Who dares sail into the Realms of the Men of the West?
Things have been getting a bit…prickly ’round here. I shan’t name any names (probably because in the past few weeks I would have been one of them). But lets not argue about ‘oo killed ‘oo…
Instead, let us reflect on what a wonderful place we have here…instead of;
- You could have been on a helicopter.
- You could live in Belarus.
- You could have been in a NY nursing home.
I don’t do music links but once in a blue moon. But, A Very Special Music Link for Today. OK, didn’t care for that one? Try this NSFW one.
When I First, a euphoria comes over me. I see colors that I didn’t even know existed. It’s like I’m cumming all over the page. In a way, each of you has a little bit of me inside of you each time I First.
Listen, if your hand stops returning your calls and it starts to burn when you pee, you have given your self some form of VD. Get some shots or end up like Al Capone.
It’s your hands that are doing the squeezing and pumping. And they always call back. Always.
The burning is what makes you a man.
Just catching up here… My entry for Sean’s comment #8, previous thread…
Suck the chub, still get snubbed.
I haven’t listened to Reel Big Fish in a while. Thanks Swissy! *ears perked*
They are cheery, aren’t they?
I’m thinking that would be a great ringtone.
“What kind of a deal?”
“A DEAL deal. Maybe the guy’s a Republican.”
“There was always a large number of security officers around us, wearing different uniforms. There was a bus filled with police officers at each street corner. Buses filled with security forces were crisscrossing the town centre. It was an extremely anxiety-provoking atmosphere. I didn’t feel safe.”
As bad as shit can be here at times, I know it’s way worst in other places around the world. Hopefully they knock this National Guard shit off in DC.
I hope so too, since the Capitol is under a million times less of a threat a Milwaukee auto parts store.
One of the truly eye-opening moments in my life was going to Belfast in the ’80s and seeing riflemen on every corner downtown, cops walking two-by-two with Sterling SMGs, armored cars everywhere, etc. That was a police state, and violence from anywhere was imminent. We don’t know how good we have it here, even the shit zones like Compton or Detroit.
When the Belarusian opposition leader in exile, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, called for protesters to take to the streets on Freedom Day on March 25, only a few brave souls responded. Police flooded the streets of Minsk, as the government led by President Alexander Lukashenko continues to clamp down on opposition across the country. Our Observer describes a day coloured by fear of arrest, with very few flags, posters or shouted slogans.
Still more protesters than in the US.
What the world needs now…is Fascism, sweet fascism….
The Western media really bought into that whole revolution that never materialized.
They dined in Minsk
On slices of quinsk
Which they ate with a runcible spoon
Runcible spoon my ass, that’s a spork.
Today’s big story was the
BidenBiden-Harris administration pushing for “vaccine passports”, but as someone on Twitter noted, how likely is it that they could even make that work? There are so many different systems involved, and a lot of places (particularly drug stores) that administered the shots didn’t even check IDs.All they have to do is start a campaign saying “If you don’t get an ID proving you had a vaccine (even if you’ve already got yours), then you aren’t doing your part to keep those dumb Neanderthals from killing grandma.”
I’ve largely kept my mouth shut about the vaccines… keep my head down and do my job. I got asked point-blank the other day by some colleagues about when I’d be getting mine. I responded that I was waiting to see how the risk profile pans out. That shook em. I don’t think they’ve ever heard a contrary statement before, even one as cautiously worded as that.
I’ve heard the same from several co-workers. I don’t think the government is going to get the enthusiasm for this scheme that they’re expecting.
I generally avoid the subject by just saying I’m low risk so I don’t think I should be getting in front of higher risk people. Tends to shut people up.
I am waiting for
BidenBiden-Harris to expand their EO to no one allowed in a federal building without vaccine. Then I will have to have a come to Jesus moment on how much I like my job if that comes to fruition.You can easily fake the vaccine cards, though. The form is downloadable from several govt websites. It’s simple to just print it up on cardstock at home and fill it in yourself with a pen.
As much as I don’t mind cheating in the least bit, it’s kind of like wearing a Gadsden flag mask. One proclaims liberty while complying/offering the appearance of compliance.
Martyrdom ain’t for everyone.
That’ll work fine unless someone decides to look into backing databases such as state vaccine registries.
One of Sununu’s emergency orders makes the state vaccine registry, currently optional, mandatory for any COVID-19 vaccine. Supposedly this is to comply with CDC reporting guidelines
Funny that this is coming from the same political party that is so racist that they don’t think POCs can get an ID to vote. However, they can totes get an ID to prove they’ve been vaccinated. All the R’s should have to do is point this out, but again, StupidParty (TM).
If this vaccine passport gains legs, the Rs should go full troll and make a vaccine passport an acceptable form of ID for mandatory ID voting.
How will that keep poor people from voting?
Oooh, that would be good.
Upper and middle classes will be subjected to it while the underclasses continue as they do now as with any government program.
