Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Pelosi orders Capitol police to arrest any staff and visitors not abiding by mask mandate.
Republican staffers respond by playing beer pong maskless in the hallway.
AZ auditors finished third ballot count and shipped all ballots back to Maricopa County.
We went from “a vaccine in less than a year is impossible”, to “take the vaccine or you’re a selfish racist Nazi”, to now this.
Even the DNC propagandist pollsters can’t hide Biden’s shitshow.
Mike Lindell pulls ads from Fox News after they refused to air ad promoting his cyber symposium.
That’s all I got for today. I will leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Good morning UCS!
waffles!
Don’t encourage his shenanigans. This isn’t a First.
“Mike Lindell pulls ads from Fox News after they refused to air ad promoting his cyber symposium.”
and I’m supposed to know or care about these people?
Howdy!
He’s a former drug addict who got clean and start hawking overpriced pillows and sheets to boomer conservatives. He’s deep into Q-conspiracy shit and the line between salesman and tinfoil hat huckster is blurry at best. I think my parents have a couple of his pillows on their guest room bed. They’re ok.
“He’s deep into Q-conspiracy shit”
Uh no, Q is not a catch all for questing the election.
Fair. I’m mostly just regurgitating the surface level noise about the guy. Q is not a catchall for questioning the election but it is a brush that is used to stain the reputations of anyone who does.
I’m fully cognizant that I have no idea about Q and I will never learn about it. The documented-as-fact bullshit about Gamergate (that I witnessed firsthand and therefore actually know about) is enough to convince me that the mainstream media is incapable of describing anything that doesn’t share its metaphysics.
Sure they are able to do a good hitjob against anything they see threatening the global cabal’s agenda.
From what I’ve seen, Q is exactly that. Same catchall for if you don’t believe in RussiaGate. Or don’t support BLM. Or mention Hunter’s laptop. Or believe in the 2nd A. Every Glib would be labeled as Qanon believer by the media if the opportunity arose.
I don’t know anyone who is a Q believer. I don’t think I even know anyone who knows someone who is a Q believer.
For such a massive group it sure is strange that no one seems to know anyone who is a part of it.
Greetings, fellow Q-Anon member!
Would you like to know more?
The people I found most convinced about Q and Q’s nefarious purpose were rabid leftist idiots and members of the CIA/FBI whom likely are behind the whole Q thing.
I did. It was a husband and wife. They believed it up until January. They sounded truly nuts. Something big was always just around the corner. Then nothing would happen. They finally realized they were idiots.
Did they finally realize they were idiots? Hell there are a ton of Russia tards who are still thoroughly convinced Trump is besties with Putin.
I still know people that not only still believe the Russiagate shit after the Muller report bombed, but will get furious and near violent with you if you show them evidence the Steele report, a piece of fiction written by Glenn Simpson and attributed to Steele so they could add legitimacy at the FISA court that was used to add the veneer of legitimacy to a criminal spying enterprise that was the MO of the Obama admin (and likely the new Biden/Harris one too), was all fiction. They will get red in the face telling you that the very idiots that kept lying to them for 3 plus years about Trump being a KGB plant and going down any year now (for winning an election that had been rigged for crooked Hillary) still say they believe Trump somehow managed to avoid getting caught and the report, another piece that reads like cheap fiction, clearly proved criminality, even though no actionable legal proof was delivered in the 480 page pr0n. These people still hope somehow history will vindicate them and prove Trump not just a Russia agent, but the people that created and peddled the lies and attempted coup as heroic.
But yeah, Trumpistats are the crazy ones..
Yet if ask them to provide specific information as to what Trump did to benefit Putin, all you get is silence.
I have gotten a pile of curse words and accusations of being a Russian stooge myself for defending Tavarish Cheeto…
“No one I know voted for Nixon”
I believe SF: Hillary is Q.
To be fair to those that think there an international cabal of elites, Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing politicians and other elites with sex. Underage sex mostly.
Bill Clinton was one such elite.
Why should I care that you don’t know who these people are?
You shouldn’t ,I didn’t ask you to, why ask me?
/sarc
Pelosi orders Capitol police to arrest any staff and visitors not abiding by mask mandate.
House Reps can be arrested for not putting a useless cloth face covering on and where there is zero authority to do so but they cannot tour and inspect a federal prison. Makes sense. ///HonkHonk
They should really build a camp for antimaskers to educate them
Maybe they can inspect the treatment of political prisoners by becoming one.
I expect Amnesty International to speak up any minute now…..
My understanding is that representatives, members, the actual elected congresscritters, are different than mere “staff.” Pelosi’s orders on them are to have them “reminded” and tattled on to whatever committee handles member discipline.
I seem to ‘member that you also can’t arrest or detail a member of Congress from going to the “sacred” halls.
We’ve taken care of everything
The words you read
The songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure
To your eye
One for all and all for one
Work together
Common xirs and xes
Never need to wonder
How or why
We are the Priests
Of the Temple of Democracy
Our great Pelosis
Fill the hallowed halls
We are the Priests
Of the Temple of Democracy
All the masks of life
Are held within our sacred walls
Look around this world we made
Equity
Our stock in trade
Come and join the Personhood
Of Xe/Xir
What a nice contented world
Let the banners
Be unfurled
Hold the Red Star proudly
High in hand.
Stirring! That really gave me a rush!
I really wanted to post a picture of “Rush” from my early teens but couldn’t be arsed to do it. Yellow bottle, red lettering…
Butyl Nitrate FTW!
That’s the ticket!
I am finally Geddying it now!
But, Who Keeps the Metric System Down?
WE DO, WE DO!
Nicely done, Swiss.
Smoking Cigars? Aren’t all government buildings supposed to be anti-tobacco?
Congress normally exempts itself from laws.
And executive orders generally apply to the executive branch only; courts and congress not affected, although they generally follow suite with internal policies.
Rat: Also, the courts.
Mike Lindell is a nut. But damn it if he isn’t a quintessentially American nut. I only really like him at all because of the people who fear and hate him.
Minnesoda Nut.
I like the idea about him being an American Nut. That fits perfectly.
Say what you want about him, but he was able to create and build a company that sells pillows. Something that proved to be impossible by our best and brightest at Harvard.
“Those aren’t pillows!’
STEVE SMITH NO CARE PILLOW, NOT PILLOW. HIM LIKE, BY LIKE MEAN…
He was still addicted to crack when he started the company, I believe.
B A S E D
The same goes for Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think she is a bit of a loon (it is likely that I get this impression from the 24/7 press outrage coverage of her) but she has all the right enemies and does seem to be genuinely American.
Anyone that international press icon Don LeMon hates is alright in my book.
“they have corn hole”
Naughty Republican staffers. Trying to flip the LGBTQZZZ vote, are they?
I love me some cornhole.
…
Observe what a mature adult I’ve become.
Lame
The first time I heard of the game referred to as cornhole was a huge banner in a long time gay friendly neighborhood that said, “First Annual Cornhole tournament!”
The supposed original makers of the game made a version with a sock monkey that sounded off when tossed – they called it Screaming Monkey Cornhole. Of course they did.
“ZZZ”…?
Are narcoleptics now included in the alphabet people?
whaddup doh
STEVE SMITH UP, IYKWSSMAHTYD.
We went from “a vaccine in less than a year is impossible”, to “take the vaccine or you’re a selfish racist Nazi”, to now this. – I think I would have been better off if I got the thing in winter 2020
I’m still sad that I haven’t. What am I suppose to do to catch this thing? Make out with one of the illegals crossing the border?
I mean maybe you find a nice Romanian illegally crossing
LOL
That comment nearly warrants the applause.gif but you werent specific enough.
One unaware of the fact her partner (we do not used gendered nouns here) probably has a gun if not more than one
If you come to visit, specially Indiana, someone will likely sell you one. Or just give you a trunk full.
I can confirm this Tres. A trunk full of guns and fireworks (at buy one get 7 free).
I’ve been going out in public unvaccinated and unmasked, but I haven’t caught anything more than a cold. What is a rat to do?
The cold could have been the vid. For younger healthy people the symptoms are pretty mild.
I think I had the Rona back in early 2020 when a lingering respiratory illness swept through the office.
I think I had it too back in early 2020 because I think my wife brought it home from the hospital she works in. She had a head cold with a headache and bad cough for about three days, then I got the same thing. Since then I’ve been taking zero precautions and haven’t gotten sick.
