Hoi!
Time for my last links before Christmas. Let us change things up a bit from the usual subjects, eh?
- Save Santa!
- Someone with principles in Congress?!
- I am sure this will work out well for all involved…note that is is NOT the US. For once.
Comment away!
Aren’t most Congress critters elderly?
Look Fat, they aren’t elderly. They could still beat you in a pushup contest.
genuine lol from me.
Yep, It’s funny cause it’s true.
Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88M9-rBXubA
Yes, but being undead already makes them immune to Covid.
Moral corruption is not a comorbidity.
In a just and fair world it would be.
There are some youngish critters, too.
On Friday, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recorded herself receiving the vaccine live on Instagram and encouraged her millions of followers to ask questions.
Most, but not all. And there are always older constituents.
For example, the congresscritter for my district, the loathsome swamp creature Spanberger, is a good two decades younger than me. Yet she’ll be ahead of me in line for the vaccine.
Wandering in and out and I’m here at the beginning of a thread. Weird.
Congress is passing a budget and stimulus bill today. Since this is Congress, the bill was finished this morning and will be passed tonight. It’s 5,593 pages long. Not like anyone in Congress was going to read it anyways, but still. It’s apparently the longest bill ever considered by Congress. Thanks, Mitch and Nancy.
Far, far be it from me to agree with AOC, but…
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1341085329055473670
She must not have been around for Obamacare.
I made an argument and won once with my wife. It was the only time, but I cherished it just as much as this. Welcome to your Government AOC…what did you expect?
You will have to pass it, to find out what is in it.
*falls off chair*
And then she has to go be a dick to Rand. ↓
Bitch.
She’s not the only one: https://twitter.com/TamSlick/status/1339605516692164609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Not hating OMB enough is just an abject moral failure for so many otherwise sane people.
White is so far long gone he’s beyond saving. I actually prefer AOC. I’ll take a faithful socialist over an unfaithful ‘libertarian.’
Yeah, I was actually linking for the Tamara Keel quote. I think getting paid to write for the NRA has started to change her.
I’ve seen a few things recently from her where I cringe because I actually agree (what I posted below not being one of them).
With this though, you know she is still voting yes.
“Why, I was so upset, I wrote the most strongly worded tweet I could think of!”
She also didn’t oppose the vote on the last one, and then when the progressives called her and bernie out for voting for bailouts for huge corporations, she tried to play the “but i did vote against it” card. But since she wasn’t willing to buck pelosi and demand a recorded vote You are going to have to take her word for it.
As far as i’m concerned the only person to vote against the horrid legislation was Massie.
Amash used Massie as a shield, but he can get partial credit I guess.
I’ve said it before, but socialists are often not bad at identifying problems in government. It’s their preferred solutions where things go horribly wrong.
Is she the secret Libertarian deep state plant?!
Just so dumb she comments on the things that the aren’t supposed to notice.
If she is, she’s a master of disguise.
Oh and I think there is no principle behind this. This is her lashing out at Nancy for not sitting her on the committee she wanted.
After every bill that gets passed, all the congress critters have to take a test about what was in it. Anyone who fails gets fired.
I’m gonna take a good idea and add something. In order to vote on the bill, they have to pass the test. Bill must receive a majority of aye votes. Not passing the test counts nay.
Add to it, your average 9th grader should be able to at lease understand what the bill says; otherwise, it gets tossed to be rewritten.
If the average 9th grader can’t understand it, there’s no way a majority of Congressers can pass a test on it.
Exactly.
And by “fired” you mean out of a torpedo tube, right?
Well that CommonDreams article pissing and moaning about how she was shut out from a committee assignment was equally sweet.
Democracy bitches.
Not just Tulsi:
Meow:
She’s just pissy because he didn’t @ her.
In the Twitter lingo, this is like shitting on someones face. I guess.
The 16 minutes it took her to find out he tweeted about her was apparently an injustice.
Or because he didn’t # her.
Pretty sure he’s married, so he shouldn’t be pounding work colleagues. Which is often a bad idea regardless.
That would be the very definition of sticking it in crazy.
He was pounding the neighbor’s wife* so what’s a work colleague or two?
*He probably wasn’t but I still think there’s more to that story than we were told.
I have neighbors that shallow and mean. They decided they didn’t like us when we moved in (they actually told us that) and that was that. It was all downhill from there.
So would a Rhino Gangbang explain the guy who shot up that congressional softball game?
Yes.
She’s taking your elderly grandmother’s dose for her own good!
Well if she doesn’t get the vaccine first, how will she fight for your grandma’s death benefits?
She can’t keep her boot stamping on your face forever if she’s dead.
And when she says “fight for your grandma’s death benefits?” she means fight to spend them for her.
@ me bro! @ me bro!
I think Leon is onto something, I think she has had a couple of Cleveland Steamers in her day…
Taken or given?
Yes
“what wld happen if leaders urged ppl to take a new vaccine that we weren’t taking ourselves!& @ me next time”
What convenient, self-serving BS…
She makes a case for my kids to answer me when I ask them “If your friends jumped off a bridge would you?”
what wld happen if leaders urged ppl to take a new vaccine that we weren’t taking ourselves
Well, most of the C Suite at my hospital (and many others) is on the lowest tier for getting vaccinated out of the first tranche for healthcare workers.
CATFIGHT!
It’s now clear that we don’t have enough vaccines for everybody
On day one, we don’t have 300mm vaccines!!
She makes it sound like we never will. We’re pretty sure we’re going to get way more vaccine doses for healthcare workers than we will actually administer. We don’t have any idea what to do with the excess (and neither does anybody else).
Maybe you could cruise around the streets and shoot darts full of the vaccine out at minorities?
I bet that would get you a ton of good PR for your hospital.
