Coming up later today!
Not really any sports again for today, although ManUre had a listless draw and Liverpool play Chelsea today in a fairly important match. And Everton play as well, for those few who care about them.
Italian composer Vivaldi was born on this day. The baroque master shares it with Amway co-founder Dick DeVos, auto racing legend Jim Clark, actress Paula Prentiss, pitcher Jack Fisher, Yes’s Chris Squire, soccer legend Kenny Dalglish, boxer Ray “Boom Boom” Mancini, Metallica’s Jason Newstead, and that’s pretty much it. Slim pickings today. Oh well, on to…the links!
That’s some hardcore shit.
This is why clown cars are a bad idea. But how the hell do you even get 25 people into an Expedition in the first place? Man, that’s a sad story.
So this guy actually gets it? How refreshing. Of course they paint it as some kind of failure for somebody to enter public life for a brief period of time and then go back to their private life when finished. These CNN types sure would have hated many of our founders.
So much for petitioning the government for a redress of grievances.
Yeah, right. This is all to score political points and chill a certain part of the population’s right to protest. Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there will be violence. I’m sure they’d attack a fortified position with soldiers patrolling it. For the lulz. Sure thing.
What happens when an irresistible grift meets an immovable con? This showdown will be interesting.
This fucker has no idea where he is.
Move along, people. There’s nothing to see here. Move along.
This piece of shit keeps getting worse and worse. Oh well, I guess the people who paid all the taxes should expect to get fucked. It’s the American way, really.
These teachers do not care about students. Yeah, I’m as shocked as you are to find that out.
Get a load of these idiots who want to be ruled. Well, the door’s that way, dipshits. Oh, and you’re still free to wear a mask as you’re going through it.
I don’t think I’ve ever played this. Man, that one dude and chick sure look a lot alike. The 80’s had some weird people making great music. Enjoy.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
whaddup doh ?
Short cans represent!
Im on 24 oz. #2 and about (aboot for you eh) to slide into #3
And rubbing a brisket (may be a euphemism)
I can’t do that when I’m typing but you do you, Friend!
Tiger Energy! Mornin’ Sloop.
“Yeah, right. This is all to score political points and chill a certain part of the population’s right to protest. Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there will be violence. I’m sure they’d attack a fortified position with soldiers patrolling it. For the lulz. Sure thing.”
Pretty much nothing but silence on the right, all the buzz is from the left.
If a DC cop shoots someone, regardless of the situation, they’ll burn down a bunch of businesses and destroy vehicles without a care in the world. But a few nutballs break into the capitol and we treat our “leaders” like they’re under perpetual siege.
Man, our priorities are fucked up.
And this comment in no way is an excuse for police violence. I’d have no problem with them targeting their frustration and seeking justice from the police stations and departments. But there’s nothing to loot there, I suppose. And nothing says “justice” like a free cart full of televisions from Walmart.
DC wasn’t boarded up in case Biden won.
^This^
Everyone knew why businesses were boarding up windows before the election and who they expected violence from. But now we are all supposed to pretend that the real violent protesters are from the Right?
Yeah, sure.
“Man, our priorities are fucked up.”
I see the problem with your assertion. Our supposed leaders were all OK with mostly peaceful protests that resulted in billions in damage to property and several people being shot and killed when the only people dealing with this shit was the rabble. The moment it appeared they might be getting some of the violence and destruction that they themselves peddled for more than 7 months – and I use the word appeared because I still think the people pretending this was some attempt at a coup or horrid violence are fucking lying idiots – they lost their minds. This response is about them being seriously pissed that the rabble would actually make them feel fear for fucking the country over.
The House Sgt at Arms works for the Speaker of the House. You think if Pelosi was really threatened that day that she wouldn’t have agreed to an immediate call for the national guard as backup? The only story that’s been told so far is Sund saying he was told it would be bad optics. Or, was that just his lie or the Sgt at Arms’ lie (for the Speaker), and they were quite willing to allow a relatively harmless mob to act out – for a greater purpose? And yes, I do believe Pelosi is just that conniving and dishonest (just as I would say about McConnell).
“D.C. remains on edge as the day QAnon followers believe Trump will become president again arrives forcing the House to cancel Thursday’s vote after intelligence of a plot ‘to breach the Capitol’ was received”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9324499/DC-edge-Qanon-day-arrives-forcing-House-cancel-Thursday-votes.html
“Intelligence of a plot”
Yeah, sure thing. Publish it, or I’m going to treat this statement as a lie.
I can’t decide who the bigger idiots are – the ones that actually believe QAnon on the right, or those on the left.
Yes.
Well, I can guarantee you there are more QAnon believers on the left than the right.
I’m as convinced as I’ve ever been that QAnon is a psyop.
This little factoid about the “armed insurrection” stood out to me this morning:
Some interesting stuff in there too about how DC deliberately refused NG troops that Donald requested that day, before, you know, enacting their permanent standing army later.
Wait, I have been frequently and strenuously assured that it was a gUn ToTiNg NaZi MoB!
One dude had a Confederate Battle Flag, ipso facto REBELLION.
Don’t tell them about the Gadsden flag…
And fortunately, it seems that most Americans, even after 2 straight months of being carpet bombed by the media and pols with their INSURRECTION! rhetoric, still aren’t buying their bullshit either.
https://disrn.com/news/poll-finds-more-americans-concerned-about-black-lives-matter-riots-than-capitol-riot/amp
I found that survey to be quite depressing. 45% of Americans will apparently believe anything, no matter how absurd, that their masters are peddling. Q Anon has more basis in reality than the “armed Trumpist insurrection” fable.
Well, if they heard it on Regis it has to be true right?
I might agree, but as Swiss noted above, every bit of the narrative from virtually everywhere is constantly telling them the insurrection was the worst thing since slavery.
I’m surprised the number isn’t 70-30 in favor of the INSURRECTION!! being the worst thing ever.
I think that it’s “only” 45% is pretty much a miracle, and a loss for the “BUT MUH HEART OF DEMOCRACY!” crowd.
Roughly 40 to 45% of Americans are Democrats. Of course they are going to believe that, otherwise they would have to admit to themselves that the party they bow-down before were the bad guys.
Correct.
But on top of that, the 10% of swing voters don’t seem to be buying it either.
Maybe 40-45% of actual voters identify as Democrats. Taking the fraction of actual voters and applying that to the total of eligible voters, the fraction identifying as either Democrats or Republicans doesn’t even reach 50% in total. By far the greatest political faction in the US is the “I don’t care” faction, but their preferences don’t get recorded.
Or maybe their preferences are to take whatever they’re given without question. (this is not necessarily a complaint against non-voters–I’m sympathetic to the idea that it simply doesn’t matter anyway, but that it might if more people bothered to vote–which is kind of a paradox)
Per Gallup, 31% Dem and 26% Repub
Eh, there are a ton of people who aren’t registered to a party but always vote that way.
Armed. Insurrection.
I mean they had literal arms attached to their bodies. Clearly it constitutes a
minor riotarmed insurrection.“Senate Democrats were removing $1.5 million for a bridge between New York state and Canada and around $140 million for a rapid transit project south of San Francisco after Republicans cast both as pet projects f or Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D—Calif.”
I’m sure there is plenty of other shit hidden in there, like the vaping thing in the last one.
I turned down the Vaccine the day before yesterday. I think they should wait until everyone over 70 gets it first, Either way, I have no real fear of covid. Let the people who should be afraid of it get shot up. I really hope the teachers come out of this as the most hated public employees. They are bald facedly refusing to work, despite everyone knowing they face next to no danger. Fuck them. It prevents most people from going back to work and screws over the kids. All out of laziness.
Not just laziness, they are flexing their political power over the Evil Party. Karens all.
I wish this was true. I know people in their 20’s who are still terrified of the ‘vid and self-isolating (and have been for almost a year now). If nothing else, this past year has really made me re-evaluate my estimation of the average person.
