President Biden returns to the White House after spending time in Wilmington, Delaware pic.twitter.com/RopGCgStGR
— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2021
That’s some fine walkin’ there, Joe.
A quick round-up of the vile contacting the hideous to discuss the reprehensible.
Andrew Cuomo’s War Against a Federal Prosecutor
In April, 2014, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo placed a call to the White House and reached Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. Cuomo was, as one official put it, “ranting and raving.” He had announced that he was shuttering the Moreland Commission, a group that he had convened less than a year earlier to root out corruption in New York politics. After Cuomo ended the group’s inquiries, Preet Bharara, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, issued letters instructing commissioners to preserve documents and had investigators from his office interview key witnesses. On the phone with Jarrett, Cuomo railed against Bharara. “This guy’s out of control,” a member of the White House legal team briefed on the call that day recalled Cuomo telling Jarrett. “He’s your guy.”
Jarrett ended the conversation after only a few minutes. Any effort by the White House to influence investigations by a federal prosecutor could constitute criminal obstruction of justice. “He did, in fact, call me and raise concerns about the commission,” Jarrett told me. “As soon as he started talking, and I figured out what he was talking about, I shut down the conversation.” Although Cuomo fumed about Bharara’s efforts, he did not make any specific request before Jarrett ended the call. Nevertheless, Jarrett was alarmed and immediately walked to the office of the White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, to report the conversation. Ruemmler agreed that the call was improper, and told Jarrett that she had acted correctly in ending the conversation without responding to Cuomo’s complaints. “I thought it was highly inappropriate,” the member of the White House’s legal team told me. “It was a stupid call for him to make.” Ruemmler reported the incident to the Deputy Attorney General, James M. Cole, who also criticized the call. “He shouldn’t have been doing that. He’s trying to exert political pressure on basically a prosecution or an investigation,” Cole told me. “So Cuomo trying to use whatever muscle he had with the White House to do it was a nonstarter and probably improper.”
I wonder how long The New Yorker sat on this story. I mean, it was just happenstance that they published it the day Handsy Andy resigned, right? Something I’m sure no one tipped them off in advance about…
Hermit crabs are getting horned up by all the plastic we dump in the ocean
Yesterday, The Washington Post published an article whose headline reads: “Hermit crabs ‘sexually excited’ by plastic pollution in ocean, researchers say.” Because it’s impossible to see this and not immediately want to learn more, we continued onward to find that “a chemical that is leaked from plastic dumped in the ocean is probably arousing hermit crabs.”
Researchers from England’s University Of Hull studied 40 crabs living off the coast of Yorkshire “and found signs that the crustaceans may be ‘sexually excited’ by oleamide—an additive released by plastics found under the sea.” In order to paint this picture a bit better, we’re given the mental image of heavy-breathing, frighteningly horned-up crabs. Apparently, exposure to oleamide “elevates the respiration rate of hermit crabs, which indicates excitement…” of a kind distinct from their reaction to food sources.
Same company, 18 hours earlier…
No, Hermit Crabs Are Not Trying to Bone Plastic Trash
Have you ever been turned on by someone—or something—you knew was trash? Reading the news today, you’d think that was happening to hermit crabs. A number of media outlets have reported that crabs are horny for plastic pollution. While I love a horny crab as much as the next person, I have some bad news: New research discusses crabs being attracted to marine plastic, but no, not like that. The findings suggest the crabs are drawn to the trash because it smells like their food, which is actually quite sad and a dire warning about how our waste disrupts marine ecosystems.
Oleamide, a compound that is leaked from marine plastic pollution but also occurs naturally in many animals, seems to stimulate the crabs, perhaps because they associate the molecule with food, according to a study published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin on Tuesday.
That’s some good journalisming.
Or, if you prefer, a version with dancing girls.
whaddup doh ?
Im in the mood for some burgoo from Moonlight BBQ. Can I get a date ?
What is burgoo? Is it some Puerto Rican dish that tricks you into eating offal?
You’re not too far off.
Burgoo.
Oh, snap! That looks delicious. Here is a Gypsy dish, Joey Grey, that I make quite often. https://youtu.be/Nt_sB4qUvzk
Looks like Brunswick Stew. Good stuff.
And does Jeff Lynn really say “Bruce” ?
The ‘boro is 2 hrs over and Moonlight is overrated. Yes, I said it. Just dont tell my wife.
Away, not over.
That’s some fine walkin’ there, Joe.
Won’t load for me.
Is that the one where he is literally direct by someone to follow the sidewalk to enter the WH but he continues onto the grass?
Yup.
That’s the one. From the previous thread, this got me excited.
If you try to forcibly vaccinate even one of my Marines, you better come armed,” Gen. Berger said, and hung up the phone.
trap.
Sadly, it’s a parody. Wishful thinking by someone, really.
What’s the source on that because that quote sounds too much like a fantasy of what someone would like to hear.
Someone’s wet dream. No source. I was so happy to read it and wanted it that I didn’t slow down to notice the articles on the side.
Unfortunately, this is the real CMC
https://twitter.com/CMC_MarineCorps/status/1418238868596346880?s=20
Can’t even wear a tie or button his shirt. Historically, a CMC going out in public let alone releasing photos of himself out of uniform? Especially on official business? Unheard of.
Todays military is reaching a point where I’m afraid my rendition of ATOM is too competent to be the result of the same agency.
I bet Chesty Puller showered with his uniform on. And didn’t wrinkle it.
When Chesty took off his uniform, he had another uniform under it – tattooed on.
Dress blues.
Bingo!
That bag and it’s contents better make its way into a future Joemala.
I’m pretty sure hermit carbs will eventually become something like Daleks; either through evolutionary pressure over a long time frame or by hubristic human intervention. Which nation-state will be the first to put GMO hermit crabs into power armor?
Japan.
GIS?
Tachikoma
Those squeaky things?
Are hermit carbs, like, the secret sugars that hide in carrots and beets and things?
“The first-ever glimpse of a Dalek mutant, in The Daleks, was a claw peeking out from under a Thal cloak after it had been removed from its casing.”
Math checks out.
Researchers from England’s University Of Hull studied 40 crabs living off the coast of Yorkshire “and found signs that the crustaceans may be ‘sexually excited’ by oleamide
Is it also turning the frickin’ crabs gay?
How many Marines/other military will be disciplined because they got ensnared by a trap/joke and share on social media the false news about General whoozitz “standing up to” Lloyd Austin and the Prez?
I would.
Yeah after you brought that up, I can see that happening.
Gunny, sitting at home gleefully rubbing his hands – “Ninja punches for every last one of them!”
The girls in the sailor costumes – color me intrigued.
