Well-deserved
Man City beat Man United in the League Cup semifinal. A bunch of college basketball games were played. Devonta Smith rightfully wins the Heisman. The CFP Final is still on for Monday amid (unsubstantiated) rumors that the Buckeyes are having a corona outbreak. The Browns are having one for real ahead of their first playoff game in forever. And that’s pretty much it for sports. Except for a bunch of posturing and feigning outrage.
Yes, please!
Pope Gregory XIII was born on this day. The calendar-maker shares it with president Millard Fillmore, jazzman Red Allen, cartoonist Charles Addams, baseball HOFer Johnny Mize, outfielder Tony Conigliaro, rocker Kenny Loggins, actor and meme subject David Caruso, imbecile-on-TV Katie Couric, politician Rand Paul, actor Nic Cage, baseball players Eric Gagne and Alfonso Soriano, self-absorbed auto racer Lewis Hamilton, and football player Lamar Jackson.
Not a great list, but we did get Rand Paul. Anyway, on to…the links!
Wow. This is awful.
Oh wait, this was when leftists completely took over the Wisconsin capitol in 2011 for two days and the media creamed their pants with delight.
“People will do what they do.” Oh wait, this is different. This is the worst thing since 9/11. Or Pearl Harbor. Or something. I don’t know, I was working.
Trump commits to orderly transition of power after Congress affirms electoral votes. Ok then.
No charges filed for cops who shot Jacob Blake.
Finally some good news! I hope I never see that little bastard again. The scourge of Canadian media on American children is finally gone.
Merrick Garland to be next Attorney General.
The Chicago Public Schools shitshow continues. I’m surprised parents haven’t taken more drastic measures as the teachers union continues to defy logic in their unwillingness to do the job they’re being paid to do.
I want you…to bend over and take it!
Get a load of this. Does he not know he doesn’t have the ability to print money?
Here we go again. I wonder how many municipalities will ignore the “order” this time. Hopefully mine will. Again.
Here’s a perfect song for today. Hope you enjoy it. I always do.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
““People will do what they do.” Oh wait, this is different. This is the worst thing since 9/11. Or Pearl Harbor. Or something. I don’t know, I was working.”
When the left does it because they dislike some guy beat the mandarin class’ pick for prez, it is peaceful protests. When the people that have had enough of the mandarin class do it, it is an existential crisis. As I told many idiots yesterday: this was not caused by Trump. Trump is just another byproduct of the people that are realizing they are being fucked over. Refuse to see this, and prepare to pay a price.
Every solon on the left and right is apparently under the impression that Trump was pulling their strings, leading them to Washington and shoving them over the fence himself.
But he was, by being Q-Anon!…Well, that was The Hat, but close enough.
I am first Among the Firsters! Bow before …somone else
Please do…
Shameful display.
Look who’s talking.
Whatever happened to that baby, anyway?
Still on the way. They determined she wasn’t yet fully in labor and sent her home to wait a few more days.
“The Chicago Public Schools shotshow continues.”
Did you mean to say shitshow or snotshow?
Shitshow. For some reason Apple doesn’t recognize that word and always autocorrects it to something nonsensical.
It’s fixed.
Whatever, it’s Indiana’s fault.
Speaking of Chicago schools, Cleveland did not sent them our best.
And what kind of fucking punishment is house arrest while the entire state is under curfew and stay at home orders?
Double secret house arrest
Shotshow has been cancelled 🙁
Shoshone.
Or maybe Xuxa.
Trump commits to orderly transition of power after Congress affirms electoral votes.
Which is what every level headed person thought and is pretty on par with Trump. He fights (right or wrong) til the end, he loses in court and/or Congress, he moves on. I guess I wish I lived in a fantasy world in my head.
Trump didn’t lose here: Americans that have had enough of our mandarin class’ abuses of power, the selling out of our future, and the lies from the cabal supporting them, have lost. As I told everyone last November, the big winner here in this last election (and especially the one in Georgia from the other day( was the CCP.
Ummm … you’re kinda sounding like my wife when, about three months ago, she stated that Trump had lost the election in 2016, and I decided to break out, “Have you lost your damn mind?”
I guess my point went right over your head…
I agreed with everything except the phrasing of your first four words. If you start your argument with phrasing that, taken literally, is demonstrably false, it undercuts accurate arguments following that, and in a more public forum would give your enemies ammunition to discredit you. Framing matters.
“taken literally,”
I see where things went wrong…
Yes. Although I won’t hold it against him if he pulls an Obama/Biden and leaves a couple of poison pills for his successors. Independent investigations into the election and Hunter’s influence peddling would be excellent distractions.
Such investigations will be shut down day one and the msm will not say a damned thing about it, despite hyperventilating about Trump possibly shutting down the Mueller probe.
Yeah there’s no Trump loyalists in the bureaucracy who will do that.
We have long passed the point of actual representative government. The bureaucrats rule. You can’t vote your way out of this, because voting will be 100% mail in, and probably soon there will be digital voting or some such nonsense.
My poison pill would be this: Issue a string of executive orders rescinding every previous executive order. One at a time. Make Joe re-issue them. Maybe it brings a light on just how imperial the Presidency has become.
Of course, President Hero would have been doing this for 4 years as part of a reality TV show. Each week, we could highlight a few gems during a fireside chat. The fire being built in a 55 gallon drum in the Rose Garden.
I like it.
Yeah, it wasn’t for lack of trying on his part.
I do remain baffled about Lin & Sidney though. I really thought they were gonna wow us.
It would be excellent entertainment if Trump managed to get one of them appointed to an Independent Investigation. Not that anyone would go to jail for stealing a national (or state) election or making $billions peddling influence. But it would be fun.
We need more of this…
Yes – and a pardon for Assange.
Assange won his extradition hearing a couple days ago.
Yeah, but that was because the Brits were worried if he spilled the beans he would expose their role in much of this shit. They still plan to keep him detained so he can’t talk. A pardon won’t change that. The Brits (and many others) have zero desire to have this guy out there talking, and they will make sure that never happens.
If Assange is ever truly freed, he’ll get killed in an unsolved mugging just like Seth Rich.
Grifters gonna grift.
Not sure about Lin, but I can’t see why Sidney would ruin her reputation….
Robert Barnes has a theory on Powell and Wood.
They got involved with a bunch of Q related stuff. His theory is that the entire Qanon thing is a disinformation campaign… Professionally designed to distract and discredit.
Like the voting machine stuff. They pushed a military dude… But it did not survive even cursory examination. A hand recount defeats this mechanism. It is easily disproven by hand recounts. Clearly it was not the mechanism of any election shenanigans.
Yet wood and Powell got conned into pushing the theory.. wasting valuable time and resources.
His theory has some pull with me… Since we saw the involvement of CIA and FBI at the highest levels in setting Trump up… And you will note the large number of ex CIA and ex FBI officials they were able to pull together on a moment’s notice to sign a document claiming the Hunter Biden laptop was a Russian hoax.. knowing full well that it was entirely real.
He didn’t even get heard in court. But I have been informed by our media betters that he exhausted all legal options and the courts did not find any credible evidence of widespread fraud*.
I’ll just call it electioneering at this point.
I gave you a link to what Trump’s lawyers submitted to the court – all accusations and no evidence. Imagine criminal law conducted on that basis – would you think a prosecutor should prevail by doing that?
. Imagine criminal law conducted on that basis
Different burden, different standards. Not only between Civil and Criminal, but based on the stage of the teial
Assuming you just linked to a complaint, then the standard for the level of evidence required to proceed is
At least, this is true in federal court. The states’ standards aren’t that different. The fact that the courts bounced these cases before discovery means that the evidentiary submissions never happened. In some courts, the evidentiary submissions are not allowed to happen at the complaint stage.
..”These were LOOTERS, RANSACKERS, and RIOTERS”…but, it was all peaceful protests when people’s livelihoods was actually being destroyed…
But… but now Nancy has to have her office fumigated after one of those people dirtied it up.
I wish one of them would have taken a huge steaming dump on her desk.
I had hoped that one of them blew a couple beefy farts into McConnel’s seat cushions on the Senate floor.
Funny story, when my buddy went to jump school (a couple weeks after I graduated) there were a couple of SEALs in his class. Apparently one or more of them got recycled for one reason or another and decided to take it out on one of the black hats by crapping on their desk.
I wish I had been there when the instructors got out in front of the formation and said, “Who took a shit on Sergeant Airborne’s desk?”
And if you have ever interacted with SEALs, you know that they are… particularly odd birds in a Special Operations world that already has a good number of very weird individuals.
But the government has insurance!
I got an email from my employer’s top leadership (our mandarin class members) giving lip service to the left’s bullshit. I almost decided I could just go work somewhere else and reply all to ask why the fuck these were riots but the Antifa destruction for months was peaceful protests, but I bet they wouldn’t just fire me, but make sure I couldn’t work anywhere. These people are evil. They still don’t get that Trump is not the cause but another symptom of people waking up to their malfeasance, mismanagement, abuses, and corruption.
Continues to amaze me that corporatism is now the main platform of the left. Mussolini would be proud.
And they call others the fascists.
When I point this out most of them get really, really pissed…. Fascism was made the “real evil” label, by design, by the marxist apologists these people all learned their world view from. Pointing out they are part of the neo-fascist cabal is the worst kind of insult to them. Probably because it stings that they sold out their original marxist tendencies in favor of this shit more than the fact they now have to content with being categorized as more evil. BTW, I believe the marxists were levels of evil worse than the fascists, but when you are talking about the difference between 85% or 95% being shit, you are really just eating a shit sammich anyway.
Mussolini didn’t invent it from the right. “You hate me because I’m one of you” he told the socialists.
I like to ask lefties to find a difference between the Dems’ policies and Mussolini’s 1924 platform.
Historically, religious schism tend to be the things that produce the most virulent hate and violence between factions. The Fascism vs. marxism schism produced just that, since both are collectivist religious movements trying to replace the concept of happiness/rewards in the afterlife from the old time religions with heaven on earth led by the new government god delivering justice and free shit.
I’m reading The Gulag Archipelago right now and some of the things the Soviet Marxists did are much worse than even some of the worse things I’ve read about the Nazis.
In some places/times the plan was for the inmates to be worked to death in three months.
At times inmates were not fed (or were fed basically starvation rations if they were) on the transport trains expecting them to survive a 5 to 7 day journey that way. When trains showed up a few weeks late often there were only a few survivors left – stark mad having been locked in a pile of corpses for much of the journey.
The fascist were far more clinical about their camps than the marxists, and for them it was more about getting rid of undesirables than punishing and breaking people resisting their collectivist movement’s attack on individuality and freedom (even the Jews were just considered pests to be cleaned out). The marxists were pure evil. Their goal was to destroy those that stood in the way of the people in power in the most humiliating and mentally and physically grueling way, not just to break them, but to break those seeing how dissenters would be dealt with. The apologists for the marxists movement went and continue to go to great lengths to hide this little detail about that ideology.
Have no doubt this is one of the things the marxists will never be able to give up though. See the calls for revenge on Trump and Trump supporters. Believe them when they tell you they will be doing this in the near future, and it is to make sure the serfs know the price of fighting the mandarinate.
