Alright I have my rubber gloves. Lets get this over with.
Telling team cuck not to vote is a bold move, lets see if that works out.
Just mint the butt-fucking coin already you dumbshits, I know it will lead to massive inflation, you know it, the American people know it. You just made me quote Bob Fucking DOLE. Just do it already so the Bundy ranch assholes can overrun Boise.
Pics will be needed if they intend to get an objective opinion on the matter.
If I could go back in time, I would triangle choke Thomas Malthus.
I guess this is why we don’t hire volunteers at the brothel, otherwise you look like a cunt for firing them.
I can’t even make a goddamn Grinch joke. The Grinch at one point in the story was competent.
Could this be avoided? It seems like this can be avoided.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with your particular brand of extra snug fit condoms selling for $1.39 a pop.
Paul Krugman is a dishonest hack, you don’t say? Whatevers, we totes beat inflation!
I am sure he wants you to believe that he believes you can avoid inflation by spending a shit-ton of tax payer lucre to buy voters.
He wants you to believe whatever’s politically advantageous to the left at any given time. In other words, he’s a hired gun lying piece of trash.
He used to be a hired gun (cough Enron cough) – now he’s just a brokedown drunk ranting from a barstool in a dive bar.
I hear the price of voters is increasing.
Nah. Everyone that allegedly died of covid is now a Democrat voter.
Dead voters aren’t for sale. They are like the free pile of books on the little table beside the exit.
Is that like puppies?
Dead Puppies Aren’t Much Fun
Huh
I thought it was “Free the Nipple” day scant hours ago. What changed?
Bhurkha or topless, your choice M’Lady…
Pics will be needed if they intend to get an objective opinion on the matter. – I say just put the guy in the stocks already. Let the cheerleaders throw the first rotten vegetable
Holy crap this is getting great.
Because if they really want to be self-consistent, they are now going to have to trawl through the social media of every single man associated with the NFL and fire the lot of them.
Bonus points if they include the players.
???
Saw a story in my news feed from some people demanding exactly that.
The smart ones are frantically deleting all of the their accounts this morning.
But it probably won’t help.
Mark Davis finally found some of the old man’s spine when he was asked to comment on Gruden – “go ask the NFL, they have all the answers”.
I guess this is why we don’t hire volunteers at the brothel, otherwise you look like a cunt for firing them. – I mean know, but some free internships so the young ones can learn should be available
This is why baseball is superior to football. You need to prove yourself to move up in the ranks.
Football just uses the college teams as their minor leagues.
^^^^^ BOOOM
MLB has a proper minor league system. Football and basketball use colleges a ‘free’ and ersatz minor league system. I know that many MLB players were college players. My fave pitcher, Kyle Hendricks, went to fucking Dartmouth and studied math/econ. The Professor, indeed. But Cubans/Dominicans/etc/many others don’t play in uni.
It’s also just a reality that baseball is a better sport than any other in the world. I say this as a former hockey player and current lover, and I can always enjoy any bit of athletics in any capacity. I love sport, but baseball is hands down where my heart lies. It’s a profound part of the joy of everyday life. I check it every day.
Pretty sad the Rays are out as I appreciate an underdog (yes, they were hella good this year), But fuck the Astros and the ChiSox (because fuck the abominable DH and the AL). I am happy the Brewers are out. I don’t give a shit about the Dodgers or the Giants and I don’t wanna root for them, but I will over the AL. So far, my second fave team (after the almighty Cubs…who sucked this year…), the Braves are hopefully gonna continue on their merry way. At least they’ll be better rested. And against LA/SF they are certainly the underdogs.
It’s actually hard for me to articulate how much I love baseball. Played for 12-or-so years, second base then catcher and (SHORT!) lead-off hitter. Was never the best on any team I was on, but I was a legit all-star for what I was able to do and was selected as such. I almost certainly gave more a shit about the game than any of the other kids. And that lives on.
My Son!
Bah. Baseball isn’t even the best variant of baseball. Cricket is superior in every way.
I know someone who plays cricket, and even he doesn’t believe that.
They don’t even play with gloves.
Oh yeah?
Write the rules for Cricket on one side of an 8 1/2 X 11 inch sheet of paper.
Having 3 miles of written commentary on famous games to every book of game rules does not make a sport superior.
That’s what makes cricket superior. Look at the characteristis the US game shares with cricket and it’s obvious:
Long tedious games that can last indefinitely – cricket wins
Hyperconvoluted and arcane rules – cricket wins
A ball you can kill people with – cricket wins. The wussies in the US cover theirs with leather padding.
Pitching – cricket wins. The pitchers have to pitch in TWO directions
Batting – cricket wins. There is no strike zone. If the batter deigns not to swing at a ball coming for the wicket, he’s out. No second chances.
Baserunning – cricket wins. Baseball run paths are one-way on only traversed once.
Competition field design – cricket wins. You can make your outfield whatever size and shape you want.
Baseball: US, Cuba, Japan.
Cricket: A billion more people.
You’ve managed to screw up both your criteria and your evaluation of the criteria you did choose.
Impressive.
And don’t get me started on the uniforms.
I remember the Bangladeshi barbers at Tallil, Iraq having cricket on their TV at all times…
“Baseball: US, Cuba, Japan.”
You missed South Korea (remember during the ‘vid lockdown, ESPN was showing their baseball, they were so starved for content) Dominican Republic, Mexico, Canada, Venezuela, Panama, etc.
Everything you say is true. And also true:
Cricket: A billion more people.
Sorry, NA, but your appeal to popularity doesn’t fly with this misanthrope.
My Indian coworkers are always yapping about staying up to four in the morning watching cricket.
Gah, I like some sports but nothing is going to make me stay up all night when I have to work the next day.
Sigh. Let’s break this down:
Long tedious games that can last indefinitely – cricket wins—Ya mean loses. Cuz baseball games can be long and indefinite, but they definitely END. Ain’t no ties/draws here. Customer gets an outcome.
Hyperconvoluted and arcane rules – cricket wins—As in it has more? How is that winning?
A ball you can kill people with – cricket wins. The wussies in the US cover theirs with leather padding.–Ray Chapman died by getting hit on the field.
Pitching – cricket wins. The pitchers have to pitch in TWO directions–But…in the same way? What? Just accounting for direction? Who gives a shit?
Batting – cricket wins. There is no strike zone. If the batter deigns not to swing at a ball coming for the wicket, he’s out. No second chances.–FALSE. Hit the wickets. That’s a failure for a batter and success for a pitcher. Different name for same thing.
Baserunning – cricket wins. Baseball run paths are one-way on only traversed once.–Yeah. Cuz they have a specific goal.
Competition field design – cricket wins. You can make your outfield whatever size and shape you want.–Baseball does this, too. Only the baselines and rubber-to-mound are standardized.
Baseball: US, Cuba, Japan.–UM. I’ve/we’ve already addressed this.
Cricket: A billion more people.
Baseball is a better sport and features better athletes. And they make WAY more money (the best players) than the best cricket players. I just looked it up. Virat Kohli makes ~$690k a month. The best baseball players make $20+million a year. As opposed to ~$8.3M a year. Um. Whoops!
If you’re watching baseball, you obviously like long tedious games with arcane rules. Otherwise you’d be watching volleyball. So since tediousness and arcanity are good things, cricket wins by being moreso.
Geeze, Guess I’ll stick with 16-yard trap. You either hit or miss, and count up the hits.
My big long comment, mostly quoting George Carlin, was taken away…but the KBO is huge here in Korea. And Japan. And in the rest of Central/South America. Fuck it:
“The objectives of the game are completely different. The quarterback, otherwise known as the Field General…With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I’ll be safe at home!”
Absolutely brilliant, humorous (and accurate) oratory.
NERDS!
The lot of you!
“Extra snug fit condoms” FTW
Saran Wrap!
Duct tape…
Double sided gorilla glue tape
For “her” pleasure…
Another “expert” speaks out
With the pandemic in its 19th month, Idaho intensive care units still have high numbers of COVID-19 patients.
As of Thursday, there were 185 COVID-19 patients in ICUs at Idaho hospitals, according to data from the Department of Health and Welfare. And there were 705 patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.
Health experts have long argued that if the state’s and/or the nation’s vaccination rate did not reach a high enough level, COVID-19 would become endemic, meaning it would be regularly found and not eradicated. On Tuesday, Dr. Steven Nemerson, chief clinical officer at Saint Alphonsus Health System, told reporters at a Health and Welfare briefing that the virus is here to stay.
“Today I’m here to tell you that we’ve lost the war,” Nemerson said. “The reason it is here to stay is because we cannot vaccinate enough of the public to fully eradicate the disease. And absent being able to do that … we now need to move into the phase of recognizing that COVID is going to be a disease to be managed for the long-term future.”
Lost the war, we have. And all on account of a bunch of toxic individualist snowflakes.
