Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Finally! Our grass was starting to die. I really need to get our sprinkler system fixed.
FBI fires lead agent on Whitmer case, not for entrapping people but for wife beating.
This is going exactly how I thought it would.
This is going exactly how I thought it would.
One of the most accurate polling company for the last two election cycles finds that the majority of Americans do not support Biden’s fascistic vaccine mandate.
State Department silent for a week as congressional office asked for help evacuating Americans.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
I have mixed feelings on Democrats going completely batshit. I have great sympathy for them, but it makes our inevitable divorce a lot easier.
That’s all I for today (damn, it’s a lot). I’ll leave you with a song and go enjoy the downpour of sweet glorious rain.
“FBI fires lead agent on Whitmer case, not for entrapping people but for wife beating.”
Doing the deep state’s work requires people of this caliber, but they can’t be blemished by getting caught doing these sorts of things the left likes to blame their opponents of…
[EF fixed your FUBAR EM tag.]
I bow to the mighty Edit Fairy!
“I have mixed feelings on Democrats going completely batshit. I have great sympathy for them, but it makes our inevitable divorce a lot easier.”
Why would you be worried about people this stupid? Yeah, I get that these are morons that have their opinions assigned to them by what passes for the media but is really a dnce operative with byline shitden, but most of them would be mad at you for showing them the truth and harshing their stupidity.
Will it be a divorce or a one of those murder suicides where the house gets burned down and even the dog gets shot?
Your guess is as good as mine, but at the risk of stereotyping, I bet team blue is going to behave like the crazy woman that has spent here days in the union sitting on the couch eating bonbons watching crazy morning TeeVee shit that has wrecked her brain that is pissed her hubby caught her being bad and wants to punish him for not worshipping her despite all of the trouble being of her making and the fact that the house is now a shitshow.
Or they stay together and we just fume at each other while self-harming.
That’s gonna make for some awkward sex…
In my experience it’s either no sex at all or an insane amount of it. No in between. You’re either wishing you’d get fucked or wishing you would stop getting fucked.
The mutual hate-fuck can be rather intense, especially when you both remain physically attracted to one another but nothing good comes of it. It’s like scratching a mosquito bite until it becomes septic.
No more awkward than your usual sex.
How do you know about my usual sex Ted S.? Are you spying on me?
:Starts trying to mount her navel:
“Ow! My cervix!”
“Sorry, Honey.”
“Ow! My cervix!”
“Sorry, Honey.”
“Ow! My cervix!”
“Sorry, Honey.”
“Ow! My cervix!”
“Sorry, Honey.”
“Ow! My cervix!”
“Sorry, Honey.”
Stop bragging.
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID!
You gotta massage it, not hit it. Should make her toes curl.
word
Ah, the old psychological abuse until someone hangs themself in the closet relationship. That’s the worst one.
No one wants to do the hard work of actually separating or actually destroying the country. That’s why I think we are set upon decay, degradation, and gaslighting that what you see all around you isn’t decay and degradation.
Yep. There’s too much that needs fixing, and too few people willing and competent to do such fixing. Decay and degradation, while the ones who want to make a go at something new and valuable head to Mars, or somewhere.
Mars! is where all the cool kids are headed,
Those Cuntes can gallivant off to Mars. This place seems pretty comfortable to me.
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as Hell
GET YOUR ASS TO MAHS
Decay and degradation smothered in denial.
He’s just pining for the fjords!
I’ve actually felt much like a dead parrot glued to his perch for a number of years now. Wonder if IoBot is getting some? Sure hope so!
They wouldn’t let us go. Remember that they want to force their beliefs on everyone else.
Also, there is the practical issue of how to split up things like nuclear arsenal, aircraft carriers, etc. They’d shit themselves at the thought of Texas having its own nukes.
Yeah, that’s a big one. No pun intended, splitting the legitimate functions of government up is the very hard part. Perhaps the worse part would be splitting up the illegitimate functions of government that one side would still want the other to pay for.
Present for dear friend Tonio – https://youtu.be/lNhggyOQsCE?list=RDlNhggyOQsCE
Already got Pantex…
Fifth or sixth century Western Rome is probably the most likely trajectory, IMO. The central government will just stop being able to govern portions of the country and they will fall away into their own entities.
I can live with that.
1) They aren’t batshit crazy, they are evil.
2) Trumpers do pose a bigger threat to them and their political plans than the Taliban. The Taliban are a bunch of goatfuckers that can kill people, but can’t conquer the US or exert influence outside of their borders. China is the America they want to live in (and rule). It’s also going to collapse under its own weight in a couple decades.
“the majority of Americans do not support Biden’s fascistic vaccine mandate.”
I really hope that’s the case. If it isn’t we are done but it is good to hear. For most provax people even there’s a big difference between “it’s a good idea to get vaccinated” and “the government is going to force companies to fire you if you don’t get vaccinated.” The latter just reeks of authoritarianism.
You really think they care about what Americans care about Lamont?
I support this message.
Morning Banjos, Wish I was in Katy, go surfing with y’all. Hope all is well, just another day in TX, I guess.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office said equipment was “replaced” at the polling center and that provisional ballots are a “failsafe option” for these kinds of glitches.”
“Crikey! They’re on to us. Bring out one of the undoctored machines for a while.”
It’s not accidental that the people that love the statists worship at the same altar as this guy…..
The FBI agent credited with thwarting the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been fired from the agency after domestic violence allegations were levied against him.
“Thwarting”, “plotting”. “Tomayto”, tomahto”.
Some self-identified Republicans claim they arrived at their polling center to cast their ballots in the California recall election only to be told they had “already voted.”
Funny how this sort of thing only seems to ever go one way*.
*Granted I am open to the possibility of it also going the other way and I suspect we would hear about it if it did.
Voter suppression in CA?
Unpossible!
Frankly, it seems like it would be pretty easy to send in a mail-in ballot and then show up and make a big deal that you were denied in-person voting, but it’s something you could be easily caught at. If they even tie the records together in order to prevent double voting at all.
How are you gonna be able to prove some crackhead stole all 5 ballots mailed to you and dropped them off, with Newsome votes to boot, in a state that allows ballot harvesting legally? My bet is that what you will see is the government accusing people whom had been wronged by the crackhead ballot harvesting effort and demanded their in person voting right, of cheating and going after them for interfering with their shenanigans…
Just trust us.
“Neither tweet was deleted as of Monday evening, but the New York Times article was changed without any editor’s note, which happens in the media business.”‘
Not the way it’s supposed to work. Any time you make a post-publication change you’re supposed to say that you did that, ie:
[This article has been changed to correct the spelling on Lech Znpincz’s name. NYT regrets the error.]
You will note that Glibertarians dot com always acknowledges changes either as above, or in the comments. We’re better than that.
Your mistake Tonio, is to have morals/scruples, and to take ownership when you have done wrong like you expect others to do. I firmly believe our media and a large swath of our political class took Johnson’s whole political tactic of falsely accusing his opponents of fucking sheep and not caring about it being a lie, because the damage would be done, and the truth would come to late to matter… Besides, Corrections shmorrections!
They were mostly upset that they got caught, not that they did it.
Stealth editing FTW. He who controls the present controls the past: See, we were always right.
Yes. Yes we are.
They’re not journalists. They’re propagandists.
Propagandists don’t maintain a history of their mistakes.
Lech Znpncz’s name is still misspelled. There are no vowels in that name.
Have you seen Western Slavic names? Vowels are rarer than principled politicians.
Yep. Tonio put a vowel in the name and I was riffing off that.
Reminds me of baseball journeyman pitcher Marc Rzepczynski, affectionately known as “Scrabble”.
Changing the scripture after events fail to materialize in just Best Practices!