Drumpf didn’t order enough vaccine because he wants people to die!
So, Santa shows up with (the need for) coal.
+1 Zwarte Piet
Heh. I bought my son a book on Santa and Pete! when he was a little kid.
What kind of heartless person would want those congress critters to risk getting sick over their Christmas break?
…me.
Geting covid seems unnecessarily operatic, especially when there are so many patches of ice, uncovered manholes and improperly interlocked woodchippers in their districts.
But if the corpse, or fragments thereof, test positive for the ‘vid, then COVID-RELATED DEATH!!1
Win-win-win!
That ‘Santa’ looks an awful lot like Cobra Commander from an unaired GI Joe Christmas Special.
I just signed out of work and won’t be back til next Monday! How many Zooms can we squeeze into this week, I wonder?
I don’t get any extra days off, but I do get Holiday Pay for days I’m already working, so double time!
Go you!
If I had double time for holidays, I would take it!
Another false controversy, just hand it out, old, essential rich, poor, here, take my dose, I don’t need it,
I ain’t taking that shit. Let someone else play with stirring roving bits of RNA into their bloodstreams.
I will take my chances with the 99% unscary COVID-19 itself.
You hear me, COVID-19? Come @ me, brah! Come @ me!!
Took the ride, got the T shirt, Burnt the Wife, what else you got?
Rwanda and Russia have sent troops and supplies to the Central African Republic to help counter a surge in violence by rebel groups ahead of Sunday’s election, officials and a security source in Bangui said.
So you are saying Russian election interference…
Also, great name for a country.
I bet the Central African Republic has a cleaner election than we did. Not enough money or media there to attain our level of fraud.
Roving bands of thugs telling you how to vote can do that for your elections…oh wait. Never mind.
Florida continues to be pilloried for their insistence on vaccinating nursing home residents and workers, and hospital workers first. You know. Exactly the people most at risk of dying from it or spreading it to the highest risk sector. All of this stuff about essential workers. I go to the same grocery store at least 3 times per week and the same people are always there. While I appreciate the 60 year old cashier showing up for her shift five days a week since February, maybe she’s 2nd tier.
Maybe we’re all second tier? Who’s to say. It’s all relative man. But Minorities are hardest hit, so give it to gay eskimos first!
As a healthy male in my 40s, I should be dead last on the list. My wife (younger) and kids should get it before me.
I’m only 34, you go before me.
As your elder, at 37, I give you permission to take it before me.
If you just vaccinate those at highest risk first, you’d give away the game that most people are not in serious danger.
Are people actually complaining that they’re vaccinating the elderly first?
Really?
What the fuck?
They already voted for Biden, they’re not useful anymore.
Like death will stop the voting for Democrat.
Well, if still alive, they might reconsider.
They claim not enough minorities. However, my personal experience is that the vast majority of those healthcare workers will be non-white, and a strong majority non-male. Everything has to be racist and sexist because that’s the only tool they have, so everything looks like a nail.
But a big die-off of old people would accomplish many goals: reduce the number of conservative voters, reduce spending on entitlements for the elderly, and give them a pile of bodies to stand on to keep the pandemic hysteria lockdown going.
Well, the logic for this year is consistent at least.
Black Lives Matter = White punks get to riot
Elderly die of COVID = Young people get to panic
Are people actually complaining that they’re vaccinating the elderly first?
Cuomo: Not yet! I just need a few more months with those retirement homes and I’ll have solved our unfunded pension problem.
Unity. Healing. Reconciliation. Stronger together. Build back better.
Speaking on CNN, Shaheen suggested that Republicans who continue to challenge the election results are violating their promise to defend the Constitution.
“Each of us who are serving as senators took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. One of the most fundamental principles of the Constitution is the peaceful transition of power,” Shaheen said. “These senators and members of Congress who have refused to acknowledge that we had a free and fair election in which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump by over 7 million votes, are bordering on sedition and treason.”
Let the healing begin.
I would take that over what Biden and his ilk have in store if they get their way.
Has these members of congress said they will only recognize Trump as the winner and come Jan 21, deem him their president? Then no, it isn’t sedition.
Also, I don’t trust anyone that uses the phrase “These senators and members of Congress”….
They should say they’re part of the Resistance.
Spoken like someone who is actually not at all familiar with the contents of the Constitution of the United States.
“Quell Election Violence” sounds like a euphemism for “prop up our preferred strongman.”
Reading the article… it mentions Bozize, the not-a-candidate who was kicked out of office in … 2016? 2013? and Touadera, current president. But no one else. Is no one else running?
Ah, here it is: “Russia … seeks to increase its influence in Africa … Touadera has friendly ties with Moscow and has a Russian national as a security adviser.”
Gee i wonder what it’s like to have a President so compromised by foreign interests, and appointing foreign nationals as members of their Security Team.
+1 Jim McGreevey
Known affectionately here as McGreedy.
Ah, McGreevey, noted alumnus of my HS. We are so proud of him.
I really, really don’t want to believe that our media is bought and paid for by the People’s Republic of China, but any article about foreign involvement in Africa that doesn’t mention China is inherently suspect.
Yeah, that thought crossed my mind too.
No big port for them to set up shop = not interested.
Roads aren’t that expensive, and it’s not like they don’t have a stake in every country between CAR and the Ocean too.
Africa is really really big.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ae/0d/4b/ae0d4b3147399161a144fb1a6948b19f.jpg
I wonder how the square mileage compares when you exclude the Sahara desert. To make a fair comparison, I guess you’d have to cut out a big chunk the American southwest.