Just now? You call yourself a Glib?
I didn’t exactly have a high estimation of the average person below this. I’m beginning to think we may need all of those warning labels after all, including the curling iron “Not for Internal Use” one.
the curling iron “Not for Internal Use” one
Wait, what? I’m doing this wrong?
People in lab coats have been whipping up fear. The news has slow motion shots of medical instrumentation and people in Moonsuits, with scary graphs and frightening percentages. WE. ARE. GOING. TO. DIE. is all they have been hearing for a year.
Yeah, people are dumb but it does shock me, like Neph stated above, of how dumb they really are.
Doesn’t have to be dumb – all your sources of information tell you DEATH STALKS US! and the government imposes drastic measures. It takes a bit of perception that people have not been given by their teachers, the media, etc, or seeing contrary things to shake off the bit and bridle.
Fair enough.
People can be stupid and ignorant.
“…dumb, panicky animals…”
I had to get a tire swapped the other day, there were 2 early 20 somethings in the lobby in full double face mask, glasses and gloves huddled in the corner trying to avoid anyone.
What a miserable life they must lead.
Misery loves company. If you won’t voluntarily join them …
At USPSA Factory Gun Nationals, masks were almost non existent (completely non-existent among the competitors), though people did switch to elbow-bmps instead of shaking hands.
At the awards banquet, there was one table of maskees that was as far away from everyone else as possible. I dunno if they were family of one of the competitors or what.
I’m aware of one former Marine who’s gone full-on “Abbott is going to kill everyone!”
It’s really fucking sad.
I really hope the craven actions of the Teachers is remembered by the general public too.
In Minnesoda, the Teachers budded in line for the vaccines because they were so important and needed those shots if schools were going to open. Then once vaccinated still refused to open schools.
Not a good look, but given that they are the 800lb gorilla in DFL donor money they don’t give a shit.
It will be interesting to see how it plays out in CA now that the union can’t collect mandatory dues – and feed that back to the Dem machine.
Why do I get the impression that CNN et al are just itching to use the parentheses whenever they do a story about Kushner?
(((CNN)))???
(((Kushner)))
^
)))Kushner(((?
Kushner was the one surprise for me of the Trump administration of just how competent he appeared to be. And maybe that’s the lesson: the one guy Trump trusted because he already knew him and knew he could trust him, as opposed to all the established political hacks like Bolton and Pence.
And god did the Twitterati hate Kushner. If he’s tapping out of politics, good for him. I don’t blame him. Based on what I’ve seen, I’d hire him immediately for a top management position.
Kushner embarrassed the Bureaucrats and their fans in DC and that’s unforgivable. Competence isn’t a virtue in the Swamp.
Good morning, Sloop!
Cool picture of Clark – nothing like an airborne Lotus.
Oh well, I guess the people who paid all the taxes should expect to get fucked.
I really need to stop reading about this piece of shit. It’s not healthy.
Fantastic song choice. What an incredibly weird and awesome time.
Which ones were the girls? *skips away*
Are you kidding? Now we know what Tasha Yar was doing before she joined the Enterprise crew – singing backup for a second rate new wave band!
This video sponsored by Behr paints and Wagner Power Sprayers–when you need a shit-ton of stuff painted gray or orange, right now!
Church youth group painted the youth room to match. Found a gray couch to match.
But how the hell do you even get 25 people into an Expedition in the first place?
Mexicans are short. //jk
I learned to drive in an Expedition.
“Sweeping election reform bill passes the House to update voting procedures and require states to turn over the task of redrawing congressional districts to independent commissions”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9324271/U-S-House-passes-sweeping-election-bill-Senate-prospects-unclear.html
So they are going to fortify gerrymandering.
It has zero chance in the Senate, so there is that.
There’s also the fact that several of the “reforms” are blatantly unconstitutional.
You complain about judges making election laws so we got the legislature to make them. Now you are complaining about the Constitution. You’ll never be satisfied. We’re just going to ignore you from now on.
Zero chance in the Senate? Thank the Lord. It makes it illegal to require voter ID, and allows everyone to submit a mail-in ballot. Basically cementing all the “fortification”. It’s amazing that almost every other country in the world requires an ID to vote, but if we do it would be racist or something.
Yeah, I read it requires 60 votes. Ain’t happening.
How do you come to that conclusion?
Unless they get rid of the filibuster. Manchin says he won’t but I doubt he’ll stay firm if this is something the Dem leadership decide is worth throwing everything in for.
Unless they get rid of the filibuster.
Which takes 50 votes plus 1.
if this is something the Dem leadership decide is worth throwing everything in for
It could well be. Its no accident this is the very first bill that’s been introduced in at least the last two Congresses.
I expect Dems to vote in lockstep with the exception of Manchin, assuming he has a pair.
blatantly unconstitutional
How quaint.
I want to say Sinema also said she would not vote to eliminate the filibuster. But I also believe that if the Dems want it bad enough, they will roll those two, or bring a squish Republican or two over.
I had an inspiration yesterday. We need to have a reliable test of mask effectiveness. I vote for bear spray. You put your mask on, and I’ll dose you with bear spray. If your mask can protect you from bear spray, it’s a good mask, and you pass the test.
If not…
Better luck next mask.
You mean bear mace? Bear spray is something many unfortunate trees experience on a daily basis.
bear mace
To put it in words you’d understand…. Smashing!
Channels Simon Harwood “Yes, no, brilliant.”
We’re not asking for a handout. We just want you to give us money.
Only $20M.
Bringing over from the dead thread – When they cut Puddin Cup off the screen should have gone to the old Indian head image.
Everything is 24 hours now, but I’m sure the indian head raster would be racist.
Maybe that tiny left-over dot that used to linger in the old tube TVs?
“It’s a sign, that little white dot. It means something really heavy. It means: there’s no more telly, it’s time to go to bed.” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmSL41CAR6o
*kissy fingers*
Thank you, kind sir. User name checks out, huh?
And for Limey: http://cdn.artwallpaperhi.com/1920×1080/20130423/bbc%20television%20test%20pattern%20channel%20test%20card_www.artwallpaperhi.com_78.jpg
You know your stuff, Lady Toxteth! Bravo!
Hahaha. I remember the test card + tone, and also the smooth jazz on the Ceefax or Teletext or whatever.
Those were some tasty links.
We just need to know who said:
“CUT THE FEED!!!”
Wait for the next installment of Joemala.
Wonder how long it took Joe to figure out that the feed was cut.
I’d looooooove to see that blooper real of Joe shouting “C’mon man!” and doing pushups to show Pelosi what a he-man he is.
Too many tasty num-nums. Not Family Friendly.
He doesn’t even know that he was on camera.
“What am I doing here?”
I don’t belong here
I wonder if they have someone there to ask him some soft ball questions so he thinks he’s taking questions.
“Right now, he’s just checked out of politics,” says one person, echoing the mindset of Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, who is so over the political bubble she has told friends and colleagues of late to not utter anything to do with Washington.
He was supposedly instrumental in those peace deals, right? Stop while your ahead.
Or he is being silent because one of them intends to run for office.
I’d wager Ivanka.
My Texan buddy is not at all happy with Abbott’s EO. He seems to think that businesses and individuals will be attacked for infringing on people’s liberties if they wish to enforce they’re own mask policy privately. If anyone really is stupid enough to not just walk away and shop/eat elsewhere instead of making a scene, as first recourse, I don’t have any particular sympathy for that person, but I don’t think that’s how it will go down. Of course you’ll see a couple of things in the news. My folks, for example, over here are convinced that anti-maskers are a ubiquitous rabid breed of highly aggressive moron who viciously attack people who meekly and politely ask for them to mask up. Of course, the reality is usually, some poor schmuck working in a supermarket is asked to remind customers to please where a mask in the store, and I suppose if they refuse it’s going to put their employment in jeopardy. They’re just the human shields for bad policy, and some guy who politely refuses or says “so call the cops” is portrayed as representing some huge threat to society akin to the “white supremacist” boogeyman. The thing about it is, you can be calm, polite, and stand your ground, but if it’s retold and reported it immediately turns into you being equated with terrorists. I know there are absolutely people who feel theatened enough to respond in a combative and ornery fashion to the mask police, or even to customer-facing workers, but f*&# the propagandists right in the face. Everything is blown up into an existential conflict.
