Happy Monday, Glibs. The great partying of 2020, along with Sloopy and Banjos wheelin’ and dealin’ has left you guys with me. Yesterday, I found out how much crap can fit in 1000 cu. ft. storage space. I was moving my mother-in-law into her new place. I guess the good news is, I’ll get to pack when we move her next time. Every box, ‘Fragile”. You know what they say, when everything is fragile, nothing is fragile. But its all good. She lives close enough for the kids to walk over there when they get bored at our house.
Birthdays today include: Rhonda Rousey, Director John Ford, and some dude they named a hockey trophy after, poet and playwright Langston Hughes, Clark Gable, and tank-enthusiast Boris Yeltsin.
Dear US media, this is what a coup attempt looks like. It involves the military “detaining” civilian leadership at gunpoint.
The lulz on the impeachment trial should be epic.
Wow, how bad has the Chicago Teachers’ Union behaved that the mayor ordered them to be in school today? No more Zoom classes from your hotel room.
I thought this was a story about inbreeding in New Jersey, when I first linked it.
Dear US media, this is what a coup attempt looks like. It involves the military “detaining” civilian leadership at gunpoint. – the military are just properly responding to election fraud
Well, to their credit they could also look at the whole Russia collusion lies and see another example of a weaponless coup attempt…
Eleven years ago*, I remember having an internet argument with someone regarding Aung San Suu Kyi. They were gaga for her. She was going to do great things for Burma. Democracy is awesome, etc.
I don’t think the Rohingya Muslim minorities think she was the greatest. She was nearly stripped of her Nobel Peace prize. And now she has failed to stop a military coup.
*Is it weird that I remember arguments with internet strangers from 11 years ago?
Now you know what you’ll be talking about when you inevitably develop dementia.
“Did I ever tell you about this internet argument I had? Those guys were stupid assholes and I showed them!”
They were Bad Dudes, but I whupped ’em with my rhetorical pool chain. Come on!
Wow, how bad has the Chicago Teachers’ Union behaved that the mayor ordered them to be in school today? No more Zoom classes from your hotel room.
Insert Michael Jordan fuck them kids meme here
I thought this was a story about inbreeding in New Jersey, when I first linked it.
Damn neanderthals were there evading taxes
And you expected inbred jerseyites to have teeth?
Will the impeachment trial be successful?
They already had 45 republicans vote to skip the trial. It’s all just political theater. Trump is right to use it to showcase the corrupt election and delegitimize the dems. It ain’t no good for nothing else.
showcase the corrupt election and delegitimize the dems
Those are both good things. I don’t want Trump to run in 2024, though the lolz might be worth it.
This isn’t about either legitimacy or proper behavior, but about revenge (mostly against the people for daring to stand up to the deep state) and about hopefully making it impossible for Trump to stay politically relevant. That’s why they will fuck it up. Thy are good at criminal shit. real good. But their ability to set up theatrics seem to be piss poor (which explains why they always need criminal shit done to get their way).
Streisand effect. They have no idea how badly this can boomerang on them. Oh sure, the hardcore Dems will be splooging all over Twitter – but that does not represent the country as a whole.
They are not very worried. After all, they have already set the stage and plan to make sure the fucking unwashed rabble only hears what they want it to. Not saying they will succeed. After all, these are some of the most stupid credentialed asshats ever to have lived that are now running the freak show, but they make up for how dumb they are with real criminal cunning and ruthlessness.
define successful
From the perspective of those doing it, I think their primary goal is to prevent Trump from running again in 4 years.
The surgery was successful, the outcome was not.
Dear US media, this is what a coup attempt looks like. It involves the military “detaining” civilian leadership at gunpoint.
What about disappearing the opposition media? Can we have some of that?
Regulation chills minor (but not radical) technological innovations
Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen 01 February 2021
While there is suggestive evidence that regulations may have a stifling effect on innovation, there is as yet no rigorous economic framework to quantify the magnitude of such regulatory effects on innovation and the aggregate economy. This column proposes such a framework tests its implications on data from France. As the framework predicts, regulations do indeed hamper innovation, but the negative effects concern only incremental innovations and are absent for radical innovations. Overall, regulations are estimated to reduce aggregate innovations by 5%.
https://voxeu.org/article/regulation-chills-minor-not-radical-technological-innovations
Policy conclusions
Our analysis should not be taken to mean that regulations are all bad. We have ‘priced out’ the costs, but there could still be net benefits if society values job security extremely highly, for example. However, our findings do suggest the usual estimates of regulatory costs are understated when we ignore innovation. They also suggest that reforms to current regulations may have greater benefits than was previously thought.
society values job security extremely highly, for example – in Europe at least those with good jobs and seniority value security at the cost of more temporary contracts and unemployment. Society does not value shit.
You mean the top men value their grip on power regardless of how it fucks the serfs over. The serfs know their place and remain content with crumbs from the table because that’s what they are thought to do, right? That’s what the top men in the US want as well.
“Leave Medicare Alone” or expand it to what Joe Namath is getting
You know there are people that aren’t unhappy being serfs. It doesn’t suit us (this here community) but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people content with it.
I have met too many people that would not only be quite content doing whatever they are told as long as someone tells them they will take care of them and they don’t have to worry their pretty little heads. And no matter how often they see that these promises are not just empty, they refuse to learn. Government is the ultimate sugar daddy.
I would think the drag on innovation compounds over time, so 5% may not sound like that much, but adds up.
Although I have to wonder how you quantify “innovation”.
how you quantify “innovation”. – models, usually
Ooh, I know this one. The EU uses “brought to market” as opposed to invented. This is sensible, but then they define “market” as as small a geographical area as they can get away with. Thus a new product in Berlin is counted as an innovation and the same new product in Munich is also an innovation (counted separately). That way they can say “look how innovative we are”.
So their real innovation is an the scale of the racket they run?
Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term
Mikko Silliman, Hanna Virtanen 30 January 2021
Policymakers are growing increasingly interested in the effects of vocational training on labour-market outcomes. This column uses a quasi-experimental design based on admissions cut-offs to secondary education in Finland to study the long-term effects of access to vocational education. Applicants near the admissions margin experience an average 6% increase in earnings in their mid-thirties if admitted to the vocational track. For students with a preference for the vocational track, failing to be admitted to the vocational track reduces employment in their mid-thirties by nearly 20%.
https://voxeu.org/article/access-vocational-education-can-boost-income-over-long-term
Death before compromise
Several economists and Washington strategists including Paul Krugman blasted the 10 Republicans’ watered down proposal and sudden calls for bipartisanship. “That’s not a compromise, it would be abject surrender. Not even worth discussing,” the New York Times columnist remarked Sunday.
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Some progressives suggested Sunday that Biden should respond to the 10 Republicans by making them publicly declare that his election win was valid. Others simply characterized the GOP as clinging to some hope they can slow down Democrat-led legislation in the name of budget cuts.
That would be awesome. Ten Republican senators, with shaved heads, in dunce caps, on the steps of the Capitol begging forgiveness for their sins.
Then the Democrats can take their
Panicdemic Relief BillOmnibus Government Reorganization and Fiscal Doomsday Machine to reconciliation, and “compromise” on five trillion dollars’ worth of Democratic Socialist wish list giveaways.Utopia, dead ahead!
“Budget cuts”
LOL
Never let a crisis go to waste!
Hahahahaha – like Krugman would ever abjectly surrender himself.
They could make it work. Stage a group confession evoking images from past forced confessions by American prisoners in various far away places.
publicly declare that his election win was valid
Truth > facts.
“Utopia, dead ahead!”
Reminds me of a stanza from a Harry Chapin song…
Dance Band on the Titanic
Sing “Nearer My God to Thee…
The iceberg’s off the starboard bow,
Won’t you dance with me?
How financial markets shape social values and political views
Yotam Margalit, Moses Shayo 31 January 2021
The impact of markets on participants’ values and political preferences has long been a contested issue. This column uses a large field experiment to evaluate the effects of engagement in financial markets. Participants from a national sample in England were randomly assigned substantial sums they could invest in stocks or non-financial assets over a six-week period. Results show that investment in stocks led to a more right-leaning outlook on society and economics, including issues like personal responsibility, merit, and the role of luck in economic success. It also increased support for market-friendly policies and less regulation.
https://voxeu.org/article/how-financial-markets-shape-social-values-and-political-views
I still doubt the validity of such experiments but they seem to keep these people busy
how you quantify “innovation”. – models, usually
Random variables are the best variables.