Always, always whatever they accuse others of is exactly what they are doing.
That’s terrible. None of that where I spend a third or more of my life just yet.
Don’t forget INSURRECTIONIDTS!
Why why why did I just watch the lights go out in that young lady’s eyes? The internet has done some fucked up shit to the populace at large but to me in particular. I am weeping now. Lamp posts for the lot of them.
As soon I saw she was bleeding from the mouth and nose I knew and turned it off. Same as the girl in Iran a few years ago.
How did those officers not end up on lamp posts immediately.
Because Republicans are rule followers at heart. I don’t know that there is a point where they stop following the rules.
One of those R congressmen was boasting on Fox about how he was ready to fight with improvised weapons.
That was something I never wanna see, but it really is the nature of what the state is and does.
1 white woman killed by police in DC, impeach Trump!
12 black people murdered in Chi-town, first 5 days of the glorious new year. Impeach….oh wait, business as usual
R O F L.
The immediate, unanimous dismissal of yesterday’s hootenanny as terrorism gets me. AOCs tweet defending the summers riots.
On one side, you have people who are mad at the government because they feel the police are terrible. So they destroy private property.
On the other you have people who are mad at the government because they feel that the election was either stolen, or so obscured it had to have been stolen. They storm a government building and break some stuff. Looking at the footage of when they reconvened for the electoral count, it wasn’t in ruins.
It’s just so tiresome. I hope states start divorce papers.
This. It’s gonna take a military coup or states’ secession to even begin to right the ship.
No chance. They can’t afford to have states up and leave.
Just turned on Bloomberg.
It’s drama queen central.
So shocking. So shocking.
Will the moderates band together to bribe the people into quiescence?
NPR had a series of stories:
1. Interview with some BLM professor about how this proves Americans are racist, because cops use tear gas and rubber bullets on blockfolx but here they served the wypipo tea and cookies.
2. “Violent” “rioters” engage in “insurrection,” resulting in the deaths of five people.
3. Republican congresscritters “object to democracy” — that last spoken by Steve Inskeep ex NPR cathedra.
4. interview with some other prof/”consiitutional expert” about how the 25th A needs to be invoked immediately because the existence of democracy is at stake.
It could have been a series of panels in a comic book.
One of the most annoying things i have seen it the rash of memes about how this proves that white privilege is a real thing. I have seen a bunch claiming that if the protestors would have been black, the capitol cops would have killed them.
Despite the capitol cops killing a woman. its infuriating.
Despite the capitol cops killing a woman. its infuriating.
Yup.
BLM has been rioting for months how many have been shot?
I understand that they shoot each other.
If white folk are so privileged, why do they have to break into the US Capitol to be heard?
Did the cops anywhere in the country during the months of riots ever use live ammo on the mob? Serious question. I remember many many videos of mostly black crowds looting stores en masse, and there was no use of live ammo by the authorities.
1. The cops shot and killed people. How many BLM rioters and looters did the cops shoot and kill?
2. See #1 – so far it seems all of the killing was done by the cops.
3. Objecting to an election that appears to be based on massive fraud is pretty much the opposite of objecting to democracy.
4. Because that’s how it works, someone can just “invoke” the 25th amendment and OMB is gone.
Do these idiots actually believe any of their own bullshit?
Re: #2, apparently they’re replaying the Charlottesville script where anyone who died in the general area is being counted.
+1 helicopter crash
https://imgur.com/fblE8gm
Best Charlottesville meme.
I bet that chick wishes they used rubber bullets.
I hope and and pray that the cop offs himself.
“People will do what they do.”
The hypocrisy I am seeing on this is making my blood boil. Antifa and BLM spent months torching cities, attacking people/public property/private property, getting people killed and trying to set a federal courthouse on fire (with people inside) and many of these cuntes endorsed it. But a few MAGAts (the left’s term which I am sure has no dehumanizing implication…) get uppity and it’s “domestic terrorism/insurrection/etc. Fuck off.
Don’t mention BLM and Antifa, or some commenters might leave in a huff.
What do YOU mean ‘You People’?!
In my brief glance at the Twatters saw an individual with a #ANTIFA on their name calling for the DC Guard to be deployed. I do not know if you can have any less self awareness.
Don’t fight back unless you are perfect human beings and the state/media can’t spin your behavior into something malicious. Just take it and smile.
GRAB YOUR ANKLES ALREADY CITIZEN SHEEP!
Yep. Get ready for it because the state doesn’t like being clowned.
Well, there’s only a handful of people in the federal government who actually officially make policies, maybe about 600. They’re outnumbered by half a million to one. So they can’t allow anyone to get away with publicly challenging the legitimacy of the state, because once that happens, the floodgates open.
I’m too busy clutching my pearls to fight.
You’re not being respectable! This isn’t helpful! You’re setting back the cause of Liberty by decades!
The use of religious words all last night..
It’s almost like they’re a church. Where science ™ and government are your god.
Government is religion Doom, and its functions are the sacraments. To violate the sacraments is sacrilege, and must be punished as such.
My god, the holy temple was vandalized last night. They may as well have sacked the temple of Athena and raped Cassandra while they were at it.
There’s nothing almost about it. That is exactly what it is – the Great Awokening is the latest mass episode of religious fervor.
This. I had this viscerally brought home with me when my brother cut off all communication because I dared dissent from the One True Religion’s theology of The Mask Is Good, Only Badthinkers Refuse this Sign of The Faithful.
So we are brothers..cause sounds like my brother is your brother.
That was a great song selection, Sloop! Tina! Sorry for the bit above but I found it so disturbing. I’m not over this. Not by a long shot.
Whelp, I guess the ammo shortage is going to continue until they outlaw ammo sales.
/sad panda
COMMON SENSE REGULATIONS!!11!!!
One the shortage be worse after its banned?
You say that like Mexican cartels aren’t a thing.
Black markets are very efficient in meeting demand.
Ammo will be plentiful, just about an order of magnitude more expensive
Had to get off Facebook. Going to try and stay away. Cant listen to all these people calling Trump a monster after not saying a peep about the left rioting for the last few months. Blood pressure is down already.
THEY ATTACKED OUR DEMOCRACY!
It’s not like they were burning cars, smashing windows and swinging bike locks during Trump’s inauguration or anything like that.
They didn’t even torch a muslim immigrant’s limo.
I nuked most of mine yesterday. I am basically down to membership in three groups.
Trump commits to ‘orderly transition’ in statement after mob storms Capitol
I was promised a coup or something. I can still hear Jake Tapper hyperventilating about it.
You got one.
The moves to make that happen started on the day after they realized bad orange man had won the election they thought they had solidly rigged for their mandarin class corruptocrat.
Well, the coup was the election. So, yeah.
OK!!!! When the ‘protesters’ burnt down the government buildings, it was a sign of peaceful symbolism. I could almost see and get behind that argument. When they burnt down people’s homes and businesses, it was ‘mostly peaceful protest,’ which I find abhorrent and disgusting.
When the ‘other side’ storms their governments buildings, burns down nothing, scuffles with police, focuses solely on government property, shoots nobody, just to stand on our governments floor and wave a flag to be heard….. that’s insurrection? That’s rioting? They must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law?
What happened to the ‘protestors’ who blockaded police officers in a building and lit it on fire? What happened to the ‘protestors’ that burnt down countless buildings? Any mass arrests and prosecutions?
Rules for thee and not for me it is.
Insurrection is seizing the capital and arresting and executing government officials and representatives. These people wanted to be heard. I’m willing to bet if congress and the VP hadn’t evacuated that not a one of them would’ve been harmed.
But… CONFEDERATE FLAGZ!!11!!!
The whole narrative is fucked. “Journalists” are the scum of the earth. And that might be an insult to scum.
You are correct, Sir! It would have been funny watching White Indian pricking at Pelosi , Mittens, Turtle and Schumer’s bums with his “spear”.
When the plebiscite is warring amongst itself, its no big deal. When the patrician class is threatened, well then. Its time to break out the big guns and start cracking skulls. Wanton destruction is fine. Targeted destruction aimed squarely at the ruling class is not to be tolerated.
Exactly right
Nailed it.
Across the United States, millions watched in horror Wednesday as unprecedented scenes of chaos unfolded at the US Capitol.
Millions? more like hundreds. Some people work, you know. But our exhalted professional Reality Interpreter Class was watching in horror at the ripples in their reality distortion field. And they were, without question, horrified.
“unprecedented scenes of chaos unfolded at the US Capitol.”
“never done or known before” — my we all have short memories.
‘Member when some leftists got on the house balcony and started busting caps? And Jemmah Carter pardoned them?
Yeah, that was my thought, see my comment below.
Even back in the 70’s, I’d imagine the old timers in my neighborhood would’ve been laughing their asses of at this.
Unprecedented.
The Bonus Marcher Army Besiege the US Capitol. The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – made up of 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, together with their families and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the “Bonus Expeditionary Force”, to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the “Bonus Army” or “Bonus Marchers”.
I must have missed that while I was making a cup of coffee. Any chance of new video from today, like visiting a tornado zone to see the damage and other people’s misfortunes?
Good morning, Sloopy!
Not a TH fan, but that’s a great goddamn song. So thanks for buffering all the bad shit with some good!
I’ve got bad news fatigue. I wonder when immunity kicks in…
Why is it that I am hearing all sorts of rumors that they staged this whole shitshow that went down yesterday? I have heard some people claim Antifa people were there causing trouble, seen video where the police removed the barricades to let the people go into the capitol building, and that the shooting almost looked planned? I get that some people are just going to make up shit, but when you get too much of it like this, one has to wonder TWF is going on. The fact that I would not be surprised to find out this was staged by the mandarin class to stop those that would protest the sham election from getting their information out and to paint those that know the election was stolen with the worst possible light, caught me by surprise. I tend to always want real proof before I believe things but the fact that the mandarin class has completely ripped off their mask of civility and let us see how corrupt they are, just leaves me feeling that if they are fine stealing 2 elections like this, killing people to get their way would be cake.
Wishful thinking on the part of the right, who are starting to realize how bad the optics on this are.
Yeah:
He’s not infallible though.
Especially when I see things like this….
Maybe wishful thinking, maybe genuine conspiritards. Hell, there were apparently some people who genuinely believed that the cult of Kek was real, though they may have just been pulling a really convincing troll.
Don’t know about the Antifa thing, but they appeared to be allowed to go in.
The only evidence I saw for that was that some dude with his face painted and some big headress thing was also at a BLM march months ago. Which is a pretty thin reed.
A lot of people tried to tell the left last year that they would not like the new rules. That once you opened up political violence as a legitimate part of politics, that the other side would pick it up at some point, and that in this case the other side is far more heavily armed than you.
The worry is…next time they won’t adhere to DC’s call to not be armed.
Now they are talking about jobs. “What sort of jobs will there be for all these people to go back to?”
Don’t worry about it. We can always pay them to stay home.