We coulda eradicated it.
*makes jacking-off hand motion*
They’re so full of shit. They knew–anybody with a brain knew–that COVID would become endemic, just like most respiratory viruses that don’t quickly kill their hosts, from the beginning. There’s no eradicating a disease that behaves like the common cold and/or flu with technology that can’t stop either of those well known diseases.
Now, having “failed” to eradicate the disease, they make up reasons why, and–wonder of wonders!–their standard political bugaboos are found to be responsible. It would be disgusting if it weren’t so predictable.
And here’s the truly absurd part: Even if they got close to 100% of Americans vaccinated at some given point, they’d have to seal off the borders 100% in order to truly be COVID-free forever. They’d have to screen every single immigrant and every international visitor forever, or else someone would inevitably bring COVID into the country from somewhere else in the world and put us right back to square one.
And even that won’t do it. See China. Israel is probably as close to completely vaccinated as humanly possible yet covid persists. Once it became known vaccination did not eliminate transmission, the jig was up.
“They’d have to screen every single immigrant and every international visitor forever”
“Hey, that’s our plan!”
/Australia and New Zealand
Confirmation bias FTW!
It’s not complete until you make the “throwing-it-in-his-face” gesture.
+1 Spiderman finish
I prefer to employ the Abe Lincoln finish myself
We have failed our betters.
This is probably the narrative changing now.
“We failed. It’s time to move on, after we punish the fuck out of those who failed us.”
Yep. Funny how they can always point the finger at their political enemies.
Or maybe it’s because the vaccines don’t work as advertised you dishonest hack.
It’s well known that the only way a vaccine can work is if everyone is completely isolated from everyone else, preventing the disease that the vaccine is supposed to destroy from spreading from person to person.
With the pandemic in its 19th month
The Media / Government is the pandemic.
The reason it is here to stay is because we cannot vaccinate enough of the public to fully eradicate the disease. And absent being able to do that … we now need to move into the phase of recognizing that COVID is going to be a disease to be managed for the long-term future.
Like every other cold/flu…
The covid-zero people are fucking delusional.
Savvy. Golfers have disposable income.
So like the beer wagon on the third hole? I can get behind that!
Sometimes you need victory pussy, sometimes you need sympathy pussy.
True enough.
Yeah but they need drugs to get it up.
I’d think that would all go to your bottom line, though.
Could this be avoided? It seems like this can be avoided. – Well given that prices are not really affected by anything but corporate greed, giving them a talking to should fix it. Here they are talking about putting caps on energy prices for the population irrespective of how much is costs suppliers to get the nat gas / electricity. That will work splendidly. There was also the suggestion of cutting the VAT on energy from 20% to 5% but few in the government like that. Here in Romania standard gas price is today 5.5 American Dollars per American gallon.
I seem to remember Britain nationalizing a lot of this stuff in the 70s. I wonder how that worked out for them.
Let’s find out, Joe!
Please stop giving them ideas.
“Energy costs are rising worldwide, in some cases leading to shortages in major economies like China and India. In the United States, the average retail cost of a gallon of gas is at a seven-year high, and winter fuel costs are expected to surge, according to the U.S. Energy Department. Oil-and-gas production remains below the nation’s peak reached in 2019,” Reuters reported.
No one knows why. Experts are baffled.
I keep wondering when all the people that bought into government by expertise will realize that our expert class is about the dumbest and most ignorant bunch of fucking politically motivated idiots with evil intentions you could imagine, and finally give up on this idiocy. Then I look at people and realize stupidity is everywhere and that’s why we have this stupid. Nature will correct that eventually or make us extinct.
*whispers*
We wouldn’t be dealing with this nonsense, had we stuck with the Articles of the Confederation.
*whispers back*
Yes we would, in more flavors of tyranny, because tyranny (in the name of safety or progress) is what people crave.
Eh, you’re probably right. Still, I think there would be areas with much less government intrusion and oversight than others. Even today, places like Florida contrast with places like California.
People keep arguing that “We need to get back to the Constitution”, but if the Constitution really worked as advertised, then we wouldn’t be dealing with price controls and vaccine mandates. What kept the U.S. government limited for so many years, I think, was the presence of the Frontier. The ability to get beyond the FedGov’s reach kept its power from increasing too much. When the Frontier closed, then the FedGov really began its massive expansion.
Of course if the Southern states hadn’t rebelled, we wouldn’t have had the massive shift to the union that came in response. The Progressive era remember is rooted in the second Great Awakening. And lastly, WWII has had lasting implications. There are many things we can point to, so it’s probably not fair to blame it all on the loss of frontier (which is an inevitable condition anyway).
People keep arguing that “We need to get back to the Constitution”,
The constitution itself is the power grab. Either reinstitute the Articles, or burn it all down.
Hear, hear!
Yes.
Funny how the people that lived under the Articles burned them down and yet we question their wisdom in doing so.
When you say “people” to whom are you referring. The Founding Fathers were a pretty small group and it is pretty clear at least a few of them understood that that the Articles were a stumbling block to power consolidation.
Been thinking this lately as well.
Tundra – they also understood that the govt under the AoC was ineffective. They intended to remedy at least some of that when they convened in Philadelphia. This by the way is what I think is the greatest argument against another Constitutional convention.
Well, ineffective government sounds pretty good to me right now.
There is some good news, or at least fun news. Rotten Tomatoes finally relented And posted the audience reviews for Fauci. There is an 89% difference in scores this morning.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fauci
The big lie has been outed. Joe is done.
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
/Pandering Covidians
??
This is one of the splat (bad) critic reviews:
?
“While the film did give Fauchi a sloppy BJ, it failed to lovingly cup his balls and lightly finger his anus. 3/5.”
We beat covid! We won!
*jumps over cliff*
Norway bow and arrow attacks: Man charged after five killed in Kongsberg before ‘confrontation’ with police
https://news.sky.com/story/norway-several-people-killed-and-others-injured-in-bow-and-arrow-attacks-say-police-12433212
Is it better or worse be killed with a bow as opposed to a gun? It may be more painful I assume.
Better. If people would just switch to murdering people with arrows we could finally end the scourge of gun violence.
he suspect was a 37-year-old Danish citizen – did this Dane not know he should go viking in England?
He probably couldn’t get the vaccine passport to get into England
It really does save lives!
If only Harold Godwinson had tried that against the Normans. The world would be a different place.
He should have waited for his fyrd to arrive and ignored the Norman pillaging.
“No need to worry abouut oo raped and pillaged oom, this is an appy occasion!
What is kind of ironic is that Godwinson eliminated the Danish invasions for good just prior to his loss at Hastings. The Normans did not have to deal with that problem.
But, yes. Wait for the fyrd to arrive. Also, explain very carefully to the men he had with him to not break rank no matter what. Might’ve been prudent to have some archers up on the hill, too, but I guess the English didn’t have archers at that time.
“We should get poles. Long ones; twice as long as a man.”
“Message for you, sir!”
#CancelESPN #Timesup #Meetoo #believeallwomen #unlesstheyaccusedemocrats
Unless they accuse Dems. Or trannies.
Someone is too busy to read hashtags.
I was adding to the hashtag.
I would be willing to bet that if a conservative transperson was accused of sexual misconduct they’d be cancelled. I know people have tried getting Blaire White off of Youtube and AFAIK, she’s only banging her boyfriend.
Hell, NPR is going after Chappelle for violating the woke world order, siccing their resident BIPOC on him. Hilariously, Eric was raving about the “authentic” portrayal of a white working class town in rural Virginia this morning.
Right. We saw how fast they turned on Bruce Jenner.
Chappelle has become persona non grata because he correctly pointed out that the most powerful lobby in the US isn’t the CCP Chicomm or African American minority race huxting movements.
ESPN will learn their lesson, no more Grudens, more Jemele Hills.
…no more audience.
Exactly. I used to be a casual watcher. I haven’t watched ESPN once since I noticed their nonstop wokeness.
I feel that there is somehow a connection between Malthus’s delusions and Biden telling oil companies to lower their prices.
Be quiet you! Survivor is on!
Connection between Malthus’s delusions and the systematic suppression of all effective covid treatments other than experimental vaccines.
They are desperate to prove Malthus right.
A White House official told Reuters that they were “closely monitoring the cost of oil and the cost of gas Americans are paying at the pump” and suggested that “anti-competitive practices” could be responsible for rising costs, although they provided no evidence.
They’re a bunch of profiteering capitalists out to defraud and impoverish the public while they turn the planet into an uninhabitable cinder. What additional evidence is needed?
Did you even see how ugly that guy was? I mean Eeeewww…
We need an ecosocialist utopia and we need it now.
and suggested that “anti-competitive practices” could be responsible
Well, the gov’t is stifling domestic production.
You don’t need a conspiracy if you have groupthink.
https://twitter.com/Chesschick01/status/1448239511931170822
Heh.
