did a little digging.
I think the Amistad folks get wrong is that the Constitution allows Congress to set the date presidential electors vote. From Article II, Section I:
“The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”
I think 3 USC section 5 will stand.
Mail in voting and early voting ( that isnt the same everywhere) seem to violate that.
Since this bit of text is in the context of the Electoral college, that doesn’t matter.
Looks like both: ” time of chusing the electors” and “day on which [the electors] give their vote”.
I guess it depends on whether “which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.” goes with both “determine the Time of chusing the Electors” and “Day on which they shall give their Votes” or just “Day on which they shall give their Votes”.
Even so, that ship has sailed.
Mail in voting/early voting also have nothing to do with 3 USC section 5.
Avilez said he hopes his sister’s death will help people take the pandemic seriously.
“You’ve got a lot of people that don’t understand what’s going on,” Avilez told Cooper. “They all think it’s a joke until it happens to them or one of their family members.”
The family has set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for Beccera’s funeral.
Repent, Sinners!
Gimme some money, while you’re at it.
It has happened to one of my family members. It’s still a joke.
I’ve gotten no less than 6 robocalls today from different numbers consisting of the same robot voice telling me there is a $700 charge on my Amazon account, and I should press 1 to dispute it.
I never answer those, but sometimes they leave messages to warn me my non-existent car warranty is about to expire.
I loathe those people.
We have a friend whose parents fall for this all the time. They’ve lost thousands of dollars to scammers. You’d think they’d learn. But no, they don’t.
You mean the IRS doesn’t take payment in Amazon gift cards?!
No, but Microsoft tech support always calls you instead of waiting for you to call them.
My mom got hit by that one. While attempting to give them control of her computer she ran through every single password she had trying to get it to work. And she gave them her debit card number. She won’t tell me how much she lost on that one. Luckily I have her trained to not respond to these things and to ask me if anything sounds suspicious.
“we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty!”
I’ve been getting recruited hard by some culinary school. Must be for their basketball team.
I got a call from “the law enforcement arm of the Federal Reserve” last week.
At long last, a fresh face with progressive ideas swoops in to save Baltimore
Baltimore’s New Progressive Mayor Is Ready To Tackle The City’s Biggest Problems
Baltimore’s newest mayor, Brandon Scott, represents a changing of the guard in Baltimore politics, but the 36-year-old progressive Democrat inherits divides that existed long before the pandemic began.
Scott, the city’s youngest mayor in more than a century, campaigned on a platform of building racial equity, professionalizing city government and treating the city’s homicide rate — one of the highest in the nation — as a public health crisis.
“Baltimore, like every major city, has problems.” Scott said. “But what Baltimore is getting ready to have now is leadership that will not shy away from those problems as someone who has lived and grown up through them.”
Watch your asses, gentrifiers. Your days are numbered. Your rampage of ruination is at an end.
What cities like Baltimore, Cleveland and Detroit need to do is to once and for all cast off the oppressive rule of the Republican party and let the Democratic party step in and implement the solutions to these cities’ problems.
I’m sure that’s gonna work out well.
He’ll either fall in line and do what the political players tell him to do or he’ll have an administration that is so progressive that he fucks the city up even more (if that’s even possible) and will blame on the 30 white people left in the city and Annapolis.
LOL, how much money can you grift out of Baltimore?! At least Deblasio had the street smarts to carpetbag his way to NYC where the real bucks are.
£100m cocaine stash hidden in banana pulp
Banana pulp. Probably fell off this truck.
30K pounds of banana pulp?
All this time I thought my son chose U of Scranton for the academic experience. I need to have a chat with that boy.
new satire submitted – Grinch Will Be Social-Distancing Hero in New Film
anyone got ideas for the next one?
A Christmas Story, only Ralphie wants an official Armalite AR-15 with a 30 round magazine and this thing that goes up.
this made the rounds yet?