Here’s something astoundingly peaceful to watch.
That is way more peaceful than someone saying, ” rebuild this axle assembly!”
Couldn’t he just buy another one?
What would be the fun in that?
It’s like you don’t even know Mad Scientist!
But lets not argue about ‘oo killed ‘oo…
Does it really matter?
They are cheery, aren’t they?
An excellent selection.
Thank, I was writing some song lyrics and I was stumped for a rhyme for “hassle.”
Yes, I thought of using “El Paso” but that would just be silly.
No matter how you rhyme it, at the end you’ll still sing,”Bobbie Sue, took the money and run”.
tassel?
castle
Vassal?
Sorry that you have to wrassel with that.
passel?
ass’le
passel?
I think you and Rat are going to need to rassle over who owns that one.
You and blackjack first.
Wow, who knew that screwing that up would be so facile?
Oooohhhh, NICE!! ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv_PvuLCMGE
[refresh man, refresh!]
I don’t do music links but once in a blue moon.
Related
For old school hipsters
I guess WordPress is still doing updates?
“Improvements”
They’re fortifying the site.
Our Observer, who wished to remain anonymous, was one of the people who braved the ban. An active participant in the protests against Lukashenko in 2020, our Observer said that the protest on March 25 was very different from the large-scale gatherings last summer.
Lukashenko is an old-school Communist. This is brave.
I seem to remember Belarus being a big deal last summer, but now it is forgotten. Can’t be sure why…
Nuh uh! I have it on good authority that saying the same thing as blue check Twitter, the academy, corporations, and the media are saying is the height of bravery.
This may have fallen out of my butt.
I don’t know what’s that from?
Lord of the Rings.
Denethor.
I bet we could do better.
Americans make up less than 5% of the world’s population, yet they own roughly 45% of all the world’s privately held firearms.
The replies will damage your calm.
Keeping America Safe since 1607.
Those are rookie numbers.
And the Swiss settle for the silver.
I think the Finns are up there.
I was referring to the scary graphic on gun homicides. What the scary graphic doesn’t show is the US total homicide rate is below the average for the world, Africa, and the Americas.
Can you link that data?
Wiki has a whole page on comparing homicide rates. The data is source from the UN, but presented much better on the wiki page. World homicide rate is 6.2/100K, US homicide rate is ~5/100K. The Americas are the deadliest region of the world, with a homicide rate of 16.3, so if anything America’s guns are keeping us safe.
Thank you.
I’d imagine there’s a ton of handwaving and argumentation about rates in “comparable” societies making the US really more dangerous because we shouldn’t be compared to the “third world,” which would get the user of that argument canceled, if they weren’t arguing on the side of the left. Note, I am mostly snarking here, since I haven’t reviewed the data yet.
Wikipedia has the UNODC data. If you look at other sites that cover the world it is similar. The US rate is higher than Europe and Canada, but lower than Mexico and south.
It is similar to how they talk about gun deaths, combining homicides, suicides and accidents. Japan has fewer gun suicides but more total suicides.
That Vox article is all cherry-picking bullshit.
America does have a serious fundamental gun problem. We don’t have enough places to shoot.
End Range Deserts Now!
Millions of Americans lack access to affordable ammunition.
For less then the cost of a cup of coffee a day, you can help these poor ‘mericans get the ammo they need to feed their hungry guns.
Where’s Yang and his Universal Basic Combat Load monthly shipments?
Yeah!?
/begs for 9mm alms
I’m also writing a song about a group of robbers – you might even call them gangsters – and I was looking for a rhyme for “hair-trigger.”
“naggers?”
In the butt, Bob?
What?
Excellent and exactly what I thought it was, but I prefer Butters singing it.
Don’t look at me funny I got a hair trigger.
My finger so itchy it got bit by a chigger.
Got through the window with the help of a rigger.
Just counted that stash. Thought it’d be bigger.
snigger
Uighur?
I have a team of developers in Belarus. I hope their country gets its act together but I’m not holding my breath. 🙁
You know times are bad when capitalists are getting killed in helicopter rides.
David Sirota is concerned
“Letting the majority do everything it wants to is not what the founders had in mind,” said the Senate Republican whip, John Thune, in a floor speech defending the filibuster this week. “The founders recognized that it wasn’t just kings who could be tyrants. They knew majorities could be tyrants, too, and that a majority if unchecked could trample the rights of the minority … so the founders created the Senate as a check on the House of Representatives.”
But an inconvenient fact undermines Thune’s argument and should set pluralists at ease: even if the filibuster were eliminated and bills could advance on a simple majority vote, the Senate would still be giving a minority of the American population enough Senate representation to block legislation supported by the majority of the country.
In the debate over the filibuster, then, the question is not whether you believe the majority should rule. Instead, the question is this: how small a minority should be given legislative veto power over the rest of the country?
