Aaaaaand he’s gone.
What a good sports weekend. Ohio State ran up the score on Purdue and then relaxed for the second half (still need to do some work on the pass defense though). The Texas LOLonghorns lost at home to Kansas. Baylor took down Oklahoma. and aTm took a beating from Ole Miss. The last two weeks of the regular season are gonna be fun. On Sunday, the Stillers tied the worst team in the league in a game that could only be described as unwatchable trash. The Bucs aren’t all that good. The Chiefs are on a rollercoaster. And the Cowboys appear to be legit.The Brazilian GP was a treat to watch, even though Hamilton won. And a bit of sad news for the racing world. He was a cool dude. And that’s sports.
Oh yeeeaaaaaaah!
Big birthdays today are William Pitt (the elder), William Herschel (the guy who discovered Uranus), artist Georgia O’Keeffe, Kraut military leader Erwin Rommel, actor Ed Asner, wrestling legend Macho Man Randy Savage, and rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard.
That’s it. That’s all I could come up with. Not the best day for birthdays. SO let’s just move on to…the links!
This fucking moron
At least she didn’t call herself a doctor in the lede. But this is incredibly irresponsible for CNN to print. She has absolutely zero business weighing in on a medical decision. Also, anybody giving their 5 year old this vaccine is an absolute idiot who has no concept of risk analysis.
Wish this in one hand and shit in the other. And I’ll be happy to wager on which one fills up first.
The new apartheid is coming to Austria. I wonder if it’ll work out the same as the last time an Austrian leader divided members of society for arbitrary reasons.
Should the dead be disciplined?
OK, so maybe it is tone-deaf. But that doesn’t excuse what happened. She fucked up…bad. Just because she was later killed doesn’t change that. Also, this recommendation happened way before she was killed. The city just didn’t release it until now.
I’ve got a better question: why the fuck does this government position even exist?
It’s officially a shitshow. Not that this should surprise a single person who has watched this admin from the beginning.
The circus is about to make its final appearance. Until the next circus, anyway.
People need to relax. Does the “mandate” suck? Yes. Can you choose to not fly right now? Also yes. Take your ire out on government officials who push these shitty rules, not the people forced to enforce them at the point of service.
I’m sure this boondoggle won’t become politicized at all. Also, is this infrastructure? Some dipshits in Washington probably think so.
Here’s a bit of rock for you. Enjoy it. I know I will.
And enjoy this Monday…before the next round of riots get going.
That’s a weak cock starting the Monday links, yo..
Better a funky chicken than a loose hate bird, the birds that hate around here…
Pandering and graft.
Why else?
NY political outreach to the mob?
Embrace the power of AND?
To counteract the blatant discrimination that goes on in NY against the Italian Americans?
The discrimination is growing and growing too. I mean the haters just forced a great Italian American governor out of office, after letting his father rule for years and years!
“At least she didn’t call herself a doctor in the lede. But this is incredibly irresponsible for CNN to print.”
Why? Are you implying CNN decided to stop lying or peddling bullshit and published something that had a nugget of truth in it? Cause otherwise peddling bullshit is WHAT CNN i s all about.
“The new apartheid is coming to Austria. I wonder if it’ll work out the same as the last time an Austrian leader divided members of society for arbitrary reasons.”
Wait, I thought they had solved the problem, at least amongst some men, by having whore houses give the dudes a free jab at an ugly skank if they let someone give them the Kung Flu jab? You telling me this brilliant action isn’t working? SAY IT AIN’T SO!!
I posted this in the dead thread, but since it’s vaccine related, I think it’s on topic.
https://twitter.com/business/status/1460183564029464580
BEND THE KNEE!
That’s what this is now about.. There is no science unless you are talking about the evil science of totalitarianism (be it marxist, fascists, or dnc in nature).
I hope more people are catching on to the fact that this will never end until people stop putting up with it.
Or at least if it is obviously about as good as a flu shot people will settle down into the “We’d like you to get the flu shot, but if you don’t – you don’t” mode. Of course, that the shots obviously don’t protect the vaxed from each other much less making the unvaxed the vector didn’t do it… so I’ll just go scream at clouds in my head for a while or something. Sigh.
“We have no idea how this thing works. But trust us when we say you have to have it.”
Man, fuck those guys.
TERRORISM!
At least the odds of an adverse event increase with each “booster”.
I saw some dude on Twitter over the weekend touting the success of the vaccines…even though he got Bell’s Palsy from it and still caught covid after he’d received two shots.
“It sllaaveddd my liiiffsssee.”
Science!
The Book of COVID-Job there? Can’t think of what else besides it being his religion that would explain that behavior…
JOVID, the book of JOVID.
Fucking Piers Morgan was doing that too. He was double vaxxed, caught covid, and now bragging about getting his booster.
On the plus side, he’s killing himself.
History is being made. Decades or centuries from now, this will be an excellent example of mass hysteria and what it produces.
If there are long term effects of the vaccines that start becoming serious 4-5 years down the road, things will get real interesting, real fast.
Bullshit. Things will get swept under the rug and handwaived away.
I didn’t see any orange jumpsuits for the Iraq War, perpetrating a financial crisis, Libya, Yemen, using the FBI and CIA to spy on Trump, or putting the elderly back in nursing homes after getting treated for COVID.
The intent is for you to take the jabs until you die.
“It’s officially a shitshow. Not that this should surprise a single person who has watched this admin from the beginning.”
I know a lot of people scoffed or were even angry at that cartoon of Kommie-loh throwing Joe out of the chair off the cliff, but “common man!” who didn’t see this conflict coming considering her nature? There is no dick to suck to get this top job, so she will have to kill the guy to get it (cause nobody will give it to her despite the fact that she is a woc and wants it bad).
“As Biden’s approval dips, Democrats bank on his plans’ popularity in 2022”
Unless someone reads the plan.
“I coached good, they played bad”
There is no dick to suck to get this top job, so she will have to kill the guy to get it (cause nobody will give it to her despite the fact that she is a woc and wants it bad).
She could suck Biden’s dick until he gets a heart attack.
Purely hypothetical talk here.
Hmmm…politics is nasty.
She could suck Biden’s dick until he gets a heart attack.
Man, that is dangerous. Joe could have an episode of explosive diarrhea as he blows his last load.
Isn’t that called a blumpkin?
So how many people here have seen team blue propagandists masquerading as media double down on the fact people are turning against them because of lies about the evil shit they are doing, and then pretending that this is happening because of the fact their “message” isn’t being told correctly, now suddenly worrying about the fact constant lying, abuse of power, evil shit, and ineptitude & abuse on a level that gives banana republics a run for their money will cost them power?
Also saw someone point out that if the left’s claim that they were not teaching CRAP (Critical Applied Racist Propaganda) was true, then they wouldn’t be freaking out when someone asked to ban the thing they claimed was not happening. If it isn’t happening, why fight the people trying to ban it?
From the “Biden approval” link:
I sure hope that poll is crap — because >50% of the country supporting that obvious pile of graft, corruption and horse manure is just a bloody depressing way to start the week.
Otherwise, good morning all.
I’d be willing to bet 90% of that support is predicated on the common understanding of infrastructure, not the Democrat version.
Pollster: “Do you support rebuilding failing bridges and roads?”
Respondent: “Of course.”