You moved your mother-in-law into a 1,000 ft^3 storage unit? Balla.
At least she had three dimensions. I only have square footage.
You were caught in the short squeeze?
UCS is a lucky guy…
I complained about January baseball bithdays a lot, lets see if Feb is doing any better.
Top is Paul Blair, ask one of our Orioles fans about him. 5th is Kent Mercker.
Ummm….marginally better? Blair had a pretty good career. Austin Jackson is 2nd with a decent WAR total in only 9 seasons. He played for 7 clubs in 9 seasons, All his value was in the first 4 seasons, after age 26 he was done.
3rd is Carl Reynolds who had a great season out of nowhere in 1930, but was mostly mediocre other than that. 6.3 WAR in 1930, his next best was 2.7.
Did Nolan Ryan get missed yesterday? Not a baseball fan, don’t know what WAR means, but I enjoyed watching him beat the snot out of Robin Ventura.
I generally don’t do weekends, so yes. Next year his birthday should be on a Monday, so he will get mentioned then.
WAR is Wins Above Replacement. Replacement level is a theoretical level of player you can get at any time for the major league minimum salary and fill the spot. Every year, a number of players score below that level, but anyone from -1 to 1 WAR in a season is basically replacement level.
Also, there are 2 differing ways WAR is calculated. Baseball Reference, or bWAR is slightly different than FanGraphs, or fWAR:
“beat the snot out of”?
He barely brushed his hand on the guys head. You think a pitcher would smash his knuckles, hard, into something?
True enough – but he had a game to finish.
Mammary Monday knows a little something about the short squeeze.
https://archive.li/Dk7gi
Face diapers. Blech.
Well, at least #1 is #1 and has no face diaper.
What do you call a female Uncle Tom? Cause you know they will want to cancel this young lady…
OMG, that is awesome. Yeah, she’s going to take some shit for that.
I believe that the derogatory name for female black race traitors is “Aunt Jemima.”
Not “Mammy”?
Aunt Jemima?
Somebody doesn’t give a shit, but I don’t think it’s the American People
Jared Bernstein, a member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, claimed that passing the next round of coronavirus relief legislation is so important that Americans are not concerned with how it happens.
Biden, who supports a $1.9 trillion package, is facing opposition from Republicans, who prefer a leaner, more targeted approach. While the president has pushed a message of unity in the early days of his administration, some Democratic lawmakers are looking to keep Republicans out of the process if they do not get on board.
“Look, the American people really couldn’t care less about budget process, whether it’s regular order, bipartisanship, whether it’s filibuster, whether it’s reconciliation,” Bernstein told “Fox News Sunday,” stressing that people “need relief and they need it now.”
tl;dr- FUCK THOSE GUYS. WE’RE IN CHARGE NOW.
It’s like they want to see how much damage they can do, and how quickly.
It’s about repeating the first 2 years of Obama, but on steroids, before the people catch on and shut them down hard. Well, try to shut them down. I suspect this time they plan to simply not give a flying fuck about the people and accuse anyone standing in their way of being a Kulak or wrecker, and punish them. The revolution will not be derailed.
Obama was perfect so this is perfect plus… Kamala be even better when here time comes. And her time will come. Dem right winger won;t be allowed to deny her majesty this time.
He might actually be right – that most people don’t care. That’s the problem all of us around here have to deal with. My wife is an example, she just cashes that stimulus check – doesn’t really worry herself about how or why.
Democratic lawmakers are looking to keep Republicans out of the process if they do not get on board
Unity/healing/etc.
As I have said before, Democrats rule with an iron fist even with a razor thin majority and Republicans are afraid or unwilling to govern with any majority.
He’s not wrong — people want relief. But the relief that makes sense removes government control. It’s not about a check, it’s about the entire economy.
^^^THIS^^^
https://www.lawofficer.com/longtime-db-cooper-suspect-dies-at-94/
The internet is for pr0n, but the hackers sure make it all dangerous….
Dude’s a rocket scientist.
Pocket rocket?
*golf claps*
That hacker jumped the gun. He should have waited until he could simultaneously hack hundreds or thousands of those and create his own army of celebots.
They walk so slowly though.
lol
https://twitter.com/RedBloodedGuy/status/1356066849088270340
Warning: Mr. Matzko works for the Cato Institute, a Libertarian/Communist/Antifa Koch Brothers “organization”. What he wrote in the article confirms that he’s a False Equivalency Parrot/BothSidesIsm Idiot, as all Libertarians are.
https://twitter.com/AndrewRei15/status/1355575737802084353
discuss
*checks profile pic*
That 55 year old dude should really get out of his mom’s basement.
No, the ranting of someone who would otherwise be on a streetcorner is of no merit.
Without clicking, I agree.
Good morning, Brett!
The Conn Smythe bio is amazing! What an insane life.
Weren’t we already fucking around there? I lose track of all of our fuckery in other countries.
We haven’t had a land war in Asia un awhile. Time for a reset.
Bomb Back Better
*applause*
I thought we’d be bombing Syria and Iran first, but Myanmar is shooting up in the rankings.
Kirk Cousins is now the second worse audibler in Minnesoda. Our own Mike Osterholm is the new champ.
Mike’s inability to choose a decent analogy and stick with it is why we exiled him to U of Mn-Duluth. But he has to be so happy to finally get his chance to go on national TV and talk doom and gloom. I know it was killing him to have to sit on the sidelines as Fauci was grandstanding and locking shit down.
Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?
Why can’t we be like Chicago?
I don’t want to have to run guns from Wisconsin
Black market vapes are where the real money is.
Will be even more lucrative if King Walz gets his bonus tax on cigs and vapes through as part of his “Tax the Rich” plan.
Speaking of the short squeeze, I was thinking about this, the other day.
Old cowboy movies are the best analytical tool for understanding human behavior. It’s an imperfect analogy, but I started thinking of the hedge fund shorts as the sharpie gambler at the poker table with more money than anybody else, trying to buy the pot (just keep raising until nobody left at the table can afford to stay in the game). The redditors sent that snot nosed kid who always hangs around the saloon out to raise money from the townsfolk to keep that from happening.
Not Fair, says the dude.
I read yesterday that Melvin lost 52% of their value, over 6 billion dollars, mostly from their GME shorts. I don’t know what proportion of that six billion went to the WSBers to cover shorts, but I think they needed something like a 2.5 billion cash injection from Citadel to remain solvent.
Awwwww….. poor babies.
*Nelson Muntz laugh*
I read that their shorts covered 140% of the outstanding stock.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
You can bet that the political class will do its best to help them punish the unwashed rubes that dared give them some of the same ass rape they have been meting out. And you better believe this is coming. It will be out of sight dso the masses won’t know about the injustice until the time comes to punish someone to make an example of them.
Funny how the elite feel they should have the freedom and right to destroy other entities at a whim, while anyone reversing the tables on them should be guillotined, huh?
When Wall Street is free to gamble money and gobble up their “earnings’, no matter how they go about that, but demands to be protected from the negative consequences of speculation, you know you are not dealing with a class of decent fucking people. It’s more of the same problem that permeates our leadership class: a disdain for any kind of accountability. They want to pocket the earnings of their wins and have others pay for when they fail. No wonder these crooks are so tied to the politicians that share the same vision of how government should work.
The reality is that they are selling a bill of goods to their customers. Melvin Capital is a shitty steward of their clients’ money and made a very risky bet that they lost their asses on.
They’re trying to save face by blaming a bunch of “crazy internet retail investors.”
I would not be surprised to find out that their “clients” now taking it in the ass to the tune of $70 billion in losses are the virtual “Who-is-who” of the top men political machine and their buddies. That’s why they are so pissed and actually tried to stop the masses. The fucking rubes are on thin ice for causing the globalist masters a big investment losses….
Even as cynical as I am, I was still amazed at how fast Warren went from her trademark populist Wall Street bashing position to screaming that the markets were manipulated and Melvin must be protected.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the politicians are all essentially just prostitutes while acting different roles. Then something like this happens and the acting becomes obvious again.
I don’t ironically say that Warren is perhaps the quinessential Fascist in US politics today. Every single proposal she has would be inline in Nazi Germany or Mussolini’s Italy.