That’s too many words.
Fuck masks, fuck Karens, fuck lying jerks. Going back to what should be constitutionally protected basic freedoms is not the cause of any particular tensions. Shutting down people’s lives in the first place was.
Just accept the little infringement
Stop making a scene
Oh God can’t you keep it down
Voices carry
Yep. Getting pretty sick of hearing the equivalent of “Shhh! Inside voices!”
Lie back and think of England
Even downtown?
My understanding is that most businesses are stuck with liability issues if they don’t enforce mask mandates due to “CDC Recommendations.”
In other words, we have a stealth “nationwide mask mandate” thanks to our elected representatives at the major lawmaking body known as the CDC.
Is this incorrect?
You are correct.
Some of proposed COVID liability shield legislation I’ve seen only applies if businesses follow CDC or state level equivalent guidance.
Yeah, right. This is all to score political points and chill a certain part of the population’s right to protest.
And the rhetoric is dangerous. It is like they want something to happen.
Or maybe I’m wrong. Maybe there will be violence. I’m sure they’d attack a fortified position with soldiers patrolling it.
Indeed. Those dastardly right-wing militias with AR’s and high hopes are definitely going to try to invade the capitol grounds in DC.
Unidentified…on or about…aspirational. This is how you do a clownshow, folks. Now with more pants-shittening.
So a government informant who is a member of a group probably run by other government informants says that Bobby Stu, also a possible government informant, got really liquored up the other night and talked about his aspiration to lead such an event.
I identified my ass.
I guarantee there isn’t a militia in the US that isn’t at least 1/4 feds. All of the major players are known.
There is no intelligence indicating anything at all. It’s fucking theater.
Is there anything to this?
I don’t know, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
While AntiFa does not share their ops plans with me, I wouldn’t put it past them. I don’t know if juror names are public, and they could certainly be sealed in this case. Many courts are camera-averse so they’d have to plant people in the courtroom to memorize the faces, or sketch (totally allowed), the jurors so that they or others can follow them when they are finally let out the back door. If the court were serious about protecting them they’d make them assemble at some random location each day and transport them to/from the courthouse in one or more vehicles.
It is Minneapolis Town, some court worker will be woke enough to give them the names of the jurors. No need to go to all that work to stalk them.
Think of the jury selection for that trial. Anyone who isn’t blatantly trying to get off that jury should be immediately disqualified because those bastards obviously have an axe to grind and want to personally lock those cops up, or want to be the holdout who lets the cops walk free.
The wilder your claims of why you shouldn’t be on the jury, the more you should be on it.
And no idea if they elect their clerks of court there.
That’s fucking terrifying.
Well, if those activists want to fast-track their own asses into court on charges of jury tampering – I say go for it. They are passed their best-by date for the Dems, so any shitflinging they do now is going to come right back in their faces.
The damage may well be done at that point.
Sequestration would prevent that.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
https://www.wcbi.com/notary-arrested-charged-voter-fraud-connection-aberdeen-alderman-election/
Hawkins, put that down!
The Election was just a little skeevy! It’s still good! It’s still good!
[juris imprudence disliked that]
*sigh*
imprudent
Did I really? I thought I was quite happy with actual charges and convictions – not just wild-ass rumor-mongering for/from the Orange idiot.
Just a bit o snark.
I don’t know anything about Jared Kushner, but re: sloopy above
For most politicians and their hangers on, including the media, the goal is power, “to be,” not “to do.” They strive for a title and power, rather than real accomplishment. Hillary Clinton was a great example of this tendency, especially as a Senator. She became a Senator not to do good things for the country and her constituency, but to have the title and the power, and to use it as a stepping stone. She accomplished nearly nothing as a Senator. The same could be said for Barack Obama, and plenty on the Republican side, as well.
I read an article the other day on “Careerism and Psychopathy” in the military which is well worth it.
From that article:
I borked up that last paragraph–it should look more like this:
From that article:
Can concur. I’ve been guilty of that in the past myself. Mind you I was 24 and it wasn’t a life or death situation for anyone. I regret that to this day.
Well, being that when you’re a young buck is pretty normal. A bunch of us were. It’s the ones that don’t grow out of it that are a problem.
[Edit fairy saunters by, makes four snaps in “z” formation fixing bad html, moves on]
Thanks, Edit Fairy! You’re the greatest!
PSA: Put that book (Boyd: The Fighter Pilot…) on your reading list if you haven’t already. First, it’s an interesting story. But second, as an intro to “Patterns of Conflict” presentation. Then go read that.
…to HIS “Patterns of Conflict”…, that is
I have not read it, but will probably pick it up now.
That was a helluva read, wasn’t it?
I have to admit I’m only about 3/4 of the way through (I have to actually do work, too). But I used to work for a man who had been an officer in the Navy–very career oriented, but missed a promotion and ended up as a middle level executive in the power industry. I have no trouble at all believing he was a psychopath, based on his behavior in public and in private.
It went right onto Pine’s Required Reading List for my brood.
And something along the lines of “understand Patterns of Conflict, OODA loops, and how to attack one” went onto the “important things to know” list.
An article with a similar theme, specific to Afghanistan, from the last level of unvarnished truth-telling in the military (O-5s not making O-6).
They’re just the human shields for bad policy
At this point, I don’t care anymore. Fuck ’em. They’re too stupid to deserve my respect or courtesy.
Yesterday I was in Costco, with my face diaper at half mast, as always. An employee walked by and said, “Sir, could I get you to pull your mask up over your nose?”
I said, “Open some more checkout lanes, so I can get the fuck out of here.”
Costco is where I had my bearspray test inspiration.
You should have sneezed on her.
Ah, the good mannered reply.
Last week, staff and I at the grocery store I shop at went through something other than the “Sir, would you like a mask?” “No thank you” “Have a nice day sir” “thanks, you too!” dance. Note that dance has only happened twice.
I show up sans mask, and I note there is a staff member at the door handing out masks. We make eye contact. She says to me, “How are you today sir?” I say, “Fine, thanks, and you?” She says, “Good thanks!”. And I shopped without a mask. Nothing else happened.
This is not what is going on in Phoenix. You either wear the mask or you’re asked to leave. Pretty much everywhere.
When the girlfriend and I were out there in the suburbs, we went into at least one bar to grab a bite to eat that had signs up saying that masks were required, but no one was wearing one inside. Staff without masks, patrons without masks, people not masking up to go piss or smoke. It was a nice taste of normality.
Which suburb? Apache Junction, for example, is not in Maricopa County and so isn’t under the county wide mandate.
Anyhow, in more centralized Phoenix they’re pretty strict.
This was in Mesa, in a new-ish shopping plaza.
We have a state wide mask mandate here in NH. There are numerous exemptions to it, which some people know about but others don’t know about. There are also some municipalities which mask mask ordinances which are stricter than the state mandate.
Compliance varies. I know of places that won’t let you in the door unless you have a mask on. Through some anti-mask groups and the Reopen NH group, I found out about some grocery stores near me where the staff don’t give a shit if you don’t have a mask. So, one of those is where I shop.
One more note about masks in New Hampshire. Compare these two scenarios.
Some folks on the above mentioned anti mask groups and Reopen NH group have complained to the state AG’s office about some stores not allowing those people to shop without a mask while claiming one of the exemptions under the statewide mask mandate. The state AG’s office response was “Private businesses can make whatever policies they want.”
