I hope you are having a brilliant day. (Sorry, Jerms.) Inspired by Brett L, I’m rearranging my entire office this afternoon. A brilliant work-adjacent way to procrastinate!
Warty needs to work on his technique if he wants to keep up with this brilliant and determined guy.
Unfortunately, we know this brilliant effort won’t make any difference whatsoever. It still amuses me.
This brilliant announcement pleases me.
I’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator, but never had the brilliance to do this with it.
I might pick this brilliant book up.
This music is on topic.
Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic. ~ Justine Musk
Have a brilliant rest of your day, kids!
Brilliant links SP, just brilliant.
I found the penultimate one abysmal.
Did it stare back at you?
Lower than whale shit.
I don’t care how long you stare into my eyes Tonio, you will never see God.
Brilliant
“I’’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator, but never had the brilliance to do this with it.”
I find these sites with pics linked from IG that won’t load annoying.
They load for me, but they sure do take their sweet damned time about it!
Maybe you are logged in to IG or facebook, or keep their cookies.
I don’t have an IG account and only have facebook on a different browser (Chrome). Router problem? I dunno.
I probably have some tracking shit blocked.
Yes, that makes sense. I got a pop-up saying tracking was blocked.
Apropos
Holy Zoidberg, that sucks!
Time moves differently when it is very cold and dark. Check these guys out: https://www.captain-planet.net/400-year-old-shark-found-in-the-arctic-could-be-the-oldest-living-vertebrate/
That was both beautiful and eerie.
Makes me wonder if any other animal could still function and not die if they never eight for five years.
Maybe not function, but there are animals like tardigrades that can “sleep” for a hundred years.
Tardigrades can go into suspended animation indefinitely, and survive in any known climate and in the vacuum of space.
I am a huge fan of tardigrades and was thinking of them, hence “function.” I think the first alien life we find (off Earth) will be tardigrades that floated off earth and land on other planets or moons.
If you bring a tardigrade out of suspension, is it a re-tardigrave ?
OK….Im going back to bed
tardiretrograde
No, but the school might give you a suspension if you have too many tardi grades.
might give you an aqueous suspension containing more tardigrades?!
Paging Swiss Servator… Swiss Servator to the narrow courtesy aisle…
(aka — what you did there, it was seen 😉 )
*rushes in, squints suspiciously*
…might be an autocorrect thing.
Re 2: IDK, might get a different lizard. /Icke
Rand braves Crowder: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kb56Se0GfRU
Man With No Arms Expertly Splits Wood Using Chin to Wield Axe
That was pretty cool.
Supporters say the count is now at 2,060,000 signatures, which is enough to offset the potential 25% rejection rate of verified signatures.
OH YEAH
The Texas Rangers will allow for 100% capacity of fans for their Opening Day game at Globe Life Field, becoming the first team in the four major North American leagues to allow full attendance at games.
OH YEAH
wait….
/keeps reading article
Masks required?
FUCK
I’m going to go get lost in the “Brilliant Abyss” review article.
I once had a girlfriend who was an art major leave a note on my door – “We need to get together for some pointillism.”
“Georgetown Law professor is fired after saying black students are ‘plain at bottom of her class almost every semester’ and her colleague is suspended for failing to correct her after they accidentally recorded their zoom chat”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9350921/Georgetown-investigates-professor-saying-black-students-bottom-class.html
Well, is it true?
Even though almost all progressive politicians and movers/shakers are on record about wanting a ‘great reset’, it isn’t what is happening. Power to truth? Pshh, so Western in your thinking, so racist in your thinking, we must change the conversation, change our history, if we are to ever move forward.
“Well, is it true?”
It enrages me to think of the lost human potential because of tribalism and thuggery. Of all of the wealth human talent and potential is the greatest treasure we have yet so much of it is squandered.
There is an argument that is pro-Star Trek somewhere in there.
Factor in self-ownership and that argument falls apart.
Sounds a little like slacker-shaming and I’d take offense and write a scathing rebuttal but beer.
See…you come in and redeem yourself ever so often Hype. Its why I love you.
“her colleague is suspended for failing to correct her”
That’s it, folks. We’re done.
Yeah, I can’t even with that part. Did they up and down three generations for each and banish them too?
Well there you go, it’s pretty much a Nazi training academy.
How can you expect Black students to succeed there when it has been sullied by a Trump? Even if she is the least favorite.
“Majority of New York Democrats call for Cuomo to resign because he’s ‘lost the confidence of the public and the state legislature’ after SIX women accused him of sexual harassment”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9351825/59-New-York-Democrats-call-Cuomo-resign-SIX-women-accused-sexual-harassment.html
Someone doesn’t want him to run for President.
Ed Koch?
Cough, Kamala, cough.
They were looking for a reason to get rid of him and they desperately want to bury the nursing home story.
Don’t harsh my buzz SP. I think Newsom is in deep trouble. He has no political instincts because he is so used to things going his way. I genuinely believe he will be recalled.
When he failed up, it caught many of the 10 or so republican’s that reside in California off guard.
