Adieu, frogs!
Oh, you magnificent Swiss bastards! Of course you get Spain now after they won as well. But they struggled as well. Either way, what a couple of fun games yesterday. And England-Germany coming up this morning. With Sweden-Ukraine (in a game not that many people are jazzed up about) coming up to round out the Round of 16. Enjoy. Tampa throttled Montreal in game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals. Vandy topped Miss St in the first game of the CWS final. And Wimbledon is underway with an American pulling a big upset in the first round. Yay for sports!
Pussycat Dolls
Big birthdays today are: baseball owner who made quite the bad decision Harry Frazee, rodeo performer and actor Slim Pickens, movie producer Robert Evans, HOF great Harmon Killebrew, civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael, singer Little Eva, actor Gary Busey, comedian Richard Lewis, football player/announcer Dan Dierdorf, pitcher Rick Honeycutt, hockey great Theoren Fleury, Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger, and auto racer Martin Truex, Jr.
Not the best list there. But not the worst. Anyway on to…the links!
Congratulations for finally preparing!
Well, at least they put “unprecedented” in quotation marks. You know, since it’s not remotely close to being unprecedented. But they need to scare the sheep, so they have to be bombastic. Anyway, it’s pretty hot in some places. But that happens in the summer.
This is actually pretty sad. Maybe if Team Blue would have supported the bill last term, which they rejected out of hand because it was proposed by a black Republican, we’d have made some progress by now. But principals trump principles every time when it comes to politicians. Bunch of assholes.
Yeah, best of luck with that. I can’t wait for the mandates to return and residents of even that left-wing shithole tell authorities to GFY. But I may be overly optimistic. In fact, I’m willing to bet they bend the knee and go back into full embrace of stupidity. They’ll blame people who refuse to get vaccinated as well. Because why not.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. I do admire the balls on her though. Of course, it’s easy to lie when you know most of the media will cover it however you want them to.
Chicago will continue with its racist and sexist government policy. At least that’s how the headline would read if the race and sex were reversed. Because some racism and sexism is considered positive to leftists.
Q?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah, because up until now, hippies were always known for trusting the government and following western medicine.
This is not surprising. I just hope a lot of the people who are coming leave their retarded big-government politics at the border. But they won’t.
Come on boys, come on girls. Succumb to…a great song.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
“I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. I do admire the balls on her though. Of course, it’s easy to lie when you know most of the media will cover it however you want them to.”
Progjection: accusing your opponent of doing the things you are or blaming them for the things you did that cause massive disasters..
The sad part is that the Democrat’s followers are actually stupid/deranged enough to believe it.
The next time you talk to them just point out that unlike them, you don’t have your opinion assigned to you. When they ask WTF you mean (see my pun!), tell them that the only way you can explain them staying team blue after team blue constantly abuses them and lies to them is because they have no principle and keep using cognitive dissonance to explain away the abuse & lying.
“have your opinion assigned to you”
Oh, that’s good.
Think it through Tonio…
You have to be unable or unwilling to think to do the pivots team blue people do whenever their masters do a 180 on their narrative…
How else can you go from “Defund the police really means defund the police, and get rid of them!”. to then saying “Well, we want to cut their funding, but so we can use it to send social workers to dangerous situations”, and finally having the top propagandist saying “Republicans defunded the police!”?
You can only do this if you really simply accept whatever the talking point you need to believe is…
I agree with you. I was just admiring your nice turn of phrase. Extra points for jabbing them with “assigned” which I find completely obnoxious.
May it bring you great satisfaction when you use it then to make the point, good sir.
Progjection is kind of a weird mouthful of a word.
Everything these progs peddle is a mouthful.. See word salad.
It’s a beautiful portmanteau.
The language of love!
Open up the “Better off Dead” jokes and memes!
I blame Tonio….
I’m sure HM knows the fancy term for when a back tongue sound (the “g”) is directly followed by a front tongue sound (the “j”).
“Republicans were the drivers of the move to defund the police because in March they voted against the $1.9trillion proposal even though it included $350billion for state and local governments that could be used for local police.”
Could. Could! It could also be used to cure cancer. “Republicans are the party against a cure for cancer!!!”
This shit is so easy. I wonder what she does with the other 23 hours a day.
Performing in Joemala, clearly.
Well, at least they put “unprecedented” in quotation marks. You know, since it’s not remotely close to being unprecedented. But they need to scare the sheep, so they have to be bombastic. Anyway, it’s pretty hot in some places. But that happens in the summer.
So, weather is climate now? I guess it all depends on the type of weather.
Only warmer weather is climate. Earthquakes and hurricanes are also climate. Volcanoes are not climate. Tsunamis might be. Climate is infrastructure.
Record 113F weather in Seattle yesterday is climate change and proof of global warming.
Record 1F cold in Austin a few months ago was weather and an isolated anomaly.
It is known.
If it allows them to peddle marxist globalism, then yes, everything is AGW…
“I’ve been to one World’s Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones.”
We are fucking done with masks. If I’m wrong I can’t promise I won’t become extremely unreasonable. I am sure others will join me in becoming unreasonable too.
We, as the state of Oregon, are officially done tomorrow. I, however, have been done since day one.
“Well, at least they put “unprecedented” in quotation marks. You know, since it’s not remotely close to being unprecedented. But they need to scare the sheep, so they have to be bombastic. Anyway, it’s pretty hot in some places. But that happens in the summer.”
Is this CNN pivoting to bullshitting about the marxist cult’s agenda like that Veritas video that captured the desperate CNN manager trying to impress a date so he can later cry after sex showed was the agenda CNN would go to after they lied Trump out of office?
First?
No, 6th.
The curse of reading a link or two before posting.
No, Tulpa, now go straight to the Fuck Off wall!
Ever have a dream that you cannot remember but cannot shake from your mind after you wake up? That is where I am at today. Even with my drive into work I can usually clear my head for the tasks ahead. Not this morning. It is such an odd feeling.
“Ever have a dream that you cannot remember but cannot shake from your mind after you wake up?”
No. In fact I not only remember my dreams clearly, but I have the ability to change things in my dreams, I think, because I know I am dreaming and decide I don’t like where the dream is going…
I have had nightmares, but they are super rare, and have not had one in over a decade. My older ones were about real bad shit I went trough. The last one I had involved my ex showing up with a moving truck, whom had grown to be over 320lbs (for real), showing up and telling me she is happy I decided to reverse the divorce decision and take her back, and then telling the guys driving to move her back in….
Reverse divorces aren’t real. Reverse divorces aren’t real. Reverse divorces aren’t real.
Did you bug my bedroom?
Yeah I usually have a good vivid memory of my dreams. This morning – I feel like I was chasing a white rabbit. Either I am a pre-teen girl or in the Matrix. Time will decide on this one.
Hopefully not one about a certain returning specter from your past! Dreams are weird, wild things. Usually they are forgotten within seconds but some of them dig in like the Turks at Gallipoli. Just a dream, Friend.
That hippie redpilled story makes total sense if you know any of these people. I think humans are basically religious animals and will find a way to express their spirituality regardless of culture. Warily, I welcome out new age of superstition.
It would make more sense if it said “new age hippies have always distrusted governments” instead of making it seem like the Q-tards had somehow infiltrated and brainwashed them.
Those groups have always been skeptics of western medicine and structures. Blaming Q is being lazy and or malicious. I’ll let you guess which of the two I think it is.
Both, why wouldn’t you embrace and here.
Because I don’t think they’re that lazy. In fact, I think they’re pretty diligent in their work to blame everything imaginable on the people whose politics they disagree with.
So diligent that they’d go out of their way to make a lot of shit up.
Not only make shit up, make certain that other people shut up.
I’ve always wondered how big of an impact does the Q-anon bogeyman the left is always talking about have?
I’ve never met a single Q-anon person honestly.
There’s probably less than 20k legit ones. It’s like flat earth.
