Good morning, all you lovely Glibs and Gliberinas? Am I doing this right? Sloopy contacted me late last night (or early this morning, really) because I guess he figured I’d be the only one up? Well his gamble worked. Between the new baby and the bad idea fairy dust, I am here and ready to fill in.
Let’s see **checks notes** bitch about ‘Bama taking the bowl at Jerryland and leaving the Buckeyes with a crappy game that will only host 3000. Okay. Laugh at A&M getting shut out of the CFP football playoff and rub hands gleefully about another year paying Jimbo Fisher to make them a fourth-placed team. Got it. Holy shit, the Bucs spotted the Falcons 17 and didn’t score in the first half and then… Antonio Brown caught the winning TD? I did not have AB contributing to a Bucs win on my 2020 bingo card. The Rams did what they do and gave away an easy win at home. Ravens destroy the Jags, and the Viqueens lost to Da Bears.
**Looks at notes again** Famous birthdays: The original inspiration for my eldest’s name Thomas Becket, although we later ended up going with the more modern double ‘t’. I suppose that does make the find and replace for us easier. Benjamin Disraeli, a man who Trump should have emulated. Celebrities: Hanoi Jane, Kiefer Southerland, Samuel L. Jackson. In baseball, new HR record holder Josh Gibson, and that’s about it.
But you come here for links, so links you shall have:
I hope this kid gets less fucked up than the Mousekateers. Seriously, though, he’s probably gonna join the tres commas club before he joins the double digit club in age.
Florida Men doing Florida Man things.
Bro, you can’t swim away from the cops in Florida. Not at all surprised he has his head bandaged in his mug shot.
This isn’t a scientific paper, its an editorial with graphs.
Musical link: SRV gives a 12 string the ride of its life:
That picture made me laugh.
This isn’t a scientific paper, its an editorial with graphs.
You know it’s SCIENCE when it has “probably” in the headline.
To make it fully scientific we’re gonna need a consensus. Like honest voting.
the most important factor affecting its prevalence: intelligent creatures’ tendency toward self-annihilation.
And we know this is a tendency based on examples? Oh, right, it’s just masturbatory speculation.
Because they scienced the shit out of it!
No wonder they fucking love science (if that’s what the kids are calling it these days).
However, Kaji and his family are now facing the threat of a US Federal Trade Commission investigation over allegations that videos’ sponsors are not properly disclosed. “Nearly 9% of the Ryan ToysReview videos have included at least one paid product recommendation aimed at preschoolers, a group too young to distinguish between a commercial and a review,” a complaint from the consumer watchdog, Truth In Advertising, said. “These advertisements often depict unhealthy foods.”
Off with his head!
Envy.
I think it’s even worse than envy. I think it’s heartfelt righteous indignation that this evil, evil person deigns to unduly influence the chilluns.
-CS Lewis
I think they unconnected, making huge money, and so the government wants their cut. SEND IN THE FTC.
“Our little money-maker!”
I find the whole thing unseemly but whatever.
Eh, they have a business opportunity and are cashing in.
Note how the complaint never points out that parents are ultimately making all the decisions here. They are the ones letting their kids watch him, and buying whatever he is pushing.
Yeah. We pretty much cut out Youtube for our kids after seeing them start to act like the little brats on the screen. It did a good deal at stemming that behavior. Now it’s pretty much nature videos and the occasional “fail as instruction on what not to do” video.
The Gary Coleman/Michael Jackson thing is where you raise your eyebrow a bit. When the kid’s ability to generate cash comes into conflict with what might be in the kid’s best long term interests, what do the parents do? I think there’s many many parents who would do the right thing, human beings aren’t monsters. But history shows at least a few would do all sorts of the wrong things.
It isn’t necessarily exploitative, but you could certainly forgive people for getting that impression.
That kid has 2 more years of runway left before it’s all over.
Tthomas?
I thought you dropped the H after a leading double-T?
He’s a Beckett. We went through a thousand names and couldn’t agree on a normal name we liked.
I’ve been working a 9-5 since losing my live events career to the Stupid Hysterical Panic of 2020, so I miss both the am and pm links, except on weekends. Hadn’t heard the L family had a new baby. Congrats!!!
Thanks!
Good morning, Brett!
How are things in Freedomland?
The story about Aimo Koivunen is awesome. I don’t think they make Finns like that anymore.
Huh?
If the review doesn’t include the authors being punched in the face, something is amiss.
Have a great day, people! I get to have the back of my brain swabbed so that I’m allowed to travel. What fun if one of us pops positive!
Woke mumbo-jumbo.
No worries. We’re endumbening ourselves so rapidly that in a couple years we’ll probably be too stupid to figure out how to lob nukes at each other.
I bet we’re already gotten rid of telephone sanitizers.
Things are badass in North Freedomland. Nip of frost in the morning, high of 50-60 during the day with very clear skies. Restaurants open. People wear masks everywhere in the cities and not at all in the rural parts.
The only data point we have on this does not bear this out, yet it is taken as some kind of scientific axiom in the “are aliens out there” community that self-annihilation is guaranteed.
I fucking love eschatology!
This new thing where people are publishing their research prior to peer review is very suspect, and disregards the fact that many papers never even get completely through the peer review process and are rejected altogether. By publishing ahead of review, you can basically say whatever you want, and get your crazed theory around the world before actual science has put its pants on. And as we’ve been seeing, once it’s out there, news of the paper being rejected won’t be in the press, and most people will only know the widely distributed info as “fact” and can even reference it from media stories.
I. child influencer is gross poor kid. 2. The FTC is involved because we can’t have unconnected people making that kind of money and they want their cut.
“Front line essential workers, like teachers.”
NOW YOU’RE JUST MAKING SHIT UP.
No. WE’RE ALL ESSENTIAL EXCEPT FOR YOU OTHER ONES THAT ARE! NOT! ESSENTIAL! SHUT UP! *Teacher pops a bon-bon*
So essential that they couldn’t go to work for nine months.
How dare you!!
Slandering America’s true heroes for refusing to do their job because they are afraid.
Now , don’t go tarring all teachers with the same broad brush.
They aren’t all afraid; some of them are just lazy cynics.
All of the private schools outside of NYC and San Francisco will be saved.
like teachers
Someone should inform the teachers then as they appear adverse to working.
“Even if the galaxy reached its civilizational peak more than 5 billion years ago, most of the civilizations that were around then have likely self-annihilated, the researchers found .”
They found it in their asses.
I had to read that whole article to find the mention of CLIMATE CHANGE that must have had some role in the doom of all the little green men. I knew it would be there, but its inclusion at the end was a bit of a surprise. I guess it’s not the big problem now that we have ChiComPox to deal with.
The virus was caused by climate change!
Hey Suthen! I listen to that First Aid Kit tune every morning when I go to sleep. Thanks for that!
You are very welcome Sir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_elmd7eaPYQ
Have another.
Nice! I like them too.
We ain’t gonna be here 5 billion years from now, and it’s got nothing,/em> to do with self-annihilation.
L2stellar lifespan plz.
Some stupid cunt is on my teevee right now saying, simultaneously, the vaccine will save us, and the vaccine will do nothing and therefor we must continue all the mask hysteria and plague god sacrifice.
Here’s another Public Service Message I came up with, to stencil on the mask I don’t wear:
“CARGO CULT”
look it up
+1 Coke bottle: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080801
One of the VERY few movies I walked out on. Absolute trash.
Has anyone given the vaccine had drugs drop out of their asses yet?
https://www.foxnews.com/health/tennessee-nurse-passes-out-after-getting-covid-19-vaccine
It totally wasn’t the vaccine.
How could you overlook Frank Zappa’s birthday today?
We know that “Frank Zappa” is just a stage name…. his real name is Sheik Yerbouti.
Just rub it in with a circular motion, why don’t you?
Frank is my spirit animal except for the fact that I’m not talented, mean-spirited or special in any way. He used to make his band stay in a separate hotel from him. Whether that was to stay away from the “tour” stuff or just because he liked to Lord it over his minions remains to be seen. Everyone that worked with him said that he was an exacting task master. I don’t care, I love his music.
He did that so he wouldn’t have too high of a risk of getting sloppy seconds…
So was James Brown.