::pollster marks that as supporting Biden’s bill::
As a civil engineer who has been dangled promises of infrastructure spending since 2008 I can firmly say it’s all bullshit. 90-95% of the money somehow gets spent before the real work begins. There’s even less reason to be optimistic about this less round. Somehow incompetence is more powerful than ever before. We shall see.
The bulk of any monies government spends on projects, between 75-95% of the money, is basically slush funds. The reason a mile of highways today would cost billions to lay down compared to when they did the entire interstate project back when for a fraction of that cost per mile, is all the bullshit that needs to be paid for that is simply government money going to make-work shit for people that then are expected to put a decent chunk of their take into politician’s campaign coffers. And we tax payers get buttfucked by the people doing this shit.
90-95% of the money somehow gets spent before the real work begins.
Of course it does – which then justifies MORE money flowing into infrastructure. Don’t you govt bro?
If we really wanted to fix the system we’d let this well dry up and overhaul the system before authorizing any more spending.
Why do you want people to die?
We are still not finished with those shovel ready jobs from 2 administrations ago. The local municipality took money from that infrastructure bill and spent the next 10 years slowly redoing the sewers, roads, and sidewalks.
My street was done 8 years ago while two streets over is just now getting the work done. They had a sign touting the Obama shovel ready funding in front of the municipal building for 1 year into the Trump presidency.
Wild. I believe it. The gears of gov spending turn so painfully slowly. I suspect part of the reason for the warehouse boom in my area relative to just about anything else getting built is that warehouses have the least red tape. People will sink money into projects that can get returns in 1-2 years. They won’t if the project can’t go positive for 5-10+.
You mean the bumpy yellow curb cuts?
I don’t know, because they didn’t put up the usual propaganda signs, if our crosswalk to nowhere was a shovel ready job. It crosses US-1 at a point where there are no sidewalks and only trees. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.2289879,-77.5047439,479m/data=!3m1!1e3
That’s why they lard the bills up with “something for everyone”.
All it really means is that 58% of Americans have some hobby horse that the bill is throwing money at.
I recall polls of the past:
Do you support X: 70% yes
Even though it will cost Y: drops to 35% yes
Most people only hear about the “benefits”.
This is what we got from the stupid practice of working on kid’s self esteem and giving them participation trophies while their education turned into making their brains mush: They think they know everything and that their elders are idiots, while they are absolute idiots. Who the fuck with an economics degree would ever think marxism is a good thing but an idiot?
Someone who plans on being behind all the men with guns with the nice dacha on the lake and servants, obviously. She plans on being one of the pigs, not poor old Boxer in the end.
And she’s right. For now at least. She is completely shielded from her critics. Surrounded by adoring googly-eyed fans.
More idiots like her that lack common sense or any education of value, but are too dumb to even realize they are dangerous precisely because they are so sure about the idiocy they believe in being good when it is not.
The original intent behind the offices is that they were supposed to be somewhat stand-offish anyway. In the original writing, the POTUS and the VPOTUS were the top 2 vote getters, and not some pre-selected team from the same party. If there’s conflict there between the 2 parties, I’m all for it. When Grandpa Depends finally kicks the bucket, I’d love to think “Heels-Up” will come in and reverse every one of his shitty policies, just out of spite.
She’s vindictive enough, but with that crowd, it’s Party Above All™, so in the end, she’ll leave all the garbage intact.
I did not know a tie was possible in NFL
I think one happens every other season or so. It’s rare but it happens. Ties suck.
I laughed.
Mos sports in the US do not finish in ties. Basketball hockey baseball lacrosse
Americans love a winner — not quite the same for “Americans are tolerant of those who tie…”
I was laughing at Pittsburgh and Detroit. You are correct, even the NHL got rid of ties.
A MLB game can end in a tie under rare circumstances (last meeting between teams, called for weather, minimum innings, no bearing on playoffs). The last was Cubs-Pirates on 29 September 2016.
All Star games running out of pitchers…
Steelers’ Najee Harris didn’t know NFL games could end in a tie after overtime draw with Lions
Harris apparently didn’t know ties happened in the NFL
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-najee-harris-didnt-know-nfl-games-could-end-in-a-tie-after-overtime-draw-with-lions/
Ha I was not alone
It was comical how inept both teams were. Neither teams deserved to win that game. I would have accepted the two coaches deciding the game with pistols at 20 paces, if only for the likelihood of suicides.
Donovan McNabb was the OG “didn’t know it could end in a tie” guy.
First lady of the United States Jill Biden is a community college educator with more than 30 years of classroom teaching experience. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.
Fuck you and the coattails you rode in on, Jill.
She’s the only person standing between us and President Kamala.
Do you think anyone will keep calling her Dr. Jill Biden if she is ex-FLOTUS?
Is she the one running the Biden crime syndicate now that her husband has become a mushroom?
I don’t think Dr Jill is in it for the money. That is too gauche for her.
She is completely in this for the prestige and power to make people kiss her ass and thank her for the privilege.
The first sign of this was her insistence on being called doctor. Fuck I don’t even refer to my medical doctor as doctor. (Any MD who complains is laughed at and then fired).
Fuck I don’t even refer to my medical doctor as doctor.
I will use doctor when talking to a doctor at the doctor’s office, but then I am addressing the role not the degree. I also use sir/mam often even when addressing check out clerks.
Someone doing a grownup job, no matter how seemingly menial, gets a respectful “sir” or “ma’am” from me.
CNN is in the middle.
Won’t anyone think of the kids?!?ALL IS WELL You’re doing a heckofa job Pete!I read last night that my hometown had to reassign half its city bus fleet to school-bus duty because nobody wants to be a school-bus driver for some strange reason I can’t possibly guess at.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES!!!!
It’s the fault of the evil people fighting the people claiming to fight the man!
It is strange. Minnesoda bus drivers are putting the school administration’s balls in a wringer and I’m sure they will get a nice payday.
I’m also sure that the geniuses running the school district will offer up a fat raise that is paid for this year out of the one time emergency pandemic funds. So next year the budgets will be extra fucked and they will go voters demanding a new levy.
Ah yes the three genders
https://twitter.com/Pullingaclaudia/status/1459556337784872972
So there is actually a gender for people that are more idiotic than normal?
huh?
Waffles.. the people that are even dumber than males & females…
leave Waffles alone
At least I’m not whole wheat pancakes ($1.00 more!)
Who among us doesn’t occasionally present as a waffle?
New students at Wolfson College, Cambridge have been told to complete an anti-racism course covering issues such as microaggressions, whiteness and privilege.
The college’s black, Asian and minority ethnic officer emailed first-years saying: “As part of your induction, all freshers are expected to attend a mandatory anti-racism workshop,” The Sunday Telegraph said. The online session informed students that microaggressions were brief, everyday interactions that leave people feeling devalued, such as saying “you speak good English”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cambridge-college-students-told-to-attend-race-workshop-vbl037zmx
I was microagressed many times round these parts by being told my English is good 🙁
Your English is passable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cut him some slack. Those fangs really make it hard to enunciate!
Yep — you’re well spoken for a hemovore and all, Pie. 😉 Not like those low class ones that just go “Blah blah blah” and all…
It’s only because you’re too far to macroaggress against.
“Fuck off, mate.”
There will be none of that class allowed in these hallowed precincts.
such as saying “you speak good English”
With all the stories about universities needing to teach remedial English, I doubt that is said often.