The Great Legal Minds of the USA:
Breyer is a third rate intellectual and a complete sack of shit apologist for the unchecked State. I think he is more corrosive than Ginsburg was.
Not “Roberts” bad?
Breyer is worse for outcome, but Roberts is like the person that pretends to be your friend but fucks you over when given an opportunity.
He’ll be glad to pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today!
Much worse than Roberts. Roberts is disappointing in that he became a Kennedy-style swing vote representative of the “right side of history”, but he can at least write an opinion that makes sense and where the conclusions follow from the (flawed) premises. Breyer is a hack who would’ve been run out of TMITE for being too obvious if he had gone into journalism instead of law. I’ve never read a Breyer opinion that I respected, and I can’t say that about Sotomayor or Kagan.
Stupid and evil is no match for smart and evil.
Americans’ inflation fears hit another record in August as the price of consumer goods continued to surge, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey published Monday.
Sounds like a good time to raise taxes and print a few trillion dollars.
That’s what’s so crazy. Nothing in this plan makes sense, at all. It’s a wishlist of authoritarian technocratic control. It’s all bullshit that will actively harm the average American. Enemy of the people.
Our checkbook is still full of checks!
Just think of it as a way to give out handouts to favored constituencies and enact a stealth tax on the middle class and it all makes sense. It’s just another means of wealth redistribution.
Yeah it’s looting. It’s looting on a scale almost exactly 10,000 times the sum total of all BLM antifa looting. It’s a shakedown and a heist.
It’s always about making it easier for government to be the one that picks the winners & losers…
The New York Times quietly deleted its assertion that an October article from the New York Post about the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son Hunter was “unsubstantiated.”
Well, of course anything that does not tow the party line is “unsubstantiated” or “without evidence”.
What is galling is that nobody is calling out all those ex-intelligence big wigs that came out to swear this shit was all Russian disinformation. At a minimum one would worry about the character of people that run the shady organizations that can spy on anyone and ruin people’s lives with the power of the government willing to do something like they did, but I find most team blue people are fine with this shit (and far worse) as long as it benefits them. When you remind them that historically those of them now enthusiastically clapping for these fucking evil abusers will avoid the first two waves of people put against the wall and shot when the “revolution” starts, but they will all be part of the next unending waves of derailing with enemies of the state (and by state I mean the people in power abusing it).
Brennan and Clapper deserve the boats.
Glenn Greenwald does. He’s largely unpersonned though.
I’d think the future of America could be rosier and winnable if the FBI and the CIA weren’t dedicated to actively pushing DNC narratives and attacking the American people. The cabal of state power is deeper and more sinister than politics alone.
If the totalitarians win the day these deep staters will have real fun and interesting jobs and very little resistance to ruling the serfs with an iron hand: a thing they desperately want, because they see us as problems to them being allowed to do whatever they wanted (and benefitted them personally instead of the country).
The intelligence agencies don’t care about DNC goals. They care about the DNC providing political cover for their own goals.
The grifters at the top of the DNC know this and exploit it, as well as many at the top of the GOP.
Whelp. Just spilled some cat food from a tube on my fingers. It’ll smell like old times now!
a tube of cat food? what madness is this?
/Howdy
It would be madder if he doesn’t have cats.
The world outside the US is like the Internet: it’s all just a series of tubes.
You could always eat it.
NO WAY! People that capitalize politically on selling an idea that involves depriving the serfs of protection (and one of the few jobs the state should legally be doing according to the constitution) have the means to pay for a lot of security for themselves……
They’re not all bad; they also support ending qualified immunity.
Pet Peeve:
When my laptop connection to our corporate VPN times out overnight, I have to re-log in in the morning. That’s no biggie, should be expected behavior.
The peeve comes in with Outlook. Once the machine is connected to the VPN, Outlook continues to stare blankly at the user and not update anything. Most of the time, it displays a little clickable box in its bottom status bar that says “Need Password.” If you click on this, does it ask you for your password? Nope. Never. It just uses whatever hash it has saved to reconnect to the server and then goes about its business.
Why does it require human intervention to allow Outlook to use a hash it obviously already has stored to reconnect to the server? Because we are using AD, all our passwords are the same, so whoever managed to log in to Windows, then log in to the VPN, clearly has my password, which would get them into Outlook anyway, but I have to click a button, and it doesn’t even ask me for the PW again.
Seriously annoying.
Compared to what? pen and paper? a typewriter?
/first world problems
I said it was a pet peeve, not a catastrophe.
But yeah, I guess.
I say that to people when their tech doesn’t work exactly right, people have no clue as to how complex and wonderful our tech is, and most take it for granted.
Now talk about the Office Ribbon.
I like when I have to change my password, everything works fine until I have to log in to Outlook twenty-five or thirty times before it takes the new password.
My favorite is when Outlook keeps trying to authenticate with the old password until AD locks the account. Then when help desk unlocks the account, you get to pick yet another password. Yay!
I just thought it was the shitty government build of Win7 I was running
Have the same thing. I think either the client or the server is detecting that it’s connecting over public IP initially and demands authentication but doesn’t over private corporate network but outlook isn’t smart enough to recheck until you click the need password box. If I don’t connect to the vpn, it does require reentering my password to connect.
Huh, that makes sense. Our Outlook is prevented from connecting to the server at all somehow if it (or something) detects that it is not on the corporate network or VPN, but the functionality of asking for the password is still there, I guess.
Good ole Outlook. Our IT allows public connections and I think that was the case before they migrated to Exchange Online/O365.
I will bet you a cold beer that your company Exchange admin has different internal and external hostnames assigned to the virtual directories on the client access server.
There are reasons to do this, but it usually causes a bit of a mess.
I have the same behavior on my work setup. It kinda works, so I don’t complain.
Outlook just sucks at credentials management.
I mean, Outlook sucks at everything, but it especially sucks at credentials management.
We had something similar with our database web interface. SSO was set up so it would automatically log in using a certificate, but we’d get “session expired” with a button to click. Simply clicking the button logged us back in without any credential entry.
Thankfully it was fixable via user script. The DB company wanted a lot of money to fix it.
Democrats see Trump supporters, unvaccinated as more dangerous than Taliban, China
MSM propaganda runs deep.
it makes our inevitable divorce a lot easier.
These people mean to rule you. There will be nothing easy about it.
Yeah, they don’t want a divorce – they want the spouse to cave in to their every demand/whim.
YOU CAN’T LEAVE ME!!!
Boy, howdy! Went down that road, fortunately it was a long time ago.
“You wouldn’t know what to do without me”
“Oh, you mean, like be happy?”
The comparisons between Progs and abusive partners gets more apt every day.
Yup, they’re not content to just oppress those who want it, it has to be everybody. They seem willing to burn the house down rather than let us be free.
Mainstream news rarely allows comments any more and when they do it can backfire spectacularly.
This station asked Facebook followers for stories about unvaccinated people dropping dead from covid, Instead they got thousands of comments about vaccination injuries and deaths.
We don’t want to know about that.
Makes us feel icky
I love this about Taibbi’s substack – he actually engages with his readers/commenters.
Like Cavanaugh used to do at H&R.
Most of the authors at econlib do too. Scott Sumner and I have a long running debate over whether Paulson was lucky or had insight. He is on the side of luck.
Log into facebook?!?!? What fresh hell is this?
Honk honk.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) rallied supporters in Long Beach on the final night of campaigning in the California recall election, telling them that a vote for his main opponent, Larry Elder, is a vote against “diversity” and “racial justice.” …
He also claimed Elder believed that slave owners should be paid reparations for their freed slaves. (Elder, in a discussion of reparations with Candace Owens, mentioned that the United Kingdom had compensated its slave owners when it abolished slavery to avoid conflict over the issue, using that example to make the point that reparations was a complicated topic.)