Yeah, I never tested but I have been assuming that the worst-flu-of-my-life that I had after going into the office in the Bay Area in late Jan/early Feb 2020 was it. Just before that flew through ATL, so it could have been either — just seems too likely to not be the case. Which is a big reason why I don’t care to take the vaccine — I don’t buy that there’s appreciable benefit over natural immunity, especially compared to the known and unknown risks.
Im the same. I was sick as hell with an upper respiratory thing the latter part of December 2019. A couple weeks later, Jugsy gets sick. I go with her to the doctor and her GP said “no idea what it is- not the flu, not pneumonia, just some bug thats going around.”
Come March when the shit-show started, the news was listing symptoms and I told her, “we’ve already had that”. Ive been out in public, unmasked, for at least the past year and havent gotten anything more than a sinus infection from seasonal allergies.
^^^This. 3 days of horrible coughing and general misery a week before the office was permanently closed on March 11. Not sure how anyone who commuted to NYC via public transportation could have avoided it.
try going in a sewers looking for used denim.
Dont burn yourself on the rivets when you boil your demin.
I go about my daily routine, shake hands, eat at restaurants, and dont wear a mask. No illness since 2018.
Georgia has been open this whole time and we get people from every state that pass through Georgia. Were doing great.
In fact houses are flying off the market in a few days.
I flew through Baltimore and Atlanta in March of 2020. If I didn’t catch it then, I’m not going to catch it.
Me too. I went to Savannah in March of 2020, flew back and everything was locked down within a week afterwards. I felt a little odd after that vacation; nothing I could really pinpoint, just tired and slightly off-kilter for a few days.
My theory? I was asymptomatic. Since then I’ve had two colds and that is it for illnesses; even though I’ve flown since then, been in many, many restaurants and bars, gone shopping, record conventions, estate sales, etc.
You might be one of the people that like me had no serious symptoms. I only found out I had it when the Red Cross called me to tell me that they had found the antibodies in my blood and wanted me to donate again as soon as I could cause my blood was now wanted by everyone, including some Rumanian vamps…
*Raises hand!* Pick me Teacher! Pick me!
Holly shit Demi Rose is in the Daily Mail!!!!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9842981/Demi-Rose-puts-ample-assets-display-goes-braless-plunging-green-kaftan.html
who’d ev thunk it
Dude, horning in on Potato’s schtick is uncool.
There’s plenty to go around.
Around and back again, even.
In sports I do not get why the lakers traded for Westbrick. But maybe they have a plan, though how they gonna get to 15 players I don’t know
Several “D” League players.
In response, several GOP members of Congress defied Pelosi’s orders by allowing staff to work without masks, or remotely.
But young Capitol Hill staffers had another idea: they brought out drinks, inflated a rubber duck, and let the good times roll.
Perhaps the GOP will once again find its spine.
I understand Trump has threatened to support the primarying of any Republican that votes for the
Democratic Party wish list and connected peoples handout infinite pork barrel spendinginfrastructure bill.I’m still trying to wrap my head around the GOP as counter-culture.
Bloom County and Family Ties say “hi!”
Paint your adversaries as a bunch of humorless scolds. I like it. It’s an attack vector that at least has some potential, if only because the Democrats can’t seem to help playing right into it.
Far-right extremists use humor for their nefarious goals.
If you aren’t the mainstream culture, then by definition you are the counter-culture.
But, look at who isn’t a moral scold, who is funny, who is underground. We (well, people much older than me) saw the very same thing in the late fifties, but it was liberals then. The worm always turns
Starting to seem like the endorsement of Trump isn’t exactly a panacea for ails the GOP….
In local news one of the Ohio senators (Rob Portman) specifically said he reached out to try to work with Trump to support the
infrastructuremost frugal spending bill EVAR!Funny, because Trump had no problem ladling out the goodies when he was signing the bill…
Well of course, then he got to attach his name to it. If the Democrats had decided not to attach him, it could have been a lot worse. The Taking Recreational, Unnecessary, Militarized Pistols act could have been passed and signed easily.
Trump’s flaw is that he was willing to negotiate with the opposition. I guess we are better off since they (Dems) were such cuntes about it.
Swiss gets it.
The whole thing is kinda funny. If the D’s had worked with him they would have pretty much gotten all they wanted.
But no, they had to go full retard.
To be fair, many of those spending bills had veto proof majorities. Trump could spend political capital to veto them and congress over-ride the veto.
Health officials less confident in COVID vaccine efficacy with rise of Delta variant
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the mrna are not vaccines and that you cannot actually vaccinate for any coronavirus because it mutates constantly. Additionally there is an argument to be made that the “vaccines” are driving mutation. But wtf do I know?
Sounds like you don’t fucking love science.
The problem is he doesn’t love fucking science.
Who doesn’t love fucking science?!
Especially when Science has been a bad, bad girl?
Give me the results I want!
I scientifically love fucking.
Stinky Wizzleteats on July 29, 2021, 03:59 PM
Coopted private companies doing the government’s business.
slumbrew on July 29, 2021, 04:03 PM
We should have some sort of snappy name for that.
I love this place.
You know who else coopted private companies into doing the government’s business?
Since I live near Wright-Patterson AFB, every officer that retired and picked up a DoD “consulting” job ?
I am just jealous I didn’t get to the General ranks to pick up some cushy sinecure like that…
Yeah, I used to think that the mob had the market cornered on no-show jobs, they have nothing on the Flag Officer to contracting company executive pipeline.
Some Italian with a fashion sense for all black outfits?
governments everywhere?
Franco. James of the Giant General, I am not sure which.
Or, or. Fuck you autocorrect.
I must have missed this stuff in my high school government class. The Capital Police report to the Speaker of the House? And she can just make up laws?
Do not question the authority of the aristocracy, peasant!
She is the law!
She is as long as the jackboots are willing to enforce it. Getting rid of qualified immunity would go a long way in curtailing this shit.
The disregard of civil rights and show trials for the Jan 6th participants showed the courts are fully political entities now. Removing qualified immunity is too little too late. It’s all a circus.
True, we are officially a banana republic now with political prosecutions and show trials to go along with all of the massive corruption and incompetence.
So they have the law and the science? When will they take the religion?
“The First Church of Our Sacred Temple of Democracy”
Have you met the Pope?
Which one? Jimbo? Myself? The Catholic one?
Highest up in the Catholic ranks I met was a couple of Bishops. I left the church long ago.
There’s a Catholic Pope? Next you’ll tell me there are female libertarians.
They are under the legislative branch so the Speaker is who they report to. Immune from FOIA too.
Don’t confuse Capitol Police (a fedgov agency with limited jurisdiction over the actual capitol, congressional office buildings, and Library of Congress) with DC Metro Police (a municipal agency with district-wide jurisdiction, reporting to the mayor).
You’re not my supervisor! I’ll be confusing shit all day if I want!
Well, the Capitol and now Florida and California, because reasons….
…identification of winter threats.
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has plummeted 20 points since he gained office, according to a Monmouth University poll released Thursday.
It was all smoke and mirrors anyway.
81 million votes! The highest vote total of any president in history!!
And Hillary was the most qualified person ever to be president.
She has hot sauce in her purse!
And she ain’t no ways tahrd!
Well, when you are looking for someone to run a corrupt organization, a lifelong crook would appear qualified.
Yeah, Juris can suck a long dick at this point.
Meanwhile Harris’ popularity has gone up 20 points in fake polls.
Mike Lindell pulls ads from Fox News after they refused to air ad promoting his cyber symposium.
Dude might be a little nuts but at least he is fun.
He also believes in what he believes.
He’s losing a lot of money because of his nuttiness, but he doesn’t seem to care. If woke CEO’s are going to be lauded for putting their “values” before profits, Lindell needs to be lauded as well.
I am tempted to purchase some of his products just because. I wonder how that will go over with the died-in-the-wool Dem gf. . .
https://www.mypillow.com/bleedstop-product-page.html
I ordered two of these to “support” him.
GF already had some pillows, but she wasn’t a big fan. She picky.
You know, I do need some more bath towels.
Buy them without telling her what she’s using.
You could just cut the tags off the pillows if you’re willing to live a life of crime.
We’ve got a couple of his dog beds. Can recommend.
What did you say to Mrs. Dean that got you relegated to the dog bed?
Turns out wearing a buffalo horn helmet to bed wasn’t what she was looking for after all.
I would have loved to smoke a little crack with Mike back in the day.
Heh.