“When you became governor of our state, we believed you would do good for all the residents of our state. Unfortunately, that has not been the case as you have continued to exclude Italian Americans from your agenda,” Michele Cangiano Ment and John Fratta of the Sons of Italy in America told the governor.
Try to get your trash picked now, so-called governor Hochul.
This is what the US gets for upgrading dagos to “white”. they got uppity
Now that’s a funny crack coming from someone in the country Rome set aside to civilize the barbarians.
“Nice governor’s mansion ya got there…”
Will the Lie of Socialism’s Success Ever Die?
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/will-lie-socialism%E2%80%99s-success-ever-die-196127
” One of the most respected contemporary leftist philosophers, the Slovenian Slavoj Zizek, unabashedly argues for a “new communism” in his 2021 book, A Left that Dares Speak Its Name. He calls for the rehabilitation of the entire line of anti-liberal thinkers of a “closed” society, beginning with Plato. He goes on: “What is needed is a repoliticization of economy: economic life should be controlled and regulated by the free decisions of a community, not run by the blind and chaotic interactions of market forces that are accepted as objective necessity.” Zizek extols “Lenin’s greatness,” which lay in the fact that, after the Bolsheviks seized power, he held steadfast to his socialist principles, even though the conditions did not exist for an actual “construction of socialism.” ”
“Piketty’s vision includes the following: Every young adult should receive a large sum of money as a gift from the state at the age of twenty-five. This would be financed by a progressive tax on private wealth, which would rise to 90 percent on the largest fortunes, and inheritances, which would also be taxed at up to 90 percent. Of course, Piketty also proposes a correspondingly high tax on incomes, also rising to a peak of 90 percent. And he would also apply this very same tax rate to dividends, interest, profits and rents, etc. “
The short description of the meandering of these sorts amounts to “The world doesn’t see the genius I see in myself, so I want to burn it all down and hurt the people that look down on me cause I am a failure”…
Neither those guys are failures they made goo money peddling socialism
Marx and Engels, a couple of asshats Germans that IMO were far worse on the body count scale than that evil asshat Hitler (which was Austrian of all things), created that ideology because they were pissed the world didn’t recognize their brilliance. some 120 million corpses and billions of people fucked over hard, and all in 1 century, and so many people still think the problem isn’t the stupid ideology, but the people that implement it.
If this floor mop is ‘One of the most respected contemporary leftist philosophers,’ then leftist philosophy is in serious peril.
And people wonder why I would go back in time to murder Plato in his crib.
She’s the only person standing between us and President Kamala.
Our modern day Edith Wilson.
“The President is resting, but he told me he wants the Vice President to leave on a fact finding expedition to Antarctica right away.”
The President wants you to look for the fabled Ice Cream Mines of King Solomon in Antartica.
He’s pining for the fjords.
Nice to see you, Opus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Mx5xKOMAk
Ah heck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLccxrDgi5U
In the original L Word there was a punchline about Lisa, the “male lesbian,” and it should have stayed a punchline
https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1460078853217402880
The incredible amount of money, time, and effort being devoted to pondering what we like to do with our genitals and how we talk about it is probably an indicator of impending social collapse.
And it will most likely be followed by a reactionary wave which will be even more strident in its demands on social interaction.
“Hole or no hole, dick or no dick, it’s time for us all to agree that it sucks to reduce people down to their junk.
Dating in Seattle, as a trans man, really all comes back to my hole.
I know this because I get around. I’ve been an active polyamorous slut for the better half of my adulthood. I came out when I was 20, first as a high femme, then as a butch/genderqueer person, and now as a guy who lives in a space I call ~fruity manhood~. Throughout all of this, I’ve dated folks of many, many genders. Cis, trans, non-binary, etcetera. Therefore! I’ve collected quite a lot of data on what dating in this Liberal™ city is all about.
And I have something to say:
Cis queer people have a problem with genitals.”
https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2021/11/09/62604389/diary-of-a-hole
Fruity queer?
Da Fuq?
“He shared with me that he did not date trans men, because he ‘was not sure what to do with an extra hole and no dick.'”
Ummm… stick it in? It’s self-lubricating man!
Can you imagine the mental effort involved with trying to navigate that insanity?
Why, you would have to be totally absorbed into it – such that you paid no attention to anything else in the world. Sounds like an attention whore’s wettest dream.
Is it? I have no idea what the hormone cocktail they’re taking to facial hair does to vaginal response. I’m sure there is an endocrinologist in the house though.
Yeah, if I already hadn’t stopped taking you seriously, this would have done it.
The “polyamorous” part is unnecessary, for sure.
“58 percent support his nearly $2 trillion social spending and climate package.”
Narrator: The survey question was phrased “do you support getting free manna from heaven with absolutely no consequences?”
and furthermore make those evil rich pay
More from the ALL IS WELL department of MSM stories.
The local rag regularly runs articles like this (Downtown is coming back!! (anyday now)). Mostly it is so proggies can point to the story as “proof” that mismanagement isn’t destroying the city.
If you thought for a bit, your first question would be “Wasn’t the growth of the Cities growing faster than anywhere else in the state before the ‘unrest’?” And now it is just breaking even?
Also, where were those sales? How many people moved from the shittier parts of Mpls to a less shitty part?
One wonders how much the sales “volume” was due to landlords dumping properties because of the eviction moratorium.
That is just crazy talk! Everyone knows that onerous regulations never have any impact on how people act.
Dead CPD offier:
Would (have).
+1 dynamic entry
There are zero people who know what Build Back Better entails, including Joe Biden. To the extent that it has any popularity, it is the catchphrase title and a bunch of propagandists repeating the mantra that we need it to recover and have jobs.
There is not one policy in any of the talking points, let alone in peoples understanding. They just list “things that are popular” as things it does. Childcare. Jobs. Healthcare. Equity? Stopping inflation?
Come on, man! It is worse than a homeopathic remedy infomercial.
Here is CNBC with the propaganda
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/14/op-ed-bidens-build-back-better-agenda-will-lead-to-a-more-fair-and-equitable-economy-without-adding-to-the-deficit.html
“Op-ed: Biden’s Build Back Better agenda will lead to a more fair and equitable economy, without adding to the deficit”
The very first feature he talks about is increasing funding for the IRS to ensure that all income is reported, raising an additional $600 billion in taxes.
Yeay! Massive surveillance state monitoring all financial transactions to make the economy more equitable!!
Yeah, I am sure that is really popular.
Didn’t he steal that catch-phrase from the WEF? That’s all you really need to know about it.
The phrase is being used by pols around the world. Something something “new world order”.
The bill is something like 3000 pages, likely written in impenetrable legalese. There is no fucking way a single person in DC, even the people who wrote it, know the full extent of what’s in it.
I know a Dem hill staffer and we exchanged on FB about exactly that – multiple committees/staffs with no coordination.
That’s why they need to pass it first, so they can find out what’s in it.
more fair and equitable economy
Communist horseshit.
without adding to the deficit
ROTFLOL
“What is needed is a repoliticization of economy: economic life should be controlled and regulated by the free decisions of a community, not run by the blind and chaotic interactions of market forces that are accepted as objective necessity.” Zizek extols “
Yes, yes, of course. Chaotic wealth creation is bad. Predictable and stable impoverishment is the way to go.
