Well, a sudden substitution was necessary since Banjos and Sloopy had to go earn a living and prevent their kids from doing their special organic stucco projects. Given my absence this weekend bashing livers with Spud, they nominated me. 5 am comes awfully early here, and after working a 14 hour day yesterday, I don’t have much left in me. So things will be abbreviated.
Including birthdays. We do have a guy whose work had great effect; a guy who showed that white people could also be wack with names; a true man of power; a truly interesting cartoonist who did something unique; a guy whose name is a perfect mashup of my favorite stooge and my favorite stadium; an elitist piece of shit best remembered for bathing in glory purchased with other people’s money (ours); a guy we all wished we were; a guy who got a bit sidetracked in his career; a guy who was sexually braver than I am; a guy whom I have no jokes about, and who was an actual inspiration to me; a guy who got burned; and… shit, there’s a lot more, but I’m totally out of energy. With this exception.
Now a break for some news.
I have a great idea: let’s take a guy complicit in the horrifying murder of children and innocent adults, who then spread amazing lies about it, and put him in charge. Yeah, that’s the ticket. I hope he burns in hell to a soundtrack of the screams of pain of the people he and his boss killed.
As SP would say, OFFS! Disband the CDC. Now.
Well, that’s that. Slam dunk case now, they have an ACTOR on board.
I was actually polled about this yesterday. You can easily guess my answers.
Team Biden working extra hard to undo one of Trump’s few genuine accomplishments.
Old Guy Music is kinda fun. It’s my favorite Deep Purple song, but the live version is even more wonderful than the studio. They take their time building up to the head and when they finally get there… holy fuck.
I awoke with this song in my head, so I share it with y’all. The Dickies, singing about Jim Bowie – https://youtu.be/W9viAr83r4M
I think I saw The Dickies open for The Cardigans once…
Or was it the Turtlenecks ?
Did you go with a date? You could collar and find out.
“I have a great idea: let’s take a guy complicit in the horrifying murder of children and innocent adults, who then spread amazing lies about it, and put him in charge. Yeah, that’s the ticket. I hope he burns in hell to a soundtrack of the screams of pain of the people he and his boss killed.”
It is an authoritarian power grab and clear signs these people are at war with the republic and freedom, but I keep getting told these people are the ones that are on the side of good…
They’re on the side of good… and hard.
From Yesterday:
I hope more lurkers pop in and say stuff, me I am just amazed at all of the wonderful comments make by the regular posters.
I thought Biden’s EO’s wrt guns were pretty dang weak.
They’re just getting warmed up.
lurkers?
Bot or not?
Ps hellp
Hello ?
Uh…you OK there?
How could he not be, with NHS involved?
His avatar is missing. That does strange things to a man.
To be fair, he doesn’t have a loicense for that avatar.
hellp hellp you’re being oppressed?
We lurkers are always just under the surface… circling through the depths like some sort of great sea creature, only to pop up when you least expect it.
Someone should make a movie about a creature like that — I bet OMWC would just love it.
More seriously — yeah, there’s an interesting mismatch between the rhetoric and the actual EOs. I would have expected more blatantly unconstitutional crap given the whole “No Amendment is absolute!” crap… and I really wish they stop trotting out the ole “fire in a theater” line given how obviously wrong that decision was in the first place.
Most federal gun regulations are written into the US Code, and as such they require actual legislation to change.
Any EO involving gun control is going to be weak sauce, at least while everybody is pretending about the whole nation of laws thing.
I had been expecting him to do something more substantive and damaging in the short term but it seems he did little more than tell some underlings to “come up with a plan”.
It was fun to watch his base clap and cheer on que – although some of them grumbled in their soup a little.
The way it looks I believe he will be pushing the states to follow some course of action which could be more difficult to fix if he gets any traction since it would be the actions of 50 different entities rather than one big federal action to countermand.
One of the things he has done, however, is plain ignore a ruling passed down within the last couple of weeks with Trump’s bump stock ban. The court ruled the executive branch had no authority to define it as a machine gun, and had no authority to make criminal law. That’s congress’ job.
He’s literally making it up as he goes. He has no authority to simply redefine an 80% lower as a gun when it doesn’t meet the unusually clear definition of a gun made by congress. He has no authority to redefine a pistol as a SBR and claim that anyone who owns an AR pistol with a brace a criminal if they don’t register it with the ATF.
Those are for Congress to decide.
He has no authority to redefine a pistol as a SBR and claim that anyone who owns an AR pistol with a brace a criminal if they don’t register it with the ATF.
Oh geez, did he just do that? I haven’t even gotten to shoot the damn thing yet.
Yep.
He’s ordered the ATF to draft rules stating pistols with a brace are now SBRs, and need to be registered with the ATF, with owners paying the tax stamp.
I can’t possibly see how that’s legal.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/07/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-initial-actions-to-address-the-gun-violence-public-health-epidemic/
The dumbest thing is if someone wanted to go and shoot people up with their AR pistol they are going to do it arm brace or no. Also if you are hell bent on going to kill people I think doing something “illegal” like putting a buttstock on the same buffer tube that the arm brace fits on is show stopper.
Fuck off Tulpa.
Problem is, by the time I’ve actually read the comments and want to contribute something, the thread is already dead. I’m still catching up on yesterday’s comments ffs.
BTW, ksuellington if you’re around, since you were in the area did you ever make a trip over to morro do sao paulo? I have some great memories of that place back when I lived in Lauro do Frietas. Wife still has family there.
Heheh, speaking of late, I’m just getting into the comments and starting my second cup of coffee. There are a few Glibs married to Brazilians it seems. Yes, I spent an awesome week on Morro. Funny enough when I lived in the Netherlands a Belgian buddy that I’d actually met in Pernambuco was trying to convince me to move back to a Brazil and go in with him to buy the bar up on the hill there and fix it up and run it. He eventually bought a house there on Morro. Jeez it’s been a few years since I’ve talked to him, wonder if he still has the house there.
By the time I can get to the links, all I can do is lurk. By that time, all the intelligent statements have been made by smarter, more observant posters than me.
Jeez, if that had been my standard for deciding whether or not to post anything, my comment count after three+ years would be stuck at zero.
It’s a felony to dump fish? I mean, I can see how a thousand pounds of fish would be pretty offensive sitting around outside in Phoenix, but a felony?
The most serious crime is dumping them just before Valentine’s Day.
But David Chipman, whom Biden nominated Thursday as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has also pushed for a litany of firearms restrictions. And that’s likely to spark a brutal nomination fight, making it an early test of the president’s commitment to pushing his gun policy agenda.
Perhaps your gun policy should be strict adherence to the Constitution.
This is going to be a make-or-break moment for Manchin (D-WV). Mountaineers love them some firearms and don’t take kindly to gun-grabbing. Going to take a lot of UMW money to get him re-elected if he votes for Chipman.
Supposedly “Montani Semper Liberi” is their motto. But also “Sic Semper Tyrannis” is the VA motto and we see how that is working out…
Virginia can keep the motto. They just need to update the image to be of a woman bowing to a tyrant.
[golf clap] for cleverness, tears for the awful truth enrobed in snark.
If Rand doesn’t get all of that jackhole’s mendacity on the record during the confirmation hearing, I will be suprememly disappointed.
It could have repercussions for Tester (D-MT) as well
The fact that Chipman has drawn a salary from Everytown should be an instant no-questions-asked disqualification. But conflicts of interest only really count if you’re a Republican.
Could you imagine if a Republican tried to nominate a former head of the NRA to be head of the ATF?
The news cycle would be zeroed in on how he wanted the world to die.
How did Trump miss such a brilliant trolling opportunity?
I’ll never forgive Reagan for not abolishing the agency as promised on the campaign trail. On the other hand it was a very useful childhood lesson in politician’s duplicity, regardless of party membership.
Imagine how quickly a Bureau of Abortion, Vote Fraud, and Welfare Fraud would be abolished by the left. The GOP is Team Coward.
CDC Director Declares Racism A ‘Serious Public Health Threat’
Die in a ditch and go to hell, you mendacious twat.
Remember that they are the real racists and you will she that she is actually correct, but is hiding behind the projection of her racism by accusing others of being the racists. These people are evil. They are just using race to grab power and silence opposition to their power grab.
Edit Fairy wants to help, but is unsure which verb was supposed to go between “will” and “she.”
I took it as “you will see that she”
See shells she sells by the she-shore.
Xe sells xeshells by the xeshore?
She Sells Sanctuary?
