The littlest L got moved to his own room tonight, and he was not loving it. At this point might as well rise and do links. I hope each of you had more than 2 hours of continuous sleep.
I don’t know who JJ was talking to, but I respect the thought. Maybe James Harden?
Was that wrong? Were they not supposed to do that? Senator from GA seems to be a job nobody wants.
Joe Biden sucking the intelligence community’s dick.
And that’s all I could find. Have to do yer own birthdays and such. Hope your day is better than my night.
*EDIT FAIRY HELPS*
I’ve noticed that the “Farm” picked up the explosives training right after the election. They always seem to do that when they’re in a good mood.
???
I live within a half mile of their training facility down here. I tend not to refer to it by name online since they probably monitor the internet for it.
They do set off a lot of explosives from time to time and rattle the windows around here. That and automatic weapons training.
There was one particularly loud boom this year that could heard for miles. I met one of the ordnance guys at a kid’s birthday party a couple of years ago. He seemed to indicate that at least half of it is just for fun.
Gotta expend what you’re given to justify needing it for future training. Same reason why, at the end of firing week on the range in the Marines, they’d let us pop off a bunch of rounds on “burst”…..because they had extra ammo and needed to use it all, lest they be allotted less the next year.
My uncle that was in the army at the end if WW2 said they were highly encouraged to shoot as much ammo at the range anytime they wanted to.
Just for fun, check out their evasive driving courses. I’ve heard from contractors that work out there that it gets wild from time to time with guys shooting from SUVs traveling at high speeds.
https://goo.gl/maps/NVkJcqMMnubB2Fi8A
I live under the final approach vector to the strip, or as I call it, the “Rendition Express”
The EOD guys in my squadron would blow up random shit for “training”. One time they had an ambulance from DRMO and randomly blew parts of it up.
Ah… I know the one you mean.
Huh. That’s down around where my folks live.
I’m starting to wonder if we’ve ever run into each other in real life.
Some kind of secret code? I think we have been infiltrated.
Well its not September, so a end of fiscal year SPENDEX doesn’t make sense, unless the spooky types use a CY budget. Which for a Government organ, would be odd.
Bunch of new used Class C’s driving around as well?
Not it.
I got nothin’
Howdy!
Gerry Studds proved pretty conclusively that kiddie-diddling is ok if you’re a donk.
That’s a pisser.
if only he had a cellphone to YouTube: what to do when!
Was there no primary in Georgia? How is it no one found out any of this stuff about Warnock before?
Probably the result of a horse trade with the black pastor lobby in Georgia. They have significant political clout down there.
It makes a Dem look bad, so Dem propaganda organs don’t run it.
They were so busy reporting on Huner Biden that they couldn’t get around to it.
Kelly Loeffler: Vote for me because some guy is alleging that camp counselors were mean to him 17 years ago!
…and tried to run down his wife with the car, and is an anti-Semite, and…
He’s not an Anti-Semite. Linda Sarsour and Rashida Talib and Illhan Omar all vouched for him!
STOP THAT! I am Son of Fourscore!
Adopted Son of Fourscore
I doubt many people in GA care about any of this stuff, and aren’t splitting the ticket. It’s about whether it’s one party rule or divided government.
We’ll let you lawyers figure that one one out. YOU KNOW WHAT COMES NEXT.
That’s weird. The Big Story this morning is Ballgag’s petulant foot-stamping about how the defense agencies won’t play fair and just hand over the keys right now instead of waiting until after the inauguration.
It’s a coup that Trump won’t give up the power of commander in chief until he is no longer commander in chief!!
Were they not supposed to do that?
Good timing on coming out with these allegations.
PWNED!!1
The study was a “meta-analysis” — a paper that pools existing studies on a topic and tries to draw broader conclusions using a larger data set than any of the studies had individually.
Specifically, the study looked at how much the virus spread within households. The researchers found that among the studies that met their parameters, the “secondary attack rates” — that is, the likelihood of spread from an infected person to a previously uninfected person within a household — were higher among people who had symptoms than among those who didn’t: 18% for symptomatic individuals vs. 0.7% for asymptomatic individuals.
The notion that people with symptoms are more likely to infect others is not a new one. Coughing, for example, is a symptom of COVID-19 and an especially effective way to spread the virus. One meta-analysis study published in September by researchers from Harvard University, Canada, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom found that “asymptomatic patients can transmit” the virus to others, but that “such individuals are responsible for fewer secondary infections than people with symptoms in the same studies.” Other studies have also shown reduced rates of transmission among asymptomatic individuals.
In other words, there’s consistent evidence that asymptomatic individuals are less likely to spread the virus than symptomatic individuals are. But the paper didn’t find the rate of spread to be zero. Moreover, Martin’s original tweet mischaracterized the paper’s conclusions, and Lahren’s comment exacerbated the misunderstanding.
You can’t say that!
HAH! 0.7% is not ZERO. Therefor, telling people not to obsess about asymptomatic transmission is completely, criminally! false, and everyone should wear a mask 24 hrs per day.
‘These agencies are filled with patriots, who have earned our respect and should never be treated as political footballs’ — In contrast with Pres. Trump,
President-electBiden shows deference and respect for intelligence officialsWhen did this happen?
Communitsts are patriots! Real patriotism is wanting to submit our sinful economy to the rule of international top Men!
Lying to Congress under oath is the epitome of patriotism, in a Dem administration at least. When Ollie North did it it was the greatest treason in American history. Does that help?
When will Politifact get around to fact-checking Foochy, et al, on their completely overblown transmissibility claims?
If household (people living in extremely close proximity with prolonged periods of close contact) transmission likelihood is 18%, what is the transmissibility likelihood among groups of people dining or having cocktails in a shared space for an hour or two? Or in a gym?
What a bunch of mendacious power mad fools.
To Fact-check Fauci is to disagree with him. Disagreeing with Fauci is an explicitly bannable offense. So no.
They can fact check him. What’s the next level above “Completely 100% Accurate?”
“the laws of the universe change to fit what he says” ?
That would be “Gospel”.
Note how all covid statistics need to be spun in a way that keeps people in a state of panic.
You can’t spell pandemic without panic, silly.
Even better, “pandemic” is an anagram for “dem panic.”
Morning. No more work for me until January 4. I’m going to take my daughter on a short road trip in the truck today. Going to get out of the formerly great state of Michigan and drive down to South Bend Indiana. Going to visit Notre Dame campus just because.
Dont miss lovely Nappanee, In and “Amish Acres” where you can buy all sorts of over-priced foods and furniture.
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll try and add it to the itinerary.
Just down the road in Warsaw, In is a (former) client of mine, US Granules. Its a neat company story- the owner and founder was a brit with barely a high school education. Somehow he learned about pyrolysis, noticed how much paper-foil laminates get thrown out, and developed a company that separates the aluminum from the paper in order to recover it.
That is a really cool story that needs telling! *winks provocatively at Tres*
Indeed, why…he could tell it in an article here.
