Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely wonderful morning it always is!
Biden to introduce up to $4,000,000,000,000 in infrastructure plan with massive tax hikes.
Gaetz response and claims to underage girl allegations more interesting than the allegation.
Unsealed recording capture corporate discussion to portray Papa John’s founder as racist.
US Strategic Command gibberish tweet revealed to be sent by a child.
Biden’s dog involved in another biting accident.
Restaurant owner defies COVID orders.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Biden to introduce up to $4,000,000,000,000 in infrastructure plan with massive tax hikes. – it is a start but it should be at least 3 times that
So we need to mint 12 coins?
I wander though, for such a sum, what are the precise mechanisms in place to make sure it is not wasted and what are the key performance indicators at 3/5 years to make sure the money was use properly and most importantly who are the people responsible in case of a fuck up
You can’t see it, but I’m laughing harder than Kamala Harris when she’s asked about how regular people are dealing with their situation in the world today.
He’ll be here all week.
We got a comedian here.
It’s not a massive tax hike in comparison to all of the spending.
“Biden to introduce up to $4,000,000,000,000 in infrastructure plan with massive tax hikes.”
For a bunch of supposed Keynesians, they aren’t even listening to Keynes.
Keynes is a dead white guy.
I think he owned wage slaves.
It’s time to unperson him.
“We’re all Kenyans now”
“The president has a plan to fix the infrastructure of our country,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters, “And he has a plan to pay for it.”
No Jen, he has a plan for YOU to pay for it. That’s what you should have said.
It shouldn’t worry any of us that he won’t be alive to see how his plan plays out.
At $4T, none of us will be.
None of these cuntes have ever had a plan to pay for anything, judging how none of it is ever paid for.
‘sup fam ?
Hola!
Finally, it’s safe to eat again!
That’s just retarded.
I want to report Count Potato to the corporate office for using the r word
Reagan?
I think I read it here. Since “retarded” is no longer acceptable, the current term is “mentally gay”.
I would consider starving…
The whole fucking point of eating out is to enjoy oneself. These people have a serious malfunction. The chiaina cold is not that damn risky.
The whole fucking point of eating out is
to enjoy oneselfis for her pleasure.FTFY
I might not be so bothered by this if they looked like clown noses.
Do they come in red?
Anyone that participates in that deserves their impending serfdom.
“This in turn brought attention to a new wave of politically partisan training exercises being introduced. Presidential directives forcing a focus on identity politics, and the resulting pushback in Washington as Senators like Tom Cotton move to ban critical race theory’s involvement altogether.”
It’s even more stupid, if such a thing is possible, if you consider our military mostly attacks brown people in the Middle East.
Unsealed recording capture corporate discussion to portray Papa John’s founder as racist. – and you libertarians love corporations so much
And what an absolutely wonderful morning it always is!
Meh.
Look at the grumpy man in the morning. You need some blueberry pancakes.
I had a sausage/egg/cheese croissant. Need some coffee.
“A seven-year-old boy has been charged with rape after an alleged incident on Thanksgiving in upstate New York.
New York State Police charged the unidentified child, of Brasher Falls near the US-Canada border, with third-degree rape on March 23, according to WWNY.
The boy was released and will reportedly be tried as a juvenile delinquent…
The boy was handcuffed and taken to a police precinct where he was interrogated by police alone.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9421443/Seven-year-old-boy-charged-rape-incident-Thanksgiving-upstate-New-York.html
“interrogated by police alone.”
Oh boy.
Nice to see the squirrels have buggered off.
It is Spring time.
“”REVEALED: First completed full-scale hyperloop system constructed of ‘vibranium’ made famous in ‘Black Panther’ will take passengers on Chicago-Cleveland route at speeds up to 750 miles per hour by 2028
HTT designed tubes, capsules and then invented a new material called vibranium, which it says is ‘the safest material on Earth.’
However, it seems the company also pulled inspiration from Marvel comics that describes it as fictional element that came from aliens that crashed on Earth.
Vibranium was made well-known in the popular 2018 movie ‘Black Panther,’ but also mentioned in ‘Captain America’ and Dare Devil comics in 1966.
But HTT is using what is known as the strongest element in the comic world to build its hyperloop.
Dirk Ahlborn, founder of HTT, said in a video: ‘Vibranium is the safest material on Earth. It is intelligent, it actually senses integrity.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9420281/First-completed-scale-hyperloop-built-vibranium-famous-Black-Panther-revealed.html
Can we build voting machines with it?
*snort*
Dominion has issued a cease and desist letter to you Sean.
Who the fuck is Dare Devil?
Besides, if they really wanted it to be safe, it should be Adamantium.
Do you mean Adam Antium?
Wasn’t that used on Apollo 9?
It Stands and Delivers.
Like Jaime Escalante.
A failed spin off of Daredevil…he’s Matt Murdoch’s cousin, an accountant by day and torch juggler by night.
HTT designed tubes, capsules and then invented a new material called vibranium, which it says is ‘the safest material on Earth.’
And the germans that engineered the Hindenberg called hydrogen “safety gas”.
To be fair, hydrogen isn’t the most lethal gas the Germans ever used.
Love gas > safety gas
Now THAT is how you PR in the age of stupid.
We demand Unubtanium!
A day early isn’t it?
Baseball birthdays: Jack Stivetts. That is all.
Under manager Dusty Baker, Jack pitched over 400 IP per year from age 22-24 (1890-92). He never pitched that much again, but had 4 more full seasons before being done at age 28. He played sporadically until age 31, but his arm was done at 28.
Yes, it was typical at the time, but it shows, like I mentioned the other day, how much of an oddity Cy Young was.
A century after Stivetts, young arms were still being ruined thru overuse.
I knew a kid who’s Dad taught him a curve-ball. He didn’t make it to 15. He was lights out in little league. Elbow tendons gave out.
There was a slider, also, which is an easier pitch but the mechanics of throwing them are too much for a little kid. He was a really good ball player.
There are teens getting voluntary Tommy John surgery to strengthen their throwing arm. [sld]Seems like medical malpractice[/sld]
Maybe they identify as pitchers, you cis-shitlord.
I threw a screwball (very sparingly) in Little League.
Jeez, even in the 19th century Dusty Baker was ruining arms!
Yeah, that was the joke. All managers were Dusty Baker back then.
“Black on Asian crimes only occur because of our system of white supremacy that strips African Americans of their economic opportunities while taking respect and dignity away from Asian Americans. Also, white people in power are experts at dividing and conquering to stay in power”
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1376753301014732803
Well, at least the last sentence is right.
Still, no idea what is causing these black on asian attacks, if the reported increase is true.
Holy shit, I think he was serious. And the replies, oh my God, there is no hope for the country.
Fixed for accuracy.
It’s the same thing that causes outrage at police abuses to be directed at bodegas, shoe stores, and other retailers rather than at police stations or city hall.
So, white supremacy.
To be fair, white people in power have been doing everything they can to fuck over black people for decades. But it’s not the evil capitalists doing the fucking, it’s the politicians and bureaucrats that claim to be “helping” blacks.
Biden to announce up to $4 trillion infrastructure plan with massive tax hikes
Money printer go brrrrrr. And no positive results will occur.
Their cronies will get pay days, and the Democrats will get kickbacks. Which of course is the goal.
No, one man, Joe Biden, truly knows how to fix the infrastructure of 4 million square miles of land.
No positive results for the public. Grifters will see plenty of positives.
At this point its coin mint goes thump.