A sure sign of it being a Cult.
“be sure” – Fruit Sushi
Note “you will she that she” should be “you will see that she”, please…
C’mon, man! Clearly what we need is common sense infrastructure programs to combat the public health threat of racism.
We established a center to research it — meaning GIVE US MONEY.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I-BYzaDwNoE Go, Nigel, go!
So the Amazon vote was paused for the night with Amazon up. Time for some fortifying.
“A pipe burst, you need to leave the building.”
*places cardboard over observation windows*
*an unmarked van pulls up for a late night delivery*
*FBI begins purging any and all Felonious evidence they have against Amazon*
*25 people walk in with bulging suitcases*
Will they use Prime Delivery to get the extra votes in?
Hopefully UPS, so it bounces back and forth between two distribution centers over a period of several days.
Yes. That will absolutely happen. Most of the crap the media reports takes a lot of time to find (only a few issues, far from a universal problem). So when you ask the majority, most people are just fine with their jobs and want the unions to screw off. The narrative cannot fail, the vote must be rigged.
George Clooney is paying close attention to the developments in the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, according to George Floyd’s family lawyer.
Then he should understand that the prosecution basically has no case other than muh feelz.
If Chauvin has to be sacrificed to make people feel better, well, there are people willing to make that sacrifice.
Pretty sure that’s what will happen, even though in following the trial the defense has established an abundance of reasonable doubt just on cross of the prosecution’s witnesses. The trial seems to be going very badly for the prosecution, but sadly none of that will matter because the mob must be sated, so the jurors will feel obligated to convict him of something anyway.
NPR this morning (from memory, may be off)
“This case hinges on whether the defense can prove that Floyd’s death wasn’t as it looks.”
Jesus H. Tittyfucking Christ, the defense doesn’t have to prove anything. The prosecution needs to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Floyd was killed by Chauvin, and not by something else like a drug overdose. The fact that they’re framing it this way guarantees that if Chauvin isn’t convicted, the majority of the public will think it’s a racist verdict and all hell will break loose.
The media framing this trial are fucking evil.
Update from yesterday.
A better day for the prosecution.
sadly none of that will matter because the mob must be sated
*rooftop Koreans rack a round*
I don’t think the prosecution actually wants a conviction. I think the objective is more riots, and hence more reasons for them to crank up the control. A crummy case that they keep all pumped up like this is perfect for that.
(And doesn’t do a thing about actual police violence, not that they actually want to.)
Riots get them what they can’t (yet) get legally: a terrorized, demotivated, compliant suburban population. They may not be paramilitary, but they’re their brownshirts.
That’s a bold strategy.
What you did there- I saw it.
Jason Bateman is an inspiration to me as well. Looked like his career was over after It’s Your Move got the ax, but wait for it … BANG! What a comeback.
I’m feeling lazy. I’ll just stay in bed.
Calling a lid, eh?
Arizona Game and Fish confirmed to Arizona’s Family that at least 1,000 pounds of carp and gizzard shad, boxes, and trash from a spearfishing tournament at Lake Pleasant over the weekend were dumped in the area of 15th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak Road.
I assume the crime is littering trash fish.
Yeah… you can’t just dump your carp on the side of the road and all….
I thought this was a free country!
I think you can be arrested for piscing at the side of the road in most states, but a felony?
Felony? It wasn’t salmon.
*narrows gaze*
Do they not teach that in schools?
There’s something about these comments that smells fishy…
Slow news day?
Apparently trans people, particularly those living as women, suffer particularly high rates of assault and murder. I am frequently assured of this on my social media feed with breathless, yet vague, reports every time something happens to one of them. This is never contextualized with statistics comparing them to the rest of the population.
Also, the word fraud is never mentioned. That type of fraud does not justify physical violence against the perpetrator, but given that the fraud is often revealed late at night when at least one party is drunk/high and horned up doesn’t help things. From a strict libertarian standpoint it should be incumbent upon anyone with issues that way to ask the other person if everything under the hood is as expected, but can you imagine the result of asking a real woman if she is that? Yeah, total deal killer.
Yeah, and you can’t even “grab ’em by the pussy” in the bar to make sure.
Not part of that culture, not a psychiatrist, etc…. but I have to wonder if part of it is tied to the mental inclinations and/or culture that trans people often display or participate in — being “outside the norms” and all, do they push the boundaries and end up in more dangerous situations or with more unstable people and does that skew any statistics?
I mean — folks who just want to go home and watch TV / read / play a video game / whatnot and don’t drink may be boring to that crowd — but I would bet that on average their risk exposure is a lot lower.
Every expert on the subject I’ve ever talked to has said the same thing.
If you don’t use illegal drugs, are in a stable long-term romantic relationship, and are generally home in bed by 11pm, your chances of suffering serious criminal violence are a rounding error away from zero.
Fuck that. That’s the trap.
From a libertarian standpoint it should be incumbent on those who have things that are unexpected under the hood to volunteer that information.
Haha, “Special Organic Stucco.” My sister worked in the medium early in her career, much to the chagrin of my parents.
For DEG from SP’s post:
Amadeus, in addition to being the best movie of all time, was a vastly improved adaptation of the Peter Schaeffer play of the same name, the plot of which was lifted from the opera Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov, which was itself an adaptation of a play of the same name by Pushkin.
The Fact that F. Murray Abraham won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in the Best Picture and yet never really worked again must mean he is a supreme asshole beyond the dreams of Weinstein.
I don’t really see it as a retelling of Cain and Abel though. Cain is jealous of how YHVH treats Abel, so he kills Abel. Salieri is jealous of how YHVH treats Mozart, so Salieri takes a shot at the Big Guy himself. Which is pretty damn ballsy.
I saw that no one mentioned I Am Legend (Will Smith edition) is perhaps the worst adaptation ever. It literally changes the meaning of I am legend from the damn book. So stupid. The CGI zombies sucked and weren’t scary. I’d suggest the BBC audio adaptation if you can find it. It’s fantastic.
Another one I see will be horrible is the Without Remorse adaptation that’s coming out on Prime. The CIA agent who tortured drug dealers will now be beating up 50 guards at once in prison and then taking down the government.
Yeah, all the Amazon Tom Clancy treatments have completely blown off canon. I get you want to make it current and relevant, but in both cases you could have done that and stayed truer to the originals.
Mr. Clancy, he dead. So he can’t can’t complain about it.
One of my favorites movies, Dangerous Liaisons, was made from a book, but I’ve never read the book so I couldn’t say how good it was ,etc.
I’m with Moje – book or movie, for the most part.
F. Murray Abraham has worked again. A lot.
Damn, those were abbreviated links?
Marking the first visit of a high-ranking official of the Biden administration, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday.
I’m sure that woke-ifying foreign relations will not have negative consequences.
Biden’s people are going there to continue Obama’s message to those pesky Jews to just accept that Iran is gonna nuke them in a few years…
Jason Bourne finds comfort in golfing. But a recent experience on the green left the grandfather and Marine Corps veteran disturbed. While at the 13th hole at Arizona Golf Resort in Mesa, Bourne said he came across a figure hanging by a noose.
I didn’t realize marines were so sensitive.
Identity politics is taking supremacy in people’s lives. I’m surprised there wasn’t an ultimatum, but that’s now his legacy.
The whole using ‘Veteran’ status to increase the degree of victim aggrievement pisses me off. This from the press that will use said status to make an individual scarier under other circumstances is doubly irritating.
As a veteran, I am disturbed at how fragile veterans are these days. I once had a plush toy hanging from a noose in my barracks room. Nobody projected their fragility onto the object. It was just a rabbit in a noose.
I don’t know if it was the ‘victim’ or the press that was using his veteran status to raise the victimhood level. I assumed the latter, it is just as possible it is the former. Either pisses me off.
When leadership rewards fragility, you will get more of it. Today you don’t get promoted for being a kick ass soldier/marine/sailor/airman: you get promoted for being fucking woke and fuck doing your job well. The NAVY has had several ship collisions with civilian vessels. because the sailors were being indoctrinated 24/7 and had no time to properly learn to man, let alone fight, the ship. And they are not unique in this. Shit, SOCOM now has a diversity officer. WTF? Is it about diverse ways of killing our enemies and letting god sort them out? No: it is about making the military unable to deal with a real conflict.
Learn Mandarin. Our elite credentialed class has sold us out.
C Co DLI had a sign out front stating “We’re learning Russian so you don’t have to.” I wonder if has been replaced by “We’re learning Chinese. Soon you will have to.”?