After 9/11 the government passed tons of new laws mandating that we we routinely got molested at airports, lost all privacy, lost due process in a criminal court if we were considered an enemy combatant, etc. The Covid response shouldn’t feel like that. And yet….
https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1420714639122386954
“Never let a crisis go to waste.” Even if you have to just manufacture one.
I went through the Denver and Nashville airports this week. Security wasn’t bad in either. 5 minutes tops to get through. Neither had that spinning x-ray type hands-up things to go through, just normalish metal detectors. The worst part was dealing with the newbs who for some reason feel the need to repack all their shit while they’re filling up the trays.
https://twitter.com/MichaelPSenger/status/1420803190593708033
Holy fuck – Australia edition.
But at least they don’t have icky guns
That conversation sounded better in its original German.
And that’s just a country we used to know and love.
I’ve heard worse horror stories coming out of less-friendly regimes.
Maybe giving up guns wasn’t such a good idea.
Citizens (Subjects) will have to die at the hands of police for this to change at all.
So who is team Scarlett Johansson and who is team Disney?
Based on what I know about Disney, I will just assume they are the bad guys here.
Johansson said that Disney’s decision to send the Marvel movie to Disney Plus at the same time it released in theaters cost her millions of dollars in backend compensation
Is it in your contract? No? Then shut up.
A brief read of a couple of blurbs indicated that her contract did include increased payout based on theatrical release. From the statements Disney made, they may have included the premium streaming fee as part of that theatrical release bonus.
Of course, since they killed Natasha off, it’s not like she could be in any more MCU movies. I mean, comic book characters always stay dead, and never come back.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear.
Did the contract stipulate how the movie was to be released? No? Then shut up.
In fact, if they have contractual premiums written in for theater release, then clearly they contemplated not releasing it in theater.
It’d be like me bitching because my stock options didn’t appreciate enough after my company launched a reorg that lowered the stock price. Dem’s da breaks.
Sorry, vapid actress, hire a better agent next time.
I sort of liked the first Spiderman movie. It was cool seeing how cgi could make superhero movies possible.
Since then I have grown so fucking tired of any Marvel movie that I can’t stand it.
Point of order. Assuming you’re referring to the Raimi directed Spider-Man, that was Sony, not Marvel. Marvel was still trying to figure out how to survive at that point and had licensed off the rights to almost all of their big name characters to get cash money. That’s also why the Hulk has not had a stand alone movie since the Ed Norton one, Universal owns distribution rights to all Hulk movies.
Don’t be silly. He said the First Spiderman movie
I assumed he was talking theatrical release, not made for TV.
A while back I saw an article lamenting that those early made for TV Spider-man movies had not been released on any media. I can only assume the person writing that was too young to have watched any of them.
It got a theatrical release.
My shop helper had worked on the animatronics for that movie. He had the original release poster, signed by the entire cast, with the twin towers reflected in Spiderman’s eyes. They pulled the poster after 9/11 and contacted him asking him to return it. I told him to keep it, it’ll be worth a bunch of money one day. Don’t know if he did or not.
I wound up drinking with a bunch of the help for Spider-Man 3 when a girl I was interested in gave me a call at 22:00 on a Monday and asked me to meet her up at a bar for their SIN (Service Industry Night) specials as the crew were all there. She knew I was a Spider-Man fanboy.
Sam Raimi’s Spiderman 2 is the best superhero movie ever made. It isn’t even close.
I’d like to put in X-Men 2 and Captain America: The First Avenger as contenders as well.
I would assume most of us are Team Not My Circus – Not My Monkeys.
Not My Monkeys
C’mon man! That has to be racist. Right?
You left off the option to not be for either.
I’m Team “Die in a Fire!”
Team “ScarJo needs to be naked more often?”
That’s a team I could get behind.
The problem I have with commentary about this lawsuit is all these low-IQ people: “Oh booo-hoo! The millionaire got a little less money!” Few things with this:
1. If Scarlett doesn’t get the money, it goes to Disney. Is that somehow a victory?
2. What people don’t seem to understand about the suit is, it alleges that by doing the simultaneous release, the profits were transferred from the box office to Disney+ subscriptions and pay-per-view rentals. That translates to performance bonuses for Iger and Chapek, at the expense of Scarlett’s box office percentage points. Is it somehow better that the multi-millionaire corrupt executives get the money, than the multi-millionaire actress?
I don’t know the language of the contract, so I don’t know who’s right, but I’m not about defend the gutter trash that is Disney just because an already-rich actress wants to get paid for her labor.
ScarJo. Anything to bleed the Mouse.
All polls are BS, even when they align with my beliefs.
It’s almost as if polls are commissioned to effect opinion and not just measure it.
9 out of 5 schizophrenics agree, according to a recent poll.
I’d rather party with the Rep interns rather than the Dem ones. Looks like they have some skills.
That’s one cunning cat.
Watch this mastermind cat escape an “escape proof cage” at a rescue center.
Smart kitty.
Have any of you watched any of the three/four? movies Mike Lindell put out. I tried to watch the first one, but couldn’t make it very far. That even Breitbart and Pj Media ignore him (at least the election stuff, they do report on his getting kicked off twitter, and that Hogg kids rival poillow company) tells me he’s probably got nothing.
Maybe. But keep in mind Dominion is showering billion dollar lawsuits on any individual and/or entity that even hints they pulled some questionable shit. Combine that with social media kicking off anyone questioning the election and you get even the most right wing media refusing to touch it.
Yup. Hot stoves are hot.
Hogg kids rival poillow company
That’s dead already.
Customers disliked the bite marks?
Tucker is aiming for a spot in the gulags.
This Tucker Carlson dig at a fully-vaccinated, mask & face shield wearing Lloyd Austin is one for the ages.
“How long before he’s wearing surgical gloves in the shower and zip-tying garbage bags around his feet? The U.S. military is being run by a neurotic cat lady.”
Why is he the only one from the dinosaurs pushing back? Controlled opposition?
Tucker wants to win. Dinosaurs lost really big that one time, you know with the meteor, and now all they want is to replicate their greatest record. Then, can sit back and whine without ever taking responsibility for anything. Nobody is blaming global warming on brontosaurus farts, now are they?
It works. He wins the ratings game.
OMG Swimwear Art Hearts Fashion 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj3F9iuFQeY
thicc or extra thicc?
Not enough FUPA but I could make it work.
For you.
“Mein eyes!”
Context matters.
You have no one to blame but yourself. 😛
Oh hell yes.
By the time I was done with her, she’d be buried in a Y-shaped casket.
Alternative comment: “whomever managed to pull me out of her would be the next king of England”
OK, that got a lol.
Good morning Banjos!
That song is gonna be going through my head for the rest of the day.
So thanks!
Yep. Matches the mood.
The story about those GOP staffers got me aroused.
Way back in the day when I had just got out of the Marines, I was bumming around Fargo/Moorhead. A good friend from high school had become the head of the College Republicans for one of the local colleges. He’d invite me to their parties and I never failed to get laid at them. I was a “bad boy” who wasn’t in school and I was much more manly than the other GOP kids.
Those pics of the staffers brought back fond memories of those times.
Left uncertain amid the revised recommendations is at what point, if ever, it will be safe for vaccinated individuals to go maskless. Both Fauci and Wallensky have acknowledged that infections in vaccinated individuals are “rare,” and both have continued to argue strongly that vaccines are effective at fighting the virus. The disconnect between that confidence and the new guidance has rendered the new directive somewhat opaque in its reasoning.
Now go ask about the SCIENCE! behind masks, you credulous dolts.
Or you could lose the buzzwords and do what the Trump admin. was doing, namely enforce existing immigration laws and secure the border.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who was placed in charge of handling the Biden border crisis, have unveiled what they are calling a plan to address the “root causes” of immigration from Mexico and the “Northern Triangle” countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. …
“In Central America, the root causes of migration run deep—and migration from the region has a direct impact on the United States,” Harris said in a statement accompanying the report. “For that reason, our nation must consistently engage with the region to address the hardships that cause people to leave Central America and come to our border.”
“The strategy, according to officials, has been broken down into five pillars: addressing economic insecurity and inequality; combatting corruption, strengthening democratic governance and advancing the rule of law; promoting respect for human rights, labor rights, and a free press; countering and preventing violence, extortion, and other crimes perpetrated by criminal gangs, trafficking networks, and other organized criminal organizations; and combating sexual, gender-based and domestic violence,” Fox News added.