The owner of a gun store near me prohibits masks in his store. If someone walks in wearing a mask, he will ask that person to remove the mask or leave. Some folks complained to the state AG’s office about his prohibition on masks. The state AG office sent goons in to talk to him saying, “We’re concerned that people wearing masks won’t be able to shop here.” To be fair, as far as I know, the state AG’s office has not fined the gun shop. The owner has not backed down on his mask prohibition.
“Nothing else happened.”
Give it two weeks. Half the country will be dead.
This is how you fight Climate Change. Nobel Prize for DEG.
As one of those human shields, go fuck yourself. Some of my coworkers are happy to lord over people who aren’t wearing a mask, but not all of us. Which I assume is true in any population, not just retail workers
So ESPN was on while I was treadmilling yesterday. Cubs and Mariners pre-season game. Volume was muted, but in between each pitch they would focus on someone in the stands not wearing a mask. It went on for 40 minutes. They would flash to a sign that reminded you to social distance and wear and mask and then back to anyone in the stands, including little kids, without one.
OFFS.
I hope the hospitals in Seattle or Chicago are prepared for the incoming tidal wave of victims.
From the 10s of people at a preseason baseball game.
Game was in AZ – they are already dead.
I’d bet that this year, players on teams in the Grapefruit League (FL) are much happier than those in the Cactus League (AZ).
“How many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds” Jan. 6, he asked FBI counterterrorism chief Jill Sanborn.
“To my knowledge, none,” she replied.
As *we* all know, any firearms confiscated that day would have been brought forth in a massive dog and pony show for the cameras, with breathless “analysis” of their massive scaryness.
And fearful demonstrations of that thing that goes up in the rear.
?
That is beautiful.
That thing that goes up in the rear is evil.
Someone should take a custom My Little Pony AR-15 to a protest. I’ve only seen pictures of the Hello Kitty variants.
Ask, and ye shall receive.
Gotta pick a snark.
A: Bronies are not as hardcore as hello kitty fans.
B: AR-15 is the official rifle of Hello Kitty.
C: You can blaze that trail.
D: The licencing fees are murder.
Do you need to pay licensing fees if you customize yourself? I’ve done bluing before.
You want to get suuuued?
Honestly if you’re not monetizing the customized material the copyright holder doesn’t have grounds to sue.
https://twitter.com/demswatchdog/status/1367272678680391682
How isn’t she white?
*muffled profanities*
I hate Teams meetings. Of all the teleconferencing software I’ve been forced to use, Teams ranks at the bottom next to Google.
Do some Toobin
The father of Michael Brown and other activists from Ferguson, Missouri, are demanding financial support from Black Lives Matter after the organization revealed it raised over $90 million last year.
Michael Brown Sr., whose son was fatally shot by a white police officer in August 2014, along with the other activists who helped propel the movement, want $20 million from the group to help their community.
It is as if black lives do not matter to Black Lives Matter.
[golf clap]
“Right now, he’s just checked out of politics,” says one person, echoing the mindset of Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump, who is so over the political bubble she has told friends and colleagues of late to not utter anything to do with Washington.
Somebody seems to have learned something.
Biden undid all his Middle East stuff with the stroke of a pen and a few bomber planes.
I’d check out too, and in disgust.
“Joe Biden backs a police reform bill that could lead to more racial and sexual profiling, such as gender-based stops of female motorists. NBC News reports that the “Biden administration on Monday threw its support behind” the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. The administration says this bill is needed to tackle “systemic racism – in police departments.”
But the bill could actually cause systematic racism and sexism. The Justice in Policing Act encourages police departments to adopt quotas based on gender and race for “traffic stops,” “pedestrian stops,” and “interviews.” The practical effect would be to encourage police departments to stop innocent women, Asians, and whites, just to meet quotas based on gender and race. If police departments don’t meet these quotas, they could be sued by the Justice Department or individuals they stop.
Section 311 of the Act forbids what it calls “racial profiling.” This is defined to include not just race, but also “gender” in Section 302(a)(6) of the bill. But it defines “profiling” in such a crudely-mechanical way that itactually encourages profiling, rather than outlawing it.
Under the bill, what matters is numbers and racial bean-counting, not actual racism or sexism. “Disparate impact” in police stops or interviews based on race or gender — for example, stopping more men than women, or interviewing more blacks than Asians or whites — is defined as “prima facie evidence” of a “violation.” That means that numbers alone are enough for a judge to find a police department in violation of the Act. Prima facie evidence is a legal term meaning that the person suing has provided enough evidence to prove something, in the absence of proof to the contrary by the entity being sued, which bears the burden of proving itself innocent.”
https://libertyunyielding.com/2021/03/01/policing-reform-bill-could-lead-to-gender-based-police-stops-and-racial-profiling-of-asians-or-whites/
I am shocked. It’s not like every other “antiracist” initiative is actually racist AF or anything.
Exact ratios = “fair”. Also, including gender in the definition of “racial profiling” deserves a smackdown from the commonsense-use-of-language police.
We must be saving a ton by limiting those stimulus checks:
Serious people in charge.
I’ve actually been surprised at the lunatic reaction to Texas opening up.
It’s an eye opener as to how many really, really want to be ruled.
*resumes browsing Uruguay real estate*
Well, if you bought Fire Island….
Hey, look at Pharaoh Biden marginalizing us Neanderthals.
Maybe there is an obverse to the Free State movement?
I don’t know if California or New York would be the preferred destinations of the Rule Me State movement, but these people who like boots in their faces and limited choices should be moving somewhere so they can really get the oppression that they crave.
The Rule Me State would pass laws that there can be only 3 different products in any category. No need to worry your pretty head with “choice”. You won’t even have to mail in a ballot during an election because your friends in the govt will fill it out for you and send it in.
Maybe there is an obverse to the Free State movement?
Snarky answer: Normal life
Serious answer: I remember in the early days of The Free State Project talk of being inspired by lefties moving to and taking over Vermont.
You keep mentioning that…. then i started to look.
I can see why you like it.
“On this date in 1983, the winningest quarterback in Super Bowl history checked into a Louisiana hospital using an assumed name.”
https://twitter.com/QuirkyResearch/status/1367109253174091777
No way.
Joe Biden’s live feed is CUT OFF at the end of virtual meeting of House Democrats after he says he’s ‘happy to take questions’
Apparently someone does not want him to take questions.
Paul Krugman is transphobic and wants to control
women’sbodies: Too Much Choice Is Hurting AmericaSome, maybe even most, of this expansion of choice was good. I don’t miss the days when all home phones were owned by AT&T and customers weren’t allowed to substitute their own handsets.
But the argument that more choice is always good rests on the assumption that people have more or less unlimited capacity to do due diligence on every aspect of their lives — and the real world isn’t like that. People have children to raise, jobs to do, lives to live and limited ability to process information.
And in the real world, too much choice can be a big problem.
He only wants to choose the choices you are allowed to make for yourself.
I’m seeing more and more of this lately. Full throated endorsements of government managed lives because we’re not capable of choosing properly for ourselves.
Because bureaucrats have more or less unlimited capacity to do the due diligence on every aspect of our lives? Are they the same people that say if you are a member of group X, voting for party A is against your best interests?
I recall reading this exact same argument from 18th and 19th century proponents of slavery.
Yep. Why, we’ll just while away our days, watching our toenails grow. Can’t have that!
Some people make bad decisions. We experts will limit your choices so you can’t make a bad decision unless, in preventing one person from making a bad decision, we remove the only good option for your situation. You should still thank us though. You wouldn’t have been smart enough to select that option anyway.
Of course having massive numbers of choices has drawbacks, everything has pluses and minuses, but they’re vastly outweighed by the positives afforded by a variety of alternatives. Krugman is nothing but a political hack now but that’s been the case for a while.