This is a banana:
“South Dakota’s governor issues executive orders banning transgender athletes from women’s sports
South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Kristi Noem banned transgender girls and women from competing on women’s sports teams at public high schools and colleges via a pair of executive orders issued Monday…
Though the two executive orders signed by Noem do not explicitly mention transgender athletes, they reference the supposed harms of the participation of “males” in women’s athletics — an echo of the transphobic claim, cited in other similar legislative initiatives, that transgender women are not women. The orders also reference “biological sex,” a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students’ original birth certificates.
It’s not possible to know a person’s gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.”
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/30/politics/south-dakota-transgender-sports-kristi-noem/index.html
Almost no statement in that article is true. Quite the achievement. And the headline should read: “South Dakota’s governor issues executive orders banning biological males from women’s sports”. Because biology actually is a thing.
Assigning sex at birth has baffled humanity throughout history.
there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth
Ummm…what?
xx – female
xy – male
other – other
You’re just showing your white male privilege and white supremacy by citing biological facts, because objective facts are racist, sexist, and transphobic.
Just the tip
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_chromosome_anomalies
“2/ Something exceptionally strange is going on in mainstream media now. There’s just no daylight between liberal outlets — including, increasingly, their news writing — and activist claims. To the point where now CNN is pretending biological sex isn’t usually straightforward.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1377080927491391492
You do you, CNN.
I don’t think you’re going to slip this one past the majority of troglodyte ‘Mericans out there.
Saw what you did! Applause!
there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth
The field of biology disagrees.
Give them time to skinsuit.
Resurrect Lysenko!
Biology is just a term made up by old, dead White guys that probably used “India ink” to write their hateful, racist screeds!
Gov. Kristi.
Def. would.
Either me or thee must be so far up our own bubble, because that is so full of Whoppers that I can’t think the average person can see it as anything but propoganda.
I listened to the Demi Lovato/Joe Rogan podcast. She kept using the phrase “your truth” “my truth” etc. This is how you make it impossible to discuss anything.
But the most haunting thing about that interview was her laugh.
Truth > Facts.
Gaetz response and claims to underage girl allegations more interesting than the allegation.
The purge continues. And Matt Gaetz did not kill himself.
He had me at “former DOJ official attempts to blackmail member of Congress.” The only strange thing is, this time it was for money.
Six o’ one, Half dozen o’ the other.
It won’t wake up the rest of the GOP establishment to what the Deep State is willing to do to them.
It’s FOUR trillion, now?
Finally, somebody takes a serious interest in getting this country out of the horse and buggy era.
It was three yesterday, it will probably be up to five by Friday.
If we *really* cared, we’d get it up to 6T.
Bigot! Racist! Uncaring cold-hearted white male!
7T or bust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude! You need to take a “circuit break”!
While providing healthy
subsidiessolar panel installation training for the horse whip makers, right?Hey, if they can provide me with a riding machine that does my job, I’m all for it! It better be as much fun as a Tilt-A-Whirl, though.
Moving out of the horse and buggy era, like in a retrograde fashion back to walking?
Newly unsealed recordings of a phone call between Papa John’s executives and consultants in 2018 capture discussions of ensnaring John Schnatter, the iconic pizza company’s founder, in a discussion that might portray him as being “racist.”
Sounds like it is going to be expensive litigation.
Schnatter left Papa John’s in 2018 amid controversy over his use of a racial slur during a conference call.
He said a word that was not even directed at anyone.
He said a word in the context of noting that somebody else said it and wasn’t “canceled”, he wasn’t even using it himself.
Use/mention distinction is dead. Idiots who never understood it killed it.
Oh they understood the distinction – and did everything in their power to erase/ignore it. They have succeeded. We should kill them for that.
“The opportunity is more people are seeing that yeah affordable childcare is a big deal,” Harris said. “More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to bring their kids and say we’re not paying them nearly enough.”
A lot of people already knew public school teachers are nothing more than glorified babysitters.
A lot of people already knew public school teachers are nothing more than glorified babysitters.
Which really is an argument for paying them less.
“More parents are seeing the value of educators”
They are probably wondering where to find some of these educators, as well.
Mornin’ Banjos! Sierra is going on the playlist. Regarding Harris, we talked about her yesterday and her penchant for laughing at uncomfortable questions. She has no belief in herself. She thinks a humorous response will ingratiate her to the audience. She couldn’t be more wrong. I’m a scared laugher as in when I get physically terrified, I just start laughing. Truck went through the ditch and out the other side? Laughter. With her it seems more of a “tell”. She knows that she’s a fraud that sucked cock to get where she is and is the very embodiment of the Peter Principle. She might be worse than Hillary, at least Rodham knew exactly what she was doing and the sacrifices that needed to be done.
Fully Vaccinated VP Harris
But is she?
We have toddlers tweeting out the nuclear codes. The Reds must be having a field day with this.
Much to the shock and confusion of the general public who are concerned about America displaying weakness to its international allies and enemies.
CHINA: “Their all-important Twitter account was commandeered by a toddler. This shows weakness! Now is the time to attack!”
??
Reminds me of this XKCD.
CLIMB MOUNT NIITAKA!
How in the hell do you know all that?
Good job, Biden.
What problem at the border?
I bet he did it on purpose.
It was Trump’s fault. He has been sneaking gunpowder into Major’s food bowl.
It’s just to counteract the saltpeter.
Biden’s a Big Pussy if he doesn’t put the dog down himself in the White-house backyard.
By shooting two shotgun blasts up into the air over the dog’s head?
He’ll scare it to death?
Look fat, if you’re not up to date on your Biden gun use and home defense advice, that’s on you.
“Fire Two Blasts From A Shotgun”
Bidens’ rescue dog Major involved in another biting incident
Looks like Sleepy Joe can’t handle his props.
Seems like the dog is paying attention just fine.
I keep wondering how long the Biden farce can continue and keep being amazed. His last conference where he uses “desks” instead of “deaths” and generally slurs his words and uses bizarre vocal intonations…
…I mean c’mon. I have zero desire to see “President Harris” but this is just a joke.
They gotta drag him to 2022 so Harris is eligible for a full 10 years.
Didn’t he yank the dog’s tail?
Why did he want to shower with the dog, why did it run away and why is this the cover story?
Tune in at 11 to find out!
US Strategic Command gibberish tweet revealed to be sent by a child.
Who left the Lieutenant unattended?
This whole administration is being run by children.
Which really is an argument for paying them less.
Fifty cents an hour was the going rate when I was a kid, I think. That’s plenty.
The tax increase is just a fuck-you to normals. It’s not as if we’ll ever pay off any of the debt that has been incurred over the past year. We are so far beyond paying off the national debt the only question is will we hyper-inflate out of it or just default on it after the currency and economy collapse.
Stagflation. Lived through it twice in relatively quick succession. Early 70’s and early 80’s. My poor Grandkids. We’re moving back to a time wherein the family unit remains in the household but it’s not to take care of the oldsters, it’s to feed the youngsters. Some kids have their shit together and the kids are alright but most are fucked.
“We followed all the governor’s mandates when the COVID stuff first happened,” Strickland said, “because I didn’t know what COVID was about just like anybody else.” After reopening several months into the pandemic, however, he said the new spate of restaurant regulations “were about something else other than our health and safety” because “they just made no sense.”
That is by design.
“I allowed my customers to make their own decisions as far as if they’re comfortable wearing a mask or not comfortable sitting at a bar or not,” he said.
Good.
“And I said, ‘Make it make sense to me why somebody can’t sit at a bar…How’s it any different than sitting down at a table and taking your mask off and interacting with a waiter or waitress?’ And he couldn’t give me an explanation that made any sense.”