Politically correct Santa tells crying kid he won’t bring him Nerf gun
https://www.foxnews.com/us/politically-correct-santa-nerf-gun
Pfft. I had nerf guns and toy soldiers and played violent video games, and I…
Oh.
I guess he kinda has a point.
Kind of makes the idea of satire pointless doesn’t it?
Satire suggestion: Satirist lauded as prophet or investigated for insider information when he achieves 100% accuracy in predicting next weeks headlines.
Babylon Bee certified as “factually true” for their articles.
Supreme Court agrees to hear suit telling it to go pack itself.
[Vader voice]
Most impressive.
Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Drop Ceremony to be Replaced by Stern Fauci Lecture. 20 People Maximum Attendance.
It’s solid premise. I can work with that. Thanks!
The pandemic, which has predominantly killed Black Americans and has shuttered job sites throughout the city, is widening these gaps even further.
Leana Wen, Baltimore’s former health commissioner and visiting professor at George Washington University, said leaders must redouble their efforts to reduce these disparities, especially as the pandemic worsens.
“There needs to be a lot of work done over the medium and long term while we recognize that racism and racial inequity are public health issues,” Wen said.
Scott said he will be unafraid to impose stricter pandemic restrictions in majority-Black Baltimore on things like indoor dining and retail than Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.
Okay, then.
Former head of Planned Parenthood has ideas on racial disparities, guys!
Blacks make up 60% of the city. You’d expect the pandemic to predominantly kill blacks.
Racist!
I’ll just leave this here:
Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 Hit Low-Income Black Households the Hardest, Study Finds
So those pushing for the lockdowns are the real racists!
/taps nose.
THICC?
President Trump’s lawyer Jenna Ellis has informed associates she tested positive for the coronavirus, multiple sources tell Axios, stirring West Wing fears after she attended a senior staff Christmas party on Friday. …
There are concerns about the potential for another White House superspreader event, though it was unclear whether Ellis posed a risk when she attended. Ellis declined to confirm the diagnosis to Axios.
Ellis showed up to the White House senior staff party in the East Wing on Friday as the guest of Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro and was not seen wearing a mask, according to sources who attended the indoor event.
If she spreads some love to me I’ll put some love in her.
Crazy shit gong on in the Champions League, thanks to those wacky Romanians
Does the red card stay?
I’d guess so.
The match will resume tomorrow with a new set of officials at the point it was interrupted.
If they would only tell us what letter the slur began with.
My understanding is that the media hadn’t yet been able to interview anybody involved. At the time of the story, the players were still in the locker room while UEFA was trying to find a fourth official.
I saw a video of the coach(?) yelling, “Why did you say Negro (Negru)?!”
The way the BBC phrased it, the Istanbul coach got into an argument with the 4th official. When the ref (I think?) asked the 4th official, he referred to the Istanbul coach as “that black guy” and Istanbul got pissed that he was identified by race.
Failing to acknowledge a vote that has yet to happen undermines democracy.
Congressional Republicans on the bipartisan Inaugural Committee voted down a resolution by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) naming Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden president-elect. The committee vote on Tuesday was 3-3, with all three GOP members voting against the resolution.
In a statement released after the vote, Hoyer accused Republicans of threatening democracy, “The extent to which Republicans are refusing to accept the outcome of the election and recognize Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as our next President and Vice President is astounding. Their continued deference to President Trump’s post-election temper tantrums threatens our democracy and undermines faith in our system of elections.”
Hey Steny, I know you’re stupid. But one more time, this ain’t a democracy. How does one get elected to office for 40 years straight when they couldn’t even pass a 5th grade social studies exam?
Oh, and this is just the very beginning. Not my president. Old Joe better be prepared to be harassed to within an inch of his life for the next 4 years, 24/7, 365, if he lasts that long. Enjoy!
This calls for more empty, meaningless gestures!
“bipartisan” – I’m pretty old. Way older than I should be than to just now admit, when I see this word-puke, I know it’s one of the worst, least “down the middle” most horrible things I’m going to hear that day. And the thing that makes it so bad, is that I know it’s the Left whipping out their big throbbing logs and the Right getting on their knees and…. coughing.