I am certain the dnc propagandists will all come out to tell us things like this is why they have to control all media and news…
Knowing the facts would just confuse the fucking unwashed serfs, and their new daddy government doesn’t want any of that… Pass the fucking Somma!
And there it is. Please Mr. Government, please make a law telling us what to censor so we don’t have to make that decision ourselves and face repercussions.
There’s an honest to goodness, no-shit appeal for fascism.
I think it’s more like:
“Please Mr. Government, please make a law telling us what to censor so we
don’t have to make that decision ourselves and face repercussionshave official cover for actions we were going to take anyway to hobble (y)our political opponents.Fascism is basically big government and big corporations colluding to create monopolies that then favor the political class picking winners & losers…
Straight out of every dystopian novel you can name…
Dear US media, this is what a coup attempt looks like.
I have been assured that a coup/insurrection looks like some guys meandering through the capitol building being sure to stay within the velvet roped pathway.
… and blowing a beefy Taco Bell fart into Nancy’s office chair.
That lack of respek for her office is why this country needs firing squads again!
So, the people who got into the capitol should have shot more congresscritters?
At this point I suspect that the claim that some guard was beat to death also is a massive piece of disinformation and that the person like the other 4 victims, was a casualty of being an older demographic member with a preexisting condition (heart problems). But they needed drama to step on our throats. And remember those pipe bombs they blamed on Trump’s speech? Turns out that they had been placed the night before (by some Bernie bro from what I read). That Trump guy is a super freaking villain with time bending powers.
That’s why details remain sparse, but demands to put jackboots on people’s throats are abundant…
What will depress me the most is that King Walz will get away his lock downs, his crushing of small business and his refusal to end One Man Rule. What he won’t be forgiven is for fucking up the vaccine rollout.
I talked with my proggie aunt yesterday and she has turned on Walz for this very reason. She and her husband both are older and have compromised health, but were told to get in line behind the Teachers (because they are heroes)
And unless you are Big Health in Minnesoda you are also told to go to the back of the line
his crushing of small business – wasn’t there some lefty journo talking against glorifying small business cause many of them cannot give a proper living wage and benefits? So it would stand to reason they need to be crushed and replaced by evil corporations, which will then be nationalized to stop being evil, and we will have living wages for all
How can a group of people that have mostly never worked an honest day in their life for honest pay know the first damned thing about small business?
These asshats graduated from college, went straight into non-profits, universities, and bureaucracies and stayed there. They’ve never experienced what it means to participate in voluntary transactions.
How can a group of people that have mostly never worked an honest day in their life for honest pay know the first damned thing about small business? – well they know everything about running the every aspect of the entire economy, so I assume that includes small businesses
That you understand what their delusions are does not make those delusions into any kind of reality.
I remember an argument I had with a teacher where she was griping about the funding. She kept saying she had to buy materials for her classroom out of her own pocket.
I told her that I bought lots of books about various programming subjects, paid for more training and bought my own keyboard and mouse. And that tradesman I knew bought their own tools.
If she still thought that as a professional, there shouldn’t be any out of pocket costs to her, then there was this thing called a budget. If she thought that the materials she bought were super important, what was paid for that she would be willing to cut.
I don’t think I convinced her that she was wrong to whine.
Other people’s money, damn it! That’s how you pay for this shit.
It’s a red herring anyway.
They pull that crap every time there’s a salary negotiation. “I have to buy supplies!” Yet somehow that increased salary never goes to supplies and in the next round it’s “I have to buy supplies!” again.
Of course the politicians could allocate a supplies budget and neuter that argument, but they don’t want to.
How about giving them the ability to have an HSA-like account to which they can direct a part of their salary, tax free, to spend solely on supplies? Bet they’d welcome that for sure.
I think teachers can already deduct a few hundred in school supplies, even if taking the standard deduction. I see the option every year on TurboTax/H&R Block.
For some reason, homeschooling families are not allowed to use this deduction. Same for any other professions that purchase supplies for children (e.g., pediatric therapists).
I’ve developed quite a bit of disdain for public school teachers.
That was what I was trying to explain to her about a budget. There is so much to run your operations. You can’t just increase it to some infinite amount.
I also had my suspicions about whether she really did buy any supplies out of her own pocket. Like you said, that claim is made by every single teacher when they are trying to explain to you how noble they are and why that costs you money.
“That was what I was trying to explain to her about a budget. There is so much to run your operations. You can’t just increase it to some infinite amount.”
Why not? Our government can just print money, can’t they? Why can’t they just print a whole lot of it more for the teachers (or any other entities that think they deserve more cash) to buy supplies?
My retort would be that when they stop fucking over so many young minds and actually go back to educating them so they can actually find real life work, then we can discuss paying them more money.
Teachers lie more than cops do about their jobs. The cops lies are obviously worse because they lie to put people in prison, assault, or kill them. But teachers routinely lie their asses off about their workload.
Got to school 15 minutes after dismissal and count the cars in the parking lot, and all those teachers will swear they work till 7 PM grading papers. They swear their summer vacations aren’t actually vacations.
As a high steel rigger, I paid thousands out of pocket for training and personal safety equipment. There is no sanctimonious whiner like a government employee.
My kid is a mechanic. He paid out of pocket for tools to do European, American, Japanese, and Korean, cars. I had to show him that he should buy some insurance for this stuff considering he was sitting on over $50K in tools to do his job and get paid less than that annually if he wasn’t doing overtime….
Back in my day, we bought our own supplies. I showed up to 3rd grade with my box of 16 crayons. Nearly everybody else had the box of 64 with the cool sharpener. I felt like a poor schmuck – because we WERE poor schmucks.
Our kids in the mid ’00s had a sheet of supplies they were supposed to show up with.
I feel your 16 crayon box pain Nick. In my case, it wasn’t poverty. My parents had already seen my artistic efforts and decided that the 64 crayon box was the very definition of throwing good money after bad.
Yeah, no rich-kid 64-packs for me either. I also wore plain pocket jeans.
WTF, mom and dad?!?
I wore JC Penny Plain Pockets until a girl friend in high school took me shopping and made me buy some Levi 501’s.
Personally, I still think the plain pockets were fine.
Toughskins.
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businesses-workers-wages
This might be the article in which you are referring to.
Think about though, which is easier to control? A bunch of small businesses competing with each other to make a profit or 5-6 big conglomerates that are most likely already in bed with politicians and can handle the dictaks from them when they get a populist itch?
The left sees businesses as a way for slackers to be paid for what often amounts to useless toil (see government). All that stuff people that actually understand business and commerce talk about, especially the profit motive and actually providing a service or product for a customer, is distraction from what they believe a business should do.
Rule of the morons. basically.
And even if you are in line, some vendor the Minnesoda Dept of Health uses, might prank call you with a cancellation
“9,425 doses of coronavirus vaccine available to seniors”
In the whole state.
We’ll do more than that at my hospital alone this week. A lot more.
With 100% Equity?
Or will you just give The Cure to people who show up without reviewing their racial profile, social media posts and their willingness to date trans people?
The Cure.
The Cure
Robert should’ve stopped after Disintegration. If he still wanted to make music, make it as The Glove or another entity.
Twenty people and they crafted a text/email message through an automated system rather than just calling them up? Or just giving them the shot? That’s a rounding error on the number of shots being given. Besides, if the goal is everyone gets vaccinated (or close to it), a handful out of order is meaningless.
What if they were 20 white men? Do you really want to oppress the shit out of Minnesoda’s BIPOC community by accidently letting 20 white men get the vaccine early?
And reading between the lines here, but it seems Minnesoda’s original vaccination plan sucked. I’m basing that on the fact that they have already decided to change it. The flacks down at the MDH have put a nice spin on it, but if the media wasn’t a bought and paid for arm of the DFL, they might put a different spin on the story.
Do I need to take a ticket to get on the plan to make an appointment to visit the website that’s scheduling the lists of vaccine sites drawn at random?
You’d think that at some point, Minnesodans would expect that we get some sort of decent return on the high taxes we pay. Any time people complain about high taxes, we get told that we also have “high services”. That is supposed to be the trade off.
Sure you pay a lot of taxes, but you get great schools. And if your car breaks down on the freeway, we have a program that pays for a repair truck to come help you.
But for the last 20 years, it has been one disaster after another. MN Sure (our Obama care) was a disaster. We spent hundreds of millions on a failed licensing program before we scrapped it and bought on off the shelf for $50M. Our vaccination program is fucked.
