Yes, I know it’s Friday and all of You People™ are preparing for a weekend of frivolity. I will not. I will be absolutely serious because these are serious times with serious problems that need to be discussed seriously. No joking around, no frivolity. No references to my dick.
Birthdays today include the inventor of our favorite weapon; a perennial loser; a maker of really crappy cars including the infamous Deux Chevaux; a “comedian” who fits today’s theme; the greatest non-juiced slugger; an actually legal Alien; and a pioneer of the mockumentary genre.
Let’s get to news, seriously.
The outrage of letting people democratically elect their own representatives must be stopped!
The party of blue collar America.
“Here’s a meaningless metric we made up and lookie! The US sucks compared to the civilized world!”
He recovered. Too bad. Maybe it’s worse than they’re letting on. One can only hope.
Assume we’ll all be living in an ASBO world very shortly.
Fun to make believe, but ain’t gonna happen.
I try not to do Twatter links, but you gotta see this.
Old Guy Music is from a band that is fun but not funny. Not at all funny.
Democrats Kicked Marjorie Taylor Greene Off Of Her House Committees. All But 11 Republicans Voted To Support Her.
Team Red needs to grow a fucking spine. She hasn’t claimed to believe anything more crazy than several Dems in either the House or Senate.
THaT’S DiFFeReNT!
Their conspiracy theories are fake but accurate.
The Bee of course.
So why can’t we pay off all student loans and give those recipients a bonus of 10K so they can start life for a down payment on a car, the balance which can be forgiven later. It’ll jump start the economy.
I rite gud
Someone noted yesterday that Dems kicking GOPers off their own committees is “unprecedented”.
It’s heartening to see that the new administration is returning to the graceful norms that Donald constantly violated.
If team red had a spine they wouldn’t be team red.
JFC.
These people are insane.
But can the right find a federal judge somewhere to block it?
Cuz, that’s how it works, right?
Now I’m wishing there was an actual storming of the capital and we had to find replacements for all these stupid people. We’ve got no shortage of stupid people to replace them.
with the flick of a pen
Something something executive orders something something dictator.
I recall someone else saying an executive action would be unconstitutional. That Congress needed to act.
So I’ll be getting reimbursed for the loans I paid off, right? RIGHT?
It’s like this.
I didn’t get any loans so I just get screwed? What’s up with that?
Yup. As do I, the guy who just busted his ass to pay off his loans.
You paid ahead, 4×20.
“Of course not,” Warren replied.
Thanks, Rhywun, who originally linked this piece. It’s a really good article to share with anyone in your life who may be reachable because the author makes it clear that the problem is not the people signing up for free stuff, but the people offering that free stuff.
There is no such thing as moral hazard. /progtards
No, and you’re a bad person for insisting that other people suffer just because you suffered.
I must be lacking caffeine or something but where on earth does the president get the power to “cancel debt”…?
He’s the executive! He’s got a pen, a phone, and a pudding cup!
You don’t really cancel debt, you just push it off onto someone else. In this case, the tax payer.
And then tuition costs goes up even further while admissions standards fall further because even college deans are smart enough to do basic math.
And then tuition costup rther while admissions standards fall further because even college deans are smart enough to do basic math.
However, we *are* smart enough to only post once.
PS–I wish I had just a little bit of say in either one of those. At my school, the legislature sets the tuition and many of the admission standards.
I am trying to find the part of the constitution where the president has the power to nullify a loan contract with the flick of a pen.
Note that it is not the fucking colleges that are hotbeds of marxist indoctrination and rip people off by giving them pennies on the dollar of their investment, but tax payers, and especially the tax payers that had kids for whom they paid the full price of their college loans, that end up footing the fucking bill…
Hmmm. The youngest patzer has a full tuition scholarship, but I’m still coughing up room + board. I’m thinking that the smart play is to take out a student loan of, say, $50K to cover those expenses. Effectively, free money since that loan will soon be forgiven by our magnanimous parents in DC. Am I doing this right?
You should. Right or wrong.
I’m thinking the same bad thoughts about the Alter Boys.
Wonder how it would affect their credit scores? Probably be a net plus. They took $50K loans and didn’t stiff the banks.
Can I have my loans that I finished paying off 15 years ago retroactively forgiven? With interest?
What form do I fill out to get reimbursed if I was responsible and paid them back? I’d also like some kind of salary differential payment for choosing to go to a relatively affordable school with less name cache.
I’m already adjusting my financial plans for when the consequences of this hit us. Me thinks we have inflation, economic malaise, and massive tax hikes in our near future.
I have outstanding student loan debt and I am still against this idea. I made the decision to incur the debt so taxpayer should not be on the hook for it. Something something principles.
Oh, you guys are so ethical.
Think of it as a retroactive scholarship and it’ll be OK.
Exactly, trashy. Basically it’s borrowing money for college and making your children pay for it.
Maxim laid claim to inventing the lightbulb.
Another cracker tryna take credit for the accomplishments of a black man.
Yup…
My favorite weapon is surprise.
Not the spiffy uniforms?
What about fear? Or Ruthless efficiency?
I just like a nice comfy chair
https://i.imgur.com/FsyQmnm.jpg
“The easiest way to do it is for President Biden [to do it] with the flick of a pen,” he said.
Sure, why not?
Well, I suppose Biden or Schumer could do it by breaking out their personal checkbooks. That just requires a flick of the pen…
Why are you laughing?
They have the house, the senate and the presidency. Why wouldn’t they just do it the way they’re supposed to?
They need to get the military on board. I hear they are working on that.
Don’t need to whip those 15 or 20 democrats who have a few principles into line.
Can be simultaneously for and against it if you don’t have to vote.
Takes no time away from impeachment.
Basically, all upside and no downside.
I’m not sure it would be principles that make it hard to get all the Dems to sign on. I bet a bunch of them (especially from the poorer districts) know that they won’t get re-elected if they vote to give rich kids $50K.
Self-preservation > principles.
I think they plan to follow Obama’s example. Biden will say it isn’t in his power. Push Congress to do it. If Congress doesn’t, Biden will decide it is within his power.
Congress would pass legislation allowing Biden to refill his pen…
A COVID-19 conspiracy theorist has been banned from visiting UK hospitals — unless for emergencies and appointments
Aren’t those the main reasons to visit a hospital?
after filming empty hospital corridors to falsely claim the government was lying about the scope of the pandemic, according to reports.
So who’s a “conspiracy theorist”?
Also, would.
In the UK “Emergency” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
filming empty hospital corridors to falsely claim the government was lying about the scope of the pandemic
So, the corridors weren’t really empty? Or maybe they’re just pissed she showed evidence to possibly contradict their narrative.
Yes…
Hhokay, that’s shifts her a bit more to the “crazy” side o’ the matrix.
Then again, if she does actually have a twin sister…
That would invoke the well known exception to the “never in crazy” axiom, which is “unless they are twins and they live on a completely different continent”.
Good answer! Good answer!
Sorry, ING-Glibs. Your country is lost.
But we’re catching up!
Anti social behavior oder? I…..Uh…..ok.
But the cops beating people in the park is totally pro social behavior. The UK is nuts.
Do we need Swiss to whey in on this?
Damnit, meant to be a reply Shpip below! Why is this site against equal access for drunks!?
Cheese puns? You’re a Muenster.
Yes, ASBO’s have been a thing for what… a couple decades? I know I sometimes forget that the UK has been circling the drain for a very long time.
A Blair innovation.
No wonder his art seems so cheesy.
Do we need Swiss to whey in on this? (I fixed it! No edit button needed!)
That’s a gouda dea.
He shall be dnied 3 times bfore the cock crows, and thus you will know he is Devine!
The Pride of Kingman, AZ.
That’s where went with that soft ball?! I mean sure I spelled it wrong, but I’m drunk!
Heh. I remember a bit from “Andy’s Gang” where Andy was showing us kiddies how to make scrambled eggs. It went something like this:
Andy: “So you crack the egg…”
Froggy: “And put it on your head”
Andy: “And put it on your head… Confound it , Froggy!”
I’m not up on the details of the theories, but don’t they claim that there are lots of pedos in power positions in DC? Like, you know, the Lincoln Project scumbag?
So, the Singapore fab’s YPD tools have fallen down and gone boom. Being one of the world’s foremost experts on said machines (no really! The legal department wrote it down and everything!) I’m trying to finagle my way to get sent over there and fix them.
Considering that when they hired me, they promised me six weeks in Singapore and six weeks in Dresden but never actually got aroud to that…
Probably won’t happen, but a man can dream.
So, what do the machines do?
Strip off the glass layer that forms on silicon wafers exposed to air, and then rub them with a solution of your choice. You can also play around with them to etch into the bulk Si, add various accoutements to break down non-SiO films, and all sorts of other good stuff.
Sounds expensive.
A German or Japanese machine costs between one and two million for a base model. A Chinese knockoff can be obtained for a third of that. The only US manufacturer is actually a Chinese guy brought over on an H1B by a German company that promptly wen’t bankrupt and fired him the day after he got here. Apparently if you’re bankrupt, you can’t sue people for stealing your patents, so the dude took all of his service manuals and started making his own Chinese knockoffs in Oregon. He has since made enough improvements that his tools are distinguishable from the (reformed) German company’s.
The machines are acutally pretty simple, the expense comes from having to make everything out of PEEK, PTFE and all of the sensors and multiply redundant safey features so you don’t release HF vapor into the environment.
So you get to be Jame Gumm in Singapore and Dresden? Lucky!