Wait until I tell you about this country in the Pacific!
Tonga?
I know it’s been linked before, and I know it’s not quite a sailor suit but C’MON?!? https://youtu.be/C0X3CLJVMJU
Yeah that works
If you haven’t seen it, this is a great Dunst movie – https://youtu.be/-wVcSSQGpL4
Two, uh, thumbs up!
If you have two, then I hope they are thumbs.
Works for me.
Ah, fuck. I forgot I have to go back to work at 5.
🙁
Are you too far away to make it, or just annoyed at the necessity?
Annoyed. I have to work a split shift one week a month in order to accommodate our press department, who can’t seem to get anything done during business hours.
My commute is 0 miles, 0 feet, 0 inches, as I’m already sitting on the couch.
Well, I know that circumstance all too well, so you have my sympathies.
/IT Guy.
“0 inches”
Size isn’t everything you know!
The dancing girls version of the video is the better of the two.
That shuffling gait is almost diagnostic by itself of some kind of neurological degeneration. Couple that with his “gaffes”, poor memory and bizarre behavior and it’s ridiculous to believe he *isn’t* demented.
It’s typical of parkinsonism actually.
Im guessing he’s an old-school boozer, so Wernicke encephalopathy FTW.
I remember when Obamafraud had his “beer-summit” scold session, TMITE breathlessly reported Biden drank O’Doul’s because his father was an alkie and he never drank because of it…. Of course we’ve since learned we were a fool if we ever believed a fucking word the media said, so who knows?
You’re a lying, dog-faced pony – uh uh uh – you know the thing!
There is also normal age related decline. It may be as simple as age catching up with him.
He just needs to have his gyroscopes recalibrated.
Sorry for the early OT. Be afraid, be very afraid.
It’s Not Just Tesla: All Other Driver-Assist Systems Work without Drivers, Too
Not surprisingly given the media focus and popularity the Tesla system actually seems more resistant to abuse than other manufacturers. It’s not like you couldn’t do dumb shit before, but as this technology is moving further and further downmarket it does not bode well when used by today’s 20 something who is far more concerned with his or her phone and what’s just happened on Instagram than driving.
Ass Wednesday is definitely within the purview of HM, and I’ve always considered SugarFree to be HM-adjacent. So… on topic.
https://archive.li/zV3vb
I prefer Striper season: LOCKDOWN SEASON: CLIMATE CHANGE, AUSTRALIA AND HOPE
But I suppose they occur at the same time, so…
I thought you preferred Stryper season.
My first thought too.
You never fail, Ted S.
Missed it by thismuch. Haz disappoint.
Good job Ted.
The findings suggest the crabs are drawn to the trash because it smells like their food, which is actually quite sad and a dire warning about how our waste disrupts marine ecosystems.
Mankind is a pox upon the planet. Won’t someone do something?
The virus is working on it according to the CDC.
For Tulip
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=375763923916620
She’s not even smoking…someone must have done bad cunnilingus and slammed a clumsy 8″ dick in her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZ9LU4vpf4
Everyone knows if you can’t rev the engine for 30 minutes or more then you are a chump.
Brah- Ive banged so much with a soft-dick I can shoot pool with a rope.
ED with women can be a sign of homosexuality.
But you’re a fag and cant even get it up with men. Square that for me.
Diabetes ?
You didn’t happen to read my paragraph earlier, did you?
I did – I almost had the same reaction as when I read a Joemala episode! LOL
I was going for humorous eroticism, not emeticism.
LOL
It was the “click-clack” line that sent it over the edge for me. I was just hearing really gross ASMR in my head.
“sent it over the edge”
More than I was expecting
Weeellll, I walked right into that one.
…any port in a storm
Slouching towards Ragnarok…
He had on too much Axe Body Spray™.
Do you smoke after sex? I don’t know I’ve never looked.
She’s as dry as Norm Macdonald drinking a martini in Death Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h61SwxwrDwc
Something on your mind KK?
Her hole is empinkening!
Love Caldera
Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell is assho.
Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell has questioned no-prison misdemeanor plea deals as an insufficient “deterrence” against individuals who participated in “terrorizing members of Congress.”
Additionally, Judge Howell suggested Monday that fines for Capitol breachers are far too low, claiming American taxpayers are footing a $500 million bill in damages — an ambiguous estimate — while U.S. prosecutors are apparently asking defendants to pay only $1.5 million in restitution.
Specifically, according to The Washington Post, Howell is displeased with the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington seeking to require $2,000 in each felony case and $500 in each misdemeanor case.
$500 million in damages? So basically, they are using what happened as an excuse for crony-tastic renovations that they had previously wanted, anyway.
Those new statues of Angela Davis and Che Guevara won’t sculpt themselves.
Well they had to put up a wall of fencing and razor wire and station a combat brigade around the Capitol building for half a year. They just had to. That shit costs money.
The difference between a fortress and a prison is the direction the guards face.
The guards were facing the wrong way there.
She wants to see someone hang and any judge that questions like this, because it isn’t her job, should be immediately removed from the bench. That is a dangerous woman.
Random update from the resurrection of the big block Suburban. Maiden voyage onto the public roadzz today. A quick trip to Murdoch’s for some screws. All systems (mostly) go. It starts, it stops, it shifts, it rattles.
This is the one you were working on resurrecting for your foray into tiny-house-ism?
Well, allrightythen. Taxes done (not filed). *whew* The state of Missouri will have its pound of flesh.
Me: * closes ticket as complete *
Customer, the next day: “Can I get a status on this ticket?”
“No.”
You: what ticket?
Counterpoint to that.
Ticket submitted at 02:00, e-mail sent to me (getting my out of office as I was on vacation), get back to work to three requests for updates on the ticket.
Or ticket submitted with Short (and long) description of: “Cisco is down”.
This is the one you were working on resurrecting for your foray into tiny-house-ism?
And for towing all my junk out of here.
Normally I’d feel terrible for chortling at a frail, apathetic, doddering old fool who barely knows what month it is (see: That’s some fine walkin’ there, Joe.). But in this case, my unadulterated enmity for the man, his politics, his family, his very being, makes me feel zero sympathy for him whatsoever. I’m officially laughing my ass off at the imbecile.
^^^This.
Disintegrating physically and mentally in humiliating fashion in front of the whole world couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
You’re not the only one.
“laughing my ass off at the imbecile”
Could you narrow it down a little? I don’t have a lot of time
/I blame his doctor Jill
Amazing how one errant letter can change a whole sentence. I meant “PATHETIC” old fool. Who are we kidding though, he’s also apathetic. He’s made his multi millions (somehow on a public servants’ salary?). So if his horrid policies crush a few tens of millions of working stiffs, well, let ’em eat cake, amirite?
