OT: In Rep Stephanie Murphy’s recounting of her terror down in a basement office, said something along the lines of, “Officer, you’ve testified that you thought the mob was going to kill you. Imagine, if they’d gotten a hold of 2 members of Congress.”
Fauci’s glasses would make a great addition.
Also, band name?
R.J.
on July 27, 2021 at 12:01 pm
Fauci should be a disposable mask.
WTF
on July 27, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Or maybe the actual characters are the Mask and the Glasses, relating to Fauci as do the Hat and the Hair to Trump.
limey
on July 27, 2021 at 11:51 am
Gustave Lytton on July 27, 2021 at 10:35 am
Cudgel, not coverup. This being used to attack opponents, including ordinary Americans by the deep state, not hide wrongdoing.
Yes, it is a cudgel. I don’t disagree with you there, but are you saying there’s nothing to cover up and no accountability to be avoided by those who knew exactly what they wanted to happen, turned down/away the National Guard, and likely were complicit in having the Capitol police invite and escort the “rioters” inside?
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 11:56 am
Can we just rename the capitol the Reichstag and be done with it already?
My aftermarket ECU has a cutout switch that puts the factory tune back in. Easy-peasy. That’s the thing about ECU tunes – you can put them in and take them out no problem. Unless. . . .
Mrs. Dean’s aftermarket ECU runs her supercharger, so I’m not sure it will even work if you hit the cutout switch.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 1:25 pm
I have a switchable tune. I just got smogged two weeks ago and the tester told me that there’s a new requirement that you drive at least 50 miles after clearing codes. I’m going to assume I have to drive with it switched to stock tune. I assume that any parameter which falls outside of the stock window will show up, regardless if it’s switched to stock or not. At least I have two years before this is an issue. Not sure if the switchable tune is detectable or not when not switched. Fuck I hate these people. And just to stop .04% of the cars from running better. Bastards.
Sensei
on July 27, 2021 at 1:29 pm
Really it’s about you thumbing your nose at the state.
My guess is they say “50 miles” because that is easier than saying all the emissions monitors must be set. I seem to recall that last time I checked either one or two can be “not ready”, but none can show as failed.
I know this because NJ follows the CARB rules on this…
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 1:35 pm
No. In Cali, all monitors must be set except for evap, which takes a crazy amount of cycles to set, and no codes present. The miles requirement is new this time. I’m guessing that they will use the data from the 50 mile drive to determine if any parameter was outside of the stock range. I think it means you need to drive for 50 miles with a stock tune in order to pass. I get kinda scared because my tune is switched by the cruise control switch. If the tester turns the cruise off, it goes to performance mode. And the light is on on the switch, which is located on the steering wheel. Bump it just right and it switches tunes.
Sensei
on July 27, 2021 at 1:40 pm
Good Lord what a PITA.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 2:34 pm
It looks like they are just checking the “CVN” and the tune I have is alleged to not alter that. I’ll report back in two years if it works. I’m sure they will find a way to maybe cross check my browser history and use that to impute the tune on my car. Cali is evil and they always get worse.
Such concern about energy efficiency appears to be appropriate given the findings of a 2015 Semiconductor Industry Association report [PDF] that, given a benchmark system of 10-14 Joules/per bit transition, “computing will not be sustainable by 2040, when the energy required for computing will exceed the estimated world’s energy production.”
Current processors operate at about ~10-17 J/bit, which the SIA considers to be a workable target for more efficient computing, though the group said in a more recent report, “Revolutionary changes to computing will be required soon.”
Not to worry. We’ll transition to abacuses in caves by then.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 12:24 pm
computing will not be sustainable by 2040, when the energy required for computing will exceed the estimated world’s energy production.
If they were assuming the Greens get their way and de-carbonize/de-energize the grid, this is probably true. Of course, the world’s baseline energy production will be much lower than today, if the Greens get their way.
Decarbonizing the grid makes me think of applying more voltage to burn off built up ash.
Rebel Scum
on July 27, 2021 at 12:24 pm
If that process wasn’t already strict enough, California’s new testing procedure won’t just measure emission levels and ensure that monitors are set, but will also check to see if any software in the vehicle’s Engine Control Unit (ECU) has been tampered with—more on how this is done later.
Ooh. Maybe that will free up a graphics card or two. Thanks, Cali!
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 11:56 am
Por que no los dos?
The never-let-a crisis-go-to-waste crowd has found a crisis they can manufacture and use for all kinds of purposes. Sure, they need to cover up that its manufactured, but that’s only so they can push forward to their totalitarian utopia.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 11:58 am
The biggest threat we face is from white supremacists. We’ve already established that not being a democrat is white supremacy. I think our path forward is very clear.
I’m registering as a Democrat and running for local government. Then I plan to be incompetent but blame everything on white supremacy. I’m betting I can fail upwards with this technique for the better part of a decade.
Zwak, jack off, all trades
on July 27, 2021 at 12:21 pm
Your Jib? I like the cut of it.
Perchance you have a newsletter?
rhywun
on July 27, 2021 at 1:04 pm
I’m betting I can fail upwards with this technique for the better part of a decade.
You can aim higher than that. Most of them have been doing it for a lifetime.
limey
on July 27, 2021 at 12:03 pm
Por que no los dos?
This guy gets it ?
The cudgeling serves not only the purpose of cudgeling, but the whole charade is used to drown out any real accountability. Every. Single. Commission. Does this.
juris imprudent
on July 27, 2021 at 12:30 pm
The House Sgt at Arms and the Capitol Police report to the Speaker – you mean we might dare to question why the request for additional resources was turned down and how that relates to that? That’s plain crazy talk!
CPRM
on July 27, 2021 at 11:54 am
The Hair saying ‘I’m all oily.’ Tonio’s new ring-tone?
AlexinCT
on July 27, 2021 at 12:13 pm
Inquiring minds want to know!
limey
on July 27, 2021 at 11:59 am
“I fought literal giant, or Nephilim as we know they are called in the Space Bible.”
???
That brought to mind one of my favourite videos from the Onion before it fell into disrepair:
The fact that the author thinks there is the slightest possibility that anyone will be held responsible is so shockingly naive, I have to wonder if he really believes it.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on July 27, 2021 at 2:20 pm
“The funding pause will not apply to the characterization or testing of naturally occurring influenza, MERS, and SARS viruses unless there is a reasonable expectation that these tests would increase transmissibility and pathogenicity.”
This is what stands out to me. Characterization and testing do not increase transmissibility and pathogenicity. So why insert that language unless characterization and testing is a euphemism for gain-of-function, in which case the statement is self-defeating.