Meanwhile, in Biden’s America…
I see the “story” is stimulus checks, but I think the real contention might be over who-hit-who with the vehicles.
My day’s off to an auspicious start: Accidentally locked myself out of the house without my keys while Tom T is at a (thankfully brief & nearby) dr. appt.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/KeySafe-Mounted-2-Key-Lock-Box-with-Pushbutton-Combination-Lock-001004/202266076
Doh!
I can’t remember the make, but a previous house had locks that could only be engaged after the door was closed. I never had to worry about locking myself out since I had to use the key to lock from the outside.
When I went for a bike ride the other day, I got home to find out that the battery in the garage door opener I took with me had used the last bit of it’s charge to close the garage door behind me. Thankfully the doors were all open, and the girlfriend was home.
The battery has since been changed out (and I’ve started tossing house keys in my kit before a ride if there won’t be anyone else home).
GT, glad you are not locked out for too long.
Thanks! Only a half hour late – no big deal. And Reliable Co-worker even ran around and took everyone’s temp, which is my usual first task du jour. ?
let’s take a guy complicit in the horrifying murder of children and innocent adults, who then spread amazing lies about it
Best I can tell he wasn’t with the ATF at the time of Waco, Yeah he’s probably an asshole and said the stupid shit about helicopters being shot down, but ‘complicit’ is a stretch, unless you retroactively take responsibility for anything done ever by any organization you join.
What an odd way of phrasing “lied in order to justify the actions of the ATF.”
And yeah, justifying an action (especially lying to do so) makes you complicit.
An “apologist” I’ll give you, unless “complicit” doesn’t mean what I think it does, defending actions you weren’t personally involved in years after it happened doesn’t count.
If someone today says slaves had it better as slaves than in Africa you wouldn’t say they were complicit in the slave trade.
If the slave trade was an ongoing indiustry and he joined it… yes? Why would you not?
I’m no linguist, but complicit, particularly when pointing to a specific act, such as Waco, requires involvement in that act. By your definition some 18 year old joining the military today is now complicit in the dropping the bomb on Hiroshima, I just don’t think that you would say that.
I dont know if he was involved in the siege, but his resume states he was involved in the trial.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110001/witnesses/HHRG-116-JU00-Bio-ChipmanD-20190925.pdf
Thanks I couldn’t find that, seem he’s older than I thought- 55ish. Appears he is complicit, I still stand by my assertion that you can’t be retroactively made complicit in an action you had no involvement it.
I’m not so sure, he was in ATF for 25 years, and retired and joined up with Gifford’s organization in 2012. 2012-25=1987, which would put him in ATF at the time of the Waco seige.
Huh, I guess I misjudged his age, which is surprisingly hard to find. They have him 40-50 which means at Waco he was 12-22, he could have been there. I just haven’t seen any explicit statements that he was.
If he was a young agent why would you be able to find evidence?
I’d assume when up for such positions most peoples service records , resume, etc. would be available to those who know how to get them, seems we usually know where they went to school what degrees they have, who they worked for. all that, I can’t even get this guys real age.
Any justification of that bloody farce, let alone one that embellishes, is all the disqualification I would deem necessary.
Kind of curious about how the Senators from Texas will approach this.
Agreed, I’m not saying the guys not an asshole, and I could be wrong as WTF mentioned but the only connection to Waco I can find is his after the fact statements.
Oddly enough, with most holocaust deniers the most you can find about them is after the fact statements.
The people complicit were the ones that ordered the raid and later cheered it on. Those A.F.T. (see what I did there?) agents should never have been put in harm’s way. They could have grabbed Koresh on his way to Safeway, fer fuck’s sake. None of those people needed to burn. Fuck Bill Clinton, fuck Janet Reno’s mouldering corpse and especially fuck with a barb-wire butt-plug the new head of the A.F.T. This one is for Biden.
I believe complicit is the wrong word as well, unless he had boots on the ground in Waco.
Good morning, Old Man!
Thanks for taking one for the team!
George Clooney is a fuckwit, but that story led me to this in the sidebar.So he gets a pass today.
That song… just fucking amazing.
Have a great day, peeps. Praying for you guys, ‘splosives. Hang in there.
…like a screen door in a hurricane…
Added vibes for HE and that tune was my fave when my brother bought that album. We used to listen to it on a Sears Special record player in the basement that reeked of cat pee because my parents were morans that didn’t know anything about animal care. Listening to it just now brings back the feline whiff of nascent pubescence…
Appended – I need Richie Blackmore’s tailor.
How can she be that freakin’ hot still. She must be an alien. Woooooooooood still.
Deal with the Devil.
Big Bada Boom!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/09/st-vincent-volcano-island-eruption/
Multipass?
Quiver ladies. Quiver!
Is N. Ireland seeing the end of 23 years of comparative peace? Will it go back to the mostly-peaceful era of the Troubles?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9453293/Police-use-water-cannons-Belfast-nineteen-officers-injured.html
It was good while it lasted.
“mostly-peaceful era”
I see what you did there.
Was in Ireland/NI late 2019. Belfast was a palpably uncomfortable place. We were walking along the river around 7pm, it’s a beautiful place (for an industrial city) with mostly empty riverfront restaurants and not a soul afoot. It was also Friday, a balmy 70 degrees, and oddly enough cloudless. I was happy to leave and head south for the Wicklow mountains the next day.
Godammit! You would drop this on a work day, wouldn’t you? I haven’t even started perusing SP’s book to film link and you lay this great turnip of “that which must be read” on my plate? From Hell’s heart I curse thee!
A Brooklyn man visiting Arizona for the weekend is accused of sexually assaulting a transgender woman.
Tempe Police say Kenny Louis followed the 20-year-old victim to her room at the Moxy Hotel near Apache and Rural and inappropriately touched her.
She was at the hotel with her boyfriend, who stopped the assault.
Louis reportedly told the couple that he was intoxicated.
Now I am as confused as the tranny.
Three-way gone wrong.
Tempe Police say Kenny Louis followed the 20-year-old victim to her room at the Moxy Hotel near Apache and Rural and
inappropriately touched her.din’t have the money.She was at the hotel with her
boyfriend,pimp whostopped the assault.taught the fool a lesson about trying to rip him off.Apparently trans people, particularly those living as women, are over-represented in the sex-worker population.
Twenty bucks, same as downtown.
If that Blanchard guy is right, there is a significant proportion of transwomen who are autogynophiles, Since “being fucked like a woman” is part of their identity, sex work makes sense.
I think we have our “word for the day,” people. Thanks, bro.
“there is a significant proportion of transwomen who are autogynophiles”
There isn’t. Autogynophilia is a thing, but autogynophiles, like drag queens and cross players, generally don’t identify as women.
This reminds me somewhat of the debate over “homosexual pedophiles”. Are male-attracted pedos a subset of gay people? Many would say yes, if only “technically”, but you get cases like Jerry Sandusky that confound the classification. In the context of the current fetishization of transgenderism, it seems quite evident to me that a number of trannies nowadays (especially MTF) are “men who are sexually attracted to being like women”.
Other than “transgender” being an umbrella term, that doesn’t seem evident.
It sounds like we’re talking about different groups of people.
What I’m saying is not every biological male with feminine gender expression is “transgender” unless that term is being applied loosely.
Ok, and what I’m saying is that of (biological) men who identify as women some nontrivial number (especially in the past few years) are primarily or significantly motivated by a sexual self-attraction. There may be some overlap with crossplayers, drag queens, and other transvestites but that was not the target of my observation.
Now that makes sense.
You’d think since someone considers this “newsworthy” that they’d provide more details. Did he touch a “boob”, or grab her penis, or what…?
Front hole or back hole?
Insert Admiral Ackbar GIF here.
Yesterday someone commented on how the left is just as bad as the right. I used to think so… But then things like this started happening more often:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hunter-biden-fires-back-at-donald-trump-jr-and-lindsey-graham-on-kimmel
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/05/983385027/hunter-biden-says-his-family-never-gave-up-on-him
https://newrepublic.com/article/161986/review-hunter-biden-laptop-ukraine-memoir
This guy should be hanging from a lamp post or in jail at the least. Instead he’s running a huge media blitz and the left is sucking his cock while he does it.
I hated the Right when I was a hedonistic. Now I hate the Left because they banned hedonism.
“Hunter Biden, who weathered the onslaught of attacks hurled his way before, during, and after the 2020 election, and somehow managed to come out stronger,”
JFC.