The lasting power of propaganda. When big companies flee the state, it doesn’t even make the news. And, outside of the cities, it really is a nice goddamn state.
I want to leave, but I fucking hate losing to the piece of shit proggies.
The next wave of propaganda is our budget. The stories about the GOP being big meanies for refusing to go along with raising taxes on millionaires are starting.
Here’s an idea. How about we link lockdowns to the govt? For every person locked out of their job a corresponding govt drone is put on unemployment. If you shut down bars and restaurants why do you need to employ health inspectors?
I’m more and more convinced that the only way to end this lockdown shit is to have everyone get some skin in the game.
I’m starting to worry about the coming property tax apocalypse.
You ain’t the only one fleeing the Metro Area
The bottom of that story is full of guys like Jeremy Jacobs who have been lecturing us all about the glories of urban density assuring us all that this is just a blip.
Jacobs assures us all that the Twin Cities are very affordable and all the bad thinkers moving away will be replaced by urbanites from the coasts looking for more affordable housing.
Yeah, if I’m looking for a new place to move to, I really want to go somewhere with riots and no police.
Yeah, prices are blowing up everywhere. SD is getting crazy.
Fourscore is sitting on a gold mine out there in his compound.
Well, her mom does have it going on.
I’ve said the same thing, albeit with locking down the media.
I had an idea for a creature in my fantasy world, worked out backstory, appearance, details, and gave it a working name from the in-universe residents of a ‘Dread Alicorn’. But I’ve run into a real world dilemma. Prior to the very late 20th century, there doesn’t seem to be much evidence for the term alicorn being used for anything other than the horn of a unicorn. Anyone know where it was first applied to a winged unicorn?
“winged unicorn”
I’ve always referred to that as a “flying fuck.”
The creature itself looks like some sort of predatory mockery of a winged unicorn that might even be undead. There’s no evidence that they reproduce naturally, but one will appear when a bastard son of a warrior-caste worshipper of a paricular diety gets denounced by his biological father. The creature will seek out the denounced bastard to be its rider, and is rather persistant and insistant. The king of the area has ordered all of these riders into his service because of the beast’s utility, but there are those in this group unhappy about being bonded to a nightmare creature.
https://twitter.com/BobMurphyEcon/status/1356006034838577153
Kimmell is a moron.
What if China or Russia had noticed the shorted 140% of GameStop shares and bought up the same amount of stock?
Act of War?
Sure seems like a much easier way to fuck with the US than running a bunch of bot farms or having to hang out with Hunter Biden.
RUSSIA!!!!
‘Muh Russia’ is another lie that will not die.
Apparently, the Biden administration is very concerned about “market integrity”, as is Elizabeth Warren.
I eagerly await their proposed remedies.
I think I read somewhere that the 1st step is to seize the means of production. When everything is gov’t owned or operated, we dont need a pesky stock market.
Can’t remember where that was, though…
Think about how many shares of companies on the stock exchange are significantly owned by public employee pension funds.
You only need a market for shares among the elites who are allowed to own property (subject to common sense regulation by a watchdog group). Things get icky and unpredictable when the peasants are allowed to play. They don’t know better than to piss in the pool.
Proposed Remedy: Creating regulations that are barriers for the smaller players to disrupt the big players.
Fascists love monopolies and big corporate entities. These big entities fit right in with the belief economies need to be centrally planned. Like the marxists, they believe that the top men are the ones that know best. They just know that the optics when government owns the means of production directly like the marxist do makes it far harder than the fascists model where the business can be blamed for failures.
their proposed remedies
Arrest the plebs that got uppity?
The lulz on the impeachment trial should be epic.
We are using the terms “trial” and “impeachment” a little loosely these days, but yes it will be. It would be great if the Trump team showed a montage of Dems rhetoric that literally supported violence.
I see where you may be making an erroneous leap in judgement: the belief that the propagandists will just let that happen instead of carefully controlling what the unwashed masses hear and what opinion they should have about it. They have already told us that they MUST control what we hear. The usual suspects will give them a thumbs up. The rest of us will be singled out for daring to question the narrative. Dystopian systems don’t happen in a vacuum.
Too bad Trump can’t hire Al Pacino to play the part of his attorney. Al should be willing to do it, he already played the devil (as a lawyer). The lulz would be truly epic –“YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER”!!!
You mixed movies.
OBJECTION!
Sue me.
Oh, I’m just getting warmed up!
I could’ve thrown in “but don’t lie to me, it insults my intelligence”.
ATTICA! ATTICA! ATTICA!
Analysis of 48,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth discovered in Jersey suggest interbreeding with modern humans was common
The origins of STEVE SMITH?
Pretty sure I met her on Craigslist before.
Well, my late ex was from Jersey, near Asbury Park. Maybe her family?
NEANDERTHAL DEAD BRANCH EVOLUTIONARY CHAIN. STEVE SMITH HAVE GREAT SUCCESS. AND BY SUCCESS, MEAN…
Gerard Depardieu agrees:
https://www.irishnews.com/picturesarchive/irishnews/irishnews/2018/08/30/210014379-37574aaf-8a9d-4d66-8151-aa5a06fbe74a.jpg
Dude’s got to be a third Neanderthal at least.
Whoa…
I am in the the camp that the Nephilim in the bible were Neanderthal…or higher Neanderthal percentage anyway.
It is known that Neanderthal ladies were thiccc and easy.
I have been assured that a coup/insurrection looks like some guys meandering through the capitol building being sure to stay within the velvet roped pathway.
But- but- Confederate Flags!
I heard a report that one of Nancy’s hard drives wandered off during the insurection(TM). If so, I would be quite curious to see how long it takes to resurface.
It won’t matter. It will be dismissed as Russian disinformation.
From the You Can’t Win Dept.
The fact that a city run by an uber-progressive in a very progressive state cannot throw money out the window at people without being accused of racism and oppression should tell you all you need to know about the demands from the crazies.
They will never be satisfied.
A non-sequitur as an argument. This is the kind of shit journalists used to laugh at and not print to save the person from embarrassment.
You mean those racist piece of shit journalists.
I think we can all agree that the MSM is so much better now that they have been run out of the newsroom.
due to generations of racist policies and disinvestment
Not shown: Her work for this claim.
To be fair, the generations of disinvestment precluded her from having the electron microscope necessary to create an image of her work.
Making people apply for free money is just Tricknology!
Why I will never shoot in Open division:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8dUlbAao8Q
I am considering getting my multi-gun endorsement to have a shot at working the 2-gun Nationals. Technically I could even shoot that match although I haven’t fired the PCC iover a year.
Have any recs for a full size (4.5”) optics ready 9mm?
I’m looking hard at the CZ, a FN 509 Tactical or 509 LS Edge.
Unity/healing/etc.
Go to Greene’s Twitter account and you’ll find her liking tweets that called for shooting Nancy Pelosi and executing FBI agents for their “deep state” persecutions of Donald Trump. I suppose the equivalent of that would have been Democratic members of Congress applauding the shooting of House Republican Whip Steve Scalise—except, no Democratic members of Congress did that; rather, they all expressed horror and condemnation.
But the Republicans’ indulgence of the Greenes in their ranks—and there are many such—is of a piece with their overwhelming refusal to hold Trump responsible for the insurrection at the Capitol, much less their own current colleagues, such as Arizona’s Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs, who also encouraged the January 6 rioters. Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution says that no government official can hold office “who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” That surely applies to Trump, but it increasingly appears that it should apply to most Republican members of Congress as well.
I wonder if Harold Meyerson threw down a like on the Kathy Griffin beheaded Trump meme. The world wonders (or they would if they gave a damn what that guy has to say which they don’t).
LOL
Democrats pretending to care about the Constitution.
Did they bother to tell the Democrats to scrub their social media first, or do they just assume if they say it’s so, nobody will bother to check?
Good morning Brett! Hope the software development world is being nice to you.
“Dear US media, this is what a coup attempt looks like.”
That can’t be right. I saw nobody with a buffalo hat, and nobody walking in an orderly fashion into the capital.
“The lulz on the impeachment trial should be epic.”
They keep going on about “the big lie”. But if he really believes it, he’s not lying. He may be mistaken (or not), but he’s not lying.
“the mayor ordered them to be in school today”
We may be back at our normal rink by the end of the month. Biden really has turned this COVID thing around.
