Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a fantastic day it always is!
After eighteen months, the narrative used to impeachment Trump the first time is destroyed.
Are they selling any on the black market? Asking for a friend.
Maybe her job is to make him look less bad in comparison, which is quite an impressive feat.
Pandemic caused more than 10% of Baby Boomers to retire.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“After eighteen months, the narrative used to impeachment Trump the first time is destroyed.”
Practically every single narrative about Trump-Putin-Hitler, including the fact that we now can see how so many experts and people in power were for or against things, based on neither facts or logic, but simply that Trump was for or against (and then they took the opposite stance, even if Trump was highly likely to be right), has fallen apart. The people that set those narratives are acting as if it is Trump’s fault they are lying political hacks, though…
Trump broke America by being the target of so much hate.
Irrational hate. By people that saw him as an existential threat because he proved practically every single thing they believed wrong and those that assumed the people fundamentally wanting to change things were not doing so to make anything better (or even fix anything), but totally to get more power and keep it from being taken away from them because they are mediocre at best. Trump proved that the normal we were told about government, that they simply were slow and inept at everything, was by design and something we shouldn’t put up with. That was frightening to the people trying to create a hereditary overlord class that is credentialed but completely inept.
It’s going to be very interesting to study the Trump phenomenon in retrospect. I think a lot of people hated him for a lot of different reasons. The “intelligence community” hated that he wasn’t totally on board with the American Empire, stated explicitly that we were lied into the Iraq War, and said that America does plenty of unethical killing around the world. The media hated him because he didn’t give them the deference and respect they were used to and instead used social media to communicate directly with the people. FedGov employees hated that he actually showed some interest in cutting out unnecessary spending.
All of these entities worked together to make sure the public only heard terrible things about him and tried to interfere with his job as much as possible.
Trump is the Best president the US history.
Washington is probably the greatest president in US history.
George Washington probably would have taken loyal army members to storm the Capitol if traitors tried the stuff they tried on Trump.
Im glad the Democrats impeached Trump twice. Once put Trump in league with Clinton and Johnson. Two times is a badge of honor.
Their justification of “Trump made me do it” is so mind numbingly retarded and absurd that I’ve lost any hope of reconciliation.
But it’s the thing that leftists love to hear, reinforcing their belief that certain people in society are easily-led morons. Lumpen-proletariat. Falsely conscious.
He was so untrustworthy that we reflexively took the opposite tack on every issue (except for when he bombed Syria strangely enough) without looking into the truth at all so it’s not our fault.
“We have no free will”
It’s all bullshit…
Even this “now we know” narrative is obnoxious bullshit. The Anderson Cooper quote in the article is infuriating… “There is no evidence…”
The two facts known from the beginning were:
1. Hunter Biden got a job on the board of directors of Buriama and received millions of dollars despite no relevant experience or capabilities.
2. Joe Biden bragged that he used his office and the threat of withholding billions of dollars in loans to get a Ukrainian prosecutor fired. That prosecutor was investigating Buriama.
Those were the two uncontested foundational facts.
That is all you need. That is the entire corruption scandal. You have the quid… And you have the quo. I have never heard of an insistence that we have the detailed confessions of the “pro”. Bidejunior being hired is inexplicable absent corrupt reasons. Biden senior’s actions are thinly excusable at best, absent corrupt reasons.
Combined? You are way beyond preponderance of the evidence and really close to “beyond a reasonable doubt”.
We know Buriama had corrupt motives. That cannot be questioned.
We know that Hunter Biden was unqualified… And unquestionably knew it. So at minimum his motives were … Flexible.
And Joe? Well, he lied to us about the whole thing. Repeatedly. He said he did not know his son was working in Ukraine. He said he never met any of Hunter’s employers. About 5 minutes after he said that, photos of father and son playing golf with Buriama executives surfaced. He repeated that lie several times.
This goes to credibility. It suggests a guilty mind. Had he simply said that he knew about it but it was cleared by the ethics office and it never influenced our actions, it would at least have a sheen of plausibility… That Hunter was running a scam on Buriama and they got nothing in return. But repeatedly lying about it augers for the most obvious explanation… It was a bribe, and Joe did what they asked him to do.
We knew every bit of that before Trump asked anyone in Ukraine for help.
The scandal was not Trump making a phone call.. it was that our government apparently routinely stands by as the very top officials openly brag about receiving bribes via family members, doing nothing.
“Now we know”, my ass. There is not a federal prosecutor who has ever existed who could not have won that case way back before Trump made his phone call.
Can’t add anything to that, and don’t need to. Well said.
Trump was exposing that pay to play was common place in government. That was the danger.
Just like revolving door bureaucrats and regulatory capture are huge problems and these corrupt shit birds in government want to keep the pay day flowing.
In the end, hyper inflation will likely cause Americans to hang politicians and bureaucrats from light posts. Something about carrying a wheel barrel of cash to buy bread because of government policy that causes serf anger. For some reason.
After eighteen months, the narrative used to impeachment Trump the first time is destroyed. – the narrative was for a good cause it is all that matters.
The people that needed to get rid of Trump all knew there was no legitimate legal reason, and they didn’t really bother to get a real one that would stand scrutiny, because they were more concerned with blocking him and getting rid of him than having a legit reason to be trying to get rid of him. Trump winning the election they had “fortified” for Hillary threw the establishment into chaos and was an existential threat to those that were its members and considered themselves the intelligentsia and the future. He wrecked the carefully constructed lie that marxism-light, the rulership by the credentialed elite class to help lift all boats, that these morons were peddling was going to do anything but bring disaster to the world (not just America). The entire globalist cabal, but especially China, whom they all admire and aspire to rule like, having decades of carefully manipulated and propagandized work to fuck over the serfdom, was seeing it all getting dismantled, and they panicked. The corrupt and criminal Obama administration was in a tizzy to cover up how downright evil they had been in their law breaking and abuse of power as well. That made these people less concerned about legitimacy and being right than shutting down anything that would expose them for the corrupt and evil fucks they are.