“Do as you are told.”
I’m gonna pay Gourmeltz a visit this Sunday, after the Fredericksburg USPSA match.
Do they allow spectators? I am already close enough to hear the event.
Sure, just show up and check in with the Match Director. Tell them you’ve heard about this USPSA thing and you’d like to see what it’s about.
You’ll need to have eye and ear protection (ordinary sunglasses and foam earplugs will do in a pinch). Sunblock, a ball cap, and a water bottle are also handy.
Thanks. I will look at the schedule to see when is a good time.
I’ve been meaning to go there as well. Just have to get the right weekend for it because Fburg is a bit of a hike for me
Fredricksburg USPSA is the first weekend of the month, usually March through November. So, this weekend. Come on out and say hi!
Spring break in Spotsyltucky was 15-19 March. Students returned to in-school instruction except on Wednesdays to allow cleaning. This morning:
Me: Kids, you need to login for your Wednesday instruction.
Daughter: Why can’t I be in school today?
Me: Some panicky people are afraid of a cold so the school closes for cleaning.
Daughter: But it isn’t even cold season.
Me: Yeah, it is stupid.
Kids just see 2 people chillin’.
Oh, you all are doing that Wednesday cleaning bullshit too? Teachers are playing this like a Stradivarius – same pay but they axed a day of work every week. Nice racket.
I’m fortunate they returned to 4-day in-school. The Karens wanted to remain virtual and reassess before the next school year.
Ours is returning to 4-day-a-week on Monday. XY will go “full” time. XX opted to go all virtual. Drama/family reasons for that.
Shockingly, the prom is on, but it’s short notice (April 24). XX has a dress (from last year, that didn’t get used), but she doesn’t know if she wants to go yet, and I need to alter the dress.
In other news, I’m going to let XY get his learner’s permit, but since we don’t actually trust him with our cars, I told him if he gets a job, it has to be one he can walk to. He is forbidden from working at Walmart because XX works there. He’s a hard worker, but he knows everything and I’d like him to get his head handed to him by the real world that doesn’t give a crap about him, instead of just us, who do–while he’s still at home, before he goes out into the world on his own. Also, it will depend on whether he can keep his grades up or not. When he is going to in-person school, he generally has zero problems with his grades when left to his own devices. He was all-virtual the first semester and it was a disaster, but I figure we’ll just write that off. He’s looking forward to being at school “full” time again.
Something tells me that Laundry Services is going to get taken to the cleaners.
Same asshole in a puff piece:
None of that makes any sense to me.
The short version is the PR firm under contract by Papa John’s colluded with board members to hang Schnatter in the media.
Schnatter’s lawyers are going to have a field day with this.
And any company that continues to use Laundry Services is managed by morons.
I hope ESPN does too.
The commander-in-chief’s “Build Back Better” proposal, a centerpiece of his post-COVID campaign message, will be split into two packages for Congress to pass.
The first, the White House said, will focus on infrastructure investments specifically.
The second will focus on funding domestic policy areas of Democratic concern, such as providing universal pre-kindergarten and tuition-free community college, as well as health care.
Billions will also be put toward care for the elderly and disabled, as well as housing infrastructure and manufacturing.
As for how to pay for the plan, Biden’s main priority will be to raise the corporate rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.
Okay. Smoke and funhouse-mirror accounting will get us to our new socialist Utopia.
We’re living in a post truth world.
“Biden’s main priority will be to raise the corporate rate from 21 percent to 28 percent”
And a mileage tax for roads (no shit), and increased estate taxes, and households > 400K which ain’t rich, and a whole host of other economy and liberty killing bullshit.
and households > 400K which ain’t rich
That’s top 5%.
The classifications are subjective I suppose but I don’t consider that to be rich and the uber rich, the ones the left hates, will be able to avoid this tax scheme with little trouble. This is economic warfare against everyday productive people.
It really depends on location. We feel pretty well off with half of that income. Doubling our income would make it possible to retire at 40 or 42 with a paid off house, new cars, and plenty of fun money. It may not be real housewives rich, but that is “rich” to me. Obviously, that wouldn’t apply if we lived in the bay area or manhattan.
I think I know what you mean. This isn’t going to hit millionaires (wealth over $50M) and billionaires very much, it’s going to be the “working rich,” doctors, dentists, small business owners, etc.
Last I saw, it’s $400K for joint returns, $200K for single returns.
It is concerning that his campaign slogan was literally the term used by Klaus convid cunte for his “Great Reset”.
Biden’s main priority will be to raise the corporate rate from 21 percent to 28 percent.
Which will immediately be transferred to consumers. ///NoNewTaxes
ugh. the president should never be called “the commander and chief” except when it relates to the military.
4,000,000,000,000? Goodbye recession hello depression…fucking crazy shit…
They aren’t even doing Keynesianism right, you’re supposed to raise spending and lower taxes in bad times according to them.
It isn’t economic policy, it’s revenge.
Exactly, time for the sane states to secede.
“In the DC suburb of Loudon County, Virginia, a teacher asks his students to name the differences in a photo of two women. A student says they’re two people. The teacher grows frustrated and demands they acknowledge the “racial differences” between them.”
https://twitter.com/ZaidJilani/status/1377031397949472770
So they are just straight up teaching racism now.
The punchline, the picture was of twin sisters one light skinned and one dark skinned.
Yepper. How else do you think they can continue the pillage if the yougins don’t get hooked early on.
At the same time, had he presented a photo a photo of a woman and a transgender “woman” standing back to back, you would be criticized for noting a difference.
We have a bunch of friends with school age kids in Loudoun County. To the last, they are homeschooling or private schooling and a large number of them are looking to move away. Beautiful area ruined by the locusts.
Virginia was a wonderful place to live for a long time, and the fucking progs are destroying it piece by piece. It makes me sick to my stomach.
You must be obsessed with skin pigment, otherwise you are racist. It is known.
Axanthism makes for interesting variations tho.
I wonder what material will be taught in the “universal pre-kindergarten” that Joe is pimping?
Get ready to answer a lot of uncomfortable questions coming from your toddlers.
Why?
Sexual indoctrination/grooming.
The “Why” was a reference to the tendency of children to go into a semisocratic loop where they repeat “Why?” to any and every answer to the previous why.
This is how I chose to understand your comment.
Don’t worry, just let em watch Blues Clues. They’ll get all their
groominginfo there.Something tells me that Laundry Services is going to get taken to the cleaners.
If I were Schnatter, nothing short of public flogging would satisfy me.
No good deed…
A plan to house migrant children from the surging crisis at the US-Mexico border will leave a Renton foster family with no place to call home.
Edmundo Serena Sanchez said he and his wife were notified in February that they would have to vacate the Renton house where they have nurtured and raised Washington state foster children for nearly seven years.
“It was just senseless. Everything they did was irresponsible,” Serena Sanchez said of the move-out order that came after a year of lockdown from the coronavirus pandemic.
The couple have fostered about 20 children over the years in the spacious house along Lake Washington.
The house is part of a campus of facilities owned by the Friends of Youth, a non-profit based in Kirkland with a 70-year history of providing services and housing for homeless and foster youth.
“Friends of Youth has reviewed our organizational goals this past year, and we have chosen to pursue a different strategic vision,” stated a January 29 letter from the organization.
But now the house will have the best yard on the block.
Drugs, falls, ass and all that…. I can’t get too bent out of shape over a non-profit deciding to change directions with it’s own assets. Seems short-sighted but it’s their shit not the Sanchez’.
Except the Feds are probably paying for it. Which means you and I are paying for it.