I believe that the Q-Anon shit had far more influence on what the lefties believed the other side did than people on the other side believing Q-Anon. I am not saying team red doesn’t have a few drones that also have their opinion assigned to them like the vast majority of member of team blue do, but that number is real small, and thinking people would have quickly figured out Q-Anon was some sort of racket (I still stand by my belief that it was a US Intelligence PsyOps thing). Most of the power attributed to Q-Anon comes from the leftists believing it was so….
Sounds accurate
I don’t know if it’s Q per se, but my mom and her boyfriend both believe the whole ‘the left is killing babies to make the vaccine and the vaccine is a secret plot to…something…and Joe Biden already had the vaxx before the pandemic even started. And if you have kids after your vaxxed….something…’
Yeah, there’s the rub. There’s a lot of crazy ideas out there, and there’s overlap in believers.
But the number of people who literally believe that a 4chan anon who claims to have a Q clearance was posting the inside details of the deep state during the Trump admin, and any day now there’s going to be a big bombshell that vindicates Trump and punishes the swamp creatures, is a lot lower than the number of people who believe some crazy vaguely right-wing shit.
There is only 1 True Q.
TNG’s best character.
Q-anon (or OMB, or Covid, white supremacists, or whatever they are attacking at the moment) serves as the evil adversary the left needs to justify their escalating behaviors and efforts to collectivize. That evil “other” is critical to their worldview – there is always something big and scary to fight against and keep their base energized.
Hang out with some Reopen groups. Lots of them there if Reopen NH and Reopen PA are anything to go by.
What has become crystal clear over the last year and a half is that we are back in the demon-haunted world.
Journalismists really can’t understand anyone having beliefs beyond “Orange Man Bad” or “Orange Man is Supreme Overlord.” And in their Manichaean world “good” people like yogis and rekis can’t possibly believe anything other than OMB. That’s what makes them good people!
Hippies are also known for being disorganized, which makes the bureaucratization of Burning Man all the more ironic.
Ugh, Burning Man is stifling and I don’t mean the desert heat. The relationships between tech money, the BMORG, and the OG burners is actually a pretty good microcosm of what’s going on in the country writ large. I doubt I’ll ever go back to that thing in the desert, but it was fun when I did.
You can always go out to Fourth of Juplaya – no org, no city and people with a much more old-school mindset.
Fourth of Juplaya definitely has the right idea.
One of the redeeming qualities of season 6 of Silicon Valley was RussFest and showing just what you wrote.
Oh shit, I thought Wimbledon was next week. I forgot it moves to ESPN (boo).
Venus (the gracious Williams sister) is playing right now!
ESPN is showing Korda 2 sets over Deminaur – woooo!
*checks scores*
You must be referring to Tiafo v. Tsitsipas – holy crap, what an upset!
Yep. Yesterday. That was a massive upset that you won’t even see on the ESPN main page…for an event they’re carrying.
Nothing “woke” about the match, I guess?
Tiafoe is a black American tennis player who beat a top 5 player in the world (first American since 2003 to do so when Roddick won the US Open, which shows how sad man’s tennis here has become). His dad immigrated from Sierra Leone and they grew up pretty poor.
Here’s an old story about the guy:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/sports/wp/2014/05/17/an-improbable-tennis-prodigy/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2&_gl=1*1yyxelo*_ga*LS1aM2ktSHE3eWxfNzdsUWxUT0YxdTROR3U0SDFWZVNGcFJvT2ZZSWJxN01qMDRxbTV4a0h1UzZsM1dHZGhLOA..
And they didn’t interrupt regular programming with a Special Report nor eliminate all other content from their website when he won???
Wrong kind of black male.
He is not a real black person because his parents were immigrants that didn’t come here in a boat as whitey’s slaves… This is par for the course when it comes to any black people from Africa that come to America and break the whole “victims that are oppressed” bullshit trope. See also all Caribbean blacks and how they also don’t fit that mold…
::ponders Obama’s parentage::
Hmmm…funny how that works… Not a real black person unless “we” decide you are?
Now you are getting it..
That’s why they still accuse America of being racist and never giving a black man the presidency and believe they are accurate, I guess…
Any links to streams online? I don’t have cable or satellite anymore.
“Until we better understand how and to who the Delta variant is spreading, everyone should focus on maximum protection with minimum interruption to routine as all businesses operate without other restrictions, like physical distancing and capacity limits,” the department said in a news release.
Because all that has been proven to be completely effective.
Where is this data on the delta variant spreading out of control? Social media makes me read the covid tracker every damn day and covid’s been flat and nonexistent for months now.
Here’s some stuff:
Delta Variant – The COVID Sequel
Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh
You weren’t expecting something that actually made sense were you?
tested positive but felt fine
Should tell you everything you need to know.
At this point most of the population’s goodwill has been exhausted, you could be telling people that HIV, Ebola, Corona 10000, and cooties have combined to make virus Voltron and you would get little more than a shrug out of everyone but the most devout maskers.
Went to a Shiner beer brewery tour this weekend out in the sticks. Zero masks, zero social distancing.
But it was the early days of the pandemic and COVID-19 was spreading fast. The women in the room stood so close that their bodies touched. No one wore masks.
Oh, HORROR.
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tuping is hsrd
Kristina Dahl, a senior climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says the heat wave is “unprecedented.”
I’m sure we are due for a drought that will likewise be “unprecedented”.
When I want straight, unbiased information, I always go to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Who else can you trust more than a group that’s concerned?
Yeah, the drought won’t at all be like the one that was ended with the March Miracle, because we’ve never seen such a horrendous drought – even in our lifetimes, let alone on geologic time.
Just how deeply QAnon has penetrated the wellness world is difficult to quantify, but its effects are tangible: broken friendships and business partnerships, lingering sadness and frustration, and a growing number of spiritualists who are speaking out against the spread of the false conspiracy theory.
It’s heartwrenching when you find out someone you thought you knew actually is capable of independent thought.
A hive mind is a prerequisite for harmonious thoughts and actions.
It’s like “you will be assimilated” is the underlying belief, just without quite being stated overtly.
gooble gobble, gooble gobble…
Vocal QAnon support has dwindled since the insurrection, New Age watchers say, but some of the extremism is calcifying into something equally concerning: long-term conspiratorial thinking that encourages radical autonomy and sows distrust in vaccinations, elected officials and institutions woven into the fabric of American life.
Radical autonomy? Noooooooo!
Right, and there has NEVER been conspiratorial thinking at play in this world. All that talk about the Kochs? Totally not a conspiracy.
Diebold hacked Ohio!
We’re supposed to trust elected officials and institutions? We’re really through the looking glass now…
sows distrust in vaccinations, elected officials and institutions
American exceptionalism means never questioning authority.
Health officials in Los Angeles County now strongly recommend that people wear masks indoors in public places — regardless of their vaccination status — to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant of the coronavirus.
Coming soon are the alpha and beta variants. We got so many variants. The best variants, maybe ever.
This is never going to end unless people ignore it.
What’ll happen when we get to the i variant, the India variant. Racist?
I’m not going to link to all the stories but there is new evidence that the governments of both Australia and New Zealand have lost their collective minds over Covid.
New? I thought we had all the evidence we needed.
They doubled (tripled?) down over the last few days.
Indeed.
Things will get back to normal when we start acting normal. Be the change you want to see in the world.
I officially declare Covid over.
I went to Whole Foods last week — the last hold out — and no masks were required and people were acting almost normal.
The only place around here that even still has a sign up requiring masks is the US Post Office. Even our local PA state owned liquor store has no signs. The only way you’d even know there was something abnormal in that store is the faded and worn “walk this direction” stickers on the floor and the plexiglas hanging between the cashier and the customers–which the cashiers stand to the side of anyway, so they can have normal interactions.
I live in the Texas suburbs and am happy to report I don’t usually even bring a mask with me any more for backup.
Of course, if you use a government building or transportation like flying that’s the last hold out.