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If you happen to be one of those constitutional originalists worried about preserving the power of small states, don’t fret. The power imbalance becomes more pronounced when you take party out of the equation and just look at states with the least population. A whopping 52 senators from the least populated states currently represent just 17% of America’s total population – but they would still be able to stop all legislation in a filibuster-free Senate under simple-majority rules.
Here’s a thought. Why should the party with a majority (razor thin or otherwise) dictate every aspect of life, no matter which party that might be on a given day?
If the sheep are outvoted today, they can always hope for a majority tomorrow…
It’s okay if Dems do it but not Repubs. Duh.
Just maybe, they tried to make it difficult to pass a bunch of inane assed laws. Maybe? Obstructionist should rule the fucking day, except in cases of repealing existing assaults on freedom .
“Instead, the question is this: how small a minority should be given legislative veto power over the rest of the country?”
One.
Unanimous consent, or nothing.
Ding, ding. We have a winner.
Democracy is good, except when it gives voice to people who disagree with me.
It is right there in the definition.
David Sirota doesn’t understand the purpose of the Senate, but then no one on the left does.
Vermont is the second smallest state with just 100,000 Voters more than Wyoming. Yet it is always WY that gets called out for having 2 senators, and not the fact that VT gets to send a Socialist to Congress every year. Wonder why Sirota wouldn’t mention that?
Anyway the point, as you point out, isn’t that the Senate is to be fair, it’s a compromise to keep the Small states from saying Fuck it and leaving. Or at least thats how it was. As it is now, the Left is fine with colonialism, as long as it’s California and the East Coast colonizing the western states and dictating how they should have to live.
An interesting thing about the leftist attacks on the Senate is I wonder how many of them are fans of the UN? The UN General Assembly operates on the same rules of representation as the US Senate. India (the largest non-veto member) gets the same representation as Nauru, despite having literally a million times as many people.
Here’s an idea. Devolve power to the states. Maybe there should be a change to the Constitution that reads something like “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Fuck Lincoln.
More fun stats to parse through:
Montana has 1 Million people per Representative, so the representation in the House per person is far less than in California, which has 745,000 People per rep, or Rhode Island (the smallest per rep in the nation) at 530,000 per person.
For the sake of the nation you must signal your virus virtue.
She urged Americans to keep following the federal health guidance on travel and large gatherings while continuing to wash their hands, wear masks, and practice social distancing.
“We have come such a long way,” she said, and added, “Please hold on a little while longer.”
She pointed to coronavirus surges in some European countries and warned the United States faced a similar future if they ignored the rise in cases.
“I so badly want to be done. I know you all so badly want to be done. We’re just almost there but not quite yet,” Walensky said. “I’m asking you to just hold on a little longer.”
She urged all Americans to recommit to the guidelines and recommendations and encourage others to do the same.
“I’m calling on our elected officials, our faith-based communities, our civic leaders, and our other influencers, in communities across the nation, and I’m calling on every single one of you to sound the alarm,” she said. “We do not have the luxury of inaction.”
No. Thanks for stopping by! The door is to your left.
She pointed to coronavirus surges in some European countries
Not mentioned: those countries have stricter lockdowns than we have ever had.
Why, its almost like lockdowns don’t work at all to reduce total infections over time, but just . . . reorganize them into periodic spikes.
You and your damnable observations – that’s not SCIENCE!
I just looked at the graph of covid numbers and lol’ed.
What fucking rise in cases?
Cases have plateaued at virtually nada, and deaths are still on a free fall.
There is no rise in cases in America.
GTFOH
I was looking for a rhyme for “hair-trigger.”
“It’s the fuzz! Jiggers!”
Are you black? Is this a gangsta rap song?
If so I can help.
This is wrong now, isn’t it?
“A ninth woman has come forward to accuse New York Governor Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct.
Sherry Vill, 55, appeared at a press conference with her attorney Gloria Allred on Monday. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9415213/Woman-says-Cuomo-kissed-without-consent.html
So this one is lying.
STEVE SMITH NEVER KISS WITHOUT CONSENT.
RAPE ON THE OTHER HAND…
You can tell she’s lying by who her lawyer is.
Did Gloria Allred push the psycho Kavanaugh Accusers, or was that just Avennatti?
You misspelled “credible.”
I’m talking about the completely un-credible “Kav ran a Rape Train at a party in full view of everyone” accuser.
Dunno, but if she’s for it, I’m mostly ‘agin it. Same with her offspring.
“EXCLUSIVE: Influx of Russian, Syrian and Iraqi immigrants are traveling to Mexico to cross the US border, where overwhelmed detention centers are being forced to release them after three days without vetting”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9403001/Russian-Syrian-Iraqi-immigrants-traveling-Mexico-cross-border.html
More terror attacks, more reason to increase gun control and surveillance shit.
“‘I am scared’: CDC director warns of ‘impending doom’ as US Covid cases rise 10% to nearly 60K a day, hospitalizations rise to 4,800 a day and average daily deaths increase by 3% compared to last week”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9413359/Dr-Fauci-says-easing-pandemic-restrictions-premature.html
Oh, fuck off, already.
