Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful day it always is!
Parler sues Amazon for Antitrust violations, breach of contract, and unlawful business interference.
House Dems desperate and meaningless 25th Amendment push blocked by Republicans.
Good start. Now make it permanent.
Twitter stocks drop as much as 12%.
Idaho ISP blocks Facebook and Twitter.
Trump admin puts Cuba back on list of state sponsored terror.
Some big football game occurred last night.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
G’mornin, Pimps.
Nothing for the ho or the john?
ELITIST!!!!!!!
How did your test go?
3:45pm today – should have results by 4:15.
I don’t think I have the ‘vid… but whatever this is, I wish it would GO AWAY.
You need to narrow your gaze to a microscopic level and attack the virus.
A
pimp’sbodybuilder’s love is very different from that of a square.True Love Is Dead: Bodybuilder Who Married A Sex Doll Admitted He Cheated On Her While She Was Being Repaired
I think this guy lost the thread.
Hoo boy.
Yuri?!
Say what you will about him and his bride, but they are super healthy.
You could say that Yuri nary attract infections.
That face looks more like kidney stones.
*dances wildly around room thinking 2021 is going to be OK after all*
Lee Van Cleef narrowed gaze is the best narrowed gaze.
That was pretty darn clever your Popeness.
Bros before Hos.
GMB 🙂
Morning, Banjos.
Not sur what the day looks like, I can’t see the windows from here.
‘Mornin’ Banjos, almost Dawn!
Just wait until you get less than eight hours of darkness a night. Hope you don’t have insomnia problems.
Is that why I hate summer?
No, that’s becasue you hate fun.
…and vitamin D. And books, and juice.
But not gloves.
He just needs to don his “Hate Fun” gloves and all will be well.
Is he the guy on the beach that hates everyone?
“last week’s invasion of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters.”
be easy on the hyperbole there, bucko.
Buckle up. It’s gonna be a wild ride.
“Idaho ISP blocks Facebook and Twitter.”
I don’t think that will accomplish anything. Dorsey has never heard of Idaho, and Zuckerberg doesn’t have “state” as a declared variable.
It’s GEOLOC, not state.
It changed in update 0.31
It’s like a tariff. It’s only gonna piss off the people who wanted to use the service. The companies aren’t even gonna feel it.
“Twitter stocks drop as much as 12%.”
I predict massive stock drops after about 6 months when companies start remembering why they preferred Trump when it comes to the bottom line.
Flawed as he was, Trump got rid of all sorts of non-legislative “regulations” that allowed the EPA way too much power to block growth and development, got rid of Y2K handling plans that used to be required in govt contracts, eased up on other crippling goals like carbon emissions targets, etc. Plus a confident bunch of employed people spending back into the economy.
They’re going to realize that, even if the lockdowns end, the Dems will never let Wall Street thrive (aside from crony deals).
My 401k might wither up whether the government steals it or not.
“got rid of Y2K handling plans that used to be required in govt contracts”
Oh for fucks sake, and I thought the survival of the Rural Electrifcation Administration into the 90s was the height of government absurdity.
Not because a small ISP denied its customers the choice of using the service or not.
Every little bit helps.
They are only blocking it for customers who request to have it blocked.
I “block” Facebook by just never going there.
Which doesn’t actually block them at all. Facebook got <a href="into an issue a couple years back for building profiles of non-users by accumulating meta data based on cookies placed through ads and login screens. So if the website you're going to has a share to Facebook link, uses Facebook logins for comments/security, or drops Facebook posts into the articles/pages you could be getting tracked.
*EDIT FERRY NO CAN HALP*
Well shit. That’s what I get for not proofreading. I couldn’t quickly find a good link going over all of the scandals, one of the larger ones was Beacon, and then there was a Shadow Profile scandal, and…
I block that shit too.
You let sites set cookies?
Cookies are for vetted and approved sites only.
And Ads? They should not be loaded at all.
I set my home network DNS to redirect certain domains to localhost. They can embed links all they want.
Rat on a train? Tulpa?
Is “Rat on a train” a lousy knock off of “Snakes on a Plane?”
Such muriphobia i can’t even.
Sequel, prequel, reboot, Bollywood adaptation, … who knows?
I’m setting up a pihole to hopefully avoid some of that skeevy shit from FB and Google and the like. Of course, my shit-ass netgear router chokes on local DNS servers/proxies.
Didn’t want to have to flash DD-WRT on the thing, but looks like I don’t have a choice.
The dance number for the song “Rat Flood” was my favorite.
pihole was easier to set up than I feared it would be.
trsh: I recommend paying more to get the low end enterprise networking equipment. I gave up on Netgear because I had to regularly reboot the router.
Yep, the setup of the pihole was a single command. As long as you know how to set up a static IP and know your router’s IP address, the configuration is trivial.
Of course, the pihole can’t help it if the router refuses to forward DNS requests to the WAN port. *cusses at netgear*
Good thing that boat wasn’t anchored at Guam.
But then it would be right-side up when the island tips!
/Hank Johnson
Apparently some didn’t want their kids going there either. I would filter at the firewall, but not everyone knows how to do that.
*completely ignoring the baby that has been waking up every half hour to scream about wanting to be held*
Good morning, Banjos!
I dont miss those days.
Welcome to fatherhood Trashy.
I fell asleep at my desk once from a night like that.
But seriously now that the Heir is almost 20, I would go back and hold that crying baby over and over again.
Not to worry . EF, your day(night)s will return.
“Mom, we’re gonna drop the baby, Jerry, Ellie and the twins off for a couple weeks while we do some Island hopping. Don’t forget, school starts in a week or two and they have to to look good”
Sneaky!
“The country is facing unprecedented health, economic and political crises,” said JPMorgan’s head of corporate responsibility Peter Scher. “The focus of business leaders, political leaders, civic leaders right now should be on governing and getting help to those who desperately need it most right now. There will be plenty of time for campaigning later.”
Focus on stripping away the rights of the plebs (while enhancing our market dominance and profits), and we will decide how to reward you.
chief wastrel
Not as long as there’s someone in the org with “Diversity” in their title he’s not.
Thought Diversity Initiative.
Huh, I always wondered what the “TDI” at the end of some Volkswagon models meant.
[golf clop]
*Clever Hans bows*
Silly rabbit.
They only show diversity when asked directly about it.
“head of corporate responsibility”
The embedded leftist. Will disregard.
Man, do I ever love to see a Big 10 team get smoked.
Why, are they as cocky and entitled as SEC fans in football, or ACC in basketball?
I just have never liked the Big 10. There is this sort of air of moral superiority they like to assume that rubs me the wrong way.
As an ACC fan, ain’t much cockiness to ACC basketball this year. Weakest I’ve ever seen this conference. Sad.
Have you read any of Sloopy’s comments?
That is OSU – why would that make someone happy Northwestern gets smoked in a field hockey game, or Iowa loses a track meet?
Fair enough – I love to see Michigan and Ohio State get smoked.
And, since they hilariously actually wanted Maryland, I always want Maryland to get humiliated in every sporting contest they participate in.
Fuck Maryland, all my homies hate Maryland.
Maryland and Rutgers…the market entry members of the Big…whatever number.
I actually like the B1G moniker – because they can’t count.
Shouldn’t that be A Big 10 team?
Nice.
They didn’t belong. I don’t care if the dominated Clemson they didn’t have to run a gauntlet of the full season. Starting late did come back to bite them though. All the other teams built up their immunity to the vid while the Big 10 was sitting around.
Indiana was rightful B1G East champs.
Indeed. But the conference bosses were not going to sit around and let it be an Indiana – Northwestern championship game, and be locked out of the “playoffs”.
Ohio State beat Indiana though, so …
First, initial data falsely suggested that the infection fatality rate was up to 2-3%, that over 80% of the population would be infected, and modelling suggested repeated lockdowns would be necessary. But emerging data showed that the median infection fatality rate is 0.23%, that the median infection fatality rate in people under 70 years old is 0.05%, and that the high-risk group is older people especially those with severe co-morbidities. In addition, it is likely that in most situations only 20-40% of the population would be infected before ongoing transmission is limited (i.e., herd-immunity).
No kidding. And if the models had been completely and egregiously wrong by mistake, they would have been corrected. Instead… well, you know.
Something something crisitunities don’t last forever.
“emerging data showed”
Yeah, we pretty much knew all of that in May. Certainly by June.
“Crisitunities” – Ima stealing that.
I hope that Congress will hold hearings on this. I’d love to see Fauci and others sweated under oath.
Morning, Banjos! How’s Sloopy holding up after last night’s tragedy?
House Democrats’ quick 25th Amendment push urging Pence to remove Trump blocked by Republicans
I don’t understand this push and the impeachment push. They got their steal. Trump is gone in a week. What are they afraid of?
They feel guilty and therefore must purge the whole incident from their reality.
Lol, feel guilty?!?
No, just like the election, they’re making doubly extra sure he’s gone. They learned from 2016 to build multiple layers of defense against demons like Trump.
They’re trying build unity by grinding their heel into the back of Trump and his supporters’ necks.
Him running again plus twisting the knife has some appeal if you’re an asshole.
This is on a par with the tech giants silencing wrong-thinkers, Forbes threatening anyone who ever worked in the Trump administration with ruin and loss of livelihoods, and de-platforming any alternative to leftist censorship.
Everyone who didn’t tow the lion and who helped an outsider, non-swamp creature, to gain power, must be destroyed as a lesson to anyone who might be thinking about opposing the establishment ever again.
I saw that Forbes article and it was pathetic. The way around this is for alternative firms to set up their servers outside the U.S. a la BitChute (the UK) or Dailymotion (France). Goodbye US tech monopoly but oh well.
Overseas servers, meet the Great Firewall of America.
A wholly owned subsidiary of CCP Thought Control, Inc.
CISCO cheers.
Listen, the VP must do what the speaker of the house tells xem to. It’s important to keep that fact securely established.
They are drama queens/addicts. Every sequel has to be bigger, louder, with more explosions than the one before.
Unfortunately, I know plenty of normies that are just as dramatic. Most of them college educated. Had to unfriend a couple last night as they do not tolerate any dissent from their reveling in the punishment of Trump supporters, even those who were legally exercising their rights.
A Michael Bay / J.J. Abrams co-production: CONGRESS, Blowed UP and Lens-flared!!!
It’s not enough to defeat Trump. They want a ritual humiliation of him.
And cleanse the country of his supporters, or so I am told.
Curiously, fascism is always descending on Republicans but falling on Democrats.
It is not like decrying the desecration of one of the idols to the state is textbook fascism, no siree, not at all.