True enough.
The house is apparently going to be used to house (foster) illegal immigrants.
My question: So why can’t the Sanchez’s stay there and continue fostering kids that are illegals?
“According to the Epoch Times, Christopher Allen Hamner, a 51-year-old Black Lives Matter activist, was arrested in Seattle on Thursday and subsequently charged with committing a hate crime and “three additional counts of malicious harassment” after allegedly violently accosting several Asian-Americans, including two children.”
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/blm-activist-arrested-harassing-asian-americans
Is it wrong of me to want the senile bumbler in the White House to get us into a shooting war with the Chinese and/or the Russians?
Yes. Do you think his handlers know how to properly conduct a war against a major power?
I’m sure his handlers have a well thought out plan for how to conduct a war against a major power. Just as I’m sure that plan has nothing in it that would result in the US winning that war.
It is wrong but you might get your wish before this is all over regardless.
As soon as He kicks over, the CCP will make a move, Taiwan maybe?
The Chinese won’t attack us.
But they might attack Taiwan and call our bluff.
And we aren’t going to lift a finger in response.
Now Russia…. Russia is another story, because we appear to be just stupid enough to provoke a confrontation in the Ukraine or Syria.
I think the belief is that Russia is sufficiently small enough that “we could take em”. So, the increased belicosity towards them.
Throw in that it’s hard not to believe that Biden has large financial ties to China, and you can see why he might be soft.
A military attack by China makes absolutely no sense. We make them an enormous amount of money, and they seem to be doing just fine by bullying us around without using the military. They are evil to the core but they’re nowhere near stupid.
Your Russia point reminds me of a thing I read a long time ago, an article where the author was interviewing a Russian politician who marveled at how dull-witted American politicians were. His point was that Russian politicians had to be clever and cunning, because dumb politicians in Russia ended up dead or in prison.
Russia has more nukes. It’d be a goddamned potential civilization ending disaster to go to war with them.
I’m pretty sure the Chinese are going to make their move on Taiwan at some point, and I suspect they will do so while the current administration is in office, because the current administration is bought and paid for.
Yes.
Yes it is wrong to want that. Not wrong at all to fear it.
He couldn’t have picked a more trustworthy messenger.
President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting.
Biden signed an executive order in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce “relevant information” on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice “a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation” within 200 days under the terms of the order.
“Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process,” the order states. “The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation.”
I was under the impression that States were the relevant authorities in such matters of elections.
Missed it by this much.
“Biden Puts Susan Rice in Charge of Effort to Expand Vote by Mail
Executive order requires agencies to boost registration efforts
President Joe Biden put controversial former national security adviser Susan Rice in charge of directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting.
Biden signed an executive order in March that put Rice, now the assistant to the president for domestic policy, in charge of soliciting strategies from federal agencies to produce “relevant information” on expanded voting registration procedures. Federal agencies must submit to Rice “a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation” within 200 days under the terms of the order.
“Agencies shall consider ways to expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process,” the order states. “The head of each agency shall evaluate ways in which the agency can, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, promote voter registration and voter participation.”
It requires agencies to distribute registration and vote-by-mail ballot application forms, as well as to assist any applicants in completing the forms. It also pushes agencies to allow “approved, nonpartisan third-party organizations and State officials to provide voter registration services on agency premises.””
https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-puts-susan-rice-in-charge-of-effort-to-expand-vote-by-mail/
directing hundreds of federal agencies and departments to expand access to mail-in voting.
I was skeptical about the whole “they’ll be working hard to make sure there’s never a fair election again” theory, but this may have changed my mind. Not that democrats are going to win out in perpetuity, but i have a feeling the thumb on the scale is about to get rather heavy.
The usual M.O. is to hand money out, because no state can refuse free money, even with the strings attached.
Just issuing orders isn’t likely to get as far.
I suspect one would search the federal statutes in vain for any authority granted to federal agencies to conduct voter registration drives.
I truly cannot watch the news for more than a few seconds these days. If I was in charge and had a goal of complete economic and societal collapse, my policies would look exactly like the actions of the “Biden” Administration and the legislation floating through Congress right now. This is going to end very badly.
Ya’ll seem to be fixen to need a large dose of this
Meh… this is more my speed these days.
Well, not you lot.
Thank You! *adds to playlist*
Slurp slurp slurp
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is no joke.
The huge — more than $2 trillion — proposal he will unveil Wednesday covers an expansive and vital policy area that became a Washington punch line in the Trump administration and resulted in painful dashed hopes for previous presidents.
For Biden, infrastructure is about far more than fixing America’s creaking and crumbling roads and bridges, airports and railroads that are often compared unfavorably to gleaming 21st century projects in developing countries like China. The program is the latest massively ambitious sign that he senses that fate, political circumstance and shifts in public opinion offer him a sudden but fleeting opening to accomplish his long-term political aim of improving the lives of American workers.
While Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan, the infrastructure effort and a coming jobs bill ostensibly address targeted policy areas, they have a broader common purpose. They form the foundation of the President’s effort to engineer a generational reorganization of the US economy itself. The Covid rescue plan for instance that cleared Congress this month was hailed by progressives like Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders and independent analysts as the most significant effort to lift millions of Americans out of poverty in decades.
Biden’s vision now is not just for new highways, broadband and ports. He sees revived labor unions, equally shared GDP growth, easier access to health care, equal pay for women, clean energy and better child care for workers.
He is our One True Lord and Savior!
Comrade Joe’s asshole must taste just like strawberry ice cream.
his long-term political aim of improving the lives of American workers
I do not think that is his goal.
A bad joke is still a joke.
So pathetic that there is a trial to prove that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd when there is video of him doing so.
https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1376960092281577478
so… skip the trial altogether?
I get her and Chelsea Manning mixed up all the time.
Lynch mob, what’s old is new again.
— Some strong red woman.
I used to think she was funny and had nice tits a dozen years ago.
Due process is only for the innocent.
I remember when Joan Rivers, who hated her, outright accused her of fucking her way to a career. Eminently believable, since she has no discernable talents of any kind.
I’m not a fan of hers, but i did find her a smidge more tolerable after her interview here.
Looks like she took back those couple points I gave her from it.
There was a Robert Redford lawyer movie back in the 80s where they had the line: “let’s give her a fair trial, and then convict her.” It was in the ads.
The ambition of the infrastructure and jobs plans leave no doubt about his desire for transformation in an economy that has further enriched the most wealthy in the last 40 years but left the working class as roadkill.
Workers of the World, Unite!
I don’t mean to say that it’s Fascism, but it’s Fascism!
If we aren’t all bound together, tightly, we are weak. When we are all together we are stronger!
Friendly neighbors.
According to a recording carried by newspapers in Taipei and acquired by Newsweek, the exchange between pilots from the Republic of China Air Force and PLA Air Force took place at 10:04 a.m. local time after the Chinese warplane flew into Taiwan’s southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ).
Taipei’s interceptor aircraft, which was not identified in local reports, dispatched a standard radio warning to its Chinese counterpart: “This is the Republic of China Air Force. The Chinese military aircraft currently flying at 6,000 meters in Taiwan’s southwestern airspace, you have entered our airspace and are affecting aviation safety. Turn around and leave immediately.”
The reply which came a few seconds later was brief, with the response in Chinese saying: “This is all ours.”
Taiwan needs to nuke up. They can’t rely on the US anymore when it comes to big China.
No country should rely on the US anymore. The government is too unstable to be trusted.
A regional alliance minus the US + nukes would check China just fine but, yeah, if you rely on the US too much you should prepare to get screwed and/or abandoned.