A lot more people if not blatantly are starting to defy the scaremongers and are willing to take that risk if they can see hang with their families.
You can understate how evil these people are for trying to convince us that we shouldn’t interact with family and friends. Part of me cynically believes that those in power know that the best way to rule people and enforce their worldview is to destroy the bonds that we have with our family and friends.
You can’t*
Part of me cynically believes that those in power know that the best way to rule people and enforce their worldview is to destroy the bonds that we have with our family and friends.
I don’t think every branch covidian is that way, but more than a few undoubtedly are. It’s written out blatantly in the communist manifesto. It’s not a secret that destroying family and setting neighbor against neighbor is part of the revolution.
US Covid cases rise 10% to nearly 60K a day
DOOM! A 10% increase! We are back to the same levels as *checks notes* 3 weeks ago.
I just wanted to say thanks to Sean, Scruffy, JI, leon, et al. for the great thread in the morning links about the intellectual compulsion of the transgender movement. The comments put into words my thoughts on the matter, especially after the “diversity” training thing that I had to sit through last week. Particularly poignant was AlexinCT’s thought:
“This is all part of destroying your ability to use logic, facts, or common sense to argue with insane stupid fuckers demanding things you know will break society and send us back to the stone age.”
This is why I love this place. The arguments are well thought out and logical, and they put effective words to my thoughts. Thank you all for that.
I wasn’t around this morning, but can I assume someone quoted Theodore Dalrymple?
I don’t believe that was brought up, but it is a brilliant quote, and is appropriate. Thanks for sharing!
You can say that about any identity politics.
This is true. This topic just hit close, since I just had to deal with some of the trans nonsense.
Don’t think the corporations forgot about other issues when they were reinforcing the covid psychosis.
Companies Ask Their Customers to Help Them Cut Emissions
>> to remind their families to take shorter showers.
something something cold dead hands
You know who else wanted people to take short showers?
McDonalds?
The Little People on that TLC show?
Danny Devito’s hygiene coach?
Literally, the crazy lady who built the Winchester Mystery house?
Every Captain who has commanded a ship/boat?
No. Thanks for stopping by! The door is to your left.
This type of stuff is laughable. Even if CO2 was an existential threat to humanity, this sort of penny-ante BS is meaningless to the bigger picture. I was looking into aggregate CO2 numbers for an upcoming article, and it is quite obvious that no matter how concerned the developed world is about emissions the developing world is (understandably) more concerned about developing, so CO2 numbers are going to continue to rise no matter what we do. Long, hot showers stay on the table.
Youtube keeps showing me an ad for dog food made of crickets because it’s more “sustainable”. I alternate between laughing and shouting at the TV.
To be fair, dogs will eat anything, including their own shit and other animals’ vomit.
I alternate between laughing and shouting at the TV.
I first read that as “shooting”.
I’m too cheap to do that, but I understand how Elvis got the urge.
Tell my kid. He recently broke his second big screen. 800.00 later…
He doesn’t even own a gun that shoots anything stronger than foam. He killed it bowling for bottles with a pillow.
The first time, it was the first day from new. The store replaced it because we were honest-ish about how it broke. We at least allowed for the possibility that the kid broke it. That was enough.
Unless you are a spectacularly bad shot, you only get to do that once per functioning TV.
Fun story.
I lived in apartment for a few years after college. It had an old dishwasher, probably 15-20 years old, that worked alright but it was dingy inside. One of my roommates gets a job at a detergent company. Periodically, they give some of their products out to their employees, and one day he brings home some obscure Canadian brand of dishwasher detergent. Free shit being free shit, and us being cheap as a holdover from college days, we say what the hell and use it.
After the first use, the dishwasher looks brand fucking new. Like somebody took a scouring pad to the whole thing and got rid of all the grime and decades of accumulated crap. The dishes were spotless too. I was like, wtf, how is this product not on the top of every shelf in every store?
The answer is phosphates. They are banned in my state. Why? Algae blooms. Has banning phosphates reduced algae blooms? No. Why? Because they’re from agricultural runoff. But it has made cleaning dishes that much harder. Stainless steel dishwashers are an absolute necessity now, so is having soft water, and so is using the hottest water possible (some have steam now).
Similarly, that same apartment had a 20-year-old washing machine. It was not “high efficiency” and it was not a front loader and it did not spin like a jet engine at takeoff, it only agitated the clothes enough to get the soap moving. It had no special features and very few cycle choices. Once we figured out where the filter was and cleaned it, you could wash anything in it and it would come out clean. No presoaking, no additives, no extra rinsing.
Then the apartment owners got a tax break or water rate rebate or something for installing low flow faucets and shower heads everywhere. Now it took 1.5 times as long to take a shower because the soap would not rinse off as fast.