Or, as I keep pointing out, none of these people ever suggested getting rid of McCain when it was clear he was physically unable to perform his senatorial duties.
That’s different. McCain hated trump. And trumpenhass is really the only important metric for suitability for, well, anything.
They’re battling white supremacy.
Don’t you read their newsletter?
Doin’ right ain’t got no end…
They’re as crazy and fanatical as a movie a villain. If they have their way, Trump will be crucified as a warning to all outsiders to never again mess with the government racket they have going.
Two things come to mind. The unlikely scenario is that they are afraid Trump has a card up his sleeve and they want to get rid of him before he can play it. The more likely scenario in my mind is forcing Republicans to vote against it, either to hurt them politically (the capitol tour was unpopular among a sizeable number of R voters), or to label them as traitors for not voting out OMB
“the capitol tour was unpopular among a sizeable number of R voters”
It was certainly unpopular among Media Approved “Lifelong Staunch Conservatives” Pundit types. I’m not sure how unpopular it was among actual voters.
Nah, I’m willing to believe it was unpopular among actual Republicans, seeing the shitfit that was thrown about it here.
I threw no shit-fit, just acknowleged that the optics were really bad. I am no Republican.
Obviously I was talking about neither you, nor your moustache, nor youur kitteh.
For one thing, you’re not a real Republican what with the Canadian citizenship and all.
🙂
Third, a formal cost-benefit analysis of different responses to the pandemic was not done by government or public health experts. Initially, I simply assumed that lockdowns to suppress the pandemic were the best approach. But policy decisions on public health should require a cost-benefit analysis. Since lockdowns are a public health intervention, aiming to improve the population wellbeing, we must consider both benefits of lockdowns, and costs of lockdowns on the population wellbeing. Once I became more informed, I realized that lockdowns cause far more harm than they prevent.
That’s just crazy talk!
See, that up there is a big assumption. There seems to be a fair bit of evidence that it’s more about taking advantage of a crisis.
It might be good that Parler’s gone, for the time being anyway. Apparently their site was, I don’t know the term, but copied by some group for whatever purpose, probably doxing and getting people fired from their jobs, before it went down and the various videos and photos posted, including deleted photos and vids, contained full metadata as well as geolocation data. They need to get their security and anonymity protocols up to speed before anyone ever posts there again.
AWS employees you mean?
Nah, it was some hacking group but they didn’t technically hack, they just harvested all of the publicly available data which contained hidden metadata and stored it to farm later or that’s what they seem to be claiming anyway.
I read they hacked administrator accounts.
So many rumors online. Some analogue to the Seth Rich/Wikileaks situation where the data transfer rate didn’t add up.
So Password: Password then?
I have that same combination on my luggage!
Smells like propaganda to me.
Could be, they might just be screwing with people and trying to get them worked up.
Trying to finish off a competitor. They were on a roll. Even if they don’t survive, someone will.
This is an attempt to scare people back into the loving arms of big tech.
Fuck em.
I’m working my way out of Google and Amazon as we speak
Yeah, I’m waiting to see if they actually have the data, or are just sabre-rattling.
Canadian expert’s research finds lockdown harms are 10 times greater than benefits
So you are saying we should lockdown harder.
Idaho ISP: You shouldn’t fight censorship with more censorship. What a stupid way to try to make a point.
Nah, when gentlemens agreements are the enforcement mechanism, you have to respond in kind.
“Tit for tat” is the optimal response to “defect.”
“Trump blamed ‘ANTIFA people’ for deadly Capitol assault during call with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, say GOP sources who also claim president ‘took some responsibility’ for the carnage”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9137169/Trump-blamed-ANTIFA-people-Capitol-riot-shot-House-GOP-leader-Kevin-McCarthy.html
What sources are those, it is the ever popular unnamed ones?
“Sources familiar with the administration’s thinking.”
What could be more definitive?
The Daily Mail can call Trump’s closest advisors whenever they want. It’s because of those “special” pictures of Demi Rose that they can trade.
CARNAGE!!!!!
Carnage Rules!
Rep. Pramila Jayapal tests positive for coronavirus after being locked down with lawmakers who wouldn’t wear masks
This should be fairly easy to prove right? Tell us which republican infected you. Also, sorry your mask failed you.
The masks are to protect others/The masks are to protect yourself!
Pick one, flip to the other as needed.
I got a secret … talks in a low voice … one of the unmasked representatives what Rep. Pamila Jaypal.
And a representative with Covid, was brought in by Speaker Pelosi to help insure her election as Speaker.
What are they afraid of?
They are afraid Trump will disband Congress and declare himself President-for-Life before they can seize total power for themselves.
Also, Trump has access to the launch codes. He could order a nuke strike on your city at any time!
Swallwell haz a sad.
“Trump declares state of emergency in DC ahead of Biden’s inauguration as police reveal three more plots to attack the Capitol – including the ‘largest armed protest to take place on American soil’ – as FBI warns of armed unrest in ALL 50 states”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9137323/Capitol-Police-briefed-THREE-plots-attack-Capitol-days.html
Then good thing they took away his Twitter calling for “peace & love” and “LAW & ORDER!”
See above re drama queens/addicts.
Trump is okaying the use of the military and police to stomp on his supporters and the the hardcore core are so deluded they think it’s a prelude to arresting the Democratic congressional leadership. Man did that Q shit ever do a number on some of those people.
They’re completely out to lunch. I have an acquaintance who is a hardcore Q guy. I remember him excitedly telling me, several years ago, how Jeff Sessions had hundreds of sealed indictments ready to go for all these pedophiles in the Dem leadership.
It’s the right wing equivalent of Mueller will save us from Trump. They want a hero to come riding in on a white horse instead of having to do something themselves. It must be comforting in a way for some.
Exactly. Unfortunately, embracing one of these delusions marks you a respectable, serious thinker.
I work with a guy like that. It’s exhausting.
How are you going to declare martial law and take total control without an insurrection to put down?
These people are Total Bloodsuckers, trying to stir up shit,
TM are the one’s who need chippering,
Trump wasn’t doing a good Hitler impersonation so the lefties had to boot him from Twitter and ghost write hateful messaging from him.
He was such a good double reverse fascist that he didn’t take advantage of any of the multitude of Reichstags the left set on fire.
‘largest armed protest to take place on American soil’
He’s traveling back in time to prevent Gettysburg?
“QAnon snowflake shaman! Jacob Chansley, 33, makes first court appearance by video link on federal charges for MAGA riot – as his mom moans he hasn’t eaten since his arrest three days ago because the jail won’t serve ALL-ORGANIC food”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9136479/QAnon-Shamen-Jacob-Chansley-makes-tele-court-appearance-today-Phoenix.html
OFFS!!
Dude…weak.
How will he maintain his mystical abilities if his essence is polluted with industrial toxins?
You need to only eat organic foods and drink only water, distilled or rain, or pure grain alcohol.
+1 Gen Ripper
The dude’s a nut bar, he needs a psychiatric intervention not prison.
He’s already got a Thor’s hammer tat, and a workout ethic.
So I guess we’re wondering why he isn’t one of ours?
He believes what the(his) media tells him?
Who says he isn’t?
shutupShutUpSHUTUP!
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9138009/Demi-Rose-sends-temperatures-soaring-sizzling-Instagram-posts.html
Is this woman trying to make herself have the proportions of Jessica Rabbit?
That’s all well and good but the Dems are in bed with the CCP.
“This fight is inside the gates today … Containing where they are today, leave them in our institutions of higher learning. It leaves them in our high schools; it leaves them in our PTA groups. It leaves them inside our city councils and our state legislatures all across America. This is a deep effort that has been going on for 50 years. Republicans and Democrats alike refuse to deal with it, and we started to and did,” he said.
“We not only got it right, and frankly, I think there is some bipartisan basis, I hope, that we can continue to get this right,” he added.
He noted that the Trump administration worked successfully to build an “enormous coalition” with the Indians, Australians, Japanese, the South Koreans, and in some parts of Europe to counter China. He said 120 international telecommunications companies have now forsworn any Chinese technology in their system.
“This is about the West and our ideas. This is not the United States versus China, and we have to get this right, and we need partners and friends to do it,” he said.
He noted that the Trump administration worked successfully to build an “enormous coalition” with the Indians, Australians, Japanese, the South Koreans, and in some parts of Europe to counter China.
And this is one of the biggest reasons Trump had to go. Because most of the establishment is in China’s pocket and on their payroll.
?
They’ve bought us with our own money.
10% goes to the Big Guy
It’s time for the Japanese, Taiwanese, and South Koreans to nuke up before we sell them all down the river.
Oh noes, nuclear proliferation!!!!
You knew it was coming.
Web hosting service GoDaddy has booted gun site Arfcom from its servers.
“ARFCOM IS DOWN. We’ve been booted from GoDaddy and are looking for an alternative solution,” the site announced in a Facebook post.
The post encourages users to bookmark a backup URL, noting that their main URL will soon be offline.
Every, and I mean *every* site that has the potential to be labeled undesirable from a political stance needs to have a plan to instantly relocate, or do do so proactively.
This could be taken to imply that there is likely a market for new hosting services out there. If I knew anything about designing and starting up a data center, I’d be jumping in with both feet.
^This. But the next step will be to have ICANN nullify their domain registrations, and have carriers like Verizon stop carrying their traffic.
And the Politburo will wonder why the dark web keeps growing.
Epik
“head of corporate responsibility”
Once upon a time, that was the CEO’s job. Oh, how naive we were.
Of course, that’s from way back when the corporation’s responsibility was to its owners/shareholders.
“Twitter REMOVES more than 70,000 QAnon accounts in massive crackdown against inciting violence and election conspiracies after the platform permanently suspended President Trump”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9137175/Twitter-REMOVES-70-000-QAnon-accounts-massive-crackdown.html
I’m sure all the antifa, BLM, and anti-Israel, accounts calling for violence are still there.
“Muh Russia” fever dreams say “hi”.
Those “election conspiracies” don’t count.
I’m thinking there has to be a better, simpler term for “permanently suspended.” That’s a lot of syllables. I’m thinking it can be done in no more than two. Preferably with some good hard consonants.
Polysyllablism is the preferentially implementationalized euphemization practitionerizing.
“permasus”
In Newspeak it’s “permsusp”. It can’t roll off the tongue.
Ahhhhh…I haven’t read 1984 since high school so I don’t remember the rules.
cock blocked
Good start: I was going for something that starts with a “C.”
Cunted.
unpersoned?
Let Titty Tuesday start your day right!
https://archive.li/vo88L
#41
Even though her eyes are a little crazy, I kinda like #8.
I think #19 just received a facial.