I said this before, these people never tried to organize 12 people to go to the movies at the same time as we used to try in college.
I’ll at least give Zizek credit for being an old-school commie and not one of these new-fangled cultural retards.
Sure, just like being an old timey religious zealot is traditional versus some new-age cult. Fuck humans and their stupidity.
Government should be the only entity picking winners & losers!
“Italian-Americans Affairs Director”
Tony Soprano?
It’s New York, so more like Johnny Sacrimoni or Phil Leotardo.
Probably not that competent.
“Piketty’s vision includes the following: Every young adult should receive a large sum of money as a gift from the state at the age of twenty-five. This would be financed by a progressive tax on private wealth, which would rise to 90 percent on the largest fortunes, and inheritances, which would also be taxed at up to 90 percent. Of course, Piketty also proposes a correspondingly high tax on incomes, also rising to a peak of 90 percent. And he would also apply this very same tax rate to dividends, interest, profits and rents, etc. “
Kind of like a big game of Monopoly, where the
BankerState periodically sweeps all the money off the board and puts it back into the Treasury.I’m convinced. Piketty’s a smart guy; sooper smart. He’d be the perfect choice to run it.
I have no idea why so many people praise that fucking commie.
Because he managed to outdo Marx in total number of words printed. His tome is intended to be dense and impenetrable which makes the useful idiots think he’s smart.
Because they are fucking commies?
’Tis a sensible answer.
You know, they could just stop subsidizing the top end of the wealth spectrum by ending the inflation of the money supply and bailing out the big banks and investment groups.
Thomas Paine supported a similar idea (without the ludicrous progressive tax) — a one time payment on the 18th birthday. But that was it, that was all the state would ever provide (well, he also wanted a senior citizen stipend).
I have mentioned it before, suggesting about $60k. Someone on here pointed out that an industry would quickly develop to separate said $60k from its owners.
But it already exists, it is the university system.
You know, I think if your average 18yo had $60K cash in hand, they wouldn’t be quite so easily parted from it for the university experience.
Hookers and blow, on the other hand….
I think it would more likely go to the nearest car dealer.
So every year 90% of the “largest fortunes” would be confiscated by the State?
I suspect collections will be down dramatically the second year.
It would probably be cheaper to pool funds for a private army and a coup than to pay that in the first year.
That’s already how it works. Except strikethrough “private army and a coup” and replace with “lobbyists to explain to Congresscritters that you can either fund their next opponent OR you can fund their next re-election campaign” and that’s how this stuff winds up with loopholes for the big fish to swim right through.
What Piketty and his ilk really want is stasis. Whether it’s the climate or the economy.
He and his fellow idiots actually want to pass the “never allow another billionaire to rise from the masses” legislation. And they want the current billionaires to only be from among their friends – the “right” kind of billionaires. IOW, same old bullshit as ever.
Which would require a constitutional amendment, which ain’t happening.
So question related to the music link:
What was the most successful “super-group”?
Also, followup Steve Howe music link for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWDsXTdeiM
CSN?
Possibly, or even CSNY.
Stones
Were they really a super-group? I can’t even name who Jagger was with before them.
“The President’s staff are frustrated by [Harris’] appalling polling figures”
How is this even remotely a surprise? She has absolutely nothing going for her other than her melanin content and the fact that she’s moderately doable after about 5 beers. She’s stupid, she’s awkward, she’s tyrannical; she is one of those rare individuals that manages to be unappealing to almost everyone before any words even come out of her mouth. She couldn’t even manage 1% in the primaries! Of course she was going to be a disaster.
Assuming he had to pick a female poc, Stacey Abrams made a lot more sense.
Kammy has a couple of things going for her – she’s a player (in the political sense) and she’s not actively insane. Stacey Abrams fails both those checks.
I’m trying to piece what you said with the idea that Biden/Harris is not actively insane.
I don’t think Harris is remotely insane. Well… Maybe a sociopath. She definitely pretends to have feelings and emotions instead of actually having them.. But that could just be the public performance that she isn’t good at.
She is not as personable as she wants to pretend to be, and not nearly as smart as she thinks she is…. Which actually, now that I think about it, makes her a pretty good match for Biden.
She is absolutely a sociopath, along with most in her profession.
Pretty much this. Harris is a sociopath and likely Narcissistic Personality Disorder case. Biden, of course, is a potato.
Abrams is an example of the hardcore lefty who’s turned herself delusional.
With every progtard outlet promoting her as some kind of wizened martyr, she can’t help it.
Antisocial PD.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Mx5xKOMAk ?
Also: ever smell a rotten potato? /shudders
It’s the Irishman’s lament – Do I eat the potato now, or do I let it ferment to drink later?
Yeah, but she is a better cackler than even Hillary.
Mammary Monday was in the heat of the moment.
https://archive.md/qPZxT
Lucas Orange heart
@LucasOfSunshine
Is this the stupidest meme I’ve ever made
https://twitter.com/LucasOfSunshine/status/1459615440053940227
as memes go that is middle pack
Maybe most of his memes are excellent?
Good price.
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Sad!
As a kid, I always marveled at the number of places to which Asian World of Martial Arts would not ship ninja equipment. Really NYC? Throwing stars and tree climbing shoes are a big threat?
Well, they are explicitly banned under the unconstitutional weapons possession law.
IKR. Now I’m imagining there must have been some precipitous event that got the city fathers all aflutter. Like a Big Trouble In Little China style blow up between fighting tongs up and down Mott Street. Then they spilled into Little Italy and the hoods got involved, hence the named ban on switchblades.
It may have been the release of the dead-ender teenage gang movies like West Side Story and Blackboard Jungle.
When I moved to NH, there were a bunch of places that wouldn’t sell or ship bayonets to NH because of NH’s knife laws.
Now the knife laws are gone.
We haven’t had an uptick in bayonet crime.
Yeah, you always hear about those mass murders with fixed bayonets.
It was a key reason bayonet lugs were included in the scary weapons ban.
When I was shopping Jan 2020, you could find it sub-$450. I went with the Ruger, which is basically the same gun and it was just over $400 after all the fees.
I saw some dude on Twitter over the weekend touting the success of the vaccines…even though he got Bell’s Palsy from it and still caught covid after he’d received two shots.
It woulda been worse, if he hadn’t been protected!
Embrace the doomsday cult. Take the holy sacrament.
The very first feature he talks about is increasing funding for the IRS to ensure that all income is reported, raising an additional $600 billion in taxes.
Yeay! Massive surveillance state monitoring all financial transactions to make the economy more equitable!!
I was just thinking about that the other day. We need better reporting, to help the IRS ensure those naughty old billionaires aren’t stealing from the govcernment.
And when you finally unload that raggedy old quilt off Grandma’s bed that nobody wanted at the estate sale, you’ll end up with a 1099 from Etsy, a 1099 from Paypal, and a 1099 from your bank.
All for the same transaction. Don’t worry, though. The nice man from the IRS will be happy to rectify any confusion.
Or they could massively simplify the tax code.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
One of the things the IRS has always bitched about is the fact that they really can’t go after the uber rich because those guys have teams of high priced accountants who run rings around the poor little IRS auditors.
The idea is that more funding would allow the IRS to compete fairly and really soak those rich fat cats!