Change is sometimes slow. I’ve been acting normal for many months now, and only recently has NH gotten back to something approaching normal.
Just got an email from the head office, effective July 1st.
1. Follow local guidelines if greater than below
2. Vaccinated people don’t need masks
3. Unvaccinated people don’t need masks – but “strongly encouraged”
4. Conference rooms open to full capacity – see 1, 2, and 3 above.
5. Travel is back to normal – see 1, 2, and 3 above.
6. International travel is back to normal – see 1, 2, and 3 above.
Finally I can stop wearing a mask when the boss is around, but I am sure I will be “strongly encouraged.”
Holding influencers accountable for spreading those beliefs has proved difficult, as the vast majority of the industry is unlicensed and unregulated.
Oh, no. Unlicensed? Unregulated? I am aghast.
What is this country coming to?
I long for the day that I can rely on a properly accredited influencer.
Information must come from approved sources. I figure we will be at that point in a couple of years where it is criminal to digest information outside of those sources.
It is as if all the dystopian novels and movies, good and bad, are being put into play at once.
Buy your Guy Fawkes mask now, and avoid the rush.
Printing press of any sorts would be better. Pamphleteer as a career choice may once again be in style.
Bluesprint!
If government is not picking the winners & losers and acting as gatekeepers, then there is no social justice and equity!
/progtard
Holding influencers accountable for spreading those beliefs…
Pay attention to that word “accountable.” It’s their code word for cancelling, deplatforming, and destroying. “Speech has consequences.”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/reuters-study-america-has-the-least-trusted-media-in-the-world/
But the study cane from Reuters so now I don’t know what to think.
And this pissed the propagandists the most. Why do you think they have started blatantly censoring? Trump broke them. At first they stopped trying to pretend they were not hacks and started blatantly lying. Now they are going for outright censorship and purity tests. They went over the cliff. This can and will only gets worse before we either stand up and fight them to the end or start living in the world described in the book 1984.
People are too fat and happy for that outcome. Most of them just don’t care.
There has never been a major insurrection among a society with generally available air conditioning.
The revolution will come when people start watching their kids starve and die of hypothermia. The trick is, to still be capable of fighting effectively when things get to that point.
+1 HG Wells’ Time Machine
We are always one geomagnetic storm induced by a solar flare away from the revolution.
“Wellness leaders” sounds so much more sophisticated and legit than “snake oil purveyors”.
That whole article could have been lifted from National Lampoon.
Yeah, when they stopped being funny circa 1983.
Thanks, Edit Fairy!
The Biden administration is attempting to portray the Republicans as the party of ‘defund the police’ after they voted against the president’s American Rescue Plan – which included funding for law enforcement.
This is what having zero shame looks like.
That is what knowing you have propagandist looks like. You cannot find police, law enforcement, or even remote terms in the American Rescue Plan text, at least, none that I could find. The president knows this and so do the reporters but they will print and run whatever they need to.
If somebody tried to pull that off in front of me, I’d probably end up laughing in their face and walking away without saying another word. It’s so far above and beyond the normal bullshit that I wouldn’t be able to take the person seriously ever again.
Once a fringe movement, QAnon exploded in popularity during the Trump administration, gaining more believers in the U.S. than several major religions. Two recent polls have found that about 1 in 6 American adults believes its key tenet: that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles are trying to control the country’s government, mass media and financial systems.
Being against pedophilia is white-supremacy.
Oh, that is just a blatant, fucking lie! What the fuck?
Ok so that’s where the data comes from that QAnon is really popular.
That seems completely plausible to me though. 😉
“a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles are trying to control the country’s government, mass media and financial systems”
If this were true, what would be different? Anything?
They’d have a moral compass, even if it always pointed the wrong direction?
Cécile Guerin, a yoga teacher and extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London.
I was wrong. You can’t make this shit up.
Would you have believed someone that 20 years ago told you that they had traveled back from the future and that this is what the county would be like?
I would’ve believed it. Nothing new under the sun…
“The Delphic oracle could, and did, give divine approval to Greek colonialism and was a vital step in the process of spreading Greek culture and politics across the Mediterranean. The influence of the oracle, as the voice of the Gods, extended over the actions and decisions of political and military leaders and thereby influenced the politics and history of Greece. “
Our Delphic Oracle is AOC. Maybe Greta.
We are sooooooo screwwwwwwwed… 🙁
An influencer with Seoul.
Hey guys! I’m finally Korean. I’ve transitioned,” London said in another video, saying his name is now “Jimin.”
“I identify as Korean — that’s just my culture, that’s my home country, that’s exactly how I look now,” Jimin said.
Nypost.com reports: “I’m so, so happy I’ve completed my look … I have the eyes [and] I’ve just had a brow lift, as well,” said the influencer, who earlier tweeted about getting work on their lips to “look like JIMIN.”
“I’ve been trapped in the wrong body … But finally I’m Korean — I can be myself. And I’m so, so happy,” Jimin said.
“For the first time in my life I feel beautiful,” they said of the 18 surgeries that cost more than $150,000, according to the Daily Star.
Rucka Rucka Ali approves.
Where do I get my surgery to become a multi-gigaton nuclear device? That’s what I identify as, anyway, and I want what I want…
/pout
I’m identifying as an asteroid, headed to Washingto DC…
All hail Yusef our divine savior, SMOD!
There’s no reason why transracial is any less valid than trans-anything else. Rachel Dolezal was just ahead of her time. We are monsters for the way we treated her.
I was going to say pretty much the same thing. “Race” is a few more orders of magnitude more “socially constructed” than sex. If you’re going to claim that the only limitation on sex is bigotry, then you pretty much have no legitimate claim that transracialism is somehow illegitimate.
When the drugs fell out of his ass while stuffed in his mouth 🙂
Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
Space Aliens might be surprised to see that most humans consume mammary secretions of farm animals & all humans kill other living things to survive.
Um…ok…
Sounds like a pot head at a high school party.
Can’t beat the classics.
You can say that about most everything he says.
Might. Might not. If an alien is advanced enough to feel surprise, I’d guess that they’ve come from a long chain of evolution with an efficient means of converting food to energy that wouldn’t entail being solar-powered and eating dirt.
Or they might be surprised that some humans don’t. Quit trying to sound smart, Neil, you’re fucking terrible at it.
I’ts extremely unlikely that any advanced civilization would be surprised by either of those things.
Okay, Neil, in the name of impressing the space aliens, we’ll all be delighted for you to stop eating anything that was once living.
Cripes, this is what passes for the voice of science in popular culture?
He’s a fucking glory hound, no science needed, he can’t win an arguement if he tried.
Yeah. Space aliens will be totes surprised that we eat plants and animals.
Jesus, who lets this moron on twitter.
Are you new to Twitter?!
Isn’t “Space aliens” a bit racist there Neil?
Holy shit he’s dumb.
This credentialed elite moron seems to not understand something Darwin figured out and made common knowledge more than a century ago about natural selection and how nature doesn’t care about feelings and definitely doesn’t care for stupidity….
Here is a prediction: no matter how advanced they are, a civilization that decided to move into space will NOT bases on the shit the progressives worship. They will not be part of any sort of Utopian system run by benevolent world governments. That’s NOT part of nature, and unless nature (physics/chemistry/biology) is different across space, a species and civilization that traveled into space did so because the species was aggressively challenged by nature to do that.
It’s a cookbook!!!
Because aliens do neither …
Bask in all of the glorious science!
A conversation I had at the college radio station a few decades ago:
Hippie: Did you know humans are the only animal that drinks the milk of other animals
Me: we’re also the only ones who ride on public transportation. We getting rid of that too?
Humans are not the only animal that engage in behavior unique to their species. Can we move on now?
Did you know humans are the only animal that drinks the milk of other animals
Because we figured out how to domesticate milk bearing animals. Wild animals tend to take offense to random other animals latching on to their nipples.