I like #22’s iChive gallery.
Baseball birthdays suck hard today: Bill Madlock is #1 and Dontrelle Willis is #3. #2 is a 19th century player who even I dont care about. Blech.
Baseball sucks hard today.
And every other day ending in “y”.
The D Train! How that guy’s arm lasted even the short time it did still amazes me, given that crazy delivery he had.
Also, surprising that Willis is ahead of Randy Jones in WAR.
It was his bat.
Willis had 2.0 more career WAR.
Willis had 4.3 WAR on offense, Jones was -1.1.
Dontrelle had 9 HRs in only 389 career ABs. Jones hit like a pitcher, only worse.
And that is exhibit A-Q on why the DH is a bad idea.
Madlock is a bit underrated I think. I know that batting titles aren’t what they used to be but how many casual fans would guess that Madlock won more of them than Pete Rose did?
Besties again.
A senior Trump administration official told Breitbart News that Pence and Trump met this evening in the Oval Office and had a “good conversation.”
The news of the reconciliation between Trump and Pence minimizes the political impact of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to force the vice president to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president. Pelosi is scheduled to hold a full house vote on Tuesday on a formal resolution asking Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment after it failed to unanimously pass on Monday
Did they exchange friendship bracelets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3QUjqKME7M
Good morning, Banjos and her roving gang of misfits!
Who’s gonna be banned today?
Who’s gonna be banned today?
Ray?
It’s a shame about him 😉
Ahem. “Permanently Suspended.”
Intensely Suspended.
Mostly suspended?
“Permanently Suspended.”
“This will go down on your permanent record.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gproa6vzgws
Absolutely, positively, permanently, punished. Like Penny Pringleton.
On my mind last night: the chilling effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
Absolutely intentional on their part. I’m disgusted by people I have known a long time who are wholly on board with it.
Nice pull, EF! I’d heard the legal term before but never delved too much into it.
No shit for real.
https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/20201209_Rethinking_lockdowns_Joffe_COMMENTARY_FWeb.pdf?mc_cid=8e2418340e&mc_eid=1db3f3ba86
Yet, Ford and Legault keep proving how spectacularly idiotic they are. So apparently the rationale for a province wide curfew is too prevent young people from spreading the virus to old people. This is who is leading the province. This country needs a recall mechanism. This is just beyond stunning and shocking at this point.
You could just put the kids in cages. That would stop them from spreading the carnivorous plague.
Because it is well know that geriatrics spend all night out clubbing.
THAT’S NOT THE PROBLEM. The problem is after the rave Tommy goes and crashes at granny’s at the nursing home.
You can’t blame him, grammy does get the best drugs
Did “Who’s the Boss” teach you nothing? Do you want Mona to die just for being irresistible?
It did teach me that 80’s Tony Danza is one of the few men I’d go gay for.
I don’t know you anymore, Man…
Him and John Stamos, and maybe Tom Selleck.
I had a mild crush on John Stamos from the time he was Blackie on General Hospital. No, I didn’t watch it, but that was during the Luke & Laura craze and all my friends were going on and on about the storyline.
It really was a rapetastic bodice-ripper storyline and utterly problematic. It was glorious.
It’s not enough to defeat Trump. They want a ritual humiliation of him.
This, on stilts.
Goldstein was a goddam Beloved Hero of the Realm, compared to President Cartoon Villain.
Hoffer-something-something mass movement requires scapegoat, but not positive organizing point something
Think of all the good jobs which will be created when the Ministry of Truth takes over the internet.
An army of eager young fact checkers!
*shudder*
And they need jobs now that their parents have been hauled off to the hoosegow.
I can’t be bothered to look it up now, but there was some strong independent womyn denouncing her parents to the FBI on twitter… and then later putting up a gofundme because she now needed help paying her college tuition.
The sad part is she will get the money.
Maybe we can’t go broke fast enough.
^^
Prosperity and it’s handmaiden decadence.
Stalin isn’t true communism!
Lenin is.
Interesting epiphany.
Andrew Cuomo
@NYGovCuomo
We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.
What every normal person has been saying since April.
Well, they don’t have Trump to use WuFlu as a bludgeon on, so it’s time to try to revive the economy.
Yep. I’m not denying the existence of the Wuhan Bug. I had it, its no fun.
But if Clinton was President, and we were nursing a scelerotic economy crippled by Green Nude Eels, then the advice would have been “Mask Up, Distance Yourself, and Wash Your Hands.” No way they would have shut down the economy the way they did in a reelection year for The Greatest President Ever.
I suspect I had it and, if I did, yeah it was not pleasant. Sickest I’ve been since getting severe gastroenteritis in Uzbekistan 17 years ago.
But there is no way that the desire to kneecap the economy to hurt Trump’s campaign didn’t play a role in Lockdown Theater.
I guess Biden’s bailout isn’t going to be big enough.
We ran out of other people’s money.
but we must do it smartly and safely
IOW don’t take anything before the comma seriously.
Cuba IS a state sponsor of terrorism against civilians. But they’re not the full story. Hint: the Cubans didn’t develop the technology they’re experimenting with now.
I don’t know if putting Cubs on the list does any good, but I like it because I’m not required to pretend that Cuba is not sponsoring terrorism,
“BREAKING: Space Force involved in worldwide blackouts. Global Broadcast Satellite has been activated in test run for imminent Trump emergency worldwide address. Stay tuned! #Blackout #BreakingNews #KAG2020 #MAGA #1776Again”
https://twitter.com/magalawbrian/status/1348173763917930497
seems legit
Running this through rot13 didn’t reveal the correct password. False Flag COINTELPRO disinfo psyops.
DRINK MOAR OVALTINE
So what’s the point?
Immunity from Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine should last at least a year, the company said on Monday at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare conference.
The drugmaker said it was confident that the messenger RNA (mRNA) technology it used was well suited to deploy a vaccine based on the new variant of the coronavirus which has emerged in a handful of countries.
Well, it’s not like the Wuhan virus will not have mutated beyond all recognition by then.
It’s pretty much the equivalent of a flu shot in terms of efficacy.
Changes too often to have a single inoculation like mumps or measles.
I reckon after the hysteria subsides, the annual flu shot will include whichever strain of Covid seems likely to go around that year.
And people will then either take the vaccine or not, according to their personal risk assessment, just like the flu shot.
(Significant difference being the new mRNA type of vaccine, never before cleared for use in the USA. Interestingly, researchers had (pre-Covid) used the mRNA methods as a possible cancer treatment, since cancer is severe enough to be worth the risk of taking an unproven mRNA “vaccine.”)
And people will then either take the vaccine or not, according to their personal risk assessment,
Aren’t we in a sunny, optimistic mood today.
NPR was running a story about how “economists agree” that people should be paid to take the vaccine.
Human test subjects are normally remunerated.
Heh. So the useless company that I work for has decided to spend money for someone useless to come in on Saturday and be useless. I’ll still be working six days a week but Marklar! Enh. Beats the seven day gig I’ve been on for the last month and a half. All that Amy does is sashay.
Pics?
If I tried to do that I’d Up-skirt myself. I don’t wanna be no Weiner.
Andy Ngo is an “active fascist”.
When Antifa received word that Ngo’s book was for sale at Powell’s bookstore, they decided to show up and demand that the local chain cease selling it all together.
Powell’s responded by releasing a cushy statement saying they wouldn’t sell the book in stores but it would be available for purchase online. It was their version of the “middle ground” even though they don’t agree with the content of Ngo’s book.
Of course, Antifa wasn’t happy with it. A bunch of them gathered outside the bookstore in Portland, once again, making the demand that the store no longer sell Ngo’s book in any capacity. …
“I completely understand those criticisms saying [Powell’s] sells Mein Kampf, they sell these things – but they don’t sell the Anarchist Cookbook – but anyways, I see that argument, but at the same time, this is active fascism,” she explained. “There’s a difference between the historical value that we get from ‘Mein Kampf,’ to not repeat that. This is different. This is active fascism that we can do something about right now.”
Do you know who else censored literature? Actual fascists.
The crime is reporting what they are actually doing.
The Catholic Church.
These people would have been so happy and comfortable in Weimar Germany. Is there any way we can send them there?
I think they are already there.
Maybe they could just burn them all.
Speaking of drama queens
The images will remain etched in our collective memories; throngs of MAGA-hatted attackers rampaging through the US Capitol in a deadly assault stoked by the President of the United States and his accomplices, determined to prevent the winner of the presidential election from taking office.
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So was the storming of the Capitol a spontaneous event, or was it part of something more orchestrated?
There is mounting evidence to justify profound concern and urgent investigations may face barricades of stonewalling.
Yet, it is imperative that we find out what exactly happened on January 6, and what may still be unfolding. It requires an investigation on two levels at two speeds.
First, the FBI and law enforcement agencies must track down and detain the instigators and ascertain what might remain on their agenda for the coming days. This is particularly pressing because the day after the assault, when President Donald Trump finally agreed to a peaceful transfer of power, in a video that was taped at the White House and over which he reportedly “expressed regret,” he told his supporters, “Our incredible journey is only just beginning.”
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What happened? Why did it take so long for help to arrive?
Many have accurately noted that Black Lives Matter social justice protests have faced much stiffer security, but one historian who has watched multiple protests on Capitol Hill, says he saw more security in other pro-Trump demonstrations. Was the Capitol left deliberately underprotected?
Once inside, according to Rep. Jim Clyburn, some rioters headed straight for his office, which is unmarked. “That to me indicated, something untoward may have been going on,” he told CNN.
Why weren’t those rioters and insurrectionists machine gunned from the parapets?
The vast right wing conspiracy strikes again.
Why did law enforcement let them into the building? You know, an actual important question.
Why did the House Sgt at Arms refuse the Capitol Police request to call in more support?
Im’s sorry, but only is this prose insufficiently purple, it’s only somewhat turgid. Do Better.
dammit, I spent so much time making sure I closed the tags I dudn’t even look at the unformatted bit.
Black Lives Matter social justice protests have faced much stiffer security
Well, there’s an assertion without evidence.
Cops kneeling, apologizing, and professing their privilege to black protesters gave them a stiffie, that’s what they meant.
Didn’t a cop wash some demonstrators feet? Such oppression.
Without evidence?? Hell, in screaming contradiction of ALL THE FUCKING EVIDENCE.
Some BLM/antifa riots got put down with kettling, paddywagons, etc., many (most?) did not. In a post-truth world, we will cherrypick the examples that advance our narrative.
“in screaming contradiction of ALL THE FUCKING EVIDENCE.”
But only if you ignore the current mainstream narrative. The narrative will show you the way.