Given that the govt auditors are paid according to the civil service pay scale, I have no idea how a bigger IRS budget leads to better auditors. Maybe more auditors for sure, but do you think the best and brightest accountants are going to give up making big $$$ to go work for the IRS?
And it should be terrifying to think of very bright accountants foregoing $$$ in the private sector in order to become the new Inquisition.
Yeah…. they’re not doing it to go after the super-rich, they’re doing it to go after the middle class.
The IRS trains a fair amount of the high-priced tax specialists. They are the ones that get frustrated with being part of the bureaucracy and smart enough to make the jump to private practice.
Like ex-DA defense lawyers, evidently.
There were a hundred ways to do this sketch and have it be funny. The show now is just lazy mediocre hacks.
https://twitter.com/TimJDillon/status/1459910234336595968
SNL became painfully unfunny.
Wow, that’s just bad.
It really is exceptional for how bad it is. Not funny. And wrong. Quintupling down on horse medicine after he eviscerated Gupta on his podcast for that just makes you look stupid.
Btw. I googled “Joe Rogan Gupta” and CNN had their response pop up number one
https://youtu.be/rYZTN5NkxmQ
They spend 10 minutes cherry picking moments to try to spin things, mixed in with borderline slander. No attempt to actually address the issues raised.
The Rogan podcast was number 6 on the list. “A communication professor reacts” came up second. Rogan has a bigger audience than anything on CNN… Yet Google’s vaunted algorithm puts some random reaction video from some guy you never heard of ahead of him.
I heard a couple of things that I will currently put in the “Rumor” bucket that could be a really big deal.
First, I learned that Joe Biden has a 40 year old daughter named Ashley. I knew he had a son, and another son who died. Hunter is pretty famous for having left his laptop and his jobs and financial deals with overseas companies raking in millions, despite being unable to cut it in the military with a powerful senator for a dad. But I don’t think I had ever heard of a daughter.
Second, I learned that she may have been in rehab last year during the campaign. There is this diary that she left behind, see. Initial reports were that is was left in a room. “Where she was staying”. Some said House. Some said hotel. Over the weekend rumors spread that it was a rehab facility, and it was possibly a treatment diary, where she talked of issues she was working out with her therapists.
I found that pretty amazing. The entire press must have covered up her rehab stint, left and right. I suppose that is a decent thing to do… No real reason to drag an adult child through the mud if she isn’t taking bribes on behalf of dad. But still, it is fairly astonishing that nobody mentioned it during a nasty campaign where plenty of venom was directed at Trumps kids and other relatives.
Finally… The deep rumor. The one that I didn’t track down because it is way too far into rumor town… The contents of the diary. Apparently some outlets are purporting to publish excerpts. And the contents would be explosive if it is really her diary and it really talks about what the rumor said…. That it involves an underage Ashley and inappropriate conduct from daddy, putting it delicately.
Now, covering things up might be old as time, but this is post Me Too, and there was an allegation against Biden with contemporaneous reporting (the Larry king call by her mother) and allegations of a coverup. The media ran hard cover for him, refusing to do any digging and hiding the story as much as possible, despite the contemporary reports.
Taken together, that is some amazing control over the press. I literally did not know he even had an adult daughter. I knew he had a son who died of brain cancer. And a daughter and wife who died in the early 70s. And a son who was … Troubled.
A quick search shows a bunch of features on her in fashion magazines around the inauguration, but nothing pops up from last year in a cursory look.
Joe Biden’s career should have ended on a number of occasions.
Smearing the guy that was injured in the accident his first wife caused as being a drunk driver who killed her is one. The man was always depraved piece of shit.
?
That was a morally depraved thing to do and calculated for maximum political benefit.
I won a bet with some Dem relatives on that one.
They were trying to convince me that Joe was a decent middle of the road guy (but even they admitted he might be senile now). I brought up the fact that he slimed the driver of the truck that killed his wife and kid by lying about him being drunk.
They were sure that it was a drunk driver so we bet $1 (I’m not a big gambler).
Sadly, the first few entries about Joe Biden’s wife being killed are all from approved fact checkers like Snopes that give it a “mixed” rating? Why? Because there is no “proof” that the driver was not drinking.
Even my Dem relatives had to admit that the real rating should have been “pants on fire”. They were also pretty appalled by Biden calling the guy a drunk driver when the real facts were that his wife was at fault for the accident.
The good thing is that as a member of congress, anything he said about the guy was fair game, because they exempted themselves from libel laws.
It was supposed to only pertain to legislative matters on the floor, but the courts have stretched that to “anything, anywhere”.
I wonder if they’re appalled that Biden called Rittenhouse a “white supremacist” with no fucking evidence whatsoever.
If he miraculously gets a fair verdict, I hope he obtains more effective counsel and sues every national liar into oblivion.
Biden isn’t near the top of the list, but he is on it.
The major networks and especially left propaganda outlets like the Young Turks are really in jeopardy. They keep repeating lies, A year after video was available disproving them, and now even after it has been demonstrated in court.
I really hope someone gets to the bottom of that lunch stop after his release. It sure looks like he was set up.
If anything, there’s enough circumstantial evidence that Biden’s wife being under the influence is much more likely possibility.
For 50 years everyone, including the lefty media, made fun of Biden. he was usually portrayed as the dumbest Senator of the time and a guy that was a serial liar and child molesters, but given a pass cause he was team blue. Today most of them forget they used to make fun of him because otherwise it would prove they were idiots.
It’s shocking how a small scandal here or there can sink a guy but a career of outrageous scandals and you can be president.
Heh (or not).
I didn’t know until reading about Mary Astor in Hollywood Babylon (ask Ted) that diaries are legally admissible.
That diary was the reason Project Veritas was raided by the FBI.
O’Keefe said that there really wasn’t anything that explosive in the diary and they passed on publishing any of it. They tried to return it to Ashley Biden’s lawyers but they wouldn’t take it. So they ended up giving it back to the police in the hopes they’d get it returned.
The big scandal isn’t the diary. It is why the FBI thinks it has any right to investigate this at all. And to add to the outrage, the FBI not only got warrants to raid Project Veritas, but they leaked contents of the phones seized to the NY TImes.
If we had a republic that operated according to the Constitution, people at the FBI would be indicted and jailed for this shit.
And seized unrelated information such as Project Veritas’ donors. I’m sure they already had it but this is how parallel reconstruction of illegally obtained information or evidence works.
Yeah, that is where I started, and that is actually where I was headed with the whole “I did not even know she existed” thing. The power of “the establishment” and the lengths to which they will blithely go are astonishing.
The FBI is not the tiniest bit worried about going after investigative journalists on patently unconstitutional grounds. They are not even a tiny bit worried about leaking privileged communications to a party in a lawsuit.. The NYT.
The DOJ isn’t mildly concerned that they got caught trying to do a false flag operation with the school board association to put a fig leaf on speech suppression efforts being undertaken around the country in support of progressives and racist indoctrination.
Why?
Because they all got caught red handed in blatant acts of treason during the Obama administration and carrying over to the Trump administration… And not a damned thing happened. They cooked up a fake scandal and used it to spy on people, frame them for crimes and actually prosecute them. all with the explicit intent of unseating the duly elected president of the united states. If that ain’t Treason, I don’t know what is. And not a damned thing happened. The inside players just swept it away.