Deny them the ability to earn and independent living, control their income & access to healthcare, and you control them. That has been the strategy from these people from the getgo. Marxists thought that if government controlled it all and owned it they solved that problem only to discover that when people were denied the right/ability to work harder to get more, productivity dove and they were left fighting over an ever dwindling pie. The fascists picked up that you could overcome that incidental problem by creating the illusion of ownership and self control, while making sure you only allowed the members of the mandarinate to win and hold power, but ruined their original racket because they didn’t let go of the whole idea of work/death camps that collectivism presents as the solution to pesky dissenters.
The new fascists realized that in a modern world where people no longer have to worry about putting food on the table and have time to end up in fights about what bathrooms a guy in a dress should be allowed to use, they could dispense with the camps and go straight to simply denying those that were problematic any ability to earn a decent living. The camps always allowed people that did numbers to then show how evil collectivism was by tallying body counts. Obfuscate the body count by no longer bothering to put the objectors and problem children in camps but simply destroying their ability to make a living, or have your troops do things like this, and you can remove the most important weapon the people fighting for freedom have.
The modern fascists are doing a shitty job of adhering to that plan. Increasingly shitty when you consider their COVID ‘strategy.’
Never said they were doing either a good or smart job. Just that they had figured out that they could keep their malfeasance out of the public eye by avoiding the body count.
Concentration camps – old and busted.
Homeless campus – the new hotness.
Unbelievably inappropriate shot that killed Ashli Babbitt. Probably Pence’s security detail randomly shooting through a door at unarmed people with cops right behind them. A Capital Hill cop with an rifle comes into the picture looking for the shooter and realizes it was the Secret Service. That bullet couldn’t have missed the cop by much after it went through her.
Pace CPRM, but hitting the wrong target is a Big. Fucking. Deal. Part of being entrusted with a badge n’ gun is having some basic competency. Horiuchi, the jackhole who shot Breonna Taylor, and this failure need severe punishment, not the medals they did/will receive.
Only the little people need worry where their bullets go.
This is bullseye true.
Panic. What a fucking pussy.
Does he not know he doesn’t have the ability to print money?
The FED does. Bet money that the first thing the new Dem administration does is attach a bailout for bankrupt blue states to a covid stimulus bill. What’s the point of politics anyway if you can’t reward your friends at the expense of your enemies.
California thinks it runs the country anyway, and after Jan. 20 they’re mostly right.
I suspect that a lot of the crazy shit the left promised they would do are still not going to happen because the old guard simply isn’t suicidal, but this is definitely one of the top priorities of the left mandarinate has to keep their grip on power.
If nothing else, Nancy is an old time politician and understands the rules. The Squad will not be making policy that upsets Nancy/Chuck’s hold on things.
I may be out of touch with reality but still an optimist/realist.
Since they now know they can get away with massive fraud to maintain power, does any policy really affect their hold on things?
“Bet money that the first thing the new Dem administration does is attach a bailout for bankrupt blue states to a covid stimulus bill”
That might actually be the tipping point. Texas has about the same GDP as Italy, and Floridas is about the same as The Netherlands. They are dynamic, prosperous, and growing and they probably don’t want to be bailing out the failed Blue State Model.
Texas bars must shut down as hospitalization surge triggers reopening rollback
This should be ignored. Stay open.
After the last couple days, I’ve come to hope I’m wrong on two counts:
-that the Election Stealin’ Vast Cuck Conspiracy is just a Team Red fever dream
-that Modern Monetary Theory is a load of crap
Come over to the dark side
#collapsitarianism
Yeah, I think I’m there.
The 2nd is absolutely true. MMT is complete crap. Even Krugman thinks so. And it aligns with what he wants to do.
Ugh. Krugman confirming my bias leaves me feeling dirty and ashamed.
PAY NOT ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
*”Everything is Awesome” blares in the background*
Everything is cool when you’re part of a team!
I had this queued up, but felt it has been played too much over the summer.
Never. Turn it up.
Follow it with this (lyrics really NSFW).
Neph you asked the other day about anarchy…its always gonna be the Vandals NSFW
Baseball birthdays: the Inca got Mize, but there are two current players at #2 and #4 on the WAR list. Jon Lester is at 44.6 WAR, E^2, Edwin Encarnacion is at 35.7. I got to watch him for a few seasons at AAA as the Reds tried to figure out where he could play defensively (Answer: DH).
He was also responsible for my favorite moment during Dusty Baker’s tenure in Cincinnati. Reds down 1 in the 9th, runner on first. Baker has Edwin bunting him over. After 2 futile attempts, with two strikes Edwin gets to swing away. He jacks a walk off homer. Baker was fuming as he circled the bases.
Have I mentioned how much I hate Dusty Baker?
Dusty is probably not the greatest manager who ever lived, that much is true (I suspect he’d admit to that). But he’s an awfully nice guy, particularly for someone who has been as successful as he has been.
Yeah good guy, players love playing for him—terrible in game manager.
For a nice guy, he sure has a thing for destroying young pitchers’ arms.
As a Cubs fan, I agree.
Yeah, that was my main evidence.
Nothing prevents CA from printing their own money. Ithaca, NY does it.
Booties, no masks! #17 sorta looks like AOC doing a more useful job; #21 is my fav.
https://thechive.com/2021/01/06/congrats-on-making-it-to-hump-day-here-is-your-reward-41-photos-9/
https://archive.is/FdDnf
RE: The Wisconsin photo. I have heard no comparisons yet to when the Puerto Rican nationalists started shooting Reps on the House floor from the gallery.
“That’s different because reasons!”
It is different, it was much much worse.
Seriously though, does it revert back to the before times with bombs going off and roof-top snipers? I remember this shit from when I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
Yep. Or the BIA takeover.
For OSU can’t play, does Clemson get to take their spot? Or Indiana?
If, not for.
Wrong conference. OSU is in the Pac-12
Lachowsky, you’re here-
I was thinking of you as I watched an old film about metal forming last night. Giant machines pounding slabs of red hot steel into submission. Awesome. I got a charge out of the guys using some sort of weird sign language as they worked; just an indicator of how amazingly loud it is in one of those places.
That one right there is the Gayest euphemistic comment ever uttered on this board! I doff my hat to thee, Good Sirrah!
Ouch…
*le sigh*
I adore steel mills. I’ve toured 2 of them in my life, one when I was still in single digits and a private one given to me by the CEO himself when I was a reporter for a juco rag. I’ve watched the bigger-than-a-house ladles zip down the thoroughfare, metal being poured, and ingots being formed. Some of the best memories of my life. It’s why I made a metallurgist a hero in one of my books and the cover artist just outdid himself.
What’s that flower made of that the metal doesn’t just incinerate it?
Art. It is made of art.
In case you are not being silly, it’s a metaphor.
If you are being silly, LOL.
I am being silly.
I figured it was a time for levity.
Your deadpan is on point.
It’s why I made a metallurgist a hero in one of my books.
Are you actually Ayn Rand?
No. I make heroes with faults and pains and sorrows and regrets.
Okay, I’ll give you a better answer.
I like Ayn Rand because I liked steel mills and trains long before I ever heard her name. Trains? I’m in. Steel? I’m in. The philosophy was a nice perq.
Rearden is way more awesomer than Galt, who is a child deity throwing a tantrum. Rearden was real and alive with faults and (relative) depth.
I liked Roark, too, but I’m not sure Rand would like where I went with that character (if you re-cast Roark as a Christ figure–I know, she’s spinning in her grave).
As others have said, her villains are real and alive. Her heroes are ideals. She meant to do that. She wasn’t writing romance, after all.
That’s beautiful artwork, but I have a quibble. Ladles don’t have spouts. They have a slidegate on the bottom. I get that it wouldn’t have been as pretty a picture though, so no worries.
The ladles I saw did have spouts and they did pour like that, but I saw that in the 70s and 90s, respectively.
As to the pic, I found a stock photo.
I am not arguing your experience. Things change.
I’m trying to figure out a lubrication joke to make here.
*winces*
I read it as “Ladies don’t have spouts.” It made the next sentence interesting.
#metoo
Hank Rearden?
Cool, P. I don’t know metal forming sign language, but I can do crane movement sign language with the best of them.
not MFSL certified, surprising.
Now they’ve brought up the 25th Amendment.
By all means, that’s where we should be headed.
My “never Trump” teammate, who is usually pretty even-keeled, was calling for that on FB last night. 🙁
The left really seems inclined to not diffuse the situation.
They want revenge because Trump’s presidency and their reaction to it exposed their racket. And you better believe that they will try hard with a complacent media to back them up. Dark times, as was promised, are coming.
They want Mike Pence to be President for 12 days?
Which won’t even happen. Immediate court challenge aaaaaand the term is over. What they want is the black mark on Trump and his supporters and the members of Congress who will vote nay. I say do it. Let the people know exactly how you are going to rule.
+500,000 handmaids.
I bet if some on the right set up links to bail out the rioters from yesterday the media will treat it just as they did when Kamala did it.
I wonder if my company will be offering pro Bono opportunities for doing the expungement work on these folks… Oh wait, of course they won’t.
I’d take those odds.
Trump needs to pardon them. I’m not even kidding.
Yep.
If this is all that happens from this year’s shenanigans from the left, tech, media and ruling class, than they got away pretty much unscathed.
Was yesterday some sort of turning point in history?
No. The ruling class in this country is much too unselfaware to draw any sort of rational appropriate conclusions from it.
Something something Biden and Harris up there on that platform…. I’d be a lot happier if they were on one of those platforms with the trap doors in it.
HEY! You know what’s really important and exciting? With full Democrat control of the federal government, We can finally push for a third tunnel under the Hudson River. Because New York City is the true beating heart of America.
The ruling class will flail around like an epileptic having a grand mal in response but regardless of its ineffectiveness it’s going to be very unpleasant for nonleftists.
I see 5.56 is already .95/rd at sgammo. Nothing is in stock at bulkammo.
It’s going to be a long ride.
I bought yesterday at 67cents/round, knowing full well it was gonna go over $1
Just wait until they EO away online ammunition sales and it takes the Supreme Court denies cert on the case a couple of years later. Better buy while you can if you’ve got the dough.
It could be even worse. I’ve heard several proposals to institute a bullet tax ranging as high as several hundred dollars per bullet. Even if the several hundred dollars ends up being hyperbole, any tax at all would be crippling (as intended).
And we know that Roberts has never met a tax he didn’t like.
Chris Rock was joking about that twenty years ago, I never thought it’d be written into legislation. I don’t know how it’d pass constitutional muster but if they pack the court it’ll most certainly get the seal of approval.
Yeah, I was going to point out that since it’s not an income tax and it’s not apportioned, it’s not allowed by the constitution. But we all know that the constitution doesn’t mean fuck-all anymore.
Part of the reason the country went away from excise taxes and toward income and sales taxes is because excise taxes are too easy to work around.
Legalize drugs and make ammo illegal, and streets gangs will just switch to selling ammo. And the state isn’t going to stop needing ammo.
Every generation of bureaucrats insists on learning the hardest way possible that prohibition doesn’t work.
I don’t know how it’d pass constitutional muster
FYTW…Commerce Clause…no standing… take your pick.