“we desperately want to find a way to excuse and ignore this dumpster fire on the White House lawn”
Yes.
That’s what “fortification” means.
I did not know that.
Straight up lies that will never be challenged nor corrected in the “mainstream media.”*
* I put scare quotes around “mainstream media” because of the context around that phrasing, but I don’t have a better term for the concept and I need more coffee.
Sighs. This bullshit again?
Maybe we’ll get another video of some clown like Mark Kelly trying to buy an AR at a gun show without ID and being laughed at.
Maybe we’ll get another video of some clown like Mark Kelly trying to buy an AR at a gun show without ID and being
laughed atarrested and charged for the attempted illegal purchase*.* I can dream, can’t I?
News to me…
“What we know is this: racism is a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans,” she added. “As a result, it affects the health of our entire nation. Racism is not just the discrimination against one group based on the color of their skin or their race or ethnicity, but the structural barriers that impact racial and ethnic groups differently to influence where a person lives, where they work, where their children play, and where they worship and gather in community. These social determinants of health have life-long negative effects on the mental and physical health of individuals in communities of color.”
The result, she says, are stark health disparities that have mounted over generations.
So what does it mean for the agency? Walensky has charged all of the offices and centers under the CDC to develop interventions and measurable health outcomes in the next year, addressing racism in their respective areas. And she’s made clear that is a priority for the entire CDC.
Sacrifices will be offered to the gods of superstitious idiocy.
Hoo boy. And what happens if the numbers don’t come out “right”…?
Math will be condemned as a tool of racism.
That ship has sailed.
For the middle passage?
Shorter: “WE know how everyone else should live. OBEY!”
The entire concept of public health needs to be shot in the head and buried in several widely separated garbage dumpsters. It’s too far gone to save.
It has become yet another bloated concept that is utterly useless for its original intended purpose and can be manipulated by those in control of the public health apparatus to mean whatever they want and to have massive federal funding directed to their control. How long can the federal government survive under this deadweight–it seems to be in every part of the federal government and has been for decades.
If this last year has shown nothing else — it is how many would agree with Cypher that ignorance is bliss, and how many “elites” would happily put everyone else in the pods.
Well, only stupid people would think they’re smarter than everyone else.
“…so that when you look at the locations on a map it forms a big smiley face.” -Krieger
Excellent, somebody gets it.
One could look at genes, diet, and/or vitamin D levels vis-à-vis covid, but that smacks of effort, man. I guess nature is racist.
Ask public school kids of any hue what they thought of Michelle’s low-fat whole-grain school lunches.
Is it a coincidence that public health departments really started to grow in power and influence during the eugenics era?
I think not.
BBC reporting duke of Edinburgh has passed away.
who?
That Greek dude who was polluting the pure German blood of the English royal line.
Prince Philip was part of the House of Glücksburg from Denmark.
One of those special people that think their genetics entitle them to absolute power over a country. Don’t worry though, they’re mostly only ever worshipped on small islands by people who wear silly hats and fall prey to lazy socialistic ideals.
Hawaii?
Poor guy, 2 months shy of 100. Might have made it too, if not for perfidious grandson.
And then he could have had a congratulatory telegram from his wife. ?
Euphemism?
Not on my part. Wouldn’t presume even to guess about that.
GT, look what I found: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCkYKJRNSrOlllkqdsL0xtxw
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Queen: Man this press is getting bad. Well hubby, it’s about that time.
Sounds like he was a normal guy. Maybe even a bit of a badass.
So Edinburgh is without a duke! It must be chaos.
Only for a little while. Edward is finally going to get a dukedom most likely.
The CDC also launched a new web portal, Racism and Health, that’s designed to be a hub for public and scientific information and discourse on the subject.
By “information and discourse” they mean denunciations.
Doctor, doctor, I have a question – for racism, what exactly is the agent of infection? If you’re going to cure it, you must know what causes it, right?
Scientific racism? What could possibly go wrong?
The “we-have-no-fucking-shame-cause-we-are-fucking-evil” crowd are doubling down on their lies instead of fucking shutting up….
As I pointed out before, the left really knows their believers are absolute morons, so this disdain for honesty on their part is simply because they now know that no matter how evil their lies are, the usual morons will just gobble up the cock covered in smegma and ask for more…
Quite frankly, I don’t care for your pejorative use of cock gobbling to describe vile individuals. I hold true cock gobblers in rather high esteem, myself.
A good woman! /Carlin
I was pointing out these cock gobblers were doing it despite not seeing that as their thing. I have no problem with adults engaging in whatever they enjoy as long as no harm is causes (unless approved), but I don’t like crackheads offering to suck cock just so they can get their next hit…
I understood the implicit prostitution aspect.
I get it, for some reason I think the usage sucks and it rubs me the wrong way sometimes.
sluts versus whores…
CBS News: Good, good, let the stupid flow through you, feel it’s power!
Narrator: Stupidity is not empowering.
So in what may be a big fucking deal here with the increase of work from home:
Buckeye Institute sues Cleveland for collecting income taxes from commuters during coronavirus pandemic
They found a damned good client. Someone who used to commute from Pennsylvania to Cleveland, stay the week, then go back home for the weekends. They’ve been WFH for the past year, and still Cleveland has been collecting local income taxes.
I want to see how this turns out, since I’m still paying a BS local tax to the county where my employer is located, even though I have set foot in my office exactly twice since the pandemic started, and I live in an adjacent county that doesn’t have such an employee head tax. Since it’s supposedly paid by me to cover costs of local infrastructure that I haven’t used in the last year, there’s no justification to charge me for it.
This suit is happening in the Ohio courts, so I’m not sure if it will have an impact on PA. However, knowing the city of Cleveland, and their hunger for the workers tax dollars, I can see this getting appealed up quite a ways if they lose.
One small benefit I didn’t even realize when I started my new job was that I was hired with my work/home address the same. I had to go into an office, but that was owned by the company that hired the company I work for. So I only had to pay the local taxes in the city I lived in.
Paying taxes to the city I worked in has always struck me as bullshit. Back when I was in school, we were always told about, “No Taxation without Representation!” as a rallying cry. Enter the work force, and I need to pay taxes in the city I’m working in? But I can’t vote there.
It’s happening in other parts of the country. I believe New Hampshire is suing Massachusetts. Then there are intrastate battles with some cities trying to tax WFH employees base on where their notional home office is located. They say it is needed because of the infrastructure to support your employer, but then can’t explain why that isn’t collected through a business tax instead of a personal tax. Of course we know the reason is the business would relocate if you taxed it. Instead tax the employees even if the relocate.
Right, this should–well it shouldn’t exist at all–but it should be a tax on the business, not the individual employees, if it’s claimed to be infrastructure supporting the business. I think the way the Allegheny County head tax is justified is that all of us unwashed from other counties are f-ing up their roads and using their infrastructure on our commutes and lunch hours. BS, compared with all the other wear and tear. Plus most commuters are driving primarily on Interstates and sections of the PA Turnpike mostly, so, whatever. It’s all BS anyway.
Convenience of the employer existed long before this last year and has been wrongheaded the entire time.
Weird people be weird. My trainee wont work at my sites unless I am there. She won’t work when the sites are running. I’ve made a compromise that I will do half of one of the places on Friday so that she wont be accosted by street people. I do the other site on Friday so it’s not that much of an inconvenience but who the fuck functions this way? She’s terrified of everything and is a Branch Covidian. We’ve been in conversation for weeks and she’s never once removed her mask.
Also, she never shuts the fuck up and her boobs are small. Be better, hiring committee.
Being terrified of everything must be an awful way to live. I don’t understand why it’s so popular…
Not knowing the difference?
I blame wussified playgrounds, and delayed maternity. And Adam Walsh hysteria.
And Law and Order: SVU. Ugh.
She actually copped to watching that shit. You people have seen me on Glib-Zoom. I look exactly like a suave serial killer would look.
It was pretty annoying as a kid to hear that my generation had been brought up wrong a/o was missing out. ‘Twas ever thus…
Mention that you heard on CNN that talking while wearing a mask can increase your exposure to the virus. Assuming you want her to talk less.
Great plan, Neph! I’d rather gaze upon her bum and do the mental gymnastics about whether it is really up to snuff or I’m just an old man. I suspect the latter. Weird needy girl has weird bum.
One of my employees was at a restaurant on Wednesday and a couple walked in, double masked of course.
They said to the hostess “This is the first time we’ve been out in a year. How does this work?”
Sad.
Is there a forehead smacking emoji?
F: Yes.