Both diversity and racial justice were “on the ballot,” Newsom said.
You’d think he’d be plugging all his “accomplishments”.
Yeah. This doesn’t sound like the behavior of someone that is confident he will win.
I’d say that Newsom’s slimy ass is on the ballot, primarily. The fact that there is a ballot at all in his case is evidence that a large number of people dislike him and his policies enough to make it even possible.
^Yeah this and it was always a long shot anyway.
Literally voting for diversity is literally voting against diversity. Literally.
Somehow every comment Spike Cohen makes on Facebook ends up hitting my notifications – usually, this would be quite annoying, but lately, it’s become my favorite part of Facebook…
When life tells the crackhead you keep flipping that coin, sooner or later, it will come up with “It’s your tail/ass’ as the outcome”…
Don’t ever trust a guy carrying a wheeleless bike.
Or riding a kid bike and carrying the other. Also, never trust a scruffy-looking person wearing a backpack in an urban area.
Never trust a grown man riding a kids bike either. Always up to no good.
This is known.
Zero self-awareness.
NEW – Democrat Rep. AOC wears a “Tax The Rich” dress at #MetGala, where a ticket costs $30,000 to attend.
Relevant
Look at it this way. She’s going to make it into the history books, just like Marie Antoinette.
I’d say they’re very self-aware. Elite liberals know that the only way they can get away with being so ostentatious and not being called out by the left is to plaster pandering slogans everywhere.
^^^ I missed it by that much. She knows what strings it will pull on the national stage. TMITE will gush and engage its protective bubble, while saying shit like “in a bold statement at a fundraiser…”
^^^Exactly. And it works very well until it doesn’t. Eventually the mob turns on you, but probably not until after it’s too late to stop the snowball rolling downhill (see: French Revolution).
Bullshit. You want to lay odds she’s in office until she croaks of old age in 50 years?
Before you place the bet, take a look at her district’s voting habits.
It was a mistake. It was supposed to say “Eat With The Rich”.
To us it appears as zero self awareness. She knows exactly what she is doing and is well aware it will generate more positive press from friends and fodder from the alt-press.
Looks like she’s wearing a Chick-Fil-A ad.
I’d eat at that restaurant.
Does “Tax The Rich” mean that I get to tap three times on her fine ass?
She needs better tampons.
I assume she probably thinks those should be free.
Titty Tuesday hacked the election.
https://archive.li/97BdF
Their most useful idiot. Beats tending bar if you have the stomach for it.
That’s why I think we are set upon decay, degradation, and gaslighting that what you see all around you isn’t decay and degradation.
Perhaps. But, I am somewhat skeptical. The problem with decay, degradation and gaslighting is that it isn’t an equilibrium. And maintaining a status quo uses up increasing amounts of energy, even as the system itself decays. And when the imposed status quo breaks, it breaks catastrophically. And, it’s increasingly obvious in our national politics. It isn’t disagreement. It isn’t even two different peoples with two different ways of life. It’s increasingly hatred. It’s increasingly white hot rage. No matter how much people try to hold the system together. It’s increasingly obvious that neither side can stand the idea of the other’s rule. And they probably shouldn’t.
Absent separation, I only see one of two possible outcomes: civil war or conquest. And civil war is only a bloody means to separation or conquest.
It all hinges on the dollar.
If the dollar fails, so does the union.
If the dollar fails, pretty much the only real justification for the union is gone. So, yeah.
It’s not that so much as correct collapse = economic collapse = social collapse.
The stuff that comes along with it is highly unpleasant, absolutely.
But the dollar is the glue in the federal system. So long as the feds are able to buy off the states and localities, there will be no real push to divorce from them.
when the dollar fail..
The logical and peaceful way would be for both sides to recognize that they cannot and should not attempt to control everyone. That hey, those libertarians have the right idea that a government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to be used to take everything you value away from you. That, maybe, if we backed off and reduced the size and power of government, everyone would be less afraid of their opponents getting control of it.
Well, yeah. But, doesn’t that sort of beg the question? I mean, if men were angels, there’d be very, very little need for government. I’m all for a revival of federalism. I’m all for keeping the government limited. But, this hardly seems a priority for either side and one side seems openly opposed to the idea.
There are two ways to get to limited government: The first is to have an educated and principled population and political class that recognizes its benefits and strives to maintain it. The second is to suffer a catastrophe caused by bitterly opposed factions fighting tooth-and-nail to gain control of an unlimited government and either have enough people realize it is the power in itself that is destructive or have the survivors realize that excess government power caused the catastrophe and they become the people in the first option.
The Eastern Europe option?
The problem is the two sides may have deep social fissures, they don’t cleave the geography in any real way.
But even the fissures are something of a figment of the media. Kill the media (mass and social) and make people go back to more actual face to face living, and I’d venture about 90% of the stupidity goes away – which leaves a pretty manageable social environment.
I’ll concede your geography point, to an extent. But, a coastal/interior divide probably accounts for about 60-70% of the distinction.
And I do think the fissures are real. I think media has just uncovered them. More than social media, I think it stemmed from the rise of the counterculture in the 60s and 70s. That counterculture became, for much of the country, the culture itself. But, wide swaths of the country never really embraced that. At the same time, you saw what I’ll call the traditional classes economically buffeted by both technological trends and government policy. There’s a reason “Learn to code” has become an insult thrown at media downsizings.
I tend to agree with Murray about the geographic divide (urban vs. non-urban) which makes it pretty much impossible to divvy up the county. NB: the book reviewed in the link is going on my reading list.
I’ll elaborate on why I think the social fissures are more myth than reality (which isn’t to say there isn’t some kernel of truth in it).
I believe our media consumption is doing to our minds what modern cleanliness of our environment does to our immune system. We haven’t evolved to keep pace, and in the case of our immune system, it gets expressed as allergies. That immune system has to have something to do, so by god, it does. Well, at a social level, we are overwhelmed with media input, so our minds have to make sense of that overload. In this case, the mind reverts to tribalism since the world is too big and complex to otherwise understand.
Most people refuse to believe that chaos is natural. We believe in order, very, very deeply. Along with order is the notion that someone/something is in control, even if we don’t see it directly. The idea that control is something that doesn’t really exist – a chimera – that is anathema.
You may not believe in chaos, but chaos believes in you.
Running late, “Damn it, a broken shoe lace. What? I told you to put gas in the car yesterday. I’m supposed to drop the baby off at day care? ”
Normal day in some homes…
THE MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.
Anyone who has spent any decent amount of time traveling outside of urban America would find most people incredibly decent. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to control you. It even applies to city folk. A small vocal minority of Americans are ruining us.
Anyone who has spent any decent amount of time traveling outside of urban America would find most people incredibly decent.
I completely and totally agree with you about that. In fact, that’s at the core of what I’m arguing. I don’t think it’s a fight of good versus bad. It’s just two different peoples with two different cultures. Belonging to one culture versus the other doesn’t define one as decent or not. No more than being Canadian, Mexican or English versus American. But, the cultures do have incompatible drives and imperatives. And imposing rule by either on the other is only a recipe for misery, resentment and hostility. And trying to resolve the matter by re-imposing some long-dead national culture isn’t going to resolve it for either.
If you showed a mid-80s english soccer fan the top of the Premier League Table they would first ask, “Whats a premier league?” But after you got past that, they would say “Looks about right.”
Also, I was thinking that if at the start of the PL you had told some fans that about 30 years later a midlands club would win the title, I don’t think Leicester would have been the guess. Probably 5th choice after Villa*, Birmingham, Nottingham Forest, and Derby County. Maybe 6th behind Coventry too, but Coventry ended up exactly where everyone expected.
*except no one expects Villa to ever actually win anything.