“Analysis of 48,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth discovered in Jersey suggest interbreeding with modern humans was common”
Kinky. Maybe they should reboot Clan of the Cave Bear.
If you enjoy depictions of semibestiality I heartily recommend Quest for Fire in which a homootherthanerectus pounds a quite attractive Rae Dawn Chong. Disgusting…or is it?
Scruffy’s Mom: “I think it’s time to have the talk with Scruffy.”
Scruffy’s Dad: “I got this.”
*Scruffy’s Dad takes young Scruffy to a screening of Quest for Fire*
I heard about this on the radio, but am unsure why it hasn’t blow’d the fuck up on anti-Biden media.
Legitimately Elected President Biden, you rejoined the WHO to prove that you follow the Science. Will you be following The Science(tm) and the WHO’s directive, or will you be reverting to Trump’s “America First” attitude when it comes to vaccine distribution?
They can have my and my kids’ vaccines. I don’t want that experimental crap.
Most Lefties I know are really on a tangent about how “anti-vaxxers” are going to ruin the whole thing by not taking it.
I’ve always said that you should be allowed to take experimental drugs as long as the pharma company is up front about what is know/unknown about side effects. And Leftists have always retorted that we can’t roll back any of the FDA approval process – in fact, we probably need to make it more stringent because those pharma companies are sociopathically greedy and they will sell you pure poison to put a quick buck in their pockets.
But now, I’m being told that it’s just an absurd conspiracy theory that there might be any negative side effects at all from this vaccine. I’m being lumped in with the anti-vaxxers, as though there’s no reason at all to be suspicious of a vaccine that was rolled out in a matter of months under intense political pressure.
Because vaccines paid for by the US government are usually very well received in developing nations and the source of funding doesn’t cause any sort of suspicion or backlash at all.
Maybe they can turn the normal paradigm around: free/reduced cost vaccines for Americans, while the bulk of the world pays to receive the benefits of our innovation.
That’s just crazy talk.
Whoopsie:
The World Health Organisation has urged the UK and other wealthy nations to pause their mass vaccination drives once vulnerable groups are protected from coronavirus in order to ensure a fair global rollout.
God do I hate the WHO. Not that I’m a big fan of the vaccine drive but they can get fucked and they make their pronouncements while being newly vaccinated because they’re indispensable I’d assume.
Yep, heard this concern from the church last week. “We need to give our vaccines to Somalia and Honduras so the whole world is vaccinated on a proportional basis. It’s the Christian thing to do.” How many foreigners can we help if we destroy the economy of the U.S.?
Good luck, I guess.
Beto O’Rourke is thinking about challenging Gov. Greg Abbott in the 2022 election. Abbott is already responding, the way candidates do. …
O’Rourke, the state’s best-known Democrat, launched this trial balloon when asked on El Paso radio station KLAQ whether he would run for governor.
“It is something I’m going to think about,” he said. He expanded on that in a string of tweets Thursday night.
Abbott had his opening shot ready to go, recalling the Democrat’s support for an assault weapon buyback program during the 2020 presidential race.
“You’re talking about a person who says they want to run for governor who said, ‘Heck yes,’ he’s gonna come and take your guns,” Abbott said Thursday at a news conference in Odessa. “Heck yes, he’s for open borders. Heck yes, he’s for killing the energy sector and fossil fuels in the state of Texas. I don’t think that’s gonna sell real well.”
Great point, and why aren’t the Dems starting the impeachment proceedings on Tuesday?
Fauci now says no evidence for two masks.
This man is a dangerous clown.
What really worries me is that the lemmings just do what he says. None of them thinks “WTF??” and decides this is either a sign of such incompetence that no “expert” should be taken seriously without evidence, or that they are being fucking played around with, in which case the right reaction is to not take these asshats seriously.
My aunt and uncle, both retired GPs, took to wearing two masks when he made that statement and neither of them are unintelligent people. The urge to unquestionably follow the experts is strong in some no doubt.
We have always been at war with East Asia.
What is sad is that our nation won’t be rich enough to entirely replace the statue of Abe in the Lincoln Memorial with a new statue of Fauci. Instead we will be limited to simply replacing the head.
The man deserves better than that.
Duh. It’s at least four masks now. Don’t you even fucking love SCIENCE! brah?
Trump should bring an actual live kangaroo on a leash with him to the Senate “trial”.
The Democratic leadership will roo the day.
Tie it down, sport.
Wallaby laughing.
It will bring some of us much joey.
That was bad enough, it made me say “pouch” out loud.
“There was a kangaroo in my living room.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kBak3MBkSPk (apologies for poor quality)
*NARROWS GAZE*
Fauci now says no evidence for two masks.
This man is a dangerous clown.
Senile quack. He should be tried for Crimes Against Humanity.
To be fair, it seemed to be a throw away statement that he made based on sort of a hypothetical and the press on both sides took that ball and ran with it to a ridiculous degree.
It’s also possible that in the same conversation he said there’s no data to back it up, but that got edited out.
I really don’t understand why some people feel the need to make a Facederp post every time they go to Costco or gas up their car at a Wawa,
Or post a picture of their dinner.
I’ve been waiting for dinner-posters to be start being canceled because they are showcasing their privilege and showing lack of concern for the nutritionally challenged.
Pay attention to MEEEEEEEE!
I love those insurance commercials where they guy trains people how not to be like their parents. This reminds me of the one where a woman is in the store on speaker phone. “I’m going to have a big lunch and just a snack for dinner.”
I don’t understand the desire to have everyone know where you are all the time.
Microblogging is the reason I dumped Facebook years ago, although I was tempted to start microblogging things like boiling water, taking out the trash, toilet breaks, …
I was busy and thus not online this weekend, so if this is a repeat, I apologize. The Donks are truly going for the gusto with gun control.
The psych evals are a nice touch. I can’t possibly see how that would be abused!
“Establishes a nationwide gun registry that is searchable by the general public”
Computer literate burglars rejoice!
Government is so good at quickly building databases that work.
This one will work, guaranteed. They didn’t want the health insurance ones to work, because every single fuckup with healthcare gets the sheep to vote for more control.
They’ll farm this one out to their Big Tech buddies and every gun owner a target for peaceful protesters inside of six weeks.
Getting gun owners to voluntarily supply information on what they own is the only way to build that database. The gun stores’ records are giant handwritten piles of paper in warehouses.
Between Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google I bet you could collect ~80% of the gun owners in the country.
Facebook: gun pictures, gun posts, gun events attended.
Twitter: gun pictures, tweets about guns.
Amazon: gun accessories, 2A friendly media
Google: search history and bookmarks, emailed receipts if you ever bought anything online.
This here.
The only way to keep a gun off a registry put together by the State’s best buds, the Tech Lords, will be to lie about it.
“Oh, I sold those guns years ago. I checked, and I don’t have any records. Not guy I knew, can’t recall his name.”
What guns? I don’t have any.
I have a glue gun and a grease gun.
That’s something that will legit get people murdered. Which is of course intentional.
They hate you, and they want you dead.
If the Stupid Party had any balls they would propose the equivalent for abortions. Especially the national registries and psych evals.
“We don’t sink to their level. We will pursue moderate, sensible, market based anti gun violence measures. Perhaps we can compromise, we will issue another 100,000 H-1B visas and you will cut the coporate tax rate by 2.5 %, and in return we will allow a national gun registry which is only searchable by government employees, who are all noble and apolitical and would never abuse the authority. ” -The Establishment GOP.
Unfortunately too accurate, which is why the GOP are worthless shits.
*considers*
Yeah, that is all horseshit that I will be ignoring. (not that I own any boomsticks in the first place…)
Psychological evaluations by state-approved psychologists for approval to purchase firearms.
I know 22 reasons this won’t work.
Psychological evaluations by state-approved psychologists for approval to purchase firearms.
Those evaluations are extended to family members (including former spouses).
I don’t think the ex-spouse matters all that much. They’ll use that to (effectively) ban gun possession in homes with children present.
They need the masses unarmed, their protectors and friends armed, and the criminals with weapons so they can always justify more draconian measures…
Unpossible! Courts are only supposed to rubber-stamp Democrat victories!!!
Speaking of NY’s breathtaking competence…
I tried to do my taxes over the weekend. NY requires you to file electronically, but provides no method for doing so, you’ll need a 3rd party for that. My attempt was thwarted by my software saying they had not received the needed information to file electronically from NY yet. I should please try again later.