I like Aldi’s and Trader Joe’s over Wegman’s because they only have one option for many items instead of multiple. Having that choice between super markets though is pretty great.
I know I have difficulty making a choice when I’m in the deodorant aisle.
I like having the freedom to buy the one that works for my body chemistry. He can go fuck himself with a rusty shovel.
Rat just made this message while standing in that aisle.
There are so many choices, I might be here a few days.
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?
“Gentlemen, To Evil!”
And no way it will turn into this…
“‘No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets’ (Orwell 27). Squealer goes on to explain that it is perfectly okay for animals to sleep in beds, but the rule actually forbids animals from using sheets, which are a human invention. Squealer then explains it is essential for pigs to sleep in comfortable beds because they need rest to do all the “brainwork” needed to run Animal Farm. After hearing Squealer’s explanation, the animals passively accept the Fourth Commandment and feel reassured.”
Hey, we all put up with it by letting the two major political parties choose who we are allowed to choose from in our political contests.
https://youtu.be/QF1PbGLJz5c
Winston’s Mom is going to have a field day with this one…
This is why restaurants have kids’ menus, Kruggie. Enjoy your chicken strips and sippy cup of milk.
First he has to choose a place to eat and then he has to choose what to eat!? And drink too? Where do the choices end for poor Krugman?
All restaurants are now Taco Bell thanks to Evil Mister Rogers.
“I’m happy that you’re happy, but the place where you’re supposed to have the toilet paper, you’ve got this little shelf with three seashells on it.”
So we can go back to turn of the century inns, where you purchase a meal and get whatever was being made in the kitchen that day.
But the argument that more choice is not always good rests on the assumption that a handful of people have more or less unlimited capacity to do due diligence on every aspect of
theireverybody else’s livesKruggie: Hey, I got a Nobel – you got one of those? So just shut it and listen, because I’m smaht!
Stimulus check updates: Biden, Senate Democrats tighten income limits for payments
I think it moves me out of the bracket to get some of my own money back. But I am sure the Kennedy Center could use another few million, likewise for funding gender studies overseas. And we also need a federal minimum wage set to an economy-destroying level.
I cannot even begin to explain my contempt for these cuntes.
Baseball birthdays missed: HoFer Dazzy Vance. Jeff Pfeffer, and Lefty O’Doul.
Also with just Squire on the list, it makes today’s birthday list huge. What is the joke (made about a few people, but I think its real in this case) — Squire is your favorite bass player’s favorite bass player.
My favorite bass player’s favorite bass player is Richard Davis.
Your favorite probably died before Squire was born.
He’s a fairly young guy.
Is that first bass or second?
DEMOCRACY in the balance
With the Republican Party broadly embracing election disinformation, voter suppression and minority rule, it falls to Democrats to bear the standard of democracy. Doing so will require them to finish off an anti-democratic tradition of a quasi-democratic body, the Senate filibuster.
The House on Wednesday considered Democrats’ signature response to the party opposite’s authoritarian drift in the form of HR1, an omnibus of election, redistricting and campaign finance reforms. Its fate and perhaps that of American democracy depend on the Democrats’ willingness to use the majority they narrowly won in the Senate, where their 50 seats represent 41.5 million more Americans than the equivalent Republican caucus.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, clutching a miniature American flag on the steps of the Capitol, agreed. “This reminds me of what it must have felt like at Valley Forge,” the San Francisco Democrat said. “Everything is at stake.”
The fate of mankind! Earth itself!
If we can’t ram this up the Republikkkinz’ asses, America is doomed.
What a bunch of screeching drama queens.
Nancy and Kamala would have been camp trollops at Valley Forge.
Uffda. I thought when they taught us about the starvation at Valley Forge in grade school they were talking about food. No idea it included sexual starvation as well.
Well, George did have Martha in camp with him.
If by “everything”, she means “perpetual one party rule”, then she’s correct. But I’m pretty sure at Valley Forge they weren’t dreaming of a day where every aspect of their lives were ruled over by career political hacks.
Oh sure and you probably think Mel Gibson was there with blue face paint talking about our freedom!
More doubletalk.
What are diversity/equity/inclusion, Black Lives Matter, “check your privilege”, etc. if not “minority rule”?
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, clutching a miniature American flag on the steps of the Capitol, agreed. “This reminds me of what it must have felt like at Valley Forge,” the San Francisco Democrat said. “Everything is at stake.””
FOAD, Nance.
“Just learned that no SF educator was vaccinated at Moscone today [because] the Governor forced Kaiser to hold all spots for educators who receive codes from the School District,” Supervisor Hillary Ronen said in a tweet Tuesday. Ronen has been pushing the state to prioritize teachers for the vaccine.
Then they have no excuse. Fire them all.
‘I hate it here’ trends on social media as Texans react to lifted mask mandate
Feel free to leave.
Absolutely, GTFO and don’t come back.
Love to see the Venn diagram showing the overlap between the I Hate It-ers and recent arrivals from California.
Freedom. Horrible, horrible freedom.
I understand there’s real estate coming on the market in CA.
The Bee of course.
LoL Good stuff!
HR1 would stem this anti-democratic movement by setting national standards for ballot access, easing voter registration nationwide, requiring early voting and prohibiting excessive barriers to voting by mail. It would also impose more transparency on large political donations and create a matching system for small donations to congressional campaigns. And it would mandate California-style independent redistricting commissions to prevent partisan gerrymandering.
No more Republicans. EVER.
If only we could make membership in the Republican Party illegal, and make the punishment loss of citizenship’s rights and privileges, we could finally attain true greatness.
If only we could make membership in the Republican Party illegal
The battlespace prep has been underway since at least the “Capitol Insurrection”.
How is all of this not massively unconstitutional?
Oh look, another one of those “the constitution is a suicide pact” types.
Article I, Section 4, Clause I of the U.S. Constitution:
Its an actual enumerated power of Congress, as near as I can tell.
Their power over Presidential elections (of electors) seems more circumspect, however.
I think the local news is sensing that the hoi polloi are done with the lockdowns. One article asking for bars to submit their plans for St. Patrick’s Day so they can put out a list for everyone, and then this story:
How much coronavirus is left in your ZIP code? See details for every Ohio ZIP
See guys, it’s just like snow, we can measure how much is left!
I’m keeping a bottle under the sink. How would they know to include it on the map?
TMITE
I really can’t watch any of them. Fox isn’t any better than CBS or ABC. Every fucking one of them insults my intelligence with every report they make.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvknidvWgAAMRlx.png
woah
A couple of weeks before they canceled the 6 Dr. Seuss books, I got an old copy of 4 of the 6 they cancelled from a yard sale.
Score (…Tulpa)!
Repost: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9322633/New-Yorkers-flash-COVID-19-passport-enter-sports-arenas-theaters.html ⭐️
Is this wise, coming from someone doubly in deep political trouble?
I’m guessing most in NYC and Albany are in strong support of this. Every liberal I know uses their hysteria of Covid as some sort of weird badge of honor to signify Blue Team.
So negative test result or vaccine? No love for the people who had the Rona already?
Negative test result acceptable, apparently. Positive antibodies test not mentioned.
“I don’t get it. They’re all dead so why would we count them?”
/prog
I’m seeing more and more of this lately. Full throated endorsements of government managed lives because we’re not capable of choosing properly for ourselves.
People are too feckless and ignorant to be subjected to a surfeit of options. It’s just one more way kkkorporations oppress and enslave us.
Also, as every good leftist knows, any activity which is too difficult, or too dangerous or too confusing for SOMEBODY is too difficult, dangerous and confusing for ANYBODY. Better just do what the public health and safety experts allow.
The loudest proponents of this appear to be those who have a bad case of imposter syndrome or feel that they should be in charge.
I’d really love to do a reimagining ofSuspicionn where the refrain is projection.