If they were brave enough to venture in they might have been asking only for legal compliance.
“Take off your fucking binkies and enjoy life like the rest of us”
You sit down, you eat, you pay, you leave.
Meanwhile in the other Georgia…
THE GANG OF MASKED FIGURES came barreling down Didi Chailuri’s main street just shy of 11 a.m. on a March morning. Mud-streaked, screaming, and armed with whips, they brought chaos to the narrow streets of this otherwise sleepy village of about 1,200 people in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region. But the berikas, as they are known, were not there to stir up fear. Their arrival marked the start of the ancient festival of Berikaoba. The tradition “can be traced to the beginning of (Georgia’s) early farming culture,” says Manana Khizanishvili, curator of Collections of History and Ethnography at the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi. While its origins have been lost to time, Berikaoba may have started 8,000 years ago. It lives on now, in a small corner of the country, largely thanks to the will of a single woman.
As the berikas continued down the street, shrieking and lashing the pavement with their whips, villagers offered them gifts of eggs, bread, and wine. The offerings, they believe, will increase their chance of having a fruitful spring and avoiding misfortune. In return, the berikas dole out a special greeting, caressing spectators’ faces with their muddy hands. Howling, splashing through puddles, dancing with liters of homemade wine, the berikas—local men in homemade costumes—evoke the energy of a world emerging from the long, cold winter.
“Thousands of years ago, the procession began from a pagan temple,” says Eka Veshapidze, the local Berikaoba aficionado. “And if townsfolk couldn’t provide food or wine, the berikas would run inside the villager’s house, roll around on the floor and effectively curse the family. Afterwards, they might steal a chicken from the yard. Even if it was the last one.”
She adds with a laugh, “We don’t do that anymore. Now we start the procession from our church and have exchanged family curses for toasts of gratitude to the community. We are much more civilized now.”
Pretty sure you just described the ideal society for progressives–where the progressive elite are the whip-bearers and they “gift” the people a muddy slap in the face after collecting all the items of value.
Give me eggs, bread and wine and I’ll roll in the mud, yell and whip the pavement.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/547143-moderna-says-its-booster-shot-against-covid-19
Before the end of the year.
I ain’t even a lil surprised.
Razor blade strategy.
If there are any long-term side effects from the mRNA vaccines, there may be a some public lynchings.
Yes, but in that case it will be of some of us non-maskers.
This new religion ain’t gonna start being consistent or rational no matter what happens.
Sounds like an awfully shitty vaccine. Last time I had titers done my childhood vaccines were still working.
No. The vaccine works fine against the variants it was developed for.
The virus evolves quickly. Vaccines were never going to be a permanent solution to SARS-COR-2.
Mutates. And quickly is relative. The mutation rate is lower than influenza, faster than others.
If I ever get my mitts on any of that plague stimulus, the first thing I will do is buy an 80% 1911 frame.
NY decided that it was unfail that undocumented workers wouldn’t be getting stimulus checks, so Cuomo’s sending them tax dollars to make up for the Fed’s injustice.
From a $2.1 BILLION fund.
For all the bullshit that DeWine has done, at least he’s using the Biden state level stimulus for paying down debt (specifically a loan to cover the unemployment system).
At the same time, he does want to use some of it to bring “high speed broadband internet” to the more rural areas of the state.
Unless you’re a competent machinist already, and have access to a vertical mill, just get a gun. Finishing an 80% 1911 frame is a major undertaking, and building a working 1911 from a parts kit is only slightly less of one.
Or get a Polymer80 Glock frame. Those are much easier to finish.
If actual gun manufacturers have a problem producing reliable 1911s, I can only imagine how a hobbyist’s would perform.
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies at age 99
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/9/prince-philip-husband-of-queen-elizabeth-ii-dies-a/
related:
Here are some of Prince Philip’s famous comments:
“British women can’t cook” – in Britain in 1966.
“What do you gargle with – pebbles?” – speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
“I declare this thing open, whatever it is” – on a visit to Canada in 1969.
“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” – during the 1981 recession.
“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it” – at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.
“It looks like a tart’s bedroom” – on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York’s house at Sunninghill Park in 1988.
etc
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/best-prince-philip-gaffes-quotes-remarks-duke-of-edinburgh-b928780.html
gaffestruthsAssuming he knew the look of a tart’s bedroom from retrieving his younger son from one? Or was it his daughter’s? She was a naughty thing wasn’t she?
The Princess Royal??
That sounds more like Margaret, his sister-in-law.
Ah right, that’s the one I was thinking of.
LOL
Rolf!
If the apocryphal marital advice he supposedly gave Harry is accurate, it sounds as if he could be wise.
“Never stick it in crazy?”
Nearly; something like “actresses are for fun, not marriage”, IIUC.
“How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?” – meeting disabled David Miller, who drives a mobility scooter, at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012.
“I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress” – to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, south-east London, in May 2012.
omg… things we only think.
EF used to have a miniskirt with a big ol’ zipper in the front. It was an invitation i tellz ya!
While the vote has not been completed, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, or RWDSU, the union seeking to represent the 5,800 workers in Bessemer, has already said it would challenge the vote by filing unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB. It will allege that Amazon broke the law with some of its anti-union activity in the run-up to the election.
“Our system is broken, Amazon took full advantage of that, and we will be calling on the labor board to hold Amazon accountable for its illegal and egregious behavior during the campaign,” said Stuart Appelbaum, president of the RWDSU. “But make no mistake about it: This still represents an important moment for working people, and their voices will be heard.”
Waaah. We’re losing. That proves the system is broken. Not fair.
Waaah. We’re losing. That proves the system is broken. Not fair.
So you’re saying the Democrats haven’t entirely lost the union vote?
Woke sites are not pleased with the results. A lot of “the system is broken, they voted against their best interests” posts.
After the seven-week window to vote by mail ended March 29, the NLRB spent two weeks checking the eligibility of ballots and counting them in a process observed by the union and Amazon. Out of 5,805 eligible voters, 3,215 ballots were cast, but “hundreds” were set aside as contested, mostly by Amazon, according to the union. Ballots can be contested by Amazon or the union based on factors like illegible signatures or questions about whether employees’ job titles entitle them to vote. Those ballots are counted only if the final margin is small enough.
What an outrageous example of discriminatory voter suppression!
Any member of any union, in any industry, should be eligible to cast a vote. As long as it’s in favor of unionization.
Any word about if they require ID?
Even worse, they probably require company ID, not even state issued ID, and won’t accept substitutes.
Allow “ballot harvesting”?
I must have missed a clause in the Constitution.
The rules are being revised for people who want to get a concealed carry weapons permit in the City of Fresno.
FOX26 reporter Rich Rodriguez explains why Fresno’s new police chief wants more information from CCW applicants.
Many people who apply for a concealed carry weapons permit claim it’s for self-defense or personal safety.
But Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama says those reasons aren’t enough for CCW approval.
The chief wants each applicant to show good cause to receive one.
“That could be something as certain business owners that often transport a large amount of valuables or a large amount of money,” said Fresno Police Lt. Rob Beckwith. “They would state that good cause on their application.”
Lt. Beckwith says Chief Balderrama is following the rules in the California Department of Justice CCW application.
“The chief supports responsible gun ownership in the City of Fresno.” Said Lt. Beckwith. “His position has not changed on that. We have simply amended our policy so we can better educate our permit holders on what that good cause requirement is.”
Good cause can be expressed in increments of $1000, or at least that was how you got a CCW in San Diego County.
“Those are good reasons.” -Linus van Pelt ?
In other news, Paco Balderrama is an asshole.
“I declare this thing open, whatever it is”
Nice.
More of this plz.
Enjoy your 1400 crumbs (that were yours and stolen from you in the first place…).
When the coronavirus arrived in New York City a year ago, it hit enclaves of undocumented immigrants with a fury, killing thousands and wiping out the service and construction jobs that kept many families afloat.
Lifelines like unemployment insurance and federal stimulus checks were out of reach because undocumented people are ineligible for most government aid. Instead, they have relied on food pantries, lenient landlords and loans from friends.
But after a sweeping move by lawmakers this week, New York will now offer one-time payments of up to $15,600 to undocumented immigrants who lost work during the pandemic. The effort — a $2.1 billion fund in the state budget — is by far the biggest of its kind in the country and a sign of the state’s shift toward policies championed by progressive Democrats.
People were leaving due to the high taxes, but I’m sure this type of thing will bring them back.
What happened to “Come back, I’ll take you all to dinner”?