Cool graphic. I have been all over Africa and have to say that is a most amazing and diverse continent. It is truly a world of it’s own, and yet most of the world has little to no knowledge of it’s cultures, peoples, or amazing resources. Well, except for the Chinese, that is.
any article about foreign involvement in Africa and China that doesn’t mention Wolf Warrior II & Celina Jade is inherently suspect
Says the Chinazi spy!
*pictures Jade in Ilsa movie poster outfit*
…I’ll be in my bunk.
Quell® is the best brand of election violence.
“If you ain’t got Quell®, you ain’t got hell!”
The AP has called the election for Mitch McConnell.
Even as Republicans across the country still insist that the election was rife with fraudulent Democratic votes, no one’s asking how McConnell managed one of the most lopsided landslides of the Nov. 3 election. They should. An investigation of Kentucky voting results by DCReport raises significant questions about the vote tallies in McConnell’s state.
McConnell racked up huge vote leads in traditionally Democratic strongholds, including counties that he had never before carried.There were wide, unexplained discrepancies between the vote counts for presidential candidates and down-ballot candidates.Significant anomalies exist in the state’s voter records. Forty percent of the state’s counties carry more voters on their rolls than voting-age citizens.Kentucky and many other states using vote tabulation machines made by Election Systems & Software all reported down-ballot race results at significant odds with pre-election polls.
Sounds like Cocaine Mitch figured out how the system works and played it like a fiddle. Meanwhile, Trump was still playing by the old rules.
Kick out mitch and keep Trump?…I’m ok with that, and I don’t really like Trump…
Are they questioning the outcome of the election? why is the AP trying to thwart democracy?
Yeah, do they really want to go down this road?
IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT! /the inevitable proggie justification
It won’t even be that. They will magically separate the two identical questions as no where near the same conversation.
“Are you blind, we are not the same – he is black on the left side”.
I would be shocked if Mitch McConnell participated in vote fraud. SHOCKED! Cocaine Mitch is a scumbag. If he figured out a way to cheat and get away with it, you can be 100% that he used it.
An election where both sides battle to conjure up as many horseshit votes as possible, is a fraudulent election, even if the two largely cancel each other out. The shit needs to be stopped because that’s really gonna be the only Republican option from here otherwise.
Metro Fire of Sacramento said the St. Nick impersonator was using his motorized paraglider, a parachute propelled by a motor-operated fan, to deliver candy canes to local children Sunday when his aircraft became tangled in some power lines in Rio Linda.
I think there are easier ways to deliver candy canes.
… as members of Congress receive the Pfizer drug as part of a “continuity of governance” plan, vaulting them to the front of the line before at-risk seniors and other front-line workers.
“Continuity of governance”. You know, we can always find more Congresscritters.
By the way, Rio Linda is the serious white trash part of Sac. Semi-rural plots with more dead cars than people, I used to love driving through it.
Just ordered my 80% lower jig and parts. Got an irking feeling that I should have done it sooner.
From? Thinking the same.
Pay cash. The people that the ATF is visiting were ratted out by payment processors.
Since it’s Xmas week, time for the annual re-posting of replacement lyrics for selected Xmas carols.
Feel free to sing along, they should all be in correct meter, wording and rhyming to the originals.
If you have any of your own, please add here and they can be reposted next year!
Eventually we’ll have enough for an entire separate Glibs Post, but for now we’re stuck at 3:
Last Christmas
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day
You said you were gay.
This year
Because you are queer,
I’m searching for
Some heterosexuals.
It’s the Holiday Season
It’s the holiday season
So whoop-de-doop
And hoopity-hoop
And loopity loop
Let’s make a big poop
Whoopity whoop
Let’s take a big poop
And shove it down the chimney now!
Drop down a stinky brown brick
For old Saint Nick.
Alternate Version
It’s the holiday season
With the whoop-de-do
And hickory dock
And don’t forget to
Suck Santa’s cock.
Santa loves
When you suck on his cock.
He’ll be cumming on your chimney walls!
Don’t leave a peppermint stick
Just suck on his dick.
Didn’t George Michaels make Last Christmas popular? I think you need to swap the straight and gay references.
And is that considered a carol?
Jeez, tough crowd.
It’s not supposed to be George Michael singing in the new version, perhaps Taylor Swift instead? Or do it in your head in an old girlfriend’s breathy voice.
And OK, Xmas songs, not carols.
😉 I only complain cause I am not creative enough to re-rhyme a song.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9071687/Demi-Rose-stands-swing-feed-giraffe-Kenya-trip.html
Someday all of her followers will move on, and she will do what she was meant to do.
If Congress is taking the vaccine it must really be safe.
Please. You’re talking about people who would eat a plateful of diseased organs with a smile for 200 votes or a $20k check.
They say that they would eat a plateful of diseased organs, but you never actually see them take a bite. But trust them, they’ll get seconds next time.
Touche.
Well to be fair, we know Bill Clinton licked diseased organs, but we never saw the pictures.
“Help for concert venues, cash for Trump’s border wall, and the return of the three-martini-lunch deduction: See what is buried inside the latest coronavirus relief bill
The latest coronavirus bill finally rolling through Congress contains $600 checks for millions of Americans – and a whole lot more tucked inside that has attracted far less attention.
Among the later add-ons is billions more funding for President Trump’s border wall – following a report that the administration had briefed Biden transition officials on how much could be saved if construction got killed.
A $1.4 trillion bill to keep the government running through September, which was combined with the coronavirus bill, contains $1.4 billion in border wall funding.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9075759/See-buried-inside-latest-coronavirus-relief-bill.html
$600 is lame
I definitely need to review any lunch orders I made since I went out on my own. Do you think the IRS will audit me if I try to write off McDonalds for the family as a business lunch?
Nah you are good, just document on the receipt it was a business meeting with interested parties.