So many problematic glasses, so much hair dye. *shudders*
The neoreactionary kiddies call this a ‘prospiricy’. Rather than a secret plan formented and carried out in secret, it springs organically from the incestuous class associations typical of modern society. It’s one of the rare occasions that the NRx movement brushes up against useful thinking…
French authorities may soon start using aerial photographs in their search for swimming pools and extensions that house owners have concealed from the tax office.
The evaluation of satellite images is to be used by the land registry offices to possibly adjust the value of the properties concerned, according to the tax authorities’ plans.
On-site investigations by tax officials are to be reduced to a minimum. With artificial intelligence helping search the satellite images and generate automated letters to property owners, the manpower required will be reduced.
Broadcaster BFMTV reported on Wednesday that the evaluation of aerial photos will initially be tested in nine departments.
In a first test in the department of Alpes-Maritimes, 3,000 swimming pools that had been concealed from the tax authorities were discovered within a few weeks.
https://newsghana.com.gh/french-tax-authorities-to-use-ai-to-hunt-for-hidden-swimming-pools/
I wonder how many roofs will now be sporting penises.
I see a run on contactors building backyard penis pools. Come on form-guys! You can do it!
If you have nothing to fear, you have nothing to hide.
RENDER ONTO CEASAR!
“Onto”
Ha!
They use google maps to do this to us in Long Island already.
In NOLA’s French Quarter, the Vieux Carre Commission (city’s historical preservation busybodies) has used aerial overflights for years but have recently gone to all drones all the time. They levy fines for any changes to property in their bailiwick – paint something a different color, put in a new AC or hot tub and the VCC will fine you lickity-split until you return the property to the condition in which the VCC is frozen.
I could paint my house hot pink and nobody would give a shit, except maybe the guy across the road who would have to see it when the leaves are off the trees.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-now-urging-oil-and-gas-companies-to-bring-down-rising-fuel-costs-report
Look at the URL. I haven’t followed the link yet, but just read that text.
HOW!? How, Mr. Biden, are “oil and gas companies” supposed to bring down rising fuel costs? I can think of a few ways, including exploring new sources, drilling and exploiting those sources, improving source-to-terminal transportation, and a few others that YOU and your administration have UNILATERALLY DISALLOWED them to pursue.
We joke about the stupidity of leftists, but the reality is far, far scarier than we admit. These idiots truly believe they can defy laws of physics/biology/chemistry/nature/economics/and-so-on and decree new ones. That’s why they really get pissed when they are told what they want to do will not work, they push it through anyway, celebrate their victory, then end up with a royal fuckup that they will never admit is their end result.
Humanity is split between people that understand that you can’t will the existing laws I mention above away, changing the universe to do whatever stupid thing you wish it did, away, and those that think they can force the universe to bend to their will through government of credentialed elites. The problem is that the later group is growing larger and larger as people are fucking brainwashed to be stupid, and eventually the price tag will come due.
I have seen people adhering to the belief that the concept of survival of the fittest is debunked now (the new trope is that there is no natural selection and that life is just random shit) pretend that it is all luck, which means you can make people weaker and dumber without consequences, since nature will just fuck things up at random. These are the same people that remain baffled that despite their expertise things always go to shit when they run the show (see current 3rd incarnation of the Obama admin, for example).
Tom Woods latest podcast has an interesting discussion of how economists have moved to a more experimental approach instead of theoretical in the last couple of decades.
It provides the politicians and activists with what they want because they can screw around with an economy and then use shitty statistics to “prove” their theories about minimum wage et al…
This is the root of it. They believe that anything–everything–can be negotiated. As good postmodernists, they believe truly that there is no objective reality to which they are subject. This is a fundamentally anti-scientific conception–it flies in the face of the entire idea of understanding the world around us so that we can exploit the fundamental knowledge to mold things.
They skip the understanding part and go straight to the molding. This works only to the extent that they live within an extremely successful society that is so rich and prosperous that even large inefficiencies can be tolerated to a degree in the pursuit of making a safe space. Try that in a hardscrabble, nonindustrialized economy. It will not, cannot work, because that is where the interface between what “should be” and what “is” is cold, hard, and unlubricated by other people’s money.
The danger is that they never accept their failures as proof that they are wrong, and they then double down on the stupid out of spite. You would figure the marxists would by now have accepted that while that drivel from Marx that basically makes the argument that it is good to divide people and pit them against each other can be made to look good on paper, but when put into practice it is genocidal and evil. Yet here we are with another series of reboots, based on identity, genders, and all sorts of other stupid shit to split people up and pit them against each other, and of all places in the US which was instrumental in killing the old USSR (and now is helping China cross the river in the same way that the frog helped the scorpion in that fable, though).
Intellectualism is the root of evil. Intellectuals tend to be insulated from society, responsibility, and consequences, which is why they have time to come up with all sorts of pedantic and evil ideas to foist on humanity. All they want is to be right amongst their peers, body count and mass misery be damned,
In retrospect, creating an intellectual caste out of Nth sons shunted off to the clergy where they could do less damage might not have been the best idea.
Intellectualism is the root of evil.
Well there goes the Enlightenment.
I think some definition of “intellectualism” might be in order.
Do you think the people that started the Enlightment would consider the intellectual class we have today to be intellectualism on par with what they did? Cause my bet will be that they might rethink what they did considering how wrong things have gone.
So I don’t touch on it much in my upcoming article, but Lasch does in his book – that the Enlightenment was ultimately self-defeating. Now, his escape from that personally was death, and he didn’t offer any ideas about other escapes.
My honest opinion is our problem has a bit less to do with intellectualism per se and more to do with the intellectualism (and every other ism) you get with a ridiculously prosperous society. Now perhaps we will find in the future that that prosperity isn’t a birthright, something to be taken utterly for granted [no one will be convinced of that now]; but until then, we will burn through all of what we have until we find the pantry barren. Stark reality will set in and there won’t be a debate about how to split the last pea, all attention will go into restocking the pantry.
Prosperity did allow people of mediocre minds to overrun academia and other institutions and bring us the calamity of their idiocy. I however feel compelled to point out that the people that warned of this dumbing down happening where accused of being the evil uncaring ones. They were not just right, but right on an order of magnitude most of them wouldn’t even imagine as possible. We now live in a society that thinks intelligence and science includes censorship, safe spaces, consensus, and insanity (57 genders!).
I have accept that people will never accept explanations of, and now even discussions about, issues and problems – be they simple or complex as fuck – that leave them emotionally unsatisfied. I can explain the basics of economics or go into complex reasons for why something isn’t racism/sexism/homophobia/or whatever, only to be completely dismissed by someone that appeals to people’s emotions. It’s easier to give people demons to hate and saints to cheer for, regardless of how fucking stupid the argument tare. And they will go along with idiocy that piles up bodies like cordwood as long as they can keep from having to admit their stupidity caused it.
It’s easier to give people demons to hate and saints to cheer for
And that isn’t exactly a problem of intellectualism, now is it? That’s the human condition.
Weird huh? Make the production of a product more expensive, then act surprised when prices go up.
I’m old enough to remember when Biden banned new oil leases and shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.
Telling team cuck not to vote is a bold move, lets see if that works out.
Tbf there is no reason to legitimize an illegitimate system/government.
Well the only way to vote on that is with your feet.
Assuming the FedGov does mint the coin(s) at some point going forward, what’s the amount of time before it turns out there was a heist and at least one trillion dollar coin was “lost”?
They should be the size of Rai Stones.
(the biggest ones, not the tiny rocks)
a change of ownership was effected by appending the transfer to the oral history of the stone.
It’s like blockchain.
“rockchain”
Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, Julia Robert’s, and Brad Pitt
What, those old farts?
You’re right! We need new, fresh actors. Actors with charisma and skill.
Starring, uh…
Hmm…
First place to look for said missing coin – the Clinton Foundation.
The FBI will say that, yes, the Clintons have the coin, which they took without permission, but the case is now closed and there will be no prosecution.
To act consistently, therefore, we should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operation of nature in producing this mortality, and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which we compel nature to use.
Maybe we could concoct a deadly virus in a lab, and let it loose on the plebs. It’s worth a try.
“Perhaps the most baleful feature of this benign man’s theory is the scarcity mentality it both posits and reinforces”
That was actually Adam Smith’s theory, which Malthus was following.
And whatever else Malthus was wrong about, he was 100% right about the welfare state exacerbating every problem it claims it will alleviate.
NEW: An extinction rebellion activist is going on a hunger strike until Boris Johnson meets her demands
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1448307155157852167
1. That is a chive worthy chest
2. Question for the local male gaze, hunger strike related. Could the lady use to lose a few pounds or is she just right now? (No Tres, she does not need to gain weight)
When does it start getting cold in England?
for english women, given enough to drink, never
The Top Gear gif works well there.