Suspicion
I gotta get out of this place…
If it’s the last thing you ever do…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3mgapAcVdU
The whole point of getting out of here is to be able to do other stuff.
I went to Walmart yesterday and bought a new cheap-o coffee maker. No mask, no big deal
As I was leaving, I saw a “Do not Block- Fire Exit” sign, with a stylized running man figure (almost Olympic style). That would be even better if the little man’s hair were on fire. I’ll have to look into that.
Kind of like this guy
Like the Passenger Safety pamphlet in Fight Club?
I haven’t been on FB for about a month now, and it has been great. Not that I’d find out much there, but I wonder if people are noticing that the Dems, along with big media and big tech, are just blatantly trying to cement their own power. To me it’s transparent and they’re not even trying to hide it.
People smell bullshit the stronger it gets. We’ve smelt what FB dealt and I think others do to.
“The Simpsons Asserts ‘SJW’ Is A Term Only Used By “Right-Wing Trolls””
https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/03/04/the-simpsons-asserts-sjw-is-a-term-only-used-by-right-wing-trolls/
Lisa’s been insufferable for much longer than the show has been unwatchable.
Everyone in entertainment reminds me of high school kids who assert their edginess by dressing like everyone else.
/remembers shirts for sale that said “Proud Social Justice Warrior”, “I’m not a SJW, I’m a Social Justice Cleric”, and the like.
A friend of mine for one that says SJW Necromancer.
He’s quite the proud SJW.
There was a bit in The Boys were some irrelevant fat neckbeard was spouting off conspiracy theories and used the term “Fake News”. This was the first of many signs that I was watching a show written entirely from within a cultural bubble.
I had always understood the term to be a pejorative, but then I went to a friend’s brother’s psychology doctoral grad ceremony at his university. I was shocked at the students’ speeches in which they referred proudly to themselves as SJWs.
It is most definitely a term that they came up with to describe themselves.
Now that it has a negative connotation, they want to dump it and rebrand.
The new brand seems to be “anti-racist”.
I think the bigger crime is demonstrating a capable woman like Marge being out-of-touch and ignorant of the term.
The loudest proponents of this appear to be those who have a bad case of imposter syndrome
What if they should choose unwisely? Being exposed as a fraud and a fool would be insufferable. Better to limit the potential for harm.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer’s violent protests in downtown Portland, when protesters clashed with federal agents. KGW reviewed federal court records and found 31 of the 90 protest cases have been dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including a mix of misdemeanor and felony charges.
Some of the most serious charges dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony. More than half of the dropped charges were “dismissed with prejudice,” which several former federal prosecutors described as extremely rare. “Dismissed with prejudice” means the case can’t be brought back to court.
The dismissal of protest cases runs counter to the tough talk coming from the U.S. Department of Justice last summer. Billy Williams, then-U.S. Attorney for Oregon, vowed there would be consequences for the nightly graffiti, fires and vandalism outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse.”
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/portland-protest-cases-dismissed-feds/283-002f01d2-3217-4b12-8725-3fda2cad119f
From what I understand, the COVID shut downs have brought our court systems to a grinding halt. How do you have trials when you can’t put people in the same room?
As a side note, I think if all of the court workers weren’t getting paid to sit at home they’d have figured it out a long time ago.
Federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer’s violent protests
You had to know that was coming when Biden
wontook office.I don’t see any evidence at all that the Dems are done with their blackshirts. Given their religious commitment to critical race theory and social justice, they can’t turn on antifa now that its fronting for BLM.
“Want a full time biotech job to revive the Woolly Mammoth and eventually restore the species to the northern wild?”
https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1367170240841326592
What could possibly go wrong?
The last attempt to create wooly mammoths went very wrong
I was expecting a photo of Andrea Dworkin.
Just spring for the laser hair removal.
I regret that click.
With a win over Southampton, Everton will be 4th or 5th, depending on the result of Chelsea-Liverpool. With a draw in the latter, Everton will be 4th. With a game in hand vs nearly everyone.
NPR’s covering ALL the bases with Qanon.
You see, if there’s violence today, it’s because of a Qanon conspiracy theory that Trump is returning to power.
But if there’s NOT violence, it’s because of a Qanon conspiracy theory that the protests are a fed honeypot trap.
It’s conspiracy theories all the way down!
Either way the messaging from the gov’t seems intended to chill freedom of expression.
Heh.
One tenth of the population would welcome that…
Vivaldi had his moments.
I never get tired of The Four Seasons. /no snark
I really enjoy “recmposed” by Max Richter, but I don’t know if that’s only because I’m so familiar with the original material, or if it would stand up on its own merits.
All 4 of them?
He wrote lovely concertos and hymnals. Nobody cares about them because people are shallow and silly.
“shallow and silly”
Ya got me.
To everything there is a season.
Churn, churn churn
Vivaldi ran a school for orphaned girls, and yet there was no scandal.
Eunuch or excellent PR?
You left off other possibilities.
Took his vows as a priest seriously (stop laughing)
Impotence.
Gerontophilia.
etic.
Excellent PR. Must have been. Because even with all your other answers, the odds that there wasn’t even a false accusation out of revenge or attention seeking is not believable.
Without a modern megaphone, accusations have a hard time blooming into scandals.
Cue ominous scary music
Two unnamed law enforcement officials told the Associated Press that the online threats included talks by people involved with the Three Percenters, an anti-establishment militia group that took part in storming the Capitol on January 6. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Timothy Blodgett, the acting House sergeant-at-arms, told congressional lawmakers earlier this week that there was “no indication that groups will travel to Washington D.C. to protest or commit acts of violence.”
Today, he informed them of the “new and concerning information and intelligence indicating additional interest in the Capitol for the dates of March 4th-6th by a militia group.” Lawmakers quickly wrapped up work about half an hour before midnight on Wednesday after the warning.
The USCP have confirmed that they’re increasing security measures in the area over fears that the violence seen on January 6 would be repeated.
Surround the Capitol with tanks and anti-aircraft missiles!
People that believe that they are in the right should not be so terrified of their enemies.
Borrowed from Ace of Spades HQ, an apt descriptor on the plausibility of this story:
“The second story is supposedly a scratch formation of the 1st SS Panzer Division along with the Ozark goobers who buggered Ned Beatty in Deliverance are planning to storm the Capitol tomorrow.”
Gonna make ’em pray and they better pray good!
An assault by a bunch of howling rednecks would end freedom forever.
What a bunch of rookies!
Everyone knows you gin up fake insurrections on a Friday (or maybe Monday) so you get a long weekend. Thursday insurrections are bullshit.
Some enterprising journalo should check the schedules of every Congressperson. My guess is that 99% of them are treating it as a business as normal day because they know this is bullshit.
At the very least they should verify that the Important People at least let their staff have the day off so they don’t get killed by the Insurrectionists 2.0.
Is it really a “militia” if none of them are carrying…?
/I’ll take “questions the media won’t answer for 500, Alex”
We really need to have the media strictly define “mostly peaceful protest.” It seems to be much worse than “insurrection.”
Mostly people protest: lefties.
Insurrection: not lefties.
Attacking businesses and residences of normal people, leaving their communities and economies broken: acceptable, nay necessary, to effect necessary social change, even if the only real object of that “social change” seems to be impoverishment and immiseration
Attacking a symbolic building full of doddering, overpaid, corrupt assholes who are at the ass end of the Cathedral and thus largely irrelevant in reality: an unacceptable breach of our most sacred norms and an existential threat to our very existence
And, I’m out.
Accountability is so passé.
When did we reach a point in which most sources are “anonymous”?
Because it’s an absolutely bullshit tactic in journalism. Only under the most dire of circumstances abound sources be left out.