^^^^ this
^^^This is why I have difficulty buying the line that recent actions are those a drowning, desperate group.
These are the actions of a group that has solidified power and has zero fucks to give about what the public thinks. A major Dem loss in 2022 is meaningless with one party rule. The establishment GOP response to the Obama treason after Trump’s win in 2016 couldn’t make that more clear.
One of the charges against O’Keefe/Veritas is misprision of a felony. It’s a rather archaic law that normally only applies to people in a position of trust/authority, i.e. a public official. I had to look it up myself, but I wouldn’t be surprised if even our resident lawyers wouldn’t be terribly familiar with it.
“misprision of an offense” is still a crime under the UCMJ and yes, I’ve had to defend against it.
There does have to be an underlying crime though, right? What is the underlying crime here?
Yes, there needs to be a “serious offense” (under the UCMJ version, it’s punishment of more than a year, so essentially the same requirement – a felony) and the crime is in “hiding or concealing” the fact of the serious offense from authorities. It requires a “positive act of concealment” and not merely keeping quiet.
There is no possible criminality based upon what I’ve read about what PV did. This looks like the new standard DoJ/Biden tactic of making up a crime from some novel reading of an ancient statute and hoping that no one knows what it is and will just glaze over when they hear the word.
Pretty much the entirety of the Flynn prosecution was based upon the same tactic – my recollection is that it was Biden’s idea in that meeting to try to use the Logan Act.
This looks like it’s SOP for them with Biden. They tried to get a vaccine mandate out of OSHA and the Procurement Act, too. This is what they do – just lie, lie, lie – and when caught – they just tell another one.
There is no possible criminality based upon what I’ve read about what PV did.
That was my thought, though I reserved that there may be something in the warrant application. I think we need to amend our constitution to eliminate all qualified and sovereign immunity entirely. Fucking judges and everyone else MUST BE accountable for their gross errors in judgment. No excuses.
That’s why we invented the “conspiracy to commit”. We were coming up with
a scenario where you’d be guilty of a felony even though no actual (original) crime
had been committed. Third year law students can get punchy.
I recall inventing such patterns in law school as
being guilty of a felony for conspiracy to commit misprision of felony
where you mistakenly thought something was a felony, and agreed
to not report it with someone else. Wisconsin abolished all common law
crimes, so I’m not sure it’s a thing in Wisconsin.
https://twitter.com/JohnRLottJr/status/1460229576274034696
This can’t be real. Someone please tell me it’s fake.
Lying to you costs more.
Is it wrong that my first instinct is to try to cram that crap down her throat?
Do not judge your betters
If I ever come across anyone who is my better, I’ll bear that in mind.
These morons, on the other hand…
Yep, just because someone exalts themself doesn’t mean I’m going to be in awe.
I’m liking the “Change My Mind” meme a few replies down.
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With human-caused climate change come warmer oceans – and in turn, researchers predict, they’ll fuel increasingly destructive storms.
But how do tropical storms and thunderstorms work?
It’s a mystery. Nobody has ever bothered to seriously contemplate it.
Look just plant a windmill in your yard and don’t ask questions.
This still has yet to happen btw.
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Also, anybody giving their 5 year old
thisany vaccine is an absolute idiot who has no concept of risk analysis.Total yearly deaths (2004):
Measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria: 0
Tetanus: 4
Chicken pox: 19
Pertussis: 27
I had Measles, mumps, rubella and Chicken pox as a kid.
Undead confirmed.
And WHY are those deaths so rare now?
Mumps and rubella deaths were always rare in absolute numbers, and measles mortality was under 1/10th of 1% of cases.
Clearly only absolute idiots ever vaccinated their kids against those three historically, or any vaccine now.
As someone that lived outside of the US when I was a kid, I am glad I got those as well as the Meningitis shot. People tend to make the mistake that because a vaccine made a disease rare in the US they no longer need it. Note that I understand people that say they have a problem with the Kung Flu vaccine considering it is new teach and untested. I really worry about people that think all vaccines are bad.
We just talked to the “natural” pediatrician today at kiddo #2’s 12 month appointment.
“you don’t really need to do anything on your old pediatrician’s list for the next couple years. I’d recommend tetanus and polio at age 4, but the rest is up to you. If you eventually decide to go to public school, we can do titers to test for immunity to satisfy the other requirements.”
Good morning, Sloop!
I hope you all had a great weekend!
What’s everyone thinking about the Rittenhouse verdict?
I’m thinking I’m glad I don’t live in a big city.
I say hanging is too got for the like o him
I have a bad feeling about the judge allowing “provocation”. To me it’s 50/50 chance, and the “bad” 50 will only be because of the jurors being afraid to buck the Narrative.
100% chance there will be some type of rioting. Scott Adams is on right now, he’s super pissed because there are 500 national guard troops deployed right now only due to the news media’s handling of this trial.
Tundra – I got to your response from this weekend well after-the-fact. Mama-to-be is hanging in there – all the walking at the theme parks definitely took its toll, but on the whole she’s doing okay. She did a good job of mixing in plenty of rest stops and water drinking, and she left all the alcohol consumption to me. She’s due in March – pretty crazy that we’re past the halfway point. We have our fingers crossed but thus far there have been no major scares. I hope Colorado is treating you and your family well.
He is innocent but I am not optimistic about a “not guilty” verdict.
I’ve got a better question: why the fuck does this government position even exist?
Agreed. But, I can’t imagine Hochul would be averse to having a African-American Affairs Director or an LGBTQ Affairs Director. I could imagine that they would have a role paid out of their political campaigns, rather than the state budget. But, let’s not kid ourselves, Italian-Americans are a shrinking portion of the NY Democratic constituency.
Yeah, no kidding.
Most of them moved to Staten Island and vote Republican now.
As I understand it we’re gonna do infrastructure remodeling . OTOH, who is going to do the work?
We’re gonna need engineers, steel and concrete workers, plus all the permitting, inspecting and politicians. Many of the knowledgeable guys have retired because of reasons. These are not skills one gets from working fast food jobs. High paying skilled jobs are going unfilled now.
“Well, we’ll train the new guys”. Uh huh, yep, we’re gonna make heavy equipment operators out of untrained people and put them to work.
The money will disappear, projects will languish, rinse and repeat. It’s laughable and potentially dangerous.
You assume there’s anything left after all the permitting, inspecting and politicians.
So true
This is why I recently made the career decision to het upstream of construction and manufacturing.
+ 1 shovel-ready
Miss Truck 2021-Trebaseleghe
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Envy.
Avarice.
Sloth.
Wrath.
Ego.
Lust.
Gluttony. Don’t forget gluttony.
It’s hard to associate with communism because of the famines.
Though Maduro and Kim remind me that there are still those who can indulge that sin in that system.
When they look back upon their life….
Parents, we do absolutely everything to protect our kids, and in this pandemic, you did. You figured out how to support their virtual learning while working your job. Some of you even left your job to help your kids. You found ways to create online playdates and birthday parties. You chose to get yourself vaccinated.
Go fuck yourself. You are part of the problem.
The $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure bill is set for a White House signing ceremony Monday, the beginning of a victory lap after months of stalemate.
Only $550 billion? I thought it was more than that?