The average Brit from the mid-80s would look around and have a lot of other questions. They would probably assume they lost a war to the communists or some Islamic power. (They did)
Just sticking to soccer, the questions would be huge…why are tickets so expensive? Where are the english players? What do you mean I can’t stand in a pen? Where are the pre and post match fights occurring now?
For that final question, the answer is “Millwall.”
If nothing else, Millwall is a bastion of tradition.
I saw someone wearing a Millwall jersey in the US once. I kept my distance.
I just looked it up, they are currently sponsored by a Swedish Chocolate company. That seems so wrong.
Twice yesterday I was out and about and overhead people shit-talking about the “unvaccinated” and how they’re making life harder for everyone else. One was a blowhard older guy at a restaurant and the other was a middle aged mom who was just so concerned about it.
I got my BP checked last week and it 106/66. I doubt it’s that low today.
The good news is that corporate propaganda has drastically lost its effectiveness for the majority of the population. The bad news is the propaganda has been ramped up to Naziesque levels and those still stupid enough to follow it (Democrats) have completely lost their fucking minds.
I’m beginning to doubt my capacity to hold my tongue in public.
Then don’t.
Most people are incredibly weak in the face of social pressure so if you just made it clear through body language that you feel those dipshit should stfu, it might shame them into silence.
Ask the server to re-seat you away from the offensive conversation. Make sure they hear you.
If you are with a like-thinking buddy, start talking loudly about how fascism is so terrible and then weave in how you think the Dems are the real fascist threat.
Let the assholes overhear that.
Query: did a majority of German citizens support Aktion T4 and the Final Solution? My guess is no. It’s just that a loud enough, fanatical enough minority rammed through that stuff and the plebes and NPCs went along to get along (or because they were afraid to speak up).
….and when they came for me, there was no one left to speak up.
In most cases they didn’t find out about it until after the fact….
The rabble didn’t need to know. And we have a lot of that today as well..
I think you’re right. The disturbing parallel for me is that those were public health measures too.
We are at a point where the government could whisk away a family (like mine) and say ‘they were unvaccinated’ or ‘they supported Jan 6’ and no one would bat their eyes at it except a few in the media.
Gold stars for the vaxxed up here. The rest of us are shit out of luck. Remember how much you hated those kids when you were 9-10 years old? Not the unfortunate ones, the golden children. The ones that never had holes in their socks. The ones that pointed and laughed at you. They are playing a dangerous game.
Oh, you mean, all the other kids? Yeah, I remember. And I laugh. And go to their funerals.
Yep.
Jimmy Kimmel made a statement (it was framed like a joke, but wasn’t really a joke at all) that unvaccinated people should be turned away from hospitals and left to die. The audience just cheered. Not laughed, but cheered in hateful agreement. I’ve since heard many people say that it’s just “common sense” that unvaccinated people should not be treated.
If they’re gleeful about letting unvaccinated people die, what makes anyone think they’d object if Fauci sent some goons to round them up and put them in
concentration campsquarantine facilities for their own safety?unvaccinated people should not be treated
And the people cheering for this will turn on a dime and say that health care is a human right.
And in fact that you must be compelled to participate in that health care, and pay for it — all for your own good of course.
Fuckin’ wreckers, man.
I’m not a wrecker, I’m a Kulak!
The people who don’t want to lord over you are making life harder for everyone else. I know we all realize this, but saying it out-loud might help?
Then of course when it comes to *actual* domestic terrorists trying to kill people and destroy property, TMITE completely ignores it and continues jerking off to unarmed doofuses at the Capitol.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/09/13/two-far-left-activists-convicted-of-interfering-with-track-control-systems-in-washington-n415596
Interesting on several levels. First, the use of “far left”, which I don’t see often, and also the sheer number of typos. But then this: one of the terrorists was a “former field organizer for Washington state Democrats”. I wonder how much overlap there really is between the DNC and Antifa.
“I wonder how much overlap there really is between the DNC and Antifa.”
The Venn Diagram is a target. Profa are the enforcement arm of the Dems.
Yeah, that’s sort of like saying “I wonder how much overlap there really is between the Nazi Party and the Brown Shirts”.
In both cases, it’s not 100%. The NSDAP wasn’t the only far-right group in Weimar, and even among the NSDAP, they weren’t all supporters of Hitler (though he took care of that problem).
Hitler gave Ernst Rohm the sad. Wonder who actually put the knife in his back?
Re: main article pic. I guess that’s what’s meant by “Don’t bother children when they are skateboarding”. Dangerous as hell – also to bystanders which complicates it – but also exhilarating and symbolic of humans pushing boundaries. Yeah, maybe this guy dies, but maybe the next guy discovers faster than light travel.
Your opinion is violence.
This goes to show that despite the outrage by the student body and despite the fear that Case for Life instills, the university continues to refuse to take action. To put it simply, CWRU does not care about its students. If they actually cared, they would have immediately considered concerns about the student body’s immediate safety and the broader school-community impacts, and they would have easily determined this organization to pose a danger. Case for Life may have voiced their opposition to sidewalk counseling through an Instagram Direct Message (even though there is nothing to hold them accountable to that); however, they do not contest participating in protests outside of clinics or other forms of imposing their views on vulnerable people within and surrounding the CWRU community. Case for Life says its mission is to “protect and promote respect for all life,” and they commit to a “nonviolent approach in all that [they] do.” But protesting outside of an abortion clinic is inherently violent; preying on vulnerable people who, no matter the circumstance, have chosen to do what is best for their life violently threatens their privacy and their right to make that decision. This organization does not value the pregnant person’s life.
We used to call these people “women”.
protesting outside of an abortion clinic is inherently violent
What if they keep it mostly peaceful?
What if they keep it mostly peaceful?
You mean like burning the clinic down?
That’s when the peaceful protest intensifies.
It’s just a women going to get a parasite removed, according to them, so what’s the problem with protesting? I mean, if some tree huggers were outside the wart-removal clinic would any of the patients give a shit?
This may be the most totalitarian COVID opinion piece I’ve read yet. Consider yourself warned.
https://www.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2021/09/13/richard-a-s-hall-get-tough-anti-vaccine-people/5720607001/
Concluding paragraphs:
“Now obviously people with medical exemptions should not be vaccinated.”
Okay Boomer. You destroy your whole notion about biological terrorist walking about with that one sentence. If they are all a threat…then even medical exemption should be ignored.
Fuck off
Richard A. S. Hall is a professor of philosophy at Fayetteville State University.
Keep in your lane, asshole.
There are domestic enemies, but they’re mostly sitting in the halls of power and the cubicles of the bureaucracy.
Admittedly my prescription for dealing with our domestic terrorists is draconian, though justified, because what is at stake is nothing less than life and death.
So you are saying that we should arrest 90+% of Congress?
Pretty talented to prove both Hobbes and Calvin correct about human nature by example in one shitty editorial.
He’s definitely in the “We had to burn the village to save it” camp.
No different than a deacon preaching that unmarried women that bleed are witches that need to burn
What’s striking is that a supposed “conservative” is using utilitarian arguments to promote what is essentially a totalitarian state.
If a comparison to Hitler was ever deserved, he qualifies.
So, today’s irresponsible urge is to get one of those forced reset triggers.
*sigh*
We’ll see how long I can stave that off.
Reading the article linked above your comment (28), my ‘irresponsible’ urge for today is to go spend $1000 on some more ammo.
Yeah, I did that a couple weeks ago.
The night of the Russian ammo import ban.
Interesting trivia – the Browning Auto-5 shotgun has a forced reset trigger.
They’re kind of a gimmick though.
*Schwing*
I’m not sure what’s more retarded; Democrats thinking that unvaccinated people are the greatest threat facing the nation, or Republicans thinking the Taliban is the greatest threat to the nation.