Morning babies, morning glibs
I heard that NBC actually cut out the offending clip from their interview with Harris, on their official video online.
There never was any such clip.
/Minitruth.
“”President Trump has falsely accused your son of doing something wrong while serving on a company board in Ukraine,” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper claimed as he set up a question during an interview with Joe Biden last year. “I want to point out there is no evidence of wrongdoing by either one of you.””
OFFS!
No dignity at all.
Propagandists gonna propagandize
These are amongst the most inept and dumb propagandists, though, cause good propaganda tries at least to sound semi-legit. The shit they are peddling is so blatantly stupid that they require censoring to prevent it all from being taken apart, with ease, by anyone and everyone…
Also that Biden’s dealings with Ukraine were way worse, is probably why his campaign never brought up the impeachment.
And you will still at articles by lariats
Leftists, lamenting that the news is to fair to the right.
The hunter stuff is so completely obscene. If there ever was a chance someone like me could have respect for the media or government it is forever gone. The truth is most voters will never think of even 1% of how criminal the whole operation is, people do not want to know.
None of the allegations are true. The media didn’t even need to investigate it that’s how untrue they are!
That’s a relief otherwise I’d be worried we were ruled by people with no morals or accountability.
No evidence CNN will report. The Ukrainian courts disagree.
Semi-official news agency, bro.
Pandemic caused more than 10% of Baby Boomers to retire. – early retirement is some sort of euphemism?
Forced Retirement?
Uh huh, I bet it is. Et tu, PJ Media?
Ned Beatty is dead?
*squeals in despair*
LOL
RIP, he was a non pretty boy in a pretty boy’s world and did pretty good with it.
He did have a purty mouth though.
Louder! LOUDER!
Relevant.
Thanks to whoever linked this a while back.
That’s horrible.
I laughed.
Awesome!
I used to listen to Bob &Tom back in the day…… never heard this one before. Hahaha!
His acting was an inspiration to the Star Wars team there, cause they then promptly went and did exactly what was done to ole Ned in that movie Deliverance to the whole Indiana Jones and Star Wars franchise.. “What are you doing in my neck of the woods, [fill in any movie franchise taken over by Disney]]? TAKE OFF THEM CLOTHES AND SQUEEL LIKE A PIG!”
“Them panties too!”
No longer the Fastest Chicken in the South.
Good morning, Banjos.
Good morning!
Is anyone else triggered by Brian Kilmeade?
The guy annoys the hell out of me.
Has he been stopping by again?
Tolerable MSM television personalities are few and far between regardless of network.
Whenever I visit my parents I am amazed that they can stand to watch TV. The theatrical pseudo-sincerity enrages me.
We have a local station that carries him, and while Im not completely annoyed by him, I just see him as a mouthy, Hannity wannabe.
Yeah, he’s actually the dumbest of the Fox bunch.
Anyone who comments about Biden saying “Lybia” instead of “Syria” is 1) ableist because he can’t help the stutter, and 2) a hypocrite because Rand Paul* didn’t know what an Aleppo was.
*anyone who nit-picks that Gary Johnson said that is trying to derail the conversation about what an awful ableist hypocritical person they are.
You can’t expect people to remember who Gary Johnson is, if they ever knew at all. I saw him skiing at Taos once, he’s not a bad skier.
Better than Sonny Bono at least.
Or that Kennedy.
Michael Skakel-Kennedy ?
Care to Cher how you know that?
Everybody’s better than Bono, at least until they aren’t.
How many Courics?
Tree hugger
What’s a ‘leppo?.’
Nockoff lighter brand
One of the lesser known Marx brothers.
If he said “labia” I might just like him a little more.
Don’t pick on Biden. At least he knows, unlike his boss, that there are only 52 states.
That is funny on at least 3 levels.
Ok, funny on two and scary on one. Still, well played.
So simple
Shierholz, a veteran of the Obama administration as chief economist at the Department of Labor, said broad reform is necessary in the labor market, and raising the minimum wage is a key aspect. That could both bring workers back and let higher wages stick, even after enhanced unemployment benefits taper off in September.
“That’s smart, and it’s good economics,” Shierholz said. She also said that things like passing the PRO Act — legislation that could both strengthen unions and offer greater protections to nonunionized workers — would aid recovery.
Shierholz previously told Insider that prematurely ending unemployment benefits could stifle the recovery, especially since workers receiving those benefits are putting that money back into the economy. She said that if the concern is higher benefits keeping workers from work, ending benefits may not be the best route.
Everybody needs more walking around money. That’s what makes an economy strong.
“It’s good economics”
It’s economics, that’s for certain.
Good/ Bad? I’m the guy with the gun.
This is my BOOMSTICK!
” prematurely ending unemployment benefits could stifle the recovery, ”
Kind of like prematurely getting out of Afghanistan.
This shit is (mostly) over with. Now get back to work!
Local news has already started putting up stories about how Cedar Point (amusement park) raising their starting wage to $20/hour (plus a signing bonus) has already started having a negative impact on the local businesses.
Kings Island down here is doing something similar, with $17-$18/hr pay.
They’re owned by the same company. That pay is amazing. I worked one summer at a park in the chain, Dorney Park, for 7.20 an hour. This was in 2005. I would much rather work park ops at one of these places than at an Amazon warehouse. I’m sure many others agree.
Shit… me and some friends from back in high school got together a couple weekends ago, and we were joking that it wouldn’t be a terrible part time job for us. Outside, in the sun, no thought, getting paid $20/hour. If I was a teenager, I would be jumping at that rate. Add to that the (at least when I was younger) idea that the job was one that devolved into partying debauchery after hours…
Except food costs have al,most doubled
No more $5 combos. $7+ and probably closer to $10.