And I say that as a pretty far left-of-center loner. But part of that means understanding the language of your enemy. When and why did the conservative right become the weakest force the Earth has ever seen? At least put up a fight?…
https://twitter.com/TheHinduDindu/status/1336343404846997505
CWAA
Oh no no no,
I’m a Rocket Geeek!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLpN8Cco3mU
Dude, if you ain’t a rocket geek, you’re lame!
Fuuuuuuuuccccckkkkkk!!!!!
It takes a lot of nerve for us to cast aspersions at other people’s elections. Even Venezuela. If Maduro ran for president here under the Dem ticket, he’d likely do better than Biden did.
I think the reasoning is – we know a crooked election when we see it.
“The tax that can save the MTA: A federal bailout is necessary but insufficient
There is one option that would raise more than $1 billion a year for the city’s subway and bus system — while also supporting small businesses and protecting the environment: a $3 surcharge on packages ordered online for delivery in New York City, excluding those with medicine or food.
An estimated 1.8 million packages on average are delivered daily to apartments and homes in the city. Delivery trucks and vans are a ubiquitous presence on our city streets, weaving through our neighborhoods, double-parking in bus lanes and idling outside buildings, day and night.
Shopping online is cheap and convenient. It also means more trucks clogging city traffic, slowing buses, and spewing pollution, all of which have costs of their own.
The delivery siege will only get worse. Online commerce is booming. Amazon’s profits are up 53% compared to last year.
A report the World Economic Forum released in January estimates the number of delivery vehicles in big cities will rise 36% over the next decade if gone unchecked. Carbon-dioxide emissions, blamed for global warming and high asthma rates in urban areas, would rise by 32%.”
https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-how-to-save-the-mta-20201207-pinjgghz75hkxlwfxmbyq7lc3e-story.html
No matter what ails us, a tax is the answer, the only answer. Of course it will never be enough, more taxes will be required. Until everyone is paying a 100% tax on every dime they make, it is not enough. Best we just turn over all money made to the federal government, so that in their great wisdom, they can decide how to redistribute it. People make bad decisions, but people in government always make good decisions. How can one argue with that?
I wrecked my car. No idea how it will be recovered, who’s land it is on, or how bad the damage is. I killed a tree, and possibly a signpost. Fog and ice and only a few hours sleep in the last 48 hours and I wreck in the last mile of a 4.5 hour journey. I feel horrible. Garbage human being. I love that car, and now she’s surely a write-off. The payout won’t even cover the cost of recovery. I feel sick.
Hello, glibs.
Damn, but you and anyone else are ok, right? That’s the important thing.
Yes thanks, just me. Shaken, and also stirred.
Sorry.
It is good no one else was involved. It is good that you’re only shaken up.
Thanks, DEG
I’ve have three accidents, two totaled, with varying degrees of at fault. There wasn’t one that I didn’t feel shitty about afterwards.
+1
If you’re okay, that’s what matters.
Thanks. Yes not a scratch. I got lucky there.
Good.
🙁
Indeed ☹️
Poor little car
That sucks. Sorry, Limey.
Sorry to hear, but at least you’re OK, that’s the more important part.
Wow. Nice that you are alive to tell the tale, take care.
Sorry 🙁
Try driving on the right side of the road next time.
Fuck that tree, and the signpost too.
Seriously though, glad you’re okay. I hope.
Relax. It’s not like you’re a high profile politician who let a woman drown.
That blows. Sorry dude.
Glad to hear you’re ok.
Well, at least you killed a tree. Glib status reaffirmed.
Sorry, man.
Bad day, sure. But you’re okay, that’s more important.