I don’t know how you could measure it, but it would be cool to see if all of the government was defunded, for each Federal Agency and Initiative, how long the Average American could go before realizing that agency was missing.
I’d definitely bet that people would notice pretty quickly.
Not that they would miss those agencies, the exact opposite in fact.
“Whaddya know I came down here to get a permit from the EPA to dig a ditch on my own property and they were all closed up. AWESOME!”
More like. I came down to get a permit. They were closed. How am I going to dig this ditch if I don’t know if I can do it or not?
With, or without, the media hyping something up? You could probably get to “indefinitely” if not for the nightly news.
You should see the shit I get for daring to question the existence of the Department of Education.
The DoE is a prime example of how the government-people relationship actually works. It is the holder of practically all student loans now, which should make it the most despised institution among all the student loan whiners, and is the organization responsible for turning Title IX into the Campus Rape Inquisition, which should make it the most despised institution among mothers of teenage and twentysomething males, but you’d be hard pressed to find any average person who knows what it actually does and doesn’t think they run and/or fund the K-12 schools instead.
I won a case of beer from a proggie I worked with back in the ’90s when we bet that the DofEducation was less than 30 years old.
He seriously thought that the DOE was one of the first cabinet positions ever created. It was glorious because he was so sure that he was right that he was gloating when we made the bet about how that was going to be the easiest case of beer he ever got.
I had even told him that Carter created the department, but he refused to believe.
He was so shocked that he was convinced that we had spoofed search results (us being developers and all) and were showing him fake results. He had to go home and check there before he finally admitted he was wrong. Of course it only made it funnier and funnier when he refused to believe the truth.
You owe that proggie two cases of beer, probably three if we want to count interest.
1867: Congress appropriates $15,000 for the creation of a Department of Education largely in response to lobbying by the National Teachers Association, which later became the National Education Association.3 The department, which has four employees, acts as a clearing house of data for educators and policymakers.
Wasn’t a cabinet position back then. Carter put them in the cabinet which is what the bet was.
Was it a cabinet position in 1953 when it was combined with Health and Welfare?
Confirmed that Hype was your friend and he is trying to get two cases of beer out of you
Three.
Was it a cabinet position in 1953 when it was combined with Health and Welfare?
Being part of a cabinet-level department is not the same as being a cabinet-level department.
Look at USPS, Would people notice, or would the Parcel Package industries pick it up seamlessly?
Businesses would seamlessly move to exclusively using UPS/FedEx/etc but letter service would be noticed…there are still people who send letters.
If not for the first-class mail monopoly, UPS and FedEx etc. would deliver them as well. Or somebody would pull a Lysander Spooner and start a new, profitable letter-delivery service. But you would probably have to pay more than $0.55 for postage and GAAP would frown on said company selling the clusterfuck of unfunded future liability known as the “forever stamp”.
GAAP doesn’t frown on all sorts of perpetual obligations, including lifetime warranties or memberships. Create a model, show your work, pay your auditors to buy off on your estimate and move on.
USPS, pointlessly making you schlep over to the Post Office because you weren’t home at the random time of day they showed up to deliver that $20 package you were expecting and who think the pink “we re-deliver for you!” notice you returned to them was nothing more than a funny in-joke.
I just paid almost $50 for a bottle of loratadine (generic Claratin) from Costco.
Methinks the prices are starting to reflect inflation from the cash pumping of “stimulus bills”.
All of our salaries, real estate, and investment accounts just lost value that they’ll never recover.
New Congress takes it seats in 2 weeks and the Democrats could have both houses. Trump will probably veto their bills but he’ll be out 2 weeks later. In a month’s time, I imagine considerably more money will be handed out.
$600 for millions of Americans? Look, I can do math- that works out to about a thousandth of a penny each.
“Bill Barr says there is NO reason to appoint special counsels on Hunter Biden or election fraud and rules out ‘seizing voting machines,’ publicly slapping down Donald Trump’s demands in wake of losing election”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9076219/Bill-Barr-says-NO-reason-appoint-special-counsels-Hunter-Biden-election-fraud.html
I guess we are all going to have to learn Chinese.
I’ll say in his defense that the un-special Federal Prosecutors seem to be making fine headway against Hunter.
“Armed Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer members storm Oregon State Capitol building during anti-lockdown protest shouting ‘We just want our rights back!’
About 300 anti-lockdown protesters, some of them armed, gathered outside the Oregon State Capitol building and forced their way in on Monday as lawmakers convened for a special session.
Governor Kate Brown called for the special session closed to the public where lawmakers discussed pandemic relief and vaccination distribution funding, as protesters gathered to oppose COVID-19 restrictions.
The ‘Reopen Oregon’ rally started around 9am comprised of members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and other far-right groups, some seen carrying rifles and pistols and waving American flags and Trump banners. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9076331/Armed-protesters-enter-Oregon-State-Capitol-building-special-session.html
That more people protested for BLM than against the lockdowns is sad.
The ‘Reopen Oregon’ rally started around 9am comprised of members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and other far-right groups, some seen carrying rifles and pistols
Carrying a weapon is not a crime. Meanwhile people litterally occupy private property and commit arson and: Zilch
Well there is close to a 100% chance those at this protest won’t use their weapons whereas the other protests have shown they have no problem loosing their arms….
Sometimes the bully gets their way.
The Daily Mail won’t shy away from reporting the vandalism, arson, and such, but it’s been the Housewife’s Paper for a long time. Of course, there aren’t that many housewives anymore so you’d have to substitute in the modern equivalent. But essentially, anyone who does anything yobbish will get an unflattering portrayal by the Fail.
Unlawful assembly to petition for the redress of grievances. Unbelievable.
It warms my cold black heart that that lying shitstain Olmos got tackled. Too bad that’s all he got.