Genius has its own ways.
Pretty sure that I emulated that Finn after an 8 ball. Kept shoveling the driveway until someone gently clasped my arm and told me to stop. Went clean dead sober for a few months after that one.
Morning Festus. I hope you are well today. I’ve never groked the appeal of the stuff that makes one peppy and energetic. Those things interfere with my 2 favorite activities – holding still and being silent.
It’s a fun diversion but yeah it wears you down. And it’s expensive.
Mornin’ Friend! It was just a phase.
Did you get injured by a landmine and eat a raw bird while avoiding Russians as you shoveled the snow?
Nobody can avoid Russians ever since Drumpf gave them total control over everything.
Uhh, probably?
Appropriate music for the day.
Andy Van Slyke’s birthday. So yeah, baseball birthdays are weak today.
“The plague will put us in a position to reconfigure our economy.”
Fuck off, commie.
The Great Reset.
No one ever suspected that was what this is all about.
Goddamned cockroaches never quit.
I find the whole thing unseemly but whatever.
It’s P T Barnum’s world. We’re just trapped in it.
His parents don’t appear to be holding a gun to Walmart’s head and making them carry the toys. I have seen him in passing on Amazon Prime Kids and didn’t realize understand the appeal. But my kids watch videos of grown ass men playing video games and weird French cartoons about a superhero teen whose super identity is a ladybug. ?♂️
I assume he’ll wreck a million dollar car drunk at 17, but I would have too with that money.
My kid loves watching those unwrapping videos, too. Suppose it’s better than me having to buy the crap.
Bingo.
Grandson spends hours watching them.
Me: “What should I get Grandson for Christmas/Birthday?”
Son:” If you bring something plastic I wont let you in the door”
Every year I’d send my little nephews voice alteration megaphones for Christmas. Had to do it every year because my brother kept smashing them.
Haha.
This year: Drum set for one grandson, Karioki machine for granddaughter.
Payback to your children eh?
I only had enough $ to wreck an already wrecked car at 17.
Welsh supermarkets block off non-essential items including toys
Non-essential items like toys have been blocked off at some supermarkets in Wales.
With just days to go before Christmas the Welsh Government announced on December 19 that the country would enter a level four system of restrictions as the spread of coronavirus hastens.
Humanity is nonessential to the universe.
Tell the government to Sit n Spin.
How long before they block off the food? Well, except for the gruel.
Sounds as if food has been blocked off from the Continent, or at least France. Forgive my spotty knowledge.
Boys are born with a toy! Never Surrender! In all seriousness, that’s just mean-spirited bullshit.
Was it MI that did the same thing? having the stores rope off gardening supplies, ice cream and the like?
They didn’t use ropes to block off the aisles at that supermarket. They used cases of beer. Can’t make this stuff up.
Cases of beer? Homer Simpson sez: I’LL handle this!
Yes, the most famous pic was wrapping crime scene tape around a seed display.
The “Kaji” family hardest hit.
“Welsh Government spokesperson Bergomeister Meisterberger, leg in a cast due to an unfortunate toy-related fall, went on to say that children were required to do all their chores, and that any contraband toys found would be confiscated by the comically inept town guard.”
King John was not a good man…
Stupid is as stupid does.
And the Welsh are another group of people that I thought had spent centuries trying to be free that are trying to be slaves instead.
Just realized something. Judi dresses like Dale Evans when she’s out and about and I dress like Bob and Doug Mackenzie.
She likes lots of fringes on her clothing?
She’s a horse girl. Lots of denim, pearl-buttoned blouses and the like. I look exactly as you would picture.
Like an orange cat straddling a sofa arm? 😉
I imagine she rides Western.
THAT’S PHRASING!
And one hell of a call-back!
Was that your own cat? Sorry not to know the story.
Er, Judi and Western, that is. Any fule no that most orange cats are male.
Of course! He’s made a couple of growling appearances on the Zoom. Twenty pounds of wonderful!
Aw.
(Smoke tabbies are even more Orange Cat Personality than OCs tho. A++, would adopt again.)
I’m giggling about this more than I probably should. Adult Female’s common complaint was my habit of finding an outfit I love, and then getting it in many different colors and wearing it every day (cut-off BDUs, seersucker shirts, and Converse for life).
Same complaint here from wife.
Blue jeans, long sleeve button up shirt, western boots. Wife says that is my ‘uniform’. Sometimes I put a variation on it by wearing a pistol.
“Sometimes?”
The rest of the time hes wearing a revolver, if I know Suthen.
Touché
I am getting soft in my old age. Normally I carry a Sig 938. It is light and comfortable to the point where I forget it is there.
Last weekend I spent in the woods carrying my Vaquero .45LC with a 7″ barrel. It really began to chafe on my hip after a few hours.
I want a nickel Vaquero with a 4″ or 5″ barrel. It has been on my list for years but I haven’t seen a nickel-plated one in a store for a long time.
I always have one handy, I just dont always wear it on my belt
NPR, living in the post scarcity world in their heads
California hospitals are stretched to their limits as intensive care units fill up and COVID-19 cases continue to soar, leaving some facilities facing the prospect of not being able to provide critical care for everyone who needs it.
On Friday, the nation’s most populous state recorded 43,608 new cases, while almost 17,400 people are currently hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases, according to the California Department of Public Health. Over 3,500 of those cases are being treated in intensive care units, putting immense strain on hospitals.
Nearly all of California is under stay at home orders as ICU capacity statewide hovers around 2%. In Southern California and the 12-county San Joaquin Valley area, ICU capacity has been exhausted, leaving some facilities to go into “surge” mode, putting critical patients in other parts of the hospital like emergency rooms or operating recovery rooms.
Brad Spellberg, the chief medical officer of LA County USC Medical Center — one of the largest hospitals in the state — told NPR member station KPCC that means some patients are waiting hours for care as hospitals struggle to free up beds as quickly as possible.
Doctors who have never heard of triage? What a world, what a world.
It would be fair to say that I am more than a little bit suspicious.
Whatever you do, don’t mention Certificate of Need.
I’m not seeing the Governor begging Trump for an uncesseary hospital ship this time.
Waiting for hours…. Is that any different than normal?
Always left unreported – What is the normal ICU capacity? Are these hospitals in the habit of paying for empty beds?
I wonder how many ICU beds are being used by illegal immigrants with no insurance?
Just Juan.
*narrows gaze*
since they don’t have insurance they are on a Pedro As You Go plan?
Jorge a credit card.
Jesus, these puns are terrible.
Or illegals on Medicaid.
CON laws probably don’t make that much difference. They are mostly used to reduce competition, not capacity.
Despite its many faults, no CON laws in CA last I looked.
cases continue to soar
Well, yes. What we have is a casedemic where we have all of these cases…of something…but few people are even symptomatic.
Yeah that happened when my dad was taken to the hospital last Feb. We had to stay in the hall w him in the ER for 2 hours before he coukd be taken iff the amvulance gurney. And he was the last one admitted. They closed to ambulances after that for a few hours.
But yes they did triage. The staff knew from the ambulances what people were coming in for and took vitals while we waited.
“Resisting Arrest Without Violence”
Huh?
Failure to immediately comply.
I’m guessing it means fleeing, but I wonder, like you said, what other actions or non actions could fall under that catch all.
In Florida, that’s a different, more serious, charge (fleeing and eluding). A guy told me he got the resisting without violence charge because he was drunk and ornery and wouldn’t put his arms close enough together to get the cuffs on.
Figures. “You have an attitude I don’t like, son.”
He ran away
A nine-year-old boy has made nearly $30m in a year from “unboxing” and reviewing toys and games on YouTube to hold the title of highest-paid YouTuber for the third year running.
I see the world is still retarded.
Inbinban, Nextdoor, Karen, and You.
Here’s an interesting article on an aspect of North Korean daily life that I didn’t know about. The inminban system has some startling and unsettling parallels to social media and neighborhood groups in the USA.
“Inbinban” should be “inminban”
Nextdoor.com
exactly.
What’s Nork for Karen?