^^^This. Everyone’s brainwashed, just in different ways.
Apparently not on the list (or at least not near the top):
– Inflation
– National debt
– Erosion of the BOR
– Indoctrination in public schools
Y’know, the things that are actually likely to fuck over the average Joe six-pack and lower quality of life.
I’m not sure what’s more retarded; Democrats thinking that unvaccinated people are the greatest threat facing the nation
Are they wrong? If your goal was to transform the nation in a banana republic, who would you consider the greatest threat to your new nation? I would consider the greatest threat to be the group of people who are mostly likely to actively resist the transformation, are armed, and are the most prepared for protracted conflict. While unvaccinated people who do not wholly consist of this group, the Venn diagram overlaps quite a bit.
We have to get out of the mindset that everything is just idiot politicians and MSM as usual. This is calculated. There is a reason Facebook is flagging canning groups and other completely non-violent preparedness groups as potential terrorist threats. It’s not idiocy… it’s an accurate identification of potential threats and the first steps towards neutralizing them.
I’m not sure your typical Dem voter wants America to become a banana republic (even though it already is). Typical Dem politician? Absolutely.
Anyway, I think when most of them say the vaccinated are the greatest threat to the nation, I assume they mean “those unvaccinated people will are going to infect and kill us all”, not “those unvaccinated people are going to implement policies that threaten the country.” I think it’s an important distinction.
And after I’ve finished my coffee, I’ve made up my mind. Thinking the Taliban is the greatest threat to the country (or even any threat at all) is more retarded.
Your typical politician, but especially those in team blue crime syndicates, are only concerned with keeping power and the benefits that conveys on them. That’s why you have statists like that asshole Boosh jr. telling people that Americans that don’t want to bend the knee so his group can keep power while selling us to China are the enemy, and not the Chinese or the people selling us out to them.
I wasn’t clear if you were talking about voters or politicians. The politicians and MSM set the messaging, and know very well it’s not true that the unvaxxed pose a health risk. If you’re talking about voters, I can agree that’s retarded. Although, I’ve noticed that Trump supporters, 2nd A supporters, unvaxxed, and domestic terrorists are becoming synonymous terms among the Dem hoi polloi .
I used to think that the typical (or a sizeable percentage) Dem voter didn’t want a banana republic here. The past 5 years have ripped my eyes open. If you frame the question as a banana republic or fascism, of course they would say no. But they support all the characteristics of one. Take approval among the average Dem voter for locking away the Jan 6th “domestic terrorists” in solitary with no trials. Or eviction bans on rentals. Or government imposed lockdowns and curfews. I bet it’s fairly high on all of these things. I also assume it’s moderate to high support on things like packing the SC and removal of the 2nd A.
Gotcha!
The UK government has insisted that vaccine passports will remain an integral tool in fighting the spread of COVID just a day after health secretary Sajid Javid asserted that they had been completely scrapped.
During his media rounds yesterday morning, Javid said that vaccine passports represented a “huge intrusion into people’s lives,” adding, “I am pleased to say that we will not be going ahead.”
However, within 24 hours, the government has indicated that the system will in fact form a “first-line defence” against a winter wave of coronavirus.
“No 10 said checks on the vaccine status of people going to nightclubs and other crowded events remained a crucial part of the government’s winter Covid plan due to be unveiled by the prime minister tomorrow,” reports the Times.
It continues until there is mass noncompliance.
I like how the are planning ahead for the ” winter wave of coronavirus”. This will never end.
Has there ever been a winter in Britain without coronavirus (colds)?
I’m beginning to think that the vaccine mandate stuff was set up as a distraction. Even tyrant Obama-era lawyers must know it’s almost guaranteed to get nuked by the courts. I see it two-fold: divert attention away from Afghanistan, but more importantly to divert attention away from the $3.5T “infrastructure” calamity. I’m typically loathe to make grand apocalyptic statements, but IMO if that bill gets rammed through we are well and truly fucked. For real. It’s not just the spending; it’s federalization of elections, amnesty for illegals, kulturkampf atrocities permanently codified in the permanent bureaucracy and G-d knows what else. It’s over 10,000 (!!!) pages making Zero-care look like a brief pamphlet. I honestly do not think the country could ever hope to recover if that bill is passed.
This
It’s the most cynical type of political maneuver. Distract from your failures by pitting the populace against itself. If the country bleeds out in the street as a result, it doesn’t matter. These are truly vile and evil people.
guaranteed to get nuked by the courts
You are more optimistic than me.
Agreed. The AP stories all seem to say stuff like “while the Biden mandates have their critics, many legal experts agree they are constitutional.”
If you tell a lie often enough…
Nah, there ARE many legal “experts” who say it’s constitutional. People who say it isn’t are fringe outlier trumpalo partisan definitely not experts.
I think it’s a distraction too. Biden’s been terrible at historic levels and his poll numbers are already tanking. But he always did poll well in his handling of COVID, so why not double down on that? This also gives the media (both sides) something to talk about instead of, say, showing pictures of people being beheaded in front of a US tank in Afghanistan.
I recently heard someone say that Democrats are really good at identifying problems, but really bad at understanding human nature. And I also think they tend to act like they will never lose another election.
“I’m beginning to think that the vaccine mandate stuff was set up as a distraction.”
Everyone sure as hell forgot quickly about this bungled Afghanistan withdrawal that benefitted China in so many ways it is a dead giveaway that was the intent, yo..
Think of it. We left China a bunch of hardware they would love to reverse engineer (those Apaches & Blackhawks), weapons so the Taliban could keep the population down (and China’s CCP will not care if they brutalize their the people in order to benefit China) while letting China come in to milk the country’s rare metals, and I bet you our nomenklatura class is getting payment for this from China in some way as well. Maybe it is just about paying off the CCP because Trump had the audacity to accuse them out load of foisting this bioweapon on the planet, and embarrassing the mandarinate’s masters.
The Apache is 40-plus-year-old technology (first flight was in 1975). The Blackhawk first flew in 1974. Maybe there are some systems aboard that China would like to get, but they’re most likely not the most modern. The US probably doesn’t hand out the latest gadgets to client states, especially not ones like Afghanistan.
There’s certainly some tech that China wouldn’t mind getting a look at, but if they haven’t managed to get their hands on a couple of 40 year old helicopters already, they’re not doing super well. They probably have access to better, more modern rotary wing designs already.
“The Apache is 40-plus-year-old technology (first flight was in 1975). The Blackhawk first flew in 1974.”
The electronic suite in both platforms had/have been upgraded numerous times, and some of the ones we left there have better equipment than the Apaches we sold our NATO partners (and are going to be far, far better than anything China has managed to copy up to today). People make the mistake of thinking that a platform is old it is obsolete. The B-52s of today, for example, some 60 years old, only look like the older model did from the outside. Inside the beast is a completely different monster than the old one.
That’s why I mentioned the possibly advanced “systems aboard.” I would bet that the US doesn’t allow export of avionics, targeting, and similar electronics to countries like Afghanistan that we provide weapons to. The Apaches we provided to the Afghan army are different than the ones we took back with us. Presumably any with advanced electronics that were left behind either had them removed or destroyed before being abandoned.
Anything really advanced or classified probably got yanked by the support contractors when the US forced them to leave.
The loss of support contractors is really why the Afghan army collapsed. We trained them to fight a certain way and then we removed their ability to fight like that. I really would like to know who ordered that.
It was stupid to train them to fight our way and not in a manner native to that culture.
It’s not ok to be white.
Campus Reform obtained a copy of the syllabus.