I posted this in the Dead Thread: The time the Dodgers brawled with Cubs fans, a breakdown
This guy does great breakdowns of great sports moments, and all in 3-5 min so you don’t have to spend 30 min watching it. Also very funny.
Planned some more for my nomadic lifestyle. May to September will be in Thermopolis, WY and the rest will be in Phoenix, AZ. I decided to ditch the Subaru idea and bought a tent, cold weather sleeping bag, and some other stuff. A foil blanket should keep me warm enough if it’s extra chilly. Looking forward to field testing my gear.
More etymology from Dune
Kull wahad is garbled Arabic for ‘all [is] one’; a vaguely Buddhist pronouncement. The Sufis are a mystical sect of Islam. The whirling dervishes are the most famous members. They spin to put themselves in a trance which they believe brings them closer to god.
The Kitab al Ibar book mentioned means the book of wells. Bi’r is well in Arabic. Beersheba means well of 7 in Hebrew. In Genesis:
***
Jacob set aside seven lambs to swear that it was he that had dug the well and no one else. Abimelech conceded that the well belonged to Abraham and, in the Bible, Beersheba means “Well of Seven” or “Well of the Oath”
***
The word for (pirate) booty in Arabic is related to the old word for sheep (ghanim), a frequent target of plunder in the old days.
“I may as well tell you, it’s my considered opinion and that of my staff that any time spent on the Bedouin will be time wasted.They’re a nation of sheep-stealers.”
The Bedouin went on to become some of the empire’s finest desert soldiers.
One of the gates to the Temple Mount is the Gate of Bani Ghanim. Bani Ghanim means sons of sheep, so shepherds.
Well, time to weld. Hope you enjoyed today’s tidbits.
It’s always a pleasure to read your stuff. Good luck.
I enjoyed Thermopolis, but I don’t know if I’d want to spend more than a few days there.
When we were there I ruined rafting for the whole family by taking an excursion down the Wind River. It was 100 degrees when I made the reservation so a trip down the cold river sounded like a good idea. The next day it was about 50 degrees. Even with wetsuits is was cold.
A muse as I sit on a work conference call:
I don’t think I’m a “left libertarian”, but I’m definitely more towards the center than a lot of you. And that’s what leads to… conflict? Well, probably not conflict, but my brain tends to run away from anything that could be conflict.
I’m already pissed off about stuff that Biden’s doing, especially his pick for the head of the Department of Education, who’s very much against school choice and charter schools (90% of African-American Democrat primary voters are pro-charter and pro-school choice). I know I’m going to spend at least the next four years screaming about stuff Biden is doing. Much as I hate to do it, I’m rooting for Loffler and Perdue on January 5th because I want a divided government.
But Trump’s shit needs to stop. He lost. He’s lost multiple times. Courts have looked at standing and he’s lost. Courts have looked at merits and he’s lost. Courts run by Republicans have laughed at his suits. Thomas and Alito said they’d have voted to hear the Texas case but wouldn’t have granted the relief sought anyways. We can do an investigation into fraud and fix whatever issues there are for the future. It always exists here and there. But not tens of thousands of votes worth. There wasn’t any wide-ranging conspiracy, led by Republican secretaries of state and election administrators, to flip the vote from Trump.
I’m not sure if y’all even disagree with me there, but I felt like saying it. Even if my anxiety disorder is making me terrified to say it.
You can join me in my corner, and I appreciate those who voiced support for my apostasy from the groupthink. I believe the hysteria is settling, and at some point this will be considered as tenable as Russhin Colluuzzshun – save for those who choose to indulge in the worst kind of zealotry (and there will always be those who will do that).
I don’t disagree. I won’t deny there’s lots of, shall we say, iffy stuff going on, but I don’t think most of that iffy stuff is new this year. I get the whole “at all costs” mentality was at play, but I honestly think this was primarily driven by the COVID freak-out upending normal processes, especially by introducing widespread mail-in voting. If you look at the returns in Pennsylvania for example, they are so lopsided as to be laughable. Biden and Trump alternately won massive landslides in that state, if you look at mail-in vs. in-person voting in isolation, respectively. However, there were more mail-in votes than in-person votes so Biden won, and this phenomenon played out across the vast majority of the state not just a handful of counties. There’s too many variables in play to nail it down to fraud, exclusively.
Now lots will say “they” did it to get rid of Trump, but frankly you’d have to pay as little attention to the rest of the world as the COVID Chicken Littles to think this was unique to the U.S. I also think election and voter fraud is a serious problem that fucks a lot of people over for representation (as do many other things our government does), and I am really sick and tired of hearing it all called “baseless” or “without evidence” or “unproven”. I hate the corporate press, but that doesn’t mean I believe everything Trump says, either.
Targeted (at you) conflict or just generic conflict?
Serious and empathetic question: What does your anxiety say is going to happen if you say it?
Anxiety is a bitch. It tells you Bad Things will happen and then … nothing else happened. But it keeps going and and and
FWIW, I have always found your comments insightful and thought-provoking.
I didn’t get why anyone would be anxious about posting their opinion on this site. This is one of the most vitriol free places on the inter tubes, albeit that being a mighty low bar to clear. And even if someone got pissy at you speaking your mind – so what? Strong Ignore TM is a thing.
I have lots of things to say that I don’t for fear of showing my ass/looking stupid. I don’t have time to research anything anymore, all the sources are suspect anyway, thus I don’t know enough to suss out anopinion and just go on FEELZ, which I hate. Thus, I say nothing.
I was taught just because someone didn’t respond or speak up on a subject don’t ever assume they know nothing. I treat everyone here with that respect cause I know I have 10 fingers and 10 toes and that is about the only thing I am absolutely sure of these days.
That’s an excellent thing to remember.