OMG! Our neighborhood is right on the Atlantic, a large portion of the units are beachfront. We have gorgeous sunrises every morning. There is one fellow on the local NextDoor who post dozens of pictures he takes of the morning sunrise, every single day. They aren’t terribly good pictures because he is just snapping them with his phone but he sure is proud of them. We’re all in the same neighborhood, just look out your window to see the sunrise.
ha!
We have been invited to join Nextdoor several times by at least one neighbor. We received the invitations by USPS, since our house is situated such that there is no way for a neighbor to approach it casually and strike up a conversation. One has to purposely approach the house. I only know the name of one of my neighbors and he’s a legitimate asshole.
NextDoor seems like the name for a cheating website.
Voyeur?
Could be worse. He could be posting pictures of his cats like people do on our Nextdoor.
If the lockdowns/mask mandates continue for too long, Karens everywhere may find their busybodying tendencies to be well rewarded. In reality, what is the difference between an inminban and a pandemic contact tracer?
My father who live in Houston tells me that ‘nextdoor’ has disappeared.
Never joined. Dog-walking seems to be sufficient substitute.
(Sorry, what meant by “disappeared”?)
I am not sure. That is what he said. Personally I have never looked at it and have zero interest in doing so.
I guess it is no longer accessible?
Probably his local one had so little interest it fizzled?
Every commie country has a variation of this. Snooping on your neighbors and reporting their wrong-think to the authorities is an essential part of the system.
I guess I’m just wired wrong. I can’t imagine having any interest in what my neighbors are up to. As long as is doesn’t pose a significant risk to me, my family, or our property, I just don’t care. We have a lady from the HOA who wanders the neighborhood every morning taking pictures of people’s yards so as to send out nastygrams about grass height, my kids’ outside toys, the location of our trash cans, etc.. How empty must one’s life be to do that every single day?
That sounds like an awful way of spending one’s life. I hope she is duly ostracized.
I would be having words with that “lady.”
In communist utopia, you don’t get a choice.
Fortunately we’re not there yet.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094
(nicht gesehen; ist tut mir leide)
See it. It’s a wonderful movie.
I second this recommendation.
Third it.
His parents don’t appear to be holding a gun to Walmart’s head and making them carry the toys.
Exactly. Barnum never needed the government to herd people into his net.
How many of the hospital shortages are in states with CON laws?
I was wondering that just a couple of days ago.
It seems highly relevant, especially when we consider that the “overstretched hospital” angle will inevitably be used to justify nationalized healthcare.
Because we know how good the government is at planning supply and demand.
I was wondering about it too but RC Dean said above they restrict the number of competitors moreso than the number of beds.
There is a bit of a push for M4A right now on the activist left. See the Twitter feed of Jimmy Dore.
There is an issue of school closures draining some nursing staff, since capacity is also staffing. Not sure to what degree now, esp in a holiday week, but it has been a factor.
Sweet. Now they’re blabbering about the panicdemic’s effect on the gender gap in employment.
Now is the time to reconfigure the economy! Build Back Better!
How do we get more womynz into economics? The Dismal Science can only be redeemed by the gentle caring touch of womynz, who are in no way different than men.
Apparent social media stunt leads to more than a dozen arrests in Miami
The suspects, who blocked an intersection while making donuts in the center, are believed to be part of a “car club” that organized stunts around the area.
Someone has been watching too much Fast and the Furious.
If they had put up one BLM sign they would have been untouchable.
This is extremely common around here. Almost every intersection that’s big enough has multiple black rubber circles in it. I thought it was funny that they used the term ” making donuts.”
Bro, you can’t swim away from the cops
Because he’s black? RAY.CIST.
The cops thought they netted him several times, only to find out that it was whale poop.
I remember a joke about a truck full of bowling balls being eggs….oh, nevermind
/self-flagellates
Because all the LEO orgs and departments have boats. Mostly to let A-chiefs ride around on during the weekend.
All our LEO orgs here have boats too. Mostly because they have learned how lucrative writing BWI tickets are.
I forgot about those, mostly because we have the Grouper Troopers for that (Fish & Wildlife). A lot of times you’ll see a warden in a branded pickup with an ATV in the bed, towing a boat. Someone should have told me that was an option.
I know a guy who dropped out because he couldn’t stand hassling and arresting guys who were just having fun (eg, spearfishing) but had crossed some imaginary line. He was still under some more experienced hardass partner so he had no discretion to let them go.
In IL they are “The Tree Police” “Rabbit Sheriffs” or “Wood Screws”
I have been known to watch some random guy on youtube unbox and “test” a tabletop machine tool, now and then.
Save me, Consumer Watchdog Man!
Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already.
I’m not saying it was aliens…but it was aliens.
I’m not saying it was SUVs, but it was probably SUVs… *crazy hair amok*
*Shocked face*
Is there a way for someone to easily show that they have been vaccinated – like a bar code they can download to their phone? There ought to be.
Tough to have mass gatherings like concerts or ballgames without either mass adoption of the vaccine or a means of signaling.
Fuck off, you commie cunte.
He get that dunce cap idea from a distant relative?
Proudly masked up in his avatar. *barf*
It’s not tough at all.
You just have your gathering.
See? No problem, as long as your society isn’t ruled by panicked hypochondria…
Speaking of entrenched interests getting their panties in a twist…
Lots of telcoms are really pissed that the Feds are going to give LTD Broadband $300M to bring broadband to the sticks.
Other companies are mad because they want that loot. They point out that LTD is tiny and has no chance of being able to deliver on its promises. If you haven’t been paying attention to the success of programs to bring broadband to Farmer Johnson, you might think that is a good argument.
If you have been paying attention you realize that the Big Guys have pocketed hundreds of millions every year and delivered virtually nothing. So I have full confidence in LTD to squander that $300M as well as CenturyLink or Frontier.
Their name alone is enough to set me off. For all the shit that people have with Xfinity/Comcast, i’ll never ever ever recommend someone use this piece of shit company’s service unless they have no other alternative. Fucking get Satelite internet before you use CenturyLink.
If you have been paying attention you realize that the Big Guys have pocketed hundreds of millions every year and delivered virtually nothing.
Bullshit.
Anyone else trying to coast out til the end of this year? I’m on auto pilot and got four more days. What a shit year.
Ended my official work time last Thursday. As a manager, I’ll have to keep in touch periodically but mostly I’m on the long sledride to 2021.
I understand that it’s a neat psychological cutoff for some people but I could never get into the idea that anything really changes after the year ticks over.
Well, for instance, for those of us who have use-it-or-lose-it paid vacation policies at work, there’s a substantial difference between Dec 31 and Jan 1.
Yup. Tomorrow is my last day of the year. It isn’t entirely use it or lose it, but we can only carry over a limited amount, I am going to carry over about 40 hours, am limited to 60.
Yep. I’m in that boat too. It’s why I took almost all of December off. I would have liked to have used the time during the year, say for Honey Harvest, but for various reasons I couldn’t. So, I gotta use it now or I lose it.
It’s more than just a psychological cutoff for me. Haven’t had a full day off in a month and a half. Those two weeks are gonna be “Go play nintendo switch, and that means both of you, bit..” Wife and kid better lemme sleep late.
I’ve got six more work days. I hope I can be on auto-pilot for them but I doubt it.
* raises hand *
This is my last day until January 4. Pretty much all of my team has taken the entire week off. I was going to work three days this week, then I realized I had two “floating holidays” I didn’t use, so I’m using them Tuesday and Wednesday. Last week we had some in-house training about some of the new tech we’ve been using, which was fun.
I got three more days this year.
Normally I don’t take any time off between Christmas and the New Year because everyone else does. I get to come in and work on things I want to do. My current gig, though, has a bad habit of having some manager get their knickers in a twist about something that “absolutely has to be done by the end of the year”. Normally the manager decided months ago that Task X was low priority and could be put on a back burner. But then some higher up asked about it and wanted to know why it wasn’t done yet and the manager panics and shoots off the emergency flares.
Which means that instead of a peaceful week, I get stuck working on a red ball emergency. That has happened the last 3 years I’ve been here. So this year I took it off. Not getting fooled again.
This is every year for us. I got burned my first year because I saved up a few days of PTO for extending Christmas, only to have to work through a few of them.
This year I only had to work during one day of PTO, and that was only for 2 – 3 hours.
Yup.
I’m coasting through my vacation. Does that count?