Are they going to tell me that barn cats have no interest in cow’s milk?
Of course it’s obviously not about the quality of the argument, it’s about reaching the preferred end destination of veganism. Any argument that gets you closer to that is a “good” one.
They were a perfectly nice person, they just had already decided what the “right” way to be was. AKA, religion.
Other mammals will drink the milk of other mammals, they just have no way to extract it. See: Cats.
Picture NdGT as Pierce Bronsnan’s character in Mars Attacks.
Good morning, Sloop!
Thanks for the lynx, especially the yoga one. That’s the funniest shit I’ve read in awhile.
The fuck is a “sound bather”?
Although maybe I am since I love bathing in the sweet sounds of the Jam.
Hey! I’m a hippie!
The yoga story is some of the funniest shit I’ve seen in years. The whole thing reads like a print version of Charlie standing in front of his conspiracy theory board on “Its Always Sunny”.
Careful Tundra, I hunt Hippies for sport, watch what you wear if you come around these parts, we know our Hippyflage,
My Grandfather was a Yogic back before it was cool. He was also a WWII veteran that trained conscripts to die. He was hardcore physically but got bashed on the noggin too many times working as a coastal faller. Huge anti-Semite and hated Catholics. Used to drive me nuts trying to recruit me to his mode of thought. He was the first prepper that I had ever met. Had about a half-ton of old military rations that he moved around with. Probably should have been better read. Aside from the bigotry and brain injuries he would have been a Libertarian. Dude practiced martial arts until the day he died. Kinda wish I’d known him better but he saw me for the shallow person that I was at the time. That and his hatred for “The Jews”! Bridge too far.
Disgruntled ex-wife volunteers to testify
The former daughter-in-law of a Trump Organization officer said Monday evening that she is prepared to testify before a grand jury convened by Manhattan’s top prosecutor as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s sprawling company.
Jennifer Weisselberg — a former ballet dancer who was married to Barry, the son of Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the Trump Organization — told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront” that “we’re prepared, and we are getting prepared” to testify before the panel.
Weisselberg declined to say whether she’d been formally asked to testify, and didn’t offer a potential date or time.
Prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney’s office are likely to announce charges against Allen Weisselberg as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter told CNN. He is under scrutiny for benefits he received, including a company-funded apartment and car.
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“For me, when the government calls you, it’s your civic duty and there’s nothing wrong with telling the truth. It wasn’t really a choice; they called me,” Jennifer Weisselberg said at the time. “I’m happy to be as honest and transparent and just be forthcoming because I don’t have anything to hide.”
Who could have seen that coming? She should have a street named after her.
Who better to give a dispassionate analysis in a criminal investigation than a disgruntled ex-wife.
I have trouble taking ballerinas seriously since The Surrender was published.
All that they’ve found is some employees fucking the dog about tax receipts. Dog on a bone.
Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders
Let me be clear: There will not be a bipartisan infrastructure deal without a reconciliation bill that substantially improves the lives of working families and combats the existential threat of climate change. No reconciliation bill, no deal. We need transformative change NOW.
Because clearly we need to hit the gas harder as we careen towards a financial cliff.
Let’s be clear: Bernie will cave like he always does.
He already caved on SALT deduction, surprising no one.
I heard he wants another house, from anonymous sources of course.
Yusef the free marketeer lives in a Mobile home, my first home ever, BS has how many houses? and what has he ever done that was worth anything?
A life long politico with 3 houses, and all the scum on his back to go with it.
What the fuck more does an old fucker like that have to live for? Shit-disturbing for fun and profit? I don’t get it. Go home and put your goddamned feet up, you’ve fucked everything up magnificently.
When push comes to shove, the dude always votes along with his Democrat comrades. He is first and foremost, like all communists, a political animal.
Excellent. No deal then.
We need transformative change like I need STEVE SMITH’S dick in my ass.
Amercia is BACK, baby!
In a shocking and explosive claim, Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday accused the Biden administration of spying on him through the National Security Agency (NSA) by monitoring his texts and emails.
“Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air,” Carlson said on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” …
But’s not just political protesters the government is spying on. Yesterday we heard from a whistleblower within the U.S. government who reached out to warn us that the NSA, the National Security Agency, is monitoring our electronic communications and is planning to leak them in an attempt to take this show off the air.
“Now that’s a shocking claim and ordinarily we’d be skeptical of it; it’s illegal for the NSA to spy on American citizens,” he stated. “It’s a crime. It’s not a third world country. Things like that should not happen in America. But unfortunately they do happen, and in this case they did happen. The whistleblower, who is in a position to know, repeated back to us information about a story that we are working on that could have only come directly from my texts and emails. There’s no other possible source for that information, period.”
“The NSA captured that information without our knowledge and did it for political reasons,” Carlson asserted. “The Biden administration is spying on us. We have confirmed that. This morning we filed a FOIA request — Freedom of Information Act request — asking for all information that the NSA and other agencies have gathered about this show. We did it mostly as a formality. We’ve also contacted the press office of both NSA and the FBI.”
Back to its spying shenanigan’s, that is.
The soviets could only dream of this kind of shit.
They just ran out of money before we did, otherwise there is no longer a difference between the two countrys
Yep
And I guarantee they’re envious of the Soviet’s ability to just pick people up and send them off to gulags. Although I’m not really certain what difference there is between that and what they’ve done to the 1/6 “insurrectionists.”
It wasn’t a dream for the Stasi.
I’m not sure if it’s necessarily true, but it sounds highly likely.
What a banana republic.
“Now that’s a shocking claim…”
Huh? The idea of the NSA monitoring the communications of opposition-ish media isn’t shocking at all. Neither is a plan to leak what they find (or what they create).
Protesting the election results in any form has been officially labeled domestic terrorism. It’s not exactly a stretch to say they’d follow through on that.
COINTELPRO v2.0.
Don’t worry the wise mandarins of the FISA courts will defend us from this violation of our civil liberties.
And because the FBI would never lie or mislead in applying for the special super-secret warrant.
I saw that.
I find it believable.
I’ve also heard rumors around Free State Project/liberty meet-ups that the Feds are watching the Free State Project.
Amazingly, people are buying the Fed’s line that the current inflation won’t be “sticky.”
What does that mean? Is there going to be deflation that undoes our inflation?
It means that the MIC is going back to what it does best, high interest rates and unaffordable goods and services will become de rigeur and shut your fucking mouth, Peasant! That’s what all of this means. They don’t want you to be happy. They don’t want you to succeed. They are after total control.
1/2″ plywood – $86 per sheet.
From the local Habitat coordinator: “we’re having trouble fulfilling our mission of providing affordable housing. We can’t find affordable lots and we can’t find affordable materials.”
The thing is a lot of the current inflation is purely supply side constriction from last year.
And the Feds are responding by throwing fuel onto the demand side which will make it worse.
But it will only be temporary…..
WTF???
Right? 10 bucks a board for 2X4X8. That’s the shitty stuff. Who can build anything at these rates? There is something much deeper and darker behind this.
Awhile back, I wanted a pickup truck that could carry a 4×8 sheet of plywood. At the time, the cost of the truck was off-putting (I’m still pissed that compact cars and trucks have been eliminated from the market, all in the name of saving the environment). At this rate, though, the plywood will be worth more than the truck.
The safety regs eliminated most of the compact car and truck market. You simply cannot build an old S-10 type truck and meet the standards.
The environmental regs screwed the reliability of the engines.
You may well be right that the long pole in the tent is the safety regs, but the CAFE standards play their part too. The target fuel economy of a vehicle is based on its footprint (a certain amount of area that it takes up on the road). The way the formula is computed requires smaller vehicles to have much better fuel economy than larger vehicles (e.g., for light trucks in 2016, 40 sq ft and smaller had to have 35 mpg or better while 65 sq ft and larger only had to have 25 mpg or better). The tightening of the regs pushes up against the practical limits of internal combustion engines, but moreso for the smaller vehicles than the larger ones. Eventually, no gas-powered automobile will be able to meet the threshold at any footprint, but larger vehicles will hold out longer (especially with lower weight).