Rebel Scum
on July 27, 2021 at 12:04 pm
“Why is Joe Biden talking about drinking the blood of babies. Does that make him a lizard person? I’m just asking questions.” – J. Ventura
CPRM
on July 27, 2021 at 12:10 pm
Hey, he’s asking questions. 10,000% more journalisming than the other places.
Evidently Simone Biles pulled out for “emotional reasons” not due to injury. I guess because she wants to light the cauldron in LA in 2028.
This shit is starting to become legitimized. This whole pulling out mid-event because of fee-fees. Even 5 years ago, this phenomenon would be called what it is… mental weakness.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 12:12 pm
When it became apparent that even the judges couldn’t drag her to gold medals when she was off her game . . . .
If she had said “I was off my game and this is a team event, so i didn’t want to drag my teammates down by scoring like shit today” I’d have a ton more respect for her.
juris imprudent
on July 27, 2021 at 12:32 pm
She still had better scores then them – they just weren’t up to her usual standard.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 12:53 pm
After seeing her qualifying scores, I have to wonder if she earned better scores than her teammates. She certainly didn’t in qualifying. If anything went on behind the scenes, it may well have been “We just can’t keep juking your scores like we have.”
Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)
on July 27, 2021 at 1:08 pm
Due to degree of difficulty she starts with a higher baseline. So even if she’s making mistakes like stepping out of bounds, she still comes out well because she’s doing stuff nobody else even tries.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:22 pm
On the floor qualifying, I believe I saw that her execution scores were higher, and they seriously underpenalized her. Stepping off the mat is a 0.3 penalty. Every “wrong” step is a 0.1 penalty, and she took 4 steps to get back on the mat and reset. They penalized her the 0.3. Caveat: I may not understand the rules, but that’s how they were described. I note that the announcers seemed taken aback by her final score, but quickly moved on.
CPRM
on July 27, 2021 at 12:16 pm
Regarding athletes and their fee-fees; the assumption is baby Favre Aaron Rogers is mad they didn’t discuss drafting Jordon Love before the pick was made, not mad at the pick. But, given the way he has behaved this off-season, I’d say that’s the right call. If they had let him in on it he probably would have leaked it somehow to fuck them over, because he’s a total bitch boy. It’s not like he had missed games in recent years from collar bone injuries and leg injuries and they cycled through back-ups like Winston’s Mom does diaphragms trying to salvage those seasons.
Gender Traitor
on July 27, 2021 at 12:12 pm
The new phone system is here! The new phone system is here!
I guess I no longer have to worry about the 60+ voice mails I had on my old phone./admitted voice mail and e-mail hoarder.
WTF
on July 27, 2021 at 12:15 pm
I barely even know who Simone Biles is, and I’m already sick of her.
WTF
on July 27, 2021 at 12:15 pm
Was supposed to be a reply to RC Dean.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 12:23 pm
She was the favorite to win women’s gymnastics, which made her the Princess of the Olympics. It became apparent during qualifying that she wasn’t up to it, at least not for this competition. The judges gave her a pass on her botched floor routine, but it turned out that wasn’t a one-off. I imagine the pressure she was under would snap the spine of most people. Throw in being off her game, and I’m not surprised she cracked.
Yup. There isn’t really an American “star” at these Olympics besides her, so NBC has been slobbering all over her for months.
She’s under very real pressure from all sides, so being overwhelmed is excusable. Pulling out mid-competiton less so. She and her handlers/family/coach should’ve been putting up guardrails for the media months ago.
rhywun
on July 27, 2021 at 1:14 pm
The whole “(superstar moneymaker) and the (team name)” formulation the media always trots out nauseates me.
“Aaron Rodgers and the Packers versus Tom Brady and the Patriots, tonight at 8, 7 Central!”
I think that’s probably right. At least, she should be in the conversation. She is a ball of muscle, which means she can get higher in the air than the waify girls, which means she can do more difficult sets.
90% performing Simone Biles wins gold in every event she competes in during these Olympics by a wide margin. She could have nearly single handedly carried the US team to gold, too.
Obviously, it’s hard to tell what’s going on based on a couple social media posts, but I’m guessing something happened behind the scenes and this isn’t just “not feeling it, so I’m pulling out”. If Osaka hadn’t been so lauded for her antics, I’d be more confident that there’s something going on behind the scenes for Biles, but Osaka’s treatment makes me wonder if this is becoming a thing.
Yup. Slightly smaller device on my desk now – just the small headset on its cradle. Not that anyone would notice the difference… ::gazes at chronic clutter::
Nephilium
on July 27, 2021 at 12:40 pm
/implements VM retention policy on Gender Trator’s mailbox
Gender Traitor
on July 27, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Dammit! I KNEW you would do that! :: jealously guards Outlook inbox::
That is my greatest fear. Strict retention and might as well lobotomize me. No more being able to dredge up long dead project emails to solve current problems and such. Reinvent the wheel every day, Groundhog style.
Nephilium
on July 27, 2021 at 1:04 pm
Look to the lawyers and discovery requests for the reasons behind those.
Evidently Simone Biles pulled out for “emotional reasons” not due to injury.
How about it’s her damned job?! I mean, I know if I go to work and don’t do my job because of “emotional reasons”, I get told to grow the hell up and get to work or make way for someone who can. Maybe the athletes who want the rest of us to treat them like they’re special can meet the same standard.
CPRM
on July 27, 2021 at 12:36 pm
it’s her damned job
Is it? this what confuses me on the Olympics and their sporadic ‘amateurism’ rules.
wdalasio
on July 27, 2021 at 1:16 pm
I’d suggest that, for a long time, it’s been the equivalent of an unpaid internship. And if it pays off, it pays off in a huge way.
Well only amateurism when they/them want it. See basketball/hockey.
Stinky Wizzleteats
on July 27, 2021 at 1:36 pm
Duty more like it. Either perform it or get the out of the way for someone who will. Maybe it was more pressure than she thought it would be but she still deserves criticism.
creech
on July 27, 2021 at 12:40 pm
Per morning comments, how bad does it have to get before Cabinet tries to invoke the 25th on Joe? At some point, deals will start being done so that cabinet people look like heroes “defending our democracy” and not back stabbers. And the media will go all “dementia is not a joke, we must be sympathetic to the heartbreak that Joe and DOCTOR Jill are going through, and this has no reflection on the Democrat party’s choice of candidates in 2018.” Will it take a complete meltdown at a press conference or meeting with a foreign leader to do it, or will enough shit go down behind the scenes that the cabinet will act?
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 12:49 pm
Per morning comments, how bad does it have to get before Cabinet tries to invoke the 25th on Joe?