Sigh. That was my meaning, Swiss curmudgeon.
I was merely emphasizing your point.
Thats about all of the story I know. I like it because it reminds me that a) you dont necessarily need some advanced degree to develop worthy (and financial lucrative process and, 2) truly smart people can find a need/use for anything and come up with a process to market it.
From the webpage:
History
The company was founded in 1986 when owner John J. Oliver acquired the Plymouth, Indiana facility. In 1993 the ALMEG facility located at Henrietta, Missouri was added.
Both plants have operated for more than 35 years and now comprise the only facilities in the U.S. engaged in the processing of industrially generated laminated aluminum foil scrap and the subsequent manufacture of secondary aluminum granules.
The car museum in Auburn IN is excellent, easily the best collection of pre-war luxury cars
https://automobilemuseum.org/
More nonsensical jibber-jabber:
The study’s focus on households, rather than on community spread, is relevant because Lahren’s critique largely addresses policies that govern community interactions, such as restrictions on businesses, public gatherings and schools.
The course of the spread in the United States makes clear that most transmission has been occurring at the community level, said William Schaffner, a professor of preventive medicine, health policy and infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.
“It is self-evident that here in the U.S. and in other countries, when we have let down our guard, that’s been followed by an explosion of COVID transmission that results in people being put into hospitals and ICUs,” Schaffner said. “Countries such as Australia and New Zealand that have really instituted these interventions, including masking, social distancing, and controlling the size of groups, have controlled the spread better than any other countries.”
In addition, the papers that have addressed community spread suggest that asymptomatic spread does occur.
Experts added that while one might think that transmission of the virus is more likely to occur in the enclosed spaces of a household, this ignores a key factor: Asymptomatic people will encounter many more people if they’re out and about while infected.
“If their viral loads are lower, but their contact rates are higher — the number of people a person sees in one day — then the likelihood of transmission could become similar,” Nichols said.
No fact check required. Asymptomatic spread is real, and it’s COMING FOR YOU!
I’m not sure I believe him – he did not consult a
modeloracle.In other words, he doesn’t actually know if it would or not. On this basis, we are driving people out of business.
A lot of things could happen. I could have a threesome with Margot Robbie and Gal Gadot. Nothing physically prevents that from happening. That’s why we assess probability.
““If their viral loads are lower, but their contact rates are higher — the number of people a person sees in one day — then the likelihood of transmission could become similar,” Nichols said.”
That’s not how viruses work, but you do you.
I just love these fact-free “fact checks”, which are just opinions masquerading as facts.
That of course is their purpose. A real fact check would say “less than 1% is still more than zero”. But of course that wouldn’t support the narrative, so instead it is rated as “mostly false”. What is fascinating is that they don’t think they are utterly transparent in what they are doing.
They know all they need to do is provide their team with enough talking points to keep their followers believing the narrative.
Opinions are allowed to masquerade as facts as long as they aren’t uttered by a Republican.
Since it’s been more than 30 min:
Thank you so much for archiving the comments along with the aritcles. After I linked my metric rant, I reread the comments. Such wonderful nostalgia. We were so happy then. Glibs long missed and current ones still finding their voices. Two glibs using blue ghost avatars commenting together.
And from there:
Pie, Romania is a second world country, not third. While we often act like “third world” is a synonym for “impoverished shithole,” it really means “non-combloc impoverished shithole.”
Yep. Old comment sections are a cringy treat!
It’s our bellbottoms and eyeglasses with 4″ lenses, and men in 4″ athletic shorts.
Statesman, defender of the downtrodden poors
The New York Legislature approved a sweeping eviction ban for tenants living in the state, giving residents fearful of losing their homes during the pandemic some relief at least until May.
The law, which Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed late Monday, places a moratorium on residential evictions until May 1 for tenants who endured a “COVID-related hardship.” Tenants must show documentation explaining their situation to prevent evictions. Landlords can still evict people who don’t show that documentation.
The law also stops residential foreclosure proceedings until May 1. Homeowners and landlords who own 10 or fewer residences can also file hardship declarations with their mortgage lender or a court to prevent a foreclosure.
“When the COVID-19 pandemic began, we asked New Yorkers to protect each other by staying at home. As we fight our way through the marathon this pandemic has become, we need to make sure New Yorkers still have homes to provide that protection,” Cuomo said after signing the bill.
When will this Great Man be recognized for his slavish devotion to justice?
Well, the Tonys aren’t being awarded yet…
I’m quite sure that Biden will award him a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Excuse me a moment, I think I may have just had an aneurysm.
Can people file hardship declarations to get out of paying their onerous taxes?
THAT IS DIFFERENT!!!!!!!!!
Does this eviction ban apply to banks foreclosing on the property owners, or the county sheriff auctioning off the property to pay a tax-lien?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t give a shit about the NYS constitution, but I suspect it says a thing or two about its civil courts’ obligation to to help enforce legal contracts, and so the governor’s interference is probably unconstitutional.
And while I’m totally okay with letting someone out of a lease due to force majeure, they still should be evicted: they are in breach with no claim to possession, while the owner has every right to exploit his property as he sees fit since no one has any further contractual claim on it.
It’s also an uncompensated taking, not that you could count on the federal courts in that circuit to uphold those constitutional rights either.
A report by the National Council of State Housing Agencies earlier this year estimated U.S. renters will owe up to $34 billion in past-due rent by January. This is set to increase eviction filings and impose financial hardship on millions in just a few months, the organization said.
Many of those tenants struggling to pay rent in New York are in communities of color, according to Stanley Fritz, political director of Citizen Action of New York. He said in a statement Monday that Black and brown tenants are “three to four times as likely to be facing eviction as their white counterparts.”
He said passing the eviction ban is an “important first step” to helping the 1.4 million tenant households behind on rent.
And there you have it.
The Rent Fairy waved her magic wand, and they all lived happily ever after.
The End
NYS needs to provide a renter bailout!
And then NYS needs a Federal bailout because their taxes are too low to pay for their vital services!
Fucking red states, those welfare cases!
Ahh the welfare state trope. They usually, conveniently, leave out the fact that they are including DoD spending in their calculations. While I am all for rolling back defense spending, that is not what they are alluding to. They want to maintain the rationale they use to look down their noses at the tractor pull watching fly over state hicks.
“VoTEinG aGaINsT tHeIr oWn bEsT iNtErEsTs,” and all that.
Cool, cool – so those landlords who are not getting any rent money and still have to make mortgage payments, their bills are getting waived too, right?
Excuse me while I collapse in a helpless fit of laughter.
And what happens to the property owners?
GOVERNOR STEVE SMITH PAY THEM VISIT. BY PAY VISIT, MEAN…
Foreclosure?
Property Owners? sounds like the Rich! We should soak them!
That’s why we’re putting so many of them underwater.