Day 1 of PTO here. So I’ll probably be a bit scarce, as I try to catch up on the backlog of video games I’ve built up in Steam and on my Switch.
/looks at calendar
How the fuck do I keep getting stuff planned for every day this week?
I am slammed today and tomorrow…after that, who knows?
Back to NPR:
Some hospitals are now preparing for the possibility of rationing care in the coming weeks, according a document obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The document, which was circulated among doctors at four hospitals run by Los Angeles County, outlined guidelines on how to allocate resources in a crisis situation, shifting from a goal of trying to save every patient to instead saving as many as possible. This would mean that those less likely to survive would not receive the same care that they would in a non-crisis situation.
HOLY SHIT OMG IS THIS SOME KIND OF SICK JOKE????!
Enter “Ethicists” making the argument that such a system is unfair because it weights A white person and a brown person’s life as equal.
My insurance is impeccable. I expect to be treated if necessary.
Who could have seen that coming?
Nobody who’s ever watched MASH.
Contingency plan, probably dates back months if not years. The real question is, how close are they to triggering it?
Cuomo’s shutdown plan is triggered by a hospital saying they might be at max capacity in three weeks.
Get to the
choppervoting booth!“I just recommend very strongly that now when Biden is in office that they go and work on a new Voting Rights Act,” he said. “I think it is irresponsible to not have a Voting Rights Act and to have those polling places closed under the auspices of budgets, under the auspices of coronavirus, and all this stuff. I mean, I think that a lot of times, there are excuses because the fact of the matter is that it’s voter suppression.”
Voters are so suppressed that Dems garnered over 80 million for their presidential candidate in the most successful bid for the presidency ever.
You’ll need a covid vaccination card to do everything expect voting.
Why would you need to vote, the DNC has you taken care of. Going to the polls and casting a ballot yourself is literally voter suppression.
Deminion Voting Systems already has your vote taken care of.
“For the convenience of everyone, we have instituted default voting preferences in all precincts. Based on the outcome of the last election, a default vote will be counted for each registered voter according to the percentage of votes recorded previously. You need only submit a new vote if you are in disagreement with the outcome of the previous election. This will help to minimize the spread of infectious diseases and reduce the concerns associated with ballot counting. Physical ballots will be counted by a paid team made up of professional observers appointed by the local government, to ensure election integrity.”
Not much is going to change in 14 days. Best to make the best of what we have. That being said i foresee a sudden decrease in “Bad News” for the next 4 years starting Jan 20th. So we have that going for us. Now we don’t have to live in a country that is inhabited by the equivalent of Moody, Angsty teenagers all the time. That should be of some benefit.
You mean all of the “worst year ever” crap that I’ve been hearing every year since 2016 is gonna go away? Color me shocked. ?
^^^ The worst year ever crap of the last 4 years drove me crazy, because the last 4 years were incredibly good for pretty much everyone i know, and yet they keep posting about how each year was just awful.
To be fair, 2020 was my worst year ever but not because OMB.
Nope. This perma-fear is going nowhere.
We just proved to the bad people that we will just quietly take whatever crazy social engineering schemes they come up with.
This. And now they can actually implement things, instead of just theorizing about them.
Oh no, there’ll be plenty of “bad news” about things the Ds want to legislate on. Mass shootings, food insecurity, systemic discrimination against certain classes, you name it.
Homelessness will disappear… from the newspapers.
Until it is rediscovered – as a CRISIS!
Those “Rise of the Right Wing Militias!” articles are being cranked out and ready for dispersal from January.
?
They’ll be leaning hard on that angle while ignoring Antifa et al
Yep.
what bothered me about the “Antifa is just an Idea” angle was that no one had the balls to counter it with “White Supremacy is also ‘Just and Idea'”
“…no one had the balls…”
There is a lot of that going around these days.
I think this is just getting started. 2020 may seem like a fond memory in a few years.
->The Covid restrictions were not about Covid or helping Biden get elected. They were simply about power. The purpose of power is power and you don’t voluntarily relinquish power once taken. Expect more restrictions and more fear.
->Half of voters do not accept the presidential election as legitimate. This isn’t Russian fevergate, and they have serious, legitimate concerns. The probability for armed conflict has increased quite a bit. I wouldn’t say it’s probable, but it’s not negligible.
->If the election was rigged, there’s no safety valve on government rule. I expect the VA model to be applied nationwide and things to get much, much worse. That always increases the above (restrictions and chance of armed conflict). It’s a pressure cooker with the safety valve broken.
->An Emmanuel Goldstein is always needed. Regardless of the above happening, I would say with near certainty that the relentless negative propaganda will never let up. There will always be one obstacle preventing the socialist/communist utopia.
This really depends on who retains the power behind the Biden Throne. Biden recieved, and open ran into, the support of the Never Trump Establishment Right, and Left, while mostly eschewing the Left wing of his party. If i had to posit a “Motivation” for that group of people “Sweeping institution of Communisim” would not be one. No i think they just want to “go back to normal” and keep the gravy train of monetizing American foreign policy.
Even with Kamala Haris, if she (heaven forbid) becomes president, she is not some principled icon of progressivism. She is litterally the poster
boygirl for “I’ll do what it takes to get power”. Some big wig CIA and FBI spook would sit her down and explain that she can say the shit she wants as long as she understands that she keeps the gravy flowing or she gets the Trump treatment.Just remember, the dirty spook always takes orders from an even dirtier Senator – I mean, if you’re going with Hollywood plot conformity as your angle.
In a completely surprising and unpredictable development a coronavirus strain has mutated.
A new variant of the coronavirus in Great Britain that researchers say spreads 70 percent more effectively is causing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to shutter many parts of the country for Christmas.
The new strain of COVID-19 is no deadlier than the original virus, nor does it appear to make people sicker. But it does spread more easily, and that has spooked the British government into basically canceling Christmas.
The researchers believe the vaccine developed by Pfizer will still be effective, but scientists are scrambling to confirm that.
Britain never was very great.
That’s awesome actually. Get this shit over even faster.
I think it still has much to recommend it, like Limey and Mr Suet. 😉 And James Delingpole.
70 percent more effective at spreading than the old strain that wasn’t stopped by masks and shutdowns? Obvious they need to lockdown harder.
Ummmm…yeah. I dont think that’s how it works.
I first read this as:
And thought that it was some prime Brit Snark.
Sorry to repeat myself, but: lockdownsceptics.org . Our brethren (but plandemic-specific).
lockdownsceptics.org
aw heck
Is there more evidence that it is indeed a new strain of the virus than one guy lying about a pizza or his employment situation? I heard this before from Adelaide.
Muh MODEL!!!!
A good summation of why our elites seem crazy from the outside.
On the bright side, economic failure tends to eliminate a lot of those assholes.
The idea of these useless parasites dying of starvation and exposure, for the want of some first- and second-order survival skills, is one of the only things that gives me hope these days…
I’m fully expecting this to not end until economic failure forces it to.
Which is why they gravitate to institutions not subject to profit/loss discipline.
Americas Third Party ™ mews from the corner: “The lockdowns are bad, but you should wear your mask!”
The libertarian voice won’t be underrepresented in this party.
“Politicians of both parties have been participating in the orgy of rulemaking in response to Covid. What we have seen this year is the mask drop. The political divide in America is no longer Democrat and Republican, but the managerial class and the rest of us.”
QFT.
My fave Stevie song – https://youtu.be/nO23B5C_Mcw I’m off to bed. I love you guys!
Heh, that video aged surprising well.
Was expecting this
https://youtu.be/NiRj5m63oig
Night night Festus.
Mammary Monday on the 8th day of Titsmas.
https://archive.li/v36Gf
Lots of good choices.
And best of all, no face diapers!
Didn’t read that space article, but from skimming it sounds like they’re starting from the assumption that every civilization is just like ours. What if we’re the outlier?
Nonsense, of course the hive-minded sequoia people who live six thousand years and move at an ent’s pace will be just like us.
“Antrhopic Principle” FTW. Or something. Astrowizards like to throw that one out to explain all their pet theories. Like: it proves there must be infinite universes, because that is the only way we could be lucky enough to have a universe that is just right for us to observe it.