You should build the truck out of plywood. Power it with a Merlin engine. The “Wooden Wonder”!
I was seriously contemplating a used S10 or Dakota beater just to park on the street and drive when I needed to load mulch, etc.
I picked a bad time to get into woodworking. I’m going to have to get really good at disassembling curbside furniture if I want to have enough materials to work with.
People want to believe whatever lies they are being told by the people fucking them over…
It’s like we are looking at real life examples of battered woman/Stockholm syndrome..
It has never not been sticky. What does unsticky inflation even look like? As far as I know only technology at scale ever really goes down in price. Everything else is sticky.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes.”
And apparently, a lot of people don’t.
Everything is certainly sticky here. 100+ American later and lockdowns still in place. If I were a younger man I would start rebelling harder than I already have.
I bet they don’t have this problem in China
With America’s local-state-federal divide, however, the country simply cannot guarantee a quick and efficient response to mass-casualty disasters as things now stand. When every minute is crucial to saving lives, our inability to mandate an instant call-up of resources across city and state lines is literally killing people.
The tragedy unfolding in Miami seems to reflect the inadequacies of the system we have in place. Hannah Dreier of The Washington Post questioned why it took Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis almost a full day to issue the necessary declarations to bring federal disaster response teams to the beachfront scene: “FEMA was ready to deploy to the condo collapse almost immediately, and included the crisis in its daily briefing, but didn’t get permission from Gov. DeSantis to get on the ground for a full day.”
DeSantis’ office fired back that the necessary declarations had been issued at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, an hour after the relevant municipal authorities had issued their declaration, without which the state, the governor’s office argued, could not move forward on its own.
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In Florida, municipalities retain a high level of autonomy, as states do in their relationship with the federal government. Legislators have been wary of establishing protocols that transgress this principle. So even in the case of mass-casualty emergencies, some localities must go through time-devouring bureaucratic steps meant to create firewalls to stop governmental overreach.
“Government overreach” be damned. If only we had a unitary federal government bureaucracy to direct things, rescue operations would run as smoothly as a well oiled train.
I found this to be right on: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/06/the-surfside-condo-tragedy-does-not-need-your-political-hot-take/
The political is the left’s answer to God’s will.
in what world is a building collapse a FEMA size disaster? Silly me, I remember the days when FEMA was for when a disaster overwhelmed local resources and wasn’t trying to be the first response.
9/11 is the only example I know of or any other similarly sized building.
Because nothing says “quick”, “efficient”, and “effective” like a disaster response from a national government 1,000 miles away. This was one building falling down. Hardly a national emergency.
But people across the nation have all the feels! That makes it a national emergency!
There must be a God, because natural selection is not removing that from the populace.
NIce.
“More commonly associated with right-wing groups, the conspiracy theory is spreading through yoga, meditation and other wellness circles. Friends and colleagues have watched with alarm as Instagram influencers and their New Age peers — yogis, energy healers, sound bathers, crystal practitioners, psychics, quantum magicians — embraced QAnon’s conspiratorial worldview and sprayed it across social media.
The health, wellness and spirituality world has always been primed for that worldview, followers say. Though largely filled with well-meaning people seeking spiritual or physical comfort, the $1.5 trillion industry can also be a hotbed for conspiracies, magical thinking, dietary supplements with dubious scientific claims and distrust of institutional health care, including vaccines.”
I got to figure out how to get some of that cash. My problem is that I’m reasonably honest.
“Once a fringe movement, QAnon exploded in popularity during the Trump administration, gaining more believers in the U.S. than several major religions. Two recent polls have found that about 1 in 6 American adults believes its key tenet: that a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles are trying to control the country’s government, mass media and financial systems.”
Really?
Be honest. If you took a poll, and they asked you “Do you believe a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles runs all major institutions”? wouldn’t you be really tempted to say yes?
That’s how you do PsyOps… You base the lies you are telling on partial truths everyone can clearly see or are inferred from common sense…
When you phrase it that way, of course I’d say yes. I think most people agree with the general vibe of the accusation, it’s the details where things get sticky.
I don’t really believe a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles runs all major institutions. A cabal implies a small number.
The cabal has MINIONS!
Like any good cult, it has hordes of followers willing to throw themselves into the pit for them…
It would be so easy to grift these folks, new agers are fools anyway, but that damned ethics gets in my way!
Unlike those Trumpists!
You’ve got to hand it to the latte socialists, they’re much better capitalist lapdogs than we could ever hope to be. They’ll never attack a grift, as long as it’s run by an “ally”.
I’m not sure why this is being portrayed as some wackjob conspiracy theory. Most of the Lefties in my circle have said for years that the goal of American healthcare is to keep you sick so they can keep selling you expensive medications and surgeries.
I always thought distrust of drug companies and chemical companies (Monsanto!) were standard for the left.
But The Government does vaccines!
Even if they are completely disconnected from reality, it is a bit heartening to see the woo-woo, healing crystal, anti-government types stick to their guns.
If it weren’t for magical thinking, this country would have no thinking at all.
Collectivism (but especially its marxist variant) is basically a religious movement based on the fact that you must forget all aspects of human nature except for the appeal to jealousy/envy to get people to believe you can deliver heaven on earth under the kingdom of government.
“AOC is slammed for saying fear about nationwide rise in violent crime is just ‘hysteria’ – despite four tourists getting hit by stray Times Square bullets in last two months and murder rate up 533% in Portland”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9736879/AOC-faces-backlash-saying-concerns-crime-spike-hysteria.html
Never mind AOC, 533%?? They should just replace the court house with a thunderdome.
This guy agrees.
You sound hysterical CP.
It’s up, but part of it is using the first 6 months (really less than that due to reporting delays for the current year) comparing 2021 to 2020. Any reason why that base comparison might be of…. same reason vehicle miles driven would through the roof in YoY percentage increases….
The left is trying to stoke this up because they’re labeling this as gun violence and the problem is increased gun sales.
Time Square Bullets? Is that a flechette round loaded with cheap Statue of Liberty chachkies?
Why, I can remember just last week, when “hysteria” and “hysterical” were anti-womxn terms used by Teh Patriarchy.
tested positive but felt fine
“You’re not fooling anybody.”
Everyone hug those you love today and tell them how much they mean to you.
A week ago I was fishing on Lake Michigan for salmon with my father. Last Saturday, my son found the Old Guy collapsed unresponsive in his house. He had a massive stroke and the doctors told us that even with surgery his quality of life would be negligible. After the family got to Fargo, we removed the ventilator and he passed away 8 hours later.
The only good news is that the stroke was so massive that he probably never knew what hit him. My father had a huge phobia about ending up in a nursing home or wasting away from something like my mother, so this is the way he would have wanted to go. The only problem is that it should have happened twenty years from now.
I’m going to miss the old coot. He was the best outdoorsman I ever knew. If it walked, flew or swam he could add it to the bag and then tell a great story about it. Actually he’d tell 10 different versions of the story and each telling got better and better.
I’m so sorry, Your Holiness. The suddenness no doubt made it easier for him, but harder for you.
Please accept a virtual hug, if that’s not too forward of me.
So sorry, Jimbo.
My best to you and the family.
So sorry to hear that, Pope Jimbo. I know all too well how that feels. My Old Man has been gone for three years and I still think of him, every day.
Remember the good stuff. In the end it’s all that matters.
I am so sorry. ?
Sorry to hear that, man.
I’m sorry for your loss Jimbo.
I am sorry for your loss.
Damn, man. Sorry for your loss. Your pop sounds like he was a hell of a guy.
Sorry Tundra. My condolences.
Jimbo.
Sorry for your loss, Jimbo.
I’m sorry for your loss.
Aw man. Sorry, Jimbo.