This is really good:
What is left to say?
I didn’t read it all the way through but it was because this thought occurred to me: “Maybe the fence sitters just don’t know what’s true and can’t commit until they do.” That may not apply to the war between God and Satan, but it does to men’s battles.
You make a good point. Faith in men is faith misplaced. It takes faith to come to any sort of solid conclusion about Covid or election fraud or [insert a thousand other hot button issues here] in this current no trust environment. (not that it’s all that better when everybody believes the BS that others emit)
In terms of Christianity, we have the admonition against being lukewarm, where one is to choose God or Satan and where the commandments and obedience is clear-cut. Don’t steal, lie, or kill a man to bang his wife. Stuff like that.
Men do things swathed in propaganda (whether intentional or you’re a useful idiot) and propaganda thrives on being somewhat true: “We need to feed the poor.” But then the gaslighting starts: “Why do you want to starve the poor?”
To whom should we feed the poor?
The lions.
Which shall be towed.
It would be inhumane to make the lions walk door to door to eat them all.
Hunting is a lion’s raîson d’etre.
Hunting is a lion’s raîson d’etre.
Yeah, but have you watched em do it? It’s all sitting till they’re 10ft away, then pounce. Then back to sitting.
Not big walkers.
I like that in lion society the guy tells his pride to go make him a sammich….
Did I say that out loud?
The lionesses do most of the hunting…
However if you do kill a man in order to bang his wife (or because you already have), you get celebrated and your lineage leads directly to Christ.
“A man after God’s own heart.”
That Old Testament god, man, he was something else again.
I quit reading when I got to this:
Perhaps I am missing something. What exactly is untrue about the second proposition?
1) A really bad flu was the one in 1918. Killed way more people than COVID.
2) Destroying the world economy – yup, doing that.
3) Stripping away basic human rights – oh hell yes.
4) Killing more people than we are saving – only debateable part of this assertion, but what has the government done here that has caused people who would have otherwise died to live? Herded infected people into nursing homes? This part is premised on the notion that people are too stupid to evaluate their individual risk, but a few elites are bright enough to evaluate the risks for millions of complete strangers whose lives these elite do not understand.
Hear, hear!
“ Does he not know he doesn’t have the ability to print money?”
The fedgov who will bail Cali out does though. All states may as well go hog wild now because why the fuck not.
Well, except those icky fly-over states. They won’t be getting bailed out, because they spent the money the wrong way.
So much Muh Narrative packed into a few sentences: The first sentence implies that Trump only stated he’d transfer power because of the mob’s action.
The second sentence implies that he should have done so sooner, even though he was vigorously contesting the results until the electoral process was completed, whereupon he promptly conceded – was this implication ever made by TMITE when Gore did the same? How about when Stacy Abrams refused to concede even after the new governor was sworn in – how did TMITE characterize THAT?
The third sentence brazenly characterizes this concession as a reversal of policy, without any quote or link to show that it was in fact a reversal.
The only people buying that narrative bought it long ago, the people who haven’t already won’t. It’s just preaching to the choir bullshit that passes for news analysis nowadays.
Ya know, if I didn’t love my beer so much I might have my stomach knotting itself. The plan is to keep drinking enough but not so much that it requires a hospital stay. I’ve been chugging along for over a year thus far. Work is trying to actively kill me, though. Seven days a week weighs on a man.
Pffft, like any hospital would admit you with that social credit score.
Decent local-ish brewery opens takeout burger place. Their brewers are better than their marketers.
https://backdoorburger.online/
There is simplicity, and then there is “Too little info”. Some data should be on the webpage. It took a while to even spot the teeny tiny “click here to order” link. Their location was hidden offscreen, because it was more important to keep the burger picture centered than to be helpful to potential customers, and I can tell jack shit about the company from that website. I can’t discuss the menu page because it won’t load.
Markets are up, on expectations of massive bribes to keep the peasantry quiet.
Yes
You get a bailout and you get a bailout and you get a bailout…..
The government that gathers all your emails, your clicks, your financial information. The one that sends your boys to die in foreign lands for specious reasons. That locks up people for victimless crimes. That puts you under house arrest for simply living in a certain state. That prints money and gives it to its cronies.
That government got a little taste of humiliation for one single day. And I’m supposed to be outraged? Sorry, but I’m not.
Straff is a Trumpalo confirmed.
Nor am I, and I’m not sorry. Politicians and their support staff deserve anything and everything that they get, and worse.
Some windows got broken at the office building where some of the worst people on the face of the planet scheme. Even though it or something like it was inevitable shouldn’t have happened but I’ll save my outrage for something else (like that lady being shot and killed).
I won’t be surprised if it happens again. I won’t be outraged then either.
Reminding them how thin the veneer is seems quite appropriate after 2020.
The normalcy bias is rampant in America.
Most don’t understand that when the reins come off people get trampled.
“Shouldn’t have happened” has nothing to do with it. People react and that is the reaction that was inevitable.
Yep. I wouldn’t be part of such an exercise, wouldn’t advocate it, don’t support it…..but no way in hell am I going to cry my eyes out about it either. It’s good for politicians to feel fear sometimes.
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I’m surprised at how tame it was, and how quickly it dispersed. If those protesters had showed up armed, or even with the supplies Antifa comes with (molotov cocktails, lasers, bricks, blunt weapons, etc.) it would have been a different story.
I’m pretty sure a bunch of those protesters WERE armed. Just not openly carrying.
With D.C. Laws and the D.C. mandarinate looking to flex its muscle against anyone that brought a weapon? I am sure there are some nut jobs in every situation, but the number here would be real low… After all, this crowd didn’t have Sorros or DNC lawyers and bail money, but more importantly, no support from the AG or mandarinate’s arm of the law, behind them.
Well said Straff.
“Let’s talk about some fundamentals, ahead of the market open…”
Stop it. You’re killing me.
Huh. Twitter is down. Maybe there is an expectation of a massive loss of subscribers. We can only hope.
Not for me.
lololololololNO.
Literally nobody is going to leave Twitter over this. Everyone knows what they are, and the people who hate it are too addicted to quit.
Mass purges, that’s plausible.
The purge begins?
The great Trumpian experiment is over. Done like dinner. What have we learned fellow Glibs? My takeaway is that when you bet on a fight, always bet on the big man.
How about that The Godfather was full of shit. Keeping your friends close and your enemies closer is a terrible idea and certainly don’t put them on your staff.
I had a boss who had done that, willingly kept his enemy on his staff. He told me that was what he was doing, and it was the first time I’d heard that phrase.
The enemy was a mole. And even though he was a mole, he was not a good mole because my boss pulled off a helluva coup.
Ask Marie Antoinette or Louis, the Romanovs how that worked for them…
Exceptions, not the rule. Most rulers, by far, die peacefully and surrounded by luxury, servants, and sycophants.
Shitty candidates who run on the cult of their own greatness only have a 50/50 chance of winning?
The lesson of Trump wasn’t really meant for us. It was meant for the various cultural gatekeepers in America, and no, they haven’t learned a thing from it.
Not a bit
If anything, the gap widened as they decided that they needed to signal harder about how they weren’t anything like those people over there.
Yep.
Which just makes actual horrorshow that much more likely next time.
This is pretty much my thinking. Whatever you think of Donald Trump, he got roughly half of the country behind him. And it wasn’t because of his charming personality. And, no, it wasn’t because of the “racism inherent in all white Americans”. The media and progressives seem to think that, with Trump defeated, it all goes back to status quo ante. Or more precisely, doubled down on status quo ante. Color me skeptical that that’s going to work. I’m not exactly sure how it plays out, whether by repeats in various forms, of yesterday or more of a passive abandonment of the system. But, I’m pretty sure this winds up getting really ugly a lot sooner than I’d have ever thought possible.
Consent of the governed is being withdrawn. The lock downs have accelerated that and made it much more palatable to more of the general public.
The lesson of Trump is that it doesn’t matter who the president is. The eternal state is gong to do as it wishes and head of the executive be damned. They would have kennedyied Ron Paul if he won. Good thing for Trump that he had no principles. That probably saved his life.
This is for JB – stop being such a goddamned drama queen! Leave or don’t leave. Add to the discussion or see yourself out the door.
But we all have to submit to the Biden regime because despite all evidence to the contrary everything was completely above board in the most secure election ever and that potato is the most successful presidential candidate evar and everyone likes the fossil that has been in government for decades. AND WEAR YOUR DAMNED MASK.
Don’t worry, be happy.
Money printer go BRRRR.
Long time no see Glibs. I realize my last comment was telling folks I had the ‘Rona. After 10 days of quarantine, I then had 7 business days to cram 14 business days of work into before I took 2 weeks off to visit my inlaws in a different state.
I toyed with the idea of taking a politics break in the New Year, but I do think I should keep a weather eye on events so as not to be blindsided. Since I am doing it, I should do it here. We will all be in the camps together, after all.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Feeling better? Any lingering symptoms?
Oh yeah I recovered from that in a week, then had 3 more days of mandatory quarantine. Then I had to work 12+ hours a day the next seven days to catch up before my planned vacation.
Jokes on you we are all feds.
What is up fellow
insurrectionistsalt-right seditionistslibertarians?fed UP, maybe.
Life consists of four boxes. One is now meaningless. The second is going to be curtailed and the third probably rendered meaningless as well. Then they come after the fourth box. I wonder what happens then.
‘Caillou’ was such an asshole.
Just be glad you were spared ‘Max and Ruby’. The story of annoying nagging sister and her pain in the neck retatded brother.
I was spared Caillou. Max and Ruby, not so much.
Pepa Pig brings me physical rage and pain.
I don’t know what that is, but the name alone is pissing me off.
No ‘Off Button”? I’m spared a lot of happenings and it ain’t too bad, AFAIK.
See, you can use the off button because your children are grown. Rufus gets paid to keep them, so he can’t just turn off what they’re watching…
My daughter loved that show, maybe because she also had a little brother. A little annoying at times, but not nearly to the level of Caillou.
Caillou was insufferable, but Michele Lepe can read me a bedtime story whenever.
Max was always right in his amazingly stupid way.
To the best of my knowledge, no congresspersons were heaved over the rotunda balustrade to the floor below. Nobody was thrown off the roof of the Rayburn building. No impromptu firing squads or lynch mobs. They didn’t even burn any couches or office chairs as they were “ransacking” the Capitol.
That’s a piss poor insurrection, if you ask me. What a gyp.
And the brave person who was defending his last defensible position popping that girl in the window. It was the Alamo!
It was just like this – https://youtu.be/qmuYkYnxeBE “He din’t do nuffin!”
I wonder if having no TV feed is why I han’t the foggiest idea of what a Callou is.
Of annoying kids things, I know Barney and Elmo, but don’t have anything beyond a vague awareness of Spongebob or Baby Shark’s existence. 4Chan could probably use that information to figure out when I cut the cord, go through online billing records and discover my SSN.
No idea what a Callou is, but Barney was the deputy of Mayberry, Elmo is the patron saint of sailors, spongebob is the result of nuclear testing, and baby sharks are intrauterine cannibals.