Everyone at next year’s national lianghui after party?
ummmmmm…
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15841779/my-husband-and-i-havent-had-sex-for-four-years/
“I’m 38 and he’s 60.”
OK, I think I see the problem here.
He’s been spending his time with the 28-year old next door.
The other night at work an employee, in his early 30s, complained of a sore back. I said, “Oh, wait till you’re my age”. He said, “it gets worse?”
I said, “Son- my life is Tylenol and boner-pills at this point.”
You kids are a laugh riot!
To be fair, I left out beer.
Feelin’ a little backstabby, are we?
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she is ready to take over as governor from Andrew Cuomo in two weeks, and vowed not to have a “toxic” workplace, as Cuomo allegedly has had for three terms.
Hochul also said she would get rid of any Cuomo staffer who was involved in “unethical” conduct in retaliating against at least one of the multiple women who accused the disgraced Democratic governor of sexual harassment.
“The governor and I have not been close,” Hochul told reporters at her first news conference, a day after Cuomo stunned the state with his announcement that he will resign later this month to avoid an all-but-certain impeachment.
“And when my term ends, nobody will ever describe my term as a toxic workplace environment.”
“I never liked that guy.”
So she’s saying she’s going to fire herself?
Doesn’t that pretty much empty the state government?
I’ve been ethical.
I was talking about the elected officials. Geeze, so sensitive 😉
Yes, we’d clear out a huge chunk of the elected, appointed, and civil service-hired people.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gov-cuomo-e2-80-99s-resignation-prompts-renewed-calls-to-rename-former-tappan-zee-bridge/ar-AANaJsv
I never stopped calling it the Tappen See.
But it’s the Tappen Zee.
C’Mon, man.
I just impeached my spell checker.
Worse, It’s Tappan, we were both wrong on word 1.
If Mario Cuomo were a real Big Player politician, he would have had a whole new bridge named after him, not an old brokedown trash “renovated” bridge.
I thought they did build a new bridge paralle to the original Tappen Zee bridge and demolish the existing one.
*checks*
They did. And the new one is an ugly sucker Looks incomplete
“The governor and I have not been close,”
So now SF has material for next week…
Domestic terrorism
A group of parents in Tennessee surrounded health care professionals outside of a school board meeting on Tuesday, after they advocated for a mask mandate in the local school district, the Tennessean reported.
According to video circulated on social media, a group of parents in Franklin, Tenn., surrounded the health care workers while they were leaving a building during a Williamson County School District Board meeting.
The footage shows parents chanting “we’ll not comply” as the workers exit through building doors. Some parents are seen yelling obscenities toward one health care professional as he heads into the parking lot. One woman can be heard yelling “take that mask off!”
As the footage continues, an unmasked man in a black shirt can be seen yelling at the health care worker who has made it into his car.
“You’re not on our side!” he yells. “We know who you are.”
Another man in a blue, long sleeved shirt confronted the driver.
“We know who you are. You can leave freely, but we will find you,” he said, pointing a finger at the driver’s side window.
Those poor bureaucrats only want what’s best for you inbred losers.
Huh..a little verbal dressing down and people that started to go over the edge were immediately called out for it by there own.
Now the comments..geesh.
I think the guy who pulled the other one back was worried about the cops.
The “health care professionals” were treated too nicely here.
I watched the video and some people in that crowd were ready for blood. If the bureaucrats didn’t have a protective bodyguard of police surrounding them outside, we might have seen this kick off in a Tennessee parking lot last night.
+1 Battle of Athens
Wayne Allen Root says This is 1938 in America. Maybe a little over the top, and his rhetoric is unlikely to convince any but a select group who can avoid tripping over a bunch of conceptual obstacles — i.e., things that he says that are likely controversial or even anathema to a large number of possible readers of his article.
What say you all?
What say you all?
I wonder what salute the modern left will use since Hitler ruined the Roman salute.
jazz hands.
That’s actually terrifying
The French Mistake ?
The ‘Murican Bellamy salute, you unpatriotic asshoe!
Spirit fingers?
Not sure, but I have a pretty good idea of the sort of salute I will be using.
??
“Nothing can be compared to the Holocaust. Ever.”
I wouldn’t bet on that.
Yeah, that gave me pause when I read it too.
Yeah, Josef Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot would have something to say about that.
Not even the only genocide event of that war.
Man, that comment section. Make us Glibs look like normies. We need to up our level of crazy shit.
This wasn’t a fair fight. Scott Horton vs Ayaan Hirsi Ali
She’s really quite repellent. I can’t believe I used to be persuaded by the neocons.
I absolutely disagree with her and would never elect her to be a dog catcher but from what I recall, wasn’t she a victim of genital mutilation and having her life fucked up by Islamic fundamentalist’s? That’s probably why she’s a filthy neocon.
Yes, that’s her. However, killing a couple million people appears not to have curbed the problems much.
Scott Horton always rubs me the wrong way. He comes off as a guy who has spent too much time marinating in (foreign) anti-American propaganda, and believes it. Like a devil’s advocate who relishes the role too much for comfort. He seems popular among a group of libertarian influencers, and I think if they want to make a case for non-interventionism they should prefer a better spokesman.
He used to annoy me, too. The more I listen and read the more I think he’s exactly the right guy. Remember Ron Paul making everyone uncomfortable?
Fuck salesmanship. He’s right. And the propaganda has had so long t percolate, it takes a lot to cut through.
Thomas Paine’s contemporaries thought he was “the guy you were embarrassed to have on your side”. Now look at his reputation (wokesters notwithstanding).
So, there’s something to be said of people who are passionate and abrasive.
“EXCLUSIVE: ‘The Russians have videos of me doing crazy f***ing sex!’ Hunter Biden is seen in unearthed footage telling a prostitute that Russian drug dealers stole ANOTHER of his laptops for blackmail while he was close to overdosing in a Vegas hotel room”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9881213/Unearthed-video-shows-naked-Hunter-Biden-claiming-Russian-drug-dealers-stole-laptop.html
How did this asshole manage to show for his phony job in Ukraine?
“Video obtained by DailyMail.com shows Hunter with a naked hooker in 2019 after filming a sex tape and explaining how he believed his laptop was stolen. Hunter left the camera rolling as he recounted a Las Vegas bender in which he spent ’18 days going round from penthouse suite to penthouse suite’. The incident would mean Hunter lost a total of three computers, each likely to hold sensitive information on President Joe Biden.”
They need to release the uncensored video.
Maybe “the big guy” wasn’t his dad.
If this was Don Jr, the media would have ran this shit non stop.