Just because Newsom might be removed doesn’t mean it will make any difference. It’s California, fer chrisakes!
Yup — that’s what I figure SP meant. Recalling Davis gave us the Governator, after all…. and that was a complete crapfest.
Decriminalizing cannabis is all I remember about him. I might not have been paying particular attention.
{shrug} It’s always a good thing when a focus-group-crafted greaseball with a 100-dollar haircut, a 400-dollar pair of bespoke jeans and a 4,000-dollar Italian silk blazer gets his ass handed to him with a “You are now surplus to requirements” message tacked on.
Yeah, it’s a bit of whack-a-mole, but you can’t stop whackin’ ’em, elsewise the little buggers would be so thick on the ground you couldn’t walk two steps without slithering. Just wish we could do that with The Hair That Walks Like A Man™.
It may fail in removing Newsome, but it probably has expedited reopening.
“Chicago suburb to be first in US to pay reparations to black residents who will be offered $25,000 towards home ownership so long as they or their relatives lived there between 1919 and 1969 – and they’ll use tax on legal marijuana to pay for it”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9351391/Chicago-suburb-fund-reparations-black-people.html
No room for fraud or abuse there.
Chicago is known for their honest, prudent financial management.
Wonder how many Chinese and Irish will be seeing those benefits.
The tuition for Northwestern University gets increased again?
pay reparations to black residents
I cannot imagine how that is even close to legal under the anti-discrimination laws as written.
As applied, I expect that No One Who Matters will raise an objection.
As long as their relatives lived there, and as long as they’ve got a down payment saved up, you’ve got that don’t you? Awwww.
Oh, and your weed is more expensive now.
THANKS FOR VOTING BIDEN YA DUMB FUCKS!
No illustrations from this guy?
Wow! My icy, abolish-IP, heart has found a new villain.
“House Democrats pass gun control bills that require background checks on ALL firearms sales that can take up to 10 days”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9352063/House-Democrats-pass-gun-control-bills-require-background-checks-firearms-sales.html
Looks like 8 republicans voted for it.
Fitzpatrick is a fucking scumbag and worse than worthless.
Shit.
Those are pretty fucking limited exceptions.
Mrs. Dean shoots one of my guns? Felony.
I borrow my hunting buddy’s shotgun for turkey season? Felony.
I give it even odds of passing in the Senate.
Those aren’t exceptions. Those are the loopholes to be closed next time.
There are no loopholes in the law, only in fortress design.
Aren’t online sales already subject to background checks?
If I remember correctly, yes. If the sale is not a face-to-face transaction, the firearm must go through a FFL holder in a state of the buyer’s residence.
Antique firearms (pre-1898 receivers for GCA, different rules for NFA items) are exempt as they aren’t firearms under Federal law.
Yes.
If I sell a gun online (which I’ve done several times), I have to go to a local FFL to send it, who will send it to an FFL that is local to the buyer, who will handle the transfer.
If the buyer fails the bg check, it gets sent back.
So far, two of the predicted moves by the Dems has come to fruition.
Next up? $2-4 MORE Trillion dollars for infrastructure & battling climate change bills.
We’re beyond fucked. #BringBacon&Bourbon
I was thinking I had 2 – 3 years to get out. I’m starting to wonder.
I’m thinking that ship is leaving the dock right now.
I gotta wonder about some of these things though….I mean I guess it gets added to the deficits automatically – but like the [COVID] education spending – if it’s not actually spent…does the count get adjusted back in the future?
I’ll give the Dems that. When they get power – even a tiny, narrow margin, as they do now – they fuckin’ use it. Wish the GOP could say as much.
#3 is in the works apparently looking at what people have posted about gun control
https://apnews.com/article/dozens-democrats-demand-andrew-cuomo-resignation-71adbd6f2420a4dc71856428f3663857
They’re keeping the pressure on.
*pops popcorn*
Eh, I think the earlier reports that this is the Dems/media mea culpa to get the heat off of the coverup of deaths in the beginning to be right.
Dunno. Looks like it’s front & center to me.
Middle of the article in which no one ever gets to and that is why it is buried.
Resignation demands grow as police get Cuomo groping report
That’s the headline. They are burying the COVID mismanagement.
The intra-party hit on Cuomo is on, and its crafted to avoid making problems for other Dem governors who had the same COVID policies. That’s the great thing about sexual harassment accusations – the hit is carried out in the media, which the Dems control, so they can control the hit and make sure it doesn’t get out of hand.
From what I can tell, the accusations are pretty weak sauce – from the women who are named, he’s a boor, and one of them is a journalist who complained he and his staff were mean to her, no sexual anything as far as I know. The worst one is anonymous, which means pretty damn weak in my book, and it came late.
The unasked question, of course, is why, if this was so horrible, they all kept their mouths shut until now?
That’s simple, it wasn’t useful to the party until now.
#6 is the most believable other than not saying anything for so long. As soon as Cuomo made claim he never “inappropriately” touched anyone she jumped out and said “dude, you put your hand up my blouse”.