On here, I feel I can spout of whatever even if after I hit reply I know its probably nonsense. On our Zooms, I get anxiety because A: I am an introvert and eight people talking over each other just dumps my involvement and B: coming from a big family and being the baby everyone should listen while others speak, especially when I am talking 🙂
I honestly haven’t been paying any attention to Trump and his lawsuits for weeks. I don’t begrudge him for trying.
Maybe I’m out of the loop though. I got an email from a proggie relative earlier today asking me what I thought of Trump saying he would declare martial law and having a do-over. To be honest I hadn’t heard a peep about it. I guess though, there are reports that Flynn was encouraging Trump to do that?
Like I said earlier today, I think the Resistance has one last dream that Trump will refuse to leave and they will be able to arrest him at last.
The progressive movement has made impressive gains by screeching and throwing tantrums. I can hardly blame Trump for adopting a winning strategy.
As for the election, I don’t care whether election fraud actually took place. The mere possibility of election fraud is sufficient reason to toss out election results and run a do-over.
I have trouble taking the brain lint from the White House seriously. When someone actually DOES something, that may be a different matter.
I’m using the same standards the U.S. Department of State used to declare fraudulent the presidential election in Ukraine in 2004. After strong international pressure, Ukraine organized a re-run of the election. I see no reason to put more trust in the integrity of the American democracy than the Ukrainian one.
Yushchenko was the pro-Western candidate. Yanukovych was pro-Russian. Yanukovych appeared to win on November 21 but five weeks later Yushchenko won in the re-run.
I don’t see listed there that the coup (rightful or not) that US supported there was in opposition to the Ukraine Constitution.
And yet, I have not heard any rebuttal of the following… not from a judge… not from the media… not from Biden’s team… just fingers in the ears, hands on the eyes, and the refrain nothing to see here:
-> 200,000 illegitimate votes in GA. This includes 60k underage votes. That’s several multiples of Biden’s win margin. This was included in Trump’s GA suit. I have not seen any refutation of the claim that there were 60k underage voters counted for Biden. Seems simple on its face to prove wrong if the list is fraudulent.
->I can’t remember the exact numbers, but a list of double votes were assembled for Nevada that is 4 times Biden’s win margin for the state. The list includes the name of every single double voter and the rolls from where they came. This was released for anyone to verify for themselves. Still waiting to hear any refutation of this list.
This isn’t evidence that can be shaded or open to statistical manipulation.
Serious question, how were these numbers arrived at? One of the problems of our voting system is how poorly traceable it is. I’d be interested to see the methodology that a person not working for the government could apply.
One of the
problemsbenefits of our voting system is how poorly traceable it is.Secret ballot FTW?
The secret ballot does put an upper limit on traceability but I’d say many states are operating well below that limit.
The Nevada lists came from publicly available data. And they released the data so anyone could recreate.
I don’t know where the GA lists came from. Other groups in that 200k included felons not allowed to vote and voters who were already registered in another state, and voters who had addresses in another state (AND were not in college or the military). I know when I voted the pollster found my printed name on a sheet and then handwrote it to indicate I voted. Seems like it would be easy to reconstruct the GA and NV lists from similar data.
welcome back
I’m with Jimbo: not really paying attention to Trump.
Here’s why. That Trump is a miserable person isn’t news, and his latest tantrums are not especially intriguing. It’s unlikely that several Republican governors and secretaries of state allowed their elections to be stolen, and it’s even less likely that 50 someodd competent and reasonable lawsuits failed to get hardly any judge, even a Trump-appointed one, to do something. There’s less here than meets the eye, but I don’t think people are making it all up any more than the crop circle, poltergeist, or Yeti crowds are; out of 300M folks, lots of things are seen and reported as evidence; as I like to say: How could it be otherwise? That partisans (or Mr Trump) latch onto every hope is not evil, either.
How Glibs take that all in is also random. Some are mature and patient about these things, especially those who never thought The Most Libertarian President Ever was numbered 45th anyways. Some Conservatarians will object to your opinion because Glibbing for them is all about owning the libs; calling out derp all day and repeating the same tropes is okay . . . . just as long as you’re gunning for approved targets. Calling Mr Trump out for the piece of shit that he is will draw flies; you can’t expect to type that up without taking flack from at least some of the 300 here.
My own approach has never changed: call balls and strikes all day on everyone. That it is so easy to find several things to criticize a sitting president for every fucking day should be a standard, day-one assumption around here; that will certainly be the rule for JRB46, and, of course, I endorse such a posture heartily: balls and strikes.
but I can’t help with your anxiety. It takes a certain toughness to tap out certain truths around here. Maybe you’ll get an attaboy from HM once a year. Maybe you’ll be miserable and ignored. To be an un-affiliated, life-long libertarian has certainly not made any of this any easier for me, so I won’t promise you that there is any answer or a better place to be. I think you should type your truth and see what you learn.
IMO, people here who are objecting to Trump being called out are just tired of it EVERYWHERE ELSE. There’s almost nowhere else they go where they can feel halfway safe from all-anti-Trump all the time.
Here, they aren’t going to be called fascist racists for defending/liking Trump.
I don’t like Trump for many reasons, none of them political, and *I* get tired of hearing everyone who marginally defends the guy get hammered by people whose heads explode with any positive mention of Trump. I can’t say one fucking word of praise for him (“He didn’t get us into any new wars” “RHEEEEEEEEE YOU SAID SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT DRUMPF YOU RAYCIST POS!!! CAAAAAANNNNCEEELLLLLLEEEDDDDD I HOPE YOU DIE IN A FIRE!!!!!!!1!1!1eleven”)
So this place, at least you can say “Trump didn’t get us into any new wars” without getting screamed at. I think people getting jumped on here for criticizing Trump is a conditioned reflex.