Sorry your son had to find him in that way, and I’m sorry you lost your Da, he sounds like a great man,
I was going to bitch at you for again passing by me without visiting me, but then I read the rest. Sorry Pope. Thoughts and…something.
Sorry for your loss your holiness…
Lost mine in 2014 and I still miss the guy.
Sorry Jimbo.
Deepest sympathies, Jimbo.
I am sorry. I hope that when I eventually face similar circumstances I have the same grace as you.
Condolences, Jimbo. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in storytelling, I’m missing the guy now too..
He could have given Animal a run for his money when it came to story telling.
On our salmon trip, we had a lot of driving time and he told all the good stories again. Even though we had heard them all before, we listened because we wanted to know how big that salmon would be this year, or if we managed to turn that double on pheasants into a triple.
The people working at the Oral History division of the Minnesoda Historical Society are going to have a lot of time on their hands now that they don’t have all those revisions to process.
Never deny a hunter or fishermen the liberties taken with the stories of their great successes. Humanity would lose out if that was done…
So sorry for for your loss 🙁
I’ll keep your family in my prayers.
Jimbo, I’m very sorry to hear this. I lost my Dad suddenly to an aneurysm many years ago. I know a bit about how it feels, and I’m sorry that you have to go through this.
I am so sorry to hear that. You have my most sincere condolences Sir.
So sorry to hear that. Hopefully he left when the two of you were in a good place. My parents are in their 80’s, and I know it won’t be too terribly long before I am in your shoes.
Sorry for your loss, Jimbo.
So sorry, Jimbo.
Sorry.
Sorry about your loss, Jimbo. I lost a dear aunt to a stroke two weeks ago. She was an active 91 and then the switch got flipped. No pain or suffering, and no nursing home.
So sorry.
Hopefully your son is doing OK as well after having to deal with that.
I am so sorry for your loss, Jimbo. I’m glad he didn’t suffer, grow demented, or waste away in a nursing home.
Well he didn’t suffer or waste away in a nursing home. His love for me and my sister would argue that he had at least a bit of dementia.
Thank the powers that be for that your holiness…
I watched my dad, a strong independent man with one of the sharpest minds I ever met, lose all his cognitive abilities in the span of a couple of months, spending another 9 months not knowing whom anyone around him was – with the really rare occasional moment of lucidity in the first 6 months – and die looking like a skeleton surrounded by people he couldn’t recognize.
That shit leaves a mark..
Sorry for your loss, Jimbo.
Sorry to hear about your dad. We buried both my parents and my wife’s parents long ago and the world is an emptier place without them. Thumbs up on the hugs, have some for yourself.
Sorry man.
Started watching S2 of War of the Worlds. Finding it increasingly disappointing: storylines that get dragged out, Terry Goodkind-like repeating the same plot with different character and/or details, idiotic tactical decisions, unbelievable wearing the same clothes & shitty weapons (that look cool) but unlimited reloads stupidity, the small cast sizes & limited filming locations, and so on.
there is a War of the Worlds series? why?
DUH!
To prepare us for when it happens!
It’s coproduced by the cheese eaters. I’m surprised you haven’t heard about it, being next door to France and all.
/deliberately obtuse about Euro geography
There’s a new series?
I remember the one in the late 80s/early 90s on Fox.
The only good news is that the stroke was so massive that he probably never knew what hit him. My father had a huge phobia about ending up in a nursing home
Coming up on a year ago, for my dad. All things considered, a sudden massive stroke would have been preferable.
18 months ago, the last words Wendy ever whispered, “I don’t want to die”
Jesus, Yusef, are you trying to break me?
Second of all – my deepest condolences to Jimbo.
Nine years ago my mom had a series of progressively worsening strokes. The day before she finally passed away I put a DVD on the computer of our last family reunion with all her kids (my sister in MT, brother in Austin, my wife, me, my kids, and my other brother nearby) singing along with my SIL who plays guitar – bad singing, but she loved the DVD I made of it. As the computer played a bad rendition of ‘Bad Moon Rising’ I walked by her room and saw she had her foot on the bed, knee in the air, and was swinging her leg back and forth to the time of the music. She was ready to die, had known for a while, maybe even planned it, but I still miss just talking to her.
My deepest condolences for your loss of Wendy as well.
What’s the right response to a friend who says they are sending their child to private school?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/29/whats-the-right-response-to-a-friend-who-says-they-are-sending-their-child-to-private-school?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Easy. Tell them state school pupils outperform private ones with the same grades when they arrive at Uni.
The issue is not that a parent is sending a child to private school – it is that the private school is able to claim tax advantages as a registered charity. Change private schools’ status to the businesses they are and see what proper tax levels do to their survival. Banning private schools is a non-starter as those who can afford will find another way of avoiding state education
What’s the right response to a friend who says they are sending their child to private school?
When did you become a public-school teacher?
“Banning private schools is a non-starter as those who can afford will find another way of avoiding state education.”
Whoo-hooo, was that ever a slip!
Not for The Grauniad. They’re part of the bailey that the rest of us are told doesn’t exist when the broader left retreats to the motte (in this case, “we just want the best education possible for the greatest number of children” or some bullshit like that).
The BS on the Delta variant never contains anything more than this type of verbiage “hyper-contagious and potentially more severe Delta variant” . I could believe that the delta variant is more contagious than the initial disease, but there is no evidence for it being more deadly.
People are dying of it India! India! Where they are known for their great healthcare and not ever having issues with any disease!
And they are known for having superior sanitation systems and totes don’t poop in the streets.
You wear your mask, young man! There are poor kids in India who are sick with COVID!
I didn’t give a fuck about them when I was three years old and they were starving. I certainly don’t give a fuck about them now.
Where they are known for their great healthcare and not ever having issues with any disease!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_plague_in_India
Denier. Don’t you know Covid is worse than the Black Death.
Black people are now on the gay flag twice
Being black is now twice as gay as being gay
https://twitter.com/TheSickDork/status/1409490077080862721
Started watching S2 of War of the Worlds. Finding it increasingly disappointing
Me too. I wasn’t all that impressed with season 1, but I kept watching.
However- a new Bosch has landed. For some reason, I have a nagging suspicion kkkapitalism will prove to be the culprit.
We quit on Bosch in S2 but giving it a new chance from the start.
I watched Castle before Bosch. I thought the former was a parody of pop literature in general, not Bosch in particular.
Yeah, we’re only 2 episodes in, but it seems to be shaping up as vilifying the evil, profiteering landlord screwing over the noble illegal aliens.
The local weatherchick on my phone app says it’s 89 degrees ‘Murican and “feels like 97.” I believe her, so as much as I hate to leave Tranquility Base, it’s time to move this party inside where the air is conditioned.
I was about to comment to you, “do I even WANT to step outdoors today?”
Yesterday I got my blood drawn, camaro WARSHed, doge washed, and hurrcut. And I was off last night.
I seem to have acquired a case of rectal glaucoma today- I cant see my ass doing a damn thing.
No, you don’t wanna do that.
See late last thread, where I woke up about 20 ’til 7 in a blind panic ‘cuz TT’s med test appointment was at 6:45. TB was still tolerable at 7 a.m. Now…not so much.
Now inside with a blissed-out black cat asleep on my lap.
“But principals trump principles every time when it comes to politicians”
He’s not even President anymore. Let it go.
::wags finger at Agent Cooper::
We should normalize the idea that everyone who isn’t a socialist is a fascist.
Stigmatize not reading Marx.
https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1408271915660283907
Sarcasm or troll?
Idiot.
Why would you say that? That’s precisely the point that team blue and their marxist agitators are making right now in the US. All the people that oppose them and their crazy marxist demands are fascists and racialists for supporting the guy that cockblocked them the hardest…
Occasionally I forget my Einstein. “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits”
I have preserved enough naivety that I think no one can be that stupid.