They will find a way… Or maybe this is just so they can use this one example as a way to refute the claim the legal system is a two tiered system with rules for us and excuses for them. After they put that FBI lawyer Cleinsmith on house arrests for falsifying FISA documents, there is no doubt that evil fuckers helping the deep state will never be held accountable. You and I however better watch it, cause they could send us to pound-me-in-the-ass-prison for jaywalking.
I have no idea what you are talking about.
Overlooked Biden executive order could have greatest harmful impact
Well, there were over thirty of the damn things so who can keep track. That one is particularly unconstitutional but who cares about that any more.
I’m sure some federal judge will find it is a violation of the APA! [I would bet money that AEI/IJ/some-such have the chops, and the venue-shopping to at least get the preliminary injunction.]
I once was lost, but now am found
Lyle Darrah was on a conference call at work in rural Weld County, north of Denver, when the riot at the U.S. Capitol started on Jan. 6. When his boss mentioned what was happening, he turned on news coverage — and immediately felt his last allegiance to the Republican Party slipping away.
“I was completely shocked and ashamed. That’s not how I think of the Republicans — who we were, and who we are,” he said. “It’s something I felt I could no longer be in support of.”
That night, he talked with his wife over dinner at their home. Darrah had been a lifelong Republican, while his spouse and children are Democrats — the kind of family that joked about canceling out each other’s votes.
Later, Darrah, age 49, sat in his living room and pulled up the state’s voter registration website. And then, like thousands of other Coloradans in the wake of the insurrection, he left the Republican Party.
“I think it should be a signal,” said Darrah, a software company director who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020.
Whatever helps you sleep at night, pal.
BUT WAIT- THERE’S MORE:
His strongest political priorities are fiscal restraint and national defense, he said
Dupe, or sucker? Whatever. Maybe the wife will let you sleep in the bedroom again, after your public conversion to the True Faith.
Since when is killing the shit out of brown people halfway across the world ‘national defense’?
What a cunte.
Dupe, or sucker?
Neither…liar
Yep. The “Trump>Biden voter” thing was pushed hard by the media to cover up the mail in fraud. Actual data shows that Trump went from 90% to 95% support among Republicans between elections. There were far more Trump Democrats then there were Biden Republicans. Somehow a group that is 5% of the GOP is the only voice you hear in the mainstream media.
So what if Trump’s support was 100% of Republicans – they are a quarter to a third of registered voters. It is a matter of pulling in independents (who do usually lean one way or the other, even if not registered with either party).
Confess your heresy and be forgiven!
Funny that they think the “riot” and not the reaction to it by GOPe is why the GOP is dying.
The Death of Civic Nationalism
Uh huh. And how, pray tell, did a reporter know about this?
Oh, right, because this simp went triumphantly announcing his Bold New Independence to a reporter. These stories never fail to crack me up.
So, a few dozen knuckleheads wandering around the Capitol turns him against the Republican party, but months of riots, looting, and murder doesn’t turn him against the Democrats.
What a load of ridiculous bullshit.
“Mostly peaceful” protests.
in the wake of the insurrection
What insurrection?
His strongest political priorities are fiscal restraint and national defense
Apparently not.
All told, the Colorado GOP lost about a half a percent of its registered voters in the week after the riot.
The thousands of newly unaffiliated voters can still support Republican candidates and participate in the party’s primaries. And both parties have seen registered members switch to unaffiliated in large numbers for years.
But interviews and data analysis show how the tumultuous postelection period has created a new split within the Republican Party.
For some right-of-center voters, like Lyle Darrah, the violence at the Capitol was simply the final straw. They described an increasingly strained relationship with the GOP, with some citing the rise of Sarah Palin more than a decade ago as the first sign that the party was focusing on culture wars instead of fiscal conservatism.
“As my husband said, it’s just become the party of mean people,” said Jo Swanson, 73, a retired school psychologist in Denver. She voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 but didn’t register as a Democrat until this month. She had always considered herself more socially liberal, but her anti-abortion rights beliefs had held her back.
That’s it. The Republikkkin Party is doomed.
Finally, the nation has come to its senses.
A retired school psychologist who voted for HIllary Clinton is painted as a swing voter. Uh huh sure.
My mother is 65 this year. She voted for Gerald Ford because Jimmy Carter is a Bible thumper. She has never voted for a Republican at any other time in her life. She worked for the media for the first half of her working life, and then switched to academia. But she will tell anyone who listens that she is an independent and a moderate.
A lot of people bailed on the Republicans because they are feckless gonadless pussies who fold at the first sign of trouble, that emasculated sack of goo the article’s about notwithstanding.
But, but… they promise to get rid of abortion and make govt smaller (while growing defense)!!!!
“but her anti-abortion rights beliefs had held her back.”
What’s a few more fetii?
I am pro-choice, but if you truly are pro-life, why would you ever vote for the D candidate?
And how many of those switched/dropped registrations because they fear a cultural revolution style purge by the left against anyone who publicly identifies as a Republican?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9208235/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-poses-plunging-swimsuit.html
“‘Marilyn Manson horrifically abused me for years’: Westworld actress Evan Rachel Wood, 33, claims rocker ex-fiancé, 52, ‘groomed and brainwashed her as a teenager’ as four more women make allegations about him”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9209845/Evan-Rachel-Wood-alleges-ex-fianc-Marilyn-Manson-horrifically-abused-years.html
Ironically, Rose McGowan isn’t one of them.
Shocking, if you can’t trust the Antichrist Superstar who dresses in S&M corsets and pretends to self-mutilate on stage then who can you trust?
She’s changed her story.
Loses some of its punch, no?
I am perfectly willing to believe Manson is an asshole, but let’s not overegg the pudding.
She was a mere babe in the woods with pigtails and still hanging onto mama’s apron strings.
Groomed and brainwashed….
Hot 18 year old hooks up with 37 year old rock star… This required brainwashing and grooming? I have seen that dynamic play out, and the scenarios that I have seen involved rock star being a rock star and 18 year old hottie throwing it at the rock star because he is a rock star. I don’t see where we need to over complicate things.
In other news, fuck this guy:
“‘Victim’ of the GameStop frenzy is building a bigger mansion: Hedge fund manager worth $300M is knocking down Miami Beach house next door to build tennis courts – even though his company lost $4.5BILLION in Reddit frenzy”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9208465/Hedge-fund-manager-fell-victim-GameStop-frenzy-expanding-44m-Miami-Beach-mansion.html
The company lost money but it didn’t lose His money
The mayor said all pre-K to eighth grade teachers are to return to the classroom on Monday, unless they have received a special accommodation. If they don’t comply, “we’re going to have to take action,” Lightfoot said, but didn’t elaborate.
Please fire them. Please.
Ha, she’s going to offer them bonuses to return to their jobs.
The company lost money but it didn’t lose His money
Exactly. The fees are owed whether you (the customer) win or lose.
But she will tell anyone who listens that she is an independent and a moderate.
I know a bunch of those people. They are independent, rational people, who decide their votes strictly on the issues and merits of a candidate’s proposals. It’s just a weird coincidence that they always end up voting for the Democrat.
They think they’re thoughtful and independent because they actually read the voter guide before voting a straight ticket, as opposed to the hopeless partisans who vote straight ticket without doing any research.
Getting gun owners to voluntarily supply information on what they own is the only way to build that database. The gun stores’ records are giant handwritten piles of paper in warehouses.
We’ll transcribe those files, and enter them into a database. JOBS! Good, well paid unionized government jobs.
Build Back BIGGER!
I think this insurrection language and relabeling everyone to the right of Nancy pelosi as a terrorist is all pointed towards banning guns.
Brennan talked about how the racist, misogynistic, libertarian terrorists have so many weapons.
I think they have a plan. They will talk up plots of violence and push their counterinsurgency narrative with the hope that they will jin up enough anger that some group of idiots will take the bait. At some point, if some nut job doesn’t take action they will have the FBI find some guy with about an 80 IQ to set up as a terrorist who was talking to an informant. Either way, they will have their incident, their proof. And then they will move forward with confiscating guns.
That’s one reason 5.56 is currently over $1/round, if you can even find it, and body armor is on a 2 month backorder.
A lot of armor has been on back order since March/April 2020.
Well, if you live in town in a progressive controlled city, body armor would seem to be less optional than it is elsewhere in the country.
I have not been closely following the political news for the last couple of weeks, so that WaPo article was quite jarring.