Six active reactors. I’ll bet they can assemble nuke warheads as fast as I can assemble an M-16.
I’ll bet they already have, same with the Japanese,
I hope so but a nuke isn’t much good at deterrence if the other side doesn’t know you have it.
“It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.”
With the NNPT they need to go the route of open secrets.
“Needs to?”
Were I the Taiwanese pilot I would be so tempted to reply – “Would you like for me to arrange clearance for you to land your plane at one of ‘your’ airports down there?”
Are their news reports of the Pilot being lauded as a hero? or has he been subsequently demoted and sent to organ harvesting camp, as a patient?
The PRC pilot was not free-lancing.
The whole mission was done to deliver that 4-word message. They knew exactly what the ROC message would be (because it ain’t the first time) for a particular type of incursion, and had the “response” crafted ahead of time.
It is a deliberate and from-the-top flex, meant to be heard by everybody in the region, calculating that nobody is going to do anything about it.
Precisely.
???
“People low in moral character are likely to eventually dominate cheating-enabling environments, where they then cheat extensively.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1377123072403144712
So… politics
Incentives matter
“Economic factors rather than either video games or gun ownership were most related to violent deaths, either by suicide or homicide cross‐nationally.”
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1377138705857531910
Can confirm, being poor sucks. Poor people can’t afford decent guns or video games.
So corruption has a positive feedback loop. Just great.
I believe Ayn Rand had something to say about this. I can’t find it, but it runs along the lines of “All good men leave government because they cannot tolerate being surrounded by fools and liars. And then only the fools and liars are left in charge.”
As many have mentioned, at this point, Taxes are not a means of revenue generation, but a means of punishment. Taxes proposed have nothing to do with paying down costs of government and everything with sticking it to the “bad” folk and redistributing income to ones political supporters.
No part of government can be allowed to focus on its purpose. All must do the work to create a utopia. I look forward to the next visit to any of the battlefield parks in the area to hear the ranger tell me all about mail-in voting.
Years ago we were visiting Honolulu and were at the Iolani Palace. Initially we were told that the tours were suspended for the day, but when we noticed a group forming up and asked about it, we were told it was a special tour for Hawaiian natives. We pulled out our official Hawaii resident cards and got to go on the tour with them.
I was the only white guy on the tour. All the rest were natives. The guide was a native and our special tour had an extra heaping dose of “the white men deposed our queen and stole the island”.
A lesser man would have felt shame and remorse. Since I personally hadn’t booted any queens, I didn’t care much. If I were a better man, I would have asked if living under a queen was really better than living in a democracy. Especially a queen who came from a culture/tradition that had a lot of slavery.
Child abuse.
Parents of male students at a school in Victoria’s southwest are outraged after their sons were forced to stand up at an assembly and apologise to their female classmates.
Male students at Brauer College in Warrnambool were purportedly told to apologise to the girls for offensive behaviour on behalf of their gender on Wednesday.
Danielle Shephard told 7NEWS that her 12-year-old son, who is in Year 7 at the school, was left feeling confused following the exercise.
this is some shit that would make me lose my mind were I a parent
Surely the teachers who did this will be made to rise up in front of all people of the town and appologize for their actions. And then be hung.
Forcing 12 year old boys to stand up in front of the school?
Wonder how many uncontrolled boners their female classmates were forced to look at?
Everyone says things like this, but I remember the way I was when I was 12 and I would have refused to do so no matter what they threatened me with. I have no doubts on this. I refused to do shit far less egregious (like sing “We are the World” during a school assembly) under all sorts of threats of punishment.
And my dad, would have backed me up too. He’d have been more pissed than I would be.
The idea that we need to codify “sugar and spice and everything nice” vs “snips and snails and puppy dog tails” is madness.
Black on Asian crimes only occur because of our system of white supremacy that strips African Americans of their economic opportunities while taking respect and dignity away from Asian Americans. Also, white people in power are experts at dividing and conquering to stay in power.
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1376753301014732803
Honestly how can someone articulate the concept “you have it tough so it is ok to lash out and harm other people who have nothing to do with your issues” with a straight face? I can never understand how these grifters can say this shit. You need to have absolutely no shame. This is probably why I am not rich or a politician. I can not even imagine this shit.
Welcome to postmodernism.
This used to make me upset. Now i just marvel at them twisting and squirming.
I’d marvel at it if people with this mindset had no power. They do though, on balance more of it than we do by a considerable amount, so I find the denial of reality concerning.
They have no power over me, Hell My Boss is a Hong Kong Chinaman,
They can Fuck. Right. Off.
Don’t fall for it Asians, it’s a trap!
its the wily white man that’s done it.
#13
I truly cannot watch the news for more than a few seconds these days. If I was in charge and had a goal of complete economic and societal collapse, my policies would look exactly like the actions of the “Biden” Administration and the legislation floating through Congress right now. This is going to end very badly.
It’s like like the Great Society. If you had sat down with a clean sheet of paper and and the explicit intent of keeping the nigras down, I don’t know what you would have done differently.
You’d have done this.
I hope there’s a hell, and that LBJ is suffering in its’ lower rungs.
I think to some extent we’re witnessing what happens when you remove the focal point of anger from the equation.
Trump is gone, but the loonies and the outraged still exist and need an outlet. So they’re letting fly with their craziest shit in an attempt to retain their purpose for existence.
I just want it to be over. I’m a gentle man. I want everyone to just get along and stop making me feel like going Conan on these assholes. Being “libertarian” is a lonely and thankless task.
They really are out for vengeance – for 4 years of Trump and having to cheat massively just to get rid of him.
Rutina de GLÚTEOS – Ari Training
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Critb6G55Y0
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I think to some extent we’re witnessing what happens when you remove the focal point of anger from the equation.
Outrage addiction. Just like many (if not most) addicts, they cannot be “cured” of addiction, their addictive impulses can only be redirected.
If they can’t get their daily hit of TrumpOutrage, they will scour the countryside for a substitute.
We’re probably going to see a massive increase in accusations of white supremacy simply because Trump can’t be their boogeyman anymore.
The last time I was in the hospital there were very few “White People” working the ward unless you counted the cleaners and food folk. Some nurses, but very few that presented as Male. This is bullshit. It’s all bullshit! Fuck.
Honestly how can someone articulate the concept “you have it tough so it is ok to lash out and harm other people who have nothing to do with your issues” with a straight face? I can never understand how these grifters can say this shit. You need to have absolutely no shame.
Two-year-olds are incapable of shame. They are only capable of insatiable desire.
It would seem to me that if you have your license taken away, you are no longer under any obligation to collect taxes for The Man.
In a fair world, he might add a little something extra to his prices and use that to directly contract to cops/firemen for any emergency services he might need from them.
【カラダお絵かきゲーム】カラダに触れた感触だけで、絵を当てる！画匠メンバーは誰だ⁈
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7obkvxamts0
Japanese cannot even show scantly clad women without making it weird.
That’s why there’s blurring.
Something i’ve been thinking about since the Coke “Try to be less white” incident. I remember just 4-8 years ago, on TOS, and if anyone mentioned that there was a system of anti-white, anti-male thinking on the left that was starting to get out of hand, such a person would be derided as “overly sensitive” and foolish.
Now we are where we are, and it isn’t even hidden. Its out there and it is saying “Look at me!”.
A year ago some people were saying that the lockdown mania was going to lead to closed borders in the states and requirements of papers to travel and work. They were called crazy. And now Biden is working to make it reality.
The most cynical paranoids were more correct than most a year ago but only the fools, the liars, and the delusional can’t see it now.