You optimist, you…
Stupidity truly is the most abundant thing in the universe…
DR! Jill Biden on the cover of Vogue! So Stunning, so Brave.
the obsession with the DR is real cringe as they say these days
It’s a cult.
And Vogue of course ignored the first lady who was an actual fashion model.
Tax smartphones to fund the arts, say stars including Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton and Celia Imrie
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tax-smartphones-fund-arts-theatre-appeal-zhf5rplsp
I say tax smartphones to fund whatever it is I do for a living I could use a raise
Tax smartphones to subsidize ammunition purchases for civilian marksmanship training.
Why not just come straight out and say “take away a bigger percentage of poor people’s incomes to fund rich people’s shit”?
I mean, at least it would be honest.
The cigarettes and booze model of revenue generation.
I’d have guessed scholars, cuz I ain’t heard of them and thems seem so smort.
Why does Olivia Colman hate poor people?
Oh, in case any of you haven’t gotten enough retardation in your diet today, here’s a megadose:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1409617313389809664?s=21
That’s just insufferable.
I though tiktok videos could only be 60 seconds.
And, if you’re doing a song about getting vaxxed, at least try to make it funny.
Of course, that’s not a tiktok, because John Lajoie is too old for tiktok.
WTF?
Michael E. Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, put it very simply: climate change is making heat waves more frequent and more intense. “You warm up the planet, you’re going to see an increased incidence of heat extremes,” Mann told CNN.
Of course they interviewed him.
Health officials in Los Angeles County now strongly recommend that people wear masks indoors in public places — regardless of their vaccination status — to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Go fuck yourselves.
” Michael Mann….. put it very simply: climate change is making heat waves more frequent and more intense.”
How many times has this dingleberry been caught lying and rigging data? They are not more frequent or intense. What a lying shithead.
I go into usually 5-7 peoples’ homes and apartments per day to do work. From May 2020 to May 2021 I had a cheap neck gaiter on my neck and I’d wait until I made sure the person I was working for was a masker and I crossed the threshold to put it up. It would go down the second I walked back out for any reason. A giant fucking charade that I hated with a passion. Last winter when 99% of the population here was walking around with masks out-frigging-side, myself and the fam were the holdouts, and we got plenty of angry looks and people literally jumping into the streets to avoid our virusy miasmas. In May I switched to not wearing a mask when going into peoples’ houses unless they specifically request it. So far I have not had a single person do so. It was very nice to come back from Mexico and go into the little market across the street without the talismask and bullshit with the owner who was very relieved to ditch his as well. Interesting that something that is completely scientifically dubious at best gained such widespread approval in weeks. After 16 months of this, we still haven’t gotten widespread studies that show that masks were useless in prevention of spread.
“…we still haven’t gotten widespread studies that show that masks were useless in prevention of spread.”
We have over 100 years worth of those.
Nice flip on the burden of proof there. Seems like the person who wants to tell people to do something should have to prove it works.
It has repeatedly been proven that it doesn’t, so a burden that cant be born. That is the problem. They continually make assertions that have already been falsified in the hope that the ignorant will buy into them and use public pressure to get everyone to fall into line. Herd animals will herd. They cant understand that 7% that will always tell them to go fuck themselves.
They continually make assertions that have already been falsified in the hope that the ignorant will buy into them and use public pressure to get everyone to fall into line.
Correct. The (correct) assumption is that the vast majority of people don’t have the intelligence, motivation, or curious nature to actually research the claims. Majoritarianism as tool for oppression. Aquinas wrote about that impulse almost a millennium ago.
Absolutely I have read a number of them, I did some research when we first got the mandate here in late April 2020. Aside from that one Danish study that the media mostly ignored, I don’t recall seeing anything else, and if it was it was ignored. You can find the older studies if you know where to look, but it seems 95% plus of the population are not going to that trouble. Even conservative media was largely silent on those facts, it seems like AIER was one of the few outlets consistently publishing the facts on mask efficacy.
My annual boiler maintenance was last May. Two guys showed up from the oil company to do the maintenance. One was wearing a mask, the other wasn’t. I told both, like I’ve told all contractors during the insanity, “You don’t need a mask, wear it if you want, take it off if you want.”
Almost every single contractor took off his mask when I said that.
This one guy for the boiler maintenance? He said he’d keep it on. And he did for the whole time he was at my house.
Maybe your house is just that filthy ?
The only thing they commented on was all the ammunition in the basement.
I recall when global warming meant higher night-time temps/lows.
Apparently airlines can now, without penalty, arbitrarily “rebook” you for flights several days later. Alaska Airlines did that to us yesterday, and the phone wait to get the flight re-rebooked to one day after what we paid for was 4.5 hours. Now we’re scrambling to rebook car reservations for our new flight tomorrow.
Good thing we gave that industry 5 billion dollars to keep afloat their shitty practices
Several DAYS later??? Was that going or coming home? If the latter, were they going to pay for the extra hotel days?
not to forget if you have to take paid (or unpaid) vacation…
Going. We’re cooling our heels today at home instead of doing vacation stuff.
They could still rebook either leg of the flight.
They tried something like this with me just recently. I had purchased a ticket months before at a super cheap rate to travel this coming Friday, but they moved me from the flight times I had booked for to earlier flights that now leave me without the ability to get a ride to the airport and thus forced to pay for long term parking. When I called up to ask WTF this was, they told me I could STILL get the flights I wanted, but the ticket now was going to be 3 times the price I paid for. I asked what that was all about, and they told me I had booked a trip on the flight that was premium time for too little money, so they changed my flight to get the opening for someone paying the new price. I told them that this was a fucking racket and I would call the better business bureau and report it, and I was asked to wait for a call from a more senior person to clarify.
The story seems to have changed after I got called back. The person assured me it was not about the money. They had originally canceled my flight when the email was generated, and then, because of rising demand, reinstituted the flight a week later at a higher price. The whole thing reeked of some sort of coercive practice to retroactively force people that bought tickets cheap during the Kung Fu scarefare to cough up more dough.
BTW it was Delta doing this to me, but I hear they are all doing the same shit now.
They deserve to have a COVID strain named after them.
Yes the cancelling of those flight that people bought were dirt cheap is going to be more common practice for the summer.
What pisses me off is that they canceled it and rescheduled me, then reinstituted the flight almost immediately with 3x the cost to get a seat… And they sounded like they were doing me a favor letting me move my flight back to the time I wanted, for the difference in what I paid AND another $160 in change fees.
That sounds like a lawsuit to me. We had a deal…you broke it. Pay me.
“You’re right, here’s your $87 back as a flight voucher. Oh, if you want a seat on the ‘new’ flight, it’ll cost $294”
If they change or cancel the flights, and you don’t like the alternatives, it’s a full refund back to your form of payment unless you choose a credit.
Yeah, I was just being snarky.
The frustrating part is where the flight disappears and then reappears, but the people who were originally on the flight are SOL. The word “fraudulent” comes to mind for that practice.
You are going to have to add my hotel cost to that 87 bucks and punitive damages for my not being able to see granny before she died. Write me a check for 100K and we will call it even.
Oh, their website says they’ll refund your money. Of course, then we’d have to give up on seeing my kids. And wait for 4.5 hours for a call back from customer service at midnight.
They rebook you on next available flight in the same class of service (cabin, not fare code) on same or similar routing. Close in flights get full depending on travel demand. It happens and it’s not new. If you can find a better or alternative, call them and ask to be changed. If it’s due to them such as a mechanical issue or canceling flights, you usually can sometimes get moved to another carrier’s flight. There’s more flexibility if it happens on the day of travel vs in advance.If it’s due to weather or other acts of god, they’re going to leave you on their own metal most times.
Obligatory…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM
I just cracked a beer, so that pretty much sets the tone of the rest of my day.
Also, the most recent contender for top pick in the “Palatial 2X-Wide Canine Augmentation Program”
I give you, The Rosie.
Want,
Awwwww! What a pretty girl! Any chance they’d let you bring along The Dozer to meet & interact with her before you commit to bringing her home?