From electric cars with exploding batteries, to reducing water use in a place that has no droughts, to banning things that don’t cause problems, fuck modern environmentalism. I have never seen a stronger argument for the folly of optimizing the wrong metrics than unchecked environmentalism.
To the environmentalists the correct metric is how much normal people are inconvenienced so that we may repent for our sins. To them your troubles are the goal.
As Pater Dean told The Nieces when they said something about water conservation:
“Water’s not going anywhere. We have just as much now as we did 100 years ago.”
Now, in desert areas, water should be expensive and people shouldn’t be stupid about it. You want to cut residential water consumption? Raise the fucking prices. We have tiered pricing in Tucson, and when we started breaking into the top tier a couple summers ago due to weak monsoons and a desire to not see all of our landscape die a lingering death, I replaced the drip irrigation system, which was leaking like a sieve due to crap components. Lo! Money and water, both saved.
But R C, you ask, why was your drip system made out of crap? Why, because the environmentalists banned using the old type of plastic tubing, which lasted forever, and required that we use crap instead. Net result: wasted water, more junk going to landfills as busted systems get ripped out, and more production (with the energy use, etc. that goes with it) of replacement systems.
“Raise the fucking prices”.
I wish that there was an app that would add “and the price will go up” every time a politician or an environmentalist says “we need to use less of X”. If I recall correctly Obama said something about how the price of energy would have to skyrocket in order for people to use less. I give him credit for being honest on that point.
Just like the toilets and the washing machines and the shower heads. They fuck things up using a 1-to-1 analysis, not bothering to consider the long term costs of having to run things twice as much for the same result.
Now, in desert areas, water should be expensive and people shouldn’t be stupid about it.
Cotton and alfalfa farmers on both sides of the Colorado River say “hiiiiiiiiii”.
We started adding TSP to our dishwasher (before it died of old age). We have yet to receive our new dishwasher, but it’s got a stainless steel tub.
We do the same — 1/2 tsp per load, along with the silly enzyme pack we bought at Costco. (Canada got on the “no phosphates in dishwasher detergent” train a few years ago . . . )
Everything’s much cleaner.
Using the same aforementioned math, the filibuster rules allowing 41 senators to halt legislation effectively empower a group of Republican senators representing just 22% percent of the population to gridlock the government. Again, considering that it only takes 50% of the vote to get elected, the filibuster means that about 11% of the voting-age population has successfully elected Republican senators who can theoretically block anything that polls show the overwhelming majority of the country might want.
Now ask yourself what sort of egregious nonsense might be required to motivate this grotesque insurrectionism.
Now do restructuring our society for the benefit of [insert minority race/gender identity] here.
Try to explain that senators don’t represent people, but states, and really blow their mind.
A popular vote for senators was a major mistake.
Got my second dose of the moderna covid vax today and I just can’t stop thinking of kamala harris naked.
Odd, my wife said the same thing.
That’s what you get for shooting up in a dark alley.
That’s a turn off.
ewwww…
Maybe that’s why I haven’t had an erection since I got my second dose in February.
Probably already covered:
‘It’ll breed a new generation of mass shooters’ – Game industry unites to cancel Six Days in Fallujah with outdated logic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4W4OQJKHtE
Nice. Remy’s parodies are the best.
The pearl clutchers never left, they just got woke. Jack Thompson and Tipper Gore were just a couple decades too early.
You can understate how evil these people are for trying to convince us that we shouldn’t interact with family and friends. Part of me cynically believes that those in power know that the best way to rule people and enforce their worldview is to destroy the bonds that we have with our family and friends.
I autocorrected to “you CAN’T understate” when I read that.
They explicitly want to prohibit “unrelated groups” from getting together.
Maybe they are beginning to realize just how close they are to getting the lamppost treatment.
I needed an autocorrect.
I find it interesting that we _still_ don’t have Census data for redistricting.
Here in Ohio there’s been lawsuits about it already. And of course, the lefty rag posts:
Advocates Tout an “Incredible Opportunity” to Tamp Down Gerrymandering in Ohio
What gets me is the people who are convinced that Gerrymandering is something “only those evil [other side] do”
“When we do it, it’s bringing power to those without it!”
Behold MD-3.
Holy crap on cracker. That is effed up. I’m sorry MD, but you need to be nuked from space.
The others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%27s_congressional_districts.
Represent! I think. Who knows. I could be in any one of like 4 districts. There’s not a district in this state that isn’t gerrymandered, though the 3rd is definitely the worst.
The Democrats made it known they wanted to gerrymander out the republicans. If you look at the shapes of the districts in the past, they were saner. The problem was it resulted in too many Republicans. They’ve been able to change the delegation from 4-4 to 7-1 and are still trying to find a way to get rid of the last one.
They must want to keep a token Republican around, or they’re slow-rolling it. There’s two districts they could easily re-arrange, rated D+26 and D+28; that’s 10 percentage points easy from each there, enough to overcome the only Republican district at R+14.