“Right wing memes are short and sweet because they ask you to appeal to kneejerk assumptions which have already been deeply coded into your mind by social propaganda. By contrast, leftist memes are tasked with breaking your social brainwashing, which requires complexity and nuance
Right wing memes do not need several steps of explanation because hierarchical power structures have already done all the work conveying and embedding them deeply into default social practice. Thus they are inherently low effort.”
https://twitter.com/apeirophobic/status/1336097747456421890
Or you know, it could just be the left is hypocritical and self-conflicting.
I’m literally laughing out loud right now because I guessed before I clicked that Joey Antifa there had pronouns in his bio, and lo…..
“do not need several steps of explanation”
Wait, isn’t the knock on libertarianism that it takes too much to explain it and that’s why it isn’t more popular?
Or… memes are supposed to be short and to the point, and the left doesn’t know how to meme.
They can’t even explain a meme apparently either.
Being smart is so hard!
The real problem for Smaht Xuy there is that the left makes themselves eat to mock by engaging in cognitive dissonance.
[pushes in pile of poker chips]
I’ll see your smug balderash and raise you some Authentic Frontier Derp:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/merit-access-and-swordsmanship
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The idea of intellectual potential, of what might be but isn’t—or what might have been but never was—lies close to the novel’s heart. The first narrator is Sibylla, an American woman who faked her way into Oxford for her undergraduate studies and stayed on for a doctorate in classical philology. She is the daughter of two brilliant but stunted people: her father had earned a full scholarship to Harvard, but his minister father convinced him to give the seminary a chance, and his total disinterest in classes at the third-rate seminary that admitted him resulted in mediocre grades and the forfeiture of his Harvard scholarship. Her mother, meanwhile, was a brilliant violinist whose perfectionist father would not allow her to study to become a professional musician, simply because she would not be the best in the world. Sibylla’s successfully conning her way into Oxford is, then, a kind of vengeance on the supposedly meritocratic system in which both her parents were, by any measure, “qualified” to advance but failed, for ludicrous reasons entirely outside their control. Sibylla, too, was failed in the end by the system, having dropped out of her doctoral studies from boredom and taken a job in London digitizing the text of old print magazine articles.
There is a problem here, which is that Sibylla is plainly brilliant, and not in an “impress people at cocktail parties” superficial way, but possessed of an intellellect that cuts straight to the core of problems with almost frightening ease and precision. Reading her narration gives the sense of seeing into the mind of someone who has thought far longer and more deeply than the reader about any number of questions, and the novel could very easily become the story of a singular genius unjustly denied her due by society. But Sibylla herself is far too perceptive to expect justice from an arbitrary world, and she observes this in her first job as a secretary for a small publishing house:
***
Wow, this book is like The Count of Monte Cristo, but for whiny leftists.
Yes, they did in fact misspell “intellect” in the original.
Current Affairs: The SMRT leftists.
“failed, for ludicrous reasons entirely outside their control. ”
Parents failed, not because of a meritocracy, but because they decided to live their lives as their parents wanted not as they wanted. In other words, they weren’t “selfish” and thus fucked up their lives and that of their kid
When your punchline is “hierarchical power structures”, you really need a stellar set up.
Oh, I’d say the left provides comedy pretty well and good (takes a bid chaw of opium and munches down)
don’t ya know (chews more).
Nothing says comedy like a long-winded explanation! Ask Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern…
JFC, have any of these nitwits ever heard a joke? Laughed for any reason except to signal smug contempt for their foes?
WHERE IS MY SCREAMING PILLOW?! I NEED IT NOW!
Unlike all those bumper stickers on Prii in liberal cities, or those “This house believes in…” signs.
A long time ago, like even before color TV, there was this guy who said some groovy things. Like, this one time, he said that people who make a big show of how good they are really aren’t being good for its own sake. I know, wild right? I forget his name but pretty sure he was a white male, so like whatever, your mileage may vary.
[bong gurgles]
Man, those pizza rolls are taking *forever* to cook!
‘“This house believes in…” signs.’