Californian’s exposure to sunlight, from least exposure to most:
1) Nursing home residents
2) school children
3) parents of school children
4) white-collar workers
5) blue collar workers
6) the unemployed
7) drug dealers
8) prisoners
9) homeless
The Department(s) Of Public Health tell you they can end coronavirus when they’ve already proven they can’t even perform the much simpler task of cleaning the streets of human feces.
How do prisoners get so much sunlight?
Mandatory exercise yard
Chain gangs
Where are the surfers on that list?
Oh wait, the unemployed.
Surfing is closed due to Covid blowing in from China.
Disinfecting the surface of the ocean is a never ending task.
Just like doing good.
It’s doing right, not doing good, that ain’t got no end.
They haven’t let everyone out of the prisons yet?
Egad! I was a “Manny” for a time between gigs. Just during the day, mind you. Then I went into the easy part which was raising tweens.
What’ll they think of next? They’re advertising cordless electric snow blowers on my teevee.
They showed it blasting through lighter-than-fairy-dust powder. It worked like a champ.
Now show it clearing sidewalks in Buffalo, or Cleveland.
I’ve joked about carrying the 2-strokes ones when snowmobiling for digging out stuck sleds
Ugh. Stuck sleds. Snow conditions are everything. Used to do it for work, not recreation. Never, ever again.
Had a dentist appointment. Now I don’t because I would not engage in their secular shariah. I explained the exception in the governors order and was still turned away. Do I have any legal recourse?
Probably not. A business still retains the right to turn away customers for some reasons.
Especially if they are rebel scum.
Also the manager asked me what the reason I don’t mask is and she is not allowed to do that, which I showed her. I guess I can take my impeccable insurance elsewhere.
It doesn’t matter. I’ve carried around the actual executive order with me and pointed out where a)you are exempt if you have a medical condition b)they are not allowed to ask what the condition is. No one cares.
I had the e.o. bookmarked and highlighted. And eventually I am going to have to see a dentist so I may have to capitulate but not with that office. They can lick my balls. That bitch really made my bp spike. It’s just a mask. It’s just for two minutes. It’s just for your safety.* No to all and kindly fuck off. You have lost a customer.
*No, it isn’t. Then what is the point? I can risk catching a cold and the mask does jack shit except deprive you of oxygen.
Not all dentists are like that. I had an oral surgery in November and two follow-up visits. And no one asked me to put on a mask.
Know of one in the Richmond metro? (I don’t recall if you are a VA Glib or not…)
Sorry, no. That place is in Cambridge, MA.
Not mine. Nice guy, we worked together on a golf course when we were teenagers, but his office is locked down tighter than Fort Knox.
The dentists got screwed badly as mouthcare are apparently not essential. I take it as “please don’t get us shut down again” masking.
is*
Oh and I pointed out that is was not a problem 6 months ago. Things have changed. Except for moar fearmongering they haven’t.
Umm…
It’s your assertion that your medical provider is not allowed access to your medical information?
Dentist, though.
HIPAA absolutely prohibits nobody whatsoever from asking you about any medical condition. Its not a violation of HIPAA, period, full stop. Its also not a violation of HIPAA for you to answer. As a patient, it is literally impossible for you to violate HIPAA by disclosing any of your own information to anybody.
The ADA prohibits some businesses from asking about the basis of a claimed “disability”, but a disability is defined as something that limits your life activities, so it doesn’t prohibit asking about medical conditions that don’t rise to that level.
I’ve heard people claim that HIPAA applies to the greeter at WalMart.
In the age of the internet, where answers are a google search away, it is quite simply unacceptable to be that stupid.
Who will be working on his mouth… where the mask goes.
To be clear, I think masks are stupid.
But if some dude comes into my office saying he has a medical condition so serious that he can’t wear a mask, and furthermore, he won’t tell me what that condition is…. our relationship is over. I would be an idiot to ever let that dude in my business again.
Why would you even want legal recourse? If someone doesn’t want to do business with you, why would you want to litigate against them when you could just…go to literally any other dentist?
No private dentist office is obligated to take your money or your business.
I was joking about that. Bitch just pissed me off. But the exchange was civil nonetheless.
No, and why would you want to force someone to conduct business the way you want, rather than their own preference? Go elsewhere.
REFRESH, dammit.
A true menace to society
A federal judge on Monday shot down Ghislaine Maxwell’s proposed $28.5 million bail package, saying she still believes the accused Jeffrey Epstein madam is a flight risk.
While US District Judge Alison Nathan’s full order was filed under seal, she released a two-page summary describing her reasons for rejecting the British socialite’s second bid for home confinement.
“The Court concludes that none of the new information that the Defendant presented in support of her application has a material bearing on the Court’s determination that she poses a flight risk,” wrote Nathan, who said that in reaching her decision, she considered the nature of the crime, the weight of the evidence and Maxwell’s background.
I guess I missed the part about how she is a serial murderess. And a cannibal.
You mean, the nature of the crime she is presumed innocent of?
she considered the nature of the crime
Shouldn’t that be “alleged” crime?
maybe by “nature of the crime” she meant ” You have dirt on Hillary Clinton and you are liable to die outside of prison.
Which we all know is a lie. No Prison walls can keep HRC out.
“No Prison walls can keep HRC out.”
Why, sure they can. Just ask Jeffrey over here…
She’s not a poor black person, and probably has evidence that would embarrass the establishment, so no bail for her.
She’s a flight risk because they’re going to keep her under wraps until she commits suicide.
I hope she has a better dead man’s switch than her buddy did.
Why do you think she’s still alive?
She must have an awesome package of evidence ready to go. Probably prepped as soon as Jeffrey was nabbed. Otherwise she might have “tripped down the stairs” months ago.
Whats up guys? Looking to get a shotgun for home defense–dont want to jump through hoops and fill out all the paperwork or pay the fees to get a handgun, im in NY out on ling island.
Whats a good one that my wife will also be able to handle, and where does one go to learn how to use it? Im not in an area where i can shoot things in my backyard.
Mosberg is generally a good manufacturer to look at for Shotguns. There are some that come with two barrels, a shorter one, better for home defense, and a longer one for hunting purposes.
I don’t know where you can go to practice.
On Long Island ? Dont be bashful- all kinds of people are getting shot in backyards there daily.
I have a Mossberg Shockwave which I added a brace to. Surprisingly legal.
https://www.gggaz.com/mossberg-shockwave-brace-kit.html
I also added a streamlight/laser combo. It’s about as close to point and shoot as you can get.
Another mod a buddy clued me in on is a mini-clip which allows you to use 1-3/4 in shells. I think you can get 8 shells in the tube with that installed.
https://www.opsolmini-clip.com/product/opsol-mini-clip-2-0-flex/
590M, one look at it and you shit yourself,
Excellent, another nice Long Island boy at Glibs!*
*note: I haven’t lived there since 1984, when I was 8.