I personally don’t criticize him here as a politician because I’m not that invested. I did my time as a nevertrumper. I also don’t praise him except to note that he sent some extra money my way and didn’t get us into any new wars.
I will also probably keep my mouth shut about Biden because he’s gonna do what he’s gonna do and I have zero control over it. I’m just going to have to learn to work around it, the way I did with Obama. Well, with Obama, I had my head buried in the sand. I may not have made it through if I hadn’t.
Owning the [___] is very hard work and I am lazy.
Shit. Didn’t mean to write a novel.
that’s well put
But no one gets a pass from me just because his enemies are annoying. The country is on the line, and principles must be maintained . . . otherwise everything devolves into partisanship which, it would seem, quickly becomes nothing more than identity politics.
My story is well documented. The people who told me the biggest lies in my formative years were conservatives, so I never learned that one sort of political nonsense is necessarily better than the other, so I find it no more easy to watch Fox than MSNBC. It is very easy for me to say that most of that is shit either way.
Leftist assholes don’t change my strikezone. Facebook and NPR don’t change my strikezone. Vox populi matters not one whit: call things as you see them all day based on your principles. That’s what I encourage as sane and decent.
I like your approach.
For me, though, I have a hard time sussing out what’s true, who’s got what agenda and why, and sometimes the historical significance of what that agenda is and why it’s significant. I just feel very, very lost.
I have MY principles but that doesn’t translate to my understanding of what is actually going on, and I don’t trade in “should be this way”.
I don’t know where the strike zone is and I don’t know enough to ask the right questions.
This is why I cling to this place.
It’s unlikely that several Republican governors and secretaries of state allowed their elections to be stolen,
I can only speak for AZ, without doing research I can’t be arsed to do, but our SecState is a hardcore lefty funded by Soros, very much in line with the Dem’s announced plan after the last election to capture as many SecStates as possible. Why would the Dems care about such a nothing state position? Because they run the elections. Why would the Dems want to capture the offices that run the elections? Gee, I dunno.
I’m not sure how much Governors can actually do when it comes to how elections are run. That is in the portfolio of an elected official who doesn’t really report to the Governor. Also, our Gov. is a weak, go-along-to-get-along naif.
How much this pattern might be repeated in other schwing states, I couldn’t say. But in AZ, at least, this particular reason to be skeptical about election fraud actually plays the other way, in my mind, given who our SecState is. I am quite confident that there is a too-large percentage of “bad” votes in AZ, especially this year, given the mass mailing of ballots into the wild and the rampant ballot harvesting which is permitted in this state. I doubt much if anything needed to be done with the counting process – that’s a GIGO process in AZ.
There’s a bare minimum of 250,000 fraudulent votes (in some reasonable sense of the word) in every recent presidential election. My suspicion is this one was significantly higher as this shit is way more widespread when it comes to votes cast outside of polling places.
If there wasn’t fraudulent voting going on, no one would care about requiring ID at the polls. If there wasn’t fraudulent voting going on, the Democrats wouldn’t have pushed so damned hard for expanded and mail-in balloting. If there wasn’t fraudulent voting going on, incumbents wouldn’t be cruising along at 96% re-election rates while the whole country is miserable. And if there wasn’t fraudulent voting going on, it wouldn’t be such a big deal to actually look into whether there’s fraudulent voting going on.
Ballot harvesting is fraudulent. Showing up at someone’s house and asking if they need help with their absentee ballot is fraudulent (you’re not allowed to do that shit at the polls, are you?) Handing out enticements in order to get people to vote (which happens out in the open) is fraudulent. Quite frankly, shaming people into voting is IMO fraudulent. Restricting ballot access to third parties is fraudulent. Accepting ballots after election day is fraudulent. Ballots with no verifiable chain of custody are fraudulent.
We’d laugh at banana republics doing this shit in order to get the results those in power want, but how dare we even question whether we have “free and fair” elections. I grew up surrounded by this shit and it informed my desire to try and stay as far away from politics as humanly possible.
My anxiety has been more directed at preparing for the bad times, here and coming. I’ve never really cared about the opinion of others, but I do have fun with it. As for political conflict, I think he should stir the pot. Make things uncover able, the new stimulus shows what happens when the parties are able to work together, they double team us.
*ungovernable.
You should never be terrified to say anything here. Ever. We all have opinions about everything and nobody is going to jump your shit for saying it. Most of the time.
We all get our news from different places and everything you listed there I have heard rebutted. Most of those cases should have been taken and the standing issue is just stupid because had they filed prior to the election they would have been told they don’t have standing because the election had not happened. Essentially they will never have/had standing which is absurd. Pretty much every case has been ya, no, we are not going there because it is too political. If the courts won’t hear these what is there? There has been many claims of fraud with affidavits backing them but it is just hushed away. Ya Trump is a POS. I get it, but fuck me this stinks to high heaven. The statistical analysis alone should make everyone with half a brain, go, “wait a minute”. Some say the forever statistics where blown away by the fact that Trump is such an ass and that is why so many more people voted against him. The POS got 11m more votes this time than last and the black and hispanic vote was off the charts but the people are so disgusted with him to turn the election to Biden happened in what? four counties in suburban areas known for corrupt elections? Ya, I am still leaning toward this election was bullshit.
I mean it is government, everything else they do is, why would this one thing be above board.
Anyone want to put odds on that the Congresspeople and staffers getting the vaccine are the first to primp and preen about “following the science”? The science is that young people are the least likely to suffer much from COVID and elderly are the most susceptible to problems.
You mean like AOC?
