“Knock, knock, knock”
“C’mon in, door’s not locked,” Floyd hollered. “Oh, it’s you, should have known, well, now that you’re in get a cup a joe and find a chair.”
“Where’s the damned day old doughnuts, I know you hid them somewhere I couldn’t find them,” Russ said.
“You know, Russ, you’re just like a bear, can smell the doughnuts from outside. Left side of the microwave, before you ransack the house,” Floyd replied. “Haven’t seen you for a few days, what’s up?”
“Oh, I’ve been staying pretty close to home, remember that cough I had a few days ago? Well, it got worse and I stopped by the clinic, doc recommended an x-ray and said I had pneumonia. Gave me some antibiotics and a couple days rest and now I’m back to training to take Muhammad Ali,” Russ boasted.
With that Floyd spit his coffee all over the keyboard and almost choked from the contained laughter. “Yeah right,” when Floyd could talk again.
“I guess now that you are the big time lottery winner and property owner you’ll be looking at a new F-150,” Russ remarked.
Floyd said, “Well, there’s a little more to it than that, pardner. Here’s where we’re at. Rather than transfer the deed to the church and retransfer it to me, Chuck, the preacher and I decided to just transfer it from Chuck to me and eliminate the church. Church got the money anyway so they were happy.”
Russ agreed, “Sounds like a simple way, save some time and probably some money.”
“Well, that’s where things kind of broke down,” Floyd said. “We’re at the county courthouse and it seems that the taxes have to brought up to date by the seller. No big problem, right? Only the taxes are $300 and Chuck doesn’t have any money. Chuck complains about how high they are and the clerk explains they haven’t been paid for 3 years, a $100 a year.”
“Whoa,” says Chuck, “my wife always took care of our business stuff, she would have paid them.” Chuck looks at Floyd for help.
“Well, now we see a problem, I’m in for a grand,” says Floyd, looking at Russ. “If I pay the $300 I have $1300 invested but it looks like I have no choice. I pony up the three big ones so we can get on with the transaction. Mission accomplished.
Then the registrar says, There’s also a lien on the property for $1500 that will have to be released or satisified before we can make the transfer.”
Now Chuck is livid and Floyd is getting concerned, what’s up with that? Who has a lien on the property, Chuck wants to know. Floyd too is curious as well. The registrar checks the files, tells them it’s Antonio [redacted]. Floyd asks, “Who is that? Do you know him, Chuck? Do I know him?”
Chuck sheepishly hangs his head, “That’s the pawn broker, I know him ’cause I’d take things when customers couldn’t pay their bills and sell them to Tony?”
“But why would Tony have a lien on your property?” Floyd asks. ”Let’s go find out”
“Anyway, at the pawn shop Tony explains that Martha, Chuck’s wife, would bring in jewelry and pawn the stuff, telling Tony she’d needed a little cash for groceries, etc, and often not redeem it. Then one day she brought in the deed to the 5 acre property, borrowed $1500 and never came back, Tony put a lien on the property and had it registered,” Floyd tells Russ.
Now Floyd has a real problem. Tony wants the money, Floyd wants to get his 5 acres, Chuck can’t pay Tony to get a release on the lien. Russ asks “OK, Big Guy, what’s your plan? You’re in for $1300 now and farther than ever from your property?”
“Well,” Floyd says, ”It looks like I’ll pay the $1500 to Tony, I’ll be in for $2800 but still will make a few bucks on the deal. It’s way more than I wanted to pay though. It just seemed so easy to buy all the lottery tickets, win the property and go on with life with a little more change in my pocket.”
Then Russ asked, “Why did Martha need the money? The bar always seemed to be busy. Why would she be running to Tony’s for cash?”
Floyd said, “Remember I told you that Gus said he was unlucky at the poker table? Well, it seems Martha was also unlucky, she was in the same group of players that Gus traveled in. I know the other guys too, they are business people and I doubt that they were cheating but rather just better players. Poker is a game of skill, some think. They would tell stories of Gus staying to try to fill in the middle of an inside straight, looking around the table to see how many 6s were showing. And Martha would stay, needing 2 cards of a suit for a flush, things like that. That’s not bad luck, Russ.”