Anyway…a listing of ranges on LI
Grew up in Brooklyn but got shanghaied out here by my wife. Can you shoot a shotgun at the range? Sorry if thats a stupid question.
My mom’s parents were from Brooklyn, Gerritsen Beach.
Depends on the range. My local range here in VA only allows shotguns if you’re shooting slugs. I have a friend who lives out in the country on 20 acres, so that’s where I go when I want to use shot.
Remington 870 or Mossberg 500 shotguns are probably the two most popular models. You can find them used nearly everywhere. The two most common sizes are 12 gauge and 20 gauge. I’d suggest either of those two brands in 20 gauge.
I’m getting some version of the Beretta 1301 when I get my Trump bucks.
NOT TRUMP BUCKS THEY ARE PELOSI BUCKS!!!
I might start calling all dollars trumpbux from now on. In fact, just replacing “buck” with “trump”.
“A hundred trumps? I’ll give you eighty, not a trump more.”
I’m going to be sorely tempted to get a Saiga.
I’m pretty happy with mine, although I tacticooled it up so its barely recognizable. Hey, I like the ergonomics better this way (seriously)! Plus it holds a couple more shells.
I would recommend two features, both to make it easier for your wife to use:
(1) 20 gauge. Still plenty of punch, more manageable recoil.
(2) Semi-auto. Moderates recoil, modern actions are stupidly reliable unless you are shooting goofy ammo. I’ve said it before, but unless you have a lot of reps/muscle memory with a pump, the likelihood you will short-stroke in a crisis is much higher than the likelihood the semi-auto will malfunction.
My two cents, anyway.
I really like the VR80 I picked up. Zero interest in going back to a pump shotgun after using a mag fed semiauto.
I’ll also add my vote for a mossberg. I got a 590 police trade in. It looks like hell, but it’s a metal tube with a trigger. I didn’t buy it to be pretty.
Biggest considerations, IMO, are getting as short a barrel as legal and as long a mag tube as legal.
The In Range guys have a wee video about this – https://youtu.be/tYjThckYqBQ
Home defense?
Something like this
I’d get the longer magazine, though.
In NJ they limit shotgun capacity to 6 I believe. Is NY more?
Nope, I bought a Winchester Defender in NJ that holds 7 rounds in the magazine. The shotgun limit is 3 if you are hunting, and otherwise 10 just like all other guns since they passed the stupid 10-round magazine limit.
Limit is 7 rounds capacity for a tubular magazine, at least for a semi-auto.
Interesting little 12ga home defense round comparison
Good and hard: https://www.kusi.com/san-diego-county-issues-rudfords-restaurant-cease-and-desist-order-after-kusi-interview/
I would prefer a Good and Plenty.
“Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
·
Dec 27
To all the health care workers on the front lines of this fight — thank you. You are true heroes.”
Ugh. Still on this fricken kick? Including those who dance on Tik Tok like a bunch of assholes?
Most People are Assholes
Heroes are People
Most Heroes are Assholes.
“All of Alma Cogan is dead… but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.”
I knew one hero who has since passed, and one who is still alive. Neither of them are assholes. But neither of them is a politician or a Tik Tok dancer.
I didn’t say All.
Indeed, but Tik Tok adds to the probablity.
I will say they’re the rule but the exceptions are hogging the limelight and giving the others a bad name they don’t deserve.
As a logician…
Cause the media knows once they deem a person or group of persons heros, they become a easy propaganda item of interest and anyone who says otherwise can be villified for daring to question.
My life has been much better know that I view ALL news items as propaganda.
It’s kinda funny to look back. I remember being in school as a kid and thinking about all the propoganda that the Nazi’s put out, etc. and thinking how silly it was to believe things that were obvious lies.
Then you realize that it happens. Everywhere.
I remember I found it difficult to understand how the German society got thoroughly Nazified in just six years. And now the society got fundamentally transformed within weeks.
Lose that healthy distrust of government and replace with believing that the government is altruistic and you have your answer.
Imagine what the Nazis could do with social media… oh, that’s right, you don’t need to imagine, we’re seeing it.
To be fair, during the war years, the Allied intelligence services trusted German media far more than their own. Herr Goebbels was selective in what was published but took pains to tell the German people the truth about the things that were published.
Hero’s make TikTok videos with dancing and sanctimonious false comparisons.
This reminds me of Norm McDonald’s bit on the “true heroes.”
“The guy who planted the flag on Iwo Jima? You gotta admit, he’s close. I mean it’s not teaching 11th grade biology, but he’s at least almost a real hero.”
Twitter has started this new thing where they not only highlight what is trending, but also try to give you an explainer about it. And it is one of the lamer things i’ve seen.
(link not to twitter since i know you folk hate that place)
https://pasteboard.co/JHb6UYt.png
I don’t understand how you can see any redeeming value in Twitter. Yes, I love Iowahawk too, but that simply isn’t enough – not when weighed against what you plainly see the vast majority of the content to be (pure shit).
So honestly, what makes Twitter compelling to you?
if only there were some way on twitter to only follow the folks you respected
then it would just be a stream of wonderful content pretty much, better than any other platform
if only; wish someone would invent that
My issue is that I love movies and I follow screenwriters — of course those people never never ever espouse their politics on Twitter. Ever.
Yep. I follow bands/record labels etc. I’m interested in new releases, tour info, radio appearances. Instead I get alot of Republicans are racists, orange man bad, wear a mask you hitler! And the like. Not interested in your political bs, just music. But no. Twitter offers a convenient, no risk way to broadcast your virtue signaling. Apparently that was just what the world was waiting for.
My same complaint can be leveled at really any social media platform, and yes, you can curate your feed – at least within parameters the platform allows. And still, how much shit gets spilled out of that sewer onto just here for example. Social media is not a healthy form of communication IMO.
I like following michale malices twitter. So i pretty much exclusively read his tweets.
Also, if you are able to curate your feed to be non-political, Twitter _can_ be pretty nice to catch up on some things. I’ve done this with Gaming news and streamers who are a-political
And pr0n. Twitter is great if you want to look at the vapid musings of pornstars. Think celebrity twitter, only more stupid. Of course they post lots of nudes too, so it might even out in the end.
I thought that was Instagram.
I like talking to interesting people about a wide range of surprising topics. Twitter’s full of people like that.
“Dan Rather
@DanRather
·
Dec 27
Trump finally signs the bill, proving that throwing a temper tantrum and pouting in the corner like a toddler doesn’t change reality. But it did cause real pain. “The art of the deal.” Indeed.”
Like you know you fraud.
Wow. I bet Dan wen’t really hard after Pelosi when she refused the GOP’s deal back in… October.
He signed it with stipulations that he will lose on. But he will make the Dems and Rinos own it.
Hey Urthona – how about an article on video slot machine games, maybe throw in some technical whiz-bang if you need to stretch it out a bit?
All right. I’d thought about it.
The Ukes aren’t letting Biden go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDXVo-OKeQ&feature=emb_title
Good. Burn that corrupt fucker’s name to the ground.