Which if it sounds like circular reasoning, i’m pretty sure that’s because it is.
More rationally, as a product of this universe, we’d be adapted to observe it.
^^^ This. the argument goes “The universe is so finely tuned for what it takes for us to live! How lucky. As if they know everything that would happen if the universe was ruled by different rules.
Fatal Conceit should be required reading, and you should have to pass a comprehension exam, before being awarded any higher degree.
The IFLS people really have trouble with practical applications of science. Like what evolution means.
Real fucking loving science hasn’t been tried yet.
As far as I can tell, “IFLS” means “I immediately and unquestioningly believe every claim made by the government and corporate media“.
Well, we are a work in progress.
I have a great (in my opinion) idea for a infinite (actually finite, but very large number) universes short story, but I can’t figure out how it ends. Its a great concept and setup but have no idea what conclusion it reaches that would be dramatic and interesting.
Also, there was a throwaway line I was going to include, but the joke has already been stolen as a throwaway line by a big author. Dammit. Sure, he technically had it first, but I had the idea before I saw it from him. Its doesn’t effect the story so no big deal.
I’m pretty sure that it would have all possible endings.
Nope. Notice I said “finite”. The math I worked out (made up mostly, but I used some real variables to figure it out) has a new universe splitting off like every 13 minutes. And most don’t survive. And they tend to have some “unique” characteristics.
That will definitely save on printing costs then.
The Copernican Principle is an article of faith, generally accepted as true by consensus, and more evidence keeps coming out that it’s bogus.
The new strain of COVID-19 is no deadlier than the original virus, nor does it appear to make people sicker. But it does spread more easily, and that has spooked the British government into basically canceling Christmas.
OOGAHBOOGAAAH!
Lockdowns today! Lockdowns tomorrow! Lockdowns FOREVER!
Well, until they get compliance and acceptance of their great reset..
The new strain actually appears less deadly.
Which makes sense.
As viruses evolve, they tend to spread more easily but also become less deadly. Both traits benefit the virus’s survival.
We have to forget everything we know about respiratory viruses to get the Great Reset, comrade.
Its gonna be “the flu” next winter.
It is “the flu” this year too, just a particularly nasty strain.
wut
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/13492374/only-sex-once-year-december-25-christmas-present/
Seems legit.
No Christmas in July?
“No sex please. We’re British.”
-is happy and satisfied with just kissing and cuddling
-is capable of fathering a child
Pick one.
Is it all the Brits that are dumb as rocks? 30 bucks is about two people’s worth of “food” at McD’s, nowadays. I get it for the wife and kid sometimes and I’m shocked at how much it costs. I can get decent food for the same money.
They should keep voting commie.
Many moons ago, back when their tag-line was McDonald’s Is Your Kind Of Place, one of the facts they would hammer in their ads was that “You can feed a family of four for under $5.”
I remember the advertisements with some schmuck had a one-dollar bill in his pocket, but could buy lunch at McDs.
When I worked there: a burger was 25 cents; fries were 25 cents; and a coke was 20 cents. So two burgers, fries, and a coke was 95 cents plus 3 cents sales tax. Under a buck.
Real life “Today’s the Day!” joke?
Video recorded by Miami-based artist Havi Schanz showed the drivers taking turns making donuts in the center of an intersection for at least seven minutes before police began to arrive and people left the scene.
Doughnuts and it took seven minutes for the cops to show up? I figured they would have shown up earlier.
BAD COP! NO DOUGHNUTS FOR YOU!
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a trooper tried performing a traffic stop Saturday around 3:15 p.m. on a dark-colored Hyundai for a tinted windshield.
So, a bullshit stop.
Music link is excellent.
2020 was reasonably good to us other than That Which Was “Lost” and all the attendant anxiety, plus the kids’ virtual school which was a clusterfuck. I’m already a hermit WAHM who goes out and ignores people, so the lockdown didn’t do much damage to me. The mask is bullshit.
Husband’s last day is today and then he’s out till the 5th.
XX got an internship at Cerner so I’m looking at a relatively long drive (from someone who works at home) two days a week for the coming semester with hours to kill. I’d normally kill those hours at the library working, but I’m not sure if they have a time limit for using their tables or not. No, she can’t drive yet. #MomFail
The GlibZoom is awesome. I lurve You People.
“XX got an internship at Cerner”
I thought she was crushin’ it at Walmart?
Yep, she is doing that also.
Since she is not going to college and she wants to get out of the house ASAP (bc of her brother), we are at “What am I going to do with my life?” crunch time. Walmart restructured their management system into something she doesn’t like so striving for that has been more or less taken off the table.
Her talking about and getting ready to leave the nest (good work on getting her mature enough to be ready to make that decision BTW) reminded me of a convo with my 5 year old yesterady morning. She climbed up next to me on the bed and told me that “when i’m 7, i’m going to move to a new house”. I asked her why she thought we would move and she said “No, by myself.” I asked her how she would pay for everything, to which she said “You’ll go to work and pay for it”.
Sounds like she’s been talking to my 23 and 20 year olds.
Yeah. I figure i’ve got 15 years to fix that kind of thinking, but it did make me laugh. She had to think a bit about the “How are you going to pay for it” question.
The girls at Kappa Kappa Gamma were known as “Daddy, Daddy, Buy Me!” when I was in college.
They were HOT though. Probably the hottest on campus but (unfortunately) not the sluttiest.
She kind of matured on her own and did it quickly once she started working at WM. It shocked all of us that she took to it so easily. But you can’t move out without a job and it was time for her to get one.
I still don’t know how I’ll pay for my own place, and I’ve been out of the house for…
dear god it’s been forever.
If *I* were her and still looking to climb the rungs of corporate retail, I’d go work in the biggest Scheel’s in America in OP.
1) They have all the cool shit
2) They are the anti-Phallus Sporting Goods; they give the finger to lefties all the time by giving discounts to NRA members, continuing to sell evil black death child murder machines and regularly contribute to shitlord pols.
3) Sporting goods stores have wealthier clientele; ergo, better working conditions (IMO).
She just kind of went in and took over dairy after some finagling to get out of what she’d been hired to do. She loves it. Gets to work in the cold, has sole responsibility for it, and therefore she gets left alone.
One thing she wants to dompretty badly is learn to drive the forklift, but she can’t till she’s 18. She says there’s good warehouse money to be made for people certified to drive a forklift. No idea that was a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CFTIOQCqTc&bpctr=1608566464
I imagine the money is in there to avoid thinks like this.
If she gets that forklift certification I can probably hook her up with a US.Gov job in Yokohama is she’s up for some adventure.
I will ask her that. What a great opportunity for her! Thanks!
Pennsylvania friends: This website and this website list businesses that are defying the governor. Give them some business!
I recognize a few places on both lists.
Thanks, I see a couple that we have been patronizing as well. Not many in Beaver County for some reason, which is odd, since early on we had a pretty strong resistance.
Although, I’m not sure it’s all that wise to make a hit list for the Karens.
At this point, it really doesn’t matter.
Various health departments and the PLCB are on the look-out and visiting places.
Thanks I’ll forward those to a friend.
Walmart restructured their management system into something she doesn’t like so striving for that has been more or less taken off the table.
Why does that not surprise me?
Yeah, I couldn’t describe it if I tried because it’s so off. Basically they made department managers some kind of lesser “team lead” so managers do about the same thing but are not considered managers anymore. I think. Definitely a move to skimp on payroll.
Grizzly? Animal? Seems to me like one of you is a former ruski, and for whatever reason this stuck in my head the other day:
Mister Twister: American Imperialist
Back when I was dating the Big, Huge, Giant, Polack (aka OG-2X-OG), she worked with a guy that had escaped the former Soviet Union in the 80s and told her about “Mister Twister”, which stuck in my head. Respectfully submitted for your thoughts, if any.
Kinda crappy video, but these are my thoughts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpwOSxmMwQA
the Stephen Hawking wheelchair voice thing gets on my nerves in those videos, and the story seems a touch hyperbolic yet still largely believable if Yeltsin had never been outside the USSR before. However, I often remind people that talk about ‘the poor’ that poor people in the US live much better lives than probably 2/3 of the rest of the planet.