They are hiding the reality of inflation.
As another shocker… financial planners tell 20 somethings that they need about $3 million to retire. Let that sink in.
Good morning, Banjos!
Fantastic song, and a nice way to ease into the week.
The Kamala interviews are the gifts that keep giving. I was listening to PoTP yesterday and they tried to play the Holt clip, but NBC edited out the offending bits. Pathetic, but par for the course.
Have a great day, people!
“‘I’m going to get in trouble with my staff’: Biden says he isn’t allowed to answer any more questions amid criticism his ‘handlers’ won’t allow him to talk to journalists”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9683145/Going-trouble-staff-Joe-Biden-jokes-going-message.html
so presidential much authority
This level of damage control is simply not sustainable. How long before they choose to “Clinton” his ass? And will they do Kommie-Lah right after cause they know she is a dnager to the universe?
So transparent!
“Bitcoin surges 9% after Elon Musk says Tesla will accept crypto payment for cars again once it confirms there is ‘reasonable clean energy usage’ by miners”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9683939/Tesla-accept-Bitcoin-confirms-reasonable-clean-energy-usage-Musk.html
Wait till he comes out with his new fragrance.
Eau de Bullshit? I can’t wait.
Amber Heard #5
It smells like a lovely combination of his fingers and money.
Musk de Musk?
“New York City’s most pampered, primed and prettiest pooches competed to be named top dog at the Westminster Dog Show finals on Sunday.
The event was held in the Westchester town of Tarrytown, NY, rather than its typical Madison Square Garden home, to allow competitors and their owners to socially distance amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first time the event has not been held in Manhattan in its 145-year history.
Wasabi, a Pekingese, was named the Best in Show following hours of competition.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9682669/Its-exciting-Top-dogs-vie-Westminster-title.html
I would have named him Cousin It.
Why are they naming a Chinese breed after a Japanese condiment? Are they claiming all Asians look alike?
Turns out the pup was a crybaby and the name was actually Waah, Sobby
In Mandarin, his name would have been “supper”.
Beijing Protests a Lab Leak Too Much
Excellent point!
Marxism 101. It doesn’t matter hoe idiotic or transparently bullshit anything the marxist tells you is true: what matters is that you accept and conform. Even when you know it is a fucking lie. The big joke in the old USSR and many countries subjected to the evils of communism was that everyone saw through the lies, but everyone just accepted the lying because the alternative would make you a target that needed to be made an example of. Winston learned to love Big Brother, and that’s the end goal of these people.
Move west updates ( see previous day 0 update from Saturday morning):
Day 1: rest day in Knoxville, visited with in-laws
Day 2: drove to Louisville. We will be here for about 9 weeks, so updates may be limited.
Any good bourbon round those parts?
Local news has already started putting up stories about how Cedar Point (amusement park) raising their starting wage to $20/hour (plus a signing bonus) has already started having a negative impact on the local businesses.
Let them eat cake. If they can’t afford to compete, they don’t deserve to be in business.
I don’t get how, in their minds, Cedar Point isn’t also a local business. It’s just competition.
“Austin American-Statesman: We Refuse to “Perpetuate Stereotypes” by Releasing a Description of This Shooter … Because We Only Stereotype White People
To sum up, here is how the Austin-American-Statesman comes down on stereotyping by race:
Scenario A: a suspect description is available, and contains information about race, build, hair style, and clothing: namely, a “slim black male with dreadlocks who wore a black shirt.” Can’t publish that! That would perpetuate stereotypes!
Scenario B: we have no suspect description whatsoever. Anything we said would be pure speculation. But, you know who usually does this kind of crime, don’t you? Why, we all know the stereotype, and we will cheerfully tell you what that stereotype is: angry white males!”
http://patterico.com/2021/06/13/austin-american-statesman-we-refuse-to-perpetuate-stereotypes-by-releasing-a-description-of-this-shooter-because-we-only-stereotype-white-people/
Critical theory in a nutshell. When the outcome or result doesn’t conform to our worldview, then it never happened.
When a crime suspect’s physical description is left out of a news story you already know a lot about what the suspect looks like. It’s been this way for years.
The Number of Small Businesses Destroyed by COVID Lockdowns Will ASTOUND You
I wouldn’t say I’m astounded.
More enraged, really.
Maybe Grounded.
Tyler Cowan says fake news since all the restaurants in NOVA that he frequents are still open.
That’s cheating
The largest U.S. database for detecting events that might be vaccine side-effects is being used by activists to spread disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
Known as the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the database includes hundreds of thousands of reports of health events that occurred minutes, hours or days after vaccination. Many of the reported events are coincidental — things that happen by chance, not caused by the shot. But when millions of people are vaccinated within a short period, the total number of these reported events can look big.
Epidemiologists consider the VAERS database as only a starting point in the search for rare but potentially serious vaccine side-effects. Far more work must be done before a cause-and-effect link can be determined between a reported health event and a vaccine.
“It’s a very valuable system for detecting adverse events, but it has to be used properly,” says William Moss, executive director of the international vaccine access center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “And it’s ripe for misuse.”
In fact, VAERS has played a major role in the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. The data is regularly appropriated by anti-vaccine advocates, who use the reports to falsely claim that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. They are aided by the fact that the entire VAERS database is public — it can be downloaded by anyone for any purpose.
“There’s very little control over what can be accessed and what can be manipulated,” says Melanie Smith, director of analysis at Graphika, a company that tracks vaccine misinformation online. She says that she sees VAERS data being shared across a wide variety of anti-vaccine social media channels. “I would say almost every mis- and disinformation story that we cover is accompanied by some set of VAERS data.”