Sounds like Russian disinfo
Yeah, the Russians and the Ukrainians are best buds. Ukraine would absolutely launder Russian disinfo if asked.
I bet that’s better than porn for Kamala.
I can only hope that this thing grows legs.
I haven’t followed but they seem to blame the Senate for not getting the $2000? Is this accurate?
Scott Dworkin
@funder
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Dec 27
You’d be getting $2,000 if Democrats had control of the Senate.
The house, Yesterday, passed $2000 dollars Though who knows what other graft is attatched. They didn’t like being the bad guys because they approved Millions for everyone else in the world, but 600 bucks for Americans. I don’t think they think it will go anywhere, so then they get to make the GOP the meanie bad guys.
Political Theatre and Team politics.
Rand and Ted Cruz blocked it from unanimous cloture, so they would have had to take a cloture vote. Something Rand and Ted Cruz could do in a Democratic Senate.
When the Dems steal those two Georgia seats they can increase the 2000 bucks to 1000. Double-plus good!
I can only believe one of those seats is in any serious danger of being lost to the Dems.
I don’t trust Georgia’s election system. There was a lot of shady activity. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Wisconsin flipping back to blue makes sense. Georgia swinging 7 points from 2016 to go blue when all of the surrounding states remained red is suspicious.
Granted. Warnock got 32.9% of the vote in the election. Yes he had the most votes in that round. But he was running against two Republicans.
I will not believe that the 20% of the republicans who didn’t vote for Loffeler are going to run over and vote for Warnock.
He, by all accounts, should be fucked. And when he looses, there will be a few pieces about “How could we get this wrong” and the Dems will act like there must have been vote suppression to keep their most forlorn of hopes from winning.
And he got 32.9% when no one knew he abuses his wife and ran a camp that threw urine on kids. Still, you know there are going to be shenanigans.
You’re underestimating three things:
The number of voters who will vote for him simply because he is a (D).
The number of votes already cast, which is in the millions, so yet another too-little-too-late oppo dump by the hapless Repubs is useless.
The degree of suppression of this story by the DemOp Media and the Tech Lords.
And that’s without even getting to the known shenanigans of tens or hundreds of thousands of votes cast by non-GA residents under GA’s astonishingly stupid election laws.
Which one, and why only that one? Not seeing why many people would split the ticket.
It’s what happened in the Nov election. Warnock pulled a Bernie Sanders and got the plurality of votes by only getting 33%. Ossoff actually got much closer to the 50% mark. so experience shows that people were willing to split the ticket and at least abstain from voting for Warnock.
Maybe the dynamics will be different this time, but the election 2 months ago looks like the best guide for the one that is going to happen this next month.
Maybe we should just do what the Dems and some Repubs want…and just stay at home. Really grind the economy to a halt.
Then again the beast is so overweight it would take years to starve and die.
A general strike? worked for the plebs in Rome.
“If we commit suicide, they’ll be sorry!”
Ya ya I know.
I think it’s a stupid hill for the Repubs to die on. It’s pennies to the total cost and, with the exception of Rand and a very few others, the fiscal conservative Republicans leaped over themselves to approve hundreds of billions in graft that are cleaned through Defense contractors and NGOs before being returned back to their campaigns and family consulting businesses. Same thing the Dems do with their community advocacy NGOs. There is no fiscal conservationism to the modern GOP and it’s hypocritical for them to suddenly pretend so days after wetting their own beaks. That won’t be lost on voters.
To use HM’s script , most of the Repubs are voting against it just to own the libs.
*twerks in agreement*
There is no fiscal conservationism to the modern GOP and it’s hypocritical for them to suddenly pretend so days after wetting their own beaks.
Exactly. It’s pure grandstanding.
Rand, and possibly Mike Lee are probably the only GOP senators with a leg to stand on when it comes to the fiscal responsibility. Otherwise i agree, the GOP are squating on this for no reason when they approved millions in bailouts and kickbacks to the big guys. It looks like they are just wanting to screw the little guy.
That won’t be lost on voters.
Narrator: It most certainly will be lost. Voters will return their incumbents at the usual rate.
fiscal conservative Republicans leaped over themselves
* faints dead away *
David Perdue @Perduesenate
President @realdonaldtrump is right — I support this push for $2,000 in direct relief for the American people. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
Why did Trump sign that garbage pork fest?
I Think SSD’s point is that the “fiscal conservatives” aren’t. Like i said Rand and Mike Lee are probably the only two that have a leg to stand on. Neither voted for the first stimulus this year, that passed unanimously.
^This
The GOP is our only hope. This little tangent from their otherwise slavish devotion to small government can easily be ignored because HILLDAWG IS IN MY CLOSET!
So don’t delay! OrangeMan only has $500M in his retirement account. Send whatever you can to SmallHands.GoFundMe.GOP ASAP! This election is NOT over! NOT by a long stretch!!!1!1!1!
I don’t get your obsession with Orange Man Bad. We’re talking about Senate Repubs… no one else has mentioned Trump… and yet you’ve felt the need to go on another TDS rant.
I normally like your posts Don and think you have good insights, but you gotta stop letting Trump live rent free in your head.
He’s still president!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s not too late!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
We must save him so that terrible laws like these are never passed again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died……………
I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!
Like I just told my wife. My preference is that they don’t pass anymore spending. But if they do, every single dime of it needs to go to private citizens. That will stop them in their tracks and show them for what they are, a bunch of pigs slurping from a giant trough of the last remnants of our solvency.
I heard your mom was in Croatia.
Most of you guys seem sane so I’d like to get some takes on this …
My wife’s aunt had to get tested because she was going to get some procedure done. The test came back “inconclusive” and as a result, the local health dept called her up to inform her she’s in quarantine since, of course, not negative is positive. Pretty standard stuff nowadays. Here’s the part that seems weird: since she stated that she can’t be separate in the two weeks of quarantine from her husband, uncle is in quarantine too. But his quarantine starts the day hers ends so a total of 4 weeks quarantine for that household.
I know of another young mom in a different county who spent almost eight weeks in quarantine because she had one kid get sick, then had her first quarantine, then right at the end of it, another kid got it and another quarantine.
That seems like bad math and magical thinking from the local health department.
In other words – perfectly normal bureaucracy.
The “logic” seems to be that you treat a covid infection like a square wave and you’re completely infectious for the quarantine period so the other household members can get it up to the last day.
Not just that, but that only one person in the household can be sick at a time, and that the transmission is sequential.
I’d challenge the test. The burden is on the government to show that I have to remain in quarantine. “Inconclusive” does not meet that level of need.
That’s what Auntie tried when the health department called. Maybe her language was a little too rough because she later got a call from the State’s Attorney telling her she could quarantine at home or in the county jail.
I’m trying to think of the words I would use in that situation, but they’re probably worse.
I see. I didn’t realize you lived in Communist Russia.