I dunno. There is a shortage of perfect breasts in the world. It’d be a shame to ruin hers.
I see nothing that needs improvement.
Too bad her brain is mush.
…brain?
She ain’t pretty she just looks that way.
Her brain needs a little more nutrition.
SHOW US YOUR BUSH TO SAVE GAIA…
At least this time the lady with her shirt off makes it worth the look…
Usually the ones disrobing are the people you hope never, ever show that fugly shit in public…
The correct answer is “who gives a shit?”
So which one is it ladies? Are the boobies sacred? Not sacred? Is being attractive really such a burden?
The burden of handsomeness has held me back! I demand the Economy of Plain! That way people will value me for my insipidity rather than my arresting hazel gaze and manly physique.
I think being beautiful must carry the same burden as being ugly, fat, disabled. There are downsides you have to accept and work around or mitigate somehow, and one of them is being gaped at.
I actually had a girlfriend that complained men constantly ogled & whistled at her. She had some life changes (age caught up with her) and suddenly that attention went away, and suddenly she was complaining that men didn’t notice her anymore. When I pointed out the contradiction she went bonkers. I moved on.
Not giving a shit is never an option.
On aging.
Some years ago, I had lost a lot of weight and went from being invisible to suddenly men were flirting with me. It was a difficult thing to deal with because I had never learned. That shit’s no joke, but it’s just something an attractive human has to deal with.
Ass-grabbing was a real thing that I had to deal with when I was young. Kinda sucked. Men tried it too. I did wear tight trousers so basically asking for it 🙁
I’m a seven, drunken eight. It was merely a jest, Mojo.
I know! I was just expressing thoughts I have had for years. What beauty means, what it can and can’t accomplish, what its strengths and weaknesses are. Rush Limbaugh always said that feminism was a way for unattractive women to get attention, which was terribly thought-provoking for me. Also see: trigglypuff.
I look at it like winning the lottery, no matter how terrible people try to make it sound… I’m willing to give it a shot.
“Oh no I’m constantly around super athletes of the opposite sex who like to pay for everything for me so they can do coke off my ass!”
I got to listen to some pompous jackass blather about the dire need for planning in the People’s Republic of Park County.
God forbid you let the market work. That leads to ugliness and overcrowding. We must preserve our viewscapes. You can’t just allow people to do/build as they please, that’s crazy.
Later, he and the dopey bint behind the bar congratulated themselves for being properly anointed SCIENCE!-lovers, and commiserated about the ignorant dopes who won’t get vaxxed should be forcibly poked. How splendid.
On the local front, Cases are rising, the ICUs are all full, I have no idea if they are trying any treatment, and the prime minister said he was thinking of compelling the covid pass for stores, not just restaurants coffee shops etc. So basically no vaccine you starve.
I will not comply when that comes here.
so starve it is?
If you make me an outlaw, I’ll start acting like one.
^^^THIS^^
And I suspect that’s the plan..
The fucking statists want/need an enemy crisis to really go full totalitarian on us here in the US…
Edward Abbey may have been a lefty fuck, but he absolutely had the right mindset.
Gardening and theft are also options. I don’t know the situation where you are, but you here you can have your groceries delivered to your house.
Of course, here, the governor banned vaccine mandates.
I can, but I won’t.
I did it a few times, and it worked out, but the last time, the girl who delivered said something about the company not giving her a voucher, or something, and that she had to pay with her own money, and I should pay her back. I had already paid for the groceries, and for the delivery. I contacted the company, and spent some time trying to get it worked out. I kept telling her to contact the company. Eventually, she left.
I didn’t have groceries delivered after that.
She was trying to defraud you.
All my troubles with grocery delivery have been with the third party between the store and the house. So now if I have someone else shop, I elect to pick up from the store.
I suppose I’d be relegated to shopping for groceries via Amazon, at least until the powers that be decide that one needs a vax pass to shop online because fytw.
The vaxx mandates cover some WFH people too, right?
Same here but nobody seems to be ill. Everybody is just going about their business. Old folks are dying but that seems par for the course when you get old.
Are the ICUs really full of unvaccinated people? I work with people based in hospitals – despite what gets reported on the news, that isn’t happening at all.
A year and a half ago a few people went to the “full” emergency rooms in New York – they were empty. That’s when I started thinking this is all a scam.
I think RC Dean explained the economics of ICUs, in that the units made no money and they are kept small on purpose, so “filling up ICUs” would be easy because there aren’t that many beds in the first place. That’s not a quote. It’s what I gleaned from what he said.
Romania has 1600 ICU beds for covid, at a population of probably 17 million (officially 20 mil but that is bullshit, many leave to work in western EU countries without bothering to register their leaving with the authorities)
Pretty much. We get more for an ICU patient (probably), but they cost more. They aren’t a big profit center, that’s for sure. Surgery is where hospitals make their bones, and surgery patients mostly don’t need the ICU.
No, they aren’t. Their capacity is reduced, and they have a lot of sick people, both because of COVID panic, not COVID.
I misunderstood, then. I’m not even sure you’re the person I was thinking of.
Nah, you were right. They are kept relatively small because overcapacity costs money. The real limiting factor is qualified nurses. We can, and have, spun up whole new ICUs – the physical differences aren’t that big a deal. But the nurse shortage means we can’t really do that now without enormous expense. ICU demand is running high, but not crazy high, and COVID isn’t really the reason.
Then what hit them? Lets fire some nurses!
I don’t know. The official news is 75% unvaccinated sick, 90% of the dead unvaccinated. But you never know what to believe.
Half of what you see, and none of what you hear?
“[President] Biden does have an ace in the hole if Congress doesn’t suspend the debt limit,” left-leaning economist Dean Baker wrote for CNN.com. “Due to a technicality in the law, the Treasury Department can print a platinum coin and assign a huge value to it—say, $1 trillion—and sell it to the Federal Reserve Board. This would get around the need to borrow.”
You’ll need several more. And then the dollar will crash.
Cowabunga!!!
Fractional reserve banking should be considered a form of treason.
Isn’t treason a crime against the state? You probably can’t have modern capitalism with a complementary banking system.
That is the primary definition. I believe one can betray one’s family, friends, and community, as well, apart from considerations of government.
Ah, your own idiosyncratic definition – got it.
It’s the only definition that matters.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/treason
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/treason
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/treason?q=Treason
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
gah! withOUT…
Yeah, work-arounds never lead to shoddy, temporary systems that can’t function forever.
As long as it allows them to pay off certain constituencies and devalue the monetary worth of the middle class, which it will, it’ll be deemed a success.
I’m with Winston’s Mom; just stfu and mint the coin. The economy is on life support, just pull the plug.
Has the Fed actually said they would buy it?
Hahahahaha – you think the Fed won’t do as it is told? Like it is independent or something? Hahahahahahaha
I have it on good authority that the Federal Reserve is a private bank owned by private interests, and that it is as “Federal” as “Federal Express”.
Because, you know, Federal Express isn’t “Federal”; it, too, is owned by private interests, and has a legal grant by the government to be the only institution that can deliver packages, and its board of directors is appointed by the President and approved by the Senate.
Wait a second…
Thot Thursday is on topic for Winston’s Mom.
https://archive.is/w2nA1
Former Washington Football Team cheerleaders are calling on the NFL to release the full results of its investigation into the franchise’s workplace culture — following allegations that inappropriate photos of squad members were secretly distributed by coaches via email.
Perks of the job.
The Washington Formers?
^ Seen and appreciated.
Wait, you’ve see the inappropriate pics?
Katie Porter Will Save Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD9qO1QPlsg
Tim Dillon on the “Night of the Beating”, and lunch lady Katie Porter vs Jaime Dimon.
Say what you will Tim Dillon has a funny podcast
Thursdays are my longest days. Hour commute to my morning gig, then 5 30-min classes with 5 to 7-year-olds, all in a row with no breaks. Then an hour commute back…a granola bar…then my Main Gig (thankfully the classes there are quite good on Thurs). Still an easy day, but it’s just a long time to be performing. One of the things about ESL teaching, especially with young kids, is that it is indeed a constant performance. I only taught for 5.5 hours today, but that’s a long time to be on stage and in character. Add in 3 hours of commute and although it’s still quite a simple day, it adds up. I don’t mind. I get paid well for what I do and that’s part of the gig(s). I’d argue that all of you have harder work situations. Impossible for you to not, really. But I also live as a foreigner abroad and I also get paid to live in that particular way.
I’ve been a bit of a silly goof recently. I’ve picked out my pics for my Cambodia travels, and I know how I want to divide it into two parts. One for the food and culture of it today…and another where I NEED to explain Prison S21 and the other horrific reminders there of Pol Pot. The idea is there, but not the specifics. I’m gonna have to think on that, but i want to make it a goal of this weekend to really plod ahead with that and see what I can put to page. I hope I can be proud of what I create and can share it with y’all soon.