I went to YouTube this morning to see WTF happened in DC. Holy fucking shit. NBC, ABC et al had non stop propaganda cranked out. Maybe I’m insane. Or maybe this brainwashing machine is even worse than I thought.
No it is full propaganda. Senators making reference to Pearl Harbor, this has never happened before! White supremacists!
The degree of embarrassment they endured by having Buffalo Man desecrating the chamber is the degree to which they must crack down (in a futile attempt) to restore respect.
1997?
Welcome to the world of Baby Shark
Which is the only acceptable version of that song to play. Dad’s around the world rejoiced.
I thought it was an old Lee Marvin movie.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9121331/Demi-Rose-showcases-jaw-dropping-curves-racy-coral-bikini.html
Did she condemn the insurrectionists?
Slopey and Bongos do the bust lunks. Mernin’, Globs.
Your vowel shift is getting too extreme.
Good moaning!
No, Brother Q does the bust links…
Fistos!
*Beats chest like a pale, sparsely-haired gorilla*
“How America’s most shameful security lapse was allowed to happen: Blow-by-blow account of how 10,000-strong MAGA mob breezed past outnumbered cops to sack Capitol before being gently escorted out”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9122185/How-MAGA-mob-stormed-Capitol-Hill.html
“How on earth was Congress siege allowed to happen? Dems demand security lapse probe into ‘attempted coup’ as video shows cops HELPING rioters and posing for selfies”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9120689/Top-Dem-vows-probe-cops-arrest-just-52-MAGA-rioters.html
A gently escorted mob?
Lol…siege…10,000 strong? I am sure about 100 went into the building. Most shameful security lapse? Okay DailyFail. Stick to your shithole country.
In Jolly old England they would have ratted each other out before something like that could have possibly happened. It’s turning into goddamn Airstrip One over there.
The Capitol wasn’t sacked, unless there’s some new and idiotic definition of sacking. In fact there is video of the protestors politely staying within the velvet ropes as they walked through.
The mandarinate’s fabulists will tell the story they want: fuck the facts.
This idea that the Capitol building and the Senate/House office buildings are some sort of fortress is idiotic. There are dozens of entrances maybe guarded by a handful of Capitol Police and also, pretty much anyone can just walk on in after a brief security check.* Sure it’s a workplace but it’s also a museum.
I’m sure there are limits on how many people can enter, etc. with the Covid thing.
A mob that didn’t even turn violent against the cops who shot one of them.
to sack Capitol
*rolls eyes*
Did anyone else realize that these cuntes used language most likely to incite a feeling of disdain for these people, and they did so after months of making excuses and covering up for people doing real fucking looting and destroying for political gain? I am saddened to see that it is now clear that the only way we get rid of these people – especially after they decided that maintaining the veneer of legitimacy was not as important as keeping their power & perks – will be real violence.
“Does he not know he doesn’t have the ability to print money?”
Borrowing money and not paying it back is close enough to the same thing. Illinois is “borrowing” money from the Fed and everybody knows (without tacitly admitting) that not one cent of it will be paid back. So it’s just the Fed printing the money on behalf of the state. The rest of the country may not notice when Illinois does it, but they will eventually figure it out after California and New York do it.
They’re just floating trial newspeak/doublethink words out there that sound like the opposite of “bailout”. Media sycophants will latch onto a preferred word eventually.
“Seven senators and 138 House members – including minority leader Kevin McCarthy – are called ‘treason caucus’ and face calls for expulsion for objecting to Biden’s victory AFTER Capitol riot
Freshman Representative Cori Bush, a new progressive member of the ‘squad,’ is calling for the expulsion of these lawmakers and the others who she claims ‘incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9122311/Seven-senators-138-House-members-called-treason-caucus-face-calls-expulsion-Congress.html
Never let a crisis go to waste. They do this, then run their special elections just like they did in Georgia, and they won’t have to add DC and Puerto Rico as states.
Good way to diffuse the situation. I’m sure this won’t make the plebs that feel marginalized feel even more marginalized.
I woke up at 2am and my mind went right to the list of things we’re going to see very soon. Student loan forgiveness, propping up big universities, gun control, universal health care, banning fossil fuels, banning charter and private schools, higher taxes, reparations, packed supreme court, adding new states, banning hate speech (aka massive censorship), a massive increase in identity politics. It is quite depressing. But maybe people will push back, and maybe there are fractures in the Dem party that will come to light. In the past 12 months I’ve learned to never try to predict anything. Especially now, you never know what will just happen out of nowhere.
The bureaucracy is in full control.
Both parties have deep fractures. The GOP’s is just more apparent. There are plenty of Dem’s that look at all that and say…nah. An astute leader would recognize that and start pulling from both parties to reform a new party.
That’s one of the big questions. Will all the Dems tow the party lion this time? Do they have the leadership to do it?
There is most that will, just like there are most Repubs that still believe their party is for limited government.
I think there is a ripe center still in this country but the longer the two parties remain, the further apart they will go.
The center can’t be counted on to oppose a totalitarian cultural shift. These centrists aren’t ideologues, but conflict avoiders, social signallers, and low information voters. They’ll shift left, just a bit more slowly than the Democrat party does. The progs are the horses champing at the bit. The centrists are the wagon about to be yanked left when the harness goes taut. The GOP is hanging off the back of the wagon dragging a foot half heartedly while also cracking the buggy whip, and we’re sitting in the dust trying to figure out how to avoid being trampled.
most Repubs that still believe their party is for limited government
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahaha
You mean they are STILL fooling you with that?
Student loan forgiveness, propping up big universities, gun control, universal health care, banning fossil fuels, banning charter and private schools, higher taxes, reparations,
packed supreme court, adding new states,banning hate speech (aka massive censorship), a massive increase in identity politics.I think the Dems will tow the lion on some, but not all, of them.
But those Dems will toe the line. California banned independent contractors, and all these good little California liberal creative class types organized and went to their representatives saying “Um excuse me I’m a born and bred Angeleno who always votes Democrat why are you banning me from being a freelance writer?” and they got told to pound sand.
banning charter and private schools
This is one I feel confident would never happen, because all the politicians send their kids to private schools.
You miss where congress gave us Obama care but excluded themselves from that shitshow?
Oh ye of little faith. Never underestimate the power of “for me but not for thee”. Remember, these are the people who have their own health care plan and can vote themselves raises.
Which is true, but allowing a private school only for the children of pols would seem incredibly brazen even by those standards.
Maybe some mechanism to make it much more expensive to do so, thus keeping us hoi polloi out? I dunno.
Someone’s not paying attention to the news.
Institute some kind of permission process to withdraw your children from public school… Say, “a meeting with the superintendent to determine if private school is in the best interests of the child“. It will be like the CLEO meeting for a may-issue CC permit – you have to get a meeting with this certain government official (which they are in no way obligated to grant you) and they get the final say in whether you will be allowed to do that or not.
Just like with gun permits in New York City, only the politicians and those connected to them will get permission granted. Other people will be given a vague reason why it’s not allowed.
https://www.sidwell.edu/
All that is damned scary, and – unfortunately – closer to reality now that a serious blow has been dealt to GOP chances in the 2022 elections.
I still just face my mortality when I wake up like that.
Is it just me, or has the panicdemic truly driven a lot of people completely insane?
*takes pants off head and proceeds to scream at keyboard in response to TLPB*
I always put my pants *on* my head before I start the screaming and chanting.
I miss a simpler time when a t-shirt like this wouldn’t get you burned at the stake.
The human immune system ceased to exist in March 2020.
Biology is not SCIENCE!
That’s why we have 57 (last I checked) genders?
57 states. 69 genders. Moran.
QED.
I have work to do and you people are just too interesting. Don’t make me Leechblock you.
Sorry.
First place I look, when I want in depth knowledge about what’s happening in America, is the Daily Mail.
Maybe they should stick to publishing photos of Demi Whatsername’s giant cottage cheese ass.
Nearly got booked for speeding last night. There’s a blind corner on the highway and I whipped past the hidden cop going well over the limit. He didn’t pull out and flash so I thought “Phew! Lucky!” A couple miles later he comes screaming up from behind and rides the bumper for awhile. I’m doing the two-ten and driving like my Grandma. Checking the plates, I suppose. I nearly shit my pants having to deal with the King’s Men anymore. Never a positive experience so far and I’ll be dead soon enough. Last speeding ticket was 30 years ago.
I have white woman privilege and now I have middle-aged white woman privilege. I can usually talk or cry my way out of a ticket (about Some Bad Thing in my life, not about getting pulled over).
Leaked video of Festus last night
This was murder. Especially when they let Antifa do far worse.
Yeah that guy was acting like he was defending the last bridge in some war movie.
Especially when there were cops on the other side who didn’t appear to be in any threatening situation.
In the middle of that video, the officer with a rifle points it at someone off camera and then exchanges hand signals.
I assume he was deciding not to shoot the guy that shoot the woman.
Professional curtesy and all.
That could have been a real bloodbath given the situation. Gun fire happens, the officers coming up the stairs either saw the shoot or had communication going on..cause otherwise….so at least that didn’t happen.
Yep. Luckily the cops on the protestor side kept their heads.
Kings man shot her. Nothing will happen.
Tell me the truth. When you saw the news of the capitol building being swarmed by yokels, were you a) upset b) conflicted c) joyous?
Conflicted.
Devil: Heh, they got what’s coming to them, but not enough, and the optics are bad.
Angel: That’s not nice.
I would have preferred D.C be nuked and some of the most evil people on the planet being sent to hell already.
Could we stop with the dropping nukes near my home already?
Or at least give me a couple days warning to organize an evacuation…
Conflicted because I could read the spin like English on the cue ball. And it happened just like that.
^
Conflicted. What do you think was going to happen? You idiots just did exactly what the media said you would do.
Conflicted. One side of me is sympathetic to a group of people that have been maligned as all the worst things for many years (not just the last four) rising up and, at least putatively, withdrawing their consent to be governed. The other side of me is worried about how all of this plays out, because the concerns of these people continue to go unaddressed and gaslit into oblivions by all of the institutions, and I have no reason to think they will be even acknowledged, let alone address, it is going to get ugly.
Populist uprisings are the best, worst thing.
I’d say conflicted. I hate mobs of any kind and this will ultimately prove to be really counterproductive, but I did enjoy seeing scummy pols scattering like the cockroaches they are.
Hmmm. Conflicted wins. I would’ve said “joyous” just because I’m looking at it from an out of focus viewpoint. A symbol they have used to implement their religion was exposed as fake. The repercussions will be harsh, but they would’ve been harsh against any pushback.
This is where I am right now. It’s similar to the people who say “Trump shouldn’t say that cause he’ll get destroyed in the media.” He’s gonna get destroyed anyway.
Even up until the point they entered the building it was being touted as a terrible display by deplorables. Does this make the response worse? Maybe. Probably. But it also showed a good portion of people in the country that there are still some willing to stand up. And those willing to look (admittedly small percent) saw the veneer of legitimacy erode just a bit more. That is a good thing.
d) Apathetic. Some people exercising their “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” Perhaps they could have been calmer doing it, employ the Gandhi / MLK strategy? Sure. That would have been smarter.