“Jason Bourne finds comfort in golfing. But a recent experience on the green left the grandfather and Marine Corps veteran disturbed. While at the 13th hole at Arizona Golf Resort in Mesa, Bourne said he came across a figure hanging by a noose.”
His skills have obviously dropped off over the years. He’s not even bothering to use an alias now.
MATT DAMON!
“Oh, Bartleby, was Wisconsin really that bad?”
F.A.G.
OH NOES!
Not much of a Marine.
But how does he identify?
Crayon eater?
I don’t think you know what that term means.
Biden said, “I really don’t know. And the fact of the matter is, it’s a red herring. It is absolutely a red herring. But I am absolutely, I think, within my rights to question anything that comes from the desk of Rudy Giuliani. And so, I don’t know is the answer.”
I think he means Macguffin.
Unless you’re a competent machinist already, and have access to a vertical mill, just get a gun. Finishing an 80% 1911 frame is a major undertaking, and building a working 1911 from a parts kit is only slightly less of one.
File under the heading of ” Things I do because I can.” I have built a couple of 1911s from parts.
I’m projecting a bit, I admit. I have a stack of incomplete gun projects dating back ten years, including a couple of 1911s and at least one 2011.
DIY’ng is a good thing, and I fully support the practice. But if you need a 1911 right now, don’t buy an 80% frame and expect to finish it over the weekend.
The purpose of buying parts is the process of making something, and then having the result of your efforts fall apart because you don’t know what you’re doing 😛
In all fairness though, whittling down the in process stack is one of the hobbyist joys.
Creating the cuts in the frame below the rails on a 1911 seem to be something you would need machine tools to do – unless you have some experience clamping an object into a vise and hogging out a clean line with a disc grinder. Of course you can’t get the finished cut done that way but you get 70% of it done and finish it up with files. Scribe the lines first then make slow and careful passes with the grinder using the surface of the vise to guide the grinding wheel.
This applies to stainless steel frames. For aluminum just hog it out in a similar method using a hack saw instead of a disc grinder.
I recall seeing a video of a guy demonstrating a jig that held the frame in place, and had guide rails for a tool holder that had a little carbide cutter. The depth of the cutter was controlled with a fine-threaded screw. You just dragged the tool holder along the guide rails repeatedly, adjusting the depth of the cutter, until you reached the desired depth of cut.
Meanwhile, something very bad happened to my laptop a few minutes ago. I’m not sure if it was something I did (no idea what it might have been), or if it’s just old age, but it’s locked up hard.
A weird fragmented screen image is all I get.
*Taps plays mournfully in the distance*
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
We can preserve the filibuster, or we can preserve the voting rights of people of color. But we can’t do both.
I don’t see the connection.
Such a despicable human being.
I’ll take “What are state’s rights for $1000, Alex”.
Racists used the filibuster, therefore the filibuster is racist. Duh.
Glad to see you here, sarc.
UGH… Prince Phillip, the only decent Windsor, has died.
If there are any long-term side effects from the mRNA vaccines, there may be a some public lynchings.
But if you don’t get your twelve year old vaccinated, he will die!
And here I thought it was bad when the CDC was chasing bicycle accidents and teenage dating violence.
They’re going to implement all of Walter Plecker’s policies, but reversed.
The CDC chooses to focus on racism and gun violence (and whatever other liberal cause du jours have popped up) as part of their core mission of researching and mitigating disease, yet and (((we))) wonder why they are so inept with Covid, and just point the finger at OMB.
Jesus, we’re a nation of assholes.
Such a despicable human being.
Haha, good one. “Human being.”
*slaps knee, guffaws*
You people comment too fast. I’m two articles behind and this happens – https://youtu.be/Bp9AClR8qCY
Ketchup. 😉 ?
Elizabeth Warren
@SenWarren
I was sworn in just weeks after Sandy Hook. I thought the Senate would listen to the American people and do something about gun violence. But year after year, tragedy after tragedy, the @SenateGOP keep working for the @NRA.
President Biden is right: the Senate must finally act.
Something something Constitution…And I like how the NRA is still the big boogieman. Keep focusing on that, you stupid cuntes.
On the political contributors list, I don’t remember their exact ranking, but it was something like 95th largest.
The NRA is the boogieman compared to other issue groups. But compared to corporate and union lobbying, they’re strictly small dick money.
I’d say the strength of the NRA comes from the size of their single-issue voting base. The Dems are fully aware and choose the money-angle attack in order to deflect that a sizable voting bloc of tens of millions of Americans are against gun control and are deeply supportive of the 2nd A.
or what wdalasio put more aptly below.
It’s right there on the parchment. “Shall not be infringed” Which part of fuck off and die (better yet, fuck around and find out) do they not comprehend? This shit goes nowhere.
Dude, the 2A refers to the militia. As in the National Guard. Without it the military would be unarmed. You don’t want our soldiers throwing rocks do you?
This is a banana:
“So, like, did we ever find out the actual deal with the Hunter laptop? I mean, maybe the wildly improbably story about it was …true? or maybe it was a cover story for a hack, but do we know?”
https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1380349828031479810
There are copies of the hard drive that have been floating around out there since this began. Anyone even mildly interested in it could have verified it.
Its been corroborated. Its never been denied. Any denial would have to deal with the photographs, which are unquestionably him, and explain where they came from and how they got into the hands of someone who faked the laptop.
A year or two ago there was a lot of talk about deep fakes. I assumed it was preparation for the release of embarrassing material on someone. I think that’s the explanation they would have gone with here.
Deliberately and exhaustively ignoring something is a kind of interest.
Assault with a deadly weapon
A federal grand jury in Washington indicted a Florida man for taking his skateboard to the head of a Metropolitan Police officer during the U.S. Capitol insurrection Jan. 6.
Grady Douglas Owens, 21, was initially arrested on April 1 in Florida. He faces several charges including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees; obstruction; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Owens was captured on body camera footage using a skateboard to assault an unnamed Metropolitan Police officer, referred to as “C.B.” outside of the Capitol building, according to prosecutors. The attack caused a concussion and finger injury to the police officer.
Kyle Rittenhouse’s attorneys should use this in his trial.
The attack caused a concussion and finger injury to the police officer.
Should we deduce that the cop was picking his nose when he got hit?
Ears are an option.
“Stacey Abrams: Any changes to tighten voting deadlines or enhance security are the new Jim Crow
Also Stacey Abrams: It was OK when I passed legislation to cut Georgia’s early-voting period in half”
https://twitter.com/RichLowry/status/1380261839511166981
“That Time Stacey Abrams Suppressed the Vote
The activist started Jim Crow 2.0 in Georgia.
B y the time the reader of the Stacey Abrams book Our Time Is Now gets to page 89, he is numb with the relentless contentions that any effort to make the Georgia elections system more secure or economical, any bureaucratic mistake or inefficiency, is evidence of a dastardly scheme to suppress the vote.
Then, he is jolted alert again when Abrams writes how while in the state legislature in 2011, she co-sponsored legislation to slash the early-voting period in Georgia in half — and succeeded.
Yes, by her own logic, Stacey Abrams suppressed the vote in Georgia and did it more blatantly than anything in the state’s new voting law, which will actually extend early-voting hours in many places.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/that-time-stacey-abrams-suppressed-the-vote/
Pointing out her hypocrisy is just racism you know.
White supremacy.
According to critical race theory, expecting black people to be intellectually consistent is white supremacy and racist.
Is it too early to start drinking? I see the tattered remains of the Republuc ™ swirling down the drain.
::pours a whiskey ‘n’ coke::
Whitmer wants you to wait two weeks again.
you have one too many ingredients there
Yeah, unless you’re Steve Vai, you should be doing your coke separately.
Since Coke went woke, the official libertarian soda is generic store brand cola.
Federal investigators continue to make arrests into the insurrection at the Capitol more than three months after the siege occurred. The attack resulted in the death of five people. Just this week, investigators released details of cases against eight additional men for their involvement in the insurrection.
NPR, boys and girls. Nothing will deter them from their relentless pursuit of truth.
Blatently ignoring news of the causes of death on 4 people on January 6th, and the omission of all facts surrounding Sicknick’s death.
They will relentlessly pursue the truth down a dark alley, kneecap it, strangle the life out of it and leave it in a dumpster.
Sorry, I forgot the part about stripping its clothes off and dressing a lie in them.
Fact checkers: … *dead silence* …
The attack resulted in the death of five people
It resulted in the death of one person. Four other people died in the general vicinity and around the same time.