I am under no illusion that this isn’t a blue state’s blue state. But about a third of the population are not Democrats (though it trends down every year), so that means of 8 reps you should expected 2-4 of them to be Republicans too, all else being equal.
A third of Mass. voters vote Republican–by that I mean voting for an R senator or Trump, NOT the governor. The last time Mass. elected an R representative was in 1994.
Yep, in fact the MD gerrymander was considered by SCotUS combined with the NC case (so there was a case for the stupid party and one for the evil party).
Opponents of gerrymandering like to tout the fact that the congressional delegations don’t match the state’s overall popular vote per party, but then their solution is to maintain gerrymandered districts in a different sort instead of proposing at-large multi-member districts. Plural districts and at-large districts in multi-representative states were a thing until they were banned by Congress, so that could always be reversed.
That tells you the official data is going to move Reps from Blue states to Red states.
I’m guessing they haven’t arrived at a consensus on how to game the numbers to account for all the illegals yet.
Last week Youtube served this up as an ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yg-PKUlgeE
I can’t even.
Prostrate yourselves before your savior
Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared to take credit for the development of the country’s COVID-19 vaccines — without ever mentioning the role of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed campaign.
In a CNN special that aired Sunday, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the “best decision” he made was fast-tracking efforts to produce a vaccine.
“When I saw what happened in New York City, almost overrunning of our health care system, it was like, ‘Oh my goodness,’ ” Fauci told CNN correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out.”
“And that’s when it became very clear that the decision we made on January the 10th – to go all out and develop a vaccine – may have been the best decision that I’ve ever made with regard to an intervention as director of the institute.”
STFU you senile quack.
Of course he would.
The internet:
https://twitter.com/MoJoDFS/status/1375551233629519880
NSFW
She would be fun at dinner.
She’ll be able to relate with Grandpa when he mumbles ‘loose lips sink ships’.
People, don’t fear the queefer… It’s just the air gettin all up in there… We can be like they are…
I know, I know, it needs more cowbell.
We have one cast member identified for a live-action Terrence and Phillip film.
I find the child’s bedroom decor to be the most disturbing thing in that video.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/ap/ap-business/ap-source-vw-plans-brand-name-change-to-voltswagen-in-us/article_6f33843a-8bfd-5bef-a618-e70c868b2d81.html
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Are journalists even trying not to get punked now?
(Narrator: the one who got punked was you)
Is the site a new Bee wannabe?
There’s no vaccine shortage. Or the people are in no rush to get it?
New Yorkers Age 30 and Up Can Get Covid-19 Vaccines Starting Tuesday
Both can be true
We have so much here in the ATL, 16 year-olds can get it now.
Same with Utah. They dropped it to 16 a week ago.
We are also, allegedly, dropping the mask mandate on April 10th.
I have relatives that had COVID that want the vaccine so that they can restart their lives.
They’re just following The Science.
My mom, who hasn’t had COVID, scheduled a third vaccination appointment. She cancelled the first two after hearing about side effects–especially after the second shot–from her friends and acquaintances. She definitely cannot make up her mind.
My mom, who hasn’t had COVID
Well, as far as she knows, anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU
They should wait for the traditional Novavax at the very least if they can manage to wait a month or two.
Oh STFU, Andy. Nobody is buying your sanctimonious crap.
On the contrary. I’m afraid lots of people are buying it.
communities of color who are too often left behind
In a state run by Democrats? How is that possible?
It’s funny. The “deep state” is a right-wing conspiracy theory whackjob myth that no good-thinking person would ever believe.
And yet, the same basic explanation is the operating ideology of much of Democratic politicking. No matter how many institutions they (nominally control), systemic problems always (unexpectedly!) frustrate and undermine them. Holding the mayor’s office, the city council, the county council, the state legislature, the governorship, Congress, the Presidency, and the Courts has not been enough (to achieve the stated goals, anyway; if one looks at revealed preferences, on the other hand…).
was supposed to be “(nominally) control” not “(nominally control)”
Lesson: use fewer parentheticals
And more explanation points!!!!!!!!
DONT FORGET THE CAPS LOCK!!!!!!
Lesson: use fewer parentheticals
except when a set of three is called for, e.g. you could Farrakan that by (nominally) (((control)))
Fascism just doesn’t give them the total control they need in order to implement the Garden of Eden here on earth.
Swiss: Every one has a bad say now and then. I have ’em, you have ’em, everyone has them. Hell, my dogs have ’em. Yesterday my biggest dog got fed up with my littlest dog’s pestering and pinned him down in an almost-fight until I stepped between them. Today they are sleeping on the couch together.
Yes, things get prickly now and then but I never forget how fortunate I am to be able to put my ideas out there and have them torn apart by people a lot smarter than I am and a lot more educated than I am. This place is a treasure and I never forget that.
You need to just shut the hell up.
Ok. I don’t know what I said wrong but ok, I will shut up.