Russ decided it was time for his nap, just following doctor’s orders to rest. As he started to leave he walked by the doughnuts and he hollered, “Hey Floyd, time to get some more doughnuts, try those Krispy Kreme, those babies are really good. See you in few days.”
Krispy Kremes are only good when they’re hot
Four those who missed Part One you can click on the author’s name at the top of the page just after “posted by.”
Ok, now this was an unexpected and delightful sequel. Can’t decide if this is going to be a Gift of the Magi or a “–All you Zombies–” or what.
Why not the both?
“The Gift of The Zombies”
What does this little story have to do with “unfounded false claims about our wonderful election and the insurrectionists who want to destroy democracy, kill all Democrats, and tear up our Constitution?”
Thanks, Fourscore. I love how your stories unfold.
Trump Praised For Accepting Election Results 4 Years Quicker Than Hillary Clinton Did
CNN then cut to an interview from last week in which Hillary Clinton once again claimed that the 2016 election was stolen by the Russians.
Did she?
Many, many times.
I know she has made the claim, I didn’t know if she was still making the claim as of last week. Hard to tell sometimes with the Bee.
Well, she was making it less than three months ago, somehow I doubt she’s changed her mind in the meantime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-blames-russian-hackers-and-comey-for-2016-election-loss/2017/05/02/e62fef72-2f60-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html
What does this little story have to do with “unfounded false claims about our wonderful election and the insurrectionists who want to destroy democracy, kill all Democrats, and tear up our Constitution?”
Kkkapitalism. The answer is always kkkapitalism, and bloodsucking profiteers.
What, no comfy chairs?
Thanks Fourscore that was great.
Of course, the lien is subsidiary to the debt that Gus and Martha owe. Rather than merely paying off the lien, and thus paying Gus’s debt off, Floyd should buy the debt as well.
Now Gus and Martha owe him the $1500 they lost paying poker. That’ll probably cover Floyd’s bar tab for quite some time.
Plus tax.
Martha’s dead. Gus gets it stuck to him by everybody including his deceased wife.
Gus is getting off easy. It’ll probably cost him less than $500, out of pocket, for booze to clear a $1500 debt.
I’m thinking this series will end up as having been an allegory for the financial system in the USA.
Floyd will find out from the government that the land is a superfund site, making him liable for $10B in fines.
“Is this a game of chance?”
“Not the way I play it.”
On the whole, you’d rather be in Philadelphia?!
You there. Mr./Ms. MAGAt. Please report for processing and reeducation.
“[T]he difference between the white citizens’ councils and the Klan back in the days of Jim Crow, and you know, Klan was lower-income, white citizens’ councils were the Josh Hawleys and Ted Cruzes of their day. But so, here’s the situation, though. … There are millions of Americans, almost all white, almost all Republicans who somehow need to be deprogrammed. It’s as if they are members of a cult, the Trumpist cult, and they have to be deprogrammed. Do you have any idea how we start that process, much less complete it?” Robinson asked.
“I don’t. I’m a journalist. I don’t know how we can stop people,” Hannah-Jones replied. “I know we can look to history, though. What ultimately breaks that power structure in the South is enforcement, right? There has to be consequences. And then once you get those consequences, I think people have to take a second look at their actions. And they have to be much more afraid to do the types of kind of violence that we saw last week.”
Strip away the limp-wristed verbiage, and they are saying we just need to starting cracking some lumpenproletariat skulls.
Cracking skulls isn’t really deprogramming, though. Stripped of all the particulars, deprogramming is torturing someone, psychologically, physically, or both, until their personality is broken. Communists tend to be very good at this.
So the mask is off, and the general reaction is, “yeah, that sounds reasonable.”
It’s not the general reaction except among leftists and the corporate Dems. Don’t sweat it, it’s just idiots saying idiotic things and it happens to be on a platform that gets a lot of play.