I remember it vaguely as a children’s poem. The cartoon–not so much. I must have watched it but it wasn’t among the cartoons the kids liked to watch in the ’80s.
1. New Strain in Britain?? Yayyy more fuckery…
2. I have many friends. Most are afraid of dying from the coof. Most also like to talk up how christian they are. Be the first to reach out and console you at the passing of a loved one. Say it was God’s plan. Well, where is your god and faith now? Is he plastered on the inside of your ridiculous, fucking mask? Hail, Santa.
3. Despite living in the mountains, I’m going to start duck hunting again. I miss it. I live near a north to south river and the adjoining counties have no firearms/hunting regulations in addition to the State regulations. Hopefully I’ll see some little quackers. Hopefully too I’ll get more time away from the benevolent quackers driving around in their white Range Rovers wearing two masks and a face shield so that their precious Mom Trucks don’t get sick and die. Hate to break it to you, your Land Rover is a piece of shit and going to die.
4. My dad now has a refrigerator that makes fancy spherical ice cubes. They make drinking Jack with family much more classy. Highly recommended.
5. Back to duck hunting. What shells are you glibs using?
RE: #5. I like 3″, 1.25 oz, No. 3. It’s a good all around choice IMO.
Thanks, Q. I was thinking the same thing.
Anything smaller than Medium Artillery just isn’t serious.
Duck Hunting
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2020/12/image004-2-copy.jpg?w=383&ssl=1
I used Black Cloud when I hunted ducks.
I gave up duck hunting. It was the most expensive meat I have ever purchased. Between the small game license, the duck stamp, the steel shot, and the magazine limiter…
Yeah… the expense of hunting has always been something I lumped into the fitness, hobbies, entertainment, eating out category. The amount of time and money I’ve spent getting my rifles to shoot 0.5 moa is beyond exorbitant.
I’m reposting from last night because I think we’ve all got a lot to be thankful for. At the end of the day, constantly being driven crazy by the government is just as sad as thinking the government is your savior; in both cases the government is taking a central role in your life which should not happen. Take care of yourself and those you care about. That’s all you can do.
My parents are coming to visit for Christmas; no changes in plans. Like I have said before, I’m lucky enough to live in an area that DGAF about restrictions. Chillin with the fam and top quality pussy awaits!
https://imgur.com/FvcE0bA
https://imgur.com/EHVkBk7
NSFW.
I hope you all are feeling jolly and happy in spite of everything!
I tried, but Jolly and Happy reported me to HR.
See above: Pussy and pussy will make life significantly better.
Number 1 looks like a clone of one of my cats. Russian Blues are pretteh kittehs with chinchilla fur.
I get what’re you saying Q, but there is a world of difference between “constantly being driven crazy by the government” and discussing the government on a libertarian-focused website. It’s kind of like telling people on a car forum to cool it with talk about cars or a horse hobbyist forum to forget about horses. I’m sure all of us are able to simultaneously discuss government overreach here while simultaneously enjoying other things in life.
I’ve yet to hear any poster say things like they haven’t been able to eat, sleep, go to work, etc as a result of recent events. That kind of thing is a key hallmark of posters at DU and others who think the government is the their savior. It’s not even close to comparable to this site or commenters.
I actually see a really healthy response here… People are disengaging from current events and politics when it starts showing signs of impacting their mental health. RC Dean’s article the other day being a prime example.
This claim about election fraud is disputed.
(39)With 212Million registered voters and 66.2% voting,140.344 M voted. Now if Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden. These numbers don’t add up to what we are being told. Lies and more Lies!
I did like Malices “Ask your Facebook friend
“Do you think it’s odd that Joe Biden won more votes than anyone ever, yet not one Republican congressman was defeated for reelection?”
Enjoy the forthcoming speech!
This is what I mean about them not being masterminds; they were so sloppy it’s almost comical. This is 3rd grade-level stuff and The Cathedral disputes it as some kind of conspiracy.
They just knew they would get away with it no matter what anyway.
No one believes Creepy Joe actually won.
“Fuck you. I am going to take a nap.” – Biden’s campaign strategy
Vanity Fair author really knows libertarians inside & out
https://twitter.com/VanityFair/status/1339991710617784325
Got us nailed. I’m a drug warrior, neocon libertarian.
So bad, it’s like they did it on purpose to Troll for engagement…
You’d think with all the hacks at TOS who’d be delighted to sell their soul for a gig at Vanity Fair, they could do even a little better.
I love that Vanity Fair blacked out the DOB on those licenses but full names, address and other identifying information is all out there.
TBF, Bilton’s probably try to sell more copies of his book.
From the blurb: “It’s a story of the boy next door’s ambition gone criminal, spurred on by the clash between the new world of libertarian-leaning, anonymous, decentralized Web advocates and the old world of government control, order, and the rule of law.”
Hmm, I wonder which side Nick falls on?
He either very very ignorant, very very disingenuous or he’s both. I’m guessing both.
Who says they aren’t funny?
https://mobile.twitter.com/chinspired/status/1336769179169394694
That’s painful.
I guess you have to be a member of the cult to find it “humorous.”
Really? I found it hilarious. I’m jealous I hadn’t thought of it.
Honestly, I don’t even see where a member of the cult would find it funny. It’s the same thing they say when they’re ostensibly being “earnest”.
JFC. Herd animals indeed. There is not a single funny line or anything to applaud. Yawn, yes, but applause? No.
Yet there there are.
And that’s what I get for clicking on a twattertard link.
I love this time of year for my work. On the equipment side, the FAA institutes a holiday moratorium on our maintenance activities, except restoration, which means I can catch up on all the small things I put on the back burner throughout the year.
https://twitter.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1340666013910765570
Ooof. Bob with the Takedown of Fauci
JUSTISS!
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the U.S. Capitol overnight.
The statue has stood with America’s first president, George Washington, as the state of Virginia’s contribution to the National Statuary Hall Collection at the Capitol for more than 100 years.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, announced on Monday the state will seek to have it replaced with a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Johns.
“We should all be proud of this important step forward for our Commonwealth and our country,” Northam said. “The Confederacy is a symbol of Virginia’s racist and divisive history, and it is past time we tell our story with images of perseverance, diversity, and inclusion. I look forward to seeing a trailblazing young woman of color represent Virginia in the U.S. Capitol, where visitors will learn about Barbara Johns’ contributions to America and be empowered to create positive change in their communities just like she did.”
*makes “wanker” hand motion*
“The Congress will continue our work to rid the Capitol of homages to hate, as we fight to end the scourge of racism in our country” So we can get rid of Congress then too right?
Such a good idea we have to do it by cover of darkness without telling anyway!
anyone*
*goes to shame stool*
Fiddling while Rome burns.
Has Sen. Robert Byrd been non-personed yet? Lee committed treason, and his statue doesn’t belong in the Capitol, but his racial views were probably no worse than Abraham Lincoln’s. Lincoln, in fact, endorsed secession back in the 1840s when he opposed the War with Mexico.
Arguable, seeing as the right to secession was taught at West Point when he was there.
Lee committed treason, and his statue doesn’t belong in the Capitol
By that standard, which of America’s founding fathers wasn’t a full-fledged traitor?
They are working on that…
Well, until there are statues of Washington and Jefferson in Trafalgar Square…
Akshually…
https://www.military.com/history/george-washington-statue-london-british-soil.html
So the Brits were completely emasculated.
Virginia is the birth place of the fucking country, you tyrannical (but impotent…) cunte.
Part of the reconciliation after the Civil War was the South would be permitted to memorialize their war dead and their heroes.
On the eve of another civil war, that agreement has been broken.
Not only that, Robert E Lee was a reminder himself that once the fighting was over, we were once again Americans. These assholes really want to set the stage for no quarter, no surrender because they see themselves as the only possible victors.
Next will be a push to take away Civil War era battle streamers from National Guard units in southern states.
I will personally fight to keep the one awarded to the FSU ROTC unit for the Battle of Natural Bridge.
That’s one large reason why the post-war reconciliation went as smoothly as it did. Compare and contrast with Northern Ireland and South Africa, among other examples
If you insist on giving your enemies no quarter, don’t be surprised when you take a shitload of casualties while stomping them out.