They have upped the death toll athe the capital riot, now officially termed an insurrection, apparently. And they are counting two officers who died by suicide at another time, in another place.
That article really does read like a piece about the politburo in Pravda from 40 years ago. Nearly every sentence used some very loaded term. I have seen opinion pieces that use less inflammatory rhetoric.
So the official death toll now appears to include one lady who was shot by the police, one lady who got caught in the stampede and trampled, one police officer who blew an aneurysm many hours later while he was back at his desk, and two police officers who later committed suicide.
Does that seem insane to anyone else?
It is you that is insane cyto. You must report immediately to your local political officer for deprogramming.
Worse…. These people have been so blatant about the manipulations they are doing over the course of the last year and a half with antifa and BLM and everything else, They have me wondering if the two guys who died by suicide didn’t get suicided by virtue of having identified a couple of people who were ringleaders among the rioters that certain people in the government did not want identified.
Yes, that is how crazy these people have made me. That actually sounds reasonable based on everything I’ve seen this past year.
So I will be signing into the Rachel Maddow home for the criminally insane for my reeducation.
It’s Coronacounting deaths, Cyto.
Does that seem insane to anyone else?
“We are treating any death with covid as a death of covid.”
It is as insane as other things these days.
The two suicides seem really weird. Were there police suicides over the summer due to the intense peaceful protests? Assuming that the answer is no, what would make the riot at the Capitol so horrible that police would be committing suicide?
How often do Capitol police normally commit suicide? That would be a good thing to know.
Depends on how much contact they’ve had with Hillary.
That article really does read like a piece about the politburo in Pravda from 40 years ago. Nearly every sentence used some very loaded term. I have seen opinion pieces that use less inflammatory rhetoric.
Needz moar Kremlinologists.
Well nucking futs I still have to go to OKC. At least found a place with a kitchenette. Maybe Ill try one of those food prep delivery services for the week.
Condolences.
Aw, it won’t be so bad. Maybe chilly and windy. Have a Braum’s shake and burger while there, or Whataburger. And BBQ!
Get a chicken fried steak sandwich at Del Rancho.
Just call it a schnitzel like a normal people
They do have a fair amount of German food / heritage there, plus Vietnamese more recently.
Yes they do. I doubt the day-time bartender at my home-away-from-home dive is still working, but she is old school German and I usually get a home cooked German meal from her in exchange for the food that I don’t use up in the hotel.
This place is pretty venerable and atmospheric (disclaimer: haven’t been). https://cattlemensrestaurant.com/
It’s been over 20 years but I have had a great meal there. Holy shit I am old.
I had one 10 years ago, but I wasn’t overly impressed. Wasn’t bad though.
I have my places that I make sure to go to for food: Whataburger, Pappy’s BBQ or the Dale’s BBQ, Tacos Don Nachos and Dan’s Ol’ Time Diner for those awesome onion burgers.
Stephen Fry liked OKC https://youtu.be/AqNDLjQKF4M?t=2688
ELIJAH SCHAFFER
@ElijahSchaffer
Crazy, every single video on the White House YouTube has been massively ratioed with down votes
The administration responded by turning all comments off on every single video
I present to you the most popular and transparent president in the history of the United States
Eighty. Three. Million. “Votes”.
I wonder if that story will ever get told?
I mean, I get how Trump could lose. He turned a lot of people off very hard, and the negative campaigning against him was at unprecedented levels for a 5-year. Pretty easy to lose under those circumstances.
But nobody likes Biden. The Democrats don’t like him. The progressives don’t like him. Trump supporters don’t like him. Establishment Republicans don’t really like him. I mean, a couple of those groups don’t actively hate him, but they don’t like him at all. I’d say the progressives hate him more than any of the rest of those groups.
Yet somehow they were able to garner so much more support than in 2016? Even more than in 2012? It seems odd.
A full accounting would include a ground game that I did not see reported anywhere but must have happened. Based on all of their machinations with mail ballots, I would have to assume that they had armies of paid volunteers going from house to house and Democrat strongholds collecting votes, one way or another. It had to have been millions of people. I wonder why we didn’t see that covered on the news?
Anyway, it would be really interesting to hear the inside story. Even if the inside story does not include harvesting and filling out 5 million ballots across five states.
They just bulk printed ballots. Made up names & addresses.
A legit Trump loss would have been Trump losing total votes, and Trump losing the bellwether counties as a result. But that’s not what happened. Trump gained votes, and won the bellwethers, but the absolutely massive number of votes coming out of deep blue cities managed to swing the states.
I can’t speak to every other state, but that clearly is not what happened in PA.
the absolutely massive number of votes coming out of deep blue cities managed to swing the states
This is false. The cities did not swing the states (more than they usually do, anyway).
The absolutely massive number of votes coming in by mail swung the states. Those votes came from many different places. I did the analysis on PA and Biden improved over Clinton by a larger margin than Trump improved over himself from 2016 in more than two-thirds of PA’s counties.
The game changer is not “massive fraud in the cities”. It is “mail-in ballots [from whatever source]”.
Here’s what I found, from a previous morning links:
It’s that and targeted old school fraud in certain cities that have a sympathetic or even complicit oversight apparatus, large scale and widespread fraud aren’t needed.
Mail in balloting. Expect it to continue. Trump picked up a lot of votes that way too. It’s an absolute disaster for all third parties though.
There is also this:
“If you haven’t read The Amistad Project’s report on Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life, you need to read it. Will explain a lot about what happened in battleground states in 2020”
https://twitter.com/nedryun/status/1353338010809495553
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20428534/hava-and-non-profit-organization-report-final-w-attachments-and-preface-121420.pdf
I think I read that Zuckerberg spent $350 million on voting programs in 2020.
That’s like one of us spending five bucks on a sandwich.
My wife said Instagram forces you to follow the White House account. If you later unfollow, it won’t let you do anything until following the White House again. Don’t know if that’s still the case since she has since deleted the app and scrubbed all of her social media accounts.
I’ve also been repeatedly told that Big Tech firms are just private companies operating in a free market and are not acting as agents of the state. Just ignore the revolving door between the executive positions in these companies and high-level fedgov jobs.
Snowden’s book makes a good case that the Feds simply wanted to copy what the Tech companies were already doing.
What?
I have an Instagram account (it’s the only social media account I have left, and it’s strictly for my photography). I’m certainly not being “forced” to follow the White House account. Is this something that ‘Grammers from the States are being targeted for?
Have you checked to see if you’re following the white house?
There’s a bunch of news stories about it though nothing from the MSM of course. Regardless though, it happened to my wife and she deleted Instagram on the spot over it.
https://notthebee.com/article/quick-check-to-see-if-instagram-is-forcing-you-to-follow-the-white-house-account
I have checked.
I am not following the White House.
Then they are following you.
Not according to my profile page.
Nor mine.
*whooosh*
*whooosh*
Nah. I’m just not important enough to follow. (I’m also not an American, so there’s no upside to tracking me, really.)
I was just ignoring the sarc because I really wanted to check.
Of course I know I’m on a list somewhere. My first 3 books are sufficiently political to get me on one.
Just checked. Nada.
I don’t think Instagram does that. I have an account and I don’t follow the White House and never have.
Those downvotes were wither Russian bots or Boogaloo Boys traitors. I for one give a hearty well done to the White House PR team.
meh. This does not say much in the grand scheme of things
Comments are now turned off for many, many videos.
Like even Kanye West audio-only videos of Jesus is King.
“ The United States military has condemned a provocative low flyby of the USS Donald Cook by a Russian fighter jet as the American warship traversed the Black Sea on Sunday.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-fighter-jet-buzzes-us-warship-black-sea-american-presence-builds
Maybe it was uncalled for but why are our statements regarding these things along the line of the schoolyard bully complaining to the teacher when he gets punched? It just looks so wussified.
I’d say bring more ships
When they say “provocative low” do they mean the pilot was a hot Russian chick who sounds like Natasha from the Rocky & Bullwinkle show and was scantily clad in a dress cut down to there?
“No life like it,” indeed. I’ll be in my bunk.