#6 is the most believable other than not
saying anything for so longthe convenient timing and not being will to put her name on it.This is reminding me of Trump. Damn these people for making me side with a scumbag! Change out the names, and this is pretty much their attempted takedown of Trump during the height of #metoo.
Also true.
“PICTURED: Five Oklahoma City cops who shot dead 15-year-old gas station robber in hail of 13 bullets AFTER he’d thrown down his weapon and surrendered: All five face life in prison if convicted of first-degree manslaughter
Rodriguez then reaches in his pocket in what appears to be an attempt to remove something else, as cops scream and multiple gun fire shots are heard. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9351371/PICTURED-Five-Oklahoma-City-cops-face-degree-manslaughter-charges-shooting-dead-teen.html
Seems like there were mistakes on both sides.
Cops wanted to end the kid and the kid did what kids do…comedy to no end.
With all the talk about The Talk, you would think that parents would tell their children, “When the pigs are pointing guns at you, don’t reach in your pocket.”
One of those guys looks like he had his police uniform designed by David Byrne.
Stop making sense.
Some interesting pieces (albeit painful to read) at NRO this week.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-tuesday/the-politics-of-pensions/ – KDW
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/03/pro-con/?itm_campaign=headline-testing-pro-con&itm_medium=headline&itm_source=nationalreview&itm_content=Biden%E2%80%99s%20Corrupt%20Payoff%20for%20Union%20Bosses&itm_term=Biden%E2%80%99s%20Corrupt%20Payoff%20for%20Union%20Bosses
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/congress-gives-states-far-more-money-than-they-need-tells-them-they-cant-use-it-to-cut-taxes/
Check this horseshit out:
I want to argue with him, but I’d just be yelling at a brick wall.
Somebody read Plato and gained access to the internet.
I don’t think he’s read anything more in depth than Jacobin Magazine.
Only reason I said that was because of this line: “Can we design a society that let’s everyone flourish to their fullest potential without letting some gain such a commanding position in politics”
Oh I got your point.
Philosopher kings for all!
The people at the top of the aristocracy should be those who can use apostrophes correctly.
Allez-y, mon frère! Je vous ose. See how well that went. https://www.carnavalet.paris.fr/musee-carnavalet
Je ne sais quoi.
“Can we design a society”?
No.
Meanie
Right? Look, here’s a pen, paper, go for it. Just don’t expect real people to go along.
Have Fun!
Yes. It’s called a free market, and you despise it, Dipshit.
(Note: referring to the article writer and not Scruffy)
That dude with no arms and the axe? What can you say?
Except that he has quite a set of choppers.
Q: What do you call a man who has no arms or legs but can play ten musical instruments?
A: Stump the Band.
About three people here will get that reference.
Carson?
Bruce?
There’s one.
*shakes fist at Ted*
He was always told if he keeps his chip up, he can achieve anything
He can obviously handle it. And if you don’t believe that, just ax him.
Learning to use an axe with his teeth was a real adenture in personal fortitude.
LOL!
The Bee reads my mind sometimes.
Genius!
I liked this one.
Heh. ? That is a good one.
Biden defends Pepe LePew
The Bee is as good as The Onion was when they were still working out of Madison.
More good stuff from GKC https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1717/1717-h/1717-h.htm#link2H_4_0009
For the truth is, that to the moderately poor the home is the only place of liberty. Nay, it is the only place of anarchy.
I really need to crank the music and make a mess. A mess that doesn’t involve repairs and bandages.
Thanks, SP!
Brilliant work!
The armless lumberjack was cool. The jellyfish was cooler.
Fuck cancer! For you Tundra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1g2BneSPNQ
That was great, thank you!
What he did to Bourque was straight-up rape. Amazing.
Without Jari you had no Wayne and without Wayne you had no Jari
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6WOzWO9v2A
The Chauvin trial is completely eclipsing the rampant racism going on at THE U of M
I am going to be so surprised when this turns out to be a hoax.
No way that computer rental incident could be fake, like the tale of racist cops hassling a student late at night just because he was black
You really need to read the kid’s instagram accusation of racism (at the bottom of the story) first, then watch the dashcam video of the interaction between the cop and the kid. (Strange how dashcam and bodycam video is always available when the cops are in the right?)
Hint: The kid complains that he was absolutely traumatized by the police during the stop.
Narrator: Video shows him asking the cops for a ride home
He ought to have the snot beat out of him for pulling a stunt like that.
Dude looks like a crackhead.
Amazing that you wouldn’t want to let someone who looks like they are living under a bridge to leave with one of your laptops.
I’d love to know how many computer “rentals” never are returned. And if there is any trend of who doesn’t return the laptops.
Holy shit yes. Looks like the guy trying to wash my windshield at the stop light.
Why not wait until Chauvin is acquitted? He can get a free laptop in the ensuing riots.
If I was a betting man, I’m going with “I flunked my mid-term and I need an excuse to tell my dad or he’s going to whip my ass” as his main motivation for making this accusation.
Somebody’s gonna end up beheaded.