Slippery slope is only fallacy when there is a break in the causal chain between points on the slope.
The left has been transparent about which side of the slope they want to go down, and they’ve been pretty open about how fast they want to descend.
Here come some free (so take with a grain of salt) predictions:
1) the 2022 midterms are going to turn out more favorable to democrats than expected
2) in the next 18 months, some big companies are going to break through the red tape and start firing straight white men for the sin of not being diverse enough
3) a sweeping federal gun control statute will be passed by Christmas
4) we’ll be entangled in some new foreign conflict by the end of the year
5) vaccine passports will happen and nobody will do anything (effective) to counter it
5a) this fall will be another “horrible wave” of a new form of covid that is vaccine resistant
6) student loan forgiveness will happen this year
7) talk of restructuring retirement savings plans will ramp up before next March
1) I think you are right. I don’t know if GOP takes back the house. And probably loses a few Senate Seats.
2) I can see that
3) Probably
4) Likely
5) Not as sure about that one. There is some pushback from the left, so maybe they will listen to those complaints
5a) Most assuredly
6) Could happen, they seemed to drop it in rhetoric, but that doesn’t mean they are pushing it.
7) That is playing with a dangerous fire. Though they have gotten away with doing so for the last year, so maybe it’s not as dangerous as i would like it to be.
1) I was already expecting this. The real question is will the same change be applied to the state/local elections.
2) I doubt they’ll be that open about it. Instead just increase the guilt and mandatory training classes, then pass them over for promotions.
3) I doubt it will be a statute, especially after Biden-Harris has already talked about throwing some bans via EO.
4) Probably, the question will it be an extension of the Middle East that’s been ongoing for most of my life.
5) Based on the current passports, I expect widespread forgery if this is done. I’ve already had a story pop up in my news feed about not laminating your vaccine card until you do these 5 things. I didn’t click through, so I don’t know what those things are.
5a) There’s already rumblings about the new variants, and stories about which vaccines are good against which variants. I expect it to wind up like the flu vaccine.
6) Already starting to happen.
7) I would expect this to happen later, not that close to tax season.
Instead just increase the guilt and mandatory training classes, then pass them over for promotions.
Many of the big tech companies are already there. (Hiring managers currently get paid a few hundred bucks for promoting minorities into management positions at my company) The problem is that the rhetoric is still ramping up, and there’s nothing left to do short of cleaning house when departments aren’t diverse enough. I don’t know that the individual contributors will ever be told that this is the case, but I expect that HR will emphasize diversity during the next round of layoffs.
And then the company will start to falter when they lay off talent, instead of deadwood.
Yep, and the cracks are showing with many of them (who fired their talent because it was too expensive) . The main sustenance for many of these big tech companies has been innovation through acquisition. The company is always behind the 8-ball, but cheap loans make it easy to snatch up a small competitor who actually does it right and slowly wring the life and value out of them.
Here come some free (so take with a grain of salt) predictions:
If that’s the road we take, I think we’ll be outta here.
talk of restructuring retirement savings plans will ramp up before next March
If they do this, I think they get their asses handed to them in the mid-terms, unless the cheating is truly off the charts. If they are smart, they wait until after the mid-terms.
To be clear, I think they’re smart enough to keep it to their think tanks and media outlets until after the midterms. I think it’ll be trial ballooned like the student loan forgiveness within a year.
For the Left, protesting and agitating for change isn’t a vehicle to get to some predetermined point – it IS the point. They need to be out there on the street loudly complaining about something, and if they can’t find anything, or if the actual injustices aren’t hip (e.g. the Federal Reserve) then they just make something up. This is why their positions keep getting more extreme and more frivolous. They’re addicted to the moral righteousness that comes from (as they see it) taking a brave stand for some oppressed group. They desperately need to see themselves as the white people marching with MLK in those old photographs… And so with the Left, a “slippery slope” ceases to be a logical fallacy and starts being an accurate descriptor of how they operate.
I’d say you have it backwards. I think the protesting and agitating change is a vehicle to weaken the US and implement Marxism. Global warming, BLM, transgender activisim, DEI intiatives, talk of equity, gun control, mask mandates, covid lockdowns and curfews etc. are all just different arms pushing us towards Marxism.
There may some low-level foots solider peons, aka useful idiots, who really buy into this shit, but the ones at the top are very clear that these various initiatives are just tools towards achieving the goal. We call it hypocrisy when Al Gore flies in a private jet to pick up a climate change award… but it’s not really because of course he doesn’t believe in climate change. Same with democrat politicians eating maskless inside restaurants or visiting family for Thanksgiving when the rest of their state is shut down.
I may post this quote too much but it’s an important one. All of the above protesting and agitating for change is part of the revolution Orwell refers to being needed in order to establish the dictatorship.
but it’s not really because of course he doesn’t believe in climate change
Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another, so, yeah, its hypocrisy.
Kind of like the person I know who is on a months-long pleasure trip (due to working from home) and frequently has complaints like “I went into this bar and it was SO crowded – I just can’t believe how people are just doing whatever they want and not taking this virus seriously”.
Depends on your definition. Either is common.
Hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another.
Hypocrisy is believing one thing and doing another,
https://twitter.com/ReedCoverdale/status/1377254964939141122
This kid has `Jo Jorgenson for President` in their status.
I caught Michael Cohen on Adam Carolla’s podcast a while back. It was a tour de force of megalomania from Cohen. (Cohen was personally responsible for Trump running in 2016)
One of the things that made me nuts is that Cohen is peddling a theory that the Trump administration went off the rails when Trump refused to listen to Cohen and spend trillions of dollars on infrastructure. Cohen went on and fucking on about how infrastructure spending would have fixed everything wrong in America.
What is it about infrastructure that makes so many people crazy? It is one of those magic words. Spending money on it is good and great. Of course, after details about specific spending/projects leaks out that same spending goes from good infrastructure stuff to waste and graft and needs to be stamped out.
infrastructure spending is great because bad infrastructure is something people see, and then you can promise spending on it. People want the infrastructure better, so they agree. Then you get to graft all that money away, not removing the problem that allows you to continue to graft money away.
The allure of MUH ROADZ AND CHOO-CHOOS is powerful indeed.
It’s also a tried and true way for incumbents to keep their jobs. It’s hard to campaign against someone who says “I brought $10 million to your community!”
I think there is a psychological type, or perhaps a condition, that causes some people to be incapable of doing anything unless certain prerequisite conditions are met. I see it all the time, and have experienced mild versions of it myself, where an otherwise very competent and capable person focuses on narrow details and things like setting up workspace or life conditions when those conditions aren’t really necessary to the completion of a task. So these people talk themselves into believing that they cannot accomplish certain things without certain prerequisites. They set up these mental barriers and convince themselves that until these barriers are overcome, no further action can be taken, and so avoid the downstream activities that would lead to accomplishment.
“Paralysis by analysis” is a subset of this.
I think that people who focus on infrastructure suffer from a bit of this condition. Yes, infrastructure is very important, but it usually gets built up in response to a demand for it. It is not strictly a prerequisite for advancement toward a goal. For instance, it is not strictly necessary to have an orbital refueling platform in order to get to the Moon or Mars. It will be very useful in the future to support regular and frequent trips, but it’s not strictly a condition for getting there in the first place.
Building a bunch of highways and bridges is great if there’s demand. I understand the argument that improved infrastructure in an area may lead to more rapid development, but that works more on a targeted local area, rather than just saying “we need more infrastructure to catalyze growth, generally across the country.”