Your sarcasm meter needs recalibration.
Ugh. Maybe so. Earlier I made the mistake of watching the Mark Levine show I recorded last night. It took 5 minutes of that to induce white-knuckle rage.
I will step back and take a breath.
I am starting to get the notion that everything will not be ok. In the past it seemed like the commie shitbirds were not going to be able to turn the country into the USSR but it isn’t looking so much like that now. I dont know how we got here.
It went slowly until it didn’t. The left have and evangelize an ethos, for what it’s worth. The right is a mishmash of self-destructing church denominations, single issue voters, people stuck in the past, and people who think that it’s all a game. That’s why they elect cowards and speed limit socialists.
Is it any wonder that the team that is more motivated is winning the game?
“dont know how we got here.”
Losing the House in 2018 was very unhelpful. Launched the impeachment jihad instead of allowing much more of the Trump plan to be passed into law. Too many Trump supporters thought the mid term elections didn’t matter, Trump’s behavior enraged the Left into getting out the vote, and the Media stirred the pot.
IT WAS A JOKE!!!
‘A Biden Appointee’s Troubling Views On The First Amendment
‘Columbia law professor Timothy Wu wonders if the First Amendment is “obsolete,” and believes in “returning the country to the kind of media environment that prevailed in the 1950s.”…
‘Anyone genuinely interested in clamping down on “harmful” speech would consciously or unconsciously want the landscape as concentrated as possible, because an information bottleneck makes controlling unwanted speech easier….
‘Do these members of congress, or thinkers like Wu, want to break up these monopolies, or harness them?’
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/a-biden-appointees-troubling-views
The question needing to be asked is the answer.
No shit, Shirley?
A federal ban on evictions is putting the squeeze on smaller landlords, who are unable to directly access Covid rental relief funds, and some are starting to sell properties to recoup losses.
This will likely reduce the much-needed, affordable rental stock in an already unaffordable housing market.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday extended the eviction ban until the end of June, as the Biden administration proceeds with the next phase of its plan to stamp out the coronavirus.
The program is intended to keep renters safe. Yet while large multifamily rental companies can offer concessions and weather some missed payments, smaller landlords often cannot.
That’s okay. Those “mom and pop” slumlords don’t deserve to make a living off the backs of the working poor.
We need giant corporations backed by hedge funds to control the rental market. They’re easier to keep in line.
Wait until you need to be vaccinated to rent an apartment from big management companies.
This is going to kill city housing stock faster than rent-control could have ever dreamed of.
I think it’ll have the intended effect–no, not to help people who are down on their luck, silly! The intended effect is to force small landlords to sell to REITs and entrenched large scale corporate landlords that donate to the Democratic Party.
Landlord bailout coming in 3…2…1
That was my thought when I heard that bullshit.
It’s so predictably soviet. Disrupt an industry, treat the symptoms while not bothering to undisrupt the industry, continue down the causation chain as side effect after side effect presents itself
until the entire market collapses.
Nah, they’ll let the landlords default and bail out the banks.
In the current housing market, which is seeing very high demand and a record low number of homes for sale, homes listed by landlords will likely sell to owner occupants and evaporate from the rental housing stock. The pandemic-induced run on housing in the past year has caused the amount of rental stock to decrease by over a quarter of a million units. Rental housing is generally more affordable than ownership.
“The thing that keeps me up at night is we had a housing affordability crisis going into Covid-19,” said Pinnegar. “If we lose that critical naturally occurring, affordable housing that is out there across this country, we’re going to have a catastrophe on the other side of this.”
Don’t worry. President Biden will put the secretary of HHS on the case.
A proven problem solver.
Someone with solutions, as it were?
The solution that requires no follow-ons.
Anyone genuinely interested in clamping down on “harmful” speech would consciously or unconsciously want the landscape as concentrated as possible, because an information bottleneck makes controlling unwanted speech easier….
The Ministry of Truth has a nice ring to it.
This is going to kill city housing stock faster than rent-control could have ever dreamed of.
That’s okay, the City can always use more parking garages.
Mostly peaceful
Dramatic video shows the moment a man pulls a gun on Antifa protesters as they clashed with demonstrators taking part in a “Freedom Rally” near the Oregon state Capitol on Sunday.
Police said more than 100 left-wing protesters — many linked to the Youth Liberation Front — turned up to “prevent the Freedom Rally caravan” that was planning to meet at the Capitol. The mob is accused of damaging vehicles, including the alleged gunman’s, which was covered in yellow spray paint and had its windows smashed.
The older man — wearing an American flag sweatshirt — was filmed in Salem initially getting out of his pickup truck to survey the damage allegedly caused by the Antifa mob.
He initially appeared calm as the counter-protesters dressed all in black surrounded and mocked him, with some threateningly aiming canisters at him throughout the confrontation.
But the squabble took an ugly turn after he was either sprayed in the face or struck with an object — prompting him to flinch and draw his weapon on the crowd.