I’d love to visit Dresden but I’m sorry six weeks in Singapore sounds horrible to me. Oppressive in more ways than one.
Is that because you like to spit on sidewalks or because you like sodomy? I don’t want assume.
Really? The food alone would make the trip worthwhile for me.
OK, there is one redeeming feature.
And I’m sure the people are nice, too.
But the oppressive heat and the oppressive government give me pause.
Oh, I wouldn’t want to live there, but a company-paid visit? Gimme!
Yeah, when I got hired last year for my second shift job I just needed to ‘fill in for a couple weeks on third shift’, that was right before ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’. Man these have been some LONG weeks…
A couple (hundred) weeks?
At my last place there was a training class I had to go to. There were two locations, a suburb of Indianapolis, or Amsterdam. Finagling flight times, hotel stays, and using PTO, I was able to get the Amsterdam trip to cost just under the Indianapolis trip. The director of the office I was supporting was on board, but my boss’s boss nixed it, “because it wouldn’t look good”.
Fucking asshole.
Look good to whom?
Other executives and managers was our guess.
The director who was on board bitched out my boss for not just booking it, and using the lower cost as justification if the beancounters pushed back.
You were right OMWC, that tweet redeems all of Twitter for at least a day or two. Real fine police work there Lou.
I’m not sure it is true, but I sure hope it is.
This is the same FBI that had a lawyer falsify information to a FISA court, so they could follow the most corrupt and criminal president’s administration’s request they spy on his political opponents and enemies of all things, and then get 1 year house arrest probation and community service for that?
Yeah, these people are evil AND moronic.
I don’t get it.
Look carefully at the painting.
I still don’t get it. Someone photoshopped a big naked guy into the report?
That was the image the Feds used in their court filing. Defense attorneys are going to carve the prosecution up into little bits.
That’s pretty damn incompetent. Is this one of those falsus in unum things?
Look at the painting in the background (from the meme Wood sitting on a bed). That pic is doctored. And they submitted it as valid evidence.
I don’t do social media so I didn’t know that was a thing. Was the picture really submitted that way, or was the digital copy of the report photoshopped?
It was submitted that way.
Meanwhile in France…
New York Post
@nypost
81-person French orgy broken up for violating COVID-19 curfew https://trib.al/gDrKYfy
So it’s a menage a 80.
I was just reading the Bee, and I can’t tell the difference except for the color of the banner.
Also the article doesn’t say how ugly the participants were.
It doesn’t matter — they were masked!
Apparently not.
On the radio I heard the Grand Master of the Water Buffalo got transferred from a DC jail to a Virginia jail because he couldn’t eat any of the food at DC jail because it wasn’t Organic. Sounds just like a Right Wing Loon.
He’s falsely flagging as a leftie! /progtards still huffing Donald’s farts
Seems more like an attention whore than any kind of ideologue.
“Grand Poobah”
He meandered into Congress peacefully after being let in. Clearly he should suffer whatever gruel he is fed.
At least gruel is vegan.
What are you making your gruel from?
Spillage at the mill and whatever water is most convenient to obtain? Certainly NOT meat.
Sheesh, I’ve been using top shelf grain and milk.
That dude is screwed. He was the face of the “insurrection”, no matter what he did or didn’t do, he mocked the priests in their temple. They are going to hit him with both barrels.
NYT headline:
Biden freezes Trump troop withdrawal from Germany.
Muh EMPIRE!
If we leave Germany, the Nazis win!
I’d be more impressed if Trump had pulled them out in 2018 or something so it could have been done before Biden could reverse it.
“America’s back, baby!”
If you still don’t see that this was done to help China win the space race, and thus win it all, then you don’t see what the new autocratic class’ agenda really is…
Not only that, but Musk wants to establish a private Mars colony independent of US Govt oversight. Can’t have that. Can’t have anyone escaping.
Ah, so now we know where Galt’s Gulch was going to be.
Does Elon Musk have a copy of Kings of the High Frontier?
I wonder when the useful idiots’ buyers remorse kicks in?
My brother, who otherwise believes everything the TV tells him, was ranting about how stupid the MSM is wrt r/WSB since he’s part of that. I despair that he won’t apply that bit of evidence to his priors about the reliability of the MSM.
If you haven’t already, point out to him the existence of Gell-Mann Amnesia.
It NEVER happens.
I know several regionally influential vape shop owners/juice manufacturers/distributors. All of them could clearly see the BS peddled by the media and government about vape products over the last decade, and particularly with that fake nicotine vapor disease that was actually caused by black market THC vapes, with both the media and CDC unwilling to admit what everyone else already knew until after they destroyed the social gains from a decade’s worth of hard fought advocacy, and dragged an entire industry through the mud.
I told them, “You know this stupidity you’ve seen the media and government engage in. The lies, complete misunderstanding of what they’re talking about, and deceptions, all in an effort to stamp you out?
Now it’s time to understand that this how how they present EVERYTHING. This is how they operate as a matter of everyday course, and shouldn’t be trusted on anything at all.”
Of the 4, only 1 got it. Everyone else thought I was wearing my tin foil hat.
It NEVER happens. […] Of the 4, only 1 got it.
I think you’re being overly pessimistic here. Most people don’t choose the red pill because it’s hard to swallow. But some do, and over time, their numbers grow. People don’t change overnight, but they can change.
I despair that he won’t apply that bit of evidence to his priors about the reliability of the MSM.
Give it time. WSB could be another GamerGate moment for a lot of people.
Nobody will be allowed to ever again challenge the credentialed ruling class. EVAH!
It’s incredible how fast the vocal anti-Wall Street Dems and MSM have fallen in line to defend the hedge funds. It’s giving me whiplash. The pols are all just actors and prostitutes. Except maybe Rand.
And Massie.
Those were the words of the opinion writer, not any administration mouthpiece.
Tell me the difference. ; )
I came across this last night and thought it would interest those who were the most stoked up about the bellwether counties.
The below comes right after a very good graphic.
Now do the pollster predictions of the 2020 election for us…
I thought the analysis pointed out why what some folks thought was so critical had flaws. I’d also note that those counties were only tracked through a relatively few elections. I wouldn’t be surprised if you couldn’t find different sets at different times that were also ‘flawless’ in their conformance to national results.
Cause what you fail to see is that the “irregularities” occur because of the fraud.
In the bellwether counties? In ’16 too?
If you still have not realized that problem in 16 was that there simply was not enough cheating to get the result the the ruling class expected, because the rabble showed up in numbers too large for the contingencies to overcome, and that our election system is designed for fraud that favors the ruling class’ ability to pick the real winner, then the issue is with you.
No country would keep a system as broken and opaque as the one we have, so prone to fraud, around unless they had a good reason. And our élite ruling class has a good reason: they want the rabble to think their votes matter, but they want to make sure the rabble can be countermanded if they are not picking the right/approved candidate.
The Trump win will not be allowed again. Why do you think they are so desperate to destroy the man and only want to do things that will make it even easier to steal elections when they talk about “fixing things”?
OK, I’ll accept that I am not a full blown conspiracy theorist. Totally okay with that.
Expected nothing less from you man. I ask again: why would we have a broken and opaque system, rife with holes and possibilities for cheating, and anyone that points that out or tries to fix it gets silenced with accusations of having nefarious motives, if there was no value to keeping the broken system?
Also why do we have such a manic campaign to not just silence, but punish, anyone pointing this and the way the 2020 election went down? You would figure that people that had nothing to hide and were certain their win was aboveboard would not only have welcomed transparency and getting the chance to not use technicalities in court to pretend all is well. You kill “conspiracy theories” not by demanding people be silenced and punished, but by showing them – with facts and logic, and not legal tricks and kabuki theatre – the error of their ways.
After 4 years of morons telling us a Russian bot on faceplant that cost $100K stole the election for a KGB sleeper that the mandarinate had managed to maneuver as the opposition candidate to their criminal choice (hoping his negative numbers would overshadow hers), we now get told any and all attempts to question what clearly looks like a stolen election is nothing but insane conspiracy theories running rampant.
BTW ask Bernie if he things elections are not rigged (in private)…
There is a difference between broken and designed for coordinated manipulation. Even if they produce similar results. The whole argument about ’20 has been coordinated manipulation – down the supply chain to the companies that make vote-counting systems. That assumes long-term, well-managed corruption.
The point of the article I linked is that the bellwethers were “off” (if you accept the premise of their “normal” behavior) starting in ’16. I think Trump’s election then was something of a fluke, not a failure of a corrupt system to be sufficiently corrupt. I also don’t think even he really expected to win, which is why he seeded your mind (and others) with all of his talk about rigging. He never had a fucking clue about the actual mechanisms, he just wanted an excuse for the loss he assumed was coming. You now take that as gospel.
And yes, I don’t doubt that Bernie and Trump supporters are closer than either would care to admit. Just like the Nazis and Communists of Weimar Germany were cut from the same cloth. It speaks a great deal to the human condition that people like that become the fiercest of enemies.
“There is a difference between broken and designed for coordinated manipulation.”
Absolutely. But what we have is a broken system designed to allow a ton of coordinated manipulation is specific cases/places that are more than enough to fucking rig every election.
And when you have that ability, why wouldn’t you?
So we’re at the stage where every state is going to retry their old has-beens, right? Looks, like DENNIS! is trying to return to his roots.
They learned it from watching Hollywood, okay?
Talk about a guy who married up.
Considering the height of the average Ameircan worman, he’d have to try to not .
He didn’t really have any other options. Man’s a midget (both physically and mentally). The local press was all abuzz when he announced his marriage.
Good morning!