Worse. I live in the People’s Republic of Illinois
And if you just ignore the quarantine order on the basis that it isn’t remotely constitutional, then what? Do they have an ankle monitor on you?
Maybe. She didn’t test the limits and started to notice sheriff’s deputies patrolling a lot more near her house. Had to cancel the annual post Christmas trip to Branson which she was set on going to even though most (all?) shows are cancelled.
What county is threatening that?
I was an ASA in Kane County.
Greene
By their logic, the county jail will be in quarantine for 600 weeks (assuming 300 inmates).
she could quarantine at home or in the county jail.
So they will put somebody without a positive test in solitary for two weeks? Without a trial or even, as far as I know, a criminal charge?
Of course, it wouldn’t get sorted out in the courts until long after her jail term was over.
In past eras, that kind of intimidation would result in the county lockup being burned to the ground by an angry mob.
In past eras we used to use to take these people out back and beat them with a rubber hose.
Coincidence?
If it came to that, I’m sure a charge could be found. There’s probably something on the books about threatening a public health official. The threat being entirely in the mind of said official. Also, wouldn’t need to be solitary, just a Covid ward with all the other sickos.
Afterwards, it would get dropped after a stern talking to.
most people can’t do math
health bureaucrats are people
so most people are fucked
I liked the conclusion on this one.
since, of course, not negative is positive
Sometimes negative is positive and vice versa. The test is bogus and the creator said specifically to not use this method to diagnose viral infection, but here we are.
Sane. /puts hand to mouth giggling.
Sounds like they’re asking 14 days? That’s so last March. I thought it was 5-7 days now?
The goalposts have been moved so much I am not even sure where they are now.
I don’t think there have ever been actual goalposts, to be honest, just illusions of them.
Who enforces the quarantine? Unless if your aunt runs a business that can be monitored, I’d pay as much attention to the health department edicts as I would to a crazy homeless guy yammering on the street about aliens in the clouds.
I’m going with this. I don’t know if your local health department has the resources to physically check on everyone. When the health department calls just be polite and say you’re doing what they recommended and then have your aunt and uncle use their best judgment.
This is the next county over. But in my county they try to call your home number if you have one to make sure you’re there. I’m not sure what happens to people who actively break/ignore quarantine since I don’t know of any. People who would aren’t likely to get tested anyway.
The county sheriff. I have no idea if the SA was just trying to scare an old lady (she’s over 70) into compliance or he really would send out the sheriff to pick her up and put her in lockup. Either way he’s a jackass.
“Most of you guys seem sane ”
Bwaaaahaahahhahha!
Let’s put it this way. I don’t know if this has every happened. But if they tell me I have to quarantine outside my own home away from my wife, I will tell them to come and arrest me, because they’ll have to.
The sane thing to do is move to a state better state.
easy for you to say!
That’s the problem isn’t it?
Virginia was (mostly)sane, when I moved here, planning on never moving again.
Now what?
Most of you guys seem sane
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Most People are sane
Glibs are people
Most Glibs are sane ?
You really need to work on your haiku form.
You’d be getting $2,000 if Democrats had control of the Senate.
We’d all be millionaires if Hillary Clinton had won in 2016. And DOCTORS, too,
Does playing doctor behind the jungle gym count?
Only if we’re counting dirty fingers.
Most People are sane
There’s your trouble.
That seems like bad math and magical thinking from the local health department.
Business as usual. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Still think we’re voting our way out of this?
Judge blocks purge of 4,000+ voters from rolls in 2 Georgia counties based on shaky postal data. Counties had asked Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner to step aside because she is Stacy Abrams’ sister.
hahahahaha…..of course Tank’s sister is the judge in that case. Why wouldn’t she be?
There’s no such thing as election fraud. The whole system is completely on the up and up.
2020 is hack fiction all the way to the end. Worse than a SyFy movie plot.
Judges are “Randomly” assigned cases.
`from politics import random`
All those DAs that shop for judges just randomly get the judge they want
What is “conflict of interest”?
This is different!!!
Titty Tuesday has its eyes, both northern and southern, on you.
https://archive.li/ODvBO
That’s FORMER Lt Colonel Vindman, to you
Retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry, said Monday evening he has no regrets about delivering the explosive testimony that garnered fierce backlash from Trump and ultimately informed his early exit from the military.
“So I think that, in the end, I have no regrets about how things turned out. Yes, I left the military unforeseen. I had every intention staying on — going on to war college. But I think my role may have been, in certain ways, more important in that I was able to do my part — defend this nation in a very meaningful manner and expose corruption by the chief executive,” Vindman said during an interview on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
“I feel that in that regard that I have served my nation.”
He’s the dragon-slaying Prince Charming of his very own fairy tale. Dreamy.
Too bad that his nation isn’t the one whose uniform he was wearing.
Odd how the basis for the impeachment, was much on that Trump was trying to manufacture dirt on Biden, when we already had that information at the FBI, on hunter bidens laptop. which have all been corroborated.
Yes, very odd.
delivering the explosive testimony
When did that happen?
I feel that in that regard that I have served my nation.
GO ahead and feel however you want, scumbag.
WHO warns COVID-19 pandemic is ‘not necessarily the big one’
https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/who-warns-covid-19-pandemic-is-not-necessarily-the-big-one/
It absolutely isn’t. God help us when an actual real no-shit killer virus hits.
Im still rooting for an uncontrolled Ebola outbreak.
I’m hoping for one that mysteriously only kills politicians and bureaucrats.
COVID-22: Lockdown Boogaloo
I knew you were one of them Boogaloo Boys!
“The Big One” (or the “next one”) is a term floating around now, even by noted virologist Bill Gates. The powers that be are not done with you and this is not going to end.
They spent the last 20 years trying to get us worked up over Global Warming, and now found that mild pandemics are where it is at.
We didn’t even get the promised two turntables and a microphone
That was a figurative phallic reference, not a literal one.
In other words, “you need to keep sending us a lot of money”.
When we get the Total Number Of Deaths – All Causes for 2020, we will discover that this wasn’t even a minor one.
There will be no discernible difference between 2020 deaths and deaths for 2019, 2018, 2017, etc. Of course, we will be told that it is because of the selfless work heroic bureaucrats.
All the mitigation efforts are likely making people unhealthier in the long run – aka ensuring that a bigger one happens by weakening everyone’s immune systems with non-exposure -, so the increase in deaths will happen a few years from now and all health bureaucrats will make up a new excuse instead of taking blame for their actions in 2020.
Of course they’ll be a bigger one if this one doesn’t deliver the utopia of global communism.
A fun in depth study to see in my opinion would be the typical diet of anyone under 65 that has died from the VID.
Krispy Kreme Christie weighs about 500 pounds and he got through it fine.
The Universe Mocks Us.
I bring it up because most of the people I see in the markets have baskets full of shit with maybe one or two fresh items at most.
Good morning, peeps!