I saw the Newsom recall had hit 2 million signatures early this morning when I checked. Glad to see it in the lynx. I disagree that it won’t make any difference SP. Although if you mean in the trajectory of the state I do agree. It is a statement on the lockdowns here and I think Greasy Gav will be lucky to survive it. We ain’t gonna get a Kristi Noem or certainly not a Rand or a Massie, but it’s a slapdown that is much needed. And thanks to DEG for donating to it!
Even Faulconer (a bit swampy RINO himself) would be an improvement, although Cox might be better than that. The 2-ton truck would be better than the 3-ton.
PS. Sorry if I’ve asked before, KS, but what is the source of your avatar?
I agree. Faulconer would be a slight improvement.
You haven’t. It’s from a surreal Mexican 70’s flick called The Holy Mountain. If you ever want an utterly bizarre visual trip out that’s the most unusual you could find.
Is he trying to get more signatures?
Gavin Newsom Tells Californians They Are Never Going Back To Normal After COVID Because of ‘Acceptance of Inequality’
Utterly tone deaf. Yet another example of why I want him out.
It isn’t tone deaf, its signalling the new America.
I look forward to it getting used against him in the recall.
¡Explica mucho!
He was just high on coke again.
I would say CWAA but that hardly covers it.
You’re welcome!
Hopefully the next governor isn’t worse.
“Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic. ~ Justine Musk”
Sounds like too much work. I can barely get my ass out of bed in the morning.
Adam Kinzinger fucks farm animals. Pass it on.
That piece of shit represents the Rockford area and parts of Western Illinois. He’s one of those quishy Republicans who would rather be revered as a great “statesman” by constantly giving in to the Dem’s march towards illiberty than do anything that would remotely advance freedom.
He jumped aboard the gun grabber train today. Asshole.
My parents are furious…he will get primaried and be gone.
‘Satan tries to get a date on the Boston subway system…
‘The 22-year-old man told officers he was only flirting and trying to be funny, and said “I was going to try and get her number.”’
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Satan-tries-to-get-a-date-on-the-Boston-subway-16001135.php
Wow check out Officer Buzzkill over here.
I was expecting Miroslav.
I was expecting Cuomo.
Doesn’t hell already get most of the hawt chicks? Satan doesn’t need to be schlepping around the T in order to get laid.
Speaking of liars…..
French student admits her lie got teacher Samuel Paty beheaded
I don’t know if I want to judge the girl too harshly. She might be westernized enough that she was just as surprised as anyone when her dad and the jihadis beheaded the teacher. “Holy shi-ite, I can’t believe those nutbags. I just wanted them to yell at that asshole teacher. Who’d a thunk they would skip directly to ‘chopping his head off’?”
Wow. Maybe keep that under your hat.
No way. Shout it to the world. Every womyn’s study department is begging her to come to their school.
I’m sure there will be massive NCAA recruiting violations trying to entice a Blue Chip Accuser like her.
Move over U of Virginia!
Hot mike moment (they forgot to turn off the camera): Law Professor says lots of her black students are at the bottom of her class – she’s gone. Her colleague, who failed to exercise “bystander responsibility” and “correct” the other professor, is on leave.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9350921/Georgetown-investigates-professor-saying-black-students-bottom-class.html
When I was in high school in Chicago, most of my teachers had low expectations for us, but we had one teacher who didn’t care how many F’s she had to give out because she believed that we were just as capable as the students at New Trier High School (located in an upper class suburb) and refused to lower her standards.
She was one of the few white teachers that all the students had respect for.
What is funny is that what she said was factually correct.
Amazing that one group of students who were let in with lower LSAT scores do not do better than the other students who had much higher LSAT scores.
Statements of fact are racist.
How exactly do you “correct” someone who has made a truthful, factual statement?
You tell them not to do that again?
You remind them that collectivism ain’t cool, something I thought Libertarians learned a long time ago.
Wonder how you would handle if we all started acting like you…
I can believe that racist bitch openly admitted she gives her black students lower grades than her white ones!
Read Mismatch if this issue is important to you.
Your parents didn’t graft in on to you as skin as so many have today.
This is pretty good:
Defending Yourself Against Dog Attacks: Man Bites Dogs
Good update from ADV China – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWo2-Y1n1x0
Check out their weekly podcasts – next one tonight.
“The reality — in our capitalist society — is that if you are at home full time, your husband is your boss and there is no HR department. Should care work be valued much more? Yes! In the reality we live in, are women who stay home taking on significant risks? Also yes.”
https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1369689842985078785
Among them: Girls with working moms do better in school. Men with stay-at-home wives are less likely to promote & support women in their workplace. Sons with working mothers do more housework and childcare when they grow up. These aren’t just individual choices; they’re social.
Ahem… my family’s choices are not your domain of concern.
Or…. FUCK OFF
“Girls with working moms do better in school”
I’d like to see the evidence there.
Just accept the Science. Don’t be a denier.
I’d like to see the evidence for all of it.
Girls with college educated moms do better in school?