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s OK.
Gunter gleiben glauchen globen
All right
I got somethin’ to say
Yeah, it’s better to burn out than fade away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d98oEyroOsw
Everybody’s favorite weapon? So it’s Hayeksplosives’ birthday?
That would be his brother, Hudson Maxim.
This was regarded and deemed worthy.
Who had Cicada swarm for spring of 2021?
BILLIONS OF CICADAS THAT HAVE spent 17 years underground are set to emerge across large areas of the eastern United States, bringing swarming numbers and loud mating calls to major towns and cities.
The periodic cicadas—bugs with strikingly red eyes, black bodies and orange wings—burrow underground as nymphs and suck fluids from the roots of plants as they grow, eventually bursting into the open as adults in mass synchronized events.
I take it the difference is that the Democrats don’t go away for 17 years after having devastated the country?
Land shrimp!!! Yum!
You know who else engaged in mass synchronized events?
The French apparently.
Ours will come in 2025.
2008 was a bitch. So damn loud it sounded as if the sound were emanating from my head. Even inside.
We’re back, baby!
“America is back, diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy,” Biden said. “We will repair our alliances, engage with the world once again — not to meet yesterday’s challenges but today’s and tomorrow’s.”
The president’s remarks were his first address to a government agency other than the White House and underscored his effort to turn the page on Trump’s “America First” agenda, which Biden has often criticized as leaving “America alone.”
Biden also spoke of the need for foreign policy to advance U.S. interests domestically.
“There’s no longer a bright line between foreign and domestic policy. Every action we take, and our conduct abroad, we must take with American working families in mind,” Biden said.
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Biden also said that he is ordering a global posture review of U.S. forces to ensure that the American military footprint is “appropriately aligned” with national security priorities.
Biden announced that he would sign an executive order to lay the groundwork for increasing refugee admissions to 125,000 persons, up from the 15,000 cap that was established during the Trump administration.
And he announced he would further sign a presidential memorandum aimed at protecting LGBTQ individuals worldwide, as part of efforts promoting equity in the U.S. and abroad.
The president last month signed an executive order reversing an order by Trump that instituted a ban on most transgender people openly serving in the military as well as an executive order on preventing discrimination of LGBTQ individuals.
Biden’s speech, which had been delayed due to a snowstorm earlier this week, also represented an effort to reach out to State Department personnel and bolster morale among officials following a tumultuous four years under Trump.
We’ll be putting our fingers in a lot more pies, from here on out.
What’s good for
General MotorsChina is good for America!What’s good for
General MotorsChina is good forAmericaDisney!I expect him to remove troops in Afghanistan (a good thing) for the adoration and praise of the press (a bad thing) and that same press will say it was such a brave move and a humbling moment on America’s part to admit it failed to accomplish its mission.
I also expect he will be nominated and win the nobel peace prize.
Did you see the weasel-word announcement on Yemen? We are no longer conducting offensive operations.
defensive kinetic military action?
I would never say such a thing! — F.U.
diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy,” Biden said
Aggressive diplomacy, aka diplomacy with bombs.
we must take with American working families in mind,” Biden said.
Which necessitates that we fund abortions overseas…
he would sign an executive order to lay the groundwork for increasing refugee admissions to 125,000 persons
American. Working. Families. In. Mind.
a presidential memorandum aimed at protecting LGBTQ individuals worldwide
Which is different than the Trump initiative how?
bolster morale among officials following a tumultuous four years under Trump
Trumps state department was a wasteland with no accomplishments. It is known.
Trumps state department was a wasteland with no accomplishments. It is known.
Awhile back I heard an NPR interview with some former state dept swamp dweller. The host (don’t remember which one) was leading him into explaining how the state dept had many unfilled overseas posts and it was sooooo dangerous to not be diplomatting everywhere. He then later admitted that all the mid east peace treaties that the Trump administration achieved did not come out of state. They went around them. The host was aghast that they left out all the professional Top Men.
Like when he made us more dependent on foreign energy by canceling the pipeline and fracking on government lands.
Every action we take, and our conduct abroad, we must take with American working families in mind,” Biden said.
Like pissing on Canada and hurting thousands of US “working families” by cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline, asshole?
Not those working families.
They will get better jobs* …. eventually.
*As defined by somebody else, not them.
Tara Reade says hello.
Poor babies had teh sadz. It’s tough work raping taxpayers when there’s a BOM tweeting mean stuff.
Anyone see a parallel with how the Vegas Shooting incident and many other bad events the left needed to use to push their agenda always disappearing from the news after they had peddled the worst possible version of events for their enemies disappears from the news – so the rabble wouldn’t get contradictory facts to what the people that wouldn’t want to let a crisis go to waste – and the whole Capitol insurrection are being handled?
I’m working on Part 16 of A Path To Wellness based on this very premise.
Survey time: anyone from our SuperSPreader event last weekend come down with the Vid?
No? Huh.
According to a friend of the girlfriend, we’ll all be dead by next week, and even if we aren’t it was reckless and disregarded the risk to others.
Disregarding risks to others…a hobby of mine. I hope when you responded to her you spoke in extra-lispy, spitty pronunciations.
This was on Facebook, where I have no account. I’m pretty sure I’m happier because of that.
My sister assured me back in March that I was become death, destroyer of worlds, because of where I worked…
SuperSPreader event
I KNEW it was an orgy!
Still alive here.
*toots alpenhorn
Those are quite impressive when payed on mountaintops. I’d heard them played on flat land and was very “meh.” But Whiteface had a group on the summit for Oktoberfest and they were fantastic, playing harmonies with their own echoes.
Bank of America Secretly Flagged Purchase History of Customers and Sent the Data to Feds After Capitol Riot
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/bank-america-secretly-flagged-purchase-history-customers-sent-data-feds-capitol-riot/
It’s GP, but it’s not like the WSJ is going to report something like this. Sounds like Tucker Carlson may have touched on it.
Third party doctrine says no 4th Amdt problem here – we’re good!
We are not heading to a huge dystopian country: we are already there…
And the people doing this evil shit are going along with it voluntarily. They WNAT to be a part of it. All the people that wondered how the Nazis or the commies got away with the horrible things they did should now realize that they did so because so many people actually not only went along with the shit, regardless of how over the top it was, but actively supported it. Everyone pretends they wouldn’t be part of something horrible like the Nazi or commie purges and acts, and that they actually would fight against them, but from recent events like this one we can convincingly ignore any of their claims their morality would allow them to recognize and block these things from happening again.
…and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Some old, dead white guy.
“It’s GP”
According to the commenters, Jesus will ride in on his dinosaur and re-install the rightful Trump as God Emperor President.
Yes, it was on Tucker last night.
Combine this with the fact that anyone who questions government overreach is now a “domestic terrorist” and we begin to see where the country is very rapidly headed.
The last time I had to visit a doc there was some punk kid in the lobby of the building. As I walked in he jumped in front of me and demanded to know if I was there for a doc’s appointment. There is nothing in the building aside from doctor’s offices.
“No, I just come here for the fun of it. Get out of my way.”
The cootie panic stupidity is starting to get under my skin.
Man I hope we get enough advance notice on when this student loan forgiveness thingy is going to hit so I can cover the tuition/room/board at Taran Tactical.
I should take out some loans to finish my commercial pilot certificate and ATP.
Yeah, I wonder if it is going to be prospective in any way. I’d sure like to take out $50k in loans and get it forgiven in a month.
Mmmmmmm…. free money….. /Homer Simpson Voice
Oh, you know it will only be for approved programs from “proper” institutions, right?
I saw it coming 20 years, that’s why I ain’t paid a cent on those ‘loans’. Haha, you idjits!
Damn straight: Sign up, don’t go to class, rent extremely expensive house, eat nothing but filet mignon and drink champagne for a semester or two, get bailed out. Sounds like a plan.
Your Guide To The Gun Bills Introduced In Congress (So Far)
Looks like some horseshit.
Highlights:
H.R. 130 – The first of several gun control bills on our list filed by Texas Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. The “Kimberly Vaughan Firearm Safe Storage Act” would require all firearms to be unloaded and locked up in a gun safe with a trigger lock attached. Violations of the law could result in a fine of up to $100,000 and a 20-year federal prison sentence if a person’s unsecured gun was used in the commission of a violent crime.
H.R. 127 – The Sabika Sheik Firearm Licensing and Registration Act is another special bill from Rep. Jackson Lee, and this legislation actually has received a good deal of media attention, at least in the 2A community, thanks to its absolutely insane mandates for a national gun license that would require psychological evaluations, sign off from former spouses and other character references, and 24 hours of training in order to legally own a gun.
H.R. 135 – Another bill from Rep. Jackson Lee. HR 135 requires the director of the FBI to “report to the Congress semiannually on the number of firearms transfers resulting from the failure to complete a background check within 3 business days, and the procedures followed after it is discovered that a firearm transfer has been made to a transferee who is ineligible to receive a firearm.”
No separate 20-page registration form for each separate round of ammo?
Slackers.
Each bullet must be individually serialized, recovered after firing, and taken to a proper disposal/recycling facility.
The social contract you didn’t sign says you’re supposed to like this.
Honestly, though, even the Dems ignore Sheila Jackson lee (Stupid Cunte – TX).
How is she still on any committees?
She has the “right” (meaning craziest leftist) crazy ideas, sexual organs, and melanin?