We had a soaking rain all day Monday and most of Sunday night here in greater San Diego. Here’s hoping that lessens the fire danger for a while.
The weird alien plants on my property are in their winter cycles. The apples and pears finally dropped their leaves a few weeks ago, and the winter orange crop is ready for harvest.
The succulents and cacti are doing their best Audrey II impressions. I have no idea how to trim these things.
My landscaping needs Jesus. Fortunately he’ll be back from his holiday break in another week.
Ack, you just reminded me how much I miss my old neighbors fruit trees that hung over our side of the fence. This would be tangerine season (and the crazy lemon tree that was a year round varietal).
But you have to remain ever vigilant for the Lemon Stealing Whores.
“My landscaping needs Jesus. ”
Really?
What would Jesus do?
Turn the pears and apples into wine?
You can probably find another one hanging out in the parking lot of your local Home Depot.
Saved from authoritarianism, we wuz
President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of coronavirus vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said Monday.
“You will see him invoking the Defense Production Act,” Dr. Celine Gounder, a member of Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board, said during an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “The idea there is to make sure the personal protective equipment, the test capacity and the raw materials for the vaccines are produced in adequate supply.”
The wartime production law, which allows the president to compel companies to prioritize manufacturing for national security, could help the U.S. secure components and specialized products that manufacturers need to produce the Covid vaccines. Biden’s team has been weighing whether to invoke the law for vaccine production, NBC News reported last week.
Absent government compulsion, no pharmaceutical company would ever step forward to put a vaccine into production.
And I am sure there will be howls of FASCIST! Or that Ole Joe is just helping his captialist cronies with it right?
antifa will go away, one way or another under Biden. Either it will be put down or they will go back to sleeper mode for the next GOP president to win an election.
They may come out in 2022 when the GOP wins the house.
Sleeper mode is my bet, just like the Code Pink types after 2008.
I assume this will further insulate his pharma donors against lawsuits from people harmed by the vaccines.
Funny how wartime measures never ever ever ever remain ‘wartime’
Tapping out, fellows. I got dizzy on the stairs last night at work. No need to go ass over teakettle. We’ll see you come the morn and chins up Yusef and GT, you crazy kids!
function bragging
Well I’ve had a minor victory today. I got the prototype tone generator I have been working on at the new job to, you know, generate a tone. I am sure that the EE types on here are thinking, “big whoop,” but it is one in the win column for me, which have been far and few between in the last couple of years.
end bragging
Sounds cool! I’m a rookie still and wish I had my bits and pieces to play with, keep it up and have fun!
Thanks Y! Now, to build the housing!
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https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1343945846199627776
Covid is so bad in the UK that they are dismantling the emergency hospitals they built – without ever treating a patient.
LOL. You can’t make this shit up.
Failed state
The year culminated in a deadly, damning indictment of California – its leaders’ inability to convincingly enact and enforce public health measures, its structural racism and inbuilt inequalities, its vicious political infighting and its inability to function as a “nation-state”, as Governor Gavin Newsom likes to call it, in isolation of of a hostile federal government.
In April, when Newsom declared himself the leader of a “nation-state” on MSNBC, he announced that California, frustrated by a lack of coordination by the federal government, had not only purchased enough medical-grade masks to address shortages within his own state, but also to send supplies to others. The morning after the Democratic governor made the announcement, #PresidentNewsom trended on Twitter.
Seven months later, a petition to recall the governor has been gaining some momentum – backed by Republicans and business interests frustrated by the new lockdown measures.
But as the death toll climbed, criticism grew within Newsom’s own political party. They were stunned that the state’s employment development department was swindled, under the governor’s watch, into paying billions in fraudulent unemployment claims. Meanwhile, jobless Californians struggled to access aid, and the department’s backlog of claims surpassed 1.6m at one point. As residents queued in snaking lines at local food banks, Californians balked at Newsom’s decision to attend a lavish birthday dinner at the Michelin-starred French Laundry, days before he told his constituents to forgo seeing their families for the holidays to stop the virus’s spread.
“At the beginning, I think our leaders did a good job,” Gandhi said, looking back at California’s coronavirus approach. The trouble, she said, came as the state began to reopen in early summer. California had a plan in place to do so slowly, but the famously progressive state wasn’t immune to a growing conservative movement that rejected face masks and vilified public health officials. Under mounting public pressure, Newsom, as well as local leaders, moved to reopen businesses and public spaces before case rates were low enough to warrant doing so. By May, the virus was so prevalent in California, and in the states that surrounded it, “that we weren’t ever going to really be able to conquer,” Gandhi said.
Sabotaged by right wing lunatics.
*begins reading*
Hey, the Grauniad is criticizing Newsome and California? Huh, didn’t expect that!
Ahhhhh
Yes. I’ve also seen that it is all the fault of GOP because 40% of california voted for Trump, so clearly it is the GOPers fault it is so bad there, since they refuse to wear masks. Despite us having statistics on mask compliance that indicate that this isn’t the case (California is in the 80% range if i remember right). Also let’s just ignore Florida etc. You know places Trump actually won, and aren’t as bad as CA.
They’re going to continue this lockdown bullshit until their is mass civil disobedience. IOW, the only entity that can make them stop their totalitarian orgy is the public. They’ll NEVER give up this bullshit on their own.
^This right here. However, if the last nine months have shown us anything, civil disobedience has been extricated from the American fabric.
Always the wreckers and kulaks comrade, always the wreckers and kulaks.
Cue the howling!
But Biden won the election fair and square!
Thank you for making my day.
Not because Trump, but because that has to hit Barry right in his narcissistic nuts.
Right there with ya.
Why the fuck was it 12 years? What the fuck has he done?
The range of which I am a member Tweeted a typical “come on down & see us!” thing, so I replied and asked them to please talk about ammo availability & prices.
They replied (in a DM, of course) that they have ammo, but it sells out pretty much first thing in the morning.
I hate this timeline.
Yep, that’s been the case for me. Makes me wish I had bought something chambered in .40 S&W rather than 9mm. There’s a great hunting and fishing outlet nearby that’s my go-to place. They’ve told me that 9mm sells out almost as soon as they stock the shelves. Same story as you – they said you basically have to be there when they open to have a shot to buy any.
is there some sort of fantasy barrel swap for you ?
Nah, I’ll just buy another one. Can’t have too many, you know.
Is .40 S&W more available than 9mm? Maybe I’ll spend my Korona Cash Part II: Gun-Buying Boogaloo on a 40.
https://www.glockforum.com/threads/list-of-possible-caliber-conversions-swaps.25613/
YMMV
I forget, did you shoot my 40 at the range that one time?
40 is much less impacted by the panic buying than 9, but I haven’t had trouble finding either.
I did – it was a bit much for me, as my grip kept slipping, but it was fun to shoot! The grip thing can be handled via practice.
I still don’t love that gun (glock 23 gen2), but a set of talon grips would go far in improving the slipping issue. The grip is about the right size for my hands, but there are other ergonomics issues that I just can’t get over.