It’s not fair for people who do not agree with the official narrative to use this analytical tool for purposes we do not approve of.
It should be restricted to people above a specific OT level.
Like Glibs? We go off-topic at the drop of a hat.
It’s not fair to use the raw data! It needs to be interpreted by experts in order to preserve the proper narrative!
Data and models can only be interpreted properly by the clerisy. Have faith in Science.
You must be one of the social media & dnc operative with bylines traditional media type censors with an understanding of how things work like that WTF…
https://youtu.be/uB6NmhOy4Io
OK, now do the UK system and Facebook taking down a vax support group of 200K people.
What the fuck is going on? Has the Medical-Industrial-Complex become this strong?
Dumb question.
YouTube Bans Sen. Ron Johnson For Discussing Early Treatment Of COVID-19
Saw that on Sunday. Unbelievable.
That was last week?
I thought they were done with that shit. The masks are truly off now.
He talked about hydroxychloroquine, that’s fish tank cleaner! It killed it a man!!!1!1
YouTube banned that ivermectin video you posted.
Awwwwwwww…. Hurts, doesn’t it lefties, when coincidences are manipulated for political purposes?
Now do “Died with Covid, not from Covid”. We’ll wait.
The problem, says Saad Omer, director of Yale’s Institute for Global Health, is that many of those deaths in the VAERS database were caused by other illnesses that happened around the same time as the immunization and had nothing to do with a vaccine: “Vaccines decrease your risk of COVID-19,” Omer notes, “they don’t make you immortal.”
No kidding. But the plague is invariably lethal, so vaccination should be mandatory.
SCIENCE!
Now let’s do deaths that were actually caused by other things when someone happened to test positive for COVID.
Completely different. COVID is sentient.
“…many of those deaths in the VAERS database were caused by other illnesses that happened around the same time as the immunization and had nothing to do with a vaccine.”
Why does this sound familiar?
Leftist ruin everything
The whole bloody lot of them should be keelhauled!
“Hey here is a thing that people like, let’s change it into something it isn’t and call everybody who complains ‘bigots.”
The template is always the same with these people. Everything must be a vehicle for their ideology.
Holy shit, that’s not the Bee!
This one seems… odd… Saruman is (like Gandalf) an embodied angelic being. There’s no hint of sexuality from either of them.
And if you do somehow spin something to say Saruman was gay… are they trying to “pardon” him by saying he was lured in by the erotic potency of Sauron (I guess when you have an eye fetish…)? Or as a spurned lover’s spat with Gandalf?
Either way — is this really saying that “bitchy gay men can’t help themselves — they’ll either go along with unbelievable evil because they’re besotted or they’ll cast the world into hell because they’re spurned”? Seems demeaning to gay men to me.
Personally, I thought Saruman as the embodiment of the Technological / Industrial mind and how it destroyed the bucolic in the name of Progress and was easily swayed to atrocity by devaluing nature and individual lives through false logic (Sauron is too powerful, he’ll win — might as well get on his good side) was pretty clear.
They only have one lens through which to view everything.
Saruman of the “Many Colors” = Saruman of the ? = Saruman is queer. Duh.
And of course, Gandalf only attacked him when Saruman repudiated his whiteness.
Gandalf was a racist. Cancel the Maiar!
THESE.PEOPLE.ARE.EXHAUSTING.
Does it ever end? Is anything good enough?
Higher ed has provided whole new fields of study for middling intellects that has no historical knowledge, no intellectual rigor, and is willing to publish the most meaningless and vapid of tripe.
And therein lies the attraction of postmodernism. As Stanley Fish put it, “I no longer have to be right. I only have to be interesting.” The problem becomes that without a push towards the truth, it becomes a gigantic orgy of intellectual masturbation.
Those PhDs in English Literature need something to do. I just wish they would go back to navel-gazing in their offices.
As Stanley Fish put it, “I no longer have to be right. I only have to be interesting.”
If it was just intellectual masturbation, I’d say fine. The problem is it doesn’t stop at “interesting, but not right”. The interesting becomes the new “right”. Once you replace right as comporting with objective reality as the standard, the only thing left is the judgement of authority, where these lunatics are the authority.
Why is everyone in that picture white? They couldn’t find a Tolkien negro?
They were all mordored.
They tried finding other people, but couldn’t locate any new men, nor acceptable women.
That’s Moor dor to you, pal!
Meanwhile, Omer and his colleagues have done their own analysis and found the vaccines are saving quite a few people’s lives. “We showed that there is a 99% reduction in mortality after two doses, and a 64% reduction in mortality even after one dose,” he says.
Seriously? How the fuck does that work?
Well since mortality overall is a fraction of 1% it’s easy peasy to game the results.
^this. The J&J trial has 7 deaths out of 20,000 people in the unvaccinated placebo arm compared with 0 deaths in the vaccinated arms.
They are able to torture out statistical significance with sample sizes that great but there is zero clinical significance. For the vast majority of the population, the vaccine has no beneficial effect. I know some Glibs have shit all over the risks, including death, but even 4k reported deaths are huge when there is zero corresponding benefit.
There’s a 99% reduction in mortality from COVID.
Now do the increase in mortality from the vaccine.
“Critical Race Theory is the new antifa and its just so frustrating to see this boogeyman political tactic work over and over again.”
https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1403392075819847681
CWAA
ANTIFA and CRT don’t exist!
I enjoy the fact that the lefts go to tactic is to try to gaslight the entire country
They’ve been doing this for years. They were telling us political correctness didn’t exist, it was just made up by wackos like Rush Limbaugh.
For a group of people that find ‘gaslighting’ in each and every thing they are remarkably lacking lacking in self-awareness.
Self-aware or not, only the narrative matters.
If they don’t exist, then why are you so worried about your political enemies attacking them?