I think I’m still gonna keep my AR handy, just in case…
What AR?
AR fishing rod. They are quite popular.
AR stands for “Angler Royale”
Well, one of my favorites, of course! Probably the 11.5″ Bravo Company SBR with the AAC Ranger silencer. It’s very handy.
Don’t sweat it, it’s just idiots in positions of power, wealth and influence saying idiotic things
Nothing to worry about. Just more of that New Normal, comrade.
“Hey, I successfully rewrote high-school history class. What more do you want from me?”
I’m sure she can write some fine articles on how the best way to deprogram the deplorables is in camps, perhaps the kind where *ahem* involuntary labor is used to help residents focus their energies into productive pursuits.
These jerk off’s are really hitting the gas towards division and violence.
I have a friend (the one who turned me on to libertarianism) who has gone off the deep end and believe that the Capitol “invaders” should be destroyed and that all forms of MAGAism needs to be destroyed. One of his arguments were that these guys should be charged as terrorists and put on a no fly list. When I pointed out that this would most likely violate their constitutional rights and create a terrible precedent , but he didn’t give a shit at all. It’s like arguing with a religious fanatic who believes the Sun revolves around the Earth.
The best part is he’ll be one of those people in a couple of years crying on social media about how the government are violating the rights of the oppressed using the laws that he advocated for while never once realizing that his fanaticism and thirst for vengeance created this shit in the first place.
I have real trouble squaring libertarianism with considering a governemnt building sacred.
This is the most maddening thing of all. There is no memory of much less reflection that they created it. It’s like people who flee California because of the cost, then prices rise wherever they light. There is no cause-effect reflection.
I’m seeing it as well, just not from libertarians. Wanna-be technocratic elites who went to an Ivy League school and consider themselves superior. They’re really turning out to be the worst people I know.
Twitter has made people stupid. Half the people I know that voted for Trump are blue-collar types that would probably go back to voting Dem if the Dems took a look at what caused people to vote for Trump, and at least half-heartedly did something about those issues. If they did that they really would have a permanent majority. Instead they are convinced the only reason anyone would vote from Trump is that they are racist.
I like it, Fourscore, can’t wait for the next one.
Antifa leftist movement seeks peace through violence.
I was curious so I googled it. It immediately populates the text field so it’s been searched. The search results turn up a bunch of articles defending or minimizing the actions of ANTIFA.
It’s always darkest before the storm.
“dawn,” not “storm”
Freedom is Slavery
War is Peace
Ignorance is Strength
They are going to put the Bee out of business. You can’t even parody these assholes.
It’s as if they are members of a cult, the Trumpist cult
There is definitely a Trump-centric cult, of that there can be no denial.
Actually, there are two.
When is the last time there were two legitimately unhinged, diametrically opposed cults sharing the same mythology?
Looks like Project Veritas filmed PBS’ principal counsel saying some naughty things:
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/pbs-principal-counsel-lays-out-violent-radical-agenda-says-americans-are-f/
Seems like these people would learn to not hang out with people they don’t know well while waxing ecstatic about about eliminating their political enemies.
Holy shit. You couldn’t create a caricature that despicable and have it believed.
“We go for all the Republican voters and Homeland Security will take their children away…we’ll put them into the re-education camps,” he said.
“Enlightenment camps. They’re nice, they have Sesame Street characters in the classrooms, and they watch PBS all day,” he said.
What if one parent voted Trump and the other Biden? Then what camp do you send their children into?
Then one of the parents gets free attendance with them.
What delightful man.
All it takes is a couple of drinks to bring the asshole out of the asshole.
Dude is a lightweight.
And a raging elitist asshole with zero respect for individual rights. A true god-damned fascistic wannabe totalitarian. Fucking scum.
I’m curious as to how PBS will handle this.