So, they propose to eventually undertake a program to somehow end decades of Latin American government corruption and mismanagement. Because we’ve been so successful trying that shit before.
I hope the plan reads:
“Dear Central America:
Fix your shit.
Love, Joe”
Nation building? Since we pulled out of Afghanistan, we need someplace to occupy.
I’ll volunteer out of the Retired Reserve to help occupy Costa Rica!
Apparently we tried it back in the 19th century using mercenaries and it didn’t go so well.
It is time we consider our troops and invade a nice country that has plenty of vacation opportunities.
The real 5 pillars:
1. Identify prime money laundering areas of economic insecurity and inequality.
2. Align with locals most amenable to corruption while pretending to be strengthening democratic governance and advancing the rule of law.
3. Launch a “foundation” whose stated goals are promoting respect for human rights, labor rights, and a free press; as well as combating sexual, gender-based and domestic violence.
4. Engage in violence, extortion, and other crimes alongside criminal gangs, trafficking networks, and other organized criminal organizations, doing whatever it takes to create false flags to justify US tax money being funneled to the “foundation.”
5. Profit.
Fixing the root causes, if even possible, and securing the border should not be mutually exclusive.
It is unacceptable that anyone should ever live below the 10th percentile standard of living.
https://twitter.com/Duderichy/status/1420937249072443395
As percentiles are relative things, the only way you can attain that is to burn everyone’s standard of living down to scratching at dirt looking for bugs.
Fuck off, commie.
We must work to ensure no person has below median income.
Really hard to tell but reading the dude’s reply to his comments, I think he was trolling. If so he’s a master and he played it perfectly.
Then again he’s in Seattle and has a man-bun, so he might be serious, in which case this is major derp.
The IOC hates women.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reaffirmed its full support of transgender athletes Friday when medical director Richard Budgett declared “transwomen are women” and should be included in women’s sport “when we possibly can.”
“After 100 years of promoting women’s sport, it’s up to each of the international federations to ensure that they try and protect women’s sport,” he told a briefing in Tokyo. “Science will help, experience will help, and time will help.”
Seems to me like you are supporting the destruction of women’s sports.
womxn bigot
If transwomen are better at sports then haven’t we improved women’s sports? I kid, but I still want a super league where participants are required to use every performance-enhancing technology available. Unethical? You bet. But it will be awesome.
“We have only had five embolisms, two cerebral hemmorages, and six heart attacks this year.”
“Sounds like they’re playing it safe on the field, Jon.”
“medical director”
honk-honk ?
Re: lesbians yesterday,
I’m not going to go searching now that IT is watching me, but there are a number of articles about how lesbian dating sites are being overrun by transwomyn. Any native lesbopotamians who dislike this are screamed at for being J. K. Rowling level transphobes.
As a lesbian trapped in a a man’s body, I can see how these people are abusing the tranny thing…
What do I keep saying about, ‘you get what you put up with?’
Well, their logo is five holes and there’s nothing to fill any of them.
Who cares. I don’t anymore.
Anti-Asian racism has the same source as anti-Black racism: white supremacy. So even when a Black person attacks an Asian person, the encounter is fueled very specifically by white supremacy. White supremacy does not require a white person to perpetuate
https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1420616243867004928
We have to be getting close to peak Derp with this one.
The thing that is most baffling is how they contort themselves to avoid saying the anti-Asian stuff comes from black people, the other group they claim is being accosted by honkey racists…
Well, there it is, the stupidest thing I’ve seen all week.
stupidest so far…..
Good point.
In Central America, the root causes of migration run deep
Those places are shitholes, and we played a major role in making them thus.
Fortunately, once we have completed our mission to destroy the rule of law and turn this country into a socialist banana republic, those impoverished peasants will have no real incentive to come here. Problem solved.
It used to be that the people that “migrated” did so for economic reasons and they were hard workers looking for a better future. These were people that would work hard. The majority of the new migrants don’t come here for work so much as they come for free shit one party is offering in the hopes of electing themselves a new people that will vote for them no matter how bad they fuck the previous people over.
I think most of them still work hard. But they also take advantage of the free stuff.
Hard to say how the mix is changing. The current (very large) wave came specifically because they were invited to with (implied, at a minimum) promises of public support.
The children being sent in are certainly not coming here to work, that’s for sure. I wonder how many of their “parents”, if they come with them, are planning to work as well.
But, it doesn’t really matter to me. Because regardless of whether they are coming to work or sponge off welfare, nobody is making an argument that allowing hundreds of thousands to millions of unskilled migrants into the country is good for the citizens of the United States. And that’s the only issue that should matter when it comes to immigration policy.
“nobody is making an argument that allowing hundreds of thousands to millions of unskilled migrants into the country is good for the citizens of the United States.”
I probably benefit because it pushes up home prices and lowers the cost of things like food and services. It’s not good for people at the low end of the wage scale because of the extra competition. I don’t see how the lefties can complain about income inequality and at the same time flood the low end of the market with unskilled labor.
Watch this mastermind cat escape an “escape proof cage” at a rescue center.
Awesome.
But young Capitol Hill staffers had another idea: they brought out drinks, inflated a rubber duck, and let the good times roll.
That caught the attention of Aaron Fritschner, a staffer for Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who sought to shame them on Twitter:
Aaron Fritschner is a Grade A douchebag and a prissy little tattletale. His grandfather probably fought on some foreign shore so he could grow up and volunteer to be a part of our New American Stasi.
But the stasi will be invited to all the best parties
He works for that fuckstick Don Beyer, who is firmly ensconced in Arlington like an embedded tick.
1) demonstrating for freedom is more important than just about anything
2) Now you care about how tax dollars are spent?
Discriminatory taxation is all the rage.
Congress should increase the income tax rate on taxpayers who are unvaccinated, and who have no legitimate religious or medical reason to be unvaccinated, to 99 percent.
This could be done through reconciliation.
Yes. Tax the dissidents into poverty. And maybe make them wear some sort of identifier so that the good
subjectscitizens know that they are dirty pathogen spreaders.But I am pretty sure that assertion is not correct. And people like me can have no reconciliation with people like you.
How could anyone think that they intend to persecute the non-compliers into oblivion?
When somebody starts putting bullets in these totalitarian assholes, I’m going to have a celebratory drink.
And the court will allow it, because PenalTax!!
STEVE SMITH LEVY “PENAL” TAX!
Dude. This was named yesterday… PenalVax.
legitimate religious or medical reason
Both broadly applied by an individual.
Last I checked, I can refuse medical advice and fuck you my spaghetti monster is my messiah and it says no magic shall be injected into thine bodies
Nope, sorry, legitimate religious exemptions only apply to religions where government is god.
What is scary is that is exactly what they believe.
The more of this that I read, the clearer it becomes. The left, getting an unfamiliar taste of the Chump Effect, is lashing out in anger against victims who can’t hit them back.
So tax Black Americans more? That should go over well.
https://twitter.com/RoonKolos/status/1421063745112088578
Congress should increase the income tax rate on taxpayers who are unvaccinated, and who have no legitimate religious or medical reason to be unvaccinated, to 99 percent.
Fuck that.
Just confiscate our assets when you send us to the camps.
Why not issue a bill of attainder against the unvaccinated?
Well they could reinsert the 3/5th clause for the unwashed. Might as well go full retard on this.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/07/29/radioactive-material-missing-michigan-nrc-says/5411807001/
Most waste from Ohio ends up in Myrtle Beach this time of year…
Those golf cart parades can’t happen on their own, you know.
Radioactive material headed to Michigan from an Ohio company
We finally dropped the bomb on TSUN? I knew it would come to this. (BTW, does sloopy have an alibi?)
Well, if it missed Ann Arbor, State College wouldn’t be a bad second choice.
Iridium? Everyone watch out for a man with a very unbalanced horned helmet looking to make a portal with it….
Isn’t he still locked up?
Perhaps the feds should start doing their damned jobs instead of threatening states that have been put in the position of having to do it for them.
According to the governor’s website, Abbott signed the executive order “restricting ground transportation of migrants who pose a risk of carrying COVID-19 into Texas communities.” It also “directed the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) to stop any vehicle upon reasonable suspicion of such violation and reroute such vehicles back to its point of origin or a port of entry. DPS also has the authority to impound a vehicle that violates the Executive Order.”
In response, Attorney General Garland wrote his own letter to Abbott, saying that the order cannot be enforced, and pressed the governor to immediately take it back.
Garland wrote that the order “would jeopardize the health and safety of noncitizens in federal government custody, federal law enforcement personnel and their families, and our communities.”