Thank you. My wife has told me how upset she gets with the “International Womans Day” stuff because 1) she just wants to be appreciated, and 2) the Women that are always featured are not the stay-at-home moms, but others.
My wife and I both worked but chances are she would be running the household including the purse strings. Most of the women I know who decided to stay home had a lot more power in the household than their husbands because their husbands were grateful and relieved that everything was taken care of when they got home from work.
The division of labor was created by cis-hetero shitlords.
When I was in between jobs and my wife was the breadwinner, she came to a clean house and cooked dinner. When I got a job she loved not having the pressure of being the main provider but she also admitted that she missed coming home to clean house, cooked meals, and errands being completed.
These idiots, most of whom are fed with silver spoons, fail to understand that economic survival and success depends on tough choices where not every party gets to be totally happy with what was chosen but still understands the necessity of it and accepts it.
I did the same thing Ed. When I was in between jobs, my wife picked up overtime to keep us afloat. She came home to a clean house, dishes/clothes washed, meals cooked, and all the errands run until I could find something again.
Now she’s a SAHM, by her choice, and takes 100% care of all that. It just makes sense to divide and conquer.
My Married Life in a nutshell,
SP controls the finances, minds Wonder Dog, pays the bills, stocks the pantry, does about 50-60% of the cooking, and runs a web site that she constructed. Actually, about a dozen websites she’s constructed. Oh, and preparing for her next career.
Men with stay-at-home wives are less likely to promote & support women in their workplace.
My protégé at work is definitely female, and I put her in charge of a group of nerdmen. Admittedly, she has the biggest balls here…
Should care work be valued much more? Yes!
This is what matters. The whole SAHM is oppression argument is textbook Marxism. It’s labor unregulated and untaxed by the State. Can’t have that.
There was a very disturbing article in the NYT a couple years ago arguing for a tax on the value of the labor provided by stay at home parents… essentially converting the income tax to a labor tax… meaning the State owns you.
This is what we’re up against.
Communal kitchens for everyone!
There are a few, non-politician/government alligned, groups i place firmly in the “Evil” category. The group of individuals that is out there arguing for the abolition of the Family and proposing stuff like that is one of them.
How is that a “non-government aligned group”, exactly?
They want to abolish your family and replace it with their group, which would enforce the new prohibition on families. Sounds like a fucking government to me.
I mean, not a member of government (i.e: CIA is an evil organization).
I never had considered it that way, but I like your point, SSD. Marxism is a pernicious ideology.
if you are at home full time, your husband is your boss
*outright, prolonged laughter*
I like how this is just pronounced as fact by someone who does not work at home full time.
This is the same bitch who wailed the other day about homeschooling.
Yeah, no.
I’m a SAHD, and I’m not subordinate at all in any respect.
We do what the others cannot.
I am the breadwinner AND I do all the cooking and cleaning.
Because I live alone.
WAHHHH! Cry me a river.
I know nothing of NYC geography, but Brooklyn is making a park for all the gays to go and gay their gayest.
https://www.curbed.com/2021/03/north-brooklyn-marsha-johnson-state-park-plastic-mural.html
Setting aside my hatred for the idea of coating asphalt in plastic instead of, you know, sodding and planting. As a NYC resident, I take great delight when Gotham gets fucked over by the State because this city wields undue influence statewide and fucks over upstate citizens at every opportunity.
For starters, nobody who lives here says “North Brooklyn” when they mean “Williamsburg”. Also, Williamsburgh is no kind of gay mecca – it’s full of heterosexual hipsters and old-school Italians and Poles who hate the hipsters. Whatever gays there used to be there decamped to more affordable places like Bushwick ages ago. Finally, this park is celebrating trannies, not gays, and while lots of lefties like to pretend they’re all alike, that’s not the case in the real world.
Someone obviously needs more training in how to properly and inclusively LGBT.
your husband is your boss and there is no HR department
AFAIK, in the US the wife can fire her “boss” at any time. So, she is the HR department in this analogy.
Not only fire her ‘boss’ but retain all holdings in the company including payment to keep the company afloat on top of the boss still paying for the company expenses.
Meanwhile in Mexico.
Legendary Mexican wrestler Blue Demon Jr, who’s running for mayor in Mexico City, is accused by his wife of abuse and making death threats against her
As long as he isn’t accused of raping her, its all good.
[Homersimpson Monkey Claw Halloween Episode Skit]
The death threats were made during sex.
OBE: Hmmm
…and don’t get me started on the Black Forest.
https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/living/2021/03/03/cities-and-towns-in-germany-weigh-how-to-handle-racist-place-names
It’s hard to parody this shit
I see the divide most simply as: The ultra-rich, their puppets, henchmen, and sycophants (the true “right”) vs absolutely everybody else (“We, The People” but also the true “left”). If we leave out the stuff I put in parenthesis, whoever calls themselves right or left can likely see the truth of the statement – at least, those who are the “We. The People” category. BTW, you can also call this “oligarchy vs some-form-of-democracy”, if you like – it amounts to the same thing.