It will never happen. Apparatchiks don’t embarrass the Party. If it gets bad enough, Joe will “gracefully” retire. The only issue will be the price paid under the table. Pay no attention to the newfound wealth and status of Fraulein Doktor Jill.
CPRM
on July 27, 2021 at 12:55 pm
Dr. Jill is already more beautiful and deserving of being on the cover of fashion mags than that vile creature that was married to Secret Nazi President. She’s perfect, no need for politics to play a role in her wealth and status.
Let’s see. Reagan kept on while Alzheimer’s was taking hold, in the face of media and political opposition so with favorable winds, I’d say never.
There’s at least three different interest groups, with overlap among each
1) the principals (Joe, Kamala, cabinet secretaries)
2) staff/synchophants/patrons/cheerleaders of different factions
3) permanent bureaucracy of the government and politics (largely indifferent to whose portrait is on the picture lineup as long as they can do what they want)
Who doesn’t have power now that would gain it? Who has power now that would lose it?
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 12:55 pm
One of the interesting discussions must be around who will get the VP nod if/when Kamala ascends to the Big Chair.
Fun exercise: Could an elected official change their sex (not just on paper, I am talking full monty), and be considered the same person that was elected?
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 2:17 pm
-1 And I’m my own grandpa!
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:25 pm
Fun exercise:
Raising the spectre of Stacey Abrams with a chick dick is not a fun exercise.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 3:07 pm
According to Willie Brown, Kamala is the president of vice.
Drake
on July 27, 2021 at 1:14 pm
Reagan wasn’t close to as bad as Biden in office or even the first couple of years after he left. Once it did start to slow him down, he stopped making appearances rather than act like a fool in public.
wdalasio
on July 27, 2021 at 1:26 pm
I’d suspect about never. Whoever has the real power now (my money would be on Ron Klain) kind of has the ideal situation for the power-worshiping sociopaths. Biden serves as a figurehead while he rules and few people know who he is. They’re not going to willingly give up their power to Harris and her cronies, no matter how many pounds of Adderall they need to pump into Uncle Joe to give him the appearance of lucidity.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 1:30 pm
Leibovich writes that the rupture with the Biden family, “especially with Jill Biden,” was intense, if relatively brief.
That sticks out like a sore thumb today.
Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)
on July 27, 2021 at 1:13 pm
According to the commercial I saw today, the election to recall Newsom is an attack out Our Democracy just like The 1/6 Insurrection.
The Other Kevin
on July 27, 2021 at 1:18 pm
Well, yeah. People signing a petition and voting to change something they don’t like is the opposite of democracy, man.
Ghostpatzer
on July 27, 2021 at 1:19 pm
That’s rich. The recall is an actual democratic process to enable THE PEOPLE to remove assholes from office peacefully. I guess other remedies are superior.
Ghostpatzer
on July 27, 2021 at 1:20 pm
Hah, TOK beat me to it.
The Other Kevin
on July 27, 2021 at 1:13 pm
Crazy sports day continues. Vegas has traded Fleury to Chicago for a minor leaguer. Chicago pays all of his salary, BUT… he may decide to retire, in which case Chicago is only out that one player.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 1:16 pm
Fleury (well, until today) and Martinez are the only players on the Knights that I like. But it was clear that Fluery is on the downtrend of his career, just like J. Quick. The fans out here are going apeshit and it is glorious for them to finally feel like a real NHL team having to deal with making tough decisions on salary caps and team chemistry. Though they still get to sneak by the InstaTeam Draft for Seattle.
An emotional Rep. Schiff: “If we’re no longer committed to a peaceful transfer of power after elections if our side doesn’t win, then God help us. If we deem elections illegitimate merely because they didn’t go our way … then God help us.”
“We cannot leave the violence of January 6th and its causes un-investigated,” Rep. Cheney says.
“We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House. Every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during, and after the attack.”
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:27 pm
We cannot leave the violence of January 6th and its causes un-investigated,
I eagerly await the relentless inquisition into the killing of Ashli Babbit by Michael Byrd.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:28 pm
Like that is going to happen since GOP Rep. Mullin Hugged Lt. Byrd and thanked him for the shoot.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on July 27, 2021 at 2:31 pm
He felt bad for him dude.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:35 pm
Maybe so, but saying “Unfortunately, the young lady, her family’s life has changed and it’s unfortunate that she lost her life, but the lieutenant’s life has changed too,” he continued. “It wasn’t his choice. He did not show up that day to have to do that, he got put in a situation where he had to do his job because there were members still in the balcony.”
Washing away that it wasn’t his choice is bullshit. Hug him as human fine, but clearly wasn’t absolved of his choice.
She was a dumbass for climbing through the window and he was a dumbass for panic firing into that crowd.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:38 pm
it’s unfortunate that she lost her life
No, its unfortunate that I dropped my good pen and it broke last week. Its a fucking tragedy that she was gunned down.
the lieutenant’s life has changed too
Yeah, you make a colossal fuckup that kills somebody, your life should change.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:32 pm
“Whycome you only bagged one of them MAGAs?”
Not Adahn
on July 27, 2021 at 2:48 pm
We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House.
Only OMB’s actions are relevant, or actions that can be used against OMB.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:51 pm
Of course, what happened every minute of that day in the offices of the people responsible for Capitol security is of no interest.
Kinzinger, choking up, concludes by telling the officers, “we thank you for holding that line.”
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 1:39 pm
Adam Schiff is 100% committed to allowing the peaceful transfer of power after an election. He would never dream of falsely accusing an incoming president of treason and holding sham trials to depose him. Never. Not without real and solid evidence (which he has, but will not allow anyone else to see.)
“Officer Hodges on why he characterized January 6 as a white nationalist insurrection: “The crowd was overwhelmingly white males … people who associate with Donald Trump I find more likely to subscribe to that kind of belief system.””
Another expert laying down facts.
Rebel Scum
on July 27, 2021 at 2:03 pm
characterized January 6 as a white nationalist insurrection
The Biden regime wants you poor, disarmed and silenced but Trump and co. are nazis.
And he lies about 3%ers and Proud Boys being white-supremes. What a cunte.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:06 pm
Sweeping characterizations and stereotyping are A-O-K for the politburo and their guard.
Rep. Raskin: “Those who attacked you and beat you are fascist traitors to our country, and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors.”
I’d argue the “fascist traitors” are the current occupants of the executive branch and several in the legislative branch.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:09 pm
That right there is why I am holding the stance that this committee/commission or whatever it is called, is to provide material for the DAs prosecuting the 500+ cases that have little to no evidence other than trespassing.