I know the Left are big on projection, but if the Steele Dossier/Trump pee hookers thing turns out to be about Hunter Biden, that’s a little over the top.
I mean…does it take much imagination to connect those dots? Cause…that is really what it is looking like.
sed -i ‘s/[Hh]unter\ [bB]iden/Donald Trump/g’ HunterDiary.txt >> SteeleDossier.txt
You think he had to ever show up anywhere for that job? That’s cute.
Our glorious leaders
Hysterical retards are hysterical
STURGIS, South Dakota—The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is all about crowds.
But in August 2021, it’s not just the crowds that have epidemiologists freaking out. It’s who is in them.
Interviews this week suggest many attendees of the days-long death march here are unvaccinated people who, in addition to often refusing masks, are rejecting the best tool there is to curb the raging pandemic.
It’s not exactly shocking that the hundreds of thousands of people packing into a crowded event like this one—led by pandemic skeptics like Gov. Kristi Noem—would be disproportionately composed of the unvaccinated. But experts suggested the event’s wide reach, along with the spiral of the new and unrelenting Delta variant, could spell nationwide disaster.
“Hope’s not a strategy right now. Vaccination is,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, a University of Minnesota professor of public health and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy who advised the Joe Biden transition, told The Daily Beast. “And there will be people who will be infected as a result of this event.
“The question for everybody is, how many?”
So unbelievably contagious. So fantastically lethal. There can be no survivors.
just like last year.
Osterholm, Foochy, and the rest of the quivering quaking Chicken Littles should be institutionalized.
It’s the icky people.
It always comes down to the icky people. It’s as simple as that.
They had to make an adjustment to their line about crowds after Obama, rightfully so, said screw off and come have a party.
Unsophisticated. The rabble has to hang out with each other because they don’t get invited to birthday parties on Nantucket.
“Interviews this week suggest many attendees of the days-long death march here are unvaccinated people who, in addition to often refusing masks, are rejecting the best tool there is to curb the raging pandemic.”
Don’t know why I chuckled at “days long death march.”
The best tool there is to curb the raging pandemic. And, if you subject yourself to it, you still need to wear a mask and comply with a whole bunch of other stupid rules that you were told would no longer apply after subjecting yourself to it.
You fucked up… you trusted them.
Bataan Death March survivor: Marine Corps Veteran Irvin Scott
That guy may have some words about a “death march”
“China’s state media allegedly invented a Swiss biologist and quoted him claiming the US had pressured the World Health Organisation into investigating the theory Covid-19 was leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
The People’s Daily, China Daily, and CGTN television channel all quoted so-called biologist Wilson Edwards but removed the content yesterday after the Swiss Embassy said it had no record of him as a citizen.
Beijing has repeatedly pushed claims the US pressured the WHO to investigate the possibility Covid-19 was leaked from a lab in Wuhan, where the virus was first found in December 2019. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9883721/China-INVENTED-Swiss-biologist-said-pressured-Wuhan-Covid-lab-leak-theory.html
So there were holes in their story.
Similarly to their HEPA filters?
Your puns are no gouda
“The Senate on Tuesday voted 50-49 to pass an amendment to its $3.5trillion budget blueprint that would ban federal funds from being used to teach critical race theory in schools.
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined all of his Republican colleagues in voting to pass the amendment.
The amendment passed around 3:30 a.m. as part of a 15-hour ‘vote-a-rama’ that led to the passing of the blueprint. The resolution is non-binding and cannot be legally enforced.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9884433/Senate-votes-PASS-Cottons-amendment-banning-federal-funds-teaching-critical-race-theory.html
Your government at work.
The federal government (Congress) shouldn’t even be voting on this shit but have too because they stuck their hands too far into the cookie jar.
So who didn’t vote?
We did something we swear! It’s those bad ole’ Dimmicrats! Vote for us! Again! Please!
“‘Trump suggested people inject poison to cure COVID’: Jen Psaki’s snarky response to Fox News reporter who suggested Biden created vaccine hesitancy by saying ‘don’t trust Donald'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9884745/Psaki-dismisses-claim-Biden-promoted-COVID-vaccine-hesitancy-accusing-Trump-promoting-poison.html
CWAC
Ah the I can see Russia moment. Amazing how only one direction ever gets lampooned. I mean, I work at a 7-eleven and I have been really hitting my “How to Sound Like you are an Indian” speech tapes.
Apparently SOME disinformation is ok.
OT: So I’m not super familiar with geopolitics or military strategies, but how on Earth have we been in Afghanistan since 2001 and the Taliban are still as strong and formidable (relative to the Afghani military) as they were when we first got there? I would think that with all the blood shed and money we spent over the past 20 years, we would have at least weaken the Taliban until they could no longer take over Afghanistan like they did in during the 90’s.
I think we should have left a long time ago but it’s still heartbreaking to know that within 3-4 months the country will once again be ruled by the Taliban where the concept of human rights are foreign and the subjugation of women are the norm.
They strategically withdrew to Pakistan, and the Pakistanis ignored them.
Weren’t they a an active creation of Pakistan’s military intelligence agency, ISI?
Yes, and we were allied with them in the 90’s.
Mullah Omar hated bin Laden and wanted him out of the country because he was afraid of what he might do.
“Taliban are still as strong and formidable” Because we played both sides, provided training on both sides, and left a shit ton of toys for them to take.
Now do Viet Nam…
Because the war was never in Afghanistan. It was here.
We used to pillage the countries we invaded. Now we pillage the American taxpayer.
Afghanistan is a western construct. The Brits drew a line, piling a bunch of distinct ethnicities, languages, and tribes together, some of whom have blood feuds with one another, and said, “You are a country now!” It is hard to build a military without any sort of unified national identity.
The concept of a Westphalian state did not export very well, it seems.
This pretty much and they had a safe haven with their Pashtun brethren in Pakistan.
I’ll recommend Scott Horton here. He’s the most knowledgeable person I’ve ever heard on our foreign policy and endless wars. The guy is really quite amazing with the sheer amount of information he can retain and recall.
The story of our involvement over there is astoundingly idiotic when looked at over the course of time.
He is a font of knowledge, I’ll give him that. I wish his recent book “Enough Already” had footnotes and sources listed.
Short answer: the Taliban is an ethnically Pashtun fundamentalist Islamic government operating in a nation in which Pashtuns are a plurality and a lot of people want a fundamentalist Islamic government. Short of the Afghan people experiencing a grass-roots change in culture, it would have required a terror campaign to wipe out their support.
When the rally roars into the region in early August, the population explodes, as hundreds of thousands of people rush to Sturgis and the surrounding area to ride motorcycles, attend rock concerts, and drink in bars. This year, the estimate was that up to 700,000 people may attend the rally, which officially started Friday and runs through Sunday.