If you missed the video of Sheila Jackson Lee speaking on her bill, you must run, do not walk, to your nearest youtube clip. In it she claims to have held an AR-15 and noted that “they are heavy. They are like as heavy as 10 boxes if you are moving.” And it shoots “.50 caliber bullets [sic]. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSeiuEeQzK0&ab_channel=ColionNoir
Snopes Fact Check (probably): She didn’t stipulate that the boxes weren’t empty. “Mostly True”
This brings up my pet peeve and daily rant:
What the hell was up with all of those reporters? You are a reporter. Presumably at least a couple of them have heard of an AR-15.
Yet nobody chimes in with even a polite version of “what the hell are you talking about?”
This crap is important. They are talking about a law that will directly restrict one of your basic constitutional rights – and she has the power to actually do something about it. And you just sit there and passively take in that nonsense, without even a small challenge? Don’t the people have a right to see just how well their representatives understand the issues they are addressing and the laws they are proposing?
An AR-15 is heavy? Really? A rifle that is entirely designed around being light and using light ammo so that soldiers can carry more rounds. That’s heavy. And what does heavy even mean in this context. Does that mean dangerous? Is it sexist because she can’t lift it?
Don’t know, because you didn’t ask.
And .50 caliber. Really? A weapon entirely designed around having a lightweight round that has similar stopping power to an old M1 because the lighter bullet is designed to tumble. That’s the one that fires .50 caliber rounds. Does she actually know any of this? Is she even remotely qualified to comment on these issues? Or was she just confused because someone handed her a .50 caliber sniper rifle one time and she conflated that with the popular AR?
Don’t know. Because you hacks didn’t ask.
Is there not a single competent journalist in this nation?
The M1 fires 0.30.
0.308 or cast 0.309
The rifle was “U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1”. It used .30-06 (7.62×63).
“Is there not a single competent journalist in this nation?”
That’s the punchline to a joke, right?
Cause the people pretending to be journalists all seem to be leftist statist propagandists. I get more news from vloggers and bloggers, with more logic and facts, than I do from any “NEWS” entity these days…
Sad, but true.
I get that CNN and MSNBC are going to be all propaganda. Hell, even a few of the major networks.
But isn’t there a single print reporter in the room? Not one radio guy who is trying to get the facts straight for his story?
Not even a sycophant who says “did you really mean to say that?”
Nope. Nothing.
I keep saying it, but the guys at Pravda had more integrity.
Stephen Crowder, for instance, is a comedian that does infotainment that is far more accurate than the “news” you get in the msm. And he has his biases that he is fully aware of and honest about.
And this is a phenom I find most people on the left struggle with. I suspect it is because leftists are prone to the mental disorder of believing “experts” regardless of how inept and moronically wrong those experts prove they are, which is why CNN, PMS-NBC, and so on can blatantly lie for 4 years and insult their intelligence and still remain credible to them. People that overcome the whole “believe the experts” lie, tend to develop skills that allow them to listen to people they know are biased and figure out what is likely to be inaccurate or tainted by that bias.
In the mean time a large swat of people will keep listening to the propagandists and despite the evidence, continue to believe whatever they tell them, because these people are the self anointed “experts”….
*struggles to resist ‘well, ackshually’*
*fails*
full-auto .50 caliber AR -15:
Holy crap.
Full auto at a couple of bucks a shot? Ok, moneybags…
And, did they just commit a felony by putting that franken-gun together? Or does the license follow the lower?
The lower is the only part that is a firearm. The upper might as well be a scope or a flashlight.
There’s no license. It’s a tax-paid registration of the transfer of a firearm. Some part of the gun is the “registered firearm” part, and as long as it is present, it should be all good. There are some crazy “transferable” machineguns that were registered in the run up to the implementation of HR4332 in 1986–there are registered receivers, bolts, bolt carriers, trigger packs, sears, what have you.
Rest the butt of an AR-15 on your junk. Then pull the trigger and tell me how powerful it is.
Then do that with a .50*.
*Disclaimer: Do NOT actually do that.
There were a lot of first-time shooters in basic. A drill sergeant fired an M-16 with the butt on his junk to alleviate their fears about the kick.
Other things not to do with a .50:
shoot steel at close range
The 5.56mm round is not designed to tumble in flight. That would make it rather inaccurate. The original 1:14 twist rate specified for the M16 caused bullets to actually tumble in flight due to inadequate gyroscopic stabilization, but later the twist rate was changed to 1:12 to prevent that tendency and improve cold-air stability. More recent improvements have twist rates in the 1:7 to 1:9 range to allow for much heavier bullets to be stabilized.
The original 55 or 56 grain bullets (M193 cartridge) would tumble and fragment upon impact, but the M855 (with SS109 62 grain “penetrator tip” projectile ) is designed more for penetration than fragmentation.
I never heard about tumbling in flight…. only that the geometry was designed to be unstable once penetrating flesh, creating a tumbling motion that amplifies the damage.
I really doubt that it was “designed” to tumble. All spitzer bullets will do so.
The couple of documentaries on the history of the M-16 that I have seen definitely stated that the .nato bullet was designed to tumble to compensate for the reduced caliber. There were even movements to make it illegal because of that.
Then I read Wikipedia because of your post.. and it says that any round will tumble like that, I suppose in a debunking effort?
Anyway, I definitely watched experts tell me the other version, and that it was on purpose, and I watched “human rights activists” tell me that the wounds were almost impossible to treat because the bullet would take left turns in the body and just wreck everything, with no obvious bullet path for a surgeon to follow.
It would be odd if the entire thing is a myth. Probably par for the course, but odd nonetheless.
It’s been pretty well debunked for a while, but myths are forever, and truth finds hard ground to establish roots in.
Also, at close to medium range, the bulk of the tissue damage is done by the shock wave of the bullet passing through the tissue. It can liquefy tissue well away from the actual wound channel. Tumbling is unnecessary.
” All spitzer bullets will do so.”
Not all of them.
Is there not a single competent journalist in this nation?
They’re all quite competent at their jobs. It’s just that their jobs aren’t what you think they are.
This is the “sad but true” point of the day. Or rather, of the new millennium.
She didn’t say the caliber of the weapon was 0.50, she may be referring to someone shooting at 0.50 caliber bullets. -> Mostly True
And it fires in FULL semi-automatic.
Didn’t they already rule this shit unconstitutional in Heller?
Like, literally this?
Walked in to a mess this morning. Wheel bearing is locked up. Im at the wheel shop right now getting a new one.
http://imgur.com/gallery/iXeN1Yq
They have a store for train wheels? Or this is “the shop”, as in you guys have an entire workshop for wheels?
‘Cause I wanna go to the train parts store.
HOOT!
Alex gets it.
Well, here you go.
I actually remember going to this place when I was a kid. Still a neat little local shop.
Heh! When my dad moved into his assisted living apartment a year and a half ago, he gave me the old N gauge train set that I bought for us to build together some 30 years ago. We never got around to it, but he still had all the parts and the plans we drew up. I left the mounting board because it wouldn’t fit for the drive back… but now it can sit around my place for a few decades before I pass it on to my son…..
We have a shop for just about everything we work on here. Those are actually overhead crane wheels, but very similar to what would be on a train. Train wheels are not as thick as our overhead crane wheels. They aren’t designed to carry as heavy a load as the crane wheels.
When we change a crane wheel, we pull one that we have rebuilt out of our warehouse and install it. The failed wheel goes to our mechanic shop and gets new bearings/wheel/ coupling/wheel hub whatever is wrong with it.
We go through the same process with alot of our equipment. We have a team of 8 mechanics that work day shift in our rebuild shop. They refurbish all kinds of stuff for us.
Tundra should recognize that classy painting in the twitter. Someone may have tricked him into looking at that. The person who tricked him was very clever (and extremely handsome).
Tundra told me that someone texted him a link to “Gov Walz’s new shutdown order that would close liquor stores”. But the link wasn’t to any edict, but to that piece of art.
Nice. I believe that is called Cock Rolling.
LOL!
Yeah, the story was even funnier because of that!
Has that Time article about the election “cabal” been discussed while I’ve been scarce? Because it’s shockingly brazen that Time actually published it.
It’s not rigging, but lets also then not kid ourselves that Biden is anything but the President selected by Tech and Media Giants as a big FU to the right and the populist Left. That is my perspective.
the right and the populist Left
Fair point, the Bernie supporters have to have gagged on this almost as hard as our local Trump devotees.
“Fortifying” it, or covering up the rigging?
Forgot to link the article
Needs more sugar.
Uffda. This story from Minnesoda’s biggest paper is quite the deal.
I’m at a loss at how to respond. Is there really nothing they won’t do to promote The Cure and scare us about the Rona?
There’s nothing I won’t do to promote The Cure!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3J2g91X3Z5I
My anti-vaxxer neighbour actually just passed away at 104 and 7 months, story checks out 😉
I hate it when that happens
https://youtu.be/Im1aXFYoedg
One of SNL’s darker turns before they became totally woke. Billy is not “funny” funny. I hate watched that season.
Even my wife, who is perhaps the poster child for TDS, cannot take SNL.
The very best joke she has made in our nearly 2 decades – I cracked a joke and she said “you’re funny… You might even be able to write for Saturday Night Live.”.
Ouch.
Every once in awhile they will slip up and do Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks or have Dave Chapelle write some skits when he hosts.
The Frozen 2 deleted scenes bit wasn’t that funny but they even had a joke that recognized it’s absurd in the name of diversity to have a black guy in rural 1840s Norway.
Some of my favorite cast members. Is it true they ad-libbed a lot of this series of skits?