Depending on which pistol you get it chambered in, there are aftermarket grips which help immensely. lokgrips.com is my current favorite.
You can get .40 S&W, but it’s still going for at least $1.00 per round or more. I have a Sig P226 in .40 S&W.
Before that horrid canoe-tipping accident (that also took my 500A) so did I.
Props, brah.
it’s still going for at least $1.00 per round or more.
*cough*
9mm in stock right now!
https://www.federalpremium.com/handgun/american-eagle/
Just bought 10 boxes (had to do 5 orders & pay for shipping on each)
More 9mm at the same price point (lower weight, though) … I just bought 10 boxes
Noice!
That’s not a bad deal these days…
They won’t ship to NY
>.<
California is a large, decentralized state, in a very large, decentralized country, Gandhi said. “And that sort of system is just not the most effective during a respiratory pandemic.”
In this latest, winter stretch of the pandemic, “it’s the inconsistencies that have really agitated residents,” said Fernando Guerra, a political scientist at Loyola Marymount University. The governor, as well as local mayors, tried to at once pacify rightwing sheriffs who openly flouted public health measures, address the needs and demands of stretched school boards and teachers unions nervous about restarting classes, and help out small businesses facing economic disaster – while trying to contain the spread of disease, Guerra said. The result was a policy mess.
“It made sense in the very beginning,” said Vasquez. “But Newsom didn’t give the shutdown enough time. And since we began to reopen, none of it has really made sense to me.
Totalitarianism would fix this.
Democracy is all well and good, in theory, but some people simply cannot be relied upon to do what is best for society. We must force them to be better citizens.
I mean… We have been lectured how China did much better than the US. So really trading in all your freedoms is the right thing to do so that every 100 years we can have a government that will lie about the deathcounts due to a pandemic.
“California is a large, decentralized state”
Where the fuck is this guy from? Andromeda?
Sacramento would like a word.
There’s no telescreens in everyone’s apartment, so still have some work to do.
Democracy isn’t good even in theory.
“Warnock has faced scrutiny over his 2002 arrest for allegedly obstructing a child abuse investigation by Maryland State Police that centered on the camp’s treatment of children.”
Doesn’t matter, he can molest kiddies live on stage on national TV and run over his wife instead of just her foot (not that I believe a word she’s saying). When you can just manufacture paper ballots at will, it no longer matters. And the media will cover for him no matter what he does.
See above, i don’t think you could manufacture enough ballots to put Warnock over.
Warnock and the other commie in GA will win. Make no mistake. Everyone get their boat accidents in order.
I will bet you 20 Satoshis that Warnock looses.
I don’t have any Satoshis to match. I hope you’re right, but I don’t think so. The dems have carte blanche permission to cheat in elections with zero consequences.
So now I hear about yet another “new strain” from Germany, so I guess more lockdowns, eh?
A virus has mutated! First time ever. SCIENCE!
SCIENCE!™
Humble yourself before your GOD.
SCIENCE!
Coronavirus is just the new “War on Terrorism” and invisble threat that causes real damage, and puts people in a state of fear, but can never actually be defeated in entirety. This means you also get the attendant, never ending total control by the State.
Except that we were never locked in our homes because of the war on terror. In fact, I remember Dubyah telling people to go out, see football games and other stuff that are now completely verboten.
Massachusetts residents would like to dispute that claim.
The Atlantic to the rescue as usual.
Please protect me dear leader!
Paraphrasing someone else: ‘When the government declares war on a noun it’s a guarantee that it will forever be a black hole of tax dollars and basic civil liberties.”
When we get the Total Number Of Deaths – All Causes for 2020, we will discover that this wasn’t even a minor one.
There will be no discernible difference between 2020 deaths and deaths for 2019, 2018, 2017, etc. Of course, we will be told that it is because of the selfless work heroic bureaucrats.
But-but-but! 300,000 excess deaths! I read it on CNN.
Extermination. Extinction. In another two years, there will only be a few dozen people left on the planet.
“In another two years, there will only be a few dozen people left on the planet.”
I guess they got their great reset ahead of schedule.
“Extermination. Extinction.”
From a virus with a 99.8% survival rate. SCIENCE!
It will keep mutating into another virus that will kill .2% until all of those .2%’s add up to a mass extinction event. SCIENCE
Sounds legit.
Please protect me dear leader!
Lead us out of the darkness of superstition and ignorance, into the Light, O Great Savior!
Why the fuck was it 12 years? What the fuck has he done?
Obama ended racism. That’s why people love Him.
He failed to discover that ‘systemic racism’ is the real problem. IOW, everyone is a racist and must be re-educated, preferably in a nice
camphotel.IOW,
everyoneevery white person is a racist and must be re-educated, preferably in a nice camp hotel.Oh, yes, I forgot that important detail. But maybe also the yellow folk, they’re the white people of people of color, because they do too well in math and science.
DeBlasio has a plan to fix that.
And his comrade, Mafiosocuomo, will rid us of the Orthodox Jew menace.
+1 4th Reich.
Sigh… I just stumbled across a German ‘educational’ series from 1971, Eine Sache, die sich versteht. The descriptive blurb reads thusly –
Political position and aesthetic form merge
Propaganda it is, then.
Well, it goes without saying…
I have this argument with Mom all the time: she doesn’t engage in any critical thinking, she just regurgitates hopeless cartoon tropes that would fall apart if she did any thinking about her own experience, history, economics, what has worked, and what has not.
But she just adores slobbing and shilling for her team.
I find that well over 90% of people are this way regardless of affiliation.
It’s funny, German can be such a direct language but when it comes to their philosophers Marx, Kant, Nietzsche. The language turns into an impenetrable mess.
Kant? Not Hegel? Kant was completely comprehensible.
Get a load of this guy and his Universal Categorical imperative
I was reading an account of the foundation of German 19th century philosophy (Hegel, I think) not long ago that made the point that the single most important concept, having to do with reconciling? overcoming? something, anyway, the internal contradictions of philosophy and ideology was an untranslatable German word. The foundation of dialectical materialism and all the rest is a concept that is literally unaccessible to anyone who isn’t fluent in German. Virtually nobody in the US can give a coherent account of Marxism, critical _________ studies, or any of the other spawn of 19th century German philosophy. Yet here we are, in a country that is being transformed by an idelology that none of its proponents understand.
Reminds of the Holtzman effect (or equation) in Dune – no one understood it, but they could use it.
Shields and foldspace engines were actually useful though.
Check out the book Radical Son. It’s more focused on Russia and the communist party true bleevers who sprung up here in the USA after the Bolshevik revolution. But it still sheds a lot of light on how we’ve got to where we are now, heading full on into commie
oblivionutopia.“an impenetrable mess”
Sort of like the agneda of our modern USA progtopians?
ThThat descriptive blurb is a vast spew of verbal diarrhea down the leg of coherent thought.