All this is happening as the Delta variant of COVID-19 is rapidly spreading across the country, sending thousands of people to hospitals, and many to morgues.
But at the rally itself, bikers typically scoff at such warnings. Almost no masks were evident across the region this week.
Sturgis Public Information Officer Christina Steele, who serves as a rally spokeswoman, told The Daily Beast that while the event has been crowded, she doubted it would top the record 750,000 people who came for the 75th anniversary in 2015.
Much more alarming: Steele said she had heard no concerns about COVID-19.
“Only the media,” she said with a laugh. “I only hear about that from media. No one is talking about it.”
Many alarming. So horror.
“A website that uses machine-learning to quickly turn innocuous photos of famous and everyday women into realistic deepfake nudes is racking up howls of outrage—and millions of page views.
The year-old site has garnered more than 38 million hits since the start of 2021, The Huffington Post reported, with five million in June alone, according to BBC News.
HuffPo declined to name the website, but the BBC identified it as Deepsukebe, with both outlets referring to language on the site claiming its mission is to ‘make all men’s dreams come true.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9884487/Website-uses-deepfake-tech-undress-thousands-everyday-women-experts-anything.html
I guess some guys really wanted those glasses from the ad in the comic books.
Interesting title -sukebe – it’s Japanese.
助平 すけべ, すけべい
助け平 すけべ, すけべい
Kanji:Irregular Okurigana
Jim Breen’s JMDict
lewdness, lewd person, pervert, lecher
Adj-naNounKana-only
Now we can all have photos of our spouses with trophy wife bodies. “You have nude photos of your wife?” “No, I don’t.” “You want to see some?”
Now there’s a thought.
Hmmmm….
“CDC admits it DID overcount Florida’s COVID cases: Agency revises down state’s weekend numbers from 28,000 to 19,000 but offers no explanation after falsely claiming ‘record’ infections”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9884193/CDC-adjusts-Floridas-weekend-Covid-numbers-state-accused-agency-overcounting-cases.html
We gave false information so our media mouths could eviscerate De Santis all week long. This isn’t rocket science, it is propaganda.
“Biden asks Saudi Arabia and OPEC to produce MORE oil as inflation sends gas prices soaring – after HE shut down America’s Keystone pipeline
The Biden administration is sounding the alarm about fast-rising energy prices and demanding that Saudi Arabia and OPEC produce more oil – after the president paused all federal oil and gas leases.
Prices at the pump are on average about $1.00 higher, 42%, than they were one year ago.
‘Higher gasoline costs, if left unchecked, risk harming the ongoing global recovery,’ National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement Wednesday.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9884057/Biden-asks-Saudi-Arabia-OPEC-produce-oil-prices-pumps-rise.html
You’re doing great, Joe.
Hey, what do you want? Affordable energy or nicer tweets?
I don’t give a damn about twitter.
Gimme the cheap gas.
Are those the only two choices? Personally, I want more Q nsfw posts.
Demand/Supply….how does it work ?
Sadly, these higher prices actually help my province of Alberta, although it sure stings my wallet.
High oil prices are actually good for the US economy if you don’t shut down the drilling.
I don’t think our energy policies could be any more retarded than they currently are.
Biden Administration: “Challenge accepted.”
Maybe, but it raises the price of gas, heating oil, etc. and anything that travels by diesel.
The entirety of the recovery after 2008 is attributable to the fracking boom.
Now we’re killing what saved us.
One major difference from the 2021 Sturgis Rally and the 2020 event—which was widely derided as a superspreader fiasco, but only directly connected to one death—is the fact that the Delta variant may spread far more easily.
Lawrence Gostin, a global health-law expert at Georgetown, told The Daily Beast there could be “hundreds of preventable deaths” linked to the biker festival as the coronavirus shows no sign of abating.
That strange rustling sound you hear is millions of attorneys’ ears perking up.
It’s almost as if Gostin is explicitly calling for a wave of wrongful lawsuits.
“is the fact that the Delta variant may spread far more easily.” Either it is a fact or it is not.
“hundreds of preventable deaths”. This notion that we can prevent death at all costs is getting out of hand.
If we closed the highways, how many “preventable deaths” are avoided?
Delta may spread more easily but it is less deadly and despite what the media say a significant percentage of people will either have been vaccinated or have natural immunity. However, since the Delta seems to target the unsophisticated, this could be apocalyptic.
Dammit.
wrongful DEATH lawsuits
To be fair, they *are* wrongful lawsuits.
Biology professor Anna Yeung-Cheung of Manhattanville College, a private school in Purchase, New York, was appalled when told about the rally.
“Oh my God … where do they get all these people?” she said. “That’s very scary.”
Bubble? What bubble?
No idea whats you’re responding to, but probably not a pro Hong Kong democracy rally.
https://hkdc.us/anna-yeung-cheung/
Our slacker press department, the cause of my having to work a split shift, sent out a press release after 5pm with a typo.
YOU HAD ALL FUCKING DAY TO EDIT THIS FUCKING PRESS RELEASE, NIMRODS.
Im guessing a union. Are they AFGE ?
Probably (if they’re not contractors, then they’re almost certainly AFGE)
Are they a faggy? Sure sounds like it!
And is their shit all messed up?
There’s that fag talk we talked about.
Is there a name for this phenomenon? I’ve typed something, had three people read it and o.k. it and, hours later, someone not in the original loop finds a glaring error (a word spelled right but not the word intended.)
I had an English teacher in high school that advocated proofreading backwards so that your eyes didn’t scan as easily over errors. The obvious problem with that is that reading an entire article or section backwards, one word at a time, takes a very long time.
When you do it a lot, you speed up a lot. It’s also the trick I use to make sure I’ve written down a string of numbers correctly.
Mind you, I can also read upside-down and mirrored text, which most people thinks makes me a space alien (including the SU); it’s all pretty much the same to me, although upside-down and mirrored challenges me.
Upside down, mirrored, sideways, makes no difference.
Haven’t tried upside down and mirrored recently enough to recall.
I can also read upside down almost as well as normal. Haven’t tried mirrored recently. I do the backward-flow proofreading on stuff that really matters. It’s definitely effective.
Another trick is to read it out loud, word by word not by sentence. You can catch some missing or terribly worded statements that way.
To do that, I need a stack of cough drops and plenty of water.
/damn book-length works.
I have done it – though it was reading to people to get their opinion of the work.
To do that, I need a stack of cough drops and plenty of water.
You don’t have to read loud when you read out loud. A gentle, almost inaudible whisper is enough to get your brain to process things differently than reading entirely in your head.