They were a lot less “tight” back then, and most of the cast came from improv backgrounds with groups like the Groundlings and SCTV. So they would run short and need to fill 2 minutes, and just vamp on a bit. One famous one was the Steve Martin/Bill Murray bit where they look at something off camera and say “what the hell IS that?” for a couple of minutes. They literally got shoved out there, still dressed for other skits, and told to fill time. No prep. No warning. Just – “here, national TV. Go!”
Coincidentally, I recently got sucked into a youtube wormhole about Bob and Doug McKenzie, of SCTV fame. The entire “Great White North” local cable show bit was improved, and they shot them in just a couple of runs. They didn’t even prep – they just came up with a topic and turned the camera on.
I could pull that off if I were actually an animated Hat and Hair.
I would guess that would be the case with Guest. His movies are largely improv.
Let me reiterate. it just seemed so dark and NYC-centric. Everything was as dank as the set of Barney Miller or Good Times. Cocaine is a helluva drug.
uh…..what the hell was that? The laugh track is timed but doesn’t match up with anything funny. That has to be the worst ‘comedy’ I have ever seen.
I haven’t watched SNL since Mr. Bill was a feature.
Once at a White Sox game, I got into an elevator with Jesse Jackson. His two body guards were some of the biggest people I’d ever seen. The elevator operator said “Nice to see you Reverend” and that’s all that was said.
I guess he couldn’t come out and say “knock up any more mistresses, ‘Reverend’?”
My brother in law was with us. He’s not a fan of the reverend, to say the least. It was a very tense 90 seconds for him.
Dang that music was fine, OMWC! I nearly jumped up and danced a jig. Nearly.
SP made fun of me last night for liking them.
Booo, SP! Booo I say! I dig that stuff and if the grandkids laugh at me I know that they’ll eventually come around. I’ll be long dead by then. I used to mock my Grandad for his love of the Hanks and Bob Wills.
“mock my Grandad for his love of the Hanks and Bob Wills.”
You mocked me! Shame, shame on you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG3JEJFl_6k
I love you even a little more, 4×20.
You hear that!? She was a fucking Cancer Scientist! The most Scientist of all the Sciences! Because that is a for real occupation! Cancer Scientists work real hard and have important Cancer Degrees!
It’s beyond parody.
It’s all about telling the fucking serfs they should listen to the credentialed technocratic oligarchy, and ignore reality. And unfortunately half of the country is dumb or mentally unstable enough to go along.
Whenever I hear Tulsi speak she always seems measured and calm in her responses unlike poor Kamala who can’t get over choking on Willie Brown’s dick. Our first bukkake President! Rejoice!
Half? I’m afraid it’s a lot more than half.
Her mother was a cancer scientist? Really? My local newspaper said Harris was raised in poverty. Guess cancer scientists get paid even less than McDonald’s burger flippers.
Twas the Student Loans what led them to poverty?
Dude… I think the technical degree is in Cancerology.
But not a lady-cancer scientist. That would have been included if it were so.
Holy shit, I thought this was just random internet shitposting. It’s actually GQ.
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/joe-biden-makeover
I saw someone post that and thought it was the Babylon Bee or something.
That does look like a deepfake parody.
I wonder if he actually posed for that? Horse tackle on his shoulder? Really?
No kidding. I’d be fascinated to see someone knowledgable break down all the Photoshopping in that pic. Even teh background looks wonky. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to learn that there’s no Biden from the neck down, and the face is basically “based on a real photograph”.
It’s all photoshopped, they aren’t even hiding it.
we thought we’d give Biden the all-American makeover of his (but really our) dreams.
“The boat was wocking! Up and down! Wocking. Wocking…”
It’s all shopped. It’s GQ ‘reimagining” Biden in different types of fashion.
It’s all sycophancy of the worst kind.
Dig the “Bowie Bulge”!
I saw it on Not-the-Bee
Good lord…
Swagger-in-chief
More like “shuffle-in-chief”, amirite?
OK, this is a funny take on the GQ cover.
TW: Twitter.
LOL!
“The 46th potus is more than the saviour of the Union… He’s a true-blue style icon too”
How does one write this and then not blow their brains out?
Slurp slurp slurp
It’s very early in Kamala Harris’ vice presidency. So early, in fact, that she still has not yet moved into the official vice presidential residence at Washington, D.C.’s Naval Observatory as it undergoes maintenance work, according to a White House official.
But in her first two weeks on the job, the barrier-breaking first woman and first woman of color to serve in a job first held by John Adams has, so far at least, operated a lot like many of the vice presidents who came before her.
Harris has mostly been seen standing at President Biden’s side as he delivers remarks and signs executive orders. She’s sworn in members of Biden’s Cabinet.
All standard fare for vice presidents — at least when it comes to what happens in front of the cameras.
But both Harris and Biden are prioritizing the work the vice president is doing away from the cameras. “Let me tell you something,” Harris told NPR shortly before taking office, “on every decision that we have made as an incoming administration, we are in the room together: Joe and I, the president-elect and I.”
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Still, given Harris’ barrier-breaking place in the Biden administration — not to mention the open question of whether the 78-year-old Biden would run for a second term in 2024 — there’s a lot of focus on, and questions about, what Harris will do in public.
Jessica Byrd, a Democratic strategist and the co-founder of The Front Line, told NPR she views it all with what she calls “a nervous optimism.”
“I just know how complicated of a position she’s in,” she said, referring to the outsized demands often placed on women of color who are elevated to high positions, and the historic demands on Harris in particular.
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Harris traveled to the National Institutes of Health last week to receive her second coronavirus vaccine shot, using the moment to boost public confidence in vaccine efforts. “I want to urge everyone to take the vaccine when it is your turn,” she said, after being injected in front of reporters. “It is really pretty painless, and it will save your life.”
I’m so relieved all that deranged personality-cult-ism is safely behind us now.
“elevated to high positions”
I was under the impression Harris got her start by assuming a low position.
Her heels were elevated to high positions.
At least six feet away, right? RIGHT?
That bull-whip has a long lash.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT7LcO_VX-w
I didn’t think it was possible for him to look like more of a d-bag.
While criticizing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Hogg said, “We have seen one of the most remarkable and truly honestly a horrific change in the Republican Party over the past 30 years. I would say it really started in the ’90s, but you could even go back to the primary of Barry Goldwater and the New Conservative Movement way back in the 20th century, as I study my history classes in college. But it’s scary. It’s really scary because people used to think they’re mostly a group of good people that truly want what’s best for the country. Yeah, there is a fringe of people that may or may not be white supremacists, but that’s a very small minority of people.”
He added, “But now what we’re seeing is there are actual conspiracy theorists and white supremacists that are becoming the party. And the fringe are those people that were originally, you know, believed to be the majority. It’s truly terrifying.”
Studying history you will learn that those people are called “Democrats”.
But he was taught by The Best! The Brightest! He knows history better than those that lived through it! He was near a place once where people were shot!
Muh precious victimhood.
Tee hee. Like Davey goes to class. How is he supposed to have time to tweet, troll for progtail and run a pillow company if he goes to class?
“Hogg said, “We have seen one of the most remarkable and truly honestly a horrific change in the Republican Party over the past 30 years”
Hmmm, looks younger, like about 20 or so.
My mother was a cancer scientist. It was a shock when she herself was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away a year later.
She should have worn a mask or three. That would have saved her life.
The childish language is so condescending – “cancer scientist”.
It’s both condescending and indicative of a lack of knowledge regarding oncology and medicine in general.
I’ve seen “cancer researcher”, but no detail. She could have been washing test tubes in an oncology lab.
ONCOWOGY!
Legit LOL!
From Wiki
was an American biomedical scientist born in British India, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology
I guess they could have edited it this morning I don’t know how you check that kind of thing.
From a 2009 obit
Harris’s work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene transformed the medical establishment’s understanding of the hormone-responsiveness of breast tissue. Her discovery sparked many advances regarding the role of progesterone and its cellular receptor in breast biology and cancer.
Be that as it may, it doesn’t allow her dunderhead Daughter a free pass for using a term like “Cancer Scientist”. Did all the brains run down the slave-owners leg?
Politics infests everything, example N+1
There’s a “publication” I get that purports to be an industry trade rag, but it’s progged to hell and back
Cheap meat makes future pandemics likely say scientists in South Africa
Scientists in South Africa warn that unless we change our relationship with meat, more pandemics look increasingly likely in the future.
Nice neighbor…
Well that is a totally fucked situation. Dude executed them. Wtf?
We have seen one of the most remarkable and truly honestly a horrific change in the Republican Party over the past 30 years.
“WE”?
You’re fourteen years old, right?
He’s like Greta, someone is feeding him talking points. Look for him to mention “Ronald Ray Gun”.
Snopes had better watch out. CNN’s Fact Checkers are gunning for the title
CNN’s Fact Checkers call BS on Noem’s claim that SoDak got through the pandemic better than any other state because of their hands off approach.
Yup. According to public health figures SoDak sucked big time. More cases than every one. Sure they only tied for 6th in deaths, but cases is where it is at.
Later they grudgingly added
Everyone knows though that economic data doesn’t count in a pandemic!
How dare you put the economy ahead of the crisis. We can’t think about people’s ability to earn a living when they could catch a cold.
“Cases” is a meaningless statistic because it involves a bs test and does not account for the presence of symptoms.
Noem’s claim that South Dakota “got through it better than virtually every other state” is false with regard to public health: South Dakota has had the second-most coronavirus cases per capita and is in a tie with Connecticut for the sixth-most coronavirus deaths per capita, according to Johns Hopkins University data as of Thursday.
And health overall, especially mental health and “elective treatments”: do we have a measurement for such things, or do they not factor in?