Officer Fanone urges the January 6th Select Committee to investigate the rhetoric that incited people in the days leading up to January 6 and whether there was collaboration between GOP elected officials and insurrectionists
Is Fanone the one who used his badge and official position to attempt to intimidate and extort members of congress? Or was that some other capitol police officer?
Officer Dunn: “Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. And while I agree with that notion, why? Because they told the truth? Why is telling the truth hard? I guess in this America, it is.”
Rebel Scum
on July 27, 2021 at 2:17 pm
Officer Dunn: “There was an attack carried out on January 6, and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that.”
Twas Drumpfler who dun it.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:18 pm
I applaud your fortitude here Rebel, but maybe go watch some kittens sleeping to ensure future sanity
Sean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:20 pm
Honk Honk.
It’s clowns all the way down.
Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)
on July 27, 2021 at 1:55 pm
Is it possible that they actually believe their own bullshit?
The Other Kevin
on July 27, 2021 at 1:59 pm
I believe they do. But to be honest, if I had myself convinced every Trump supporter was a violent white supremacist neo-Nazi gun nut, I’d get all worked up about those protesters too.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 2:12 pm
The only one’s who believe this shit are the ones who have abdicated their decision making to the powers that be. They believe whatever they are told to believe. There’s no way these people actually buy any of this. The same way Hitler never believed the commies were going to burn everything down and take control of the riechstag. His acolytes kept their mouths shut to avoid the consequences, they didn’t buy it either.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:02 pm
“And we have to get in those communities, and we have to knock on those doors, and we have to convince people, and put them in a car and drive them and get that vaccine in their arm. That is the mission,”
Nothing says trust us like forcing you out of house and home to get a mandated experimental treatement.
Hopefully no one notices he also created a controversial piece in Chicago called “The Defense,” which depicts a white man at Fort Dearborn in pitched battle with native warriors, as a white woman and child cower in fear.
It would be absolutely *delicious* if they had to change it again.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:31 pm
I’d love to be they guy holding the trademark to “Cleveland Guardians”. I think I would just ask them to make an offer, look at it, and say “Add a zero. Maybe two.”
The stunning incompetence of rolling out a major new brand without doing the slightest research . . . man, that’s a firing.
The Late P Brooks
on July 27, 2021 at 1:44 pm
If we deem elections illegitimate merely because they didn’t go our way … then God help us.
Something something Rooshunz dun stold muh president!
The new CDC approved rapid response test will cull the flu cases from false positives; that approach will automatically drop the number of new COVID cases identified. The Biden regime will then say the drop in new COVID cases is because of the forced vaccinations in major populations (VA, NYC and CA). As a result, everyone must get vaccinated because the added vaccinations are lowering the COVID cases, and the statistics will prove it.
Can you see it now?
This false assertion, driven by organized manipulation of events, will then increase pressure on the remaining public to get vaccinated.
The drop in COVID positive cases will create the momentum for additional COVID vaccination mandates.
If we thought the pressure to vaccinate is bad now, we haven’t seen anything yet. It is going to get ugly, with threats of federal reimbursement dollars (medicare, medicaid, food and housing) withheld from states as leverage against Red State governors who do not mandate vaccinations. Vaccination passports are a guarantee in this approach; possibly even federally mandated in order to “safely vote” in the 2022 mid-term election; and the unvaccinated fear will guarantee mail-in ballots again.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:13 pm
They are already floundering on the upcoming CDC mask mandate and it is once again speaking out of both sides of its mouth.
CDC: Masks indoor even for vaccinated – Headline#1
They only get away with it because the media needs the panic-porn.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on July 27, 2021 at 2:22 pm
In which case, they don’t know what civil disobedience is yet.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on July 27, 2021 at 2:30 pm
Virginia has elections this November. I predict that this tack along with the other batshit insane stuff they’ve been doing statewide will end in a rout of Democrats. At least I would hope so.
I don’t know. I think they’ve crossed a line. There’s going to be a lot of “surprised” parents come Fall when they realize the state mandated that bopys only need to affirm their identity to be allowed into the girls locker room.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 2:39 pm
I can’t count the times I’ve felt that same thing, going all the way back to the late eighties. Look where we’ve gotten to since then.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:36 pm
I assume VA, being completely controlled by Dems, has kept the ‘Vid election protocols in place. So, I’m having a hard time seeing Dems routed in a highly insecure election where they count the votes.
EvilSheldon
on July 27, 2021 at 2:32 pm
I *am* selfish. I consider it one of my best traits.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:35 pm
The new CDC approved rapid response test will cull the flu cases from false positives; that approach will automatically drop the number of new COVID cases identified.
IOW, the ‘Vid numbers included flu cases, and were thus overstated. Quite the admission.
I’m having a hard time seeing a crash in reported ‘Vid cases creating massive pressure for more vaccinations. The current pressure is based on the increase in ‘Vid cases.
Sean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:39 pm
“They” have no shame and can turn the narrative on a hairpin corner at speed.
Scruffy Nerfherder
on July 27, 2021 at 2:39 pm
In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season. Laboratories and testing sites should validate and verify their selected assay within their facility before beginning clinical testing.
I would have liked to read that article but all the loading ads and the article jumping all over the place made me enraged, so I clicked out.
The Late P Brooks
on July 27, 2021 at 2:40 pm
I’m having a hard time seeing a crash in reported ‘Vid cases creating massive pressure for more vaccinations. The current pressure is based on the increase in ‘Vid cases.
I think the reasoning there is they will make the claim that “cases” are falling because of coerced vaxxing, which proves it worked and we must do it some more, only harder.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:42 pm
Sure, but flogging countermeasures to a declining “crisis” is going to be a really hard sell.
Hell, even my boss, who marinates in DemOp panic porn, thinks this will recede no matter what by October, maybe November.
The Late P Brooks
on July 27, 2021 at 2:43 pm
Where are all the girls clamoring to be granted their right to shower and dress with the boys?
Huh?
What do we want? SHOWER EQUITY! When do we want it? NOW!
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 2:46 pm
If we let the girls peek in on us guys showering, then the whole thing would be wash.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:47 pm
Nothing boosts a young boys ego than teenaged girls pointing and giggling.
Master JaimeRoberto (royal we/us)
on July 27, 2021 at 2:59 pm
The chances of that happening are shrinkingly small.