It reads, “I am a Caucasian cisgender female and first-generation college student from Appalachia who is of Scottish, British, and Norwegian heritage. I am married to a cisgender male, and we are middle class. While I did not ‘ask’ for the many privileges in my life: I have benefitted from them and will continue to benefit from them whether I like it or not.”
At the end of her statement, Duncan Lane apologizes to students for the “inexcusable horrors within our shared history.”
“This is injustice. I am and will continue to work on a daily basis to be antiracist and confront the innate racism within myself that is the reality and history of white people,” Duncan Lane writes in the syllabus. “I want to be better: Every day. I will transform: Every day. This work terrifies me: Every day. I invite my white students to join me on this journey. And to my students of color: I apologize for the inexcusable horrors within our shared history,” the instructor continued.”
This person has no context of history.
“Duncan Lane apologizes to students for the ‘inexcusable horrors within our shared history.'”
Fuck off you mentally ill cunte. I’m part of the most hated group in history; more people have tried to exterminate us more times than anyone else and I’m not an oppressed victim. I also don’t view those around me through some sick lens of oppression hierarchy, I view them as individuals. If your life is such a non-stop horror show of guilt either get medicated or kill yourself.
She was given a male name, so apparently her parents didn’t want a girl. Doesn’t that count for any victim points?
“Virginia Tech’s Department of Human Development and Family Science”
I think I see the problem.
If this is true the fix is in.
Was there ever any doubt?
Did you really expect people that know they can’t win an honest election but absolutely don’t want to take the risk of the opposition taking power and exposing their criminal activities, let alone lose power, not to cheat when the system was configured to allow cheating?
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9987587/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-bejewelled-bra-corset.html
ick?
Nope. Posing coquettishly.
Huh, arrows came back. Now they have alt text, but still don’t work.
Argh! I want to keep spouting off but if I keep drinking, I’ll never make my shift tomorrow. No fair! Good morrow, Glibs!
Mornin’ Banjos
In Houston, officials worried that heavy rain could inundate streets and flood homes.
Will it be the fault of their lack of zoning? Climate change? All of the above? Something else?
According to The Detroit News, Special Agent Richard Trask was fired last week while awaiting trial on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm and allegations that he beat his wife’s head against a nightstand following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended.
Their life sounds like a shitshow.
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office said equipment was “replaced” at the polling center and that provisional ballots are a “failsafe option” for these kinds of glitches.”
“Failsafe”. Interesting.
The median expectation is that the inflation rate will be up 5.2% one year from now, the 10th monthly consecutive increase and another new high for the gauge, and up 4% three years from now, the highest level since August 2013, according to the New York Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Expectations.
Seems a bit low to me. On the other hand, I’m certain the Fed’s Magic Wand will solve the problem. On the gripping, want to buy a tiger repelling rock?
A new surge of Republican governors, 27 so far, have announced their opposition to Biden’s mandate. Several lawsuits are reportedly in the works among Republicans.
I looked at the linked story. It includes this:
The governors who’ve expressed opposition include those from Arizona, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
That’s not 27 governors, and Kansas has a Democrat governor who locked the state down hard. I did a little digging, and all I can find about Kansas’ governor is a quote in this article, which doesn’t sound like opposition to me. Also note Kansas’ Chamber of Commerce, unlike the NJ Chamber of Commerce linked in the comments on Yusef’s story, opposes Biden’s action.
The U.S. Department of State for a week failed to respond to a Republican congressman’s request to help American citizens and others trying to evacuate Afghanistan, according to emails obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Nothing to see here, move along.
“Failsafe”. Interesting.
If it fails, we are safe. Tada!
In the highly unlikely event that it was an equipment problem, yay.
If their mail-in ballots were stolen or somebody otherwise voted in their name, this is utterly meaningless. Here’s the deal: the “first” ballot(s) will be counted, and the provisional ballot tossed, for one very simple reason: they have no way of pulling the exact ballot(s) that were stolen out of the pile to discard them.
The idiot Repubs need to go all in on stopping mail-in balloting for anyone who doesn’t pick up an absentee ballot in person. Junk mail voting is completely and utterly insecure, and it doesn’t matter whether its theoretically possible to make it secure. Its insecure by design, and the people running the elections have zero interest in running a secure election. If they did, they would have never gone with junk mail voting.
Puts Post It note on monitor, to remind self to order a tiger repelling rock before DEG runs out
Random thought: I think people under the age of 40 who have to look at a keyboard to type are functionally retarded. Caveat is that they need to use a keyboard for work at least 5 hours a week. I also think younger generations who interface with smartphones and tablets more than computers are at a distinct disadvantage. At some point tech stopped making us smart and started making us more tarded. That is, collectively. You’re all geniuses.
I’m committed to not letting my daughter have a smartphone as long as she lives under my roof. Social media, constant stimulation and surveillance-in-my-pocket are cancer.
Mine youngest didn’t get hers until she turned 16 this year. The other two were even older. We had to put up with years of “But I’m the only one in school who doesn’t have one!” I do not regret that decision, especially when I see kids in preschool or younger glued to videos all day.
Like look down at it constantly or just glance down at all?
I glance infrequently. Usually to begin typing. But never glance mid-sentence.
At some point tech stopped making us smart and started making us more tarded.
So recently I read Postman’s Technopoly* and he stressed throughout the tradeoffs that technologies always involve, even though we often don’t see what we lose (since we focus on what we gain).
*I had been looking for his Amusing Ourselves to Death but found this instead.
Online shit posting taught me and now my teens how to type. Yahoo Chat FTW!
I’ve pondered this as well. It seems like technology of the past obviated the need for rote, repetitive tasks (calculators, word processing software, etc) and allowed us to accomplish more work (and more complex types of work) whereas more recent technology is replacing the need to think altogether (GPS that speaks directions to you. I’ve seen people absolutely panic because the GPS voice stops working and they have to actually look at the map and use spatial reasoning to tell where you are and where you need to turn.)
I know these modern things are convenient, but I really do wonder if humanity is becoming collectively stupider. We became less physically fit when labor-saving devices removed much of the need to move around and lift heavy stuff; I wonder if a similar thing is happening mentally. If algorithms do all the thinking for us, what happens to our thinking muscles?
I write in cursive but no one knows how to read it.
Tweet above, but still…
“America’s No.1 champagne socialist AOC defends going to $35k-a-ticket Met Gala with boyfriend because her Tax the Rich dress ‘sent searches about our f-ed up tax code soaring’ – AND it was her ‘duty as a working-class woman’
While AOC and Bill de Blasio mingled with celebrities inside the star-studded event, Defund the Police protesters were arrested outside. Both de Blasio and AOC championed the Defund the Police movement and led to the NYPD having $1billion of its budget cut”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9987913/AOC-slammed-hypocrite-donning-custom-Aurora-James-dress-TAX-RICH.html
Also, all these skimpy outfits look quite tasteless:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9987265/Met-Gala-2021-Stars-arrive-red-carpet-fashions-big-night.html
The people wearing them are tasteless. Surprisingly, the only one wearing anything with any kind of relevant social commentary was Kim Kardashian.
Not Cara Delevingne was wearing a shirt saying “Peg the Patriarchy”?
A bunch of mostly-interchangeable “celebrities” I have, at most, a fleeting awareness of dressed up as clowns to pat themselves on the back about how “stunning and brave” they are for trotting themselves around for an adoring press.
Frankly, I’d rather watch the fishing channel.
“The essence of the Met Gala is that ultra-rich people pay huge sums to meet and be photographed with celebrities … and then deduct their night out from their taxes. Why has no one pointed out that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wore a “tax the rich” dress *to a tax shelter*?”
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1437779767219179537
It’s because they don’t give a shit about the lower classes. They’ll advocate for policies that will harm the ability for the lower classes to climb out of their situation but will drink their champagne and wear expensive dress while having their tax accountant find ways to lower their tax liabilities while pretending that they are caring. It’s a giant fuck you.