Yeah, Team Blue only had what? 4 or 5 times the money in donations from Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and every union except 1.
The Democrats are now the party of billionaires.
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday said that President Biden meant no offense when he said last week that Indian Americans are “taking over the country,” and that he was actually “honoring and valuing” their contributions.”
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/psaki-biden-honoring-and-valuing-indians-with-taking-over-us-remark/
I’ll grant that he probably meant no offense. It would be nice if that went both ways though.
Yeah, there’d be a lynch mob if Trump had made that mistake.
I see #NotAllMen is trending, but litterally every tweet i see with it is people decrying that #NotAllMen is trending.
See also : Self-Licking Ice Cream cone
Meaning not all men are rapists or whatever?
Yes.
I see, so there are a few courageous dissenters who don’t rape. As to the rest…
…they’re raCists.
fuck, i screwed up the sides of the coin. another failure.
Wonder if someone can get #TeachWomenNotToKillThierBabies to trend? Women are far-and-away the most common perpetrators of infanticide.
#ItsDifferentWhenWeDoIt would definitely be a big Trender across a variety of subjects.
There’s a trend on Twitter that whenever something starts trending that the Twitter mob doesn’t like that they’ll jump on board and try to drown it out by tagging other things with the tweet. Which could be exploited, although I doubt the Twitter censors would let it go too far (imagine a more laissez-faire moderation policy, where all the virtue signalers would keep something like #HitlerWasRight trending for days by tagging it to decry it).
I finally worked an entire day, plus golf with my pedometer, a disappointing 8.5 miles, it was an easy day but, MOAR MILES!!!
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1369933066601431041
You know what is totally weird? I guessed which song this was in the first ten seconds or so with the sound off. It just immediately popped into my head.
From the replies.
I LOL’d.
That’s LOL for sure.
Still no idea how I knew which song shoe was lip-syncing.
I’ve painted using it as a surface pattern or paint applicator
I have no imagination. Past time to throw that shit out.
My thoughts on the gun control bill is it’s the first of two bills. The second bill coming will be a ban on all “assault weapons” and magazines capable of holding 10 or more rounds. Current owners will be grandfathered in but no transfers will be allowed. They must be turned into the police upon the owners’ death.
ARs will be nonexistent in 30 years. Sure you can illegally pass on to your kids, but they can’t shoot them anywhere and will be charged with a felony if using in self defense. It’s a long game but the Dems have been at this for a century.
The next set of bills, maybe in 5 or 10 years, will do the same for shotguns and anything semiautomatic. The piecemeal approach taken in Great Britain provides a very successful blueprint for gun grabbers here.
Hopefully before all of that happens we have a national divorce or Balkanization. 3 or 4 countries out of this mess would allow people scared of the icky boom sticks to emigrate to Commiefornia as a “safe haven.”
I hope for this more every day.
If that happens, I would bet that the new “progressive” nations quickly close their borders to outmigration?
I agree that would probably be the case, but one can hope. I guess I’ve been listening to Michael Malice a little too much lately. His positivity on the matter is contagious.
UCS, I know that is what they want. They won’t be content until there are 300+ million subjects to control.
He’s a smart guy but he’s way too optimistic on this issue. He sees the overreach as a sign of fear while I see it as a reflection of confidence but it’s probably a bit of both.
Good point. It probably is a little of both, maybe desperation to hold on to power, with overconfidence that the tables will never turn on them.
I like Malice’s positivity and hope he is right. I think that keeps me from getting overly depressed about everything.
I like Malice’s positivity and hope he is right. I think that keeps me from getting overly depressed about everything.
I agree, but a major part of me thinks this doesn’t end until a million lives are lost/ruined.
Totally agree. It’s way easier to be depressed. It’s fucking hard work to see the positivity.
I’m willing to do the work.
I hope that’s not the case, but you are probably right, TARDis. If it gets bad, a million may be on the conservative side of the lives lost/ruined.
He sees the overreach as a sign of fear while I see it as a reflection of confidence but it’s probably a bit of both.
The overreach is a sign of loss of control while maintaining power. That they can overreach and feel they can indicates they have power and they know it. That they feel they need to indicates that they don’t have control and they know it. The overreach may gain them control, or it may backfire, that remains to be seen. If it backfires, it will probably result in a loss of power, so that’s why they have to go all in, because you do not stake everything on a battle and then not use all your resources to fight it.
That will not happen for one simple reason – they do not want their own separate country, they want ours and specifically want to rule the people who do not want their policies.
Or at least get them to pay for it.
“I wasn’t planning on being my own peasants, pfftfftshshaaaaw!”
They’re not (as) interested in running the lives of people who agree with them. They’re interested in controlling the people who don’t agree with them.
Once they outlaw the selling of new ARs and the like they’ll issue a blanket “buyback” in ten years along and there’ll be a voluntary buyback program until then. It can’t be allowed to get through but people will acquiesce if it does because what’s the point in owning a ten round AR anyway?