I was on a conference call earlier this week with some colleagues in the Jiangsu Province. We were informed that the coronavirus situation there is very bad. “Over 400 people” have been found to be infected with the coronavirus in Jiangsu Province.
My first thought, which I kept to myself, was, “out of the approximately 84 million inhabitants of Jiangsu and the 25-ish million residents of neighboring Shanghai, 400 people? Doesn’t sound like much.”
We were told these were either the first infections found since last year, or the first ever (unclear due to language barrier issues).
My second thought was, “400? Bullshit. First ever? Bullshit. First since last year? Bullshit.”
There is a serious numbers problem in China as regards this pandemic, and it’s not helping anyone. It’s impossible to believe (for me) that the numbers reported out of a population of 1.4 billion are accurate. They are far too low, given the rates in the rest of the world. Simultaneously, it calls into question the real numbers in the rest of the world, and of course the low reported numbers in China are one of the bludgeons that advocates for a totalitarian authoritarian response to the disesase have used effectively.
If Joe was a real leader, he’d just issue orders to the governors that there will be no Covid cases. Wham bam, just like that.
Given the supply chain problems I have to believe that the virus numbers have been far worse in China than they have been letting on. Sure, logistics is part of the problem, but I can’t believe it’s the whole problem. If only we had a halfway capable intelligence service that knew what was going on in foreign countries.
All the more reason to divest from the CCP.
The business I’m in is a lagging indicator of manufacturing. Based on that, I’d have to say it’s been hit pretty hard in that area.
The intelligence services know what’s going on in China, it’s just not useful for them to talk about it at this moment.
You mean *our* intelligence services?
LOL!
No.
I think they know more about current events than they admit to. Their predictions are shit though.
That and their motivations are not aligned with the populace, just with their own survival and power.
Whatever, I’m talking out of my ass here based on conversations with retired spooks. The shorter version is that they suck and should be decommissioned.
“It was considered one of the CIA’s worst failures in decades: Over a two-year period starting in late 2010, Chinese authorities systematically dismantled the agency’s network of agents across the country, executing dozens of suspected U.S. spies.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/15/botched-cia-communications-system-helped-blow-cover-chinese-agents-intelligence/
I would not have been able to refrain from barking out some combination of snort and laugh that clearly signifies “bullshit!”
This is a hate crime.
https://pasteboard.co/KfrWtRc.jpg
Just about a day ahead of you here, and we’ve had terrible thunderstorms (with temps in the 80’s) all week. It’s supposed to clear up by the weekend at least.
We got hit with a severe thunderstorm this afternoon. One of my nicest maple trees lost a major branch, which took out about 1/3 of its foliage. The branch split downward and peeled a bit along the trunk. I cut it loose; hopefully the tree can heal and survive.
We’re just getting the ridiculous humidity & heat. Thank God ConEd texted me that they’ve got my back. ?
Glorious Heat!
/Fuck the Humidity…
Hot here all week. Under a severe thunderstorm warning right now but nothing to say of it so far. It looks like WeatherChannel’s radar does not agree with WRIC’s VIPIR.
We had to shut the AC off while a fan was being replaced. Amazing how quickly the house heated up.
You need a lot more blown insulation in your attic space, d00d.
Watching Blake’s 7. It’s like Firefly, but British, and produced during that wonderful transition time between sham-glam and disco so the costumes/sets are fabulous.
I remember watching “Blake’s 7” back in the 80s. The very first episode is a masterpiece of dystopian science-fiction.
Supposedly Whedon was not inspired by “Blake’s 7” as he claimed to never have watched British sci-fi.
https://youtu.be/2warRbMFOpk
Yep.
“Reality is a dangerous concept”
“Just taking care of it while you were unconscious. The place is full of criminals”.
So… I went out on a beer run today, and noticed several signs in front of local bars and businesses. At this point I’m not sure if the business owners put them there, or someone drove by the businesses and put them in the tree lawn. All were for the 2022 Ohio Governor race. They’re the first signs I’ve seen up for next year’s governor race.
I’ve seen a handful of Joe Blystone for Gov signs. One in front of a house that is also flying a flag that reads “FUCK BIDEN / and fuck you for voting for him”.
The wife is tuned in to the Lindell circus. I can’t do it. So much yelling.
Circus is fitting, Lindell’s a less believable PT Barnum if I’ve ever seen one.
Would pay to see a Lindell vs. Hogg cage match, and I would root against both of them.
I hope for his sake he is a charlatan. If he believes what he’s pushing he’s certifiable but that also might well be the case.
Recovered drug addict. There’s that crazy edge that kind of peaks through in his commercials. Without scripting and editing… good lord.
AFAIK he’s not fundraising, which means he either believes it or is the world’s worst grifter.
PPV for the ages.
I’ve tried down, memory foam, and his pillows are the best out of all of them.
Much more alarming: Steele said she had heard no concerns about COVID-19.
FFS!
You’d think after getting last year’s prediction of a Sturgis “superspreader event” so stunningly wrong they’d find some other bright shiny object to point to.
I guess they can’t. Because it’s a class thing. In their minds the Sturgis people are bikers. And bikers are lower class than them*. They’re the kids who went to vo-tech or joined the military after high school. They didn’t go to the right colleges and they drink domestic beer rather than pinot grigio. They wear jeans and leather and not Patagonia. So, of course those people can’t have a clue about how to take care of themselves.
This sort of nuveau elitism disgusts me.
* Yes, I realize that this is a moronic stereotype of bikers. I’m talking about what these idiots believe, not what really is reality.
I’m still waiting for all of Texas to drop dead.
Lower class. with 50k rides that they trailer to Sturgis behind their 70k Trucks, and make 6 figures a year, you know, Tradesmen!
The Mr. Howell types are always going to look down on new money.
Good Heavens! A Yale Man!
Mr. Howell types? Not so much. These are mostly the bottom tier of the “meritocracy” who are desperate to convince themselves they’ve become Mr. Howell types.
I know, it’s just a joke. The snootiest people usually seem to be those who feel they’re entitled to more than they managed to achieve and who get burned up when they see those of a perceived lower social standing with a cushier lifestyle and more wealth. They’re like the old English poor nobility who lived hand to mouth and still looked down on the peasantry and the merchant classes.
As I said, I know. But, I think, in their mind, they kind of have to think it. They were the “good kids”. They did everything their teachers and guidance counselors told them to. They made it a point to be in the crowd with the most popular kids in class. And, even when they rebelled, it was the socially sanctioned rebellion of supporting the same vague ideas their parents preached, only more so. The idea that all that got them was a boatload of student debt, unrealistic spending expectations from their social set and a gig repeating the same platitudes all their peers already think, while those other kids might have better lives than them is something their egos can’t tolerate.