Sometimes Twitter gives us reason to check it and that was it.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:55 pm
Seriously. He shoots his career in the head, dismembers the body, puts the body parts in a dumpster, puts the dumpster in a barn, loads the barn a barge, sets it on fire, and runs the barge onto a reef where it capsizes and sinks.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 2:59 pm
Pretty sure it is a comedian dubbing over…but still gold.
blackjack
on July 27, 2021 at 2:54 pm
Nice to see a tiny bit of humanity from an NBC employee for a change.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 2:57 pm
Which do you think got him fired? Calling the swimmer a dyke, or asking if the team from Ghana was the cast of Hamilton?
Timeloose
on July 27, 2021 at 3:00 pm
That’s Tim Dillion’s voice. He’s a comedian.
R C Dean
on July 27, 2021 at 3:04 pm
Well, dang. Still pretty damn funny.
Ownbestenemy
on July 27, 2021 at 3:07 pm
Should have taken your own advice from above about twitter 🙂
Well done, I laughed my ass off!
Good stuff!
OT: In Rep Stephanie Murphy’s recounting of her terror down in a basement office, said something along the lines of, “Officer, you’ve testified that you thought the mob was going to kill you. Imagine, if they’d gotten a hold of 2 members of Congress.”
“I’d have to have a grin-ectomy.”
So far it’s a circle jerk hosted by a mutual admiration society.
I’d rather hear David Koresh’s take on all of this, personally.
Anyone who felt terror on 1/6 is unfit to serve in Congress.
Over 9,000 terrorists my dude.
^
I could only listen to a minute of someone who must have been that Kinzinger guy before I started to go into smarm-induced anaphylactic shock.
Something happened to him – he used to be sensible. Then he caught Liz Cheney Disease.
Got rich the way corrupt politicians do it and for this reason became fully controllable?
Science!
It’s Jessie! Woohoo!
Funny as hell, CPRM.
He was the governor of MinnieSODA, he knows tings!
Oofdah!
Best governor of my lifetime. He was Trump before Trump.
RAPE SQUATCH!
Waiting for Fauci’s glasses to show up.
https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/080/350/765/original/447e38dc14d39fe4.mp4
Fauci’s glasses would make a great addition.
Also, band name?
Fauci should be a disposable mask.
Or maybe the actual characters are the Mask and the Glasses, relating to Fauci as do the Hat and the Hair to Trump.
Yes, it is a cudgel. I don’t disagree with you there, but are you saying there’s nothing to cover up and no accountability to be avoided by those who knew exactly what they wanted to happen, turned down/away the National Guard, and likely were complicit in having the Capitol police invite and escort the “rioters” inside?
Can we just rename the capitol the Reichstag and be done with it already?
I’m OK with this.
OT – lots of “good” recent CA news I read today.
Dell won’t ship energy-hungry PCs to California and five other US states due to power regulations
California Starts Cracking Down on Non-Approved ECU Tunes Today. Here’s Why
My aftermarket ECU has a cutout switch that puts the factory tune back in. Easy-peasy. That’s the thing about ECU tunes – you can put them in and take them out no problem. Unless. . . .
Mrs. Dean’s aftermarket ECU runs her supercharger, so I’m not sure it will even work if you hit the cutout switch.
I have a switchable tune. I just got smogged two weeks ago and the tester told me that there’s a new requirement that you drive at least 50 miles after clearing codes. I’m going to assume I have to drive with it switched to stock tune. I assume that any parameter which falls outside of the stock window will show up, regardless if it’s switched to stock or not. At least I have two years before this is an issue. Not sure if the switchable tune is detectable or not when not switched. Fuck I hate these people. And just to stop .04% of the cars from running better. Bastards.
Really it’s about you thumbing your nose at the state.
My guess is they say “50 miles” because that is easier than saying all the emissions monitors must be set. I seem to recall that last time I checked either one or two can be “not ready”, but none can show as failed.
I know this because NJ follows the CARB rules on this…
No. In Cali, all monitors must be set except for evap, which takes a crazy amount of cycles to set, and no codes present. The miles requirement is new this time. I’m guessing that they will use the data from the 50 mile drive to determine if any parameter was outside of the stock range. I think it means you need to drive for 50 miles with a stock tune in order to pass. I get kinda scared because my tune is switched by the cruise control switch. If the tester turns the cruise off, it goes to performance mode. And the light is on on the switch, which is located on the steering wheel. Bump it just right and it switches tunes.
Good Lord what a PITA.
It looks like they are just checking the “CVN” and the tune I have is alleged to not alter that. I’ll report back in two years if it works. I’m sure they will find a way to maybe cross check my browser history and use that to impute the tune on my car. Cali is evil and they always get worse.
Not to worry. We’ll transition to abacuses in caves by then.
If they were assuming the Greens get their way and de-carbonize/de-energize the grid, this is probably true. Of course, the world’s baseline energy production will be much lower than today, if the Greens get their way.
Decarbonizing the grid makes me think of applying more voltage to burn off built up ash.
If that process wasn’t already strict enough, California’s new testing procedure won’t just measure emission levels and ensure that monitors are set, but will also check to see if any software in the vehicle’s Engine Control Unit (ECU) has been tampered with—more on how this is done later.
Then how am I supposed to build a ten second car?
Now do electric cars.
I don’t lean that way.
Ooh. Maybe that will free up a graphics card or two. Thanks, Cali!
Por que no los dos?
The never-let-a crisis-go-to-waste crowd has found a crisis they can manufacture and use for all kinds of purposes. Sure, they need to cover up that its manufactured, but that’s only so they can push forward to their totalitarian utopia.
The biggest threat we face is from white supremacists. We’ve already established that not being a democrat is white supremacy. I think our path forward is very clear.
Ban Democrats?
I’m registering as a Democrat and running for local government. Then I plan to be incompetent but blame everything on white supremacy. I’m betting I can fail upwards with this technique for the better part of a decade.
Your Jib? I like the cut of it.
Perchance you have a newsletter?
You can aim higher than that. Most of them have been doing it for a lifetime.
This guy gets it ?
The cudgeling serves not only the purpose of cudgeling, but the whole charade is used to drown out any real accountability. Every. Single. Commission. Does this.
The House Sgt at Arms and the Capitol Police report to the Speaker – you mean we might dare to question why the request for additional resources was turned down and how that relates to that? That’s plain crazy talk!
The Hair saying ‘I’m all oily.’ Tonio’s new ring-tone?
Inquiring minds want to know!
“I fought literal giant, or Nephilim as we know they are called in the Space Bible.”
???
That brought to mind one of my favourite videos from the Onion before it fell into disrepair:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWfKdKWJEkM
Lol
BIL sent that to me thinking it was real. I laughed my ass off, then told him “don’t ask questions.”
I am concerned about being infected by classified. I don’t want to be quarantined in a SCIF for however long it takes to cure.
LOL. Thanks to an FOI request, the threat has been named.