And here it is
“PBS response to Project Veritas: “This employee no longer works for PBS. As a mid-level staff attorney, he did not speak on behalf of our organization, nor did he make any editorial decisions. There is no place for hateful rhetoric at PBS, and this individual’s views in no way reflect our values or opinions. We strongly condemn violence and will continue to do what we have done for 50 years – use our national platform and local presence to strengthen communities and bring people together.””
I’m sure, now that he has been outed and fired, that he will be added to a permanent list of names who will never be able to work again, and will be shunned from polite society.
Certainly he won’t be approached by any organizations who like the cut of his jib and wish to offer him gainful employment.
I am certain that he is in no way representative of the culture of love for all people at PBS and that PBS totally was going to fire him without Project Veritas getting involved first.
Also, compare and contrast that guy with James Damore, who got pilloried in the media.
Haha yea, that was a good one.
“Anti-diversity screed!! Misogynist rant!!!!” – the media
It was a very politely worded essay on why women might choose certain career paths over others, and he frequently cited scientific studies. It even ended with alternative ideas on how Google can get more women into leadership positions. But yes, by all means, let’s just pretend the guy wanted to enact The Handmaid’s Tale at Google.
this individual’s views in no way reflect our values or opinions.
Why do I doubt that?
We strongly condemn violence We strongly condemn violence
Well, violence by the wrong people, anyway. Those idealistic young people who are opposed to fascism? They aren’t the wrong people.
Why do I doubt that?
Ummmmm… white privilege?
So “Principal counsel” I’m guessing would be above “Senior Counsel?”
At least PV knows it’s “principal.” I have some coworkers with “Principle Technican” or “Principle Engineer” in their email sig.
I neither correct them nor ask what their new area of philosophical R&D is.
Handle it? It is Project V, the media will circle this down the conspiracy drain.
And on top of everything……where’s his mask? I thought only MAGA mouthbreathers don’t wear masks??
Give him a raise?
Bet he’s a blast at parties.
Anyone deigning to suggest that PBS and NPR might not be funded with tax dollars will be immediately set upon with “WHYCOME YOU WNT BIG BIRD TO DIE?”
Never mind that Big Bird is part of the HBO world now.
Yea, the case for “public broadcasting” is weaker than ever since the Internet exists. It’s not like you can’t find educational stuff for your kids to watch.
Speaking of which. Look at how YouTube labels PBS and Al Jazeera. PBS is an American public broadcaster while Al Jazeera is funded in whole or part by the Qatari government. Same with RT.
“Trump and his base are Nazi’s so we have to deprive them of their rights and put them in camps.”
Seems legit.
Enlightenment camps not work camps.
Enlightenment will set you free.
Assuming you could find anyone with any actual knowledge of the ideas of the enlightenment.
Enlightenment will set you free.
Only after a lot of work right?
OMG. I had assumed you pasted the worst of what he said.
Then I read the article.
Our tax dollars at work, friends.
Gee, why do those crazy righties think that leftists are out to completely destroy them? It’s a mystery!
“Can you imagine living in one of those states or towns where everybody is just stupid”
I’d honestly like to know what Michael Beller’s IQ is. Sincerely. He’s old enough to where his SAT or GRE scores are probably a pretty good proxy. I’d like to know.
Because he was dumb enough to get caught on tape letting his freak flag fly.
In my experience, the ones who go on about how dumb everybody else is are usually pretty dim themselves.
The whip-smart people I know don’t talk like that.
I’m finding that is true for my college acquaintances.
The most insecure, the most middling of them career-wise, are the most vocal about how smart they are and how stupid their political opponents are.
“? I am so smart! S-M-R-T!”
Sure we do, slum.
It just goes over your head. ?
You wound me, sir.
I don’t talk like that.
I had a dorm mate who said I was a brilliant ditz, and she was awed and charmed by that because she’d never seen it before.
For the most part, I took it as a compliment, and my ability to snap out of ditz and into erudition has bewildered more than a few people. That’s kinda fun to watch.
LOL, that guy must be trolling us.
Sheldon Adelson dead:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-adelson/las-vegas-casino-magnate-u-s-republican-donor-sheldon-adelson-dies-idUSKBN29H1PE
Covid? Or violent insurrection?