See also: millionaire Bernie Sanders’ tax return where he itemized his deductions to minimize the tax he has to pay even though he has built his career on saying that millionaires should pay more taxes.
Did she pay for her own ticket to the event? $35,000, right – or was that paid by someone else?
That’s a lot of gibberish to say “we are going to teach children to be racist.”
New York Times journalist and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones has founded the 1619 Freedom School, targeted to elementary school students in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa.
“The school’s mission is to help children develop a love of reading and books through liberating instruction centered on Black American history and will serve low-income students with the widest disparity in their reading scores,” the school’s press release states.
Sheritta Stokes, a local teacher and friend of Hannah-Jones, is the organization’s co-founder. The pair aim to deliver “intensive literacy instruction and a culturally responsive curriculum to bridge the academic opportunity gap among low-income public school students.”
The 1619 Freedom School’s curriculum will utilize “a literacy curriculum built around Black history,” which will also be available as “an open sourced, free resources for communities across the country.”
A Democrat who pisses off the teachers’ unions is done for.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-vaccine-mandate-protesters-new-york-city-joe-biden
“On 1/6/2021,
9/11/2001 ceased being the worst thing that happened to America in my lifetime.
It’s really weird and painful to process and say that.
But it’s the truth.
And quite frankly… it’s not even close.”
https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1436676637463097345
CWAA
“It’s really weird and painful to process and say that.”
What a load of horseshit. It doesn’t pain her at all, she relishes it.
*Takes deep breath* Father forgive them for they know not what they do. And forgive me for the rage I am currently experiencing.
kind of long winded but worth a read,
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/counterfeit-capitalism-why-a-monopolized
He killed it for me quick enough…
Taxis were a local govt monopoly broken by Uber. If he can’t figure that out he can’t explain shit about economics to me.
Yeah I couldn’t get into it either. I got “monopolies and shortages are a problem”. Sure, with you so far. But the read-between-the-lines solution seems to be that Big Daddy should regulate everything.
We just have the wrong top men.
Some people are never going to get it.
Greenwald: Liberals Cheered George Bush’s 9/11 Speech Because They Want a Domestic War on Terror
He’s spot on.
I used to always foolishly believe that the Left for many of their flaws were fellow travelers when it came to civil liberties but as time went on, it was obvious they only cared about civil liberties when it was some dude with an R next to their names. If the government turned on “wrong thinkers”, they would cheerlead that shit with the quickness. As Suden would say, keep that powder dry.
The irony, of course, being that the definition of “wrong thinker” changes on a daily basis. Eventually everyone gets targeted (just ask Robespierre).
They are called “Iron Laws” for a reason.
Me today, you tomorrow.
If only there was some way to teach people about these Iron Laws.
Whenever one of my liberal friends touts out some authoritarian law, I always ask, “Is this the kind of power that you would entrust Donald Trump with?” They can never quite muster up an answer to that but the more honest ones usually respond with, “Well that’s why we should make sure that someone like Donald Trump shouldn’t be allowed to run for office.”
Why do people think they can break the iron laws?
Something Gods of the something something Headings.
Why do people think they can break the iron laws?
Pride. Pure, unadulterated pride. “I’m special, so nothing could ever go sideways on my watch”
“If you’re an anti masker anti vaxxer posting about how grateful you are for the first responders from 9/11 but you’re not doing simple things to protect our present day first responders and make their lives easier when we lose the equivalent of 9/11 every day? You’re a hypocrite. I said what I said. You can hide behind medical choice, bio individuality or whatever the shifting goalpost of the week is, but you’re a hypocrite. Full stop.”
Saw this on a friend’s FB post the other day. She’s an upper class white woman who sits at home all day arguing with people over the internet about politics.
You can hide behind medical choice
It’s called “freedom”.
Great. Now do abortion.
How does she feel about the first responders who don’t want the vaccine?
Ah, “Full stop.” I see that a lot these days. I read it as somebody putting their fingers in their ears and saying “LA LA LA LA LA LA I can’t hear you!!!!”
Not considered: the implications of treating everyone who exposes someone else to a virus or germ as a violent criminal.
“.@JoyAnnReid responds to @NICKIMINAJ’s tweets on the #COVID19 vaccine: “For you to use your platform to encourage our community to not protect themselves and save their lives… As a fan, I am so sad that you did that.” #TheReidOut #reiders”
https://twitter.com/thereidout/status/1437557324361633796
“The two white men sittin there nodding their heads cuz this uncle tomiana doing the work chile. How sad.”
https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437575751490891782
I’m going to need some help translating.
Joy Reid was responding to this tweet:
“My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied”
https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437532566945341441
Then Nicki called her a “homophobic coon” etc.
tl;dr: retard fight
Someone get these bitches off Twitter and hand them some knives!
Good morning, Banjos!
I give you Rain.
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
Only happy when it rains
More rain.
You Look Like Rain
Thanks for that.
Quite welcome. I’m very fond of that whole album.
Oops. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/health/text-9986963/Walgreens-COVID-19-test-registration-left-patient-data-unprotected-Recode.html
Also, saw the red “comet” last night from about 8:57-58.
Nothing makes me grin more than the Top. Men at Ars Technica. Loved this comment.
Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs
Anyone not left of them or Marx is a “Hard right wing” type to morons. Note how with team blue people, anyone that deviates even in the slightest from the ever changing talking points is right wing? They expect monolithic adherence, and your views MUST immediately change when the narrative changes. Deviate even once, and you get in trouble. Their self policing is quite effective…
Yup. The thing is that many of the faithful buy this without a question.
Isn’t that the whole point of faith?
Keeping “hard right-wing” people around, even in ghettoes, keeps money flowing and eyeballs glued to screens. If you alienate people too much, they will go elsewhere. I say this with no good feelings attached; it probably would be better if Facebook and all the other social media sites got super ban-happy. The Internet is not the world, and social media is not a healthy replacement for socializing with real people. But doing so would hurt their bottom line and they know it.
The current goal of woke capital is to keep the vast majority of regressive deplorables around, while signaling to the progressive right-thinkers that they’re not doing exactly that. The solution they’ve come up with for now is ghettoization. The deplorables get a reduced, but still mostly functional, user experience. The engagement between people inside and outside the ghetto is greatly limited to maintain appearances. Misinformation flags get thrown around on ghetto content all the time, but both sides know they are at best useless and at worse tantalizing, like “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content” was to music in the 1990s.
The next phase is either going to be open economic warfare or capitulation. “There is only one color that matters: green” is as true today as it was in the Jim Crow era.
“Our Most Reliable Pandemic Number Is Losing Meaning
A new study suggests that almost half of those hospitalized with COVID-19 have mild or asymptomatic cases.
If you want to make sense of the number of COVID hospitalizations at any given time, you need to know how sick each patient actually is. Until now, that’s been almost impossible to suss out. The federal government requires hospitals to report every patient who tests positive for COVID, yet the overall tallies of COVID hospitalizations, made available on various state and federal dashboards and widely reported on by the media, do not differentiate based on severity of illness. Some patients need extensive medical intervention, such as getting intubated. Others require supplemental oxygen or administration of the steroid dexamethasone. But there are many COVID patients in the hospital with fairly mild symptoms, too, who have been admitted for further observation on account of their comorbidities, or because they reported feeling short of breath. Another portion of the patients in this tally are in the hospital for something unrelated to COVID, and discovered that they were infected only because they were tested upon admission. How many patients fall into each category has been a topic of much speculation. In August, researchers from Harvard Medical School, Tufts Medical Center, and the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System decided to find out…”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hospitalization-numbers-can-be-misleading/620062/
“The study found that from March 2020 through early January 2021—before vaccination was widespread, and before the Delta variant had arrived—the proportion of patients with mild or asymptomatic disease was 36 percent. From mid-January through the end of June 2021, however, that number rose to 48 percent. In other words, the study suggests that roughly half of all the hospitalized patients showing up on COVID-data dashboards in 2021 may have been admitted for another reason entirely, or had only a mild presentation of disease.