FRUNOBULAX
Nice overview of the lab leak/bioweapons/US complicity theory.
The fact that the author thinks there is the slightest possibility that anyone will be held responsible is so shockingly naive, I have to wonder if he really believes it.
This is what stands out to me. Characterization and testing do not increase transmissibility and pathogenicity. So why insert that language unless characterization and testing is a euphemism for gain-of-function, in which case the statement is self-defeating.
“Why is Joe Biden talking about drinking the blood of babies. Does that make him a lizard person? I’m just asking questions.” – J. Ventura
Hey, he’s asking questions. 10,000% more journalisming than the other places.
Evidently Simone Biles pulled out for “emotional reasons” not due to injury. I guess because she wants to light the cauldron in LA in 2028.
This shit is starting to become legitimized. This whole pulling out mid-event because of fee-fees. Even 5 years ago, this phenomenon would be called what it is… mental weakness.
When it became apparent that even the judges couldn’t drag her to gold medals when she was off her game . . . .
If she had said “I was off my game and this is a team event, so i didn’t want to drag my teammates down by scoring like shit today” I’d have a ton more respect for her.
She still had better scores then them – they just weren’t up to her usual standard.
After seeing her qualifying scores, I have to wonder if she earned better scores than her teammates. She certainly didn’t in qualifying. If anything went on behind the scenes, it may well have been “We just can’t keep juking your scores like we have.”
Due to degree of difficulty she starts with a higher baseline. So even if she’s making mistakes like stepping out of bounds, she still comes out well because she’s doing stuff nobody else even tries.
On the floor qualifying, I believe I saw that her execution scores were higher, and they seriously underpenalized her. Stepping off the mat is a 0.3 penalty. Every “wrong” step is a 0.1 penalty, and she took 4 steps to get back on the mat and reset. They penalized her the 0.3. Caveat: I may not understand the rules, but that’s how they were described. I note that the announcers seemed taken aback by her final score, but quickly moved on.
Regarding athletes and their fee-fees; the assumption is
baby FavreAaron Rogers is mad they didn’t discuss drafting Jordon Love before the pick was made, not mad at the pick. But, given the way he has behaved this off-season, I’d say that’s the right call. If they had let him in on it he probably would have leaked it somehow to fuck them over, because he’s a total bitch boy. It’s not like he had missed games in recent years from collar bone injuries and leg injuries and they cycled through back-ups like Winston’s Mom does diaphragms trying to salvage those seasons.The new phone system is here! The new phone system is here!
I guess I no longer have to worry about the 60+ voice mails I had on my old phone./admitted voice mail and e-mail hoarder.
I barely even know who Simone Biles is, and I’m already sick of her.
Was supposed to be a reply to RC Dean.
She was the favorite to win women’s gymnastics, which made her the Princess of the Olympics. It became apparent during qualifying that she wasn’t up to it, at least not for this competition. The judges gave her a pass on her botched floor routine, but it turned out that wasn’t a one-off. I imagine the pressure she was under would snap the spine of most people. Throw in being off her game, and I’m not surprised she cracked.
Yup. There isn’t really an American “star” at these Olympics besides her, so NBC has been slobbering all over her for months.
She’s under very real pressure from all sides, so being overwhelmed is excusable. Pulling out mid-competiton less so. She and her handlers/family/coach should’ve been putting up guardrails for the media months ago.
The whole “(superstar moneymaker) and the (team name)” formulation the media always trots out nauseates me.
“Aaron Rodgers and the Packers versus Tom Brady and the Patriots, tonight at 8, 7 Central!”
^ blargh
The 17-year old Alaska swimmer?
She’s from Seward. We were in Seward last Sunday, and she’s pretty much the #1 topic down there.
Making front page news solely because she was a “nobody” and won Olympic gold. She wasn’t even the biggest American star in that pool.
I will confess to being a bad person and enjoying seeing Lily King lose. I know, I know. Bad Putrid, bad. I must be spanked.
I’ve heard multiple reports calling her the “greatest gymnast of all time.”
That’s Merry-Lou Retton.
Merry Lou? Someone didn’t play enough Ricky Nelson at the old job.
I think that’s probably right. At least, she should be in the conversation. She is a ball of muscle, which means she can get higher in the air than the waify girls, which means she can do more difficult sets.
90% performing Simone Biles wins gold in every event she competes in during these Olympics by a wide margin. She could have nearly single handedly carried the US team to gold, too.
Obviously, it’s hard to tell what’s going on based on a couple social media posts, but I’m guessing something happened behind the scenes and this isn’t just “not feeling it, so I’m pulling out”. If Osaka hadn’t been so lauded for her antics, I’d be more confident that there’s something going on behind the scenes for Biles, but Osaka’s treatment makes me wonder if this is becoming a thing.
Oh, your desk phone.
Yup. Slightly smaller device on my desk now – just the small headset on its cradle. Not that anyone would notice the difference… ::gazes at chronic clutter::
/implements VM retention policy on Gender Trator’s mailbox
Dammit! I KNEW you would do that! :: jealously guards Outlook inbox::
That is my greatest fear. Strict retention and might as well lobotomize me. No more being able to dredge up long dead project emails to solve current problems and such. Reinvent the wheel every day, Groundhog style.
Look to the lawyers and discovery requests for the reasons behind those.
Yes, being accountable for past actions when not legally required to do so is a shortcoming in a legalistic world.
At least the printers still work. For now.
Can’t watch at work. Have a sad.
I found this screwing around on the Interwebs, Kipling, with a shout out to yours Truly,
https://allpoetry.com/Arithmetic-on-the-Frontier
Evidently Simone Biles pulled out for “emotional reasons” not due to injury.
How about it’s her damned job?! I mean, I know if I go to work and don’t do my job because of “emotional reasons”, I get told to grow the hell up and get to work or make way for someone who can. Maybe the athletes who want the rest of us to treat them like they’re special can meet the same standard.
Is it? this what confuses me on the Olympics and their sporadic ‘amateurism’ rules.
I’d suggest that, for a long time, it’s been the equivalent of an unpaid internship. And if it pays off, it pays off in a huge way.
Nah, she pays for training out of her own pocket. I’d call her the equivalent of a college student.
The USOC provides most things.
Well only amateurism when they/them want it. See basketball/hockey.
Duty more like it. Either perform it or get the out of the way for someone who will. Maybe it was more pressure than she thought it would be but she still deserves criticism.