He also stated that it “directly interferes with the implementation of federal immigration law.”
“Texas has no authority to interfere with the United States’ ‘broad, un-doubted power over the subject of immigration’ by impairing the United States’ release of individuals and the ability of those individuals to comply with federal immigration law,” Garland added.
Since nobody is enforcing federal immigration law, I don’t see how this could be interfering with it.
Selectively enforcing. “Sorry, Cubans.”
If you needed proof those claiming they wanted open borders didn’t do so out of any noble motive, just look at what was said to the Cubans – people truly escaping tyranny and hell on earth, which happens to be the system the people advocating for open borders want to give us here in the US – whose true crime will be not voting for the people advocating open borders otherwise…
This will be interesting.
Only Hawaii has that authority!
“This is such an overstep of Speaker Pelosi’s authority to basically make our Capitol Police arrest staff members and report on members [of Congress],” Cammack told Fox News Thursday. “It’s absolutely unconscionable that this is where we’re at.”
We got rid of the Authoritarian Orange Man just in time. Think how bad things would be with him running the show.
You would think that Dr. Anthony “I AM SCIENCE” Fauci would have seen this vaccine resistance coming. Maybe instead of saying “whatever me (and my team) says, is irrefutable truth”, people should have a little humility and say “we’re doing the best we can with what we know and what we have to work with.”
He Can’t.
He’s been the head of a hand sculpted agency for decades. Being questioned or defied is absolutely alien to him. He’s angry that people are not taking his word as law.
Fauci is more of a profiteering bureaucrat than a scientist.
Fauci:
To quote one of my favorite characters, “Who talks like that?”
*cues up videos of Fauci repeatedly contradicting himself*
“Rue the day???”
I saw this link about Michigan: These 10 Michigan counties should return to masking indoors, per CDC guidancee
And they’re all low-population counties; which means, to my eyes, herd immunity is working ever so slowly if the virus is hitting these areas harder than Kent or the counties around and in Detroit.
Local news wrote about the new CDC recommendations, and listed the Ohio counties that should start masking if they want to follow the guidelines. Almost all were rural, with the exception of Montgomery County (which has Dayton).
Oh great.
[Montgomery County resident]
Do you guys have a county government down there, or just the city ones? So far DeWine (Cunte – OH) has said he’s not going to bring back a mandate, and even up here in Cuyahoga, I don’t think people would follow it anymore.
Yes, we have to deal with county government along with city government. County does stuff like real estate/property taxes, courts/sheriff and parks management.
They also have a Public Health office – they’ve been arranging a lot of the COVID vaccination sites within the county.
Huh. These 14 Minnesoda counties should return to maksing indoors
But there is no way that the media has coordinated pr campaigns.
The got the county right next door to Manistee, Mason where all the big courses are,
Fuck Them All!
City Attorney Pete Holmes worries he’ll get squeezed out in tight 3-way Seattle primary
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/city-attorney-pete-holmes-worries-hell-get-squeezed-out-in-tight-3-way-seattle-primary
No idea how I got to this article. But this caught my eye.
“By contrast, Thomas-Kennedy, an attorney and former public defender, is running as an “abolitionist,” arguing Holmes is prosecuting too many petty property crimes, wasting city resources and essentially criminalizing poverty. ”
This is very stupid in many ways. First minor property crime prosecuted will be less and less minor.
Second, as 90s post commie eastern europe minor property crime was generally not prosecuted, it is not pleasant to live in such a place. Even if you have the money to replace lost property, it is a major nuisance and generally unpleasant to expect everything not nailed down to be stolen.
Third, is this implying all poor people steal? because otherwise criminalizing theft is not criminalizing poverty.
If you are getting squeezed out of a three-way, you were never meant to be there
But, I heard the lesbians were going extinct?
I never would have expected Holmes to get squeezed out of a three way.
Well, if they elect Thomas-Kennedy, they get what they deserve. It’s not like San Francisco is showing them exactly what will happen or anything like that.
The left will continue to destroy their cities, and the FedGov will continue using Covid as an excuse to bail them out when their tax base flees.
their tax base flees
I haven’t heard much from the regional taxation crowd? I guess there is no need when you can go to the top for other people’s money.
At least if we are locked down again we won’t need that infrastructure bill.
Good point.
But how will Amazon deliver packages to me?
Drones and spaceships.
Suborbital phallic missiles.
The two-page guidance dated Wednesday was issued by the new police chief, Manger, who took over on Friday to lead the Capitol Police force, which is still reeling from the Jan. 6 riot and Good Friday attack at the Capitol.
They’re HEROES, dedicated professionals who defend the Constitution and serve the nation, not Nancy’s Thug Army.
And they’ll give you a good thrashing if you say that again.
the Jan. 6 riot and Good Friday attack at the Capitol.
The Capitol was attacked on Good Friday? This year?
Well, they have been making shit up, so why not? Oh..they mean the crazy dude who slammed his car into the barriers. Yeah, lets just roll those in to this.
” still reeling from the Jan. 6 riot”
JFC. What a bunch of lightweights.
I went to a big concert last night in my town. Full capacity, sold out, people almost shoulder to shoulder. I estimate only 1 in 30 people wore masks. The headliner, Bright Eyes, was some indie-pop emo-crooner who was OK but really elevated by a locally-sourced string and brass section. I got the ticket from a friend who had to jet for a family thing and wanted me to look after her cat. I wouldn’t have had any interest but it was very local and free. I had fun.
Apparently this was their first show as a band since 2011, first live performance in two years. It really struck me how nervous the performers were, covid twisted some people up. The crowd at this show was very much hipster NPR millennial geek perhaps they shared that apprehension. I think the hysteria coming from government is straight up abusive at this point. I have no other explanation. Anyway, they played an almost 2 hour set because they weren’t sure the tour would even continue. Maybe the melodrama is part of their schtick but I thought it was genuine.
So I guess the lesson is this. No matter how miserable the government is making you right now, it’s making the leftists even more miserable. Also, live music is cool and good.
Yes! Even sub-par live music is better than the alternative. Bright Eyes used to be big in Sweden.
Looking forward to the show in Eastern PA next weekend. This is the longest time that I’ve not been to a concert since I was a child. It’s also looking like I’ll be picking up Punk in Drublic tickets for just outside of Pittsburgh for October.
All of our days are numbered. Tyrants forget that. This petty bullshit has gotten out of hand. I’m an old man afraid to speak his own mind in a “democracy”. I really don’t know what to make of the situation. God help us all.
Freedom only dies if it is no longer uttered from the lips of good people.
We do it daily and fear not my Canadian friend, it will prevail again as long as we continue our snark and glibness.
I love you just a little more, radar love, even…
My fear has been eclipsed by DGAF. They’re gonna find out I’m a “deplorable” eventually. May as well come to terms with it and go back to living life.
Sewer colony, dude.
Disclaimer: if you here something say “wannafud?”, run.
Watching the AM local news. Here is the new line on the virus: the delta variant is more contagious than the chicken pox and the virus wont stop mutating until almost everyone is vaccinated.
They didn’t mention EBOLA to really stoke the fear?
Not chicken pox!
DOOM!
Wait… I’m of an age when most of us got chicken pox, as there wasn’t a vaccine for it. It was basically a rite of passage. Even then, some people (like the girlfriend) never got it.
This. It was a mild childhood disease. I’m glad there was a vaccine developed for it, but seriously…you were laid up for a week with all the care and attention from mommy or daddy.
And eucalyptus baths….I loved those
Never heard of those.
We got calamine lotion dabbed on with cotton balls.
Some one told me the practice of Bukkake was born from small pox treatment trials…
The oils sooth and helped with the treatment. Thousand Oaks, where my extended family lived, had large amounts of those trees.
Eucalyptus trees were used as wind blocks just over the hill in the Camarillo/Oxnard plain. They are everywhere out here.
Yes, of course, the virus magically stops mutating when everybody is vaccinated. I swear to God, this entire episode in American history has been a return to the Dark Ages in terms of scientific understanding.
return to the Dark Ages in terms of scientific understanding
Or mendacious manipulation of the population by the powers that be.
the virus wont stop mutating
until almost everyone is vaccinatedFixed. Get your vitamin C/D/etc.
Even if we assume their stupidity is correct, what about the massive reserve of unvaccinated people across the world?
Any Glibs want to volunteer?
Can masturbating impact the immune system?