They would have still been called terrorists. Note that the very people demanding we defund the police now are claiming the shooting was necessary and justified because this mob was terrorist’s according to them…
Oh, such irony …
Yeah, especially after months of Antifa burning shit down and looting. If only these terrorists had decided to burn down a Wendy’s or police department, there would have been no need for any of the violence…
mostly C. I know its pointless and possibly counterproductive, but after the financial fucking congress has delivered to us all this year I support any and all actions taken against them. Fuck those guys. They deserve it. I wish they would have burned the place.
Conflicted. I’m fine with people vocally petitioning their government for a redress of grievances (whether I agree with their grievances or not). Even if that means going into public property un invited. But sad because the media and the people in power will paint those people as seditious and a majority of the populace will believe that’s the truth.
Joyous. Getting federal-level politicians, beuracrats, and all who support them to understand that their lives might be at stake for their policy positions, lies, ignorance, etc., is a good thing.
^
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”
An astute leader would recognize that and start pulling from both parties to reform a new party.
There must be a few people grown up enough to seriously ask where our current trajectory leads. A reversion to the smoke filled rooms of yore might not be the worst thing to happen.
If for no other reason than the outraged squawking and red hot tears of Gulag Barbie and her little mean girls’ club.
I think that’s what Tulsi Gabbard is aiming for.
Welly welly well- as I gaze out my window I see the air filled with snowflakes travelling horizontally.
Just to unplug from the madness, I watched a bunch of videos about venomous snakes. The vids were by a guy that runs a channel rating animals as to how good of pets they would be. Turns out Black Tailed Diamondback Rattle Snakes and King Cobras would not make suitable pets and if you do get one having your own supply of anti-venom is very advisable. Who knew?
King Cobras are really freakin cool though, they had a ~12 foot snake that had been had its venom glands removed that he was handling. Venom or no, that guy could ruin your day.
Link.
Rescued King Cobra being given water by a police officer in India:
https://youtu.be/oTWvwSIIjzw
He seems strangely appreciative. I bet you could you could curl up with him by the fire and train him to fetch your slippers.
and train him to fetch your slippers.
Unfortunately you then have to wait a week for the slippers to come out the other end.
With you wearing them.
you’re thinking of your Slipper Anaconda.
Phrasing!
no, now you’re thinking of your SLIPPERY…you know what, I give up.
I just cant believe that the country is now completely controlled by the left. Media, academia, big tech, all three branches. Its so sad im having a touch time grasping it. The squad is going to do much of the shot calling in this once great country. They won. Decent people lost.
“Go away! Batin!”
Decent people have “lost” repeatedly throughout human history. If they always won, what would be the point of life? Don’t mail it in as long as you have breath.
The left will overbid their hand, and the Repubs will win back House and Senate in the mid-terms. That is FAR more certain than the fantasy of everlasting CONTROL.
When you saw the news of the capitol building being swarmed by yokels, were you a) upset b) conflicted c) joyous?
I think we all knew how the story would emerge from the media whitewash(!) spin cycle.
It took about fifteen minutes for every bleeding heart lefty I know to post the same shit on facebook…
That long…?
I started snoozing people (including family members!) immediately.
“Washington D.C. police said late Wednesday that the earlier security breach at the U.S. Capitol resulted in four deaths — including a woman who had been shot — and at least 52 arrests.”
Every headline looks like this. No details on how 3 other people are dead, but buried in it all to make the body count seem higher.
“One adult female and two adult males appear to have suffered from separate medical emergencies, which resulted in their deaths,” he added. With 100K plus people in a small location, some I’m sure are elderly how would this be surprising. I’m sure there were teargas and trampling issues.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/d-c-mayor-issues-order-extending-public-emergency-for-15-days-following-chaos-at-capitol
It were Trump what dun it.
So, three * COVID related * medical deaths, and one protester shot by a cop who panicked?
4 convid deaths…
Did they have masks on? If not they were COVID deaths 😉
passive voice to cover up murder. The bullet just entered her chest of its own volition.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that – none of these stories say who shot her, despite the fact that it’s obvious.
Was it my imagination, or was the shooter black?
Looked like it to me.
Can your imagination put down the burning cross for 5 minutes, jeez.
Turns out Black Tailed Diamondback Rattle Snakes and King Cobras would not make suitable pets and if you do get one having your own supply of anti-venom is very advisable.
I had a lacrosse coach who was a world renowned herpetologist. He had a bunch of rattlesnakes in cases at his house, and who-knows-what-else. He said there is no way he’d keep a cobra around because if it struck you, you’d probably be dead before you could dial 911.
That is an individual that, one, has big giant tungsten balls, and two, is probably qualified to responsibly own venomous snakes.
King Cobras *are* really cool, though.
I have heard that handling cobras is actually easier than handling pit vipers (including rattlesnakes). Cobras apparently telegraph their strikes a bit and don’t strike as fast as vipers so you can get out of the way or get out of range. Of course a King Cobra’s strike range is friggin enormous and they can cover a lot of ground, quick, fast and in hurry.
quick, fast and in hurry.
and without delay.
(except the ‘telegraphing’ is a delay, so not really)
Look. Snakes are fascinating, but if it’s venomous, I don’t want to get close enough for them to strike.
I don’t think I’ve seen a King Cobra in person, and there was a glass wall between me and the western diamondback at the serpentarium, but seeing it stare directly at me and give a warning rattle – still one of the most memorable things from my visit to Wilmington. (And I had a grand time going walkabout there.)
I have seen a few rattlesnakes, water moccasins and copperheads in the wild and once I got over being freaked out, I gave them a very wide berth. I mean these snakes to not want to bite you any more than you want to be bitten, that is why they have all of the warning tools/behaviors (rattles, hoods, etc.) they have is to warn off larger critters that they cannot eat, but I am not going to put myself in a position to make them think that I am a threat nonetheless.
When I was a much younger fella, I was out hunting, walking along a dirt path that cows had trod. So there were many cow patties as I walked, and I was stepping over another one when I realized it was not a dried up cow patty, it was a coiled up rattler. You know that Michael Jordan soaring logo – yeah, it was kinda like that.
Headwear designed by the same dude who did the nazi’s uniforms.
Yeah, being ectothermic and all.
+1 Slimer
Another example of experts not automatically being experts in even closely related fields.
So it looks like ‘tifa was infiltrating and breaking the windows?
Infiltrating?
I guess is depends on whether you thought of it as an anti-government demonsrtaion or a pro-Trump rally.
Antifa is about as anti government as Mitt Romney.
It would be if it had a single fucking clue about anything.
Maybe, I remain skeptical on that. I think that an Achim’s Razor analysis would indicate that this is probably a ground-swell of angry people that have had it with being repeatedly fucked over by the people that work in that building.
Thinking about the question of the “gooey center” I have this concern: people tend to join forces (“moderate” bipartisanship) in an attempt to DO things. DO-SOMETHING-ism is a hell of a drug. The idea of so-called centrist Democrats and Republicans joining together to form a do-nothing caucus is not compelling.
“Maybe we shouldn’t just wave away college debt” isn’t a hill very many of our Lord and Master class are likely to want to die on.
Neither is “Let’s not destroy the electrical grid to placate the Green New Deal fetishists, ” particularly since Ballgag Joe has signed on to the Green New Deal hokum.
It’s more likely the rabid fringes will gang up on the center.
The desire to do good is the most powerful force for evil in the cosmos.
Compare and contrast with the desire to be good.
ES: I think it was you a few weeks back who posted a comment that was not supportive of cheaperthandirt. If it was you, can you elaborate a little?
Supposedly CTD will cancel orders so that they can sell the goods at a higher price.
And their ammo prices have always been terrible.
What do you expect from a Crash To Desktop?
Yeah the whole “moderate center” always annoys me because it is inherently a position that shifts with the political winds. Going straight to Godwins Law, Nazism is literally a moderate centrism between communism and liberalism, that promises to take the best qualities of each ideology and fuse them together.
A moderate centrist government looks like Great Society: welfare and medical care for the poor, everyone with the means is expected to provide their own. Old age pensions funded by a payroll tax so no one has to eat cat food in their dotage. The private sector is regulated but free to produce as they see fit. That’s the model.
Well, we already have that. If you want to change that, now we’re getting into actual state clinics and hospitals. We’re getting into the whole insanity of energy production being sinful. The racial quotas and redistribution. I just don’t have a lot of patience for the so called “moderate Democrats” who fight against this giant strawman that the Republicans are going to dismantle the New Deal. The Republicans have never once closed down a government program. It doesn’t fucking happen. If you’re voting Democrat because of Medicare, then I hope you fucking freeze to death because you can’t pay your electric bill after the Green New Deal gets passed. You deserve it.
The moderate center also accepted about 80 years of Jim Crow, signed off on the detention of Japanese-Americans, etc., etc.
Yeah I was trying to keep it to the money type stuff. The Democrats do not have an actual limit. It’s not like “OK the house has four walls, good roof, nice porches, nice bathrooms and kitchen, ok the house is done, lets just live in it now.”
For the Democratic Party, it is perpetually 1920 and Andrew Mellon is controlling the nation’s finances. Coal companies are using machine guns as their primary labor relations tool. If your kid gets sick theres zero government help of any kind. They genuinely believe that people are starving to death on a regular basis.
The left wing of the democrats will embrace anything that pushes their agenda.
We are less than 100 years from “Workers of the World Unite, To keep South Africa White.”
Because the “moderate” position is almost inevitably the political ground staked out by those who either have no principles or have no understanding of the principles at stake in an issue. People who want to have their cake and eat it too think they can arrive at that point by splitting the difference between competing claims.
This is why democracy sucks.
The Nazis were not a moderate alternative to communists – that’s just silly. Anyone who even thought that, obviously learned otherwise.
Eh? I don’t think that’s what he was saying at all.
The explicit promise of fascism was that it was a third way between liberalism and communism. That liberalism was tired, worn out, a horse and buggy ideology in a world of cars and planes and electricity. That communism was a nightmarish totalitarianism that would destroy all the good things in life. That fascism would organize society, soothe the strife between capital and labor, provide the poor with a basic standard of living, competently administer the modern technological state, bring law and order, and make the trains run on time.
If you’re going by Mussolini, no – having been kicked out of the socialist ranks he derided socialism as the dead end. If you’re going by the Nazi’s, they recruited their own true believers out of the same pool as the communists – they were bitter opponents for the same class of people, and Hitler was adamant about the need to crush communism, but with no ‘best features’ of liberalism.
Yes Mussolini created the theory of corporatism, and the state as all – whether you consider that authoritarian or totalitarian is a nit to be picked. But it in no way featured elements of liberalism. And this was PRIOR to (or at least concurrent with) the Weimar breakdown and the global depression; meanwhile Spengler had already written off the West (providing further justification for a post-liberal approach).
The primary purpose of nearly every government organ is to justify its own existence, stated versus revealed goals etc.