We’ll be proud of the creation, Evan, because of our fondness for the Creator.
Just get your thoughts down and then give yourself some time to do the real work: editing.
“Due to a technicality in the law, the Treasury Department can print a platinum coin and assign a huge value to it—say, $1 trillion—and sell it to the Federal Reserve Board. This would get around the need to borrow.”
How about this:
The government commissions Hunter Biden to paint a portrait of the President, for a dollar. The Federal Reserve then buys the portrait for fifty trillion federal reserve notes.
Thinking outside the restrictive and pedantic old-school economic box!
I stopped at “printing a coin”
3D printers, FTW! They also have alchemical capabilities, turning plastic into platinum! It’s not that hard, really! Just change some of the letters!
“But the demographics of that group weren’t appealing to the AIC, and so, in late September, the AIC fired all of them, saying they’d be replaced by smaller number of hired volunteers workers who will be paid $25 an hour. That group will surely meet the envisioned diversity goals.”
IOW “diversity” means “not caucasian”.
And 25 dollars and hour?? Send me Trudy’s makeup team and sign me up.
I had no idea Canadian English had drifted so far from the American mother tongue.
Apparently, the original has volunteers struck through.
Were I capable, I would feel shame.
Loss of feeling in extremities can be signs of serious medical conditions.
White House says it cannot guarantee holiday packages will arrive on time amid rush to address supply chains
It ain’t the Wh’s job to do so. Just get out of the way of private industry.
All they have to do is stop paying people to sit at home and give up on shitcanning the unvaccinated. That’d go a long way towards handling it.
They are shilling for Amazon and the USPS that are worried they will have to take it in the ass when they can’t keep their delivery date promises…
The Biden administration has reportedly been speaking to oil and gas companies about lowering the cost of fuel as high gas prices have been one of the many problems the administration has struggled to address.
Curious how energy costs were not a problem in the 2017-2021 period…
Gas was a $1 a gallon cheaper last year because of random chance I guess.
Step 1: Kneecap energy exploration and distribution
Step 2: Experience explosive inflation in energy costs
Step 3: Suck Saudi cock
Step 4: Profit?
You are missing the step where this manufactured energy crisis allows government to piss away a mountain of tax payer lucre on criminal enterprises in the green energy field that guarantees a large chunk of that cash makes it back to the campaign coffers of one political party predominantly.
Why cut them tax breaks and favorable deals when you can just coerce them behind the scenes?
You know, the Feds could declare a gas tax holiday if they really wanted to drop the cost of gas.
https://conservativebrief.com/southwest-ceo-52681/
Southwest CEO is a spineless liar spinning like a top.
“No one will be fired, but we will suspend you without pay”
“Former Washington Football Team cheerleaders”
https://archive.is/vDszM/c10b2eb53aa0ad8d1a2dcde8344b39c571e33d52.jpg
Welcome the
HitlerSJW youth.My son, “Jack,” 14, has been maintaining a spreadsheet that tracks all of his classmate’s problematic actions. Jack has always had difficulty fitting in, but he is a compassionate and intelligent boy. We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites, so our kids share a laptop that we monitor and control access to. We found an excel spreadsheet in Jack’s folder that listed the names of all of his classmates, as well as dates and descriptions of their problematic behavior. Some of the descriptions I saw include “has a mom who is a cop,” “no pronouns in insta bio,” “laughed at a fat joke,” “lists problematic show as one of their favorites,” “mimicked a foreign accent,” and “used cis-normative language.”
While I am pleased to see Jack taking an interest in his peers, I get a weird feeling about his spreadsheet. As much as I don’t condone the behaviors mentioned, it seems a bit creepy for him to be monitoring his classmates. I also wonder what he is trying to do with the document. Another concern is that we are white and some of the kids on the list are Black. Given the long history of white people policing Black existence, I question whether Jack is the right person to be taking on this task and whether it would be more appropriate coming from a BIPOC person.
Your kid is nuts and so are you.
*starts making list of SJW totalitarians*
Hmmm, I wonder where he got the list idea. Certainly it wasn’t an offshoot of adopting the general attitude of his parents.
Your tax payer dollars at work in the education system…
“Jack” is a walking, talking murder-suicide in progress.
“Jack has always had difficulty fitting in”
Gee, I wonder why.
“We found an excel spreadsheet in Jack’s folder that listed the names of all of his classmates, as well as dates and descriptions of their problematic behavior.”
Future school shooter of the year award.
Woke Harriet the Spy?
Holy shit. If I found out my kid had something like that, it would be full panic mode.
No shit. That is serious danger signal on a billboard territory.
A lot of those are fake – and funny. Blocked and Reported had a segment on a couple of the writers last month.
I’m happy that this is probably fake, but a little troubled that Slate appears to be developing a sense of humor…
Slate might not be in on the joke?
Sounds like Jack isn’t so intelligent and compassionate after all.
Or he is, in a Unabomber sort of way.
“I am Jack’s messed up brain.”
Fun fact I’m sure you’ll enjoy. In the film ‘Fight Club’ where they introduce the ‘I am Jack’s…’, according to the DVD commentary, Brad Pitt was naked under the robe and when he crashes the bike you can see his balls. Invest in some 4K AV equipment. You’re welcome.
I can die happy not having seen any part of Brad Pitt’s junk.
I think.
Eff me. This software upgrade is not going as quickly as I expected. Sorry customers.
Look I needed that update 15 minutes ago sorry don’t cut it. Get it done or I find someone who can.
Southwest CEO says no one will be fired over vaccine mandates.
https://conservativebrief.com/southwest-ceo-52681/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=PP
Is this because he has figured out that mandates are morally wrong, or has he realized that losing a significant number of employees means bankruptcy?
I don’t care why they do it, just that it gets done.
One would hope that business leaders would see the immorality of vaccine mandates. However, I think the latter situation is true, and it is cause for hope. If enough people say “no”, then the mandates fail because otherwise the system collapses. The populace has the real power.
It’s cause they are still cancelling flights and their “weather” excuse has reached its expiry date making it obvious that now they will have to spend a shit-ton of money putting up and feeding people whose flights are canceled.
Still sounds like he’s going to bait and switch.
It’s a lie of omission.
Despite not “firing” than, he actually is planning to suspend people without pay until they quit or give in.
So effectively he is firing them and using this little deceit to claim otherwise.
One must quiver at the thought…
Four women and a man were killed and two others wounded when a man used a bow and arrow to attack them in Norway.
Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of the capital Oslo, at 18:12 local time (16:12 GMT).
A Danish man aged 37 has been arrested and questioned for hours overnight.
Police said they had previously been in contact with him over fears of radicalisation after he converted to Islam.
The victims were all aged between 50 and 70, regional police chief Ole Bredrup Saeverud told reporters on Thursday morning.
That’s some mighty fine police work, gents.
Some of us can report the news without bad puns.
We bow to your superior reporting skills.
Damn your nimble fingers.
I’d like to take part in the punning, but I gotta bolt, folks.
Nobody’s going to bow to your sensibilities.
Second to the pun is first looser
But the more fletching poster.
Bro will be ashamed of my performance,
Your just stringing us along until we get the narrow gaze
Don’t nock it ’til you’ve tried it.
Swiss may not get bent about this, unless we compound it by going long or getting cross.
*narrows gaze*
Don’t get cross, bro.
ZAFUL BIKINI HAUL – SMALL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKZWXFJ5zWI
I think she definitely needs a bigger size swimsuit than small
Hush you.
Whyfor cannot I look at boobs(?) without lying to Google about my age??
Not sending us their best.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/13/south-americans-flying-to-mexico-to-enter-us-illegally-report/
Most Americans are too ignorant to know that there is no land route through Central America. They also have no idea of the distances involved. So when some propaganda outlet tells them people walked from Argentina to the Texas border, they believe the b.s.
Look, just cause it’s impassable jungle, mountains, and canals, doesn’t mean they didn’t hoof it every mile.
A journey on foot from the southern tip of South America to Texas would be worthy of a book, mini-series, and American citizenship. A flight and bus ride not so much.
+1 Darien Gap
We do not allow our children to have their own computers to prevent the risk of them being radicalized by alt-right websites
Radicalization by left wing websites is A-okay.
That’s not radicalization, it’s just common sense!
“Subscribe & Save (8%):”
For the small dick men that get laid a lot.
Krugman dishonest, gasp.
Gee, what happens when you have restricted supply and start throwing money at the demand side of the equation?
It’s a total mystery.
+1 Say’s Law
This is why we need common sense social media oversight. So we can more easily memory hole embarrassing things like this.
This reasoning is hollow.
A Seattle elementary school canceled its annual Halloween parade this year, saying it “marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday.”
The decision to cancel the Pumpkin Parade, where students can dress up in Halloween costumes, came from the Racial Equity Team at Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary School after five years of discussion, the school district said.