“I’m through with criticizin’, I’m gonna do some fightin’ with Quantrill’s men“
Every President since Ford belonged in leg irons (or worse) for their activities as President. Trump, who was prohibitively likely to break all sorts of laws through sheer ignorance, probably less so than the rest, but I’m sure he earned it too.
I have no issue with getting rid of General Lee statues. I have a big issue with the selective unpersoning of only a certain type of asshole.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the development “welcome news.”
“The Congress will continue our work to rid the Capitol of homages to hate, as we fight to end the scourge of racism in our country,” she said in a statement. “There is no room for celebrating the bigotry of the Confederacy in the Capitol or any other place of honor in our country.”
Okay, Karen.
Whenever I’ve spoken to a black person, without fail the number one concern they have in their life is that there is a Confederate statue in Washington.
Or Virginia. Or anywhere else.
Cue Ralph Wiggam:
“I’m helping!”
Now do Boston.
I’ll wait.
Anybody got the deets on how the March Trumpbux will affect taxes this year? Or this second round of stimulus?
According to Experian they say “In short, while there is a relationship between your check and your taxes, receiving a check won’t increase your tax liability or reduce your refund.”
They also say “Your stimulus check is not an advance tax refund, and will not affect tax refunds based on your 2019 and 2020 tax returns. Additionally, you will not have to repay the stimulus money.”
However, that is their view on it and not the government’s and we know how they view us.
The IRS has been known to change at the last minute and once Biden gets the reins …
Also, apparently they may have to delay tax day again because this new stimulus changes rules that have already been printed. So they have to throw that all out and reprint new rules. I wonder when Turbo Tax will get the update for this late change?
Speaking of which TT goes on discount at Costco on the 26th. It is the standard $10 off that you can always get, but I am wanting to get an early start this year. I do the taxes for my Mom and she sold a rental house and my Dad died this year, so it will be interesting.
Thanks for the reminder. I need to get a copy myself. TT is my boo.
I have to imagine Intuit lobbies hard to prevent simplification of the tax code.
All CPAs lobby for that. If taxes were simple, they would be reduced to just business tax clients.
All cpas don’t m, and the AICPAs lobbying expenditures are shockingly low for such a big effect. Bottom line is no lobbying on this front is needed. Politicians like the code complex so they can reward friends and punish enemies.
I switched to H&R Block’s software last year after a decade of using Turbotax. Recommend checking it out. I like it better and it’s on sale for a lot less than TT. It’ll import TT files.
It is supposed to be like the first one and an advance on a tax credit. So it should all balance out. There will be a new tax credit on this year’s forms. If you get a check but dont get the credit, you will owe it back as taxes. If you dont get a check, but get the credit, you will get a bigger refund.
Is the Stimulus Check Just an Advance on My Tax Refund or Government Benefits?
Your stimulus check is not an advance tax refund, and will not affect tax refunds based on your 2019 and 2020 tax returns. Additionally, you will not have to repay the stimulus money.
The stimulus payment is a new federal tax credit for the 2020 tax year, which is why you may have heard it referred to as a stimulus rebate. But unlike other rebates, such as the federal child tax credit or earned income tax credit, Americans are eligible now to receive payments instead of having to wait until tax time next year for a larger refund or a tax payment reduction.
They give you a tax credit for 2020 which would normally be applied in April 2021. Instead they give you a check now for a tax credit that doesn’t actually occur until you file your taxes in 2021.
“…you will not have to repay…”
It’s a magic hat.
As I understand the stimulus checks, if you received the check (based on the income shown in a previous year’s tax return), but then made more income in 2020, they are NOT going to make you pay it back.
In our case, we had too high of an income in our last tax return, so we didn’t receive a check. However, we actually have a lower income in 2020 that does qualify for the stimulus credit, so we will get it in our 2020 tax refund. I already started our tax return to see how it will work (I use the TaxAct software).
As for the new $600 stimulus checks, I think they won’t come out until 2021, so will probably be handled as part of 2021 taxes.
Econ 101 curmudgeon: *walks in class on first day, looks over his glasses at class*
“Free. If you use that word in my class I will fail you. I dont care how well you do on the tests. There is no such thing as free. No matter what it is, somewhere, someone is paying for it.”
He then introduced himself.
I liked that guy.
Govt. doesnt produce anything. They are leaches. They dont give us anything, it is all smoke and mirrors. In the end we pay for it.
“You are free to expel people from your class for such poor reasons, but by doing so become living proof why tenure is a bad idea.”
CNBC had a good write up yesterday, but it’s not showing up on google news today.
The Trumpbux will show as a tax rebate of some sort on tax year 2020. If you got it last year, it goes in one slot of the tax form. If you didn’t get it but still quality, that rebate will be applied to tax 2020 when you file in April 2021. So that would basically be a tax refund in 2021 for tax year 2020.
Not at all clear how the December Trumpbux will pay out. My guess, is that nothing happens before Jan 1 2021. So that would be a tax year 2021 rebate.
I don’t know what gratuitously wasteful “solution” was decided upon.
March was supposed to be a wash. You got a tax credit equal to your liability. Supposedly.
How Will Northam Respond To Record Gun Sales In Virginia?
More tyranny?
From the article’s comments:
“We missed the deadline. We were too busy trying to bankrupt restaurants and other small businesses.”
NJ nursing homes won’t get COVID-19 vaccine this week after state officials miss deadline ‘We missed that date by a day,’ Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli admits
1. I hate “they”. Hear it all the time at work. This unknown all powerful entity that demands you do crappy work.
2. No one was top of critical dates?
3. Whoever “they” is, only has weekly dates for this supposed live or death menace? Missing a “deadline” by a day doesn’t mean it ships the following day?
4. As Drake linked to elsewhere, professional managerial class with no noblesse oblige or sense of shame. At the very least, this should merit an immediate resignation in lieu of being fired. At the least.
Exactly. Zero accountability in civil service.
can they be held personally liable for the resulting deaths of their decision?
Gee, should someone lose their job?
However, that is their view on it and not the government’s and we know how they view us.
Something something pray I do not alter it further.
2020 wasn’t all bad for our family out here in Vegas, at least financially. Personally and mental health wise, it affected some family ties that are already strained due to some of my ‘tolerant’ lefties in the family. It put my oldest son in a complete fearful mode of living, it saw my father pass from cancer and ruined my nieces advancement in her hairdressing career along with completely shutting down my cousin’s salon.
Regarding my cousin, her past couple of years have been horrid. During the Woosley Fires (in Ventura CA) she was one of the homes lost to the fire. They rebuilt and survived only to have their business (her and her husband own the salon and are both stylist) shutdown by the Government and I don’t know how they are getting along, other than by the grace of God and their families.
Here at home, the shutdowns/pauses/resets/handbrakes/lockdowns/shutins whatever you want to call it, destroyed what progress we were making with our middle son’s schoolwork. He is putting in the same effort as his teachers are, which is about close to nothing. Wife’s business really took off and she has over 150 clients and is typically booked out a month.
SRV proves you have to be ugly to have a lot of soul. Great choice.
At the very least, this should merit an immediate resignation in lieu of being fired. At the least.
You slay me.
Hope Double Eagle is ok -Volcano and earthquake on big island
I heard that…hope all is well!!
and leaving the Buckeyes with a crappy game that will only host 3000.
Still have a national television audience to witness Clemson stomping the hell out of them.
Arguable, seeing as the right to secession was taught at West Point when he was there.
This touches on something I’ve been thinking over for a while. I’m not going to try to defend the Confederacy. Slavery was such an abomination as to render their secession on its behalf inexcusable. But, aside from slavery (granted, a massively gigantic aside), I can’t see where you can argue they didn’t have the moral and political high ground. If the Declaration of Independence meant anything, the right of secession was an absolutely legitimate one. And, it strikes me as absurd that you can claim that prior generations forged an unbreakable political compact applicable to the current. If there had been no Emancipation Proclamation, I don’t think it would be at all possible to justify the Union argument.
Slavery tends to be viewed through our contemporary moral lens. That is a mistake.
There is no state in the union where one can be forced to remain in a contract that they find untenable. Our constitution is a contract between the FedGov and the states. There is absolutely a right to succession.