Kinda my plan. She’s been sitting there for a bit, so Im wondering what people find off-putting that she wasnt adopted on sight.
I dont know if she has some behavioral problems, or people are turned-off by the saggy, been-bred-too-many-times titties.
Kinda reminds me of my baby-mama in that regard.
/hey-ohhhh!
I cracked my first beer at 4am,
daynight off FTW! Beer brand that doesn’t get me drunk replacing the cheap brand that never failed FTL!Just between us, when I visited GT & Tom T, they had the nerve to serve me NON ALCOHOLIC BEER!
I had already explained that drinking NA beer is like dating a woman with no vagina- whats the point ?
(Kidding…it was some kind of stout that was pretty tasty. And since I had to work later and stayed past my bedtime, NA was appropriate)
See?? Told ya! Tom T loves ’em on a hot day when he doesn’t want something sweet. And I knew it would be just the thing for your circumstances Sunday.
Amazing selection of them up the street from us at Ray’s, BTW.
If I can sober-up long enough to (legally) drive over there, I have the perfect pairing for your leftovers.
I made collards & ham overnight, since I was awake all night anyhow.
And those White Castle coupons.
Oh, White Castle- seductive and beguiling with her siren’s song of “You need a Crave Case today”.
It’s a rare trip to Lowe’s that doesn’t end with us heading for that drive-thru.
Before I go to bed this afternoon, I already know there were be a crave case (and the ensuing gastronomical wreckage) here @ the crib.
Speaking of leftovers, I just had cold mac & cheese for…brunch?
And I may have more whenever the cat lets me back up.
The only thing worse than Tac Hell is White Castle… As HM would say: I have eaten ass, but that’s cause there was something I was hoping to get from it. Taco Hell and White Castle are just eating ass for eating ass’ sake..
COME AT ME BRAH!
NA is NEVER appropriate! I wanted a non-alcoholic drink I’d have water or milk. It’s a violation of the NAP!
drinking NA beer is like dating a woman with no vagina- whats the point?
Two out of three ain’t bad?
Meat Loaf – Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad
We should normalize the idea that everyone who isn’t a socialist is a fascist.
Sure, why not? We have already successfully normalized retardation and the rest of your delusional fantasies.
“Vocal QAnon support has dwindled since the insurrection, New Age watchers say, but some of the extremism is calcifying into something equally concerning: long-term conspiratorial thinking that encourages radical autonomy and sows distrust in vaccinations, elected officials and institutions woven into the fabric of American life.”
Oh noes!! Distrust in elected officials and institutions, oh my. Next thing they will believe that the government is not our loving parents, ready to guide us toward the right path and protect its children. One thing I have noticed about the whole Q bullshit is how they have stretched the definition of who is a “believer” to now encompass anyone who has the slightest inkling that the government might not have your best interests at heart.
“…thinking that encourages radical autonomy…”
Oh shit. We cant be having that.
radical autonomy
Band or album name?
Or perhaps it’s how I refer to my ideology — Radical Autonimist.
After 16 months of this, we still haven’t gotten widespread studies that show that masks were useless in prevention of spread.
“We believe masking fastidiously could have helped have some sort of an effect in potentially reducing transmission of the disease, under certain circumstances. Perhaps in as many as 1 in 10,000 cases. Don’t be foolhardy, and put yourself and others in danger. Wear your mask!”
How about the “study” that the fibers on the masks are about 1,000 thicker than the diameter of the virus, and so even the tightest weave wouldn’t stop the virus? If you pose it as a math problem, it’s obvious the masks won’t work.
To Be Fair, it travels in droplets, which maybe will suspend it in the mask mesh for a bit.
There has been a raging debate about whether it is only droplets, or is (also) airborne transmissible (as an aerosol). I believe the debate has been resolved in favor of aerosols, but haven’t been keeping up.
I remember reading somewhere that when droplets soak into the mask fibers, and air is pushed through the fibers from your breathing, virus particles in that droplet may become airborne (instead of remaining in the droplet, which would have fallen to the ground if not for the mask).
Not sure if it’s BS or not.
John Roberts is warming up!
I agree with Mean Gene.
I made it 47 seconds in. I could see that it was going to piss me off enough to ruin my day.
What’s the deal with the security camera footage at the end of the video? It sounds like there are two “shots” that sound very quiet, but the rifle has no suppressor, and the target doesn’t appear to be hit and I see no evidence of muzzle flash or ejected casings. Is that an Airsoft? If so, probably not the best home defense strategy.
If you’re in a bad neighborhood and are unable to legally own a gun, an airsoft may be your best option. Just brandishing should be enough to protect you. If brandishing didn’t work you’d be SOL. On the other hand you might be SOL regardless if you brandished the airsoft or not.
The sound of a shotgun racking is a deterrent as well, as long as you are unseen.
My take: If you have to rack your shotgun before its usable, yer doin’ it wrong. One in the pipe, top off the mag, safety on.
The first thing a potential target hears from me may or may not be a verbal warning, depending on the circs. I don’t want to have to warn them I have a gun.
Of course, I run a semi-auto, so there’s no racking involved, regardless.
This made me cackle.
my eyes rolled back so hard I lost a contact lens
An excellent example of the kind of lie that is so outrageously, obviously false that an interlocutor is left stunned into silence, not even sure where to begin. Providing that crucial delay for the lie to gather momentum and set off around the world.
“Women are used to cleaning up messes made by men.”
Well, swallow more often and that wont happen as much.
*applause*
Trump was fixing it.
Women are used to cleaning up messes made by men.
I do most of the cleaning in my house.
My gf is allergic to the vacuum, apparently. And Swiffers.
She’s a champ with dishes and laundry, so I guess I can’t complain.
OFFS
One could just as easily argue “men are used to repairing things that women complain about” but that would be called sexist.
How about the “study” that the fibers on the masks are about 1,000 thicker than the diameter of the virus, and so even the tightest weave wouldn’t stop the virus? If you pose it as a math problem, it’s obvious the masks won’t work.
I’m telling you, this piece of chain link fence will totally work as a bulletproof vest!
It is telling that not just the public health bureaucracy and medical establishment has been promoting quackery for the past 16 months, but that almost every single health provider and doctor has either been going along with that as well or at least staying silent on the matter. I know this is part and parcel of a corporatized medicine that is now the rule in the United States, with independent doctors going the way of the buggy, Maybe we can cure the variants by going back to bloodletting.
Maybe we can cure the variants by going back to bloodletting.
We actually keep leeches on stock in our pharmacy. Not sure exactly what we use them for.
I was somewhat surprised to learn we don’t stock maggots, which are a proven method of wound care – they will eat only the dead/necrotizing tissue, which is very helpful.
From a DDG search:
I like the one from Brazil that is using tilapia skin to help heal burns. Nature is amazing.
I was going to say they are the layers, but that’s your job! They’re SCABs!
Airdropped maggots will be how we survive the zombie apocalypse…
Professional wrestling ahead of the curve on transgenderism?
I thought Chyna already answered that question for us.
Further research can be done on pr0nhub.com
Id suggest “Backdoor to Chyna” or “A Night In Chyna”
Chyna was hotter than the new She-Hulk, so she has that going for her.
Nia Jax is just obese, and a shitty wrestler who hurts people.
Wrestler Dustin Runnels as Golddust tried to convince WWF management to get breast implants as part of his gimmick. The idea was quashed by Vince McMahon.
I just took 3 cases of beer can empties out to my recycle bin, which is now over-filled.
Not bad work for 10 days sans Jugsy.
We actually keep leeches on stock in our pharmacy. Not sure exactly what we use them for.
I remember seeing a thing quite a while ago about using leeches for finger injuries, to stimulate and create a path for blood flow through the finger.
We should normalize the idea that everyone who isn’t a socialist is a fascist.
You know what else we could normalize? Putting anyone who doesn’t agree with us in camps.
My favorite camp