I am pretty sure that is not how it works.
State of the Union
@CNNSotu
Rep. James Clyburn says while he expects the House will take action on the article of impeachment against Pres. Trump this week, House Democrats might wait until after President-elect Biden’s first 100 days in office to send the article to the Senate. #CNNSOTU
We’re going to remove him from office!…..um, after he’s already long out of office.
Makes sense.
I hope they spend the next four years impeaching Trump.
pleasepleasepleaseplease
Well they have been chasing the Trump laser pointer for nigh on five years, I am not sure they know how to do anything else.
Sure why not? They already have all the laws written to do whatever they need to do. The bureaucrats are in control now, the Congress is just the fig leaf.
How exactly do they think they can impeach a private citizen? Is this like digging up Cromwell’s corpse and beheading him for treason after the fact?
I was thinking of the dissatisfaction, particularly among the young, prevalent in modern American society.
We are experiencing the opposite of “diversity is our strength” because we no longer value the Melting Pot.
The Left has painted the US as irredeemable due to its old white guy founders, imperialism, capitalism, slavery, misogyny, etc. Foreigners look at American news and understandably get the impression that Americans are torn by racism, violence, homelessness, starvation, religious bigotry, and ignorance.
People want to be part of a group, but the big group that is America is painted as so hostile and morally corrupt that many people look elsewhere to belong to a tribe. The tribe can be the LGBT community, ethnic community, religious, political— whatever—and that brings division and exclusion rather than strength.
In the DoD community it’s alarming because of ex-pats from countries hostile to America come over here and become citizens, but there’s no longer pride in being America, so they get their citizenship and secret clearances and start sending info back home, the only community they have to belong to now.
They killed the “melting pot” idea. People are no longer expected to assimilate and conform at all. The whole idea has been turned upside down and the old stock that has been here for centuries is now required to assimilate to people freshly arrived from the Third World.
Even if you wanted people to assimilate, why would they? The media does nothing to portray the US as a hell on earth for everyone but WASP males. Why would immigrants want to assimilate to that?
That’s exactly the point I’m making.
It’s also why many immigrants liked the Make America Great Again message, much to Dems surprise.
People would rather stand for something good than stand against something bad. Unfortunately standing for the American dream and culture is now borderline hate speech,
Glenn Reynolds often makes this point – in the Ellis Island days, when the US successfully assimilated huge numbers of immigrants, it was a muscular, confident society. The immigrants wanted to assimilate to it because they admired it. It is not that society anymore.
Two of my great-grandparents came here from Italy in 1911 and 1913, respectively. My grandfather told me that they would speak Italian to each other, but never to their children, because they were determined that their kids be “real Americans”.
You must be oneathem Dirty Wops!
There’s this amazing dichotomy among Democrats – they manage both to pontificate about Muh Sacred Democratic Norms while simultaneously bitching constantly about the historical figures who created Muh Sacred Democratic Norms.
“Those evil MAGAts are attacking our beloved democracy!…….that was created by evil slaveholders who should be utterly erased from public memory!”
See also:
Colleges are rape factories… that everyone has the right to attend for free.
Police are racist… and you don’t need guns or other forms self-defense because you can just call the cops.
That is exactly how the deconstruction of reality game is played – two completely contrary assertions, and as soon as you lean on one, the other is used to beat you over the head for not obeying it. OBEDIENCE, to whatever we tell you, in the moment we say it, and you can never rely on it again.
If you can do that to people, jesus, they never know what to expect and you will have them forever walking on eggshells. No church could even begin to devise such a devious theology/dogma.
It’s pernicious. I don’t know why people willingly play that damned game. It only has power if you allow it to do so.
It’s the Hegelian dialectic, but the only synthesis that exists is “You’re a racist”
Add in the fact that they’ve been sold a bill of goods about college and they’ve been victims of educational malpractice since age 3, and it makes for a huge class of disaffecteds. The hugely disfavored and destabilized nuclear family wasn’t able to overcome the problem, meaning that the disaffecteds were ejected into the real world without coping skills or a sense of personal responsibility by the millions.
They’re expected to blame the successful, because that’s how the left accumulates permanent power. The fact that it destroys western civilization is just an extra perk.
Even since the early 90s, this country has changed signficiantly. Hell, since 2008, the country has become unrecognizable. Buckle up, Decline of Civilization is a wild ride.
/sets down coffee
There is no end to the destruction caused by the Obama administration.
Yep. I fear that we are far closer to 476 than we are to 1776.
Well, the Vandals do seem to be making a comeback, though the Goths are out of fashion these days.
This song seems like an unfortunately appropriate Vandals tune for the present day
Visigoths are on the rise though
But you never see the Invisigoths coming!
🙁
Well said, but it gives me a profound sad.
Do not underestimate the degree to which the ruling class is simply seeking acceptance of their own choices. They are profoundly hollow people who have an insatiable need for constant validation.
In the ’90s the intenet got huge and a lot of young people made big big dollars. If you were the right age and in the right place, you got to make a lot of money.
It is like a gold rush, if you got there first things were great. But the people who got there late, missed out. Instead of instant fantastic wealth, they got more of what they just came from. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Not a bad thing, but when you see people who are in your same demographic (or just a bit older) who are very well off and never really had to start at the bottom, it is easy to be resentful.
A young programmer/IT person now looks at someone like me who was around when the industry was exploding in the ’90s and wonders why they don’t also get to double their salary every 2-3 years like we were doing. Or that the startups really were like the wild west, while today the startups are as cookie cutter as any big corporation.
“we no longer value the Melting Pot.”
More like some of us value the Pol Pot.
COVID Gone Crazy – An Epidemic Of ‘Positive’ Tests
Good breakdown of the difference between a screening test and a diagnostic test – and what 95% confidence level means.
I worked for a lab company for years. We ran all sorts of diagnostic tests through the PCR machines for infections and diseases. But if you really wanted to know, way in the back of the lab was the Virology section. They take sample and incubate them in a solution in petri dishes for days or weeks, then analyze what has grown. Those kinds of tests are slow and expensive.
Interesting read.
My big gripe with the COVID data is the conflation of “dying with COVID” and “dying of COVID”.
It’s been known from the beginning that the most vulnerable people are both elderly and suffering from a major pre-existing health condition. Now, if someone has COPD, emphysema, and stage 4 lung cancer, and they’re on hospice care, then they test positive for COVID and die, how do they determine what actually killed them? With some situation like that, it’s hard for even a medical doctor to say which particular thing caused the patient to die. But no distinctions like this are being made when tabulating COVID deaths – they just assume that the COVID was the primary cause in 100% of cases.
Given that elderly people with pre-existing health problems are such a large majority of COVID deaths, there’s a good possibility that the actual death toll is far lower than what is reported. And add to this the people who die of gunshot wounds and car accidents who get counted as COVID deaths. Also throw in the people who had it, cleared the infection six months ago, then die of something else, but still go down as a COVID death. The new definition of “COVID death” is “anyone who has or ever had COVID who subsequently died”.
I don’t claim to know the exact amount by which it should be reduced – maybe 10%, maybe 50%, maybe 90%. I’m saying we don’t have good data, and some very bad decisions are being justified with this. There would need to be an immediate straightening out of what constitutes a COVID death and an auditing and correcting of all the previous data (but of course, this will never happen since a high death count is too useful for too many powerful people).
If someone hasn’t already done this then \i weep for the Glibertariats – https://youtu.be/TlTKhPkZSJo
That video started at the tippy-top of awesome and then they went on to filming the band. Real bobs for the win!
Show some respect. That’s someone’s grandma.
Hah!
Yeah I have a feeling if that woman were to go around braless nowadays it might be considerable pleasing.
OFFS
*considerably less pleasing.
I went back and watched the entire video. My Four year-old boner was activated. Good Lord, they don’t make them like that anymore. Everything now is all GMO and stuff.
Nope, the do not. I for one encourage bra burning.
If you’d worn a mask she still would be! 😉
Good song. Haven’t heard it in years.
For some strange reason, I perked right up.
This always perks me right up.
Why did law enforcement let them into the building? You know, an actual important question.
They promised to behave, but a few hooligans acted up and spoiled it for everybody.
Tread lightly, Joe.
Speaking on the network’s “State of the Union” Sunday show, Manchin was asked by Tapper if he would back a ban on modern sporting rifles, but the senator avoided giving a straight answer in response.
We aren’t going to take your guns away, but we are totally going to take your guns away.
Just the ammo.
And you shouldn’t be scared of that.
Reasonable Gun control is reasonable! Its right there in the name!
Well, not YOUR guns, just those bad guns that other people have.
Big blacks ones with the thing that goes up.
Democrats are racist against guns.
Big black ones…. go on.
Just the things you shouldn’t have in your hands. How is that not clear? Totally not taking your guns.
So, he’s banning the use of other people’s money?
No, all that money says “United States of America” on it. It doesn’t belong in your hands at all.
I think Tester(D) Montana may be a bigger obstacle to gun control legislation than any other Democrat – he is the last Democrat left in Montana, and he is likely very aware of this fact. He has 4 years until re-election, but if he votes for a gun control bill, he has a decent chance of being recalled.
Come and take ’em, scumbag.
As in, you, personally Joe. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ.
As in, you, personally Joe. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
As in, you, personally, Joe.
Uh yeah, they will. No one is going to stop them. The problem with the coming modern tyranny is it comes softly, and sweetly, and kindly and wrapped in obfuscating layers.
You go to work, you have a surprise meeting with HR. There’s a DA there. DA says that the metadata analysis of your social media forwarded from Facebook and Google’s Combating Hatred and Violence Division indicates you are a confused person guided by misinformation, and a judge has granted a temporary firearms seize order. HR Lady pipes up and says its in the company values to stand against hate and intolerance, and it would be best for you to hand over your house key and your gun safe key so that the authorities can do their job. Your job is contingent on cooperation with our noble public servants. If you refuse, the cops are right outside to take you into custody, and company security will enter your house right behind the cops and leave the contents of your desk when the cops take their guns.
So, you gonna pull out your sidearm right there and shoot the HR Lady who brought cookies in last week? The soft handed lawyer whos armed with a briefcase? You can refuse, and then you’ll be jobless and blacklisted as a White Supremacist Extremist and your guns will be gone anyway. So you comply, maybe if you have the means you file suit…..but that will get you fired too. Besides the Court was recently expanded to Look More Like America and it now has fully 33 members, 20 of whom were appointed by President Harris.
It’s not going to be grinning SS men pounding on the door or dour commissars issuing proclamations in the public square. It won’t be Red Dawn. It will be bureaucratic, by design, because the vast majority of gun owners are not going to drop the hammer on dumpy middle aged women who are just processing paperwork. They’ll march and wave their flags and wait for the court systems and they’ll grumble and donate to the NRA and vote.