What I like about glibs. Commenter will come in with a theory they have maybe thought deeply about or they just want to bounce of people. Sure, there are limits to what we’ll entertain, but within those parameters you’all will make positive statements about what should or could be. They enemies of the human spirit will tell you that even considering the opinion of those who aren’t in lockstep is wrong. Defaulting to the power of free people to make wise decisions for their lives may be my weak point. I’m fine with my weak point being an expansion of freedom.
You’re either free to be wrong or you’re not free.
That was a lot more succinct than what I said, but you aren’t drunk.
but you aren’t drunk.
The day is still young.
Well, its an Iron Law:
You aren’t free unless you are free to be wrong.
You are a good egg, Straffin-San. I’m pleased to have met your acquaintance.
Cheers Festus.
^Tulpafed
I keep wondering what your avatar’s armband should look like.
The Antifa logo.
It shouldn’t be an armband, but a mask worn on the bicep, with a picture of another mask.
Crossed syringes, dripping, one crimson, one yellow-green, superimposed on a surgical mask, over a field of black, littered with bodies
I show up sans mask, and I note there is a staff member at the door handing out masks. We make eye contact. She says to me, “How are you today sir?” I say, “Fine, thanks, and you?” She says, “Good thanks!”. And I shopped without a mask. Nothing else happened.
Nice. Kind of like the Walmart checkout lady and I, yesterday. A very pleasant, cordial, normal interaction.
An old bag with an old bag of unconstitutional horseshit.
The bill eviscerates state voting laws and forces all the states to conform to a set of rules that includes automatic voter registration. Anyone who goes to a DMV or applies for food stamps, Medicaid or other social services, or attends a public college will be automatically enrolled to vote. Noncitizens are obligated to identify themselves and opt out, but there are no criminal penalties if they don’t. From California to New York, Dems are already pushing to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. They see this as their roadmap to a future permanent majority
HR 1’s bag of tricks also includes banning state voter ID requirements. Anyone can show up on Election Day to vote, registered or not, and simply sign a statement that they’re a legal voter. HR 1 is being sold as a reform to make voting easier. In truth, it makes cheating easier.
HR 1 compels states to send out absentee or mail-in ballots universally, favoring Democrats who tend to use this method. It also forces states to count ballots that arrive by mail as late as 10 days after the election. Say goodbye to election night finality.
HR 1 also legalizes ballot harvesting, a practice many states are struggling to stop. A political organization pays a worker to walk through housing projects and neighborhoods, knock on doors, offer to help residents fill out the ballots they’ve received in the mail, and then submit the piles of completed ballots. It’s a recipe for fraud.
The fortification continues…
I’d be much happier with people being dis-enrolled from voter lists if they receive govt handouts (and I’ll throw farmers in with that one).
Think of it as recusing yourself from a decision that is obviously a conflict of interest.
In fact, anyone who wants to vote should be disenfranchised. Obviously there is something wrong with them mentally, or they have some ulterior motive for getting their candidate in.
“I’d be much happier with people being dis-enrolled from voter lists if they receive govt handouts (and I’ll throw farmers in with that one).”
While I’m all for that, i think those come in a far second place to anyone on a government payroll or any contract employee who’s company’s revenue is more than a combined 20% of a state, federal or local government funds.
I’m sick of Pols buying their votes through shitty contracting and contract union “negotiations.”
No matter what tweaks I would want to put in place, grifters would soon find ways around them. Just like they do with all the other laws they try to pass.
The real answer is to shrink govt and take away most of their power. Who’d bother to bribe – or even flatter- Congresspeople if they had no power to bestow goodies?
So close the Dept of Agriculture, Education, Energy, etc. No more foodstamps, medicaid, medicare, social security, crop insurance, etc. Shink the armed forces down to pre-WWI levels. Pull out of NATO, bring all troops home.
I would like to subscribe to your cult!
As someone noted recently, I want a federal government with so few powers that lobbying would be seen as fiscally irresponsible.
Question: what is the actual name for those adhesive anchors you use to fasten zipties to a surface, because google thinks I’ve invented the concept.
Try these:
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/commercial-electric-1-inch-mounting-base-natural-100-pack-/1000762652
I found ’em by going to Home Despot’s wesbite and just searching for “zip ties.” A whole bunch of other things associated with zip ties showed up.
Cable tie mount
Automationdirect.com
Asking for a rapist friend?
Adding an epicycle in the never ending arms race to idiotproof something.
Thank’ee. Unfortunately we’ve got a contract with a single supplier for these sorts of things, but I’ll see if I can use the OEM p/n.
And… got ’em. Thanks all, this will look a lit nicer than using cleanrorom tape.
Like this? https://www.steinair.com/product/cable-tie-mount/
try “cable tie anchors adhesive”
Geez, if you want me to storm the capitol, just ask.
The bill eviscerates state voting laws and forces all the states to conform to a set of rules that includes automatic voter registration.
If you look at what they say, it is one of the “Progressives'” fondest wishes to hamstring, if not abolish, state governments’ ability to set policy. Everything should be controlled by Washington. No exceptions.
The fun part is that the states that worked hard to uncover fraud and limit it will have their laws thrown out, while the states like Pennsylvania that passes sketchy laws to fortify the election will have those laws set in stone.
The law wasn’t the problem in PA – it was the lawsuit to overturn parts of the law that the State Supreme Cuntes were willing to agree to.
Yes, the law was carefully crafted to allow both parties to agree on a way to allow remote voting, and was supposed to be non-severable (or whatever the proper legal term is) so that if part of it were invalidated, the whole thing would collapse, right? The parties could barely agree on anything, and only with the balance they created would they pass it. Then the PA SC came along and demolished the parts that could possibly benefit the republicans, allowing for essentially unlimited, unverifiable voting by mail.
Non-severable is a huge legislative deal and the SSC just pissed all over it with a partisan “nuh uh”. Those fucks should have their heads on pikes on the bridges in Harrisburg.
They did the same thing with the emergency powers act. Wolf got to keep all his fancy toys but the legislature can’t stop him with anything short of a veto-proof supermajority.
You have to admire the balls on SCOTUS. First, they denied review because it wasn’t ripe, then they denied review because it was moot.
John Roberts’s singular purpose in life is to symbolically relitigate Bush v. Gore until it is reversed and the press restores its image of the Court to its proper place as a neutral arbiter whose only job is to do what the Cathedral expects of it.
In other words, he’s a blithering status-obsessed naive useful idiot.
Even if it were to pass, states should simply ignore it and conduct elections however they want.
I disagree. They gush over state AGs going on activist witch-hunts, they were thrilled by governors “defying” Trump (whether such a thing actually happened or not regardless). They want power consolidated, true, but they want it in their own hands, not necessarily in the federal government. After all, they still need a cursus honorum to climb.
Like a “Great Reset”?
Beto works in his requisite “death cult” talking point: “It’s hard to escape the conclusion that it’s also a cult of death … You have folks literally upending civilization as we know it.”
Yep. Joe Schmoe and his AR platform is equivalent the the Great Khan. I can’t believe that asshole hasn’t fallen into an open man hole yet. I’m out, Glibbies, back to work around the week again. You shan’t see my smirking visage on the zoom for at least a month. Be well!
Be well Festus.
In positive news today the recall of Guv Greaseball is now up to 1.925 million signatures. Looks like they counted the ones I mailed in last week. With a week to go they are going to hit their goal of 2 million. They need 1.495 million valid ones.
Oh yeah
Stopped by Walmart parking lot to re-sign; didn’t even go inside.
Wait, why would they allow people to sign more than once?
New effort, haven’t signed since last summer’s failed one.
ah.
Right on. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again. No illusions this is going to turn this state around, but it is a statement, and a rebuke of the lockdowns that have been longer and more onerous here than almost anywhere else in the US. Plus this is gonna tank his presidential ambitions.
The last one would be reason enough for me.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112697/mediaviewer/rm1847528448/
Heheh. It is indeed.