Those events usually have a surprising number of white collar attendees as well. Of course, nobody they work with knows about it.
The hipsters are going to start taking over now. It’s like a Bat Signal for irony-laden LARPers from the city.
Not this event Dear, escape the Bubble,
You seem to have some quite erroneous impressions of me.
I have no ideas about you, but Motorcycle Club members don’t tolerate hipsters well, this I do know,
The idiots are taking over.
My hipster aged niece and her fiance are coming back to the CLE after being in Orange County for just over a year.
“Orange County” Which one? there are three I know of,
I would assume OC, CA cause that place is hipster central
That would be correct.
ah, very good
Which is sad, OC used to be the playground of us valley kids. You got a taste of it all. Now it is overrun.
Inlanders! that was us,
EAA Airventure 2021 (Oshkosh, to those who don’t do branding and remember tradition) stats:
Attendees: 608,000
Aircraft: Over 10,000
Campsites: 12,000
Volunteers: 5,000
In person educational sessions: 1,055
source: http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/eaa-airventure-oshkosh-2021-a-look-back-at-the-final-stats-and-figures.html
Haven’t heard about that super spreader event so much, but that’s not something worry warts generally even know about. These kinds of events are happening all the time, and these morons would have a complete conniption if they knew about even half of them.
I believe Sun n Fun also went ahead as planned earlier this year. Of course, that was before SUPER SCARY DELTA PLUS UNGOOD.
What party does the governor of WI belong to?
Highly functioning scooter trash are still scooter trash. They may be more successful and respectable than I am but they will always be lower class than me, barely above Rednecks.
We call them the scooter Mafia, dozens of the noisy fuckers rolling through, like wanna be Harleys but BZZZZZZZZ!!!
I’m redneck scooter trash. When you walk by please give me warning so I can raise an umbrella before you spit on me.
You got a permit for that umbrella, buddy?
My lack of a baseball cap should be all the warning you need that you are being approached by a gentleman and not some low rent ruffian. And I would never spit on even the most uncouth redneck scooter trash, that would be barbaric.
Viva Frei & Barnes are fixin to interview RFK Jr. Interesting.
Yeah, that’s a good show.
Looking over the local news and there was a press release from the dipshit, lying, thieving, grifter that is the junior Senator from NM bragging that he was the one who introduced the breathalyzer-in-every-car portion of the latest Washington porkfest.
I didn’t think that it was possible for me to hate the SOB any more than I did.
he outed himself for the next election though, and in NM? kind of dumb IMO,
Who know who else that was Austrian and said screw your freedom?
Go back to Austria you steroid addled maid fucker.
Total thread failure but you have responded in the best way.
What a disappointment
Not funny Bee, not funny at all.
Heh
https://babylonbee.com/news/justin-trudeau-dresses-up-as-a-saudi-sheik-to-try-and-get-biden-to-approve-his-pipeline
They should rename it Nordstream 3. Hell, even Nordstrom and that should be close enough for Joe.
Plus, fabulous shoes.
They are off on that one. Trudeau should have dressed up as Putin and duped Biden into thinking America is Europe.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/study-finds-most-highly-educated-americans-are-also-most-vaccine-hesitant
Impossible. I was told it was hicks in fly over states and black and brown people who are hesitant.
Funny https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2021-08-11_8-59-18.jpg?itok=vICpbCa2
It’s possible they’re both right: the most vaccine hesitant could be highly educated hicks, black, and brown people.
I agree
That is in fact what the article says.
Or, implies.
The ones with Masters degrees are the same ones getting the Vaxx Tatts.
To be fair, there are a lot of masters degrees in bullshit out there.
^^^. It means nothing to group people by highest degree attained. The spread between a MA in African colonial studies and a MS in applied physics is greater than the spread between a PhD in African colonial studies and dropping out of high school.
This is why I didn’t finish my edumacason.
Yeah, and the experts who said that on one has ever padded or overestimated the number of Covid cases have never been wrong about that. Franky, you don’t know what you’re talking about and we’re going to cancel Rand Paul to prove it.
Erstwhile “conservative” J Rubin gets a taste of her new friends on the left
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1425536918377336837
BrooklynGirl
@debcvny
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@FaceTheNation
It’s not just women that can get pregnant
I am convinced we do in fact need a reset.
How can anyone say that with a straight face? Really, Biology is all wrong? what about SCIENCE!
I can’t……
/Head desk hard, multiple times….
The Science is to science what My Truth is to the truth and Our Democracy is to democracy.
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It isn’t just women: cows, not women; bitches, not women; whatever female whales are, not women.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
If it were said on this site by UCS, completely plausable.
female whales are called cows.
I hope so, they are rather large and Cowesque,
“Fuck ? off ? and ? stop ? voting”
Hey, trashy! I must have missed this new (to me, anyway) feature of Monocle. What does the “Nuke” function do that “Mute” doesn’t?
Nuke disappears any thread that a certain user starts. Mute hides all posts from a user.
I use nuke on a person or two who regularly post stuff I don’t want to partake in, but who tend to contribute positively to other people’s threads.
I use mute as a “time out” when I’m annoyed by somebody and don’t want to interact with them for a period of time.
(by the way, it’s not an either/or… You can nuke and mute somebody to fully cease interaction with them and remove any temptation to join their conversations… I don’t have anybody set up that way, but the option is there for those who find another user particularly noxious)
He hasn’t read a comment from me in years.
You know what you did ?
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? Thanks!
If you get vaccinated while pregnant, you’re fucking nuts.
The CDC is out of control.
^^^ On the other hand, maybe we will finally have mutants
something something Thimerosal
In this case, the spike proteins have been shown to cross all kinds of barriers in the body and they destroy vascular cells.
Not to mention the lipid nano-particles in the vaccine itself that may get past the placenta and “vaccinate” the fetus.
It’s absolutely insane and I will not shed a single tear if someone blows up the CDC headquarters after they miscarry.
Well we get to see how insane people have become because there is a large portion of doulas and mid-wives that would not recommend epidurals, let alone this.
Thalidomide?
Damnit…yes.
Thimerosal works too but that is more on the true and pure anti-vaxxers
If you have certain genetic mutations, thimerosal in vaccines is absolutely dangerous, as is aluminum.
Of course, they don’t screen for those mutations before they start jabbing all the kids.
As far as the medical industry and the CDC are concerned, we are herd cattle.
And the IRS believes we are tax cattle.
Just below that:
LOLOL
Sometimes Twatter makes my day.
I laughed and hoped I had something to say, but it was just laughter.
Or, if you prefer, a version with dancing girls.
Yes, thank you I would prefer that.