The most likely outcome is that the Mandarins will band together to protect any threat to their positions, regardless of ideological lines. They will agree to any path that will keep them where they are.
Thinking about the question of the “gooey center”
The correct answer to this question is: Rolos are terrible and Lindt truffles are excellent.
Rolos are at least trying to be edible.
WTF Milk Duds?
TPTB have an anti-caramelite in their ranks?
“The MAGA mob – which included white supremacists, Holocaust deniers and Q Anon followers – interrupted the certification of results as they smashed through police barricades, stormed into the halls of the Capitol and even sat in the Senate chamber.
They looted offices, vandalized statues and confronted police as they rampaged through the Capitol, carrying Confederate flags, in hours of anarchy which shocked the world and which Biden called an ‘insurrection’.
As the world watched in disbelief, many were shocked at how easily the invaders had breached the hallways of American democracy – contrasting the lax security with the heavy-handed crackdowns ordered by Trump at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9121377/Pence-declares-Bidens-victory-certified-seals-Trumps-fate.html
OFFS!!
“They looted offices, vandalized statues and confronted police”
Self-awareness = 0
They should have torched a Wendy’s; that is a victimless crime and an important part of free expression.
Orange Lives Matter too!
I would pay good money to watch someone paint that in some street plaza in DC or NYC.
The MAGA mob, white knockoffs of The Goodie Mob.
Album is better though.
“Heavy handed crackdowns”? The fuck are they talking about?
That one time the DC police cleared the area for the BIG BIBLE SHOW.
looted offices, vandalized statues and confronted police
I thought leftists were cool with this behavior.
hallways of American democracy
Because that is what that is.
contrasting the lax security with the heavy-handed crackdowns ordered by Trump
You gaslighting cunte.
Sooo… the press has learned absolutely nothing and is going to continue business as usual. This should end well.
-1 “without evidence”
“heavy-handed crackdowns ordered by Trump at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.”
Ill take shit that never happened for $500.
Lemme guess, they put a MAGA hat on a bust of someone?
Conflicted wins. I would’ve said “joyous” just because I’m looking at it from an out of focus viewpoint. A symbol they have used to implement their religion was exposed as fake. The repercussions will be harsh, but they would’ve been harsh against any pushback.
As I said earlier, I do not believe the Swamp Creatures have the slightest degree of selfawareness. They will learn no lesson beyond, “We need to harden our defenses, and keep the rabble at a safe distance.” What are the odds there will be no public access to the Capitol in six months or less?
$10k
bribecover charge at the door.Nah that would be a disparate impact against the noble POC and transfolkx. It will just be a social media check, anyone whos ever voted Republican will be barred.
You say that like they actually care about those groups and haven’t been using them as a political prop.
^^^THIS – LBJ was twice the bigot of the worst Archie Bunker Republican of today.
Lack of self awareness or the inability to understand that humans anywhere, even in the US of A, are willing to Ceaușescu your ass if you push them far enough.
You sir are a wordsmith!
The revolution will kick off for real, when we get to a tipping point of people who genuinely feel like they have nothing left to lose.
“For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at ye…”
A fight is coming whether people are ready for it or not. The country is covered in fucking leeches.
Shakespeare or Montalban version?
It’s better in the original Klingon.
Picard
Freshman Representative Cori Bush, a new progressive member of the ‘squad,’ is calling for the expulsion of these lawmakers and the others who she claims ‘incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election.’”
This suddenly reminded me of the ending of the tale of my adopted namesake, Congressman Preston Brooks.
After he thrashed the bejeezis out of Sumner, he was expelled from Congress. He returned to South Carolina, where the electorate promptly stamped “Return to Sender” on him in a special election and shipped him right back.
In the unlikely event the squad’s idiotic petulant spazz-out were to occur, could we expect a successful replay?
I want to see Moobs Schumer and Cocaine Mitch duke it out in a turn of the 20th century boxing match!
My money’s on the guy with the rocking tits.
Stacey in your avatar has to do that in order to smile.
Please be more specific.
No one commented on it yesterday, but I really want to see Manchin play hardball with Moobs. Manchin claiming the majority leader spot was a joke, but I could see him demanding the “Democrats love coal Act” or something along those lines.
I wonder how hard he is willing to push things — he is the one senator that would be reelected, if not even get more votes, if he switched parties. I don’t think he wants to do that at all, but he should be able to get some big concessions for sticking around.
I am hoping Manchin sees the light. He IS a senator for WV after all. And this ain’t his Democratic Party anymore.
He is already the ranking member of the Energy committee, so should be Chair of it. I wonder what else he would go for?
Pistols at dawn.
Eff that! Give both of them a bag of grenades and start them at ten paces.
Frags or concusion?
I’d vote melta for minimizing collateral damage.
WP
Now, I already pulled all the pins, is ten paces close enough for them converge in time?
backpack nukes
I vote sharpened bamboo sticks.
I’d settle for a duel with 18th century dueling pistols.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1346939648778530816
Interesting…
I was wondering what they’ll do to anyone who was a part of that. Or rather which felonies they’ll be charged with. Let most of them plead out with little to no actual punishment but have a felony conviction on their record. Goodbye gun ownership.
Another thing that made me curious. The DC police press conference said they were issuing bolos as footage was reviewed by the Capitol Police and given to them. A) if they’re issuing the bolos, why aren’t they the ones reviewing such footage? Why isn’t the capitol police issuing the bolos? B) what do the capitol police need to review footage prior to sharing it? Edit out what?
I bet there will be facial scanners (if there aren’t already) at DCA and WAS, in addition to ordinary name and ID matching.
What would make me cream my pants is if the GOP somehow convinced Manchin to caucus with them. I know it won’t happen, but he’s got to realize the GND will be the death knell to WV. And he’s a politician after all.
See my comment above (and yesterday). He wouldn’t even have to vote for McConnell, he could just vote “present”.
I joked yesterday about him walking into Shumer’s office with a measuring tape, because he wanted to see how things were going to fit in his new office. But seriously, if he doesn’t push for something big, he is a wuss. He has all the power, and if Shumer calls his bluff, he would have zero problems getting reelected as an R.
That’s a lovely fabulation! With that, I am out for the day. Goddamn, have a better Thursday, Glibs!
He’s a political animal. Problem being is that the stakes just got higher. Some of the people on the crazy side want us dead. D-E-D dead.
The country is covered in fucking leeches.
Do they have to be burned off, like ticks?
I knew there was a reason to always have a lit ciggy at hand.
Like i have been telling my wife for years- You and me are the in the minority of people who actually pay for all our own shit.
“Twitter just sucked off 500 of our followers”
https://twitter.com/GrrrGraphics/status/1347022612535201792
In a row?
+1 ❄️ ⚾️
LOL
I’m very grateful for the Chrome plugin that filters keywords from my Facebook feed. Too bad it’s only for desktop.
https://twitter.com/lourdesgnavarro/status/1346938002153598978?s=21
Dipshits still can’t see how they’re shooting themselves in the foot.
NPR guidance: we won’t be calling the people who stormed the Capitol ‘protestors’ – they are ‘pro-Trump extremists’ and what they are doing is ‘insurrection’.
I don’t think words mean what NPR thinks they mean.
We won’t be calling the people who report at NPR ‘reporters’ – they are ‘pro-State fundamentalists’ and what they are doing is ‘propaganda’ not ‘reporting’.
Gosh, this is easy.
Don’t read the replies. So many clapping seals with a complete lack of self-awareness. I actually am gong to go do some work until the wave of rage passes
Defund NPR nao.
These idiots have no idea how fragile a civil society is. All it takes is a significant plurality to decide that they don’t have faith in the institutions and by extension the government for it all to collapse and these jackasses have been clawing at the institutions for decades.
Spiking the ball is the last thing that the left should be doing right now. Waking the sleeping giant that is the right is not a good thing.
Spiking the ball, then shoving it down the opponent’s pants, grabbing a big handful of mud and smearing it all over their face, and finally fucking their mom on the fifty yard line.
You are going to get your truth, reconciliation, and healing good and hard, comrade.
They can’t see the truth of that.
Yesterday was mild, except for the poor lady murdered by a cop.
They will spike it. They feel they have the culture on their side and for the most part, they probably do.
I’ve been preaching that to the leftie choir amongst my FB crowd – you aren’t going to like the backlash you are provoking.
Meanwhile…
https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1347157489456975872?s=21
The delicious irony if antifa had gone against the federal courthouse or another federal facility like they have been. Because nothing else would have happened either.
I’m on a ride and I want to get off, but they won’t slow down the roundabout
https://twitter.com/DeadKennedys/status/1347008399565680640
WTF??
Dead Milkmen > Dead Kennedys
Like I posted below, since Jello Biafra is appalled by this, I suppose it’s not entirely fair to condemn the band entirely for this. I mean the band is currently a skinsuit.
Yes. Ever since the rest of the band sued him for nonpayment of royalties, the band as it had been was dead
Draw your breaks
There’s something bad in the water in Utah when all you can send down to the Swamp is Mittens and the McMuffin.
Mitt cares about the the USA.
Since when?
Umm, you ain’t doin none that lurnin, is ya?
Cares about the USA means being a ballless political establishment shill and kowtowing to whatever insanity the left wants. Mitt’s talking about a cabinet position with the commie party.
I never listened to much punk (I mean, I quoted a Duran Duran lyric in my comment!!), but this seems like a stab right in the heart of GenX, right there.
A lot of punk band members are ‘lefties’ but that is only because they were taught that the left was the one fighting the Man!
We’re just a bunch of fucking slackers after all.
Given its the punk band…I going to assume a trollin’?
No it’s not. However it’s also not something Jello signs off on:
https://twitter.com/galenthethird/status/1347060038985248768/photo/1
It was hilarious when Jello played an FBI agent in Tapeheads
Geesh. At least Jello calls em out. I wore my DK hoodie til it fell apart and then again once the safety pins and patches could no longer hold the material anymore.
I did like the reply from the band Eve6 “wtf how are we more punk than you”
More of that!
AHAHA! Excellent. Now we just need the Jonas Brothers to also chime in. I would say Timberlake, but I think he can be punk as fuck.
Looking forward to the day that “punk” is treated like “boomer”.
okay punker….I can live with that.
+1 burn burn like a wicker cabinet
Actual belly laugh from me. Well done, Eve6.
“Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told federal law enforcement to stand down just one day before a mob of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, smashing windows, entering the chambers, and forcing lawmakers and congressional staff inside into lockdown.”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/06/dc-mayor-told-federal-law-enforcement-to-stand-down-day-before-violent-us-capitol-riot/
Yeah, I’ve noticed that – none of these stories say who shot her, despite the fact that it’s obvious.
She has no one but herself to blame.
She caught a bullet that might have otherwise hit a uniformed LE – imagine that shitstorm.
Comparing that to Pearl Harbor insults the honor of the IJN.
“No charges filed for cops who shot Jacob Blake.”
What will the charges against the cops who shot the young lady at the protest yesterday?
Oh, that’s right, we won’t even be discussing that. While girl rights don’t matter.
TMITE
Spiking the ball is the last thing that the left should be doing right now. Waking the sleeping giant that is the right is not a good thing.