“No!” they explained.
Not respecting the govt’s authority is a very serious mental health problem.
Soviet psychiatry diagnosis.
“cases”
So that top photo is what Orthodox 13 year-olds get to whack off at? It ain’t tube tops and hot pants but it will work for them in a Sears catalogue or TV Guide manner.
…but only on Sabbath when your parents can’t turn on the lights…
*touches side of (((nose)))*
House Judiciary GOP
@JudiciaryGOP
? HAPPENING NOW: @RepMattGaetz just requested that the Judiciary Committee recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each hearing.
@RepJerryNadler said it was “unnecessary.”
Why don’t Democrats want to say the Pledge?
I am against forcing school children to recite the pledge, but it seems like it should be a ceremonial thing if you are in the US government.
Why don’t Democrats want to say the Pledge?
If this doesn’t show how feckless the GOP is, nothing will.
The pledge is fucking irrelevant, the only reason you’re bringing it up is to deflect from the real issues that make you and your party look like cowardly pieces of shit.
Pledge allegiance to a symbol of racism and enslavement?
That’s crazy.
I thought it was written by a commie, or was it a flag salesmen.
A commie flag salesman.
A libertarian flag salesman would sell the flags and then burn them in the public square, refunding the money and then go home to fondle his guns.
There was definitely a crossroads transaction involving Chris Thile. I find him a tiny bit annoying at times but oh my what a talent he is/has. And I especially love watching all three of them together, thanks for that.
Student debt forgiveness…
Another wealth transfer from the poor and working class to the self styled elites of this country.
2020 was the year of fucking the middle class to enrich the wealthiest among us. 2021 is on pace to be another year of the same. The ruling class is doing everything in their power to make this country ripe for a revolution. Peaceful, hopefully.
Kremlinologists will like this story about Minnesoda still trying to crack down on restaurants and bars.
The interesting thing to me – reading between the lines – is that both of these places kept open and operated during the second lockdown without the authorities forcibly shutting them down.
2020 was the year of fucking the middle class to enrich the wealthiest among us. 2021 is on pace to be another year of the same. The ruling class is doing everything in their power to make this country ripe for a revolution. Peaceful, hopefully.
Trump hollowed out the middle class!
Anyone watching the pillow guy’s 3 hour documentary? I can’t get OAN.
Nope. They’ve set themselves up as the anti CNN. Don’t trust them at all. Nice spokes-babes, though…
Search for its name?
Jesus, why would anyone watch that? His commercials are hard enough to get through and they’re less than a minute.
Because it’s finally going to prove once and for all exactly how the election was stolen.
*smugly continues not watching television*
I’m interrupting this documentary to talk about GHEE-ZUH some more!!1!
Is this it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKaSX9SKR1A
Only two hours though…
Looks like it, do me a solid and give it a watch and write up a summary, thanks.
The other hour was just for ads for the pillows.
L’etat c’est moi
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued a new statewide mask order on Thursday, an hour after the Republican-controlled Legislature voted to repeal his previous mandate saying he didn’t have authority to make such a decree.
Evers and the Legislature have been at odds throughout the pandemic but the latest moves created an unprecedented level of whiplash. Republican lawmakers last year persuaded the state Supreme Court to scrap Evers’ stay-at-home order and a state appeals court halted the limits he placed on indoor gatherings.
As the Legislature moved to repeal the order, many cities and counties rushed to enact or extend local mask ordinances. Milwaukee and Dane County, where Madison is located, are among those with orders in place.
The Democratic governor said in a video message that his priority is keeping people safe and that wearing a mask is the most basic way to do that.
“If the Legislature keeps playing politics and we don’t keep wearing masks, we’re going to see more preventable deaths, and it’s going to take even longer to get our state and our economy back on track,” Evers said.
I’m not saying he’s a depraved megalomaniac, but he’s a depraved megalomaniac.
Who does he think he is? Aaron Rogers?
Fitting article to follow the one about the Chump Effect.
Team red adhered to quaint procedures and laws of the state of Wisconsin while the Blue governor just plays dictator.
All those pesky elected representatives are trying to cramp his style, and he’s not having it.
Calvinball.
He’s such a basic bitch.
If the Legislature keeps playing politics
Because they are the only politicians that play politics…
Well…playing politics is their job so not sure how that is wrong.
The legislature should be able to repeal the new one in a day. If they don’t repeal the new one, you’ll know the first repeal was just kabuki for the rubes.
I’m a little surprised that the panicmongering is still gettign ramped up.
New research shows how official figures understate the U.S. pandemic: On any given day the number of infected people who are actively contagious is ten times that day’s tally of new reported cases.
“research” shows that the pandemic is MUCH WORSE than we’ve been telling you!
Osterholm says the worst is yet to come!
I think they are hedging their bets. The Domestic Terrorist Scare doesn’t seem to be getting widespread traction. If it fails, the will have to go back to the Rona Panic to keep their grip on Emergency Powers.
Also for some reason, they say that you can only spread the virus for four days, when everyone knows that you’re contagious up to three weeks after being exposed and seven days before.
“Dr. Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota infectious disease expert, warned Minnesota lawmakers Wednesday about the possibility of another ‘major surge’ in COVID-19 cases, as new variants of the virus start to spread in the United States.”
There needs to be a separation of medicine and state clause added to the constitution.
Don’t tell me: they have a model that shows it was 10 times worse.
Not mentioned: the vast majority of cases that were not diagnosed were no worse than mildly symptomatic.
Um, they don’t realize that means it is spreading through the population that much faster, leading to…
I am a lone, lorn Creetur and everything goes contrary with me.
I hope the Dems do pass their gun control wet dream bills. Mass noncompliance would be a good thing in this country.
The inevitable scotus cases could finally put the last nail in the coffin of constitutionality (or lack thereof) of what gun-grabbers want.
Nope. Those felonies will never be quashed.
Or ranges shut down and gun manufacturers go out of business. Gun owners may be noncompliant, but you won’t be able to take your AR to the range or buy ammo for it. You’ll face felony charges and prison time if using it in self-defense.
This is the opposite approach of outright confiscation. Make guns verboten instead. They won’t pass to the next generation. They can’t be used for practice or self-defense. No ammo for sale. No parts. It’s a decades long game, but they’ve already been playing a decades long game. I don’t think they have the patience to keep it up any longer and things would get hot fast, but regardless, I don’t see any benefit to gun control bills.
Same here. And the potential silver lining that SCOTUS would strike them with robust decisions firmly establishing a broad RKBA is, well,. unlikely.
They have already lost the long game. There are north of half a billion firearms in this country. Home gunsmithing is an enormous industry. The more they squeeze the parts and ammo manufacturers, the bigger the black market for those things become. Many jurisdictions will refuse to enforce federal gun laws, pushing us closer to a more federalist country as the ability of the feds to dictates to states is lessened. The national government in the U.S. is running on printed money fumes and is going to run out one day. When that day comes, I want there to be as much separation between the states the and fed as possible, so that their collapse can have as little effect as possible. The more areas that are already in open defiance when that comes, the better.
You only have to look at auto weapons to see how false that is. Local police and ATF regularly arrest and courts convict criminals for illegal auto weapons or similar violations. No one is rising up to their defense, well, because they’re criminals.
#Drillthethirdhole
The progressive left is not a bunch of pacifists. They love guns that they control.
Gun control legislation is less about reducing the number of guns in circulation, and more about breaking a microculture that the progs have so far been unable to skinsuit…
They did it up here and all the Fudds and criminals kept their shootin’ irons. They did drive a friend of mine to suicide, though. Had one of his collection stolen and the RCMP were relentless. Drive-bys, following until they finally got him for an iffy DUI. Knowing that he had heart problems and wouldn’t be able to work anymore he gave away everything and then took his own life. He was my Mom’s Boyfriend. I was set up to find his body. Unpleasant.
Sorry for the darkness.
Jeez, F, you’ve seen some shit. Condolences.
Designated pallbearer too many times. I don’t know why I keep getting picked.
Sorry 🙁
That sucks. But it does illustrate my point above.
“Kamala Harris wields her tie-break to pass Joe Biden’s $1.9tn COVID package through Senate at 5.30 a.m. without any Republican support after night-long ‘vote-a-rama'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9227787/COVID-aid-package-Senate-passes-budget-plan-advance-Bidens-1-9-trillion-COVID-relief.html
The shroud of the dark side has fallen. Begun, the clown war has.
Unity!
Heeling!
That McConnell is one shrewd operator. A master of Senate procedure, who can tie the Dems up in knots.
/waits for the inevitable GWAR link
That $15 minimum wage should be devastating.
I bet there isn’t more than 1 of them that knows all of what’s in the fucking thing.
Assholes.
Indeed. I think it has to do with the general trend toward “expert worship.” The congresspeople don’t read or write the bills, they simply rely on their staffs to do that. The staffs, i.e., one wing of the deep state, are regarded as the “experts” in legislation, and the actual elected representatives just do whatever their staffs tell them.
So, the donors and lobbyists make their requests, the reps tell the staffs what to do, the lobbyists probably talk directly with the staffs to help craft favorable language, then the staffs tell the representatives to vote for or against. I’d be surprised if more than five people in all of Congress really read or care to know what is in the bills they supposedly write and sponsor.
“Cornell law professor creates online database of 220 universities teaching critical race theory to help parents choose colleges that don’t make the ‘racist ideology’ mandatory
Anti-racism does not actually mean what people think it means. It actually is very racist,’ Jacobson claimed during his interview with Carlson.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9226633/Cornell-law-professor-creates-database-universities-teaching-critical-race-theory.html
Only 220?