Last Tuesday I drove to a home for a work appointment and was denied entry due to the his perception of the new Covid uptick and the stupid shit forgot to have his kids out of the house for when I was working there. Nevermind that I brought a mask out of consideration for the homeowner’s fears, or that it was a big house and he could have easily just, you know, kept them the fuck out of my way. So anyway, as I got back into my car I noticed that he had that sign…in a cul de sac…with no other home currently built in it yet…facing a thick tree line/wind break across the street…with no major road or business anywhere near him.
Who in the ever loving fuck is that sign for, the squirrels and deer? What’s the point?
For the mailman (or femailman) and the Amazon delivery guys.
Warty suggests we get bumper stickers that have the same rainbow-and-black design and say, “In this car, we believe in…”
Turn signals?
Left lane for passing?
Headlights on at dusk?
If I did bumper stickers, I would totally buy that.
Paying attention and going when it’s your turn at a four way stop and not sitting there like an idiot an waving people through who arrived well after you did?
…might need a few bumper stickers to fit it all on but fuck those people with a rusty cheese grater.
If it helps you any, some of those folks aren’t just stupid: they’re neurotic.
My dad has crushing defense mechanisms from a childhood of the usual impoverished, agrarian, Southern, Baptist nonsense, and he simply can’t cope with anything that requires coordination. He doesn’t trust; he’s terrified of being wrong, being criticized, or being attacked. It’s impossible for him to simply GO WHEN IT”S YOUR FUCKING TURN, DAD! He knows it’s his turn; he just can’t go.
Now that he’s 80, none of the old problems are getting any better, you might guess.
So, your dad is a passive driver because he grew up in a poor Baptist farm family?
?
Then those people shouldn’t be driving. I really don’t care why someone can’t follow basic road rules – mental illness, physical incapability, superstition, whatever. If one can’t drive like a normal grown ass person, sell your car and embrace Uber/Lyft.
The beatings are the source.
I’m open to that accruing to any reasonable ledger.
Truth is easy. Mental gymnastics is not.
Looks like the Starship SN8 is a go in 10 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiCmQR7uNAU
Oops, see Yusef already provided a link 😉
Wow, that thing looks like the cover of a 60s scifi book with a rocket preparing for a trip to Mar.
Yeah the retro design is nice, even if its just for testing.
T-4mins
Which I think they are going to carry over the design to the the production side too.
And abort…. ):
It’s not just for testing.
Check out what it’s supposed to look like someday on top of the Super Heavy booster.
Nothing’s gonna stop them now.
Morning music.
Do we know what set her off?
She just found out her sex partner gave her Herpes?
People wanting to work.
And she not wanting to.
I was expecting metal.
One Tin Soldier would also have been acceptable.
♫ I heard it from a friend who…heard it from a friend who…heard from another you haven’t been wearin’ your mask….
By contrast, leftist memes are tasked with breaking your social brainwashing, which requires complexity and nuance
Duh. Everybody knows that. And if you can’t grok the leftwing meme, it’s because yur dum, lol.
This is only a test….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf83yzzme2I
Yep! T- 2min
Good luck Elon and SpaceX. Hope it gives you what you need!
Raptor abort…I am sure I heard that….oh well.
Hmm,
Lol…did someone have a skywriter in the area or is that a watermark on their feed?
that thing looks like the cover of a 60s scifi book with a rocket preparing for a trip to Mar.
It does, doesn’t it? Does the exhaust look suspiciously like sparklers?
From the Temporary Protected Status article:
“Hondurans living in the United States have had access to TPS since the accord was brokered after Hurricane Mitch wreaked havoc on the impoverished Central American country in 1998.”
I may be reading this wrong, but… Some of these people have been parked in the U.S. for an entire fucking generation waiting for their home country to recover from a storm?
I assume the playbook is: Can’t send them back, not safe yet. Can’t send them back, not safe yet. Can’t send them back, not safe yet. Whelp, we gotta give ’em citizenship, because they’ve been away so long they know nothing of their home country.
Poor little car
Bummer.
This is embarrassing.
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1335651906182590465
Cuck
I wish to mock the human that wishes to bump uglies with this…this… words fail.