U.S. Republican donor Sheldon Adelson dies
With a pillow over his face perhaps?
We need to prevent Nazi multi-billionaires from trying to influence our politics.
Except of course for George Soros.
Great story Forescore!
I wish I knew how to play poker but never learned because for whatever reason, I’m scared of doing any form of gambling.
I don’t like to gamble, but definitely enjoyed poker for a while.
I used to play frequently with a group of friends and co-workers on Friday nights. I wasn’t the best player, but held my own. I played tons of hours of fake money games on pokerstars (back when it was available in the US prior to its purge). At one point nearly 20 years ago, I entered a charity hold ’em tournament and eventually walked away with the entire purse (minus the charity’s cut). After that night, I didn’t play as regularly, and eventually stopped playing except when we have family games at holidays.
For whatever reason, winning that tourney didn’t make me feel like I was a great player, just the last person standing among about 150 entrants. The last hand came down to me calling a bluff, and when the guy asked me how I knew to call him, I honestly had no idea. It just felt right. Knowing that didn’t give me a lot of confidence in my abilities.
After winning the tournament, I was given an invitation to a “high roller” game (couldn’t have been that high), which I declined, guessing rightly that I was way better off taking the winnings home than risking it against a group of no doubt much better players than I.
I used to play Hold ‘Em ina group of 8 from my old job.
We’d each arrive at that month’s host’s house with BYOB and $20. Everybody’s $20 went into the envelope.
Played until there was only one left standing. Winner got $100, host got $40 to help defray expenses and inconvenience of hosting, and second to last got $20 back, so a break even.
That way nobody was out more than $20, and we all socialized and had fun. Losers watched sports ball, made drinks, played other games or generally fucked with the players remaining.
generally fucked with the players remaining.
Go on.
That’s pretty much how our Friday games went. It was a lot of fun. I stopped playing with them over time as a few of us left the company and moved away. It was a good group of people though.
My first law firm, a big one, had an annual poker tournament. Its been quite awhile, but I’m guessing 40 players to start?
But the real fun was the “Calcutta” auction, where non-poker players would buy a poker player (or shares in a poker player), for a chance at a separate jackpot. And, of course, there was a secondary market in poker player shares. Great stuff.
A sub group of our Friday group, (not including me) decided to finance a guy (who they knew but only infrequently played with us) for shares in his winnings. They got 50 or so thousand dollars together and sent him to Vegas to ply his talents for a year. Within 8 months he had lost it all. He was a good player, but not good enough for Vegas tables.
Be careful if your friends offer to help you learn.
Funny you say that. One of my friends used to always have a poker night at the cigar shop and when he found out that I didn’t know a damn thing about poker, he would invite me all the time.
Didn’t fall for that shit.
Hannity warns contents of Hunter Biden laptop will ‘shock the soul of this nation’
“‘I have numerous, credible sources telling me the contents of this laptop will be devastating to the Bidens and the Democrats,’ Fox News host says”
How does Hannity still have a following? He says this garbage all the time and nothing ever comes to fruition. He’s no better than the leftist media that pulls the “source says” crap.
Yeah, that’s nice and all, but the time to have released that was three months ago, dude.
The cynic in me partly believes that the people who could have used that laptop data to collapse Biden’s campaign decided it would be a better play to let him win and spend the next four years using it to undermine him and keep the grift going.
Lemme guess, it’s in the same cage as the kraken?
Why does anyone beleive this crap anymore? Desperately wishful thinking?
Yeah, my optimism that some earth shattering evidence will emerge and set all to rights is gone. I’m in the mode of preparing to take care of my own now with no thought that the federal political situation is going to get better.
Glenn Danzig is a self-important, preening, overwrought prima donna….but goddamn Danzig III is a fantastic album
Thoughtful Art != Thoughtful Artist
I often wonder if the same brain chemicals that make people assholes or chronically depressed are the same ones that make them creative and interesting.