Also, Joe is lost someone should help him, and TMITE. Thanks for the links SF. Wednesdays are the best days!
Hooray?
Work email (emph mine)
If push comes to shove, and they try to force it, I may just have to change all the passwords, including the backdoor user/password on our systems and do this NSFW language
I hope the Vax passport totalitarianism grinds the fed gov to a halt. That would be the best outcome for taxpayers and innocent collateral bombing targets around the world.
I’m just wondering what gifts ol’ Joe gave the union bosses to get them to shut their pie holes on this. Haven’t heard a peep from them since the first days of them suggesting they were going to do this.
We suspect this because the agency has been absolutely silent on his proclimation. The only communication we received was the Union saying suck it up.
You didn’t think the “Man” controls the unions? Heh.
I 100% know The Man controls the unions. I also know heir initial bitching about the mandate was to elicit gifts from the Administration. I just would like to know what those gifts are.
We will know in five or so years when it doesn’t matter.
You know, some things never change.
Like retards never learn.
Shocked Faces!
Look at Chiney Joe’s new woke military. They’re getting rolled over by sheep farmers who want to kick their panty waist asses, and are having incredible success. Shocking I tell you!
The Biden admin, like Tony Baloney on TOS, are convinced that deplorables cannot give them problems, because ‘Look at muh woke missiles, we know how wars are won, we’ll just nuke the entire state! WIN/WIN’.
I really want to watch all this, from space with a forever supply of beer and popcorn.
“a forever supply of beer and popcorn.” and Bacon? then you got a deal, I’ll pay for the flight with my Biden Bucks!
Sup, bro? Tall cans are on me.
Drink!
Ugh, hated it when they did this with Trump, hate it equally with Biden
President Biden isn’t budging — resolved to get out by Aug. 31, no matter what — people briefed on his thinking say. He may not see much of a pause between his total withdrawal from Afghanistan and the country’s total collapse into a bloody civil war.
Stay the course Joe, it is about the only thing I will like about you. Even if you did it wrong.
What’s to like? He takes Trump’s winning idea, takes undeserved credit for it and then bombs poor sheep farmers on the way out?
Fuck Biden, he’s a massive piece of shit.
I choose not to be petty I guess. Sure he cancels the plans and then reinstated the exact same timeline under his name. Don’t care. Leave the shithole. I didn’t say I would praise him, just that is about the only thing I will like.
We haven’t seen the extent to which he will fuck this up, but I can assure you, it will be beyond all reason.
A seven year old who tries to bake his Mom a cake for her birthday gets credits for the thought even when he/she/xe fails miserably at the execution, anyone older than that gets graded on accomplishments not intentions. Trump didn’t get the troops out of Afghanistan, and allowed the military to drop a record number of bombs on brown people. If Dementia Joe actually gets us out of there then he gets the credit.
Joe doesn’t have the brainpower left to do thinking.
Briefed on Joe Biden’s thinking? Unless it was nappy time or puddin cups, I’m calling bullshit.
Any briefing on Joe’s “thinking” would be VERY brief.
“He thinks it’s shrewsday.”
Cronies managed to steal 1T bucks from taxpayers and create the biggest foreign policy fuckup in US history. Congratulations to all involved.
At least the bachi bazi will be ended:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi
And with prejudice.
So is, like, China next in line to attempt a land war in Afghanistan?
Also, Afghanistan has been a major contributor to the downfall of several heretofore powerful governments. Hmmmmm….
Oh please let it happen, another Empire crushed by Afghan Sheeep herders, History, how does it work?
Yep, wouldn’t it be hilarious if they got into some Afghanistan shit because of Uighur/Taliban influence or something?
I mean, not funny for the Uighurs, but China needs to be taken down a peg or two. They haven’t had a war in a long time.
Listen to me…hell no, I don’t want to see war and destruction anywhere. But if the CCP got stuck in one, they’d deserve everything they got.
But the ones fighting the war will just be Chinese regular people, not the leadership. The little guy always loses the war.
They forgot to give the Afghan National Security Forces mandatory diversity training. Otherwise they would be winning.
anyone thinking Humpday Zoom?
Family friendly site dude…geesh
Sorry, I meant Zoomday Hump.
Zoomhump Day? Either way its gonna be a good time
I wasn’t… but if no one else is available to step up, I can kick one off and pass off hosting duties.
Seems like light interest.
Not me. I stayed up too late last night. I am about to make a salad and off to bed. As to salad, I started using canned anchovies as a part of my dressing. Crushing those little bastards is more difficult than I thought and it is a much stronger flavor but I am thinking I like it.
So now you’re into making seafood crush porn? yikes.
Are you using the entire tin? get the jarred anchovies and only use one (two at the most) fillets per dish.
I’m going to just leave this here again, because I take no pleasure from other people getting fucked over from something I’ve already been/still getting fucked over by.
Do not travel international if it is not absolute necessary.
I’ve spent 4 hours on the phone today on hold, for no reason at all.
I tried to schedule a quick return Covid PCR for international travel.
The first place I tried, the test is $300 and do not bother calling, you will be placed on hold, forever. Message left to call you back will get no results. Emails will get no responses, texts will get no responses, chats will get no responses.
I finally got ahold of someone after more than 3 hours on hold. Result? Just some background at first. United Airlines have set up 2 Covid Test Centers at Newark Airport (EWR). The airline who set both these up is United Airlines. The test company is XpressCheck. According to their website (XpressCheck.com).
So after 3 hours on hold, the person was extremely stupid and rude. She tells me, ‘We don’t know anything about that, call the airline’. I said, it’s United Airlines. She said ‘We don’t know where you’re going’. I said ‘Sao Paulo Brazil’. She said ‘We don’t know anything about Covid Testing, call the Airport. I said ‘What is it that you company does?’. She said ‘Covid 19 Testing’. I said ‘And you don’t know anything about that?’. She said ‘No, call the airline’.
Then I called the both the airline and the airport, was on hold for an additional 25 minutes and the call just ended.
I’m telling you, ignore what I just said at your own peril, but good luck.
No travel for you! peasant, go to your Hovel and praise the Biden!
I used to love air travel.
Today, there is not a single place on the planet that I want to go to badly enough to put up with the TSA and modern commercial flight. The panicdemic nailed the coffin shut and buried it 50 feet deep.
Schedule here
https://www.xprescheck.com/united
I did. Still no idea when you need to get the test so that you can make the 72 hour window. You have to arrive at your destination no more than 72 hours after you take the test and have your negative test result ready. The window of opportunity is extremely tight. Miss it, miss your flight, and lose the 250 bucks you paid for the test.
And you have to take the test again before you come back and make the same absurdly tight window.