Buy the DIP!!!!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/buy-the-dip-with-apple-microsoft-and-these-other-tech-stocks-before-they-fly-way-higher-says-analyst-11614860585
Translation: “I went long on these stocks but need to make money fast.”
I thought everything is surface mount now.
Nope. It’s a head in shoulders into a Cleveland Steamer.
You CMOS people wouldn’t get that joke…
“History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes”
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1367271277459873793
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/men-heres-how-to-help-the-women-in-your-life-get-ahead-at-work-11614841611?cx_testId=22&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3&mod=home-page-cx#cxrecs_s
1. Reject the notion that women don’t want to be on the leadership track
2. Put time into nurturing your relationships with female colleagues (Cuomo was ahead of his time!)
3. Take your full allotment of paternity leave
4. Speak up when you hear problematic comments
I think I’ve just been womansplained.
I thought white knighting was problematic.
“Women’s activism and advocacy have resulted in enormous progress toward gender equity in the workplace — the results of the #MeToo movement being only the most recent example. But there’s still work to do and it’s time for men to suit up.”
Ah, the good ol poundmetoo movement. Those were the days!
All of the articles in the world aren’t going to change biology. Child bearing women lose vital years in their careers when the have and raise children and that’s not just ok it’s literally how we keep humanity going. It’s also why the divorce laws are so skewed towards women/mothers.
If you sit down and think about what they’re saying here, it’s that it is perfectly fine to hollow out an established organization, leaving it with deficits of talent, of institutional knowledge, and ultimately of mission focus, as long as at the end of the day it ends up with more _____ (currently filled in by “women”). These same people will then turn around and call anybody who questions the efficacy of such organizations conspiracy theorists and meanwhile ponderous Columbia graduates will pen ten thousand words on “The Disturbing Lack of Trust in Our Institutions”.
The reason why we end up with the “deep state” is in large part because the position remains long after the person competent to fill it is gone, and is less important to train a replacement (or be the trained replacement) than to serve some irrelevant political agenda (whether it be in the sense of office politics or national politics).
I wonder how many women realize how badly the #MeToo movement damaged their career prospects?
Any male manager is an absolute fool to mentor a woman. All the informal training and assistance that managers used to give to people working for them are a recipe for disaster if one of those female workers decides that she doesn’t like you (or wants your job). Just make an accusation and that pig is on his way out the door.
Why would they? There are still people advocating for affirmative action and quotas after 50 years, and they can’t see the same.
The goal is not to be good at the job. The goal is to get power.
Of course, any woman who would file a false accusation would do so regardless of whether there were any one-on-one mentoring sessions (seriously, no euphemsim). They’re lying about it anyway, so why not?
I mean, freezing out female colleagues is a valid risk mitigation strategy, but its not perfect. Unfortunately, because of the privileged nature of my conversations with my female direct reports, one-on-one meetings are pretty much unavoidable.
Speaks poorly of women’s collective intelligence, present distaff naturally excepted. I debunked the 74¢ claim to a ditzy Dem neighbor once, to which she replied “Oh, that makes sense,” but it didn’t seem to take as she repeated it not long afterward.
I treat women’s activists the same way I treat gay activists (being gay and not a woman): despite all their claims and pretense, they don’t actually speak for the group in question.
Show your friends this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GWHgVZJQU
It got one of my friends to shut up about it on Facebook.
I once had a newb female manager on my staff (no euphemism) who made it clear she was interested in me romantically. There’s no way I was touching (literally and figuratively) that, so I distanced myself from providing tutelage. Sucks for her, but I know how that would’ve turned out.
/serious post, no puns intended
Theres a large chunk of people that do not want to acknowledge or accept that there are trade offs in life and consequences for choices.
And there are always those that recognize that flaw in the human psyche and are willing to exploit it.
Ugh, I thought Murphy Brown settled this debate a few decades ago. You’re a bigot if you dare to suggest that a womxn can’t have a full-time, high-powered career AND raise a child on her own.
Candace Bergen later admited that the essence of Quayle’s complaint was correct — that Brown’s situation was not common to most single mothers.
Fanning the flames of panicky hypochondria
Brazil’s rampant coronavirus outbreak has become a global threat that risks spawning new and even more lethal variants, one of the South American country’s top scientists has warned as it suffered its deadliest day of the pandemic.
Speaking to the Guardian, Miguel Nicolelis, a Duke University neuroscientist who is tracking the crisis, urged the international community to challenge the Brazilian government over its failure to contain an epidemic that has killed more than a quarter of a million Brazilians – about 10% of the global total
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“Brazil is an open-air laboratory for the virus to proliferate and eventually create more lethal mutations,” warned Nicolelis. “This is about the world. It’s global.”
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Nicolelis claimed Brazil’s crisis now posed an international risk as well as a domestic one and claimed Bolsonaro – who has sabotaged social distancing, promoted unproven remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and belittled masks – had become “the pandemic’s global public enemy No 1”.
He said: “The policies that he is failing to put into practice jeopardize the fight against the pandemic in the entire planet.”
Send in the U N to capture Bolsonaro and try him for his crimes against humanity.
In terms of per capita deaths, Brazil is in no worse shape than a dozen other countries, nor than the EU as a whole. This whole thing is such a farce: the illusion of control, elevated to a sacrosanct belief, defended by a malicious enterprise, and absorbed by an innumerate population.
Those sick people should go out in the Amazon rain forest. For years I have been assured that we HAD TO CARE about the rain forest there because it contained all sorts of new and mysterious plants and animals that are the key to cures for all kinds of diseases.
So far I haven’t heard of any actual cures that came out of the Amazon rain forest, but the experts assured me that there are tons of them. So send those sick people in there!
“I don’t think I’ve ever played this. Man, that one dude and chick sure look a lot alike. The 80’s had some weird people making great music. Enjoy.”
That video was made before real revolutions in CGI, so they actually had to paint the building and the car and the street and the ground to pull that off. That’s cool.
Adding an epicycle in the never ending arms race to idiotproof something.
You might need some of these
If only the fuckwit recognized himself.
LOL
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1367209426168541187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1367209426168541187%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fvodkapundit%2F2021%2F03%2F04%2Finsanity-wrap-158-embarrassing-biden-handlers-cut-him-off-after-he-offered-to-take-questions-n1429945
Just needs about eight more bottles going at the same time to make it magnificent.
May the narrative never die!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/capitol-riot-qanon-shaman-jailhouse-interview
Facederp is starting to show me my “memories” from a year ago. When I had to cancel my trip to the UK. Thanks, Facederp. Fuck off!!
Sounds as if you’re not missing much lately.
Yeah… I’m not looking forward to Google Photos reminding me about the highlights of past trips to Viva in a couple of weeks.
From the teacher vaccine story:
That makes no sense. Why not give them all their codes now? Why wait until the timeline is finished? The way they are doing it, they can’t set the timeline until the teachers are vaccinated, and they can’t vaccine the teachers until the timeline is set.
That makes no sense.
A union engaging in a deliberate act of subterfuge to frustrate their employer surprises and/or confuses you?
This isn’t the union, though. This is the school district doing this. Maybe they are fronting for the union?
I think you’re seeing a dividing line that isn’t really there. The district answers to the teachers, and the union represents the teachers.
I might be missing something here, but it explicitly says “the District and Union” as a unit. The only external forcing function here seems to be the state, which means it’s up to Governor Honest John to do something, which will only happen after he sees which way the wind is blowing.
DC is officially occupied
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/police-request-60-day-extension-of-guard-at-us-capitol/2595235/
Oh, just militarize the Capitol Police already. Add 10,000 more cops, and gun and gear them as a military division. Why the hell not?
Anything to stop the Virus! Or is it saving the children this week? Ummm.. equity? Shit.. *checks twatter* It’s for the trannies!
Defending Democracy from white nationalism. FFS, keep up.