“Was Covid-19 driven by climate change?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9227519/Climate-change-driven-emergence-coronavirus.html
No.
Calvinball.
There is no such thing as cheating in Calvinball.
There is if you aren’t Calvin.
“Tucker Carlson accuses Bank of America of treating customers ‘like Al Qaeda’ as he reveals it gave the FBI details of every customer who spent money on hotels or AirBnb, flights and guns in DC around time of the Capitol siege
Bank of America searched through customer transactions to target people who may have been involved in the Capitol riot and handed information over to federal authorities, according to a new report.
At the request of federal investigators, the bank identified 211 customers who fit the profile after making purchases in the D.C. area or spending money on flights or accommodation in the days around the violent riot, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson claimed on Thursday.
Carlson reported that one person identified by their transactions was taken in for questioning but was found to have no links to the event, as he accused the bank of spying on its customers and sharing their private information without their knowledge.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9226315/Bank-America-handed-transaction-details-feds-investigating-Capitol-riot-report-claims.html
WTF??
And you people wonder why I am thinking about leaving this country. While I still can. I’m hoping it doesn’t come down to crossing into Mexico on a “shopping trip” and making our move from there.
What makes you think another country will be better?
Sure you can move to some corrupt country where cash rules, but the government won’t be any better, and the criminals will be way worse.
If someone in Los Zetas decides he literally wants to eat your ass, you’re not going to buy your way out of that.
What makes you think another country will be better?
Probably a full post in it, but America is descending into a preening moral socialist/fascist anarcho-tyranny that, while not entirely unique, is made worse by the enduring belief among Americans that the government is legitimate and not merely a malevolent force to be scorned and avoided whenever possible. A country that has regards its government more honestly, as a collection of corruptocrats and useless timeservers, where bribery is traditional and gray/black market are normalized, could well be a better place to live. There are few countries with as pervasive a surveillance state as the US has now, and its only going to get worse. The Tech Lords developed China’s social credit system, and are itching to implement it here, as well.
I’ve long said I’d rather get pulled over for speeding in Mexico than the US. In Mexico, I’d slip the cop a $20 and be on my way. In the US, I’d be hit with a fine that is multiples of that, it would be on my record, and my insurance would go up.
Also, the cost of living would be lower, and if we go full citizenship/renounce our US citizenship, the taxes would be lower.
I’d read an article about this. It reminds of the Robber Baron.
This would be a good full post.
Ironically, I’ve been giving France consideration along the same lines. Oh, not because the govt is worth a shit there, but because the culture and people learned long ago to not really give a shit about the govt. Given that my horizon is limited enough, that just might work for me.
I was looking at French Guiana myself. Being from the South I’ll love the hot weather too.
Tucker is a wind-bag but he’s been really solid regarding the latest bullshit and seems to be standing up for 1st amendment rights. Styx has been toying with YouTube, hoping that they ban him.
BoA used to prosecute their own customers when they got scammed by someone kiting a check, or when they tried to verify if a check was good or not.
https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Check-from-a-scammer-bounces-victim-into-jail-2553957.php
I’m sure they’ve been doing the same with BLM/Antifa rioters.
Why would they do that? Antifa’s never killed anyone, whereas violent insurrectionist Qanon trumpalos violently murdered five innocent cops with violence!
I’m sure they had a warrant
New research shows how official figures understate the U.S. pandemic: On any given day the number of infected people who are actively contagious is ten times that day’s tally of new reported cases.
“research” shows that the pandemic is MUCH WORSE than we’ve been telling you!
New research shows the cattle are not panicking hard enough. The stampede is losing momentum.
*fires six shooters in air*
Speaking of which, got my ammo for the revolver yesterday. Given what I paid, it should have come with a little velvet pillow for each round.
Crown Royal?
Hornady Critical Defense.
Wait. Remember when all this started and there were a few antibody studies that said the real number of infected were about 10 times higher than the case numbers would suggest? Which meant that the mortality rate was actually way, way, lower than what we were being told and maybe we didn’t need to panic and shut shit down.
Remember when those people were called deniers and conspiracy nuts? And of course they were ignored and shit was shut down and emergency powers were being granted.
Next you are going to tell me that hydrochloroquine is actually effective.
That was before we realized that a “case” equals “certain death”. Do keep up.
Uffda. I have to admit that I don’t have the mental agility required to make the sudden u-turns, flips, flops and twists required to participate in the intellectual debates of our times.
All part of the plan.
Onward to discovery!
The voting company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News’ parent company Fox Corporation, as well as Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and Trump ally Sidney Powell on Thursday.
Smartmatic accused the defendants of participating in a cynical campaign to capitalize off the election, asserting that each privately knew that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris had won the election. The defendants, Smartmatic alleged, used the election loss as an opportunity to smear the voting company for profit.
“In their story, Smartmatic was a Venezuelan company under the control of corrupt dictators from socialist countries,” the company’s complaint says. “In their story, Smartmatic’s election technology and software were used in many of the states with close outcomes. And, in their story, Smartmatic was responsible for stealing the 2020 election by switching and altering votes to rig the election for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
“Defendants’ story was a lie. All of it. And they knew it. But, it was a story that sold. Millions of individuals who saw and read Defendants’ reports believed them to be true,” it continues. “Smartmatic and its officers began to receive hate mail and death threats. Smartmatic’s clients and potential clients began to panic. The company’s reputation for providing transparent, auditable, and secure election technology and software was irreparably harmed. Overnight, Smartmatic went from an under-the-radar election technology and software company with a track record of success to the villain in Defendants’ disinformation campaign.”
*serves subpoena on SmartMatic that fills two three ring binders*
The recall could still fail to qualify. The deadline to certify is March 17, and the campaign is still operating on a shoestring budget by statewide campaign standards, relying on volunteers and some paid mail to collect the 1.5 million valid signatures they need. Proponents claim they have 1.3 million total signatures, still a ways off the nearly 2 million they will likely need to compensate for invalid signatories.
This is worrisome. Pimpin’ the Website.
Thanks for pimpin’. I think they will need at least a couple hundred thousand more than the 1.5 million as those signatures are going to be treated in the exact opposite way as mail in ballots. They will be scrutinized down to the upmost detail. I thought it was a longshot months ago, and still don’t think it is a shoe in, but it is highly likely to happen. If they can keep up the present rate it will happen.
The FAA published the first Presidential TFR of the Biden administration, for his trip to Delaware this weekend. Presidential TFRs have been a thorny subject for a long time, causing real disruption to people’s private travel plans as well as flight schools, FBOs, and entire small airports that see their businesses heavily curtailed anytime a President chooses to travel. They are particularly bad in the areas that Presidents call “home” because they tend to be rather frequent. Given Biden’s long time habit of commuting between DC and his home in Delaware, it’s expected by some that these will be even more frequent than under Trump and Obama.
What was unexpected was the greatly increased scope of the TFRs, which is now revealed in the actual text: https://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_1_1424.html
Some highlights: These TFRs usually comprise a central “core” area which is essentially a no-fly zone for most private operators, 10 nautical miles in diameter, surrounded by a 30-nautical mile outer ring which is less restrictive, but still requires contact with ATC and discrete transponder codes. Both areas extend up to 17999 ft MSL. In these areas, all flight training, practice instrument approaches, agricultural flights such as crop dusting, mapping, and other private uses are prohibited or heavily curtailed.
In Biden’s case, the “core” area has been expanded to 12 nautical miles. Additionally, new restrictions requiring all passengers and crew to have undergone TSA security checks (which is nearly unprecedented for private flights), and *banning* gift wrapped packages and all firearms, even in checked luggage, have been added.
This is a major change to past FAA procedures for Presidential TFRs, and will cause serious disruption of private flying in the area around Wilmington, DE. The 30 nm ring extends well over a number of frequently used small and regional airports in the Philadelphia area.
Shouldn’t he be commuting on Amtrak One?
Regardless of the mode of transportation, the Presidential TFRs follow them around. Usually, they travel by air and so the TFRs are centered on major airports or locations of speeches, visits, etc. that are close to the airport. Based on the fact that the TFR is centered on Wilmington and there is no TFR between there and the DC SFRA/FRZ, I’d expect he’s taking Marine One to Wilmington.
Oh God please let him get his own armored train.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/evil/images/8/8e/The_Loveless_Train.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170912173035
https://youtu.be/wRXKHTTzayU
Biden!
Speaking of that… there have been breathless headlines here that Amtrak may be adding up to THREE new routes in Ohio.
I honestly had no idea where the hell the Amtrak station was in Cleveland, and I’ve lived here my entire life. I found it when I was contemplating trying to bike the GAP over the summer to use up vacation that was going to expire.
Snowpiercer
How about The Big Bus?
I was on vacation in Hawaii a few years ago. I booked a flight in a glider. Then Obama decided he wanted to have a picnic with his family on the nearby beach. EVERYTHING was shut down. I at least got a refund, but the glider company lost out on a full day of paying customers.
When Trump or Pence came to Doloot, the restrictions were just terrible. I work at the airport. We couldn’t be on the tarmac at all. During the time Trump was supposed to touch down, we weren’t even supposed to walk from our building to our cars in the parking lot.
Just crazy. They are not kings.
Exactly. It’s completely paranoid. A 30 nautical mile radius is an incredibly large area. Even 10 nautical miles is plenty of time to notice a private plane heading straight for a certain point, especially, if you know where to look. It’s entirely security theater.