Well I would assume the release…*Beavis laugh* of serotonin and studies have linked it to immunity.
But sure, I’ll volunteer
Millions of Covid Karens start flicking the bean. For Science!
This made me laugh because people who masturbate while having blood drawn are totally representative of the population. No selection bias there, nope
I haven’t been sick in years. *scratches hairy palms*
But did you go blind?
It may help prevent diseases, but there are downsides. Excessive masturbation is known to increase joint pain/damage. Ever heard of a knee jerk reaction?
That rubs me the wrong way.
Get a grip, man.
I’m willing to do the research to find out.
The takeaway is, don’t shake hands with healthy people?
People unleashing their inner Karens.
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1420943759777402882
What the fuck is the purpose of whole wheat English muffins?
These things are too dense to hold the amount of melted butter I need.
About time someone posted something serious here. Melted butter is the least of the issues, takes 45 minutes to toast the fuckers.
Bagels with cultured butter > bagels with cream cheese.
Bay’s English Muffins or GTFO. Thomas’s are garbage.
Off with his head
President Biden and Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy had a heated exchange Thursday at the end of a speech in which Biden announced a vax-or-test-mask-and-distance requirement for millions of federal workers.
As Biden left the podium in the East Room of the White House, Doocy reminded the president that he had said, “if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.”
“No I didn’t say that,” Biden responded. “I said if you’re fully vaccinated in an area where you do not have – well, let me clarify that –“
Doocy interrupted to clarify his question: “In May, you made it sound like a vaccine was the ticket to losing the masks forever.”
“That was true at the time!” a visibly agitated president shot back. “Because I thought there were people who were going to understand that getting vaccinated made a gigantic difference. What happened was, a new variant came along, they didn’t get vaccinated, it was spread more rapidly, and more people were getting sick. That’s the difference.”
How dare you question my authority to randomly rewrite the rules based on made-up SCIENCE! from quacks and charlatans?
Now if only other ‘news’ agencies would be as pressing. It is clear that WH communications could not handle a curious press.
Delta has been in the US since February.
I’m surprised they even let Doocy have a press pass. I guess he’s their token conservative so they can claim things are not biased.
Last I checked, I can refuse medical advice
This man is obviously a danger to himself and others. I hereby order him to be transported for observation and treatment to the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to be released at such time as the professional staff deem him cured.
TLPB gets it!
One of my mom’s distant cousins is married to Mike Lindell’s cousin, and he says he’s an asshole. True story. Maybe I should post about it on Reddit, then journalisming will happen!
You have to say my anonymous distant cousin to protect his privacy
Most rich people are assholes. You don’t get rich by going along to get along, hence my conundrum.
I also find people that ask to “borrow” (read get free shit) money from rich relatives/friends and get told “fuck no, brah”, tend to label the person telling them there will be no early/extra Christmas an asshole..
My take is that assholes are the ones thinking rich people, especially rich relatives, should give them shit. Not judging your relative, but just pointing out something I have seen frequent enough to believe is almost a given.
Most rich people are assholes.
That has not been my experience, at all. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Near as I can tell, the distribution of assholes is pretty consistent across most socio-economic cohorts. If I had to pick one that seems overpopulated with assholes, it might well be upper-middle-class white women.
If I had to pick one that seems overpopulated with assholes, it might well be upper-middle-class white women.
I’ll agree with that bit. Related to that, the _spouses_ of the rich people I’ve met – i.e., not the earner themselves – do indeed over-index for assholery.
Case in point – my cousin is the driver for a big-time hedge fund guy, a member of the 3-comma club (I think); the guy is by all accounts incredibly nice to my cousin and all other employees. His wife treats everyone like indentured servants.
Oh Yeah.
I was going to be very disappointed it if that was anything else.
Just re-watched that some months back – holds up pretty well.
What the fuck is the purpose of whole wheat English muffins?
I don’t know, but cinnamon raisin english muffins with peanut butter are teh awesome.
What the fuck is the purpose of
whole wheatEnglish muffins?FIFY
Sandwiches.
Meh, I like sausage Macmuffins.
Is this some euphemism about these the girls that get Tres all excited and wanting to play Excalibur?
I thought Excalibur was withdrawn?
That happened in the sequel.. Tres wants to play the prequel…
Excalibur was never in the stone, those were two different swords.
It’s like you guys don’t even know western myths.
Ex Calce liberare was never in a stone?
I saw the pr0n version of Camelot.
Cum-a-Lot.
The plot was derivative and hard to follow.
Now I’m confused. Did I just hallucinate the lady of the lake or no?
Not as good as “Lord of the cock rings”? That Dildo Teabaggings character really gave it to Samwise Gaygie….
DUDE THAT SCENE IN EXCALIBUR WHERE THE GUY STABS THE OTHER GUY WITH A JOUSTING LANCE AND A CHUNK FALLS OUT OF THE BACK OF HIM WAS WILD.
Delivery system for bread or egg or jelly
Fuck…butter…I was hoping to not have my first slumbrew’d until this afternoon
Carrier agent for poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce.
The researchers drew blood from these participants as they were masturbating …
That’s some serious kink.
Was there some light whipping involved? For SCIENCE?
Don’t be shaming Pie.
But seriously, how hard is it to draw blood? Just get your red crayon out and start scribbling.
“My doc wanted a blood sample and insisted it came from my neck. Im going to stop seeing Dr. Acula.”
-Mitch Hedberg
Economics for zoomers
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1420742087083925515
I took a class in college that covered Marxist economic theory. Fortunately it was only a third of the course. The other thirds were, Marxist economic reality and how formerly Marxist economies where transitioning.
It is unacceptable that anyone should ever live below the 10th percentile standard of living.
Fucking numbers- how do they work?
I never understood the $15 salad, but now learn that there is a name for it “sad desk salad”.
That said I’ve got two choices – take the “hour” I’m allowed for lunch or eat at my desk and go home earlier. Mind you I do eat out with co-workers, just not everyday. Pretty much everybody in my office does the same.
Why New Yorkers pay $15 for ‘sad desk salads’
No surprise – COVID has killed a lot of these businesses. A significant amount of restaurants around my office have closed in the past 18 months.
I never eat at my desk. Even when in a hurry I would go to the office kitchen or grab a sandwich and eat it outside.
Wait… Cleveland was ahead of a craze? There was a local chain back in the day called Cafe 56. They served salads, 56 different kinds of them to be specific. I think the last of them closed in the past 5 years or so.
If you pay $15 for a salad you deserve the cum they add to your dressing…
You caused a long-dead synapse to awaken and remind me that I saw an 80s pr0n where dude busted on a salad before it was served to a house full of people.
Seems like it had Traci Lords (legit age) and Sharon whats-her-face.
Barbara Broadcast
A quick check of your citation isnt the one I had in mind. Which isnt to say that some dude didn’t drop his “rancid gruel” into a salad. Just not going to watch the entire thing.
It’s worth a watch.
I frequently eat at my desk because I’m an introvert who generally avoids other people.
Thailand bans sharing of news that ‘causes public fear’ amid pandemic criticism
Measures condemned by media and rights groups as attempt to shut down negative news reports
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/30/thailand-bans-sharing-of-news-that-causes-public-fear-amid-pandemic-criticism
But underage, tranny, piss-hookers, are still totes cool.
Adorable
Pandemic protocols have kept Olympic venues primarily fan-free, required extra precautions and testing for athletes and staff and prevented many loved ones from cheering their teams on in person.
But one COVID-19 concession may actually make for a beautiful new Olympic tradition.
In years past, dignitaries would place medals around each winner’s neck on the podium.
This year, officials are presenting athletes with their medals on a tray, from which they can then theoretically put them on themselves. But with the flowers and the masks, it can be a lot to juggle.
So some Olympians are giving each other a hand, in what might just be the most pure example of teamwork at this year’s Games.
Slurp slurp slurp.
More topnotch journalisming from the folks at Natsoc Propaganda Radio.
I read the same article with the exact same thought earlier this AM.
Along with another article questioning why this was held in August in Japan. It made note that the last Tokyo Olympics was held in October because of the heat.
Same with Mexico City. But you won’t get to 40M yearly visitors goal by implying that large chunks of the year are no go times. And modern A/C solves it all!
*nearly ended up in the hospital in September as a heat casualty on first trip
Pathetic
Her hole is smoking, but no liquid squirting out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWXWqbEmWXE
Mighty magmanimous of you to post that compliment
Paging Swiss….
Someone is rock hard.