How low has Woody Allen sunk? Even NYC politicians don’t want his campaign donations.
https://nypost.com/2021/03/11/woody-allen-donates-to-julie-menins-city-council-campaign-is-quickly-rebuffed/
DON’T
STICK
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CRAZY
Professor still awaits his dunking-in-water test, I mean trial, on Title IX charges of anti-transgenderism and anti-Semitism (he’s Jewish and said “Jews funded the Revolutionary War”)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/suspended-professor-still-under-investigation-for-story-about-drag-bar-five-months-later/ar-BB1eheZt
(he’s Jewish and said “Jews funded the Revolutionary War”)
I mean, America DID have to borrow, didn’t it?
Everyone knows about good old Haym Solomon –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon
“Sympathizing with the Patriot cause, Salomon joined the New York branch of the Sons of Liberty.”
Oh, one of them right wing extremists. If only Biden would have been president, we could have saved democracy.
Thank you, (((them))), at least it lasted a little while and I got to live during some of that freedom stuff.
“Feinstein Promises Assault Weapons Ban Hours After House Passes Background Check Bill”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/no-more-thoughts-and-prayers-schumer-turns-gun-reform-legislation
Hey Semi-Spartan, you were right.
In three years, when the SCOTUS finally says they will take a case stemming from this and all guns are confiscated and melted down or persons are denied their right to obtain arms, but the government realizes it was in the wrong and repeals this act, Roberts will say any challenge against the 2021 bill is moot because the Government has said “I am sorry”.
There’s never going to be a year that SCOTUS takes a case regarding 2nd amendment rights. What universe do you live in?
The one where I hear Roberts say the Constitution is moot after we have shredded the last of its being?
You mispoke, that’s a penaltax.
The Supremes are so afraid of being rendered irrelevant by court packing that they’re becoming the court the Dems want anyway. I have essentially zero confidence that they’ll rule in what we consider to be our favor in any cases arising from this and that’s if they even take them.
Promises ban of 2nd amendment for the win!
Damn. That was fast. ?♂️
Still, hours. Hammermill had to be unreamed, 3rings collated and filled, miles of Capitol Complex and oodles of security checkpoints to cross to distrubute said 3rings that no one will ever read the contents of before voting on and making hundreds of millions of Americans felons.
Checks weapons. Nope. No assault weapons here. Fuck off, Di.
DiFi is still serving? Jesus is getting a run for his money at this point.
Not only her, but a bunch of other fossilized human feces who were already fossilized feces when I was a kid, like Schumer, Pelosi, Biden, Durbin, and Hoyer.
Apparently fossilized dung is impervious to death.
I ‘Member her from before she was a Senator, Harvey Milk…
Serving? Heh. Yep. Serving all right. The forces of evil.
Her son called home recently. “Mom?”
“Darth?”
From another article: “Feinstein’s new bill would ban “the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession” of certain types of guns as well as prohibit bullet clips, drums, and strips that carry more than 10 bullets.”
Whew, most of us are safe then, they didn’t mention magazines. In seriousness though, not good…and they’re talking about not grandfathering it looks like.
We’re all felons now. Feature, not bug.
If this is enforced, I will cheer every time a government thug is killed in the process. “Shall not be infringed” is pretty fucking clear, and if you’re violating your oath to uphold the constitution, that actually IS insurrection. Constitutionally-protected citizens will be killed by our government, but it would be a good thing if the thugs knew there was a non-zero chance that they wouldn’t be going home afterwards. It might slow down the process.
I am a pacifist by nature, but am not opposed to violence in self-defense.
Thank God, we got rid of that bad orange man before he was able to overturn the constitution and Biden has restored our democracy.
I am getting curious about how the Fed/State things are going to pan out over this….
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ezra-klein-still-doesnt-understand-the-constitution/
SCOTUS may not want to take a 2nd Amendment case, but there are a lot of other topics that would have similar bearing re: Federal infringement on State Rights – like the Verbuggen article I posted above where the Feds are telling the States they can’t use COVID relief funds for tax cuts, etc.
Damn, that didn’t take long at all.
Guess I’ll be using some of stimulus bucks for ARs and body armor. Maybe some pmags too.
Poll, Pandora ? or Spotify? I used Pandora since they came out, but lately they got weird, I went to spotify, and it’s good enough I bought a subscription, overall a much better experience,
Thoughts?
Spotify, despite the wokeness.
Great library, good experience. Podcasts and music.
EDG’s awesome playlist.
Works for me.
You millennials and your phone apps, lol.
I’m running it on my PC, through my OG stereo, Big Sound MOFO!!!
millennials, Me, are you kidding? My kids are millennials,
Just goes to show they are the worst!
I have been happy with Spotify so far. I forget if it was you or egould that suggested it, but it’s good.
Their “suggestions” aren’t too bad.
Spotify by far, they have a better selection and are more customizable. There are also hi def services like Amazon Music Premium and the spendy Tidal if you’re an audio snob.
We have Amazon HD Family plan. On a per-user basis, it’s pretty reasonable. My main complaint is that they canceled Michelle Shocked.