^^^^
the HR Lady who brought cookies in last week
Wrong HR Lady. The Karen that wants to fuck you over brings in kale krisps, not cookies. You can shoot that bitch without hesitation.
I know you’re joking, but if only that were so. The loudest Office Progs in my life calling for ROOT OUT THE SEDITIONISTS AND TRAITORS this week have all been very nice, very kind, very sweet people and I don’t think a single one of them would bat an eye if the CIA started operating murder drones in America, so long as the Magic Screen assured them that the smoldering crater where a house used to be was actually a den of White Supremacist Insurrectionists.
“those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
,blockquote>So, you gonna pull out your sidearm right there and shoot the HR Lady who brought cookies in last week? The soft handed lawyer whos armed with a briefcase?
The DA is a legitimate target, it doesn’t matter how soft his hands are.
“The DA is a legitimate target, it doesn’t matter how soft his hands are.”
OK, but how many people will actually do it at that moment? Especially, and I think this is very likely, if they put women on that detail. Some 29 year old junior DA. Someone who might be your daughter in law, or niece. She’s even apologizing as she slides the red flag order over the desk. That she’s just the messenger. It’s above her paygrade. That you can contest it in the court system, lots of people are, the courts can sort it out later.
Gonna put three 9mm hollow points through her JC Penny pansuit jacket? Gonna turn and squeeze one more and put one right through that weird mole on HR Judy’s nose? You won’t be remembered as a Hero of Freedom, a Noble Member of the Resistance. You’ll be a psycho gun nut white supremacist who murdered two innocent unarmed women as they attempted to Enforce The Rule of Law.
If you get taken alive, you’ll be tossed in federal prison as Known White Supremacist Terrorist and you then have the choice of joining an actual Neo Nazi gang or getting murdered by black prisoners. Once you join the gang for protection and get Nazi prison tats, your picture will be circulated endlessly as proof that all gun nuts are violent Nazi terrorists. Your wife will divorce you and change your childrens name.
They’re not going to import 100,000 ChiComm soldiers, slap UN blue helmets on them, and send them door to door to order “Turn Guns Over Now!!!!” in broken English. They’re not gonna have The Big Federal Gun Grab where all gun owners will have to file past their county courthouse on July 4th and toss their guns in a big dumpster.
Dude, I’m just playing in the Kobyashi Maru scenario you’re presenting.
So, since the government is only ever going to use soft power and sympathetic agents to fuck you over , those sympathetic target are yes, going to be the ones that have to die. And yes, it won’t do any good, because you’re defining it that way that there is an unlimited number of sweet gentle young ladies willing to step up and be cannon fodder — just as long as there’s no risk of catching the ‘vid while doing it.
Timothy Mcveigh is not remembered as a hero despite doing pretty much that.
The daycare full of children got in the way.
“Is remembered” is a silly argument, though aparently it resonates with quite a few people.
Nobody is remembered. A few people have their name attached to a narrative that will always be concerned with presenting a particular PoV than having anything to do with the perons forerly bearing the name.
Of course, the whole “you have two choices — kill right then and there or be a slave” is a silly scenario.
If you get taken alive, you’ll be tossed in federal prison as Known White Supremacist Terrorist and you then have the choice of joining an actual Neo Nazi gang or getting murdered by black prisoners.
Shot Caller is decent prison flick, with pretty much this same premise.
Checkmate, Viking, my company bans guns on the premises. Little signs on every entrance tell me so.
Also your writing is very good:
“turn and squeeze one more and put one right through that weird mole on HR Judy’s nose?”
Nice! former VP of HR was named Judy. She retired when HR got bad.
I would move, but then the next step is to obviously restrict your travel since you are a danger to yourself and others.
Translation: “I really want to keep getting re-elected in West Virginia.”
“And I think my constituents are stupid enough to fall for this.”
So far so good.
Does Manchin have the same crazy hair as that Ancient Aliens guy? Although it wasn’t Manchin that killed the 2nd Amendment, it was totally Manchin…
Manchin’s totally going to go for adding all semiautos to the NFA registry. The NFA Branch of the ATF was moved to Martinsburg, WV about 10 years ago, and adding so many items to the NFRTR and handling the load of registrations will necessitate a huge increase in staff and facilities. Tons of money to be handed out to WV construction firms, computer consultancies, security contractors…huge pork potential.
yep, WV is going to go off like gangbusters.
by the end of the next two years every road and public project for the next 50 years in the state of WV will be named after him. Basically i figure everything in the state will be named either bird or manchin, motherfucker is holding a ton of cards right as the most powerful guy in the senate now should be good for his bank account.
Take Manchin Highway out past Manchin Bridge, to the Machin Ave exit. Take a left on Manchin Road, go for about a mile, but don’t pass Manchin Boulevarde.
I thought that everything in WV was already named after Byrd.
It’s a new development.
Only for the next two years. After that one of two things happens: a) the Republicans crush the Dems in the ’22 mid-terms, or b) [and the more popular option amongst most here] there are no mid-terms and the Dems are the permanent ruling party.
They won’t ban elections. They will make them more fair, equal, and just.
They will expand CRA protections to the whole country, and federal judges will decide when a states districts are horribly racist and gerrymandered. Noble, unbiased, intelligent federal judges will ensure that wicked racist state governments apportion the House districts in a just fashion.
They will expand the ways in which people can vote, so that no voice is ever unheard. We will join the 21st century and have the America Votes app, brought to you by the public spirited citizens of Big Tech.
They will increase the security of vote counters, hiring professionals to oversee the count in secure facilities so that no white supremacist insurrectionist will ever interfere again with Our Democracy. Secret counting is as vital as the secret ballot to Our Democracy.
You know, I was more serious about killing the HR Lady than you are there.
Respectfully, which of those three things is outside of the Overton Window?
Item 1 is what they did in Virginia. They kept striking down maps until they got one that elected Democrat majorities. Now it’s fair. You can tell it’s fair because they finally won control of the state chamber. It wasn’t fair before because they couldn’t win before.
Item 2 is fully in line with the success of 2020. Mass mail in ballots in key states is why they won the Presidency. It’s Holy Writ among the sheep that More Votes=More Democracy and thus More Goodness. No one is going to argue against mass mail in ballots or even vote by app, because its racist.
Item 3 will occur to them soon enough. They can point to the Capitol Riot and argue that next election, the Q Terrorists will try to storm the counting sites to disrupt Our Democracy. That security measures need to be set up now, before the next election 2022.
The Overton Window is a theory and seems to be most popular among the Left – so I don’t put a lot of stock in it.
VA was forever a Democratic stronghold, until it wasn’t and became purple, then somewhat red – until more recently when overrun (in the north) and reverting back to purple/blue. That wasn’t all the result of Democratic party machination.
Mail in ballots *could* be done correctly/legitimately – if done quite differently from the haphazard 2020 approach. CA has shown that Republicans too can play the harvesting game.
Last point will depend somewhat on how Republicans respond. If a legitimate security regime is proposed, and supported by Repubs, that is one thing. Anything phony should be opposed and fuck the Dems childish labeling of opposition. When you allow them to control you by what they say – you are fucked.
You’re barely even being sarcastic. The Dems have, as a high priority, “election reform”.
We will find out very quickly how serious the Dems are about taking the bit between their teeth and fundamentally transforming the country. If the Senate declines to (re)adopt the filibuster rule, my plans to the leave the country will be greatly accelerated.
“You’re barely even being sarcastic. The Dems have, as a high priority, “election reform”.
I’m 100% serious. Its completely in line with their principles when it comes to elections. They have already named it the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. I fully expect it to include universal registration, a federal election holiday, federal grants to GOTV groups and civic activists, universal application of the CRA and VRA to all state district and House district maps, and universal mail in voting if not fully digital voting.
Someone might notice that a voting holiday isn’t quite compatible with mail-in voting.
The reality is, the federal govt cannot enforce uniform standards across the states. At least not until SCotUS let’s Congress do so. That will take some years of litigation, in courts that have taken a more conservative slant (thanks in no small measure to Trump).
“Someone might notice that a voting holiday isn’t quite compatible with mail-in voting.”
The mail in voting is for the millions of people without transportation, the voting holiday is to make sure the people who can get to the polls don’t have to choose between work and voting.
“The reality is, the federal govt cannot enforce uniform standards across the states”
Yeah sure that’s why the drinking age varies so widely across states.
“courts that have taken a more conservative slant”
Conservative in the sense of policy, perhaps. But the American Civic Religion is that more voting is always a good thing. No educated member of the professional class is going to strike down a voting rights act. It makes you a racist to strike down a voting rights act. This is axiomatic.
” a) the Republicans crush the Dems in the ’22 mid-terms”
What Republicans?
I’ll put you down for option (b).
The Force Ghost of Robert Byrd will have something to say about that!
They shouldn’t be scared to death of Democrats on their Second Amendment, taking their guns away. … So no, we’re not going to take people’s guns away,
Fuck you, Manchin. That’s exactly what the vast majority of your colleagues want to do, and they have the votes to do it. If you vote “no” to save your sorry ass, there’s Repubs who will happily vote “yes”.
Oh, and if SCOTUS makes the slightest noise about overturning the confiscation, there’s enough votes to expand the Court and appoint as many leftists as needed.
Thanks again for the tasty links Banjos! I’d like to hug you but Sloop would probably shoot me dead what with the happenings and all.
Is Sloopy with his emotional support peacock? Has Banjos called in crisis counseling?
Straight into my veins
https://www.heritage.org/data-visualizations/public-health/covid-hypocrisy-policymakers-breaking-their-own-rules/
Good stuff there. They need people to submit more stories.
Mornin Banjos!
The social media site Parler is suing Amazon for “antitrust violations, breach of contract, and unlawful business interference” after Amazon’s web hosting service wiped Parler from its servers, according to The Hill reporter John Kruzel.
Prediction: Parler loses because they are icky. Facts of the case, laws, contracts, etc. etc. etc. won’t matter.
“The President represents an imminent threat to our Constitution, our Country and the American people, and he must be removed from office immediately,” Pelosi said in a statement Monday, noting that House Republicans rejected the legislation, and claimed they were “enabling the President’s unhinged, unstable and deranged acts of sedition to continue.”
Nice projection.
JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, is pausing political action committee contributions for Republicans and Democrats for “at least” the next six months, spokesman Steve O’Halloran said. The New York-based bank will use that time to consider changes to its political-donation strategies.
So they’re looking for new politicians to buy?