“lol
1. Wa Po Calls for a boycott of Fox citing “misinformation”
2. Wa Po realizes it’s not exactly a great look for a news org to essentially be calling for a blacklist of a competitor, so when asked about it, they lie, aka actually spread misinformation. You can’t make it up!”
https://twitter.com/Surabees/status/1356233726917832704
No one who subscribes to WaPo cares. In fact, they want them to lie to them. That’s the NYT & WaPo business model — feed people the lies they want to hear.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
*Swigs cranberry juice*
Wait, wrong song. *spits out cranberry juice*
I would say boycott all corporate media.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
High-stress occupations such as first responders, police, and firefighters have a high incidence of heart disease and may benefit from frequent sauna use (4-7x/week) which has been shown to be linked to a 50% reduction in death from heart disease.
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/3/1105/htm
BREAKING: Scientists weigh in on whether Zooming while trans is the real “shadow pandemic.”
https://twitter.com/Self_Made_Dan/status/1356022527059869696
I mean it is sort of mean but I laughed
I can’t look at my own face let alone my own face if I were a woman.
Emergency powers
The Department of Homeland Security said Sunday that Transportation Security Administration workers now have the authority to enforce President Joe Biden’s transportation mask mandate “at TSA screening checkpoints and throughout the commercial and public transportation system.”
Acting Secretary David Pekoske on Sunday signed a Determination of National Emergency, which said the TSA can “take actions consistent with the authorities” of its federal jurisdiction so it can enforce the mask mandate order laid out by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday.
“This includes supporting the CDC in the enforcement of any orders or other requirements necessary to protect the transportation system, including passengers and employees, from Covid-19 and to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 through the transportation system, to the extent appropriate and consistent with applicable law,” Pekoske wrote.
The CDC order issued last week requires people to wear a mask while using any form of public transportation, including on board planes, trains, buses, boats, subways, taxis and ride-shares, as well as inside airports and other transportation hubs. The order goes into effect Monday at 11:59 p.m.
The TSA said in a news release Sunday that passengers without a mask “may be denied entry, boarding, or continued transport” and that failure to comply with the mask requirement can result in civil penalties.
Also beatings, chokings and tasings. Stop resisting.
We’re gonna need more (and stronger) lampposts.
“I have a medical condition. Wait, what’s that? Sorry man, HIPAA.”
*calls lawyer*
Which opens the door for what TSA has been wanting – to metastasize and be everywhere. They have been chomping at that bit for a decade or longer and now they have their justification to grope you at all transportation hubs.
Wait, I thought pretextual national emergency declarations were invalid? So confused.
Lockdown extended again: Now No10 indicates restrictions to remain until SUMMER
DOWNING STREET has hinted some of England’s lockdown restrictions could be extended until the summer.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1391841/uk-lockdown-extended-boris-johnson-coronavirus-restrictions-latest
I mean fuck it might as well make it permanent. Save the NHS
“We have no idea what to do. So we’re going to do it harder.”
We are led by witlings.
BoJo’s brains are as scrambled as his hair. What a cuck loser that fucking guy is.
Looks like Nigel Farage may have a new mission.
” 10 ways to fight back against woke culture
By Bari Weiss”
https://nypost.com/2021/01/31/10-ways-to-fight-back-against-woke-culture/
surrender strategically
This is where we are. People like Bari Weiss and Glen Greenwald are the only voices speaking out about this wh are not in the “conservative treehouse” camp.
It should be a pretty easy call for anyone who is not a CWPA member, but here we are.
Several years ago whilst abroad, I dressed up like 2001 Justin Trudeau, I now apologise
https://twitter.com/ArchRose90/status/1174720762869112832
old tweet but…
“TSA will fully comply with the President’s Executive Orders, CDC guidance and the DHS National Emergency determination to ensure healthy and secure travel across all transportation sectors,” Senior Official Performing the Duties of the TSA Administrator Darby LaJoye said in a statement Sunday evening.
“This will help prevent further spread of COVID-19 and encourage a unified government response. As we continue to experience impacts from this pandemic, we are committed to this measure as the right thing to do for the TSA workforce, for our industry stakeholders and for passengers.”
Useless counterproductive government agency gets more power to do additional useless counterproductive things.
Land of the Free, they said. Home of the Brave, they said.
It’ll be fun, they said.
The wording implies that they have an opinion on the matter, which doesn’t make any sense, because they’re honor-bound civil servants who just do what the people want.
Today in youtube recommends
Women’s Beach Handball 2018 | World Championship Highlights | ᴴᴰ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPuy4LiwsFs
beach handball silly. You can’t dribble the ball
Espn is outdoing themselves. They had the college spikeball national championships the other day.
Spikeball?
A kids game for family picnics. A small round ring with a bouncy net in it and a rubber ball about the size of a tennis ball. 2 on 2, played kind of like handball or four square.
National TV.
They are hurting for content.
I would prefer Ausie rules football, rugby and even field hockey to be honest.
They also had the cornhole championships the other day. No word on the beer pong championships.
So they have migrated their ESPN Ocho content? We have merged with Hollywood fiction in the weirdest ways
I saw that.
I’m waiting for the jet ski competitions and badminton tournaments you used to see on ESPN late at night in the ’80s to make a return.
Aussie Rules is broadcast by Fox Australia (+ one of the broadcast networks) so it probably won’t show up on ESPN. Same with the National Rugby League. English Premiership Rugby is on NBC Sports. ESPN dumped a lot of sports when they went all in on NBA and other stuff. Now they can’t get them back.
Egads! News is on and they are lamenting that over half of vaccine data doesn’t have race attributed to it! Quick! Form a committee!
Or maybe people are sick of giving that information when it is clear the government is using it in nefarious and stupid ways?
The fact that it’s important enough for the media to break out the fainting couch over it is all the answer they need.
Feds want Florida shut down. DeSantis says no.
The White House Coronavirus Task Force is calling for the closure of bars, restaurants, and gyms in the state of Florida due to the rise in hospitalizations from COVID-19.
During a state budgetary overview on Thursday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated his stand against locking down the economy in the state.
“We believe every job is essential,” said the governor. “You work in a restaurant, we have your back. If you are a hair stylist, we protect your right to earn a living and if you are a parent we ensure your kids have the right to in-person learning. Lockdowns do not work.”
Oh that can have the potential to get interesting.
Just for context. Florida is up to 26,500 deaths. New York is at 43,178, and we know they have been manipulating their numbers.
Yup. DeSantis has really done a horrible job.
Sounds like another insurrection. Send in the troops.
Governor not listening to the President? That has Inssurection written all over it. How can we have Unity with these people who clearly don’t want it.
lol.
Cases and deaths are both going down in Florida.
Hospitalizations are going up because the cherry picked stat is referring to people in hospitals and not being hospitalized. In other words, it will drop in a few weeks.
They really have made discrediting DeSantis a priority. I wonder what they see in him that I don’t see?
When the left cites a statistic _always_ assume that the reason they didn’t cite a more specific or relevant statistic is because it goes against them.
Florida says “lol go fuck yourself”
Pharoah Joe says “assemble the armored divisions, call in the missile troops, gather the mobile infantry; we march on Tallahassee at dawn.”
One way to get yourself keeled.
“MAYDAY MAYDAY – MY VESSEL BROKE”
This terrifying video recorded by the crew of the ship shows the breaking of the vessel in two which eventually sank. The ship was built in 1975 and plying in Turkish water during the time of the incident which happened on 17th Jan 2021.
Sooooooo….. The front fell off?
Wow….that’s nuts. Wreck of Edmund Fitzgeraldski.
Mornin’ and Goodnight, Glibs! That Conn Smythe story led me to the tale of Billy Barker who should be a part of Animal’s series.
Good Deal Alert!!!! (For our Wisconsin Glibs)
Pretty funny episode of the Manitowac Minute.
On the front of a making the lockdown permanent, I heard some news that pushes in that direction yesterday. Apparently some of the new variants are sufficiently different from the original strain that people who have already had covid-19 can catch it. And those new strains are all circulating here in Florida. Great! we went through the pain of dealing with that stupid illness and we’re not even immune? That would really be obnoxious.
It would also strongly imply that the vaccines are not protective against the new strains either.
I doubt it though.
SCIENCE: Wisconsin drinks more than half the world’s brandy
Ok, so maybe it would be more accurate to say Wisconsinites drink half the supply of a low rent brandy distiller. But I’m not going to rule out that they also drink up half the supply of other brandy makers.
Sacre Bleu!
I didn’t realize Wisconsinites were so refined in their tastes.
Yeah, yeah, it’s Korbel, but still . . .
That’s an awful lot of old fashioneds to sell to the Illinois tourists.