I know people like this too and I can be like that on occasion. For instance, if I have a new consulting client, I want to tear down the system they’ve got and rebuild it from the ground up. I don’t “fix” formerly formatted ebook files, either. I do them from scratch. I want it done my way, which in this case is synonymous with “The Right Way.”
Not really possible to tear it all down and rebuild in my line of work. Part of the “fun” is supporting what’s there while guiding the business to make it something that’s more supportable going forward. You can also usually pick out the parts that were designed and built by the vendor, and which parts were built by those who would have to deal with it on a day to day basis.
Oh, I know most things can’t be knocked down and rebuilt. I can do it because I work on a small scale.
I want to tear down the system they’ve got and rebuild it from the ground up.
This is my personality. I’m very much all or nothing. If it’s broken in part, it’s broken in whole because it wasn’t designed to weather whatever broke it. Really it comes from my big picture analysis of things. If I can’t understand the working of all components implicitly, then it should be rebuilt so that I can understand it all.
I work in an environment of highly complex, interactive/integrated systems. Levelling the whole thing to solve one problem would be a serious error. Constantly levelling it every time something needs fixing would be catastrophic.
I’m sure his handlers have a well thought out plan for how to conduct a war against a major power. Just as I’m sure that plan has nothing in it that would result in the US winning that war.
I’d say the ongoing hollowing out of our defense capability (which has now shifted into overdrive) has made Mutually Assured Destruction our only option.
Whatever else happens, we need to keep the underwater launch platforms in good working order.
Submarines? Sooo phallic. Fighting the patriarchy will require they be beached.
The safest time for China to strike is before Biden kicks the can and pushes daises. If Kamala is in office, she’ll nuke bejing just to prove that she’s a strong woman.
Think of the poor missle silo commander who answers the phone to hear Cacklin’ Kamala ordering him to launch the nukes.
You know she’ll be doing that weird cackle laugh as she starts a nuclear war.
Curse your nimble fingers.
Pictures voice of WOPR asking “would you like to hear a joke?”
Followed by awkward laughing, of course.
Yes. Whomever said it upthread nailed it. She cackles because she has no confidence in herself. And why should she? She’s genuinely a terrible interviewer, campaigner, and not that effective as a politician. Of course all those things are exactly why she is the Media darling. It’s easy to control someone who sucks, knows they suck and so ever wants to be lauded as “great”.
What is it about infrastructure that makes so many people crazy? It is one of those magic words.
It’s like a post-hypnotic trigger.
“When you hear the word, you will be suffused with a warm glow of accomplishment and satisfaction, as if you had performed a complex and difficult task successfully.”
“CNN’s Defense of Chris Cuomo’s Special COVID Privileges is Grotesque
How can a media outlet credibly claim to denounce abuse of power by political officials when they defend and glorify their own anchor’s participation in it?”
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cnns-defense-of-chris-cuomos-special
“Also, let’s remember: a CNN anchor is directly implicated in a major corruption scandal because he got his brother, the Governor of New York, to use state funds to provide him special medical treatment, depriving older & needier citizens who were sick:”
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1377243690863841281
In a charitable mood: Good on Omar.
For those in a more mischevious mood: Sounds like Omar is a crazy anti-vaxxer!
Por que no los dos?
Who’s side are you on?
The secretary spoke to reporters about the U.S. State Department’s annual release of its Country Reports on Human Rights, noting:
We will hear from some countries [such as China ], as we do other years, that we have no right to criticize them because we have our own challenges to deal with. Well, we know we have work to do at home that includes addressing profound inequities, including systemic racism.
We don’t pretend these problems don’t exist or try to sweep them under the rug. We don’t ignore them. We deal with them in the daylight with full transparency. …
“The way we confront our challenges at home will give us greater legitimacy in advocating for human rights abroad,” the secretary of State added.
“We disagree although we do concede that you have a point.”
Don’t ever give a government that lords over a nation of slaves validation. Jesus Tapdancing Christ that was a pussified statement.
What a spineless ass.
Smart Diplomacy.
She must have sucked at comebacks on the playground:
“I know i am, but what are you!?”
Shit man, I’m not saying that we pick a fight with the Chinese but at least have the guts to call them out on their shit like putting people in concentration camps and clamping down on Hong Kong’s civil liberties. This sort of spinelessness makes me think that they want the Chinese to dominate us and the Pacific.
Antony Blinken was such a craven, worthless POS during that China meeting, “cringe-worthy” didn’t do it justice. Even if you’re a firm believer in a US that doesn’t interfere, the abject cowardice and refusal to stand upfor any American values was pathetic. Frankly, as much as I dislike the Biden admin, I did not think they were capable of that. Your last sentence may (sadly) well be true.
Been going over my resume, making it up to date.
I’ve been in this title for ten years come may 🙁
I had a questionable query come from Head office yesterday. “How much time do you spend at the minor site?” Uh-oh. We have remote handshake deal regarding this contract. I’m nominally a Union member but this does not bode well for ol’ Festus. They’re looking to push me out and replace me with two women.
Always get it in writing.
Oof. Last place I was at I was there for over ten years, but I at least changed positions during that time.
Title. I’ve been in this Title for ten years.
Over that time, I have worked for two agencies, three projects and four organizational units.
Problem is, unless I get a new title, I’m stuck at top of grade and can’t make any more money.
My title changed three or four times during the duration. Then stayed there for five years before I moved on to another company.
I was just working out what my last day of work will be in slightly more than a year. Plan ahead!
Right now, I am targetting the day my bonus gets paid in 2022 (mid-April) because you have to be an employee on the day the bonus is paid. Even though its for the previous calendar year. Two more years. I know when its done it will seem like it passed in a flash, but right now it looks like a long slog.
In 1968, Jon Tavel successfully patented the ‘Cordless Electric Vibrator for use on the Human Body’. Tavel claimed it was a simple massager but that ‘my invention also comprises such other objects, advantages, capabilities as will later more fully appear’.
https://twitter.com/North_Resists/status/1376833806817103879
It’s a true visionary who can see the more complete fulfillment of the purpose of a tool.
We only wanted to get paid a fat union wage to stand around
Former President Trump has been sued by a pair of Capitol Hill police officers for what they say are physical and emotional injuries they suffered as a result of the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 by his supporters.
Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby allege in a lawsuit filed in federal court this week that Trump riled his supporters and encouraged them to commit acts of violence against them, according to The Washington Post.
“Both United States Capitol Police Officers reported for duty on January 6, 2021, without any suspicion that they would soon become the targets of Trump’s followers,” the suit states. “The insurrectionist mob, which Trump had inflamed, encouraged, incited, directed, and aided and abetted, forced its way over and past the plaintiffs and their fellow officers, pursuing and attacking them inside and outside the United States Capitol, and causing the injuries.”
The suit charges the former president with being directly responsible for inciting the riot that took place at the Capitol and outlines what each officer experienced that day.
I thought they were ever-vigilant HEROES on the front line of the war on anarchy and social decay, without whom we could not survive.
Maybe I was wrong.
Cops are pussies who wanted all the respect and authority, but none of the danger or physical rigor of joining the Marines.
I can recall when the Praetorian Guard merely executed the top guy, not filed lawsuits.
Those wuss ass litigious losers need to find another job.
encouraged them to commit acts of violence against them
Good luck proving that you grifting cuntes.
And here I thought the Capitol Police had ample notice there would be a big protest. Sounds like they have a beef with their superiors, to me.