I don’t think it’s possible to be an artist AND a normie who has his shit together.
A couple of my meds take the edge off my creativity, so it’s always been a struggle to find the right dosages to keep me from being too depressed while keeping my creativity healthy.
Right now I can’t afford to be creative, so I’m on a lot more drugs to help me keep my shit together and not just collapse in despair.
I thought they didn’t believe in borders.
Frontex
@Frontex
For the first time, the European Union has its own uniformed service – the European Border and Coast Guard standing corps. And here’s a sneak peak of the uniform they will be wearing to represent the Flag of European Union at its borders #StandingCorps
The EU has been trying to get a Pan-Euro military for awhile now, this looks like a foot in the door to this end.
This was good Fourscore. Like it a lot. This place always amazes me at the breadth of talent, knowledge and entertainment.
I, for one, welcome our international socialist overlords.
UN Spokesperson
@UN_Spokesperson
As we rebuild, we cannot revert to the old normal.
Pandemic recovery is our chance to change course.
With smart policies and the right investments, we can chart a path that brings health to all, revives economies and builds resilience -@antonioguterres
#OnePlanetSummit
Can we do it five years?
It’s a shame all of the entrepreneurs were too greedy and prevented us from achieving the easily achievable utopia.
I hate everybody. With a few notable exceptions.
^^ this. Evil abounds.
But the Great Reset is just a conspiracy theory!
(hint: they’re quite open about it)
In the interest of Knowing Thy Enemy, I ordered the book. Estimated delivery early February.
I look forward to the book report post.
Maybe you all can tell me if I’m reading too much into this…..so the school system sent out a link to their strategic plan. Normally I ignore these things, but I clicked on the link to it. Now, maybe it’s just me being paranoid, but doesn’t their graphic for “Equity and Opportunity” look a lot like this?
ah hell…..try the link again
That shit is becoming endemic. Guess what the schoolteachers are doing while they’re getting paid to not educate your children?
They’re getting training in critical race theory.
It’s happened at my son’s school. He’s got one more semester. We’ve told him to draw the line at compelled speech. I give it 50/50 odds they’ll try to do it.
I don’t like the use of the term “equity”.
The 14th amendment. Equal protection under the law. That’s it. That’s all you get.
I am not looking forward to DEI training where I will either get myself on the short path to forced retirement or swallow all my pride and keep my job.
ProTip: Keep a bottle of hot sauce handy. It helps disguise the bitter taste of your pride as you swallow it.
Thanks, I’ll remember that.
Nope, not one bit. And of course the superintendent sent out an overwrought email about “how to help kids cope with what happened at the Capitol”.
I wrote a smartass reply but didn’t send it for fear of repercussions for my kids. I really, really wish I could afford private school.
We’ve gotten three emails about how they’re grieving over what happened in DC and cannot comprehend how people of color must be taking it.
These people are worse than a SNL parody.
This is the most dishonest race angle I think I have ever seen.
“Amy’s passport”? Barf.
Yeah. Childish and unprofessional.
“My kids are coping just fine. You, on the other hand, sound like you could use some counseling — not about what happened in DC, just on general principle.”
What do they need to cope with? If they need to cope with that then start with the months long rioting, looting, and arson by BLM.
“I wrote a smartass reply but didn’t send it for fear of repercussions for my kids”
Ain’t freedom grand?
In 2001 I was in 7th grade, and 9/11 made me into conservative, and I stayed there for most of high school before drifting into libertarianism during the 2008 election. I used to get called a Nazi and a racist all the time, and I would laugh it off or roll my eyes. Thinking they would grow out of it.
Well, those lefty kids that called me that are now your children’s teachers, and the HR people who decide who gets hired, and they didn’t grow out of it they still think all conservatives are Nazi racists. We used to laugh at campus style insane socialism…..but they are now in charge of the world that we live in.
Of all the dumb things that the David French types have said over the past year, the dumbest is probably the endless repetitions of “Biden the moderate!!!” as though the POTUS personally handles everything the government does. The new AG for Civil Rights actually believes black people are superior to white people. The new people in charge of regulating energy actually believe that oil production is an evil act that must be stopped.