Individual case reports in VAERS are also often cited as though they were studies of what can go wrong with vaccination, Moss says. “This is really hard, because individual stories are really powerful,” he says.
No shit, Shirley?
Hence the unceasing barrage of anecdotal sob stories about hapless victims of the plague with which we have been bombarded for the past 16 months by the likes of NPR.
Are these people truly that unselfaware, or are they just utterly without shame?
The editors are without shame.
The NPR “journalists” are completely unaware.
They are still covering for the Fortified election. They will never stop. They will never give up.
Facepalm.
Can I hover above and piss all over them?
Relevant.
NSFW lyrics.
Need to bow out, Friends, I have some thinking to do, health-wise. I need to get right with Gaia.
I make ONE lousy Deliverance joke and Ned Beatty dies. SMDH
I just started watching Raiders! and it is gloriously awesome.
https://youtu.be/bZvtyqwHhoQ
I’m not sure if watched the documentary or some of the footage that kids actually shot. It was pretty cool to learn about.
“Yup, the Wuhan Institute of Virology Kept Live Bats within Its Walls
On the menu today: New evidence shows that despite the contentions of Peter Daszak, the Wuhan Institute of Virology did indeed have live bats within its walls; a spectacularly inaccurate op-ed attempting to dispel the lab-leak theory; and why so many people want the term “leaked” to mean “engineered.”
Peter Daszak Is Wrong
Sky News Australia uncovered an official Chinese Academy of Sciences video from May 2017, marking the launch of the new biosafety level-4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Perhaps the most intriguing revelation in the video is the depiction of bats being held in a cage at the institute, along with a scene of a scientist feeding a bat with a worm.
For much of 2020, Peter Daszak — president of EcoHealth Alliance, longtime partner of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and one of the most staunch and outspoken critics of the lab-leak theory — insisted that there were no live bats within the Institute. He tweeted in December that, “No BATS ‘were sent to Wuhan lab for genetic analyses of viruses collected in the field’ That’s not how this science works. We collect bat samples, send them to the lab. We RELEASE bats where we catch them!” At some point, Daszak deleted his tweets making that assertion, but if he ever publicly admitted he was wrong, he was awfully quiet about it…..”
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/yup-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology-kept-live-bats-within-its-walls/
Peter Daszak isn’t wrong, he’s lying.
True.
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1404072145290936321
That’s not good.
Shush you. We finally have a president who is respected by other countries now.
Whites are racist except for el presidente biden.
“I heard there might be pudding cups here.”
This is bad. I find it incredible how far the media is willing to go to cover for Biden. He’s not Obama, the fawning will stop eventually. Right? Right!?
So the question becomes “Who is running the show?”
I feel like I would get clintoncided if I knew.
Speaking of…
https://www.newsmax.com/us/clinton-tarmac-story-dead/2021/06/13/id/1024938/
When real life imitates a Robert Ludlum novel…
Republican slander
As rising murder rates gain attention in American cities, Republicans have ramped up a misleading campaign to cast Democrats as anti-police and lax on public safety. It’s a message they believe helped them stave off greater Democratic gains in last year’s elections and one with renewed potency as cities consider cuts to department budgets as part of an effort to revamp policing.
It’s not at all clear that the GOP strategy, which stretches back to President Richard Nixon and was used by President Donald Trump, is a winning one. But it may be prominent as Republicans search for ways to gain ground in suburban areas critical to winning control of the U.S. House next year.
A recent special election in New Mexico wasn’t a good sign for the strategy. GOP candidate Mark Moore used Albuquerque’s rising crime and city officials’ decision to create an alternative public safety department to hit Democrat Melanie Stansbury. But Stansbury won easily, with a larger share of the district’s votes than President Joe Biden garnered last year.
Stansbury’s district is overwhelmingly Democratic, making it an imperfect test case.
Republicans, man… always saying mean stuff about Democrats. There oughtta be a law.
Cool link.
I’m imagining Norm MacDonald reading this story. After a year of “defund the police” they can say this with a straight face?
Here go those Republicans again, unfairly using Democrats’ own words against them.
Republicans pounce!
SF’d the link, I’m afraid.
As above — yet another “Who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes?” scenario. ANTIFA is a boogeyman, CRT isn’t being pushed and isn’t racist in the name of “anti-racism” and the party that turned a legitimate chance to have a debate over police reform into “Defund the police!” and “Burning down cities and looting is political expression!” isn’t anti-police…
“Pull the other one… its got bells on!” leaps to mind.
https://www.twincities.com/2021/06/13/gop-ramps-up-misleading-attack-on-democrats-policing-policy/
The change from a year ago reflects the general unpopularity of cutting police spending, especially in pivotal suburban areas, North Carolina-based Republican pollster Paul Shumaker said.
Though most racial justice demonstrations were peaceful, some scenes of violence and property damage left a lasting image and were highlighted in Republican campaign ads.
Mostly peaceful.
Mostly.
They were “mostly peaceful” if you compare just numbers of demonstrations that were peaceful with those that became riots. In the Philly suburbs, there were dozens of protests – at courthouses, schools, street corners, etc. – and not one became violent. However, in Philadelphia, there were far fewer number of protests but many of them led to rioting, vandalism, looting, and other mayhem.
I bet that’s exactly what they’re doing. They’re probably counting the demonstrations that took place in small towns and consisted of ~10 people standing on a corner with signs. Then they’re using that to say that the extremely violent and destructive riots that occurred in major cities were “mostly peaceful”.
Cool link.
BAH!
If Mammary Monday’s a rockin’ don’t come a knockin’.
https://archive.li/RYzBz
There’s silicone in them thar hills!
Face diapers. Blech.
There’s a limit to what you can cover. If you are going to cover your face, you need to uncover something else.