Per morning comments, how bad does it have to get before Cabinet tries to invoke the 25th on Joe? At some point, deals will start being done so that cabinet people look like heroes “defending our democracy” and not back stabbers. And the media will go all “dementia is not a joke, we must be sympathetic to the heartbreak that Joe and DOCTOR Jill are going through, and this has no reflection on the Democrat party’s choice of candidates in 2018.” Will it take a complete meltdown at a press conference or meeting with a foreign leader to do it, or will enough shit go down behind the scenes that the cabinet will act?
Per morning comments, how bad does it have to get before Cabinet tries to invoke the 25th on Joe?
It will never happen. Apparatchiks don’t embarrass the Party. If it gets bad enough, Joe will “gracefully” retire. The only issue will be the price paid under the table. Pay no attention to the newfound wealth and status of Fraulein Doktor Jill.
Dr. Jill is already more beautiful and deserving of being on the cover of fashion mags than that vile creature that was married to Secret Nazi President. She’s perfect, no need for politics to play a role in her wealth and status.
Let’s see. Reagan kept on while Alzheimer’s was taking hold, in the face of media and political opposition so with favorable winds, I’d say never.
There’s at least three different interest groups, with overlap among each
1) the principals (Joe, Kamala, cabinet secretaries)
2) staff/synchophants/patrons/cheerleaders of different factions
3) permanent bureaucracy of the government and politics (largely indifferent to whose portrait is on the picture lineup as long as they can do what they want)
Who doesn’t have power now that would gain it? Who has power now that would lose it?
One of the interesting discussions must be around who will get the VP nod if/when Kamala ascends to the Big Chair.
This chick.
Mayor Pete?
Stacy Abrams…
Paging Barfman, Barfman please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone.
She can’t be both P and VP at the same time, stoopid.
I bet there has been brainstorming on how to make that happen
Why not? She’s already GA governor-for-life.
Fun exercise: Could an elected official change their sex (not just on paper, I am talking full monty), and be considered the same person that was elected?
-1 And I’m my own grandpa!
Fun exercise:
Raising the spectre of Stacey Abrams with a chick dick is not a fun exercise.
According to Willie Brown, Kamala is the president of vice.
Reagan wasn’t close to as bad as Biden in office or even the first couple of years after he left. Once it did start to slow him down, he stopped making appearances rather than act like a fool in public.
I’d suspect about never. Whoever has the real power now (my money would be on Ron Klain) kind of has the ideal situation for the power-worshiping sociopaths. Biden serves as a figurehead while he rules and few people know who he is. They’re not going to willingly give up their power to Harris and her cronies, no matter how many pounds of Adderall they need to pump into Uncle Joe to give him the appearance of lucidity.
Leibovich writes that the rupture with the Biden family, “especially with Jill Biden,” was intense, if relatively brief.
That sticks out like a sore thumb today.
According to the commercial I saw today, the election to recall Newsom is an attack out Our Democracy just like The 1/6 Insurrection.
Well, yeah. People signing a petition and voting to change something they don’t like is the opposite of democracy, man.
That’s rich. The recall is an actual democratic process to enable THE PEOPLE to remove assholes from office peacefully. I guess other remedies are superior.
Hah, TOK beat me to it.
Crazy sports day continues. Vegas has traded Fleury to Chicago for a minor leaguer. Chicago pays all of his salary, BUT… he may decide to retire, in which case Chicago is only out that one player.
Fleury (well, until today) and Martinez are the only players on the Knights that I like. But it was clear that Fluery is on the downtrend of his career, just like J. Quick. The fans out here are going apeshit and it is glorious for them to finally feel like a real NHL team having to deal with making tough decisions on salary caps and team chemistry. Though they still get to sneak by the InstaTeam Draft for Seattle.
LOL, that made my day.
Dishonest, sanctimonious cunte #1.
An emotional Rep. Schiff: “If we’re no longer committed to a peaceful transfer of power after elections if our side doesn’t win, then God help us. If we deem elections illegitimate merely because they didn’t go our way … then God help us.”
Dishonest, sanctimonious cunte #2.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger goes from laughing to crying in seconds during the “January 6 Select Committee” hearing.
Schiff is beyond cynical but Kinzinger pegged my cringe meter.
Maybe you should ask Nazi Polydent-Pelosi and the Federal Bureau of Entrapment.
“We cannot leave the violence of January 6th and its causes un-investigated,” Rep. Cheney says.
“We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House. Every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during, and after the attack.”
We cannot leave the violence of January 6th and its causes un-investigated,
I eagerly await the relentless inquisition into the killing of Ashli Babbit by Michael Byrd.
Like that is going to happen since GOP Rep. Mullin Hugged Lt. Byrd and thanked him for the shoot.
He felt bad for him dude.
Maybe so, but saying “Unfortunately, the young lady, her family’s life has changed and it’s unfortunate that she lost her life, but the lieutenant’s life has changed too,” he continued. “It wasn’t his choice. He did not show up that day to have to do that, he got put in a situation where he had to do his job because there were members still in the balcony.”
Washing away that it wasn’t his choice is bullshit. Hug him as human fine, but clearly wasn’t absolved of his choice.
She was a dumbass for climbing through the window and he was a dumbass for panic firing into that crowd.
it’s unfortunate that she lost her life
No, its unfortunate that I dropped my good pen and it broke last week. Its a fucking tragedy that she was gunned down.
the lieutenant’s life has changed too
Yeah, you make a colossal fuckup that kills somebody, your life should change.
“Whycome you only bagged one of them MAGAs?”
Only OMB’s actions are relevant, or actions that can be used against OMB.
Of course, what happened every minute of that day in the offices of the people responsible for Capitol security is of no interest.
I remember him saying that in January 2017.
Fuck everyone involved in this sham.
Kinzinger, choking up, concludes by telling the officers, “we thank you for holding that line.”
Adam Schiff is 100% committed to allowing the peaceful transfer of power after an election. He would never dream of falsely accusing an incoming president of treason and holding sham trials to depose him. Never. Not without real and solid evidence (which he has, but will not allow anyone else to see.)
Here’s another good one in that thread:
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1420056673176244228
“Officer Hodges on why he characterized January 6 as a white nationalist insurrection: “The crowd was overwhelmingly white males … people who associate with Donald Trump I find more likely to subscribe to that kind of belief system.””
Another expert laying down facts.
characterized January 6 as a white nationalist insurrection
The Biden regime wants you poor, disarmed and silenced but Trump and co. are nazis.
And he lies about 3%ers and Proud Boys being white-supremes. What a cunte.
Sweeping characterizations and stereotyping are A-O-K for the politburo and their guard.
Then there is this asshole.
Rep. Raskin: “Those who attacked you and beat you are fascist traitors to our country, and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors.”