Trump (as he’s governed the past 4 years) is more moderate than Biden (as he’s campaigned for the past 10+ months). “Biden is a moderate” is both wishful thinking and head-in-sand ignorance.
If any of this were beneficial, it would already be taking place. The free market would drive it.
Tom Woods had an interesting podcast on “Why are people statists?” Episode 1808
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1808-why-are-people-statists/
The prior one 1807 called the “Psychology of Being a Libertarian touched on related points because it’s tough to explain libertarian without comparing it to the opposite.
Tom Woods has been a calming influence lately. He’s not delving into the hot news of the day and almost never talks about Trump.
I like Tom. He tends to not get hyperbolic or overreact to the outrage of the day.
Not just look, but it’s a very specific symbol and term
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Arrows
And the funny thing is, the original symbol and group was against communism and the communist backed antifascists, along with the other two arrows against Nazis and conservatives.
Not to make excuses for any variety of violent statism, but at least the German SDP had actual real life Nazis, actual real life commies, and actual real life Prussian militarists to contend with.
They’ll probably deny that it’s the symbol of the Iron Front, so to get rid of it. you’ll proably have to tell them that it’s making you feel unsafe becasue it’s a dog-whistle for the Beretta logo.
Good job, Fourscore. I’m totally into this story.
New F-150 you say? Cushy King Ranch with the full Brokeback pack; heated butt massager, cream leather everything, scented cup holders, 72″ 4K Smart TV, quilted satin bedliner.
Ps more soon please
Tesla Cybertruck or GTFO.
Pffffft…..Ford
I know, damned C-Channel frame crap.
i didn’t think they even let ya’ll have trucks over there.
I believe they call them lorries on Airstrip One.
I’m pretty sure they’re called “crumpets”. If it’s really old, it’s called a “bubble and squeek”.
The economy is still breathing! Quick, kill it!!
“ The U.S. government is expected to require all international airline passengers to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test before boarding flights to the country, people familiar with the matter said.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-require-covid-19-tests-for-all-international-visitors-11610472867
ban them from operating at capacity, then give them billions in free taxpayer money, then ban them from operating. wash rinse repeat.
It’s too late to make much political hay out of this but here’s Scott Horton and Peter van Buren discussing the contents of the Biden laptop (van Buren claims to have seen a copy of it in depth):
https://scotthorton.org/?powerpress_pinw=30190-podcast
It’s pretty standard stuff, corruption, influence peddling, and graft that would keep him away from the presidency in a sane world. And hookers and blow, lots of hookers and blow.
A lot of that stuff was leaked before the election, but the social media stomped on sharing it, and the mainstream media called it Russian disinformation.
I honestly can’t believe Twitter just tweeted this. But Twitter just tweeted this.
“We strongly condemn internet shutdowns – they are hugely harmful, violate basic human rights and the principles of the #OpenInternet.”
“Access to information and freedom of expression, including the public conversation on Twitter, is never more important than during democratic processes, particularly elections.”
I got nuthin’
0_o
I’m picturing the writers of that tweet laughing their asses off and clinking wine glasses after sending it.
Since I can’t embed a gif
“Twitter, as a private organization, has every right to determine what content it provides. That ISP, as a private organization, violates basic human rights when it determines what content it will provide. Totally different.”
Also, Uganda.
#WeAreRemovingADictator
Net neutrality was 90% astroturf for Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, etc. who just want other people to do the boring grunt work and bear the cost.
With due respect to the handful of sincere pro-NN folks (Vhyrus, where art thou?), for the most part the fight is white-collar “information economy” workers and their employers (pro-NN) vs. blue-collar “infrastructure and plumbing” workers and their employers (anti-NN).