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced that all residents over the age of 12 who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will be under lockdown starting at midnight Monday. They will only be allowed out of their homes under exceptional circumstances, which include to work, buy essentials or to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
This is insanity. I asked my friend in Vienna about it. She says that since she just got over Covid, she’s free for six months. The government will at least acknowledge recovery from Covid. After that, we’ll see. She is not vaccinated.
Joe Biden’s relationship with Kamala Harris is in crisis, with her staff furious that she is being ‘sidelined,’ while the president’s team are increasingly frustrated by how she is playing with American public.
Her misfortune brings a smile to my face.
Down from over 2 trillion.. No mention of what changes, doesn’t change… And there were lots of hugely bad unrelated things that they tried to slip in. I wonder what they managed to successfully slide under the radar.
O’Keefe said that there really wasn’t anything that explosive in the diary and they passed on publishing any of it. They tried to return it to Ashley Biden’s lawyers but they wouldn’t take it. So they ended up giving it back to the police in the hopes they’d get it returned.
That would have verified its legitimacy.
I do believe the FBI just verified its legitimacy.
Not necessarily. If this was a hoax from the get-go, they are only playing the part that was intended. Attempting to entrap, just like with dummy bombs.
Yeah… It seems like Veritas may have suspected a trap.
Management: I don’t trust your expertise and am going to have these people who know nothing about the matter second-guess you.
Also management: The two of you can’t take the same days off, we need your expertise.
I thought you were management now
There is always higher management.
Not when you are god-emperor there isn’t
You’d be surprised.
/God-Emperor of Mankind
Looks like our trip to Oz will be further delayed, based on the continuing insanity: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-15/nt-positive-covid-case-remote-community-robinson-river/100622382
One case in a community (cattle station, total population 285) called Robinson River, a 12 hour drive from Darwin. They lock down the whole town. Because the woman who tested positive is a household contact of a fully vaccinated man from the town of Katherine (population 6300) they’ve also locked that town down for 72 hours. The Northern Territory’s Chief minister, Michael Gunner (who is starting to look like a bigger asshole than the leaders of NSW and Victoria combined) said, “”It’s not the scenario we wanted but we knew this day would come…We have already swung into action to save lives.”
Dude, I wouldn’t risk going there ever again.
No kidding. Once upon a time you only had to worry about the flora and fauna there.
Makes me sad to think how many American boys died to keep Prison Island free from the Japanese only to see this happen. Our division chapel is in Australia and locals not only maintained it but held services every July 4 there in remembrance. If I had my druthers, I relocate the entire structure wholesale.
Given that the govt auditors are paid according to the civil service pay scale, I have no idea how a bigger IRS budget leads to better auditors. Maybe more auditors for sure, but do you think the best and brightest accountants are going to give up making big $$$ to go work for the IRS?
And it should be terrifying to think of very bright accountants foregoing $$$ in the private sector in order to become the new Inquisition.
IRS auditors should work on commission. Like bounty hunters. That will attract the eager beaver types.
Lots of well-paid lawyers decide to become less well paid judges so they can exercise power.
Good day all, have a little inter-species influence to start your week off on the right foot.
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1460212878213099523
I started the week off right by staying home, but thanks for the video anyway.
Amen
Rekieta Law’s livestream of the closing arguments is up. Closing arguments haven’t started yet, just a bunch of lawyers discussing the case at this point.
Cutting to the courtroom now… some debate about the closing arguments.
I am astonished… It looks like they never even filed motions to dismiss, motions for directed verdict, motions on prosecutorial misconduct.
IANAL, but they really do look like two teams of lawyers trying to throw the case.
“I need more billable hours.”
One of the lawyers on the panel says the defense team did file a motion on mistrial. Nothing about it has come up so far beyond that.
The motion for mistrial came up. The defense filed the paperwork. The judge still hasn’t ruled.
This slick twist to provocation sounds really dangerous. They are going to argue that a blob means he provoked the whole thing. Never should have allowed that “photo” into evidence to start with… It is an interpolation between actual frames that he then used AI zoom and further processing.
The interpolated frame is not real. And they want guilt and innocence to hinge on that.
Yeah, it’s fucking dangerous to Rittenhouse. When I watched the debate over the admission of that evidence, it sounded like the judge was willing to not allow the evidence, but the defense didn’t push.
All this depends on the jurors and what’s going on inside their heads. Sucks that it’s so random, but it’s the best we’ve come up with.
Gun charge dismissed.
Good, I think. My only reservation is that would have made as good a compromise verdict as I could hope for.
Tried the Twitter “embed code” option.
Not impressed.
But the tweet is mildly entertaining.
Yes, not wearing her bodycam to film a nude wrongly arrested person. The downside of a strictly legalist approach to everything.
And people who cannot understand this should not be trusted with authority.
Does anyone have a good resource on learning how to job search?
The Indeed app is very good, I was surprised
Miss a meal
I’ve been looking for something a little more lucrative myself, and have found Indeed to be fairly worthwhile.
So, on the inflation front, this is an interesting read.
It’s an interesting point, though I’ve recently read economists also arguing otherwise.
It would be nicer if this one was correct, however.
Economists, at least the monetary variety, have pretty much zero idea what’s going on. The velocity of money hasn’t behaved anything like their theory says it will. When your fundamental theory is blown out of the water – what exactly are you going to say?
These aren’t exactly monetarists.
I’m referring to the idea that inflation is not really happening, which the author of that article suggests.
One popular mention also is that inflation also *causes* shortages. Because nominal wages increase early, people try to consume more, but the supply of goods probably has not.
That sounds like a sketchy theory – wages increasing in advance?
I don’t know if “in advance” is the right way to put it. People ultimately wind up with more money to spend, but the prices of all things they can spend them on may not necessarily adjust immediately.
However, it does sound iffy that this is what is happening now.
Wages usually lag price increases. Deflation would imply more apparent spending power.
Inflation happens when fiat money is created, devaluing the existing stock of money.
Saying inflation isn’t happening because the effects of that devaluation isn’t reflected evenly and at the same time across all economic activity – saying that should disqualify any speaker as an economist.
Oh, and the median house price where I live is up 75% in one year. Saying the average price of goods is up by only single digits is bullshit.
I’m no economist — but I would think it is patently obvious that energy is the basic component of our industrial society. Everything requires it, from basic living to manufacturing to transport. So when you drive up the cost of energy, that’s going to have a multiplicative effect down the cost chain as that increase piles up at each transition.
Hence, PPP going out of his way to immediately drive up the price of energy (killing Keystone, et alia) and continuing to push for more expensive energy solutions is going to drive an inflationary spike regardless of what else is done. I do think dumping trillions of funny bucks in the hopper has an effect too, as does ravaging the basic functioning of industry over the past year — but keeping energy costs lower could have mitigated a good chunk of that. But what do I know….
I think from the author’s perspective there’s two ways of looking at prices in play. One is, in the face of demand, artificially constraining supply – that will cause the price to rise, but that isn’t inflation. Inflation occurs because the monetary instrument (i.e. dollars) is being devalued/debased. That impacts all prices immediately, not via a ripple effect throughout the market. I wouldn’t put too much stock in our govt not devaluing the dollar, but we just may not have seen that yet.
So the obvious solution to restricted supply is to pour gasoline on the demand fire.
You sir have a future in advising the Uniparty!