In 2008 I was working at a job where the company offices were just south of the MSP airport. During the campaign season lots of our betters kept flying in to campaign and raise money (GOP and Dems).
A road that I took to the office was often closed. The thing that really stunk was that there was no way to get off the road once you were on it or turn around. So you got to sit there for hours before they would open traffic back up.
I’ve been confined to an office because of a VIP visit. Confined included no restrooms without approval from the security manager.
Nobody’s that important. Throw the security detail from the roof.
They were Congress critters.
They’re not worth security details, they’re not even worth bothering spitting on.
Government office. We also had the agency head come to our office to speak. We had to clear a section for him. He had a security detail to keep the proles at a comfortable distance. He was an ass, so I understand the concern that one of the government employees might attack him.
Very Insidious People?
Was he president? fine.
i can’t handle how they get this kind of protection for life though. it’s ridiculous.
I don’t recall the year or who it was for, but the biggest WTF I experienced was a train stoppage. The VRE left Union Station on time. We stopped somewhere in DC for about 45 minutes for a VIP convoy. The convoy route went under a bridge we pass over.
Oh, and not only are passengers and crew required to have TSA security checks, they’re required to be done at several predesignated outlying airports, so every flight into the TFR will have to make a stop outside the TFR. AND–TSA will not be staffing all of these airports continuously, so it’s up to the pilot to figure out when it’s possible to get checked, and possibly to have to fly far out of their way to do so.
My usual route south is right over KILG, so I will see tomorrow where they are going to route my IFR flight plan. I often had to file or route around the Bedminster TFRs. The computer would spit out D-> SBJ D->. but when you called for your clearance you would get routed around the 30 mile border.
The TSA security checks are not unprecedented.. (yes the 12 mile ring is new) They have been in place since 9/11. Gateway airports with full TSA screening were used for GWB, BHO, and Trump anywhere the covered airport was too big to shut down (PBI) (KMVI). Firearms have been banned, this is a first for gift wrapped packages… I’m surprised the X-ray isn’t enough.
https://nbaa.org/aircraft-operations/airspace/alerts/pbi-businesses-severely-impacted-potus-tfrs/
I saw a reply from you the other day about your Bravo. I have an older 201 that I’m flying these days. Great airplanes, the Mooneys!
I have not seen these types of restrictions before, when, say Trump or Obama came to the Pittsburgh area. Is it simply because he maintains a residence in Wilmington?
They have been standard for GWB during any NYC visit.. I don’t fly around TX so I didn’t watch the Waco TFR. BHO and GWB both messed up the NYC area with all of the UN speeches… The entire Class B was covered in the TFR. Then the Martha’s Vineyard TFR.. you had to gateway at Hyannis, or Grouton.
PBI for Trump, and the Bedminster TFR didn’t have any exceptions because Solberg and Somerset were “too small to matter”. So they just shut them down.
For 1 day events (like campaigning) they don’t give exceptions.. so PIT was closed to GA (other than the TwelveFive etc guys). They only have the exceptions for multi day vacations. ACG would be outside of the 10mile ring so it wouldn’t be closed.
If you have a Mooney, do you attend the Summit?.
https://www.mooneysummit.com/
As far as I know, the regular travel TFRs in the PIT area have not included the TSA screening requirements nor restrictions on cargo or personal items. I’m guessing for some reason it has to do with the fact the VIP in question maintains a residence in the area and travels there frequently.
I have not attended the Summit. I purchased my Mooney in 2019, and have considered it, but am not sure of the value of doing so.
They don’t include screening requirements or restrictions because our GA is forbidden, no exceptions for the short term ones.
I’m trying to find an old TFR for PIT or other places, but they delete them.
The mooney summit is safety oriented with lots of useful round table discussions, and talks with people who had experienced issues.
Talks on flying to Alaska,
Traveling the Caribbean,
Travel to Cuba.
Dan’s Carbon Monoxide incident. https://www.aopa.org/training-and-safety/online-learning/real-pilot-stories/dan-bass-accident-photos#:~:text=While%20flying%20his%20Mooney%20on,in%20the%20bitter%20February%20cold.
Life Jackets and rafts, from a competitive sailing expert.
Test Pilot Bob Kromer, and M20J/K spin certification.
Things like that. I find it useful, a nice trip and a good set of people to talk with.
I’ve synced up on MooneySpace and flown down with others.
I remember the disruptions at Union Station when VP Biden took Amtrak. They would stop all trains, and block all platforms for at least 30 minutes. Delays like that caused crowding in the terminal and crowding on the first trains allowed to leave. It didn’t turn people against Biden. Most are government or contractors.
OK so it got ignored on the overnite thread, here’s a song that played on the college station last night that I really dig! https://youtu.be/BhhioIHjgEg
Not ignored. I would have to be a really privileged trusty, though, to make time for all the links here. ?
I like sloppy bands! Her dead-pan is cool and she plays it left hand.
The coming war on independent contractors
Marty Walsh may not seem like the person to overhaul the gig economy. He spent years advocating for construction workers and less time on the intricacies of on-demand work at billion-dollar tech companies.
But now Walsh, a former union leader and the outgoing Mayor of Boston, is on the cusp of becoming the next US Labor Secretary at a pivotal moment for the industry and the broader economy. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs as the health crisis created an economic crisis. And many turned to working with companies like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash as a backstop for their livelihoods. Instacart alone added hundreds of thousands of contract workers last year to meet demand for grocery delivery spurred by the pandemic.
At the same time, these companies are pushing to defend a controversial business model, one in which they treat their workers as independent contractors rather than employees who would be entitled to traditional benefits and protections such as workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, family leave, sick leave, or the right to unionize.
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While Walsh has yet to delve extensively into the issue of app-based gig worker classification, labor experts and friends who’ve known him professionally throughout his career say they are encouraged by his background advocating for workers in the construction field, which has long dealt with the topic of misclassification.
“In construction, when contractors started reclassifying their workers from employees to independent contractors, it was just a scam to save money,” said Mark Erlich, a fellow at the Harvard Labor and Worklife Program who formerly served as Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters and who has known Walsh for roughly 20 years. “What’s different now is it’s no longer [viewed as] a ‘scam,’ it’s [positioned by the companies] as beautiful scheme — a new conception of work in which you are your own boss, have flexibility scheduling — it is actually seen as desirable.”
The companies have long defended their business model, which was popularized by Uber during the last recession, claiming that workers have more flexibility when treated as independent contractors than employees. But there’s nothing preventing companies from offering flexibility to employees. Rather, it is a business decision — and one that critics say exploits workers in an effort to keep costs low for the companies.
Muh cradle to grave security!
Once they finish destroying every small independent business in the country, they can really put their heads together with responsible corporations to put the country back on track.
They just need a good name for it, and a catchy slogan.
They’ve got to crush contractors to get more tax revenue, hamper anyone who doesn’t already have at least 50 employees and force the hourly minimum wages.
Maybe if someone hadn’t added so many regulations around regular employees….?
https://nypost.com/2021/02/05/my-pillow-ceo-mike-lindell-made-a-three-hour-election-fraud-film/
I’ve read a half-dozen articles on this, and not one of them mentions the name of the documentary.
They don’t want you to actually be able to watch it.
Looks like it called Absolute Proof
https://michaeljlindell.com/
It’s misspelled on YouTube.
Also, nothing on OAN’s page.
And it’s two hours not three hours.
Maybe the Post’s editorial page will mention it. Their news department has been skin-suited by the DNC.
In Biden’s case, the “core” area has been expanded to 12 nautical miles. Additionally, new restrictions requiring all passengers and crew to have undergone TSA security checks (which is nearly unprecedented for private flights), and *banning* gift wrapped packages and all firearms, even in checked luggage, have been added.
You can’t be too careful. Domestic terrorism has reached epidemic scale.
Now that private flights are going to be chock full of TSA fun, how long before the Elite who have skipped the TSA bullshit by using private flights find a new “Exclusive Flights” mode of travel which also is TSA free?
Maybe pissing off those with money and power will lead to needed change in the right direction.
As far as I can tell, it’s not all private flights, just those that will land at airports within the lateral boundaries of the Presidential TFR.
Only KILG and New Garden… and that is new.. with the previous ones only the towered airport was allowed an exception.. The smaller airports were just shut down.
But who pays the fees at Newark and Dulles?… Do I have to pay Signature $50 for the privilege of sitting on their ramp, or will TSA have their own ramp space?.
I’m sad that we can no longer fly into DCA. I had done that two times in the past, and it was really nice to fly down the Anacostia take the metro and be on the mall in just a few minutes.
I would like them to include gateway inspection and the DC3 rules to allow access to DCA.
Now, you *CAN* do it… it just requires a full security screening, and hiring an armed security officer to sit in your plane.. to I suppose shoot the pilot? if you don’t follow the rules?
That seems like…a tough decision for the officer.
More info on the FBI photo with the naked black guy in it. It’s a meme apparently, a photo of a deceased male porn star:
https://youtu.be/JWaI0os4Wnw
You must not social media much (good for you) lol. that’s a really common meme.
Ah, gotcha. This site is as close to social media as I get.
Now that private flights are going to be chock full of TSA fun, how long before the Elite who have skipped the TSA bullshit by using private flights find a new “Exclusive Flights” mode of travel which also is TSA free?
You don’t think NetJets will get a wave-through?
Netjets and their ilk are part of the TwelveFive security program. So they are exempt if they arrive from certain airports.. and not at others.
Smartmatic accused the defendants of participating in a cynical campaign to capitalize off the election
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
You’re fucking killing me.