“Get away from me!” he shouted, yanking a handgun from his waistband and cocking it as he aimed it toward the leftist activists.
As the mob screamed about his loaded gun, an armed officer quickly approached and forced the driver to the ground, with a large force of riot police quickly swarming the scene.
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Police said more than 100 left-wing protesters — many linked to the Youth Liberation Front — turned up to “prevent the Freedom Rally caravan” that was planning to meet at the Capitol. The mob is accused of damaging vehicles, including the alleged gunman’s, which was covered in yellow spray paint and had its windows smashed.
The FBI is undoubtedly poring over video to find right wing terrorists to arrest.
When danger is near, a cop is only
a quick phone call awaystanding right there watching it happen.Leftists surrounding, harassing, and assaulting right wingers means finish the donut.
Right winger pulls a gun in response to the assault means time to arrest somebody.
In Portland Oregon, the Police Antifa YOU
I thought the police ended up letting him go. Not that it makes the situation better.
Enable the left wingers fucking with people, arrest the guy defending himself. It won’t be long before the left AND the right hates cops.
Tell me. The way they’re desperately trying to give the Jan. 6th capitol strollers decades in prison and not lifting a finger against the antifa/blm scum that terrorized the whole country all summer. Then there’s Kyle Rittenhouse and that bar owner from Iowa who killed himself. It’s like Costanza’s opposite world from the 60/70’s.
What I find interesting is the conservative right has been the rock hard supportive base for the police while everyone else either hates or merely tolerates them. They’re victimizing their supporters, or at least their former supporters, and sucking up to the people who would like to literally put them against the wall. It’s an incredibly stupid thing to do.
Stupid is the new smart. Trump broke all of their brains.
I think it’s pretty clear that the left wing will put cops up against the wall unless the cops put the left wing’s enemies up against the wall. And they’re taking notice.
You could have been on a helicopter.
Some of us have. Beats walking in my experience.
That is true. However, they would occasionally toss me out whilst in flight. That is a considerable downside IMO.
Oh, you are one of THOSE people. Well, we all make our own life choices.
Sean posted this news a few posts up. USA today has an article on it too, so apparently it’s not fake? I’m guessing it was a April fool’s joke mistakenly posted too early. Unless they’re trying to get out in front of the cancel culture. Only a matter of time until they find out the origins of VW.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2021/03/29/vw-volkswagen-name-change-voltswagen-electric-cars-tesla-competiton/7048576002/
Nonalcoholic beer maybe kind of makes sense because people can drink it to quench thirst but nonalcoholic booze?
https://www.ritualzeroproof.com/
No thanks, I’ll pass.
They never heard of water?
It even costs as much as real booze. You could get a bottle of George Dickel Rye or some Broker’s Gin for that amount of coin.
Ya, not doing that.
There’s a song for that.
Crack’d Egg continues court fight
An attorney for the Crack’d Egg on Monday asked a Pennsylvania appellate court to allow the restaurant to disregard a mask mandate and other state-ordered covid-19 mitigation measures pending appeal.
Citing testimony that his client will not be able to maintain her Brentwood business if she can’t operate at 100%, attorney James Cooney told the Commonwealth Court that they will likely prevail on appeal.
“Really, this case is about my client’s stand against government tyranny,” Cooney said.
In February, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John McVay ordered Kimberly Waigand, the owner of the Crack’d Egg, to follow the state-issued covid-19 mitigation measures or close.
Waigand, who has spoken extensively about her dissatisfaction at the government mandates, testified that she would “never” require masks.
I guess you can’t make an omelette without breaking a Crack’d Egg.
(By the way, the Glibs software says “omelette” is misspelled.)
“All I said was ‘I’m really interested in an omelette and a Danish,’ and suddenly all the restaurant staff was reciting iambic pentameter.”
“I understand,” the judge answered.
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I also have no comment.
That’s how to get people to buy lots of eggs. Sprinkle a little crack on them. People will stay up all night waiting to get more.
The thing that gets me here in bumfuck is other than state thugs that control liquor licenses and in the end business licenses nobody local would even mess with a business for not following the #rules. I heard of the statey booze cops going around to enforce compliance but all local LE said we are not enforcing this. It baffles me that is not the case around the country.
We have a good sheriff and he likes his job. Nothing is being enforced here. Our dem governor is not half as bad as other dem governors around the country but he can still go sit on a sharp stick. Essentially everything here is fully opened up.
My state never locked down. Our governor went totally hands off.
Our counties, cities, and municipalities locked down like crazy. Didn’t matter what the governor did or didn’t do.
Mask update: SoCal edition
I’m currently at a brewery. Employees are unmasked or have them hanging off one ear. Patrons are ~50% masked while not seated. Cute redhead at the bar is taking her mask up/down cues from the customers, pulling it up if they’re masked or not bothering if they’re unmasked. None of the maskers are giving nonmaskers any shit.