Every year, people die of strokes and heart attacks at professional sportsball games. Do we say the games resulted in those deaths?
No, but that may change now that large gatherings are declasse.
“covid-related strokes and heart attacks”
Interesting if true…
According to text messages from 2019, Hunter begged his father to run for president. Not because the country needed him, or because he was the most likely candidate to win… Hunter begged Joe to run to salvage Hunter’s own reputation.
But that revelation is small beans compared to the one about Hunter repeatedly avoiding police action against him, due to his regular run-ins with drug dealers and prostitutes. Hunter’s illegal activities would normally have resulted in criminal charges or an investigation, including drug trafficking and prostitution.
Hunter also “blew hundreds of thousands on prostitutes, drugs and luxury cars, leaving him scrambling to avoid jail for $320k in unpaid taxes.”
Information on the laptop also reveals that Hunter was receiving unauthorized Secret Service protection, even on a week-long drug and prostitute binge in Hollywood in 2018. The Secret Service has claimed that no Bidens were under their protection at the time.
Hunter Biden not only has a PornHub account, but he has earned “66 award badges, including a badge for reaching 50 subscribers, watching 500 videos, and watching porn in high definition.”
Hunter also appears to be obsessed with making pornographic films with prostitutes. “The hard drive contains hundreds of pictures of naked women and naked selfies of Hunter, as well as dozens of videos.”
>>watching 500 videos, and watching porn in high definition.”
whistles innocently
I don’t remember any public interest in his reputation back then. I knew only of Beau back then myself.
“YouTube Pulls Video Of DeSantis, Medical Experts For Saying Children Don’t Need Masks”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-pulls-video-of-desantis-medical-experts-for-saying-children-dont-need-masks
Because doctors never disagree with each other?
The rubes are too stupid to suss out who the real experts are, unlike the expert-detecting experts at YouTube.
I, for one, would like a second opinion.
My 10yo cat can no longer meow properly. It sounds like a barfly meow, a raspy 2-pack a day, whiskey gargling sort of sound.
No experience with that one. Vet (n. / v. ).
My deaf cat is dumb too. He opens his mouth an looks all serious and stuff, but no noise cometh.
That ATF douche did an AMA on reddit where he straight up lied about the Davidians *shooting down* national guard helis. He also opined about background checks and red flag laws being useful for “arresting people before they commit crimes”. I cannot stress enough how much this guy needs to be as far away from policy making/enforcement as possible.
“arresting people before they commit crimes”
So he intends to go full Minority Report.
You know what someone who hasn’t committed a crime is? Not a criminal. There’s no ground to arrest them.
This is a lychee nut:
“For years, the West has relied on so-called “chop suey” fonts to communicate “Asianness” in food packaging, posters and ad campaigns. But such fonts perpetuate problematic stereotypes.”
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1379841589267197954
But such fonts perpetuate problematic stereotypes
Fuck. Off.
Now do Blackletter fonts…
Christ, the fonts are brush strokes. Is CNN claiming brushes weren’t and aren’t used for writing in Asia? If they’re removed, CNN will be screaming about being whitewashed.
Is CNN claiming brushes weren’t and aren’t used for writing in Asia?
No, they’re claiming it’s racist to point out that they were and are used for writing in Asia.
Noticing differences is racist. Celebrating differences is appropriation. Not celebrating differences is racist. Not noticing differences is whitewashing.
Noticing differences is racist. Celebrating differences is appropriation. Not celebrating differences is racist. Not noticing differences is whitewashing.
I think that covers all the bases.
ah so
We won’t have true equity until the only font allowed is courier.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME?
YOU HAVE BEEN EATEN BY A GRUE.
Pretty sure it was designed by a white guy, though I can’t confirm. If so, it needs to banned as colonizing printed materials.
Hell, the printing press was invented by white people, so printed materials need to be banned as colonizing communication.
Am I doing this right?
*sigh*
So fucking tedious
Good news for Mojo:
https://twitter.com/MelissaLDell/status/1380173059001307136
When I make my journey out west, I’m stopping here. Probably won’t be entering my house in the race, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVBgD4Y2JQ8
10 seconds into the video I was just imagining the full carnage I am about to witness.
Haven’t seen you in a while!
OMG, the one pulling the jet-ski behind the trailer. Also, 5th-wheel with side porch, screened back porch, and a garage. https://youtu.be/RA2BOd2CrK4
5th wheel was a definite losing strategy in that game.
Towards the end, there was one truck that was pulling just a trailer frame with some kitchen cabinets piled atop. Beautiful.
God Bless America! ::wipes away manly tear::
King/Queen-maker.
“Asa Hutchinson, the lightweight RINO Governor of Arkansas, just vetoed a Bill that banned the CHEMICAL CASTRATION OF CHILDREN,” Trump said in a blistering statement. “‘Bye-bye Asa,’ that’s the end of him! Fortunately for the Great State of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders will do a fantastic job as your next Governor!”
Sanders, who served as Trump’s White House secretary between 2017 and 2019, announced her candidacy for Arkansas governor in January. While Sanders faces Leslie Rutledge, the state’s current attorney general, in the Republican primary, she has enjoyed the endorsements of Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, her father former Gov. Mike Huckabee, Sean Hannity, and more.
Gov Pie!
Here ya go! https://youtu.be/8EsUNOIYyKg
That’s Britta from “Community”.
I believe the title is “White House Press Secretary”. Why are they diminishing the accomplishments of this strong woman?
gender traitor
The NRA is the boogieman compared to other issue groups. But compared to corporate and union lobbying, they’re strictly small dick money.
As far as I can tell, the NRA’s business model is raising money to fund their fundraising operations and provide an income for the officers. You know, like the American Red Cross.
The NRA is the boogieman compared to other issue groups.
One thing I never see progressives really mention – the NRA’s only real power (as others have said, the money they bring to the table is chump change) is the ability to identify anti-gun politicians to their membership. That’s really all that makes them at all powerful. They can point to politicians who vote to restrict Second Amendment rights and their voters will vote reliably against them. That’s the reality progressives want to evade. Because it belies their claim that gun control is popular. It could very well poll well. But, that’s a pretty extreme over-aggregation. A sizeable portion of the people who are polling in favor of gun control really care very, very, little about the issue. Hell, a sizeable portion probably never really give to thoughts to the issue. On the other hand, pro-Second Amendment voters care a lot about the issue. As in, they’ll cross party lines over the issue care about the issue.
And that’s really why the NRA is the bogeyman. Because it’s pretty clear that they can mobilize a lot of voters. But, that also makes clear why going after the NRA isn’t really going to do a damned thing to push the anti-Second Amendment agenda forward. The NRA is simply filling an information demand.
The mystery author I’m reading casually compared the NRA to white supremacists. Not by some doofus secondary character, but in the narrator’s thoughts. Really jarring. This is meant to be your hard-nosed rural sheriff?
Lots of vague ideas poll well, “common sense firearm regulation” being one of them, but the specifics start to make people nervous. “Red flag” laws sound great (if you’re not a libertarian) right up until your friend or relative gets hit with one and you realize they’re going to be weaponized against you too. “Gun control” is appealing to the same sort of people who think “the police are racist”; never once do they expect to be in a dangerous or undesirable situation and not have some authority rush in to save them: guns and racism are somebody else’s problem and their job is just to be “allies” (who nevertheless get to keep all of their own privileges, real or perceived).
Well, like every fucking thing about progressives – it is warped. These are people that scream about “democracy” and then shit themselves when a populist gets elected.
Justice comin’
New York’s top business leaders are gearing up for a potential mass exodus as Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers prepare to raise their taxes.
With the state budget set to increase the personal income tax on the wealthiest New Yorkers as well as hiking corporate taxes, some executives who fled the city for Florida temporarily due to coronavirus pandemic lockdowns are considering permanent relocation, according to business leaders briefed on the matter.
Wealthy business leaders who have historically resisted moving at least some of their resources to Florida or other less-taxed states explained to CNBC that they are now seriously reconsidering as working from home becomes the norm, allowing more flexibility.
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In the budget passed by state lawmakers in Albany and heading to Cuomo’s desk for signature, New York City’s executives would likely see combined local and state personal income tax rates that are higher than those on wealthy California residents.
A spokesperson for Cuomo’s office did not return a request for comment before publication.