I’d argue the “fascist traitors” are the current occupants of the executive branch and several in the legislative branch.
That right there is why I am holding the stance that this committee/commission or whatever it is called, is to provide material for the DAs prosecuting the 500+ cases that have little to no evidence other than trespassing.
It is political persecution plain and simple.
And it gets better!
Officer Fanone urges the January 6th Select Committee to investigate the rhetoric that incited people in the days leading up to January 6 and whether there was collaboration between GOP elected officials and insurrectionists
Time to round up the opposition to the regime.
Is Fanone the one who used his badge and official position to attempt to intimidate and extort members of congress? Or was that some other capitol police officer?
I hate everyone.
Officer Dunn: “Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. And while I agree with that notion, why? Because they told the truth? Why is telling the truth hard? I guess in this America, it is.”
Officer Dunn: “There was an attack carried out on January 6, and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that.”
Twas Drumpfler who dun it.
I applaud your fortitude here Rebel, but maybe go watch some kittens sleeping to ensure future sanity
Honk Honk.
It’s clowns all the way down.
Is it possible that they actually believe their own bullshit?
I believe they do. But to be honest, if I had myself convinced every Trump supporter was a violent white supremacist neo-Nazi gun nut, I’d get all worked up about those protesters too.
The only one’s who believe this shit are the ones who have abdicated their decision making to the powers that be. They believe whatever they are told to believe. There’s no way these people actually buy any of this. The same way Hitler never believed the commies were going to burn everything down and take control of the riechstag. His acolytes kept their mouths shut to avoid the consequences, they didn’t buy it either.
“And we have to get in those communities, and we have to knock on those doors, and we have to convince people, and put them in a car and drive them and get that vaccine in their arm. That is the mission,”
Nothing says trust us like forcing you out of house and home to get a mandated experimental treatement.
Oops, wrong place.
Recap.
To continue the dunking on the research done by the Cleveland Baseball Team office:
That is, until someone decides to look into the life and career of Henry Hering, the sculptor of the eponymous Guardians of Traffic in Cleveland.
Hopefully no one notices he also created a controversial piece in Chicago called “The Defense,” which depicts a white man at Fort Dearborn in pitched battle with native warriors, as a white woman and child cower in fear.
Good Lord, it’s always something isn’t it?
El oh fucking el.
It would be absolutely *delicious* if they had to change it again.
I’d love to be they guy holding the trademark to “Cleveland Guardians”. I think I would just ask them to make an offer, look at it, and say “Add a zero. Maybe two.”
The stunning incompetence of rolling out a major new brand without doing the slightest research . . . man, that’s a firing.
If we deem elections illegitimate merely because they didn’t go our way … then God help us.
Something something Rooshunz dun stold muh president!
With $100k in Facebook ads!
Crafty ass mofos.
Misogynist racism claims another scalp?
Double plus good on the ‘Predator’ reference.
It was duly noted.
I’m gonna need more tinfoil.
They are already floundering on the upcoming CDC mask mandate and it is once again speaking out of both sides of its mouth.
CDC: Masks indoor even for vaccinated – Headline#1
CDC: Vaccinated ‘breakthrough’ cases extremely rare – Headline#2
They only get away with it because the media needs the panic-porn.
In which case, they don’t know what civil disobedience is yet.
Virginia has elections this November. I predict that this tack along with the other batshit insane stuff they’ve been doing statewide will end in a rout of Democrats. At least I would hope so.
NoVa says think again! ?
I don’t know. I think they’ve crossed a line. There’s going to be a lot of “surprised” parents come Fall when they realize the state mandated that bopys only need to affirm their identity to be allowed into the girls locker room.
I can’t count the times I’ve felt that same thing, going all the way back to the late eighties. Look where we’ve gotten to since then.
I assume VA, being completely controlled by Dems, has kept the ‘Vid election protocols in place. So, I’m having a hard time seeing Dems routed in a highly insecure election where they count the votes.
I *am* selfish. I consider it one of my best traits.
IOW, the ‘Vid numbers included flu cases, and were thus overstated. Quite the admission.
I’m having a hard time seeing a crash in reported ‘Vid cases creating massive pressure for more vaccinations. The current pressure is based on the increase in ‘Vid cases.
“They” have no shame and can turn the narrative on a hairpin corner at speed.
That’s a hell of an admission.
Shutting down the audits twitter accounts.
Most secure elections, evar!
The info will be disseminated elsewhere.
The revolution will not be twitterized.
Anybody who relies on Twitter as a source of information is a lost cause anyway.
TOS hardest hit.
https://conservativebrief.com/arrest-warrant-46450/
Heh.
Just now? I assumed the warrants were issued before their charter plane touched down in DC.
I assumed they talked about it the minute they cleared Texas airspace but lawyers and such gotta get their billable hours in
Waiting for the quarantine period to pass from the ‘vid?
*shrug*
I would have liked to read that article but all the loading ads and the article jumping all over the place made me enraged, so I clicked out.
I’m having a hard time seeing a crash in reported ‘Vid cases creating massive pressure for more vaccinations. The current pressure is based on the increase in ‘Vid cases.
I think the reasoning there is they will make the claim that “cases” are falling because of coerced vaxxing, which proves it worked and we must do it some more, only harder.
Sure, but flogging countermeasures to a declining “crisis” is going to be a really hard sell.
Hell, even my boss, who marinates in DemOp panic porn, thinks this will recede no matter what by October, maybe November.
Where are all the girls clamoring to be granted their right to shower and dress with the boys?
Huh?
What do we want? SHOWER EQUITY! When do we want it? NOW!
If we let the girls peek in on us guys showering, then the whole thing would be wash.
Nothing boosts a young boys ego than teenaged girls pointing and giggling.
The chances of that happening are shrinkingly small.
Depending on the weather.
Perhaps the awesomest hot mike moment in history. It just won’t quit.
TW: Twitter.
Sometimes Twitter gives us reason to check it and that was it.
Seriously. He shoots his career in the head, dismembers the body, puts the body parts in a dumpster, puts the dumpster in a barn, loads the barn a barge, sets it on fire, and runs the barge onto a reef where it capsizes and sinks.
Pretty sure it is a comedian dubbing over…but still gold.
Nice to see a tiny bit of humanity from an NBC employee for a change.
Which do you think got him fired? Calling the swimmer a dyke, or asking if the team from Ghana was the cast of Hamilton?
That’s Tim Dillion’s voice. He’s a comedian.
Well, dang. Still pretty damn funny.
Should have taken your own advice from above about twitter 🙂
Hey, my advice is for other people to follow.
That was amazing!
That guy needs a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Dammit.