“There are numerous community and neighborhood events where students and families who wish to can celebrate Halloween,” a Seattle Public Schools spokeswoman said in a statement provided to KTTH Radio talk show host Jason Rantz. “Historically, the Pumpkin Parade marginalizes students of color who do not celebrate the holiday. Specifically, these students have requested to be isolated on campus while the event took place.
“In alliance with SPS’s unwavering commitment to students of color, specifically African American males, the staff is committed to supplanting the Pumpkin Parade with more inclusive and educational opportunities during the school day,” the statement continued, adding that the decision had nothing to do with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
I got nothing except that this is completely retarded.
You’re correct, it’s retarded.
There are a bunch of holidays I don’t celebrate–cancel them all because I am marginalized when others celebrate them!
I’d say it theft too. Less services provided for the same tax payer dollars from prior years.
Why don’t they celebrate it? I could see some evangelical Christians maybe, but they aren’t going to be in a public school. What parents are like, “oh no, we don’t believe in kids playing games and having treats?” This is just another example of people “speaking for” someone else.
I think the black kids who don’t celebrate are still stinging from last year’s debacle where they call came to the Pumpkin Parade dressed in the same costume. Do you know how horrible it is when everyone comes to school dressed in their best ghost sheet only to find out every one else came as a spook too?
* Growing up, my dad took a black friend and I trick or treating. James (the friend) had the typical sheet draped over him. When my dad said he liked his ghost costume, James shouted “I’m a spook, not a ghost”. James and I were both so young we had no idea why my dad almost had internal damage from trying not to laugh.
Out of the mouths of babes.
They can always do mickface. That is a classic crowd pleaser.
Specifically, these students have requested to be isolated on campus while the event took place.
It’s all the bedsheet ghost costumes, right?
I’ll take “Shit That Never Happened” for a hundred, Alex.
What is being sold here is not home insurance…
And the overt sexualization of minors continues apace…
Moron, you should be encouraging this behavior.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16410547/my-fiancee-snogged-her-friends/
If she only does it when he’s not around, what’s the point?
Fuck. There is an important bit of infrastructure that needs doing before winter and Judi invited Son’s-in-law over to make it happen. I know that it must be done but it makes my peen feel so very small because she never even asked me about it. Guess I’ll just supervise and buy the beer. Ever felt like an “owned man”? I feel like one.
Festus, seriously? You have been having health problems for months. Your wife decides to not push you to do physical labor and arranges for it to be done, allowing you to rest. And you’re making it a problem.
It’s a blow to one’s pride to know you can’t do stuff anymore. After my hysterectomy, while I was in the hospital, my husband hired someone to do some sheetrock work I would have otherwise been able to do. I KNEW I couldn’t do it, but felt I should be able to do, so I was feeling very guilty and inadequate.
It’s a man thing. Obviously what bothers him is that she didn’t even run it by him first, she just did it.
You’re right, lovely Tulip. I need to step back from what I used to be and embrace what I’m becoming. Feels so freeing. Live Life, here I come! All shits aside, my pride is still there.
Just act like it was your idea all along, in a few years that’s how she’ll remember it.
Only if something goes wrong. 🙂
I just feel so very, very tired. i just want to curl up in a ball and make them all go away. Is that wrong? Should I have not thought that?
Think of it this way, now you can do the time honored tradition of looking over their shoulder while they work and tell them what they are doing is wrong.
And those clowns probably are doing it wrong.
Are you turning Japanese?
The decision to cancel the Pumpkin Parade, where students can dress up in Halloween costumes, came from the Racial Equity Team at Benjamin Franklin Day Elementary School after five years of discussion, the school district said.
Truly, w live among intellectual giants.
‘Member when the Cons were the ones burning books? I remember.
So one pain the ass Karen eventually wore the rest of the teachers at the school down?
Triggered!
Person who is paid to be a sensitive snowflake acts like a sensitive snowflake, film at eleven.
Wait… “the” Michael Crawford??
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0e/97/99/0e979952a8d9516fa11d0b950edb0bc7.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/98/b9/6d/98b96d6f9956918e948c8220a1325aee.jpg
http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/phantomoftheopera/images/e/ed/Phantom.gif/revision/latest?cb=20090205183805
He’s just mad that he’s not a Clifford.
Nancy Pelosi Says YES YES YES YES YES to IRS Tracking $600 Bank Transactions
Pay your taxes, pleb.
Let’s see all your banking transactions, bitch.
If this actually comes to pass we are all screwed. Combine this with big data and algorithms and they’ll know exactly what your interests are, your political leanings are, and a whole host of other things you might even be aware of yourself. This is incredibly dangerous and is actually a good reason to emigrate if they start doing it.
That’s effing insane. I do transactions over $600 several times a week. And I bet that’s a majority of Americans. This is just a license for the government to monitor every financial transaction you make.
You must be a billionaire then! That’s what I have been told, it is to capture them in their tax evasion plans.
TIL that I’m more cynical than I thought because when I read that, my first thought was, they already monitor every transaction, this is just a way to legitimize using information they already have against the plebes.
There are a few good twitter accounts.
A lot of people agree that Nancy is a savant when it comes to investing.
Between Nancy and Hunter’s meteoric career, you have to admit that the Dems sure do have a lot of savvy money managers. The private sector is poorer because these selfless saints have decided to use their talents to serve the public.
Your kid is nuts and so are you.
“I learned it from you, Karen.”
Progressive Couple Thrilled With Latest Mandates
Walgreens has announced it will be closing its 300 Gough store in my district, citing organized retail theft. This store serves important needs of neighborhood residents. Media reports have accepted without analysis Walgreens’ assertion that it’s closing due to retail theft. 1/4
Walgreens has long planned to close hundreds of locations. In an SEC filing in August 2019, Walgreens stated that it planned to close approximately 200 US stores following “a review of the real estate footprint in the United States.”
So is Walgreens closing stores because of theft or because of a pre-existing business plan to cut costs and increase profits by consolidating stores and shifting customers to online purchases?
https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1448378567729958913
theft is not a problem in SF after all, it was capitalist greed all along
What is 300 gough in dollars? And which country uses the Gough?
I’m going to assume a lot of the closures are due to pharmacists retiring or quitting because of vaccine mandates and other company prescription policies.
I know the owners of the building a half mile away from that one that had a Walgreens as their anchor commercial tenant until last year. I work on the building pretty frequently. The large commercial space they vacated is still empty after a year. Just before the Walgreens bolted there was a local news crew there filming the shoplifting situation. On camera they caught multiple people blatantly shoplifting, and this was not the pilfering of a bottle of shampoo, this was dumping mass amounts of goods in large packs. I’m sure there are some other issues causing these store shutdowns, but mass theft is absolutely one of them.
Walgreens isn’t going to close profitable stores. Stores with massive theft are not going to be profitable. If those stores weren’t on the 2019 list, they got on the 2021 list for a reason, and I’d bet its theft.
Newsflash: Drug stores open and close all the time. Even in the Before Times when cities hadn’t yet enacted laws to encourage rampant theft. Shocking, I know.
PS. Cutting costs and increasing profits is how you get a Walgreens to open in the first place, you idiot commie.
Definitely NOT Minnesoda Nice.
If they catch the car thief, I wonder if any prosecutor will care enough to tack on some extra time for being such a shit person?
He’ll get cited for not locking his car, thus facilitating the theft. Insurance won’t cover it, either.
One would hope that business leaders would see the immorality of vaccine mandates. However, I think the latter situation is true, and it is cause for hope. If enough people say “no”, then the mandates fail because otherwise the system collapses. The populace has the real power.
One of the major failings of modern
businessAmerican culture is the collectivization of large groups of people, which allows them to be seen as completely non-unique interchangeable cogs in the machine. If you suddenly begin to see people as individuals with highly specific traits and skills (some of which are virtually irreplaceable) it gets a little harder to make generalized sweeping decisions.We’ll get a bunch of out-of-work baristas to man the container shipping ports, because a warm body is a warm body.
How hard could it be if a mouth breathing Trump supporter can do it?
What’s a stevedore?
If only there were more pillow fights in that show…
Hold their feet to the fire Ozy.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ron-johnson-pens-letter-to-biden-dod-questioning-military-vaccine-mandates
Working on the PI Motion right now. Filing it today hopefully, or tomorrow at worst.
Lords work Ozy…
“Biden Admin Now Urging Oil And Gas Companies To Bring Down Rising Fuel Costs: Report”
LOLOLOLOL Go fuck yourself.
“Aw, c’mon, guys. Why won’t you lose billions of dollars to make me look good?”
Anthropogenic Global
CoolingWarmingClimate ChangeThere’s a chance the Bay Area could see above-normal rainfall this month that would slightly improve drought conditions and potentially put an end to the region’s wildfire season, according to meteorologists.