She’s Asian so it’s part of her cultural identity.
Have I mentioned how much I hate dealing with German suppliers?
So damnably bureaucratic.
you are just jealous of their superior healthcare
1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoTzkCeO-A
Why is a Canuck hosting an American championship?
A meteor recently fell into the most active volcano in Indonesia, Mount Merapi
https://twitter.com/latestinspace/status/1404165966725066756
Not enough virgins being sacrificed?
Most k-12 students in the US are currently being taught that “slavery was not so bad” and that “lynchings and violence never happened”?
This seems like a massive and very grave scandal if it’s, you know, true.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1404192804771860483
I think it was Scott Adams who said that most “news” is about people who don’t exist. For example, the President of the United States who told people to drink bleach (did not exist). Now we have people teaching kids that slavery wasn’t so bad (also do not exist).
My anonymous sources rate this as mostly true.
Don’t forget “I can see Russia from my house”
Tina Fey does exist.
somewhat related
History doesn’t make me feel uncomfortable, because I’m not responsible for the actions of others. What people aren’t accepting of is inherited blame.
Fuck anyone who believes I am to be held accountable for the actions of those I never knew. Quickest way to make me an enemy.
https://twitter.com/TenebraeAeterna/status/1404205200538284033
And speaking of rewriting history
https://twitter.com/voluntaristyler/status/1402376453124247555
There are a fair number of first-hand recordings of former slaves out there. People without political axes to grind can listen and learn. The general conclusions – terrible institution that civilization had outgrown. The individual experiences vary between not bad and horrible as some people are nice and some are dicks.
https://youtu.be/6xDOlSbOIjg
In regards to the original tweet that Greenwald is referencing:
Some people are saying that there were factors other than slavery in the Civil War, but I’ve never heard anyone say that slavery was not a factor at all.
And it should be totally acceptable to point out that while most slaves lived in terrible conditions, there was variance in circumstances, and some slaves were given a surprising amount of liberty and were not treated much differently than a regular paid employee. That’s recognizing historical details, not asserting that slavery was “not so bad”.
I see a trend on the US lefty interwebs saying people don’t know what CRT is or don;t understand it. This is bullshit on more than one level and does not seem to be believed by most. But it is a very common tactic of the critical types.
First they use all sorts of overwrought obscurantist language so that they can weasel their way out of admitting they said what they said. Words have no meaning other than what I want them to mean now.
Second there is no simple clear definition, because if there were it could be easily refuted.
Third, Even if there was, a definition is meaningless. You can see what CRT is by the actions and words and writings of proponents. They can give it an innocuous sounding definition but that is irrelevant if their actions contradict said definition.
Now most often they refer to it as an academic framework without going into details. That is meaningless. There are many academic frameworks.
They don’t know what the new buzzword “equity” means either.
It’s a motte-and-bailey argument. Leftists do it a lot. You can see it a lot with feminism. The way it works is that any criticism of X misses the mark because X is actually something else.
This. That’s the new talking point that came from Democrat Central and it just turned loose in about the past day or so.
“Those dumb rednecks couldn’t possibly understand CRT! The fine subtle nuances of this delicate and intellectual theory go right over their heads! That it’s a toxic divisive pile of trach that demonizes a single race and lifts up all others at their expense, well that’s just an alt-right boogeyman! Life Antifa!”
Way to go Coast Guard!
I had forgotten that the term “allission” existed.
“allision”
It’s the sound your large diesel transmission makes before it stops working.
Relevant?
Sorry, had to reply to myself to fix my crapola link.
Relevant?
So disappointed it wasn’t the USCG Cunte that was hit. ?
Well so long as they are up to date on their diversity and inclusion training, it is all good.
Sounds fishy.
Wow complete failure on the defense, but an amazing shot
https://mobile.twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1404441803491667973
“consider that the US GDP was 21 trillion in 2019 and the adult pop was 210 million. median household income was 65k in an economy where a
purely equal distribution of gross production would be 100k per annum/adult. That would almost triple household incomes for 95% of the population, create a modest reduction for the 95to 99th percentile. All that extra money going to the ruling class basically tax free is theft.”
https://twitter.com/jfqbsh/status/1404334251563122695
No, pureely equal distribution would probably be around 1000 per annumper adult after the economic collapse
Because de-incentivizing work / productivity / creativity has worked so gorram well every other time it has been tried.
How long would I have to stand in line for a lottery’s chance that the store still has something to sell?
I should look up the exact composition of US GDP because I sort of doubt it is 21 trillion cash that could be distributed to all people
It’s not. It’s a measure of the motion of money rather than the aggregate volume.
Besides, a lot of those people haven’t done anything to earn any money.
Besides, a lot of those people haven’t done anything to earn any money. – this is why they need some of yours
C + I + G + NX = GDP
C = consumer spending
I = business investment
G = government spending
NX = net exports
It doesn’t matter what the spending is for. Government spending includes salaries, goods and services. Wasteful spending is still a GDP positive.
+1 Keynesian Cross
The most wealthy and generous civilization in human history with a welfare state that provides over 3 times the value of 3rd world working wages and it’s just not flat enough.
You can’t satisfy people that want free shit as long as you don’t also drag down anyone that actually wants more and works for it down to their level. Seriously, we have generations of fucking people that have been told the fact that they are born is all they need to lay a claim to the fruit of other people’s labor. No shame. We live in the age of those that grew up with participation trophies and self esteem boosts for people that never have accomplished anything of import or value (knowing how to fucking tweet or faceplant now makes you special) acting out their self importance. What could go wrong?
What amazes me is that these ridiculous ideas are mainstream enough even to appear anywhere.
Yesterday I saw another “If your company can’t afford a ‘living wage’ then you shouldn’t exist” meme with many likes to it.