As far as the “big tech” companies are concerned, once they set up servers somewhere and run some software they wrote on them, they should have a infinitely wide and infinitesimally long pipe to every end user. Anything else is just getting in the way of them making money. These are, generally, the same sort of idiots who think information is free and forever but also have paradoxically decided that they can and should suppress the spread of “misinformation”. As far as Twitter is concerned, there’s no hypocrisy here. They are the only thing that matters in the economic chain of dependencies between them and their users (and their actual customers, advertisers) and anyone in between should just do what they’re told and be happy to get whatever crumbs they can negotiate.
There’s an Iron Law for this in fact (and probably more than one of them), which is “the less you know, the easier it looks”.
Competition is a bitch
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Thing don’t look good for Floyd.
Possibly the most obscure euphemism yet.
It’s rather breathtaking.
He was a pretty boy.
I finally got my neighbor to realize that A: A company doesn’t need fancy office space to create an online platform and B: People use PO Boxes for company mail all the time, hell even half the stuff you have to submit to the government goes to a PO Box. Now if he was just placating, I don’t know that, but he seemed to have backed down that Parler is some front for KKK groups or something.
This is in relation to the rabid Henderson folk hunting down that evil white supremacist that runs Parler
Right, because when you’re a young startup trying to get off the ground, the first thing you do is rent lavish offices.
Don’t tell him about where Apple and Hewlett-Packard started out…
Hey at least they had a garage that could be burned down!
He couldn’t wrap his head around Amazon AWS. “There is no way he has all those servers in his garage”.
Oy.
Parler should migrate to Tencent Cloud, for the LOLs. (not really)
Well, at least then they’d cut out the middleman.
Seriously, the internet sleuths around here are pointing out that if you plug in the address for the manager of the LLC it points to a Dominoes..that is right next to a PostNet place that has…PO Boxes. It was fun to just counter his points and I wouldn’t do it if he wasn’t reasonable cause then it is just futile.
The fact that people with ill intent are trying to track him down makes using a P O box all the more prudent.
He should leave the connecting of conspiracy points to the professionals like, Alex Jones.
+1 Unicorn
I did, in fact, work for a young startup that went out and rented lavish offices – multiple floors in downtown SF.
$5,000 for decorative handles for the fancy new boardroom? That sounds like a good idea.
You will be shocked, shocked to learn it went on to failure.
(I did, however, get to fly to Tokyo in Business Class and spend a couple weeks in Toranomon, for which I thank them)
Ah, the late nineties.
What were those luxe office chairs that became the symbol of that era?
You mean the Aeron that I’m currently ensconced in?
They were one of the door prizes when the business folded. Mine’s still going strong (albeit starting to get a wee bit wobbly).
I’ll not lie – they’re pretty great.
My office chair of choice. Every time I change employers, Aeron sells another chair.
$650 on Amazon.
Used.
LOL
We truly live in strange times when The Nation is doing better reporting than anyone out there. Is it any wonder that the MSM is as over the top about “insurrection” as they were “Russian collusion”? What is a wonder is why so many people are such suckers for it all.
We are all stuck inside with barely any new shows and this is turning out to be the best reality show ever.
Meh. Tiger King was better.
Suckers implies that they are falling for a con, rather than being in on the con. Look up the familial and marital links between high ranking members of the media and political officials (on both supposed sides, but mainly on Team Blue.) They’re not adversarial at all, its a quite cozy relationship.
Even between the parties, they are not adversarial.
It was often said that the royalty and aristocrats of Europe were more loyal to each other than to their nominal countrymen.
Plus ça change…
Politicians control “access” which keeps the juicy stories flowing to the media, while the media controls “narrative” which keeps the politicians employed. It’s a very symbiotic relationship for those two.
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See Cuomo brothers.
(George V and Tsar Nicholas notwithstanding…)
Right…
Hey, The Nation after all.
PBS guy: “its nice to live in a city (DC) where people are smart and know stuff.”
uh huh. so smart they want to wage war on the people that grow their food. outright geniuses.
People in DC have a massive chip on their shoulders because it’s not NYC or LA. Baltimoreans are less insufferable because they have fewer delusions of grandeur.