I got the the Prime, but other than The Expanse, nothing interests me,
Everclear’s Santa Monica removed from Sparkle and Fade.
other than it sucks, what’s wrong with that song?
It doesn’t, but that’s neither here nor there.
It’s still on Spotify.
From SoCal, way too Cliché for me, sorry,
SONS OF BITCHES, 14 tracks again. Id checked monthly all winter since it went Unavailable, 13 tracks.
Alright, so they didn’t Cancel that. But I hate their Music app on every platform, it used to be a fairly standard, reasonably usable media player, that just gets shittier with every update.
But dammit, 8 bucks a month for access to anything on the store…if only I didn’t have to access it through Amazon Music. They’ve really got my balls in a vice.
My Spotify is independent from my Amazon Prime account, what gives with your scenario?
I’m just talking amazon.
I canceled a couple of my movie services I wasn’t really using and got the expensive Tidal plan so it ended up being a wash moneywise. It isn’t cheap but man does it sound good.
Silver lining:
“OKLAHOMA CITY — A number of bills that would expand Oklahomans’ rights to carry guns into bars, in vehicles and while at work and which would make Oklahoma a “Second Amendment Sanctuary State” passed the Oklahoma Senate on Tuesday.”
https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/bills-to-make-oklahoma-a-second-amendment-sanctuary-expand-gun-rights-pass-state-senate/article_776ce9ca-80fe-11eb-a4ea-db5ac04f5258.html
Soon to be moot as the 2nd amendment will only exists as a distant memory.
O/U on the next FBI-sponsored building demolition there?
I’ll just leave this here:
That was exactly what I was thinking in my comment in #45.
That’s exactly why I commented.
I read #45 and agree, at a point we must stand up, if they fear us, the Thug enforcers might be a bit hesitant, or they will just bomb us into submission,
And I’m Damn Glad I live live in a small shithole, out of the way of the initial Shit coming, it will come here, when? who knows…
https://twitter.com/kasshhmirsunnni/status/1368978025392521224
Classic.
I can’t believe I laughed at something so offensive and xenophobic!
Made headway with someone claiming if we “just tax the rich so they pay their fair share” everything would be good! Showed them the US Government was spending $9.1 million/minute and it opened their eyes a bit. Still a road that is bumpy, but they gasped at that amount.
Warty needs to work on his technique if he wants to keep up with this brilliant and determined guy.
Just watching that made my neck hurt and I think a vertebrae moved.
More Greenwald?
Sure! Why not?
Why the fuck this guy doesn’t just hoist the black flag and be done with it all is beyond me.
He wants you to look, and it works….
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/03/11/department-of-defense-prints-a-disturbing-unprofessional-attack-on-tucker-carlson-proving-how-politicized-theyve-become-n341777
Suthen is going to be proven as Nostradamus one day.
Well..I guess it works? Meant as a new thread.
The generals and other military mucky mucks are better politicians than politicians, it’s not surprising that they’re wading into the culture wars fray but they really should be keeping their damn mouths shut.
The rot stems from our political leadership. It was only a matter of time before it got into the military.
Obama was hell bent on politicizing the military.
The generals are just falling in line now he’s back in office.
This country is rather fucked.
The journalist who stepped up to demand I and others be censored by Substack — because our critiques of corporate journalists constitute “harassment” — is a disgraced Buzzfeed writer fired for plagiarism.
It’s not like he did something unconscionable like accurately report on facts.
His full quote from today is gold:
Here’s a view from the Reactor Room of the Gwen, almost finished, she’s old, but really tough, a sound Vessel,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/DxrGXmT6B19gTF7WA
Looks like a futuristic pee pee vessel. Nice Yusef.
It’s K1, a Large Dewatering Machine, I’m doing the Controls and VFDs, complex, and fun as Hell,
To defeat woke tyrants, the rest of us must treat them like the monsters they are
I agree.
We need laser pitchforks. With shark launchers.
Hell yes.
I’ve got one limiting factor. Getting my son out of high school this May. There will be no more tiptoeing around assholes from that point forward. Nor will I allow any of the Woke to get authority over any of my family again.
So Glenn Reynolds is like “sevo” from the Reason comment section?
So as I grow older, I find myself appreciating musical acts that I once loathed. Chicago was probably the first. The Bee Gees are second. I grew up in an era where the Brothers Gibb provided strong evidence that white people ruined disco and I hated them. I hated when they raped the Beatles catalog for that stupid
Dr.Sgt. Pepper movie. I hated their white-bread pablum disco addition to Grease. Not too long ago, I heard their Coca-Cola commercial and was intrigued. Tonight, I found out their very first television appearance was covering a wonderful skiffle song from Lonnie DoneganAlways disliked Chicago, with the exception of 25 or 6 to 4. Gerry Kath was an incredible guitarist.
If anyone doesn’t believe me, screw you.
go to 3:00 or so
When it comes to 70’s Jazz Fusion: Blood, Sweat & Tears > Chicago
e.g.
Just pick a time frame and leave it.
Watch, they won’t bother bringing it to a vote.