Lawyers suck. A clients’ 7 figure refinancing of business properties is being delayed because the lenders attorneys had a list of objections to the pro forma title policy. “Well, that is the attorney’s job” you may say “they are supposed to look out for their client and making sure the title insurance is correct is part of that”
Objection number 2 was “Please change “Limited Liability Company” to lower case wherever it appears”
Someone billed $400+ an hour to write that
*starts looking at law school applications*
Why am I not this clever?
At a previous job, the company lawyer insisted I change the type of bullet points used (circle to square or vice versa) before she would approve a scientific paper. Her review and approval was only supposed to cover IP issues of our product. I still remember that a decade later.
That screams OCD.
If only it was that benign. It’s endemic to the profession. People who think that picking nits is a value add.
When you bill by the hour, its adds to your bill, at least.
I’ve known for decades that the billable hour creates an inherent conflict of interest between lawyers and their clients. That said, if that title company doesn’t have in-house counsel, they are idiots. And if this was in-house counsel, they should be put on final warning at a minimum:
“Your job isn’t to piss off the paying customers. Its to protect us. I see nothing in your comments that protects us, and it pissed off a paying customer. You are supposed to be here for your acumen and judgment; if this is what your judgment looks like, I’m not sure this is the right place for you.”
This is lender’s counsel not the title company’s doing this. It is their ‘review’ of the title policy. They have no incentive not to piss off the customers because their client is not paying their bill, mine is, and you come to expect this sort of bullshit from lender’s firms.
Heartless monsters
President Joe Biden’s pleas for states to stick with mask mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus were being largely ignored Tuesday as several Republican governors stayed on track to drop the requirement in their states.
Biden and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a day earlier that this is no time to relax safety measures.
In a call with governors on Tuesday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky buttressed that message by citing “concerning” national trends: The seven-day average of 61,000 new COVID-19 cases per day is up 13%, and the seven-day average of deaths is up 6%.
It’s a tsunami of death!
Millions will die.
Think of all the housing that will be available!
Infrastructure!
This is what de-centralized mass civil disobedience looks like.
You should be suspicious whenever somebody gives you the rate or the count, but not both.
The count of deaths increased by from 933 on 03/23 to 994, a grand total of 60 deaths per day. For context, because Meaning comes from context, just under 100 people die from traffic accidents every day.
More context: in a typical flu season, during January – March, flu deaths account for around 10% of total deaths. There’s around 7,500 – 8,000 deaths per day in the US. During the peak of a flu season, that’s around 750 deaths per day. COVID deaths are currently running slightly above that rate, and that’s if you take the deaths attributed to COVID at face value.
How dare those states not listen to the PRESIDENT!
“It’s important for people to hear that we’re still in a war with this virus, and people still need to be vigilant in order to return to normal,” Psaki told reporters Tuesday.
Eternal
vigilanceservitude is our rightful duty to Society.in order to return to normal
This was never the intention and that is why I have ignored the Blanche Konvid Karens from the beginning.
Oregon has one of the country’s strictest mask requirements. Even high school athletes must wear them while running races.
Competitors in a race in Eugene, famed as a running mecca, have had to wear masks because the state has mandated masks be worn during all practices and competitions for high school sports, the local Register Guard newspaper reported.
A handful of coaches from across the state petitioned Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and the Oregon Health Authority last month to make cross country exempt from the mask mandate. The appeal was denied.
“I’ve told my team to run at an effort that allows you to keep your mask on,” Sheldon High School coach Ian Dobson said. “The rules are the rules. It’s a horrible message to send if we say don’t follow the rules.
“The other side to that — I think it’s a stupid rule.”
Land of the Free, they said.
Home of the Brave, they said.
Sorry your governor is so stupid, Oregon.
Just tell them it’s a cheap form of altitude training.
Land of the serfs, home of the cowards.
Another Company Profiting From Unrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsDQDDrL9Yo
Just in time for that sweet, federal funny-money.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced on Tuesday that the state will be working with Amtrak, CSX and Virginia Railway Express to create a major expansion of the state’s passenger, commuter and freight rail. The $3.7 billion investment will expand the state’s use of trains and connect Virginia to national rail networks.
A release from Northam’s office explains that rail provides Virginia with a more effective answer to Virginia’s growing issues with traffic congestion.
“We have an unprecedented opportunity to build a 21st century rail system in Virginia and along the entire East Coast,” Northam said. “This historic initiative will help get people and goods where they need to go more efficiently, reduce congestion and pollution, and create a more inclusive economy.”
The state’s new investment includes purchasing 386 miles of railroad right-of-way and 223 miles of railroad tracks from CSX. The right-of-way acquisitions stretch from Washington, D.C. to Petersburg and the newly purchased tracks will stretch from Petersburg to Ridgeway, North Carolina.
This coming from the cuntes that stopped the Atlantic Coast Pipeline…And please define “inclusive economy” and explain how it applies to trains.
Simple — they plan to “include” all the non-elites in “economy” class on the trains, leaving the roads clear for their limos.
Everyone will get to be shipped to the camps.
I’ve been told there is high demand for mid-day, evening, weekend and reverse flow on the VRE. As a long-time VRE rider, I don’t agree. The pre-panicdemic 1255 departure normally had about 150 passengers compared to over 1,000 for the 1510 departure. The VRE stopped running trains on soft holidays due to low ridership. Ridership also drops heavily after the 1715 departure. Weekends would likely see low ridership. Reverse flow would only be used inside the beltway with run-through service. Few people are going to take reverse flow to Manassas (which already exists with ridership often in single digits) or Fredericksburg. Amtrak already provides that service, but at a higher cost, which is probably part of the reason they want VRE to do it.
After our defensive handgun trainin, Mrs. Dean decided she needed a new gun. She’s a lefty, and we neither had nor could rent a gun for lefties.
She was this close to getting a Glock 19, although she wasn’t crazy about the mag release button (too prominent, too stiff), and then she found the HK VP9. In the case at a local gun store, for list price, even.
Holy crap, what a nice gun. Operates just like a Glock (striker-fired, super simple). Great ergonomics (although she doesn’t like the sights, which are easily replaced), very nice trigger – light pull right to the wall, nice clean break. And I was able to get mags for it – the standard mag is 17(!) rounds. If you’re thinking (or using) Glock, this is a serious upgrade IMO.
Quality gear.
They also make factory 20 rounders and I think ETS makes extended mags.
Oddly enough, my wife and I tried that gun out and liked it a lot. Unfortunately, while the local shop had one for the range, they didn’t have one for sale.
It really is a very nice gun.
The VP9 is a terrific gun, especially for a new shooter. Much easier to shoot out-of-the-box than a Glock.
Well, we know we have work to do at home that includes addressing profound inequities, including systemic racism.
Even if you tend toward the realpolitik position that other countries’ internal affairs are none of our business and that we should simply pursue our national self-interest (as I tend to do), just shut the f**k up about it. This mingia is actually making China’s case for moral superiority.
The Obama era called and wants its groveling, sniveling foreign policy back.
Okay, people. XX is going out on her own to her internship, which is 20 minutes away, all freeway driving, with lots of traffic and a high wind. This ain’t tooling over to Walmart. I’m skeert and nervous.
Welcome to Life,,,,
Do a search for “Premeditatio Malorum” – some find it a useful exercise.
But if it’s not your thing, forget I said it.
Thank you. It helps.
Update: She made it there okay.
Oh FFS:
No Native American face paint, headdresses allowed in Progressive Field for Indians games
At least there’s this small glimmer of hope:
Wokeball will be even more boring than baseball.
SXM is moving MLB to a higher subscription tier. I’m not sure I’ll miss it.
Update: She made it there okay.
It gets a little easier each time, hopefully.