Twitter stock fell by as much as 12% on Monday after the social-media company permanently suspended President Trump’s account on Friday evening. The stocks dropped 6.4% at the close of trading
Heh.
“Our company does not believe a website or social networking site has the authority to censor what you see and post and hide information from you,” the email reads. “We have made this decision to block these two websites from being accessed from our network.”
Hmm….
“With this action, we will once again hold Cuba’s government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of U.S. justice,” Pompeo said in a statement.
Any day now US government actions will lead to freedom in Cuba. Any day now.
Once I became more informed, I realized that lockdowns cause far more harm than they prevent.
Uh-oh. Someone is going to become unpersoned.
I think Tester(D) Montana may be a bigger obstacle to gun control legislation than any other Democrat – he is the last Democrat left in Montana, and he is likely very aware of this fact.
I suspect Tester is starting to feel a lot like Longhair Custer.
Son of the Morning Star. Hey, now there’s a Profile in Toxic Masculinity!
So they’re looking for new politicians to buy?
Yeah the ones they have seem to be broken and not under warranty anymore.
Say her name.
As usual, street artist SABO has managed to trigger the Left with his latest venture.
The artist, who was on Capitol Hill at the time of the rally and the riot, is well known for tweaking the noses of Leftist politicians, Hollywood, and Trump himself.
This time, however, SABO’s using the Left’s own rhetorical tropes to call attention to the case of Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force Veteran who was shot and killed by Capitol Police for breaching the Capitol entrance.
He’s created a free downloadable poster of Babbitt in hopes that the life of the Trump supporter will not be forgotten.
Wait, what?
Her boyfriends car, I believe.
Honestly, I have realized my outrage at cops for no-knock raids has been rather misdirected. This is the fault of the judges, and it’s just another example of how the educated professional class, be they Team Red or Team Blue, always pushes off responsibility to people who didn’t graduate college.
A judge signed that warrant, but somehow bears no blame whatsoever.
Forms were filled out, procedures were followed – what could you possibly complain about?
You what caused the downfall of the republic? The politicians not having awesome facial hair. We would be much better of if they all looked like Grant’s cabinet, minus the corruption. Well that last bit might be a tad over-optimistic on my part.
Grant’s cabinet would be the cleanest since Coolidge’s at least.
Trumps was actually pretty clean. Given if he or any of his people actually wet his beak it would have been treason.
most of his bullshit was shady campaign laundering which they all do, he wasn’t ever able to get into the big money of getting his people no bid contracts and foreign donations.
Grant had the same problem Trump had, poor taste in appointees. Not that Trump’s picks were on the take the same way as Grant’s, but he did let a lot of crazy into the Oval Office.
Trump’s lower-level appointees were excellent, and 100 steps above & beyond Obama’s.
The Obama Executive Branch was like working in a frat house – loud, aggressive, know-it-alls slapping each other’s asses constantly.
Trump’s were (for the most part) circumspect and professional.
That is probably the case. It is really hard to tell if it was the media blowing everything out of proportion, as is their wont. Or if there was that much insanity. Some of it rang true to me, but it was hard to tell with the hyperbolic coverage.
Secretary-level appointees are 100% political and pretty much do jack shit during their tenures. It’s the ones a couple levels below Secretary that actually run things during an Administration.
The head of the team that I work on has been top-notch and incredibly nice & professional.
Check out this video:
https://twitter.com/MaajidNawaz/status/1349009317249363971
You’re going to have to give more info if you want me to give Twitter any more clicks. You sound like phishing spam.
We just need your password, SSN, mother’s maiden name, and bank account information.
Because this is my first comment here?
Because you’re normally bot-posting daily fail photoshoots of the same person. Clearly there’s not a person behind that account.
The next 6 months are going to be one of the most corrupt corporate and public lootings of the taxpayers in the history of the country. This admin is going to make the Clintons look pure as the driven snow with the level of skeezy cash grabs that are going to occur.
“Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?
Zero.
The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start.”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293
Greenwald published his full article on it this morning. He complete dismantled the arguments against Parler.
Truth, reconciliation, healing, unity.
Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders
Let’s be clear. If Trump is too dangerous to send out a tweet or a Facebook post, he’s too dangerous to be commander-in-chief. Donald Trump must be removed from office immediately and held accountable for his horrific acts of sedition, violence and chaos.
That’s some circular reasoning even for a communist.
Bernie should resign and hand his seat to Zuckerberg if Facebook is in charge.
Like, LITERALLY!
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is under fire over divisive rhetoric and accusations that she helped incite Wednesday’s violence at the U.S. Capitol.
On Monday, #resignboebert was trending on Twitter.
Boebert has only been in Congress for just more than a week. She started her first term with headlines about her desire to carry a gun in Washington, D.C. Now she’s navigating criticism after objecting to electoral votes that secured the presidential election for Joe Biden.
“Resign Boebert is literally trending on Twitter,” said Democratic State Rep. Bri Buentello. “That’s how much of a public outcry there is.”
Teh Peepulz haz spoked!
under fire over divisive rhetoric and accusations that she helped incite
Stated without evidence.
The evidence is right behind her NAME — (R)!!!!
““Resign Boebert is literally trending on Twitter,” said Democratic State Rep. Bri Buentello. “That’s how much of a public outcry there is.”
Less than 25% of the US population is on Twitter.
How many of her actual, you know, constituents are demanding she resign?
In the spirit of the Nordic model of “end demand,” Common sense gun legislation such as “we’re not banning guns, we’re taxing ammunition” and “1A doesn’t apply to private companies,” I propose the following pro-free speech campaign finance reform legislation:
BE IT ENACTED
1. All Americans may donate funds to any election campaign without limit.
2. Any legislator or government official accepting any funding for their election campaign shall be immediately euthanized in as humane a manner as may be obtained conisitent with “immediately” supra.
3. Any legislator or government official coordinating with any third pary election campaign or political advertisement shall be deemed in violation of section 2 and subject ot the same penalties.
Interesting how “repairing out reputation around the world” is a top priority for Biden, but we’ve already got France, Germany, and Mexico speaking out against tech censorship before he’s even taken office.
And how a large chunk of the Ay-rab world somehow normalized Israel during Trump’s tenure. 30 years ago, what happened in the Middle East over the last year would have been the news story.
I have a soft spot for Jared Kushner. That guy did what a bunch of Ivy League fucks in the ivory tower failed to do and that probably gets them every time they hear about the Israeli-Arab normalization talks.
There are certain elected officials that are probably not at all happy about the Arab world normalizing relations with Israel.
And don’t forget certain non-elected pubsecs at the State Department.
Truth, reconciliation, healing, unity.
“I am working on a bill that would mean that nothing — not even a bench, no airport, no highway, no school, nothing — ever bear the name of this traitor,” California congresswoman Linda Sánchez told People magazine on Monday. After describing her experience during the January 6 Capitol riots, she explained that she wanted to hold people accountable, “[starting] with the President because he invited people to the Capitol, and he incited them.”
Sánchez has also thrown her support behind a second impeachment: “Given that those around Trump have never stood up to him, I have a hard time believing that they will meet this moment with the, with the appropriate response,” she said. “So we have also, I have also, signed on to articles of impeachment to try to remove him.”
Beyond labeling Trump a “traitor,” Sánchez also implied he was guilty of sedition: “I don’t think that he deserves any of the benefits that are conferred on prior presidents,” she said. “I don’t believe that a seditious occupant of the White House should have ever have anything named after him.”
Doing the people’s work. Drumpfler must be eliminated from history.
If you said “damnatio memoriae” to her she wouldn’t have a clue what you were talking aobut.
I think I will post a sign over my dog’s house – The Trump Memorial Doghouse.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-helena-duke-pay-for-college
Here’s the Go Fund Me for the girl who ratted out her parents for going to the MAGA rally in DC. If my daughter ever decided to pull that shit on me, I would send her ass to boarding school or if she was 18 and over, have her pack her bags and get the eff out. My daughter owes me nothing but at the same time, if you think that it’s acceptable to try to smear me to get some bullshit adulation from a bunch of strangers, than it’s better that we part ways until you came to your senses.
“It was my little daughter, said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride…”
She deserves what all snitches deserve, no less.
The best part of when she was advertising this on the twits was that about a quarter of the responses were “get an onlyfans.”
Never go against the family.
I have a dream of one day becoming a lawyer but I need help to get there. I hope to attend college and then go into the peace corps. Eventually I hope to enter into law school. I want to make the world a better place I just need some help.
She wants to waste your money.
A young self-styled savior who wants to be a lawyer? NO WAY!!!!
God save us from the do-gooders
The chutzpah of that girl asking for $150,000 is just too much.
It’s almost like…no, I won’t say it.
She’s a whore?
I have far more respect for prostitutes than her. Strippers and prostitutes: they provide a valuable community service at a reasonable cost often assuming some level of risk for doing so.
She, on the other hand, informs on her parents and then hits up the cancel mob for a reward for doing so. Of course she wants to be a lawyer.
That she’s up $11,000 already is frightening.
“I know people at Twitter follow me. Please read this thread. The people who live in this city with me have long known that Andy is a very real threat to our neighbors.
The only reason I have not brought up Andy Ngo in the past is that after the whole thing where people were sending me nonstop death threats and rape threats and the MAGA bomber threatened me on Twitter, I have a low appetite for scrapping with right wing provocateurs on Twitter,
especially one whose entire MO is to post your name, your mugshot, your place of work and tie you to “radical antifa” if you’re arrested — even if while working as a journalist or legal observer — at a protest.
Ngo is dangerous. The chilling effects of his intentional misframing and misreporting are well-known in this city. If he puts your face out there, people — dressed exactly like the people who stormed the Capitol — show up at your house.
Local journalists like Donovan Farley have had to live in fear because of Ngo’s actions. It’s about time I piped up in support.”
https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/1348434734657859584
CWAA
If he puts your face out there, people — dressed exactly like the people who stormed the Capitol — show up at your house.
Said with out a shred of awareness of Antifa/BLM.
I don’t know much about Ngo, but the fact that he’s rabidly hated by the Left for daring to expose their most radical elements speaks volumes. The fact that their response to his reporting is violence and deplatforming seems to me that he’s probably right about their antics.
He exaggerates, overhypes things, uses clickbait headlines, and is too quick to jump on rumors that confirm his biases. He’s a journalist. But not the right kind of journalist to wear the sacred mantle of heroism.
True. But he appears to be almost the only window into what’s going on in those cities and those organizations.
He’s definelty a resource, but nothing he reports can be taken at face value.
I figured something was up when Quillette and Ngo decided to part ways.