Too risky, can’t click.
Your loss – it’s super hot!
Steamy. Moist even.
Swampy
I drank way too many beers and it’s a long weekend. Hope you all have a most excellent one! Might see you on the Shame-Zoom. Judi hates it because she doesn’t get the in-jokes. She’ll hear something that sets her off and sparks fly. Fuck it. I miss my friends.
Im working tonight.
/kicks @ rocks
You don’t want to explain OMWC, STEVE SMITH, the Iron Laws, the Narrowed Gaze, the Tulpa… yeah. I tried to tell the girlfriend to lurk for a while to learn of our ways. She did not.
It’s an acquired taste.
We’re too much like Monty Python or Three Stooges. (Most) Chics dont get us.
He has a plan
Rep. Chip Roy confronted House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday about a new Capitol Police bulletin that suggests congressional staffers and visitors could be arrested if they fail to heed the chamber’s new mask mandate.
“This is bulls—. We need to lead,” Roy, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told McCarthy during a brief meeting of GOP lawmakers in a Capitol reception room, according to two sources familiar with the exchange.
McCarthy replied to a frustrated Roy that his plan is to win back the majority in 2022 and become speaker, the sources said. Their back-and-forth illustrates the mounting fury on the right about efforts by Capitol security officials to enforce mask-wearing rules amid the surge of Covid’s Delta variant.
Meanwhile, just bend over and take it, I guess. Good plan.
What a damned pussy.
2022 may as well be “The Year 2025” Cucks. Act now or let your freedom die in a fire.
No kidding. Hey McCarthy, confronting Pelosi now will get you that coveted Speakers chair.
At this point, I’d be happy if they beat Pelosi to a bloody pulp and propped her dead body on the steps with a sign beneath her head of Sic Semper Tyrannis.
McCarthy replied to a frustrated Roy that his plan is to win back the majority in 2022 and become speaker, the sources said.
How many times has that football been pulled away?
So I assume the SP/OM household is in the throes of moving hell? Hope all is going smoothly if you’re reading!
Mercer Street: Two Europeans killed in incident on board oil tanker off Oman coast
https://www.euronews.com/2021/07/30/mercer-street-two-europeans-killed-in-incident-on-board-oil-tanker-off-oman-coast
Apparently one Romanian bought it
Where did they find wooden stakes in the middle of the ocean?
ships are made of wood
Wood that dents easily.
Anyone who thinks wood doesn’t dent has never dropped a ceramic mug onto a hardwood floor.
Priapism?
Giving it that “lived in” appearance.
From whats left of Gilligan’s Island.
Impressive understatement, calling a pirate attack an “incident”.
It is the new journalism. It is what they say it is.
Broadly, Republicans are arguing that the new mask mandate from Monahan and the Biden administration will increase vaccine hesitancy, just as Republicans are increasingly urging their constituents to get protected. Voters who identify as Republican are less likely to be vaccinated than Democrats.
Democrats and some health experts argue masks are necessary with new information that large amounts of the Covid Delta variant can harbor in both vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
The heated Republican meeting with the attending physician was just the tip of the iceberg.
McCarthy and dozens of House Republicans stood on the Capitol steps Thursday attacking Pelosi and the Biden administration’s policies, hammering both the new mask mandate and the USCP bulletin. Members of the House Freedom Caucus also marched Thursday across from the Senate to the House to protest the rules varying in the Senate.
Muh SCIENCE!
The ponds you see at most temples and shrines in Japan are not there primarily for obscure reasons of theology, nor to create charming scenes or to breed tasty fish: their most obvious function is to be a reliable and readily available source of water to use in fighting fires.
https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1419135915537047556
Looky the feng shuei denier.
Same as man made ponds in lots of office parks in the US…
Those are for stormwater management and irrigation. We don’t even call them ponds, they’re detention basins.
Some places don’t have enough water supply so as part of the deal when they get built the local FD gets a pumper and the ponds are sized accordingly.
I used to work with insurance engineers who’d go out and size all this stuff. Naturally a good chunk were volunteer FD too…
Hah, neat. Water management is highly regional. Looking over design documents and the like I am constantly impressed with the collective ingenuity employed in building some of our most mundane things.
Confirmed @USPS
570,000 employees are not covered by @POTUS
directive on COVID-19 vaccines/testing for federal employees but being encouraged to follow suit
Now I am thinking that Biden is hoping that his statement will be seen as a threat and hoping before Unions and courts step in, that a bunch of FedGov will rush to get their vaccines. Cause saying one group of feds has to and the other is exempt, especially one that works directly with the public, isn’t going to fly very far I believe.
I can’t believe I’m hoping for fucking unions to bring the muscle and shut this shit down. If you told me 2 years ago I’d be cheering on unions, I’d have had you Baker Acted immediately.
Same here. I’ve said it before, but ours has been surprisingly good on this, even if just as a roadblock.
I was just wondering yesterday when/whether President Bumblefuck renews the mask rule for Post Orifices.
I will resume ignoring it.
I haven’t heard that they have renewed the requirement that everyone in the White House be masked at all times. Funny, that. If we had a real press, that would be a good question for them to ask.
There is still one of those Imperial “masks recommended” signs at our local Post Office. The patrons ignore it. The Postmistress ignores it. The moose ignore it. Everyone ignores it.
I can’t believe I’m hoping for fucking unions to bring the muscle and shut this shit down. If you told me 2 years ago I’d be cheering on unions, I’d have had you Baker Acted immediately.
Maybe we can get some serious union-on-union warfare. The teachers’ unions are all in on masks.
Pesky Russians,
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-space-station-module-fired-thrusters-moved-iss-2021-7
Did they move it into a geosynchronous orbit with Cheyenne Mountian (not that there is much there anymore, it is absurdly expensive to maintain)?
Shocking revelation
A Pentagon watchdog report on Afghanistan warns that the country’s government could face an “existential crisis” and offered a highly critical assessment of the US’s strategy and conduct throughout the nearly 20-year war, just weeks before the withdrawal of American troops is due to be completed.
John Sopko, the US special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, told reporters Thursday there are two words to describe the US effort in Afghanistan. “One is this hubris that we can somehow take a country that was desolate in 2001 and turn it into a little Norway.” The other, mendacity: “we over exaggerated, our generals did, our ambassadors did.” He noted countless officials over the years spoke about “just turning the corner” in the fight against the Taliban. “Well we turned the corner so much, we did 360 degrees.”
The report warns that Afghan National Defense and Security Forces “appeared surprised and unready and is now on its back foot” against the Taliban as the US withdraws, though Sopko told reporters he believes “the last act” hasn’t been played and the government still has time to make improvements and try to survive.
A fool, questioning the wisdom of his errand.
We should probably just stay.
Who cares.
Ow, muh sunk costs!
US intelligence services, military commanders and members of Congress have all warned that the Afghan government won’t be able to stand up to the Taliban without the backing of American firepower.
Early this month President Joe Biden delivered a vehement defense of his decision to withdraw US troops, insisting no amount of sustained American presence there could resolve the country’s intractable problems.
HIS decision?
The world began anew in Jan 2021, this is known.
Dunno who came to that conclusion in the White House, but they’re right.
The polling of how egregiously unpopular the Forever War is came to that conclusion. I’m sure there is a solid majority of Deep Staters/Political Parasites that would love to keep the gravy train going but near-universal opposition by constituents still counts for at least a little bit.
Good on them for finally pulling the trigger and doing it. I’m still concerned that we’ll be back in when the wheels completely come off but we’ll see.
I’ll give Biden some credit on this. He pushed for leaving years ago.
Problem is we’re giving the MI complex Syria in exchange.
Friday Funbags knows there were two shooters.
https://archive.li/oqk4Z
Impressive understatement, calling a pirate attack an “incident”.
Looting at the local Target store is “giving back to the community’.
Mike Rowe answering a parent about where the kid should go to college:
(I’ve deleted much of this intro, so you’ll need to click the link for the full thing)
Gilmored? I’d like to read the link cause I think Mike Rowe is a modern-day philosopher.
Appears to be only on Facebook.
Search Mike Rowe Dawn Taylor and it pops right up, but you have to read it through FB.