If you think you need to wear a mask, go for it, but don’t come approaching me if you think its the deadliest thing in the world when I am not wearing one.
Also are we back to the mask protects me? Or is it still you?
The mask does whatever it needs to in order to shame people into wearing one.
And as others have said, if it really was about him fearing for his safety, walking up close to unmasked people and harassing them is a lousy way to do it.
car warranty is about to expire
What sort of rate can you give me on a 30 year old Honda with 310,000 miles?
Hello? Hello? Are you there?
I get that junk mail all of the time. I got one the week after I bought my new SUV. It just rolled off the shop floor and there was maybe 10-20 miles on it. Your warranty is about to expire! Umm, yeah, that’s some really great AI you got there, it’s almost as sentient as Alexa.
$1499 per month, plus taxes, shipping, and handling fees.
There is a problem here, which is that Sibylla is plainly brilliant, and not in an “impress people at cocktail parties” superficial way, but possessed of an intellellect that cuts straight to the core of problems with almost frightening ease and precision.
Never mind that crap. Does she have a nice ass? You know, like an Olympic sprinter?
QUIET, YOU!
[note to self: tell smart girls they’re pretty; tell pretty girls they’re smart…what else? oh yeah….garbage…in….garbage…can]
Speaking of masks- as I was running in to check my mail at the Post Office, some old lady put her mail up in front of her face to deflect my cooties. oh, well.
I’m sure the Joe Frum skeptics are shunned too.
***
John Frum (also called Jon Frum,[1] John Brum,[2] John Prum,[3]) is a figure associated with cargo cults on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. He is often depicted as an American World War II serviceman who will bring wealth and prosperity to the people if they follow him. Quoting David Attenborough’s report of an encounter: “‘E look like you. ‘E got white face. ‘E tall man. ‘E live ‘long South America.”[4]
…
The religion centering on John Frum arose in the late 1930s, when Vanuatu was known as the New Hebrides, although there was a claim in 1949 that it had started in the 1910s.[2] The movement was influenced by existing religious practice in the Sulphur Bay area of Tanna, particularly the worship of Keraperamun, a god associated with Mount Tukosmera.[5] In some versions of the story, a native man named Manehivi, using the alias “John Frum”, began appearing among the native people of Tanna dressed in a Western-style coat, assuring the people he would bring them houses, clothes, food, and transport.[2][6]
***
***
“This human behavior of not challenging assumptions reminds me of an experiment psychologists performed years ago. They started with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, they hung a banana on a string with a set of stairs placed under it.
“Before long, a monkey went to the stairs and started to climb towards the banana. As soon as he started up the stairs, the psychologists sprayed all of the other monkeys with ice-cold water. After a while, another monkey made an attempt to obtain the banana. As soon as his foot touched the stairs, all of the other monkeys were sprayed with ice-cold water. It’s wasn’t long before all of the other monkeys would physically prevent any monkey from climbing the stairs.
“Now, the psychologists shut off the cold water, removed one monkey from the cage, and replaced it with a new one. The new monkey saw the banana and started to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attacked him. After another attempt and attack, he discovered that if he tried to climb the stairs, he would be assaulted.
“Next, they removed another of the original five monkeys and replaced it with a new one. The newcomer went to the stairs and was attacked. The previous newcomer took part in the punishment with enthusiasm!
“Likewise, they replaced a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey tried to climb the stairs, he was attacked. The monkeys had no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs or why they were beating any monkey that tried.
“After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys had ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approached the stairs to try for the banana. Why not? Because as far as they know that’s the way it’s always been around here.”
Michalko then concludes: “People sometimes do the same in the workplace. How many times have you heard, “It has always been done this way. Don’t mess with what works.” Instead of challenging these assumptions, many of us, like the monkeys, simply keep reproducing what has been done before. It’s the easiest thing to do.”
***
The 5 monkey experiment did not quite go that way in real life, but it’s a funny story.