No different than a year ago when they were spinning “If your company can’t afford to shutdown for two weeks, then you shouldn’t exist”. I bet a deep dive on where it is all emerging from is from Amazon, Walmart, etc. Though I do know that *most* people think anyone that is running a business must be swimming in piles of gold.
Yea, gotta love that argument. It’s like if I stabbed someone in the gut and said, “If you can’t handle massive blood loss and a little peritonitis, then you were too weak to live anyway!”
There’s another side for me too: why not let people who want to work, agree to whatever wages they like and take on whatever risks they choose? There could be a myriad of reasons that a job might improve their lives.
Because that job is so awful I’d rather see you starve.
Seriously, I think many (most) people have no clue as to the limited set of jobs one might both be qualified for and find open at any given time. They confuse, or conflate “I’d rather do this than any of the alternatives” with “I want to do this, regardless.” This is why they are so careless about eliminating options that people actually take.
Not everyone is worth the same compensation.
This is the marxist trope that the labor of a doctor/specialized nurse, complex machinery mechanic, or airline pilot is worth the same as that of the HR specialist, politician or turd polisher. These people feel that a a person with zero education or skills and that spends 8 hrs polishing turds should receive the same compensation as someone that buried 6-12 years learning a seriously difficult profession and does complex and dangerous work that require both high degrees of education and cognitive ability. I do agree that turd polishers should make more than HR specialists or politicians, however. because at least they provide more value to a society.
Ah, socialist math.
Real math:
100k − 65k = 35k / 65k = +54%
100k − 270k = −170k / 270k = −63%
The former is not triple, and the latter is not modest.
Third, Even if there was, a definition is meaningless. You can see what CRT is by the actions and words and writings of proponents. They can give it an innocuous sounding definition but that is irrelevant if their actions contradict said definition.
You say “wife beating” I say “constructive criticism”.
Now 18 months since the rushed Ukraine impeachment vote in the House and subsequent Senate trial acquittal, that Democratic narrative is in tatters following a series of explosive revelations that have come both from open records requests about the Biden family dealings with Burisma Holdings in Ukraine and emails from an abandoned Hunter Biden laptop now in the FBI’s possession.
Prediction: It won’t matter.
According to court documents from the case, the majority of the rounds were .22 caliber. The shipment also included pallets of .38 Super, .40, and .45 caliber ammo, as well as various sizes and types of shotgun shells.
It’s a shame the folks driving the truck didn’t use any of that ammo to defend themselves. It’s a shame Article 10 of the Mexican Constitution has such big holes in it.
President Biden on Sunday committed a gaffe during a press conference at the G-7 summit, three times referring to Libya when aides said he meant to refer to the humanitarian crisis in Syria.
C’mon man, doesn’t everyone make that mistake?
So what is the Official Glibertarian Definition of critical race theory?
I’d be surprised if there were an official Glibertarian definition of anything, including “Glibertarian.”
There are myriad official definitions, all wrong.
I officially defined glibertarian in a post a while back. So that was taken care of.
But you’re officially wrong about everything.
You keep projecting your constant wrongness on others you should work on that
Bullshit?
^^^ Seconded.
Thirded
Point of Order — I don’t believe there’s an “Official Glibertarian Definition” of *anything*. 😉
I can’t define it but I know it when I see it.
Gender Traitor’s caveat aside, I’ll take a stab – the belief that oppressive white racial power dynamics is the proper framework for looking at the bulk of the world.
Let’s go with that then.
All in favor?
Can’t you shrink that down to “I hate whitey”?
The good news is that if public school teachers are as effective at teaching critical race theory as they are everything else, none of their students will actually learn it.
I think it would take me literally one week (with lots of breaks) on the internet to learn everything I learned in school prior to college.
Any of our resident nuclear Glibs want to chime in here?
I’m assuming they could just vent everything, but that would send a telltale radioactive breeze all around the planet and make the CCP look like assholes.
French Companies Admit Problems at Nuclear Plant in China
Reminds me of Japan storing radioactive water at Fukushima for years until they finally had to give up and release it at sea. That was their turn to look like assholes.
The CCP look like assholes? Never.
Yeah, the correct term is “CCP is asshoe”.
The gasses are in the water, use it to make soda. Nuka Cola, billions made off nerds round the world.
Normalization of abnormality is one of the key no-nos in preventing industrial accidents.
Maybe you should stay out of the street?
1 dead, 3 hurt after driver plows into protesters in Uptown Minneapolis
Hard to know for sure what is going on. Might have just been a drunk. The protesters are sure though that it is a plot by The Man.
I bet T.J. Hooker could have jumped on the hood of that car and prevented any problems.
I will never land on a jury trail, because I will tell the lawyers by default, anyone that has not run over and killed these fucking assholes blocking traffic will be found guilty, while I will go out of my way to hang juries or find the people that do us that favor of Darwin awarding the idiots in the street, innocent.
I like that they brought up the case of that guy who almost drove his truck through the Floyd protest.
Like you Alex, I’d love to be on that jury to ensure that guy didn’t get convicted of anything. The guy is a scapegoat for the fact that the city, cops and state patrol fucked up closing the freeway. The guy legally drove on the freeway without passing any barricades and did a good job of slowing his truck and not running over hundreds.
Yeah, the problem you have out there is that the progressive have run things for so long (and then run it into the ground) that most of it is dysfunctional (and when it isn’t it is pure luck). Your police force is broken, and worse, they have decided to just not police because the leadership and justice class has decided they will just make things worse. I can see no out for those that understand how bad things are now until things get much, much worse, and common sense forces the people to rise up against their leaders.
Not everyone is worth the same compensation.
Next, I suppose you’ll try to tell me value is subjective.