The article Dawn sent Mike is this:
https://www.newsweek.com/group-sends-letter-pressure-white-parents-against-sending-kids-ivy-league-schools-1613695
Pardon the well of text, but you did ask…
Off the Wall
Dawn Taylor writes…
Hi Mike,
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about the letter that went out to a couple of, shall we say, well-endowed communities in Dallas, TX asking for white citizens to pledge not to send their college age student to an Ivy League school or a school listed in News Weeks top 50 colleges so that there would be spots for people of color. I would very much appreciate your thoughts on this. I know if I had a college age student, I would be encouraging them to consider MikeRoweWorks instead of any college, but that could be just my very explicit bias shining through.
Hi Dawn
I would not encourage my kids to attend an Ivy League School, because I don’t believe such schools offer a superior education. What they offer, in my opinion, is membership into a very exclusive club. Sure, that membership might be valuable, but it isn’t priceless, and the cost of attending such schools is no longer worth it, in my view. However, if my kid was smart enough to earn a full-ride scholarship, or flush enough to pay the tuition themselves, I would not forbid them from going. And certainly, under no circumstances, would I ever dissuade them from attending simply because of the color of their skin. (The letter you refer to is attached. I have no idea if it’s real or fake.)
I would, however, take a moment to make sure my kid understood the various dangers present in many “Top Schools,” including the overwhelming political bias of most professors, the recent war on free speech, the unintended consequences of promoting “safe spaces,” and most of all, the danger of becoming “a little fish in a big pond.” This last topic isn’t discussed a lot, but it has a huge impact on a college graduate’s long-term success – especially if the kid in question is a “high achiever.” Consider:
A lot of very bright students who do very well in high school get a rude awakening when they find themselves suddenly surrounded by lots of other very bright students. Many studies indicate that the best indicator of success after college is not tied to the school you attend, but rather, to your relative position in your graduating class. In other words, students in less expensive schools who graduate in the top quarter of their class, often report higher levels of happiness and job satisfaction than those who graduate in the bottom quarter of a Top Ten School.
I think a lot about my own path, and the education that helped shape the career I have today. And I can say with certainty, that for me, the two years I spent at a Community College right after high school were by far the most valuable. Not only could I afford to experiment, ($26 a credit!) I could compete with my classmates in a way that built my self-esteem, rewarded my hard work, and encouraged my natural talents. And no, that’s not because I was surrounded by dummies. (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King!) But nor was I surrounded by wildly ambitious students with a 4.0 GPA, a set of parents with great expectations, and all the pressure that comes from attending a “Top School.” Thus, when I finished at Essex Community College in 1982, I didn’t have a prime pedigree, but I did have a measure of confidence I didn’t have when I enrolled. And that confidence changed everything. When I enrolled the following year at a university, I knew exactly what to study, and exactly what tools I needed to advance my career.
Point being, Dawn, every person I know who is happy and successful has several things in common – a skill that’s in demand, an insatiable curiosity, an aversion to debt, a willingness to be uncomfortable, a strong sense of gratitude, and a deep understanding of who they are, and why they do what they do. Some of those people graduated from The Ivy League, and some avoided college altogether. Some are democrats, some are republicans. Some are white, some are black. Some are men, some are women. Some are Pieces, some are Leos. And none of them care about such things, at all.
Mike
Fact Check: Rated: Pants on FIRE! – It said Us News and World Reports rated schools. Dumb hick.
I love that guy.
Who doesn’t??
I am working through his self narrated audiobook “The way I heard it” now. Loving it!!
There goes success, I don’t do dress codes.
Some of them are pieces ifyouknowwhatImean
Wellity wellity well, back in masks in my office in my conservative southern state. Oh happy damn day.
No, really? I must have an incredibly conservative work environment. I don’t think they ever masked here. But I only just started after memorial day.
There are some noises being made, it is unlikely to happen on the production floor. It turns out that there is a considerable amount of heat generated in the process of making plastic film, asking the guys on the lines to wear masks in a Lousiana July is a recipe for heatstroke.
Yep. It is supposed to hit 106 today. I have not checked the humidity yet but at some point it doesn’t really matter.
In my experience, humidity always matters. 106 and 8% humidity (Tucson) is a very different beast than 106 and 40% humidity (Dallas).
We hit an 82 degree dew point a few days ago. At that point, it doesn’t really matter if the dew point is 82 or 85 or 88. And it doesn’t really matter if the temp is 90 or 95. Perspiration just doesn’t work in those conditions even with a steady breeze.
I think that was the gist of Suthen’s post.
Predicted high of 61 here in the Susitna Valley. Nice day.
Beer ponging staffers: would the girl in the black dress.
There are a few in those pictures who are easy on the eyes
They all desire political power…I would pass.
True.
On the other hand, if you’re a smooth liar, you could probably get them to do just about anything by intimating that you have access to power.
Wouldn’t be the first time I had sex with a girl I found personally loathsome.
I wanted to with a girl in college who was a communist. Other than that, she was awesome. Never got anywhere though, sadly.
EMERGENCY
The U.S. Capitol Police are on the verge of running out of money next month so both the Senate and House approved a $2.1 billion spending measure on Thursday to avoid furloughs and pay for overtime, training and more. It also direct funds to federal agencies handling humanitarian aid for U.S. allies in Afghanistan.
The Senate acted first, and that vote came after months of wrangling on Capitol Hill on how to address the growing dire financial picture for the Capitol Police force, which has seen much its funding depleted thanks in large part to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Wait- the “insurrection” was a diversion so a team of criminal masterminds could blow the safe in the Capitol Police HQ?
So they had no money when they sought to expand to the various States and open field offices? God I love this country.
I’m telling you, Buffalo Man was a bad dude…
Lefty projection, exhibit 8,435,282,471:
Dude, you’re thinking of left-wing protests.
Oh, and TW: Twitter.
Never understood writing 45 tweets on a subject. Get a fucking blog or a job with one of the rags.
Dude, he thought he smelled a cigar.
It’s a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah in there.
Well a cigar is the calling card of Bill Clinton, so yeah Sodom and Gomorrah
I don’t know why these people felt the need to do this here, but it is terrible and horrifying that displays of decadent apathy are all these people can summon at a time when people are getting sick and dying.
“displays of decadent apathy”? Who writes shit like that with a straight face?
Are we talking about San Francisco?
at a time when people are getting sick and dying
Narrator: People are always getting sick and dying.
Decadent Apathy is the best kind.
“The last six months have pushed those who protect the U.S. Capitol to the limits. In the face of unprecedented adversity, they responded heroically,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said before the vote. “We must support them now, as they so courageously supported us.”
HEROES of the Republic.
Defenders of DEMOCRACY!
They all desire political power…I would pass.
“Look, hon, if you want to get to the top, you’ve got to be willing to start out on the bottom.
“It worked for Vice President Harris.”
“Decadent Apathy”
If I owned a boat, I’d be painting that on the transom right now.
Question: when was the last time someone who was not a lefty attacked a member of Congress, or the President, with a gun?
There was the Bernie Bro who shot up the baseball game. The commie who shot President Kennedy. The commie Weathermen who bombed the Capitol and Congressional office buildings. The lefty nutter who shot Reagan. The PR radicals who shot up the Capitol. That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Am I missing any?
Well, McKinley was shot by an Anarchist.
Not sure the brand of anarchism he followed, so… *shrugs* Garfield?
Loughner was just a nut, neither left or right. No others jump to mind.
Forgot about him. Yeah, probably “unaffiliated”, he was so all over the map.
Boothe would be a Republican now, because the parties switched sides!
Hinckley was a loony, no political angle to his act.
I was thinking of Squeaky Fromme, who actually shot Ford, not Reagan. Yeah, Hinckley goes down as “unaffiliated”.
Squeaky was unsuccessful. She didn’t know how to operate the 1911 that she used. Ford accidentally was spared, in keeping with his propensity for having accidents.
Technically, the Oklahoma bombing was an attack on the federal government (although neither the Pres or congress). That’s the first right wing one that comes to mind. After the dozen or so left wing attacks, of course.
Better marketing?
There we go! Bikini
CarwashVaccinations!Hmm.
@Sean, why are you not allowed to read my book?
Something about all the sex it starts out with? I’m not entirely sure of the rationale.
I’m still not back to a reading phase anyway and my backlog of books is daunting. I find it funny.
Your girlfriend won’t let you read it because it has ugly bumping?
It’ll get Sean too horned up and he won’t leave her be.
So, if you got caught reading it anyway, she’d throw the book at you?
You do not want to be on the receiving end of a thrown Mojeaux book.
I’m not sure how sincere the moratorium is. Maybe one day I’ll find out.
I wanted to with a girl in college who was a communist.
“Aside from that, Mrs Lincoln…”