Lol, she’s one of those people that Ken White thinks is a brilliant legal mind and anyone who disagrees with her must ba a racist.
Ken White went batshit a long time ago.
She of the “#CancelWhitePeople” and “Dumbass f****** white people marking up the internet like dogs pissing on fire hydrants” fame.
I feel so bad for her being unfairly criticized
Local journalists like Donovan Farley have had to live in fear because of Ngo’s actions. It’s about time I piped up in support.”
Love the projection. Ngo has been assaulted by those mostly peaceful commies and pretty much everything she accuses him of fomenting.
The fact that she lives in fear sounds like a personal problem that she might want to take up with a psychologist.
“I was literally shaking”
“I live in fear”
“What am I supposed to tell my children?”
Umm, tell them the truth: “Mommy is a drama queen who pretends to be in fear of the strawmen she conjured up in her hyperactive mind.”
And she lyingly claims that “legal observers” and “journalists” aren’t just as much participants and partisans of the antifa mobs at those riots.
Denver School Board Director Tay Anderson has been one of Boebert’s most active Twitter critics. He’s also calling for her resignation.
“She’s putting herself into an echo chamber of only those who are saying yes to her,” Anderson said.
Unprecedented!
Twitter critics…
Uh-huh, do go on about echo chambers.
So unselfaware that you wonder if he even sees anything in a mirror.
The head of a public school system is an ideological leftist who wants conservatives out of power? Wow, how shocking.
https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1348988647358537729
WOW
One day he will unlock the secret of the bra strap…
Try pa$$word.
Working on my “Eat More Food, Stupid!” diet. Spinach, Greek salad, some air-fried spuds and chicken. Tomorrow I shall be the Jet-Propelled Janitor! I need to eat better and gain weight.
If it gives you gas that bad, you may want to seek medical attention.
Or become the next Le Pétomane.
yes
It’s the black olives, feta and peppers. #notmyfault
Read today that Pennsylvania has vaccinated 200,000 people so far. Only 9.5% of which were age 65 and over.
It’s like that in every state. Should have left it up to the private sector government bureaucracy is blocking the roll out of this vaccine. It’s like they want us to keep suffering.
Not every state. Florida’s is 49.4%. Texas 24.9%. Tennessee over 70 is 25%.
No way are we going to do the (((strategy))). 24 year old nurses and 29 year residents are on the front lines of the war on covid, they’re superheroes, we owe it to them.
https://twitter.com/segal_eran/status/1348317646790524933?s=21
This is soooo fucking stupid. Not that I think that the vaccine is worth a shit but if it were, wouldn’t you make the oldsters take it first?
It is absolutely worth a shit but a ton of healthy young doctors and nurses aren’t really at serious risk or already had it.
Government run rollout. Utterly stupid.
It’s nearing Feb. Everyone who likes should just be able to get in line now.
Too many oldsters are white, and we need to make racial equity a priority. This is the actual recommendation by the ethics panel that is being used to detrmine who get priority.
Yes, that was a recommendation by at least one State agency. Stocks and pillories.
That was the CDC too (or first).
NYS has decided to open vaccination to “the general public” as long as by “the general public” you mean people over the age of 75. This is of course opening up the pool of vaccinees because all those first repsonders who were over the age of 75 got their vaccine along with all the under-75 police and firefighters (and teachers, mustn’t forget the heroic teachers.)
Apparently it went only slightly less well than the first day of “healthcare.gov.”
And I still don’t know if first responders who are exactly 75 are eligible, or if vaccinating one of those still incurs the $1M fine that is apparently something that NY’s governor is permitted to decree.
My dental assistant yesterday was vaccinated. She apparently doesn’t qualify and is like 30 but wasn’t aware that her profession doesn’t qualify. Walked into Kroger and got the vaccine. (texas grocery chain). Was told after he fact she shouldn’t have.
Knowing New York State, if your first responder is exactly 75, you get fined.
Wife is on her way to get her vaccination, since she’s an EMT for our volunteer fire company (also under 65, barely).
awesome. in about 4 weeks she’ll be free to… I dunno.
Been vaccinated since summer myself. Still have to wear the face mask everywhere and everything is the same.
Two of my neighbors got the vaccine. One is an EMT and the other does some kind of work in hospitals. So far they haven’t grown any extra limbs.
“A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1348688644173934593
Heh. Elon Musk is gonna save us all from Silicon Valley! Piss down the other one while you’re at it, Bucko.
How is the Monorail salesman from the Simpsons — Mr. Musk — our sole voice of reason in all this?
The other voice of reason is Glenn fuckin’ Greenwald. We live in crazy times.
Taibbi too, when he doesn’t wander back into his old leftist habits.
Dat ratio doe
“FLASHBACK: Just Months Ago, Democrats Blocked a Resolution Condemning Mob Violence
This July, those same congressional Democrats killed a resolution aimed at curbing mob violence. The bill, which was spearheaded by Utah Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, came about after an unarmed Utah man was murdered by a mob of left-wing activists. At least 30 people, ranging in age from 14-77, were killed in largely left-wing riots in summer 2020.
Lee’s bill was not the only time anti-mob legislation was shut down by congressional Democrats last summer. A bill led by Republican Rep. Ken Buck this November, The Blocking Rioters and Insurrectionists from our Cities to Keep us Safe (BRICKS) Act, would have enabled a range of greater legal penalties for such crimes. It died in the Democrat-run House Judiciary Committee.”
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/10/flashback-just-months-ago-democrats-blocked-a-resolution-condemning-mob-violence/
Also note: how was the autonomous zone in Seattle less of a fascist coup than the capital breach?
CHAZ wasn’t a coup either. It did have official support from the powers that be.
It wasn’t. Just more of one than the capitol breach.
That second bit of legislation SHOULD die, just for being such a horrid acronym.
Agreed. Do we have to make every stupid piece of rights abuse spell something?
Its particularly rich, given antifa’s use of bricks in their riots.
“A very popular text on the west coast forEducators is called Culturally Responsive Teaching and the brain. It doesn’t make the specific claims this (old?) passage does, but it passes theory off as scientific fact that Black people have a different brain to White people.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1349016442134474765
neuro-melanin?? LOLWUT???
“Biden pick to head DOJ Civil Rights Division wrote Blacks had ‘superior physical and mental abilities’
Kristen Clarke wrote the phrase in 1994 to Harvard newspaper while undergraduate.
“Please use the following theories and observations to assist you in your search for truth regarding the genetic differences between Blacks and whites [sic],” Clarke wrote. “One: Dr Richard King reveals that the core of the human brain is the ‘locus coeruleus,’ which is a structure that is Black, because it contains large amounts of neuro-melanin, which is essential for its operation.
“Two: Black infants sit, crawl and walk sooner than whites [sic]. Three: Carol Barnes notes that human mental processes are controlled by melanin — that same chemical which gives Blacks their superior physical and mental abilities.
“Four: Some scientists have revealed that most whites [sic] are unable to produce melanin because their pineal glands are often calcified or non-functioning. Pineal calcification rates with Africans are five to 15 percent [sic], Asians 15 to 25 percent [sic] and Europeans 60 to 80 percent [sic]. This is the chemical basis for the cultural differences between blacks and whites [sic].
“Five: Melanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.”
The above is not an editorial from the Final Call, Louis Farrakhan’s free newspaper. That is a direct quote from the person Joe Biden is about to put in charge of this country’s civil rights laws.”
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-kristen-clarke-doj-civil-rights-division
SCIENCE!!!!
I suspect Joe’s team will drop her like a hot potato.
“drop” is an odd autocorrect for “promote”.
hah….they’re gonna scramble to have her replace Garland as AG nominee
The lunatics are running the asylum.
So she is like the opposite thinking of racists in the early to middle 20th century.
Experts say things
It has been a transfer of power unlike any other in modern history.
The process of moving from one administration to another is always tricky. But the ongoing transition from President Trump to President-elect Joe Biden — which has been stymied by false allegations of election theft and a deadly riot at the Capitol, among other things — has been anything but smooth.
“Nothing about this transition has been normal or by-the-book or ordinary,” Daniel Weiner, a deputy director in the Brennan Center’s democracy program, told Yahoo News. “And that’s remarkable, given, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the floor [during the Electoral College count last Wednesday], the election result wasn’t even particularly close. Not necessarily a landslide, but also certainly not a nail-biter.”
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“Unfortunately, I think we may be past the point of a seamless transition,” Jordan Strauss, a former Department of Justice and White House official under President Barack Obama, told Yahoo News.
They were expecting a giant lurch to the left to be seamless?
As opposed to that seamless transition 4 years ago where they were spying on Trump.
So seamless they were INSIDE the transition!
The Deal Guy: 10 As Seen on TV Products that Actually Work
https://youtu.be/G6CQxN3RNhw
This guy’s good, best day to day money saving channel on YT. A microwave spaghetti cooker might sound bizarre but I’m going to get one and give it a shot. I had a handle snap off of a pot of spaghetti a couple of weeks ago and it was only by luck that I didn’t get cooked.
I microwave fresh pasta and dried egg noodles all the time. Put them in bowl. Cover with water. Nuke. The time depends on how much you are cooking. A two-serving package of ravioli or tortellini is usually about 10 minutes (until the water actually starts to boil). 20 minutes for a large four-serving package.
Dried egg noodle work pretty much the same way.
I figured the texture would be all jacked up but that appears to not be the case so Imma give it a try.
Any microwave-safe container will work. I generally use glass (pyrex) bowls. For long-straight pasta, try a glass baking pan.
Is that longer that it takes on the stovetop?
Generally much shorter.
Normally, you would bring a large pot of water to a boil, then add the pasta and cook for a while.
In the microware, you are heating the water and cooking the pasta at the same time.
Joe Biden
@JoeBiden
The work of the next four years must be the restoration of democracy and the recovery of respect for the rule of law, and the renewal of a politics that’s about solving problems — not stoking the flames of hate and chaos.
I assume you mean continue to perfect the Deminion cheating system as “democracy”.
You respect the rule of law? LOL…
Politics doesn’t solve problems, it usually creates them.
Not stoking the flames of hate, such as likening congresscritters engaging in a constitutional process to nazi propagandists.
Biden is going to be the NPC platitude *president.
It is easer to just look at the Twitter trending page and recite the current talking point de jour than actually coming up with your own. Joe has made a career out of plagiarism. Why would he stop now?
Rule of law…..like egging on riots all fucking summer? Go eat an applesauce cup and shut the fuck up, Gramps.
Government man who’s spent life in government thinks government is the answer, film at eleven. The bad aspect is that the underlying problems are being misdiagnosed and things are only going to get worse as a result.