A storm system over the northeastern Pacific Ocean could bring as much as 2 inches of rain from the Bay Area up to Redding from Oct. 20-24.
The heavy rainfall would be “possible near-record-breaking precipitation for late October,” according to the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center.
Meteorologist Roger Gass explained the potential record-breaking rainfall would be measured against rainfall for the month of October, not the kinds of showers the Bay Area sees in January and February.
“We’re still looking out … seven days in advance, so a lot can change between now and then,” said Gass.
“It’s just kind of getting the word out that it looks like we’re going back towards a potential for a wet pattern,” he said.
Why it is almost like climate/weather is cyclical.
I saw the meteorologist’s name and immediately double checked whether or not it was the Bee.
It seems like it may be getting harder to keep on rockin’ in the free world, or least more expensive.
Time to get extra frugal. But first I need to spend some money before it is worthless.
Indiana Guns and Vaccines!
I have seen a few of these stories, but never with very young kids.
SCIENCE! Brave techs at Walgreens and CVS will ensure we move forward!
The cardiac pain means it’s working.
The higher the dose, the better! Inject those kids with all the vaccine!
Nah.
In a sane and rational world, that person would be fired and the parents would bring a suit against the company and the person.
Medical mistakes are an unfortunate part of life. People make mistakes.
Depending on how the mistake was made would make me decide if termination was the right choice.
As for the harm, right now that’s an open question. If it was my kid I’d be PO’d, but somewhat compassionate as neither kid has dropped dead. What WOULD piss me off is the pharmacy suddenly refusing to give me any documentation as to what my kids were injected with.
Sounds like a convenience store. I’d consider getting the vaccine if they incentivized me with some free guns.
Mixed news from NH
After nine vocal anti-vaccine protesters were arrested, the Executive Council on Wednesday rejected two contracts for $27 million in federal money to expand COVID-19 vaccinations and other immunizations throughout the state, drawing condemnation from Gov. Chris Sununu.
According to some reports from the Reopen NH telegram channel, those arrested did nothing. However, the Union Leader article says they were shouting. I suspect they were picked up on warrants from their activities at the last Executive Council meeting (judging by the list of people arrested, I’m certain the state police know these people’s faces) and were intentionally picked up at this meeting as an intimidation tactic.
Sununu is, from all accounts I’ve seen, pissed.
He’s also playing the game that he can’t tell businesses what to do because “That is Communism”, so he won’t prohibit them from requiring their employees get vaccinated. Now do your emergency orders….
Good morning, ma’am!
“Bob Dole. Not male. Not female. Not even human. Bob Dole: beam of pure energy!”
RIP Norm. And RIP 90s. I sure didn’t appreciate life back then.
Question: when you pose topless (male or female), where do you think those photos end up?
The Malthus article is excellent. Too bad his evil ideas are still alive and well and living in Davos.
How are republicans not voting even a half-assed threat? I’m pretty sure I don’t want to see the Dems with a supermajority for another 8 years. Maybe I don’t understand 4D chess, but this seems retarded.
My ear worm this morning.
Have a great day, y’all!
Well I know – from shameful experience – that when I pose topless that those pics eventually end up as the “Before” picture for gimmicky weight loss products.
You should start a scrapbook for your grandkids.
My kids are already triggered by the early ’80s short shorts I wore in all those pics from high school sports.
Not only wore them but engaged in activities like skateboarding, running, etc that always led to potential ball fall.
led to
potentialinevitable ball fall.FTFY
Bonus ’80s points if it was a pair of cutoff jeans.
I thought Trump was stating a reality rather than promoting a strategy.
Nice! Haven’t heard that in ages.
Polls must be telling them they fucked up with this and are going to get buttfucked in the next harder to fortify election…
I guess they will get back to doing the damage after the election, cause the goal is to cause so much pain and chaos that policing gets federalized. A federalized police force is easier to control and use against the states that might not go along with the new vision of Chinaesque Amerika.
Don’t worry, it’s a mail-in rebate that expires before the post office actually gets it delivered.
I have an idea: the various state police forces should draw their personnel from far-flung regions, so as not to risk them prioritizing regional and local identity over following orders. To prevent corruption, of course.
(I guess they mean “re-fund”)
Where did I put that “shocked” face….
“Sorry, this department is used. We can only give you store credit.”
Ok, with the news that Biden was making the Port of Los Angeles stay open 24hrs, I was wondering why the savvy business men running it hadn’t already done that. Oh, it’s because it’s run by the government. But now government will fix it!
The government ‘fixes’ things so they can make sure there’s going to be something else to fix really soon. It’s a jobs program, shovel ready.
There is a a lot of money & power in being able to create problems that really hurt and only you can fix… The mob made a lot of money selling protection, for example..
I’m sure the unions had something to do with it too.
Can you imagine the overtime?
Of course, here, the highest-paid government workers are the ones who book tons of overtime while they’re sailing on their yachts in the Caribbean so even if Joe comes through nothing will change.
He was lying about that, btw. Turns out he had not done so when he said he did.
I occasionally do contract work in Longbeach… It’s an absolute rent seeking shit show. That’s piled on top of the California bureaucracy. Seriously, people don’t understand how much leverage west coast loonies have on the ports and therefore the traffic flows of all goods to and from the Pacific into the US.
We need electric tucks FTW!
*crosses legs*
/RuPaul
Don’t major shipping ports already run 24/7? If they don’t, why the fuck haven’t they been doing so since they were built?
Unions…
Joe Rogan forces Dr. Sanjay Gupta to admit CNN shouldn’t have called his COVID treatment ‘horse dewormer’
The Alex Berenson episode was kind of a flop, no new information really shared. I’m listening to the episode with Gupta now and Rogan is smacking him around. Around one hour in Gupta claims (he says) that he did not know boys were more likely to get myocarditis from the vaccine than to have a negative effect from COVID.
I Vas UnAvare uf Ze Contentrashun Kamps.
Have mercy, one of our elite medical professionals getting outfacted by an autodidact MMA fighter and podcast host. As much as people like to say trust the experts all it takes is an hour or so of research and you’ll learn to never take what they say at face value again.
I have lost hope. If most sane people have not yet realized our expert class is about as moronic and lacking in common sense as a talking mime, and lost confidence in these fucking idiots, we are doomed. We either have really dumb people or massive insanity, cause these idiots keep idioting…
DOG BITES MAN!
CNN is all bullshit, all the time? Who fucking knew…
A lot of people asking, why would Gupta agree to go on!?
Probably because Joe has a bigger audience.
Book promotion, I believe.
Ha, I guess I haven’t gotten that far, but looks like he dropped a book October 5th.
Woo hoo! Software upgrade is done. Had a peer in the NOC take a look and couldn’t figure it out either. Turns out it just needed to be reset again.
You turned it off and then on again?
Yes
Multitasking – Painting while listening to a meeting I’m not expected to speak in.
Funny thing is, I think I listened more than when I wander to glibs because my language centers are not pulling double duty.
Painting a wall? Or trying to raise money ala Hunter painting?
Painting a Mini.
*sniffles*
It’s like you don’t even know me.
Sorry, I’ve been too busy to follow all the story arcs. Good job on you, I bet you like driving that Mini-Cooper.
This is probably fine. These two rascals will work out their problems peacefully, and the US won’t be dragged into a decades-long war.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/taiwan-says-dont-get-too-close-as-china-defends-military-drills/ar-AAPrdhx?ocid=BingNewsSearch
I’m comfortable with arming Taiwan to the gills.
Let them go nuclear.
It worked for Cuba and Israel. Goose, meet gander.
China needs a war. Our MIC needs a war. It’s pretty reasonable to expect a war.
I want to tell you you are wrong and not to be stupid, but…..
Yeah, I fear this is the way things will go
I want to be wrong. But history rhymes and I feel the chorus coming around again. China fucked themselves and we ignored Ike. Layer in the Medical Industrial Complex and the neo-Malthusians and here we go!
I know a couple of people who recently left the service over Secretary Raytheon’s “stand down order” where they combed through everyone’s social media. There’s your white pill of the day. Can’t have war if no one wants to serve.
That’s what the draft is for.
Good to see you back, BTW.
Yeah, nice to see you TGA
I’m gonna call bullshit on the “core inflation” numbers. Prices on building supplies are double, triple, quadrupled – houses here in Austin are up over 40% year over year – oh, and use a measure that deletes rarely used things like food and energy. And then use a bunch of adjustments on the steaming pile you have left.
Oh, and real inflation occurs the moment you create more fiat money out of thin air and devalue the money stock, not when people down the supply chain figure out that devaluation and raise prices.
A lot of the inflation numbers in the media are pretty cherry picked (I don’t think construction materials falls into standard category). And a lot of the numbers make note that they don’t include gas/food – which are of course the most key items for a lot of consumers.
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”
Milton Friedman
Uncle Miltie also believed that the velocity of money was pretty close to constant. That’s about as true as aether theory in physics.