How many people could Trump draw if he announced a rally on the Mall in April or May?
Would Ballgag Joe mobilize the National Guard?
First he has to clean house with the guard and make sure any righties in there are replaced with pantytifa. Change the uniforms to pink with pussy hats, Chiney Joe.
I see that TOS has broken out the cocktails and are celebrating that the libertarian moment has finally come, since we are finally rid of the bad orange one.
He was an entertaining means, but not the end.
The Rand Paul cloning project needs to kick into high gear.
Flood the Senate with Rand Pauls.
“Flood the Senate with Rand Pauls.”
Don’t we wish.
Did they happen to do a “Libertarian Case for Biden/Harris”?
lol. I would love to see the libertarian case for Harris.
Their article about Merrick Garland was particularly heinous.
The take was? Since Biden appointed such a horrible status hack to be attorney general from the appeals bench, this allows him to appoint a criminal justice reformer to the appeals court.
Really. That was actually his take.
Dude appointed Kamala Harris as his veep. And we think he is going to dig deep and find a criminal justice reformer for the court to replace the decidedly pro-prosecution and pro-government judge he just pegged for attorney General.
We’re going to have to come up with a new name for the Trump derangement syndrome after Orange man is gone.
Statist hack, google. Statist.
Not sure why you wanted to change that to a status hack. I am not sure what a status hack is… So maybe he is a status hack. But I was referring to his fealty to the state.. to prosecutors of the rights of the accused, it the power of the state over the rights of the individual… You know…. Statist…
We’re going to have to come up with a new name for the Trump derangement syndrome after Orange man is gone.
We could just go back to “Batshit Insane”.
Biden can appoint Preet to the bench that Garland vacated.
I propose as the new TDS name the Emmanuel Goldstein derangement syndrome.
Well, it is mostly the trolls who are celebrating and acting like 6th graders in an insult contest. However, reason has reliably attacked whomever is president for the last 50 years, so expect full on anti-BidenhertimeHarris attacks beginning with the choice of Merrick Garland and continuing however long the government allows them to continue publishing.
Since the mid-fall of the election season last year, sock puppets have exploded over there again.
Between the plethora of kowtowing journalists willing to tow the Democrat Party line on all things Trump and only having maybe one and a half libertarian voices left on the staff, it is kind of hard to get any kind of discussion going over there. I still stop by from time to time, but much less frequently over the last three months or so then even the last couple of years where it was down to every other week or so.
Yeah, the “I earn $200 per minute” shit needs to be cleaned up; and it is hard to discuss anything rationally with the “get fucked” and “killallrednecks” and other juvenile insult tossing.
I find it both amusing and annoying when CCP Joe tries to talk tough, but sounds like the worst dementia patient in the nursing home who has been drunk all day.
Yeah, he thinks that saying it angrily means that he is tough and authoritative.
But when it is your only note, and you keep banging away at it no matter what the context is, you kind of come off as a crazy old dude rather than a strong leader.
I am astonished that I am finding him less believable as a president than I did Trump. Maybe I’ve just forgotten how incredibly disbelieving I was that Trump even got nominated, but I don’t remember having this deep-seated feeling of the unreality of the whole situation when he spoke. I thought it was farcical.
But when Biden tries to be presidential, it seems fake somehow. Like I get a similar feeling when I’m watching someone do a parody of a president on Saturday night live. I don’t have that feeling of the weight of the office around him. I wonder why that is?
It doesn’t help that all the plastic surgery has left Biden looking like a wax dummy.
Trump was a bullshitter. Biden and Harris are frauds. Trump exaggerated about everything but most of the time there was something there, Biden and Camela “Fweedom” Harris make shit up out of whole cloth.
OT: Girlfriend tested positive for COVID (she’s fine, just mild cold-like symptoms that are almost gone; I have no symptoms whatsoever). She was over here for the weekend, so guess who got told to stay home from work today?
I think it’s a bit silly at this point, but whatever. I’ve got some history audiobooks and a shitload of white oak planks out in the garage. Looks like some quality woodworking time is in order. Talk to y’all later this evening! 😉
Make sure you are both wearing your masks at all times! Yes, even then.
Ask Dr. Fauci, America’s doctor, the most beloved doctor, he has your best interest in mind and he loves America, a true patriot! *barf*
I had about 10 (extended) family members get it over Christmas break.
For some it was no big deal.
For others, it was horrible. My sister is just now recovering. My nephew got to 106 temperature.
Bottom line: covid is real. You don’t want to get it. It often blows.
Other bottom line: i still totally question all the pointless shit our government has done.
I agree. My sister-in-law infected my entire family on Christmas. She is still in the hospital.
I would not even term the rest of us as having a bad cold. My upper respiratory symptoms are pretty bad. I actually ordered a pulse oximeter to make sure I don’t need to go in. and I have some weird neurological symptoms. Like tingly fingers and weird things like that.
The wife lost her sense of taste and has been experiencing bouts of vertigo. But I think the five of us are going to skate without any serious consequences.
But we have certainly been treating the quarantine seriously. I definitely would have gone to work feeling like I do absent covid-19. No question about it.
But there’s no reason to play Russian roulette with other people’s lives. That chick at McDonald’s you accidentally give it to because you decided to make a quick run for a burger might go home and kill her grandparents without knowing she is infected.
My dad is in a assisted living facility. He has All of the risk factors. He is in his 80s, has pulmonary hypertension so he is already monitoring his blood oxygen levels, and is in generally poor health as people tend to become as they move through their 80s. Covid-19 would stand a really good chance of putting him in a grave.
No reason to spread it around just because 95% of the people who catch it won’t be terribly impacted.
But we have certainly been treating the quarantine seriously.
As well you should. Hell, this pandemic could’ve been a net benefit to society if the cultural takeaway was “stay home if you have a fever”
There definitely could have been some good that came of it, but now a lot of people believe that it’s a hoax to some degree because of the wildly inaccurate “models”, hinky methods of tabulating COVID deaths, constantly shifting goalposts, and the deliberate violation of the rules by the officials who most loudly advocate for them.
No reason to spread it around just because 95% of the people who catch it won’t be terribly impacted.
And, of course, no reason to inflict damage on society with lockdowns and dehumanizing masking and social distancing order, because 95% of the people who catch it won’t be terribly impacted.
Bottom line: covid is real. You don’t want to get it. It often blows.
Other bottom line: i still totally question all the pointless shit our government has done.
Same here. But too many people seem incapable of holding these two thoughts in their head at the same time.
Oh no doubt. My major gripe with the whole thing is that they made it everyone’s problem instead of focusing their efforts on those most likely to die or suffer severe symptoms, and it has had a massive human cost.
A lot of punk band members are ‘lefties’ but that is only because they were taught that the left was the one fighting the Man!
QUESTION AUTHORITY*Subject to revision as politics dictate. Haha, suckers! Tow that lion.
Lee Ving ain’t no lefty, which is why Fear is awesome.
So for those of you who aren’t completely disgusted with the NFL this year, I’ve created a group for NFL playoff fantasy challenge. It’s just a couple of minutes per week distraction, if you’re so inclined.
Group is here
Group name: Glib Picks
Password: Glibertarians
Pay attention to the rules. This is a cumulative game, where your points go up if you play the same guy for several consecutive weeks.
I.e., The fantasy points accumulated by each player during one (1) weekly scoring period will be multiplied by the number of consecutive weeks in which the player has been on your roster assuming such player’s team progresses through the playoffs. A player can earn bonus point multipliers of 2x, 3x or 4x for a given week based on the number of weeks they were on the fantasy team roster. For example: A user selects Tom Brady, NE in the Wild Card round. Brady earns 15 fantasy points in the first weekly scoring period therefore the participant is awarded 15 points for the first weekly scoring period. If NE advances to the Divisional Playoffs and the participant selects to keep Brady on his/ her roster for the second consecutive weekly scoring period, and Brady earns 20 fantasy points in his Divisional Playoff game, the participant will earn 40 points for the second consecutive weekly scoring period (20 x 2 = 40). Those 40 points will be added to the 15 points earned in the first weekly scoring period for a two-week total of 55 points (15 + 40 = 55). In addition, a user can select Tom Brady, NE in the Wild Card round even if the New England Patriots have a bye into the Divisional Round. In this case, the user would not earn any points for the Wild Card round, but would then be eligible to earn “double points” in the Divisional round, since Brady was on the team’s roster for 2 weekly scoring periods.
How many points do I get for taking a virtual knee? Shouldn’t that be like a million points?
The Democrats are in control. You lose points as you’re protesting all that is good and holy.
Also as a Bears fan I have to warn you. Do not pick any of the Bears players.
Dammit!
Just when I thought I had figured this game out.
My parents and I travelled to this island by boat all the time when I was a kid.
Last night Putin celebrated Christmas in the old church there.
An old KBG hand a believer. I don’t buy it.
Putin’s been heavily pushing the church IIRC. Doesn’t mean he believes any of it.
As a general rule, if you find yourself heaping praise upon Mitt Romney, it’s probably a good time for self reflection. It’s acceptable to be supporting the same thing Mitt supports (hell there are at least a few things AOC supports that I also support), but that doesn’t mean you have to be happy about it.
Mitt really shouldn’t inspire either devotion or rage. He’s the living embodiment of luke-warm.
I am astonished that I am finding him less believable as a president than I did Trump. Maybe I’ve just forgotten how incredibly disbelieving I was that Trump even got nominated, but I don’t remember having this deep-seated feeling of the unreality of the whole situation when he spoke. I thought it was farcical.
But when Biden tries to be presidential, it seems fake somehow. Like I get a similar feeling when I’m watching someone do a parody of a president on Saturday night live. I don’t have that feeling of the weight of the office around him. I wonder why that is?
Biden had no shot at the Presidency in ’16, for that very reason. Same as his prior attempts which went nowhere. He is just not credible as the Man in Charge.
Being mostly invisible for a couple of years, and being allowed by fluke to run a stealth campaign of “Well at least I’m not Trump” from his underground bunker allowed people to completely overlook his record and pretend he is another Blank Slate Democrat, upon whom all manner of fantasy beliefs may be projected.
Agreed. Polls taken before any primaries will have the incumbent and generic Democrat/Republican. Usually the generic who you can impose any thing your imagination comes up with will do better than an actual candidate. Biden managed to run as the generic Democrat for the whole election.
Biden would be just be some old dude puttering around his home on Barley Mill Rd. in Greenville, De. muttering to DOCTOR Jill, if the Chicomvirus hadn’t hit the U.S. Wait a minute, that’s probably exactly what he is doing.
Say, wasn’t Mitt Romney literally Hitler a while back ago?
A one percenter who was misogynistic, racist, and probably homophobic. He was tagged as literally Hitler. Then the Republican primary voter saw that and went. If you think that is misogynistic, racist, and probably homophobic, watch this. Hold my beer.
And had binders full of women….binders!
Didn’t you read “The Boys from Brazil?” There are now hundreds of literally Hitlers, all of whom are Republicans.
Binders Full of Women!
I win!