Within the more than $200 billion state budget, the top tax rate gets bumped to 9.65% from 8.82% for single filers who make more than $1 million. Those who make between $5 million and $25 million would be taxed at around 10.3% and for those making more than $25 million the rate would be at 10.9%. Wealthy earners are expected to get hit with those new taxes in the next tax season, with the rates expiring in 2027.
I can’t wait to hear what Andy says about greedy rich bastards who shirk their duty to society.
I’m surprised SALT deductions haven’t been reinstated.
Pretty sure that’s in the current blow-out spending bill, which is now one vote (Manchin) away from being approved in the Senate. And Manchin said he would vote for it if they increase the corporate tax rate to only 25% instead of 28%.
Fenix has .45 training ($0.82/round) and defensive ($1.20/round) ammo in stock. They had 9mm last night, but it gone now (which is partly my fault, I admit).
I need to throw Sportsman Guide out there too. They have horrible reviews online but I gotta say the company recently honored my backorder (placed last year) of 5.56 at 40 cents/round. I’m amazed and they’re now at the top of my list to order from… assuming supply ever returns to normal.
Surprised to hear that.
I declined to order from them recently based on so many bad reviews.
Yesterday I spent $360 on a box of 1000 115gr FMJ 9mm in steel. That should last a couple weeks.
Is that what you paid for the tools to break into the gun store?
They got a shipment in while I was waiting for the background check to go through on my new Glock. It was half gone by the time I checked out.
*sigh*
You got me today. Although, only for a 250 ct of .45. Just because.
Yeah, pretty much my reasoning.
I have spent ridiculous amounts of money on guns, gun gear, and ammo over the last year. But I just can’t stop! Somehow, I now feel the need to have 10K rounds (all calibers) in stock. I’m nearly halfway there.
Not sure if this is going to pan out but I’m working with somebody who might have an inside connection with the Ishapore armory to see if we can get quality 9X19mm brass cases cheap in mass quantities. Hopefully I can get the attention of one (or more!) or the major US ammo producers to sell to. If that works the next product line would be 5.56X45mm cases. Of course I’d hope to make some coin out of this but the real motivation would be to drive down the cost of ammo in the US.
Can you get custom headstamps made? Maybe the Glibs logo instead of the NATO cross?
Dude… I’m trying to keep this as low cost as possible. High volume, minimal frills, optimal quality. If some requirement for an identifiable headstamp becomes necessary it will probably be “MOLON LABE” in original Greek script.
AND BY LABE MEAN…
“(3/X) This is completely outrageous. I was visited by two police at my home over a harmless tweet about @AOC I felt scared, intimidated, and violated. They knew my name and where I live. It was done on behalf of a congresswoman who advocates against police state tactics.”
https://twitter.com/queeralamode/status/1380285002357776385
“That police did show up at this person’s door over a post about AOC is confirmed. The open question is who sent them and why. If AOC was actually responsible for it and denied it, Capitol Police would eagerly out her, so her denial has serious credibility.”
https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1380518330902183939
It was done on behalf of a congresswoman who advocates against police state tactics.
Citations needed.
That, too. Although depending on how you define “on behalf of”, it could well have been.
If AOC was actually responsible for it and denied it, Capitol Police would eagerly out her
Could have been a staffer, could have been anonymous. Even if Ocasio-Cortez personally ratted him out, I see no reason to believe the police who report to her boss would out her.
Of course, the cops haven’t said who the rat is, which would settle the matter.
LOL! Look at this dozy twit, thinking that repeating the right opinions means that she’s one of the Boys.
Sorry hon. I know it stings, having your face rubbed in the fact that politicians see you as nothing but a resource to be exploited. But like Bohdi said, it’s for your own growth.
Cuomo tax link, maybe.
Tapping out friends. I for one don’t believe that we’ve become an insular bubble. There seems to be plenty of snark to throw around, even about the most petty of issues. I love this site.
I think the fair point from Hype’s bit was – it would be easy for it to become one. To the extent that we all share a considerable disregard for the efficacy and efficiency of government, it actually is one.
They can point to politicians who vote to restrict Second Amendment rights and their voters will vote reliably against them. That’s the reality progressives want to evade. Because it belies their claim that gun control is popular.
What about all those new gun owners? Are they going to rush down to the police station and hand in their guns, just because Joe Biden says they don’t need them? Gun control is more tangible and meaningful when it’s YOUR gun they’re talking about.
Salami slices. The anti-gunners will edge up to widespread confiscation. The real question is how many of those new gun owners are principled opponents of gun control.
The anti-gunners will edge up to widespread
confiscationinstant criminals who can now be picked up and charged at any time, such as during a political protest, and threatened with felony time if they don’t knuckle under.Biden Creating Commission to Look Into Packing the Supreme Court
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/breaking-biden-creating-commission-look-packing-supreme-court/
Originally from the NYT but I won’t link there.
Even if this goes nowhere, we’ve now gone beyond Dem discussion points and reached a point where court packing is being acted on as a serious proposal.
It’s like they took the most feared initiatives from paranoid conservative forums and have started executing them one by one. I remember when “they’ll pack the court the next time they have full control so they never have to worry about the court again” was something you’d see the lunatics say on drudge articles.
He actually fucking “campaigned” on it. Once they meet the price of 2 or 3 Dem Senators, like election “reform”, its a done deal.
*peruses remote rural real estate listings*
Packing the Supreme Court nearly undid FDR; perhaps if it becomes a realistic possibility, the GOP will finally allow its testicles to descend.
The GOP that campaigned on removing OCare, and did nothing? That GOP?
Even if they take full control of the federal government in 2024, we’ve seen how far they will go to undo what the previous Dem administration put in place.
I mean, its possible, but I’m skeptical. Among their problems will be, what to do with the Justices that now make up the 13 seat Court? How, exactly, will they remove the 4 extras?
There’s a million ways they could get serious. They could walk out (Senate quorum is 51, the Dems only have 50), they could nullify at the state level, they could propose impeachment of any newly appointed justices on loop, they could refuse to vote on any further bills for the duration of the session (forcing them to use the VP to pass every bill), and that’s just off the top of my head and just for those in the Senate.
There’s a whole lot of passive resistance that can be done. Some of it might be (politically) counterproductive, some of it might shoot themselves in the foot in other ways. And I won’t hold my breath for one second that they will actually do any of it.
Heck, the GOP could charge the sitting president with accepting bribes from a foreign power via his son. But I guess they don’t have enough real evidence to push that line of reasoning.
Right and meanwhile the WSJ ran two editorials today. One again attacked Trump for not supporting the eGOP and the other confidently proclaimed the Dems are overreaching and will face a reckoning in 2022.
It reminds of me of when the Japanese started bombing Pearl Harbor and some of the Navy guys were frantically waving to the pilots and yelling on the radio that the Japanese fucked up and were using real munitions. We’re watching the gutting of the Republic in real time and many are still stuck in a different era.
“The president acted under pressure from activists pushing for more seats to alter the ideological balance of the court…” That hasn’t exactly played out along ideological lines now has it?
Thwarting the evil Trumpalo, no matter what it takes!
Promising news: XY is going to his first job interview on Monday, at Hardees. I’m conflicted about his working during the school year, but we shall see.
Congrats! Hopefully it goes well.
Thanks. Going to go take his learner’s permit written test today. Hopefully he passes it this time.
Whoohooo! My teens refuse to work in fast-food so that limits them. We have a grocery store across the street, so they both applied to be cart haulers. I don’t understand why the other has given up on the under the table cash payout job he had with the family business….okay yeah I do understand. Who wants to work with their mom for hours a day, 5 days a week — then again, he was pulling in anywhere from 15-20/hour.
Some jobs, you can’t pay a man enough to do.
I worked after school and summers in my mom’s tiny office – maybe six or seven hens chattering all day – it was the best job I ever had until I started a real career a couple decades later. Mostly because I didn’t have to deal with the public.
I worked for my dad in high school transcribing telephone interviews on a manual typewriter with a boom box.
Given my Porn Hub research, you should be glad he isn’t spending that much time with his (step, right?)mom
How did I know you would be the one to remember that…yeah stepmom and yeah…
It will be good for him. Balancing work and school will make him more responsible.
RC, I’m curious what Sconnie tribal casino you were alluding to before having ‘Chicago gangsters’ involved.
All of them?
well, I know a bit about a few…grifters yes, mobsters, no.
HoChunk.
Its not like they had “Cosa Nostra” buttons, but, yeah, they were mobbed up.
Kinda like the guy whose trial for pot distribution and welfare fraud I almost made the jury for. Cartel, all the way. No face tattoos or anything, but c’mon. It shows.