Thinking about writing a how to on setting up an Etsy shop. Is that something Glibs would be interested in?
I don’t know; mightn’t Etsy have their web hosting pulled if they allowed any Glibs merch?
Has Etsy been infected with wokeism… last time I looked it seemed to be pretty apolitical (as it should be). But social justice idiocy infected knitting forums so nothing is safe, I suppose.
I don’t know if Etsy has. I don’t pay attention to any of that. I just fill my orders.
Cross stitching (the hobby community) has been infected with SJWs, yes. I ignore them, too.
Black and brown six strand cotton floss has been the victim of systemic systems of systematic oppression!
(Yes, I looked up thread types, I am that committed to the bit)
Yes, but DMC 310 (black) has been particularly victimized, since it is not, in fact, very good at covering your fabric. Most people prefer Anchor black, and I’m sure there’s a woke take on that, too.
lulz
Fedgov seems to be testing the waters to see if Feds can get priority on vaccines. You know, “to keep the country running” and such.
“Comrades!’ he cried. ‘You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.”
Exactly
Perfect
Every time some politician or apparatchik talks and wants some benefit that no one else can have, this quote always comes to mind.
My wife and one of my best friends have gotten the vaccine, one Pfizer and one Moderna. Buddy had zero side effects, wife had sore arm that swelled up at injection site for a day or so and didn’t feel well the day after. Both microchips functioning normally now.
I have a friend who is a physician who got the Moderna vaccine recently. Sore arm, no other side effects so far. Same for her colleagues, she says.
A friend of mine works at a hospital and he got it- same thing. Sore arm like a flu shot.
Then he said, “ya know socialism really seems to be a great idea now” (joking)
Isn’t the microchips that concern me – it’s the nanites.
What’s worse? The steady destruction of the Republic through political means, or by everything devolving into gray goo?
They just want to set up a hair salon.
+1 Diamond Age
Slate has lost its mind.
Why Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted From the Internet
Parler’s suspension should concern us all. I despise white supremacist content and its proliferation online, and the tweeted examples of comments posted on Parler are alarming and deeply unsettling to read. But as Kate Ruane, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement, it “should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter wield the unchecked power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable for the speech of billions—especially when political realities make those decisions easier.”* There should be ways to bring accountability to platforms that host inciteful hate speech. Justice, however, is not achieved by endorsing other companies’ self-interests.
How totally unwoke.
Burn the witch.
the tweeted examples of comments posted on
ParlerTwitter…I mean, really? Is there some real difference?
Yes, even if there were white nationalist et al on Parler, you just change the descriptors, white to black and vice versa, and it reads identically to social justice crap.
A pandemic of moral preening
One after another, corporate responses have escalated. Some companies have suspended donations to lawmakers who objected to the certification of the presidential election. Many have halted all of their political donations for a few months. A few have gone so far as to support the removal of the president.
“The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power, and any elected leader defending him is violating their oath to the Constitution and rejecting democracy in favor of anarchy,” said National Association of Manufacturers CEO Jay Timmons, urging Vice President Pence to consider invoking the 25th Amendment, which allows removal of a president deemed unfit to serve.
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Kansas City, Mo.-based Hallmark has asked Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Roger Marshall of Kansas to return $7,000 and $5,000, respectively, in employee donations from the last two years, according to The Kansas City Star.
SRSLY?
I’m shocked Hallmark donated to anybody.
Hallmark has a literal PAC. Like, why?
To get more official holidays created for which you need to buy cards?
Exactly. Big Card.
My employer has a PAC. Without going into detail, dealing with our governmental affairs group makes one feel…sticky. I used to have an office next to our head of gov’t affairs, back when the dept was first started. I hated overhearing his conversations.
Yeah. Government affairs/lobbyists are poster children for agency problems. They absolutely do not want to end the incestuous system that makes them money.
Right?!
I’ve temped there off and on during my single days, and I did try for a job as greeting card writer, but that didn’t pan out.
Return? HAHAHAHHA gfy
“Sorry, we spent all that money on American Greetings cards and Hello Kitty merch.”
Employee donations?
Exactly what control of employee spending does Hallmark think they have?
Good point – did the employees ask for the money back? Were they ordered by the company to ask for their money back? Or (the most likely answer), did the company simply not care what they wanted because there were important woke points to be scored?
Hallmark does exactly what it wants.
Employee donations as in voluntary donations to a PAC controlled by the company and used for the company’s benefit. Voluntary is dependent on the company and company culture.
The outgoing president incited violence in an attempt to retain power
Literally false.
violating their oath to the Constitution
By using a constitutional mechanism…
Saw this and the relevance to earlier discussion. Maybe this becomes the future of the free internet?
Facederp brought up a memory today – that time I went on a date to Ikea, and I was the one waiting on the Ektorp sofa for my counterpart to finish his shopping.
Do you often date gay men?
LOL GMTA
Heh.
Not since the 90’s
Ikea is a great way to test a relationship, your tired, hungry and angry by the end of it so if you can still muster some semblance of being polite to your squeeze high potential for the relationship to work.
It was one of the most fun dates I’ve ever had.
And then, Meatballs!
Thinking about writing a how to on setting up an Etsy shop. Is that something Glibs would be interested in?
I’d read it.
Paypal says it blocked Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo
*headdesk*
Only some rioters deserve fundraising, y’see……..
Goddamn, I thought the Capitol thing was juvenile, stupid, and counterproductive, but all the bullshit since is making it hard not to be completely in support of it. Fuck these people, all of them, until the end of time, hypocritical sacks of shit they are. Had there been one standard for all riots, I wouldn’t be so angry about this, but there wasn’t. There is one set of rules for leftists and one set of rule for everyone else.
*clicks like button*
*deplatforms Sean*
I hate it that Paypal is doing this shit. They did that on Operation Chokepoint too.
Paypal has been good to me and I’ve been with them since almost their beginning. I remember using it in at least 2001.
Operation Chokepoint was one of the most insidious things Obama did, and that’s saying a lot.
The chances of it returning (via a different name) is 100%
There’s supposed to be one rule: First amendment – “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
“Tell me where it says protests are supposed to be peaceful.” – Chris Cuntemo
Free association is a dog whistle to white nationalists. /progthink
If this keeps up, we are going to end up with parallel economies that provide service depending on ideological/political lines. Welcome to Northern Ireland pre-Good Friday Agreement. That was a fun time, we should definitely do that again.
I should get a remote starter for my car?
That or a bomb sniffing dog.
A remote bomb-sniffing starter?
Well trained dogs are too valuable to waste on that. Use an orphan.
House Dems desperate and meaningless 25th Amendment push blocked by Republicans.
So I got up at 10:00 am CST, made a cup of Turkish coffee (Guatemalan prepared in the Turkish méthode’) and checked out the news. Man, are Progressives going full moron. Even Airbnb is screening folks looking to rent in the DC area and barring some due to their “political affiliation”. How is this even legal? I an reminded of this:
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
– Revelation 13:15-17, King James Version
So I got up at 10:00 am CST, made a cup of Guatemalan in the Turkish méthode, and hit the news. Man are Progressives going full moron. Even Airbnb is screening folks requesting lodging in DC during the inauguration by their political affiliation. I am reminded of this:
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
– Revelation 13:15-17, King James Version
WTF
Indeed.
Seriously, I can’t seem to post something.
Will try again.
So I got up at 10:00 am CST, made a cup of Guatemalan in the Turkish méthode, and hit the Star Tribune. Man are Progressives going full moron. Even Airbnb is screening folks requesting lodging in DC during the inauguration by their political affiliation. I am reminded of this:
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
– Revelation 13:15-17, King James Version
^ This guy gets it. 😉
So I got up at 10:00 am CST, made a cup of Guatemalan in the Turkish méthode, and hit the Star Tribune. Man are Progressives going full moron. Even Airbnb is screening folks requesting lodging in DC during the inauguration by their political affiliation. I am reminded of this:
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
– Revelation 13:15-17, King James Version
WE KNOW ALREADY!
Yeah, so at my Southern Baptist private school, we were taught that and I remember everyone, teachers included, said, “I’ll never take the mark of the beast, not even to buy and sell and trade.” That’s easy to say in theory. I envisioned people being lined up and stamped with a bar code, where you could opt out and then your life would be in the gutter (which is, I think, what other people thought too).
This is something else again. You’re not being given a choice as to opting out. You MUST opt out. You can’t even say, “Yes, I believe what you say!” as a way to survive. You’re just summarily un-personed, no more buying and trading and polite society for you!
Eventually we’ll get to IDs and microchips and whatever, but for now you don’t get a choice as to whether to take the mark or not. You’re just out of society, period.
It’s everywhere and it’s coming for YOU
Things are so bad in Los Angeles County that health officials are now advising all essential workers to wear masks inside their own home to prevent spreading Covid-19 within their household.
“Right now, because there is so much spread, we’re recommending that people wear their face coverings while they’re inside the home,” Los Angeles County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer said in a news conference Monday. That’s for people who are either leaving their home every day for work or who are running errands regularly for their family, Ferrer said.
Doing so, she said, “will add a layer of protection while we get through this surge.”
The plague is sentient, and it is targetting ESSENTIAL government heroes.
There is some logic to that since most people probably get it at home.
Yep, totally logical. All you have to do is accept as fact something that has been disproven by a dozen clinical trials.
“What we have been doing isn’t working! Let’s do it harderer!”
-Los Angeles Public Health Offical (probably)
I ‘member when the original, correct premise was that you cannot stop the spread.
health officials are now advising all essential workers to wear masks inside their own home
All together now:
“Fuck you, you fucking fuck.”
“Now is not the time to meet with friends at your home to watch the game,” Ferrer said in a statement. “It is not the time to go for a walk without a mask.”
“All it takes is one mistake and soon, five, 10 or 20 other people become infected — many of whom could be your friends, family members, or colleagues.”
Apocalypse porn. Fap fap fap.
It was so much easier when the nut-jobs had the good grace to stand on a street corner, wearing a sandwich board and shouting their paranoid delusions at pigeons.
Who wants to place bets that this fucker will be caught watching the game with a large group of friends? It seems to be a trend with the morally preening authoritarians who order us not to live our lives.
Cases =/= infections.
Then what is the source of infection?
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS. EXECPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/strange-fm-signal-discovered-coming-from-jupiter-moon
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
( I post here once before as SCP-610, so I’ve already had my Fuck off, Tulpa)
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS. EXECPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/strange-fm-signal-discovered-coming-from-jupiter-moon
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
( I post here once before as SCP-610, so I’ve already had my Fuck off, Tulpa)
Sorry for the double post, I got impatient.