This increase was even bigger for vaccinated hospital patients, of whom 57 percent had mild or asymptomatic disease. But unvaccinated patients have also been showing up with less severe symptoms, on average, than earlier in the pandemic: The study found that 45 percent of their cases were mild or asymptomatic since January 21. According to Shira Doron, an infectious-disease physician and hospital epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, in Boston, and one of the study’s co-authors, the latter finding may be explained by the fact that unvaccinated patients in the vaccine era tend to be a younger cohort who are less vulnerable to COVID and may be more likely to have been infected in the past.”
Additional explanation, increasing numbers of non-covid visits (from hospitals & patients no longer delaying/avoiding care) + mandatory testing = increasing number of with covid cases.
This is absolutely the case.
Also note that this summer hospital beds have taken up with more kids with COVID, but also way more kids with RSV. RSV has been particularly bad because kids were wearing masks for a year and not allowed to go to school.
I think our experience is pretty typical. What’s going on is this:
(1) The number of actual COVID patients is pretty low – around 5 – 7% of our patients are COVID patients, although they do take up a chunk of ICU capacity.
(2) The number of non-COVID patients is shockingly high, and they are sicker than we used to see for our patients.
(3) There is a tremendous shortage of nurses – we used to have around 1100, and we’re down to 850 -900 now. This is the true limiting factor on hospital capacity.
If the COVID patients disappeared entirely, the hospital capacity problem would be completely unchanged. We are turning away patients. One night, we turned away as many as we had for COVID.
When asked why we have so many patients who are sicker, our medical executive committee (the boss docs in the hospital) said as near as they could tell it was three things – postponed care, drug abuse (including alcohol), and general stressors in people’s lives. The unwittingly identified the hysterical overreaction to the pandemic as the cause of the current public health problems. Exactly, I might point out, as some of us predicted, since the two biggest drags public health have long been known to be economic distress and social isolation. And they never connected the dots.
Tangentially related: This is fishy.
Its not the Unclean who are clogging up the cardiac ICUs. Vaccinations won’t do a damn thing about that.
Yep, noticed that, but that’s not how they worded it on the news. I’m starting to
yellmutter at the TV now. I think my husband’s getting tired of it.Vaccinations may well be increasing that particular load.
RC, what is your perception of the following:
– There’s lots of memes around saying basically “nearly all these folks in the hospital and ICU are unvaccinated”.
– If I were a hospital trying to create data to push the “you have to get the jab” meme, it seems relatively easy to do that with admissions criteria.
– Like 2 patients come in with same symptoms, but one’s vaxxed and one’s not. So I’m evaluating them and ask…
– You got the vax? Well, go home. You didn’t? OH YOU HAVE TO BE ADMITTED.
???
On your #2: I have heard the words “walking pneumonia” more times in the last 2 weeks, just in our little small-town circles, than in the previous 5 years. Seems like now everybody’s getting it. No idea what’s going on.
Cleanest. Election. Evar.
“Shenanigans”? KABC-TV reports Riverside County, Calif., voters are worried after receiving multiple ballots, with some receiving five ballots.
“Is this a very small scale problem? Or is it maybe a little more substantial than we think at first glance?”
I would assume that the system won’t count more than one of those, but yes I’ve been reading lots of stories of this.
My cousin, who is a registered Republican, received a ballot with a part of the envelope cut out so you could see who she voted for. My uncle, unregistered, received multiple normal ones.
https://twitter.com/MSen163/status/1437479337658290181
I would assume that the system won’t count more than one of those
I don’t.
Is the assumption that Republicans will vote once and toss the rest while Democrats will use them all?
They sent 3 ballots to Ashli Babbit’s address.
I suppose she is voting Democrat now.
German police probe balloon that caused mass blackout
What about the other 98 Luftballons?
Fuck Nina…
No, really…
Where the hell is Snake Plissken? Even Manhattan has now gotten crazy.
Violent motorcycle gang carjacks NYC BMW driver
Just another way of taxing the rich.
They must have watched AOC making her statement,….
If a bunch of people on motorcycles try to force me off the road, I’m taking advantage of the fact that I am driving a two-ton vehicle and am completely ensconced in metal. And they’re not. Who the fuck lets a motorcycle run them off the road?
Sheep
Now when you click on them, you’re just indicating your sexual preference (top vs bottom). TPTB will be sharing the results in a future post.
Hypothetically, one may have used life size posters, stencils, chalk and variety of other methods in the dark ages pre widespread computer usage and the internet.
These little wallflowers can’t figure out how to print out a double sided card cardboard card grab a Bic and copy their existing card while changing the date of birth.
The Fake Vaxx Card Next to You In the city, counterfeit proof is easy to buy as weed.
I think it’s even more disturbing that people are required to show their ID to gain admittance to stores in NYC, the vaccine card aside. I think it’s in Australia that businesses are required to log the names of all customers. How long before that comes here?
Business opportunity – shopper for the Unclean.
We’re not quite there yet. It’s “only” for restaurants*, gyms, stadiums, and one or two other things that might have occurred to Deblasio when he was sleeping late that morning.
*I have yet to actually witness this in action. I think “enforcement” phase has already started but not quite sure because I don’t eat in restaurants.
Which kinds of businesses will be affected?
Here is a full list from the city of which kinds of businesses will be required to ask patrons and employees for proof of vaccination.
Restaurants, bakeries and coffee shops
Catering halls, cafeterias, event spaces and banquet rooms
Bars and nightclubs
Dining spaces in grocery stores
Fast food restaurants
Movie and performing arts theaters
Live music and concert venues
Museums, exhibition halls and galleries
Aquariums and zoos
Sports arenas and stadiums
Convention centers
Bowling alleys, pool halls, game centers and arcades
Gyms, fitness centers, workout classes and pools
Dance studios
Casinos
Adult entertainment venues
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/08/13/what-to-know-about-the-city-s-vaccine-passport-rules-that-start-monday
What proof of identification is needed for logging names? Because Mikhail Mysh gets around.
Al Gore, you are wanted at the courtesy phone.
Less than 10 years remain before the oft-claimed “tipping point” for the planet, but sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is the highest it’s been in nine years, increasing more than 30% from last year, while the Antarctic’s level is well above normal.
That’s according to the Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility’s High Latitude Processing Center, pointed out climate-change skeptic Tony Heller.
He noted the Arctic Ocean gained a record amount of sea ice during the first week of September.
“Most years the Arctic loses ice, but this year ice extent has increased” more than 77,000 square miles, he wrote on Twitter, adding the news likely would not be reported by CNN, BBC News or the New York Times.
Meanwhile, the sea melt this summer was the lowest in 15 years, and the expanse of Antarctic sea is well above average.
Anything like this gets treated like good news about COVID: “Well, uh… There’s um, a lot that we don’t understand about this, and our models said that uh, it would… Um… Ooooh, look over there, DOOOOM!!!!”
Good. Will polar bears stop bitching now?
Like fusion power, the tipping point is always a few years away.
Well I can answer Mr. Cooke’s question. The staff were there to serve, and they knew their proper place.
Newsom’s Fate Hangs in Balance as Californians Cast Final Ballots
The final ballots won’t be cast until after polls close.
+1 3am ballot dump.
The Army Ten-Miler will be virtual this year.
I would participate if it didn’t cost anything. I could do it in 1 step segments over the two weeks.