That’s roughly my thinking. I’m making my point, though, through a contemporary moral lens. I don’t think there’s a moral case to be made for the forced imposition of government on a population that sees that government as an infringement on its rights. The notion that the Civil War “settled” the matter of secession is nothing more than “might makes right”.
I agree 100% that slavery is an abomination but historically it was imposed by nature. Men didnt invent it out of thin air.
Fortunately our current technology makes slavery not only unnecessary but uneconomical. We are still a work in progress but we in the west do live in the best time in history.
As for the FedGov imposing govt on the populace I am confident that their increasing corruption and incompetence will be the end of them. As for what follows, I cannot say.
Fortunately our current technology makes slavery not only unnecessary but uneconomical.
-1 China
They use slavery as a tool for power. It is cheaper to use tractors than to feed, clothe and house 1000 people with shovels.
They are barbarians with barbarian mentality. Power is more important to them than wealth.
I should toss in this as well, their muslim minority has been no better, and maybe worse. They have reason to crack down on the uigurs but their methods leave something to be desired, namely civilized behavior.
Slavery tends to be viewed through our contemporary moral lens
I am perfectly fine with viewing it thru the moral lens at the time. Read Adams on slavery. There were plenty, even if a minority, of men in the late 18th and early 19th century who saw slavery as a moral abomination.
Heck, read Jefferson’s writings on slavery and ignore his practices.
Since everything is through a modern lens, I’m waiting for the victors at Little Big Horn to be labeled as war criminals for their actions against surrendering soldiers.
Don’t forget that there was also the matter of the FedGov ass raping the Southern states via tariffs. Lincoln didn’t give a fuck about slavery.
Using a slight political advantage to continually put the boot to your opposition inevitably leads to this sort of thing. That’s why Obama’s “elections matter” and “I won” horeshit is so dangerous.
Impose the “kneel before Zod!” shit on people enough times, and there’s a good chance you’ll cause at least some of them to let their freak flag fly.
The Articles of Confederation were for perpetuity – until the bloodless coup that was the Constitutional convention, both of these coming after the DoI.
As I recall the Constitution prohibits states from forming compacts or alliances without Congressional permission.
Compact Clause yes. But i doubt you could really hold any state to a clause in a constitution they are attempting to repudiate by seceding.
The Articles of Confederation were for perpetuity – until the bloodless coup that was the Constitutional convention
If the post-convention government is not the same government as under the Articles, how do you make the claim that the perpetuity provision of the Articles applies? And even if it did, I don’t see how you can ethically or morally claim that the signers of the Articles had the authority to bind future generations.
Slavery was such an abomination as to render their secession on its behalf inexcusable.
If states had the right to secede, I don’t think it matters why they exercised that right.
Sure it does. Their having the right shouldn’t shield them from legitimate criticism for their reason for exercising that right. It simply means they have the right. The fact that the Union didn’t have a legitimate casus belli doesn’t absolve the Confederacy from it’s support for the institution of slavery.
it strikes me as absurd that you can claim that prior generations forged an unbreakable political compact applicable to the current. If there had been no Emancipation Proclamation, I don’t think it would be at all possible to justify the Union argument.
I don’t think you’d have to work very hard to establish the original states’ “union” as nothing more than a marriage of convenience. I wonder how many of the Founders truly expected the union to stay together for twenty years, much less two hundred.
Helpful vaccine distribution infographic
Our public health apparatus is a sick fucking joke.
Obviously hates our front line healthcare workers in neurology and dermatology that are on the front lines of the battle with covid.
#Vaccinate20yearoldsleastlikelytosufferdeathorseriouscomplicationsfirst
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-election-democrats-losses/2020/12/20/b5b2cec4-3ff5-11eb-8db8-395dedaaa036_story.html
They worry about the potential emergence of a mostly male and increasingly interracial working-class coalition for Republicans that will cut into the demographic advantages Democrats had long counted on. They speculate that the tremendous Democratic gains in the suburbs during the Trump years might fade when he leaves office. And they fret that their inability to make inroads in more rural areas could forestall anything but the most narrow Senate majority in the future.
“We just need to acknowledge that Trump’s poison was deeper in the bloodstream of the American electorate than we thought,” said Bradley Beychok, the president of American Bridge, which ran a $62 million ad campaign to hurt Trump among White working-class voters in three northern states that Biden won.
Why won’t these fucking deplorables vote for us?
The 70 Million people who voted for him are a poison.
“America will never be a socialist country” – OMB
There is some Trump poison. That is the heart of it.
That, and he wasn’t really sold on the idea that it’s our job to fight deadly, expensive, and endless wars all over the world. Not because he has some deep-seated conviction about aggression, but rather from a “why are we spending this money” standpoint. Even that was enough to get the Deep State against him, and the corporate media did their part and made up other reasons to hate him.
I’m sorry, but I find the Post bordering on unreadable. This shite really does read like Pravda from the old Soviet Union.
They worry about the potential emergence of a mostly male and increasingly interracial working-class coalition for Republicans that will cut into the demographic advantages Democrats had long counted on.
That’s good, right?
Haha, I crack myself up.
The racial (and sex) divide between the party’s voting blocs was bad, until it was good.
I thought we were going to see the racisim of the “Anti-White” identitarians take over the full force of the DNC. But i could concieve of a world where the White nationalists take over the DNC and the media tries to spin it as the right thing because those dumb minorities keep voting against their interests.
I mean Richard Spencer’s endorsed candidate did get elected.
Minnesoda fear mongering Hmong style!
Literally the only stat in the entire article is this:
The Asian population in Minnesoda is 5.2%. So they are testing positive almost at the same level.
The doctor goes on and on about how the Hmongs like to spend time with family and that needs to stop. And that they need to stop taking “tribal herbal cures”.
If any journalo had the ability to apply a bit of logic to this doc’s claims, they should have come away with the conclusion that social distancing really isn’t working. If the Hmongs won’t listen to the science, shouldn’t they be dropping like flies?
Last spring a Hmong legislator who was 31 died. A lot of ink was spilled on her death, but she looked pretty sickly, so maybe not the best person to base your entire narrative on. The other big scare story you hear about all the time was the super spreader funeral.
What they never talk about is all 19 of those people recovered.
And if those tribal herbal remedies have Vitamin D, zinc, or vitamin C in them, they probably help as much as anything.
We’re not hit harder, but within that 5 percent, the Hmong community represents a huge part of that population.
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Again, not surprising. The Hmong coummunity is a huge part of the Asian population here.
MSNBC “business” channel strikes again
Despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, some American politicians continue to deny that climate change exists, while others question the severity of its impact. And among the general public, climate change denial is higher in the U.S. today than almost anywhere else in the world.
This is largely the result of the oil and gas industry’s financial interests colliding with a powerful libertarian strain in U.S. politics. Fossil fuel companies, hoping to prolong the world’s reliance on their products, have made common cause with conservative and libertarian think tanks that promote free market economics, and therefore oppose fossil fuel regulation on ideological grounds.
Want something to explain or support that claim? Too bad.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
They are really hammering that narrative the past couple weeks.
Everything wrong in this country is fault of the political party that struggles to get 1% in the election.
Its the big push to fully centralize a nearly centralized economy or possibly make any business that is open a subsidiary of a mega-corporation (very cyberpunk I know). They already have proven that the public does not care if a single entity can decide who is allowed to remain in business and who is not.
People always find ways to work around external control. Whatever outlet of freedom they’re left by their betters will be “exploited” because the external locus of control is never equivalent to an external locus of responsibility (nor can it be). As freedom is taken inch-by-inch, eventually the ultimate realization of central control occurs: where the government has all the power and none of the responsibility, and then everything “unexpectedly” collapses due to “bad luck”, “hoarders”, and “speculators”.
All of this.
Every crumb of liberty leftover is just a loophole to be closed in the next round, until they system can’t sustain itself.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised…
These are many of the same people who seriously believe that American society is sexist against women, that Hollywood is racist, and that the media was unfairly harsh on Obama (yes, someone literally told me that).
Is there an advanced economy that doesn’t have a petrochemical industry, whether it be in extraction, refining, delivery, processing, etc.? The idea that the U.S. is unique in this regard is silly to me. PetroChina, Saudi Aramco, British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch Shell are all bigger than any U.S. company.