Monkey see, monkey do.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2020/12/08/Pennsylvania-Farm-Show-2020-butter-sculpture-canceled-COVID-19-health/stories/202012080132
Nooooooooo!
Fuck
I’m all for butter carving if it leads to a Ashley Greene & Olivia Wilde sex scene.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1349451/
I know that movie, I liked that movie. Olivia Wilde was soooo trashy… *swoons*
Dwight Shrute hardest hit.
This weather isn’t going to last forever. I should really put the dashboard of my truck back together and stick the new wiper motor in it.
*shrugs*
Biden’s “First 100 Days” agenda (I really hate that we have that term and its celebrated) is to mask us, stab us and then send all our chillins back to school.
He is a god among ants.
“Biden’s “First 100 Days” agenda
(I really hate that we have that term and its celebrated) is to mask us, stab us and then send all our chillins back to school.is whatever China wants”He’ll be able to live guilt free though since he hasn’t the slightest clue what the fuck is even going on, dementia sort of does that. Maybe it’s a feature with aging, not a bug.
“Blah blah blah West Wing fears virus superspread, et c…”
Why? Who’s left who hasn’t already had it? If you want to see an example of herd immunity, the White House would be a good place to look.
I told an acquaintance of mine a few days ago, this is the lamest pandemic ever. It’s like one of those going to be a cat 5 hurricane that sputters out as a tropical storm.
She seemed shocked ‘but it’s killing so many!’.
I asked ‘How many people do you know who it’s killed?’.
She says ‘Well, I… I mean I’m just one person… I know someone who tested positive!’.
I said ‘If this were anything close to deadly, like smallpox, or one of the plagues, at least 1/3 of the people you know personally, including you, would already be dead’.
That was the end of conversation.
One of my clients is a very large organization, at least more than 20,000 employees. If there was even one death among those employees, they’d be shouting it from the rooftop, yet, not one. Sorry, but I’m not scared of the vid. This is a fucking joke.
One of my clients is a very large organization, at least more than 20,000 employees. If there was even one death among those employees, they’d be shouting it from the rooftop, yet, not one.
If there’s any public interaction by those employees, they would have been tight lipped and dreading any sort of publicity from the start. The last thing any company is going to do is scare away customers or their own employees. “Nothing to worry about, everything is fine. Wear your mask harder. Wash your hands.”
Depends on the org and how ‘liberal’ they are.
I’ve been very amused by how everyday sports fans read about events being canceled and how every star player under the sun has had the ‘Vid at some point, yet now it’s just treated like any other short term injury. “He’ll be back from the DL in a week”.
Seriously the cognitive dissonance to accept the lack of any notable deaths with the constant barrage of everyone getting it and still believe drastic measures are needed to contain it is intense.
That’s when they don’t retest and find out it was false. SO many false positives.
I still figure one of the new directives from the Biden WH/CDC is going to be to cut all the PCR cycles back so the cases drop like a rock in late Feb (after his new “mask mandate/plea” has a chance to “take effect” of course).
I finally know personally a couple people who have it, including my cousin. They are all young, so they will all survive.
My neighbor’s step-mother died of it a week or two ago. She was in hers 80s and had diabetes and didn’t take precautions to protect herself, though maybe at her age she figured she should just get on with things.
So, what you are saying is that the common cold could have killed her, let alone the flu.
That’s what I’m getting at.
Today in “Racist or not?”
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1336404534072111105
Mama said knock you out, bro, she wasn’t talkin bout no race.
If so, I was very, very racist as a teenager. I also assume it wasn’t racist when they did it to me.
Where are we going from here? If I’m a white QB in an NFL game and I throw a TD pass to a white guy, is that racist? What about if I’m a while guy and I sack a black QB?
These people are fucking idiots and need to be eliminated from the gene pool. Please do not pro-create, morons, you should be sterilized.
Today in “Racist or not?”
“Fezzik, tear her arms off.”