It’s amazing trying to argue in favor of that. What you find is that most people subscribe to what I call the Fairness Theory of Value. This means that they think about the value being assigned, examine what their emotions are about that number, then pronounce it to be “fair” or “not fair”. You’ll end up in these conversations where it almost goes in a circle:
“Fast food workers are underpaid.”
“Why do you say they’re underpaid?”
“Because they’re worth more than that!”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because what they get paid now is too low.”
… And so on.
They won’t pay me what I think they should and they charge more for their products then I want to pay. It’s not fair.
I’m really looking forward to returning to the office.
SEE IT: Asian food deliveryman stabbed in back by bicyclist in Brooklyn in possible hate crime
Good Lord…
Lies. He wanted to score some General Tso’s chicken.
The ghost of General Tso!
I bet that they have not reported this because the perp doesn’t look like a honkey Trump voter…
Damn Trumpalos.
My wife has ABC on in the background. They just assured me that the scientific consensus about the virus is still that it came from nature. Disney must be releasing a movie in China.
That seems actually like the minority theory now.
Fashion for pointy shoes unleashed plague of bunions in medieval Britain
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/uoc-ffp060821.php
I’ll see your Tolkien Diversity Jamboree with some Wheel of Time LGBT shit.
The Queerness of Rand al’Thor
Hate beer, the beer that hates?
I am starting to hate whoever started the advice that you should keep your resume to a single page. There’s not enough information there to judge whether I even want to talk to these people. And that’s with twenty years of work history.
That’s bad advice for anyone past the midpoint of his or her career.
I’ve received advice to have one page per ten years of work history.
Fuck that noise. Mine’s four pages. I can’t compress a thirty-plus year career into one page.
Yeah my 6-years in the military take up a page at least. There were important accomplishments and skills obtained that I wouldn’t drop just to fit it all on one page. My first page typically has my relevant work history and key accomplishments and whatever more pages to highlight those accomplishments on why they fit the job I am going for.
If you did, it would likely be rejected as too lean for a senior position.
I hated candidate interviews. Too many either had overly lean resumes or padded with useless crap or items they couldn’t back up. Yes, I may be hiring for a Python position, but if you put down you know other IT, I will ask about it.
Like a food judge. If its on the plate, its getting critiqued. Agreed with the padded nonsense, tell me what you know, how you implemented it and what was the outcome, good or bad.
Interesting. I think I have 2 full pages worth of resume but I always condensed it to one. I think it depends on the position whether or not the multi-page CV makes more sense versus the 1-page resume.
No one’s going to read it in detail until you get to the interview and then they’ll go through it and ask about things.
But you might as well have the second page if you get to the interview.
Incorrect. We need that detail to assess if you’re getting an interview.
But this kind of gaslighting is good
President Joe Biden is using time away from summit meetings on his European tour this week for intense preparations ahead of his talks with Vladimir Putin, according to officials, as he works to avoid the pitfalls his predecessors faced in showdowns with the Russian leader.
Most of his formal meetings this week have started after noon, leaving his mornings free for consultations with advisers. He has held lengthy preparation sessions with senior officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, to discuss the wide range of issues he plans to bring up with Putin, from cyberattacks to Syria to Ukraine.
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As Biden becomes the fifth straight American president with whom Putin has met, officials want Biden to be prepared for Putin’s tactics, including his well-known habit of turning discussions of Russia’s bad practices back on the United States. Biden has told aides he believes Putin will respond to directness during their talks and wants to be ready to offer a frank message.
“He’s overprepared!” Biden’s wife, first lady Jill Biden, exclaimed last week when asked whether her husband was primed for his meeting with Putin.
It’s good to have a serious grown-up in charge again. Biden will have the Russian bear eating out of his hand.
lol. This never works for Democrats because they actually agree with all the criticisms of the U.S.
his well-known habit of turning discussions of Russia’s bad practices back on the United States.
We’ll hand over the people hacking you, if you’ll hand over the people hacking us.
To me it’s more like: “*OUR* country has human rights issues? Your country is a racist police state!”
Democrat leader: “Oh shit. I can’t disagree with that”.
Meh.
Honestly, I can kind of get what would be his point. Strictly, Russia’s internal affairs fall under the category of what I’ll call “none of our damned business”. But, I’ll add something. The more left-leaning foreign policy establishment types have been wetting their panties for the last few months over Alexei Navalny being jailed. Okay. Is the standard that it’s wrong to jail opposition leaders? If so, the U.S. Democratic party isn’t exactly on firm ground. They’ve spent the last half year trying to do just that. Is it just wrong when he does it?
Year and a half? Yeah, right. Go with “just a year and a half”.
2016 was the year that all pretense was dropped.
Although the IRS and other scandals certainly hinted at it prior to 2016.
2018 had the NY AG running for office on a promise to “get Trump, his family, and those around him”. No evidence of any crime
.. not even a suggestion of what crime was suspected.
Yeah, half year? Way, way too generous. They were fairly brazenly framing people in 2016. And “they” includes our current president.
When did Snowden have his passport pulled? That’s the year.
The Wednesday summit between Biden and Putin — and its anticipated outcome — was the subject of considerable conversation among other leaders gathering for a meeting of their own at NATO Headquarters on Monday.
You don’t say.
I’m enjoying watching Kammy Harris crash and burn SO.VERY.MUCH.
Couldn’t be happening to a nicer person
My outing today:
UPS store = 0 masks
Walmart = 4 masks
Hobby Lobby = 0 masks
Walmartians have always been different.
How crowded were these places? (ie, rough idea of how many people were there)
Expressed as a percentage of what I observed, which, to be honest, observing others is not my strong suit unless they catch my ear,
UPS 100% (including employees)
Walmart 90% (did not observe the employees, but I think my daughter is still wearing hers at work)
Hobby Lobby 100% (including employees)
I take that back. Daughter does not wear mask at work now.
okay. Thank you.