He weren’t perfect, but he had a better grasp on economics than most of today’s public economic stars.
Damning with faint praise.
Inflation only happens when Top. Men. Say it does.
Inflation? What inflation?
YES! More of that please.. Netflix sucks anyway and that stock needs to plummet in value…
Netflix should tell the press that the real reason for the walkout is opposition to vaccine mandates. The press will stop talking about it the same day
But then the stupid Trumpsters wouldn’t re-up their Netflix to watch Chappelle’s special to Own The Libs.
Imagine being a person who went from “Cancel Netfilx” over Cuties to now saying “Bro, did you watch the new Chappelle special on Netflix?” How do people not conclude that you’re mentally challenged?
They don’t see the disconnect, and I saw the same thing play out on these very pages the last time Chappelle released a special. It went from ‘I’m gonna cancel my Netflix because they gave Obama that big deal!’ to, ‘You gotta watch this new Chapelle special, because he Owns The Libs!1!
I’m not going to lie, I thought Cuties was pretty much child porn. I cancelled Netflix before that, because it kinda really sucks. There’s not a lot of good stuff on there. I do like Chappelle, though. Luckily all his comedy specials can be found at Odysee
The most retarded thing about the walkout is that the Chappelle special is:
1) Comedy, and not meant to be taken seriously.
2) Surprisingly sympathetic to transgendered individuals, especially the ending story.
He does not kow tow to their sensibilities about how special and wonderful they are, therefore he is Satan!
They don’t want sympathy, they don’t want to be equals. They want privilege and for people to fear crossing them
That’s why I think of these types (the Netflix protesters) as activists first, trans people second.
The “activist” part is the key part of their identity.
Same shit has played out over and over again with every “group”.
How many transgender employees does Netflix have, that simply hiring replacement workers would hurt their bottom line more than the bad PR?
Are they in the Bay Area? Possibly most of their woman employees have no front hole.
All of their woman employees, with the exception of any fully transitioned FTM, have a front hole. They may have some men employees who are surgically altered, but they aren’t women.
Why is no one asking the Light Bringer if he is going to return all that dirty Netflix money?
Surely if a mere showrunner is willing to walk away from a good job, Barak should be willing to forego that $50M.
I wouldn’t bet against FAANG stocks.
Wouldn’t it have been nice if certain ‘libertarian’ commentators had gotten as worked up over shutdowns and vaccine mandates as they are currently doing over states banning vaccine mandates? Seems like the game is a little too obvious at this point.
Saw a meme of Amash on Twitter celebrating the Title IX transgender ruling by the Supreme Court next to his verbal diahrea decrying banning vaccine mandates as the greatest assault on liberty since the last time the NYT was upset about something. That dude is straight trash and that’s not really up for debate anymore.
Word. Nice to see you around.
A little cringe these days to be a Tulsi apologist though.
Yeah, the whole “companies should be free to bend the knee to overreaching, illegal, and unconstitutional government pressure” strikes me as not really moving the needle towards freedom.
The last year has given me some sympathy toward the Left’s hostility toward Big Business.
Corporations only exist by state chartering; we shouldn’t have so much trouble not being overly fond of them.
I remember when that was a big talking point among “left-libertarians” about ten or fifteen years ago. The Center for a Stateless Society use to pimp that line of thinking a lot. Then “left-libertarians” just became “white progressives” and they never talked about that stuff again.
Their nudges turn out to delivered by iron fists.
The days when they were truly state chartered are long gone. And by chartered I mean, created only by a legislative act. What we have now is state registration of corporations – that’s even the term used by most if not all states. Which may or may not be a good idea, but if we are going to say we shouldn’t be too fond of state registered corporations, where does that leave state registered guns?
Corporations are composed of people who have volition, guns not so much.
Not a fan of the state registering guns, of course.
Guns are owned and operated by people with volition, just like corporations. Corporations, like guns, could exist without registration.
My point is, I guess, that mandatory registration shouldn’t automatically move something onto the bad list of State Things.
Adam Smith was right about businessmen.
“The last year has given me some sympathy toward the Left’s hostility toward Big Business.”
Ironically, much of the Left is now in love with most big businesses, having coopted them into the Borg …
Yes.
Though… Winston’s schtick is a bit old.
Instructions unclear. Got worked up over USSC/NYT trash/recycling habits.
I’m gonna call bullshit on the unlibertarian-ness of banning vaccine mandates. If a government policy is part of a plan to coerce almost everyone into getting jabbed with a shot, with the possible endgame of holding down the final handful of resisters and jabbing them, now that nobody is left to defend them – is that a libertarian outcome? Having “principles” devoid of any consideration of the likely consequences of adhering to your philosophy, instead of taking a hard look at your principles to see if you made a mistake in logic if said logic leads to a bad outcome, is a fool’s game.
And pretty much the point of statist indoctrination – don’t think too hard about whether you’re being lied to or manipulated, peasant!
Similar to Right to Work laws.
Based.
Parents in Nevada just served the Clark County School District a $200 million lawsuit.
OVER WHAT?
Twitter person – You don’t leave out the most important part of the announcement – what are they suing over?
I would present a local news report, but none are reporting on it. I posted it last night though and it was a typical TGP article but I think over CRT. Not sure what but that is what it is.
While I’m away at the cabin for a week, I’m hoping for mouse genocide at home. I haz various traps and poisons ready to wreak death & destruction.
Toss a couple Zyklon B foggers in there as you leave. That should do it, olde schoole.
I think a Glib consortium should be created to investigate and develop the perfect mousetrap.
I fuckin hate those fuckers. I’ll be the Head Bitch in Charge.
The irony is the cabin is historic and in the woods, so I’m sure it’s not rodent-free either.
Did I mention I hate those little fuckers?
Cat, problem solved
Or a terrier and/or Schnauzer.
Yes it’s their fault, and yes they are the most corrupt, evil, yet strangely incompetent cabal to ever put a damper on Christmas.
Having said that, since when is it Fed’s job to “guarantee holiday packages will arrive on time”?
Crystal ball says: Its a narrative that will be used when they can’t pass their
$3.5T$5.5T infrastructure package and the eye of the media will use the typical American’s disability to critically think things through and lay the blame on the opposite party for keeping Santa from delivering the gifts.since when is it Fed’s job to “guarantee holiday packages will arrive on time”?
Since the day it became the CDC’s job to determine if those under contract with landlords need not abide by said contract?
Don’t forget to add to the CDC’s list of jobs: Studying gun violence, obesity, cigarette smoking, climate change, and other things that have absolutely nothing to do with contagious diseases (the control of which was the whole justification for their existence).
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand I see Rebel Scum already made this point earlier.
Great minds, yadda yadda yadda
Guaranteed arrival at the price you want. It is only just.
Well, finally went back to Brave browser after it frustrated me last year. This year, Firefox v.wayoutofdateonpurpose won’t let me access some websites I need to. I’ll be damned if I update Firefox, that bloated piece of shitware. So Brave and I are trying out our relationship again after some time off from each other.
How’s that going? I still have an issue with it in mobile where the screen freezes completely for up to ten seconds, usually when typing comments or opening a new page. Annoying, but minor in comparison to using Chrome and having everything I do analyzed.
I just started using it again about an hour ago. So far no problems, but I have to re-enter all my saved passwords and suchlike. The bookmarks didn’t import as I expected, either.
I too am on Brave, after leaving Firefox. I liked the browser, but after what they did to Brandon Eich at his own company, I’ll never use it again.
I can appreciate the sentiment, but it’s hard for me to ditch something that works regardless. I don’t do boycotts and whatnot. I still keep Facebook because I am in cross stitching groups and occasionally I shill books there. The fun to be had on Twitter passed long ago but occasionally I shill books there.
Speaking of Eich, I was not aware of this when it happened:
Can’t possibly have someone “express[ing] skepticism about many prevailing assumptions around the pandemic” can we? And also check out this gem:
Reddit user calls someone out for not keeping opinions to himself. Hmmm, my irony detector just started sparking and belching smoke.
Wasn’t his “couldn’t keep his opinions to himself” contributing to a ballot initiative? I don’t recall the complaint being about workplace behavior. If only California wasn’t blocked from forcing PAC disclosure, they could root out more heretics.
Yes, and not only that, I think it was like 8 years prior to his ousting, or something like that.
I’ve been running it on Apple phones and tablets, and have not had a freezing problem. The only “annoyance” is that so many sites don’t work at all unless you let them run scripts, and I have to click the thingy to let them do that. Basically, the internet has now been re-engineered so that functionality means insecurity. Which blows.
“If I could go back in time, I would triangle choke Thomas Malthus.”
No. The question is If you could go back in time, would you kill Seymore Cray?
If I could go back in time, I would kill all the Star Trek writers responsible for all the time paradox episodes.
“Repent, Ellison” said the Rattrainman