NYT tech columnist spouts bullshit calling for more online censorship:
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1336160452665995265
Although, at least he gets called on it online:
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1336434253668573185
Which is why he wants more censorship.
Roose is a grade A wannabe totalitarian asshole. He is always spouting off about needing restrictions on speech.
if you are the only one aware mistaken payments are being sent on behalf of the company to random people…don’t wait so damn long to tell anybody
Good advice. We accidentally sent a six figure wire transfer to the wrong person (a doctor). My CFO got his head bit off when the CEO found out six weeks later. He hadn’t told her because he was hoping he could get the money back before she found out.
Took me a week. Dropped off a demand letter (in person). When I didn’t get a response, I called the doctor’s lawyer as if I didn’t now he was the doctor’s lawyer (he also does work for us). I told him I needed someone to sue the doctor to get our money back, and also to look into potential criminal charges to make it easy for me to get him kicked off our medical staff. He said he had a conflict and couldn’t represent us. I told him I understood, and we chatted about another case he has for us.
We got our money back the next day.
Clever.
Not to take anything away from RC, that’s the way good lawyers work.
They are all guild members and you never know how you will all meet up professionally.
Not that every lawyer gets along with every other by a long shot.
LOL
Someone spoofed my email to my controller and instructed her to wire about $40k to an overseas account. We import tooling so while unusual, it wasn’t that unusual.
Fortunately she asked me how to classify the expense before she did it, but it scared the shit out of her when she realized it was a scam.
So next time make sure to include an expense categorization? Check.
” it wasn’t that unusual.”
If your controller was more competent, she would have simply coded it to the usual account. Nice that, for once, a less than swift employee actually saved a company some serious dough.
Just for fun, here’s the US State department declaring the Ukrainian election in 2004 as rigged. Absolutely no reason why I would be posting the reasons they came to that conclusion here.
https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/rm/39542.htm
1) Illegal Use of Absentee Ballots
2) Opposition Observers Ejected
3) North Korean-Style Turnout in the East
4) Mobile Ballot Box Fraud
5) Computer Data Allegedly Altered To Favor Yanukovych
6) Reports of Opposition Fraud
Learning is fun.
How It’s Done 101
“A Big Tech-backed “fact” “checking” outfit claimed to debunk explosive evidence in support of Republicans’ claims of significant election problems at a Thursday Georgia Senate hearing. It didn’t. Not even close.
Newly discovered security footage from Georgia’s State Farm Arena showed dozens of ballot counters, media, and Republican observers leaving en masse at the same time from the ballot-counting area for Fulton County. After they left, a small remnant of about four workers began pulling trunks containing thousands of ballots from underneath a table with a long tablecloth and running them through machines.”
https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/07/no-the-georgia-vote-counting-video-was-not-debunked-not-even-close/
Facebook is now censoring the Federalist story
At this point being blocked by facebook is pretty close to “Fact Check: True, but politically inconvenient.”
Are they censoring or adding a disclaimer?
The Federalist should sue them for damaging their reputation/.
They are marking the article with a disclaimer that says partially false information.
Fact checking is potent ammunition in the battle of ideas, but 7.62 is better.
I think I’m most offended by the idea that any government official ever counts as a “fact check” for anything.
“Censored on Facebook” is fast becoming the new “Banned in Boston“.
My favorite part about Facebook fact checks is that they are done by Facebook’s own puppet company.
It worse than that now. There is now audio of the election worker telling people to go home, directly contradicting the “fact check”.
Opening a crate of Ethiopian rifles
That’s a heavy crate to lose in a boating accident
Sam Adams’s Winter Lager got a new formula for 2020. It’s okay, but it was bockier before.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/101/
Squeee!!!!
https://youtu.be/FwEkp4I75OA
I love these podcasts and videos.
If masks are so effective that you have to mandate that everyone wear one and fine people who don’t, then there should be overwhelming evidence of their efficacy.
To date, I’ve not seen the officials of a single jurisdiction with a mask mandate cite a single legitimate study that demonstrates this.