Like AOC being the operative term. Yeah, she’s execrable. But, really, she’s nothing more than one amongst a myriad demanding the same preferences while preening their nobility and superior intellect. You can bet that, if you scratch the surface, you’ll find a hundred or more AOCs working as staffers or sitting within the apparat.
My neighbors got the Pfizer vaccine because they are medical workers. They said if they start pounding on the door demanding brains that we should consider the Moderna vaccine instead.
“Such a great piece by @tdadler
@Wikipedia’s tarnished reputation continues to fall further as they let far left activists control their site.
The main editor of my page and many other conservatives REMOVED any mention of violence from Antifas page.”
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/1341128817209790465
“Lauren Southern Sends Defamation Complaint to Wikipedia over Long-Running Smear Campaign”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/21/lauren-southern-sends-defamation-complaint-to-wikipedia-over-long-running-smear-campaign/
Mammary Monday would like you to be its stocking stuffer.
https://archive.li/AnY50
No face diapers makes me smile.
#11 is my favorite. She looks like a woman you’d meet in a bar, chat up, and got shot down by.
My SIL, who immigrated to this country from Argentina wants to run for House of Representatives. She has said she will be even more left than AOC and that she believes the people want it. I don’t doubt either of those statements anymore.
It worked so well for Argentina, why not?
Lets just say her family in Argentina never wanted for anything…
I should have refreshed sooner. So she knows who Perón is, and she wants to be the next Eva.
… lets say her wedding was at a former presidential retreat.
Is she hot? Is she into fat dudes? These are the questions I need answered.
mousy and no.
Then fuck her, she is a stupid stupid! (Am I doing this right?)
Yep! but you forgot to @her bro!
All chicks are into fat dudes. You just got to get her to sing this, CPRM.
Now I need to.. check my plumbs…
If you’re going to rock the dad bod, you have to tell the dad jokes.
60 percent of the time, it works every time.
What is mousy? I only know it as a hair color.
Ignore the ones with actual whiskers put on…
https://www.google.com/search?q=mousy+girl&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS804US804&oq=mousy+girl&aqs=chrome..69i57.1831j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The girl with an actual rodent jammed through her stretched earlobe? Presumably the Argentine version of that is a full grown capybara?
I think of mousy as timid.
Adrian from Rocky was mousy.
Yes! Thats what I was thinking
Does she know who Juan Perón is?
A family friend?
Could be Cristina Kirchner in disguise…
Don’t vote for me, Argentina
The truth is, I upped and left you
To run for Congress in Trumpy Poopland
Not Argentina (not Argentinaaa)
I mean in cali, Portland or Seattle there are good odds.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1340636292934209539
Pretty sure this has to be parody.
Dammit! I was saving that for the what are we reading this month thread.
I’m reading a novelization of a movie called Human Santapede: The Giving & Receiving.
Sounds pretty shitty.
Did you actually read it?
Minor details!
Wasn’t there a Chuck Tingle pro-Antifa book? Something like Pounded in the Butt by the Incarnate Representation of Capitalist… something or other? Or was that overindulging in the cheap apple whiskey?
https://i.imgflip.com/4r8hct.jpg
An Armored 7 Series is soooo passe.
Bulletproof Ferraris are cooler.
Apropos of nothing – Was ‘forced’ to be in Portland this past week/weekend, just as governor was re-sowing her authoritarian oats. Inspired partially by Mr. DEG, did a search for business defying the order. Couldn’t find anything in Portland proper – I hope they’re just being discrete, but came across a reference to Kevista Coffee in Bend. So rather than take 84 for the quickest way out, we decided to detour down 26/20 and hit Bend. Prettier drive any way. We arrived only about 30 minutes before closing, but they brewed up a fresh batch for us. Place was pretty full, no-one including staff wearing masks, and a beautiful dog hanging out. Everything you’d want in a coffee place. And the coffee was great as a bonus. From the looks of their tip jar, they will hopefully go some way to covering the multitude of fines coming their way or already on their plate. There are people out there standing up and putting it on the line – either on principle or because they have to. So let’s all take heart from their example and do what we can day to day in whatever small way we can to do the same. And seek out places in your area or where ever you travel that are carrying that torch. And if you’re near Bend, stop by Kevista.
And speaking of coffee, I must counter the recent vote of confidence in Dutch Brothers. Overpriced, over roasted Harbucks fare. At least it didn’t have the raw sewage taste of Tweek’s Coffee. Their most egregious sin however was a refusal to take cash. Now I’m on the grid…
AFAIAC coffee shops without smoking (and I include vaping since I quit actual smoking) are dead to me. I want a quick hit with my quick hit.
I used to love occasionally hanging out in a coffee shop, reading, and smoking. Not any more.
🙂
Thanks for the shout-out. This story would have brought a smile to my face even without the shout-out.
I’ll use this as an excuse to repost. For our Pennsylvania friends, this website and this website are listing businesses defying Wolf’s and Levine’s orders. Please give them some support!
Willie Nelson is gross.
That is all.
Willie Nelson is super over-rated as a musician, and a songwriter.
I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!!!!!1!!1!!1 (*)
“Chris Sununu is my shepherd; I shall not get COVID-19. He makes me weareth the mask. He leads me six feet apart from everyone else. He leads me to unemployment and poverty for sustainability’s’ sake. He keepeth the liquor stores open to restore my soul. He leads me in the paths of Antifa and Black Lives Matter for his name’s sake. Yea, I walk through the valley of the shadow of COVID-19, I will fear no evil for his Karens are with me. His press conferences and edicts comfort me. He prepares a table before me and five other close family members in the presence of no one else. He anoints my face with a mask. My cup is empty. Surely conformity and obedience shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in what was once a live free or die state-New Hampshire forever.”
(*) Not really.
I’m dying over here.
Hilarious and pathetic.
I stole it from a Reopen-related group.