A more accurate analogy would be to notice that the sidewalks are getting wetter and deduce that it’s raining. Also kind of does a shuffle about the impact of deficit spending increases circa 9/11, speculation derived from the Iraq war and knockons was driving oil prices, and dot com/9/11 economic slide aftermath in the mid 2000’s.
But this is incredibly irresponsible for CNN to print
That’s kind of their M.O.
The state’s cunte prosecutors are still being incredibly dishonest in the KR trial.
With President Joe Biden’s approval sliding in recent months, Democrats are rallying around the sustained popularity of his signature economic plans to save them in the midterm elections, increasing the pressure on slim majorities in Congress to deliver after a stinging electoral defeat in blue Virginia.
Fascinating. I, for one, love paying $4/gal for gas, among all of the other price increases.
Except the passage of the bill did not register in his flagging polls. His polls just went down further.
This is one of those lies they tell themselves to justify doing what they always were gonna do.
The bill was never “popular” in the real sense. It only polled well when generally referred to as an infrastructure bill, and even then not THAT well.
Individual ideas in the bill never polled well with any Americans and when presented with the costs Americans are largely against it.
Judge dismissed the weapon charge.
Quote from the YouTube gallery “I just want to point out what happened here… The prosecutor knew he did not violate the law and brought the charges anyway”
Dismissed because it is not a short barreled rifle.
To my knowledge that was not even in question. Just measure the damned thing. Fucking clown show continues…
Precisely as I have been pointing out since the day after the shootings. If a non-WI lawyer (well, not in quite some time) can figure this out in 15 minutes of looking at the statutes, why can’t a WI prosecutor? And why, for that matter, can’t a WI judge? That charge should never have seen the light of day.
The judge, during the discussion about the statute and what it meant, said he found the statute confusing.
I don’t disagree. If memory serves, its actually two statutes. One says that its legal for a 17 year old to carry a weapon that isn’t a “dangerous weapon” (not sure if that’s the exact term used, but something like that anyway). Another defines dangerous weapons as including “short-barrelled rifles”. Rittenhouse was carrying a full-size AR, which is not short-barrelled.
The reason WI allows 17 year olds to carry rifles (and shotguns) is because they allow 17 year olds to go hunting. If you want to see a legislature driven out of the Capitol and hounded through the streets, aa WI legislature trying to limit hunting would be an excellent choice.
a WI legislature trying to limit hunting would be an excellent choice.
I wonder if that is still as true as it once was? On the other hand, in PA, yeah, Harrisburg would burn to the ground, so maybe.
This is crazy. Judge basically said there is no evidence of provocation… And defense does not ask for provocation instructions to be dropped from n the jury instruction.
He walked them right up to winning the case…. And they did not walk through the door.
Are they trying to set up an ineffective assistance of counsel appeal? Because that would explain their ineptitude. But those appeals almost universally fail, and would certainly do so in this case.
So how they have been doing over the course of the trial. The state walking the line/dancing over it of constitutional violations and the defense letting shit go cause….reasons?
One Trillion? Piker,
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/11/14/jeff_bezos_the_solar_system_can_support_a_trillion_people_earth_will_be_preserved_like_a_national_park.html
Austria orders nationwide lockdown for unvaccinated residents
I wonder if they will have to go to camp.
Maybe the person/people that the prosecution alleges that KR pointed the rifle at should have been called to testify…
I can’t comprehend how the prosecution gets to introduce provocation during closing arguments, without having introducted any evidence of it during the actual trial as far as I know.
This smells like desperation and bullshit. I hope and pray that it doesn’t fly.
There was “evidence”
A zoomed in/modified/gabarge grainy picture.
And that’s it.
The judge pointed out the prosecutors never had the Zaminskis (at whom the prosecution claims Rittenhouse pointed the AR at) testify that Rittenhouse did so.
I certainly would hope the jury notices that as clearly as we do.
Zero chance of that.
Look at the lefty pundits. They still say he went there to murder protesters because he is a racist. People only accept information that confirms a previously held belief. This is why you have to have a jury that has not made up their mind.
Any CNN viewers will have a strong opinion that he was a murderer. Give them a blob in a photo and draw a roadmap to saying this blob proves he is guilty and then at least some of those Rachel Maddow fans will see what they need to see. This is why they introduced it. They have the jury research to know that 1/3 of their jury fits this description.
So you are assuming the jury is all lefty pundits? Or at least heavily influenced by them?
No. They are indicative of a mindset.
Confirmation bias works for everyone. If you have a belief, your mind will defend it, highlighting things that confirm it and rejecting things that refute it. Left right or center, this is how human brains work.
The lefty pundits have fallen victim to this.
They have simply ignored things that say their narrative is wrong.
Likewise, the 1/3 of the jury pool that Barnes’ polling found had strongly held beliefs that he was guilty because “he should not have been there,”. Those people are highly likely to latch on to anything that let’s them maintain their belief.
This is what the prosecutor is doing. Playing to the “he provoked it by being there” idea and providing “evidence” that at best shows nothing and giving them a story to attribute to it.
At that point confirmation bias takes over and you see what you want to see.
This is als
Also gave the defense a good line if they were paying attention. It is a photograph that cannot possibly show which direction his rifle was pointing, even if raised. It is impossible to determine that and the jury cannot speculate that it was pointed towards anyone at all. Hopefully a juror understands that. Even if I thought KR should be convicted, that absolutely shouldn’t be factored in.
Was that picture actually shown to the jury? I don’t recall, but now that I type that, I think it may have been.
It was and it was the best still frame shot that the State could get to make their point I believe.
The “expert” took a video and “made a slowmotion ” copy. This is done by adding interpolated frames in between the actual frames.
He took one of these interpolated frames and zoomed in using AI zoom… Also interpolation pixels.
This is not an actual picture. I do not see how it should have been allowed.
Agreed. I was being lazy by saying “best”, meaning best in their favor and even then it is no different than the Face of Mars photo
Ah, that TV setting I always disable.
The judge says the jury may not speculate… Prosecutor says we have a bunch of evidence…. that one has to do a whole lot of speculation to interpret the way we want you to….
Judge says OK, but be careful what you argue in closing.
Meaning.. He is relying on defense to object.
Good luck on that happening.
Not being a lawyer – I thought closing statements were not subject to interjection by opposing counsel. In which case, the prosecutor risks only the judge’s wrath (which he has provoked before, and the judge will no doubt remember).
Intertoobs say you can, but maybe varies from state to state? Also not a lawyer.
I’d say we both defer to someone with trial experience!
I poked around the InterTubes, and found nothing specific to Wisconsin, but I found some articles talking about objections during closing arguments. It looks like in at least some states it can happen, but it is rare.
I have a work meeting, so I’m not going to dig deeper.
OMB! COUP!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/14/trump-president-2024-election-coup-republicans
oOh, an Electoral Coup, as in, winning….
The Grauniad? You sure you want to do that to yourself?
I didn’t, I zoned out early and scrolled, marveling at the amout of garbage that was being spewed.
Yeah, they’ll do that.
According to polls today, Republicans have NEVER had a lead of this kind in the polls.
I believe a vegetable Donald Trump would win the election if it were held today.
What do Republicans have to do to keep this terrible momentum going? Secretly help pass that 5 trillion dollar spending bill? Be ineffectual at stopping vaccine mandates and border control?
Well, they already carried the first mega-spending bill over the finish line for the Dems. It couldn’t have passed without Repubs crossing over in the House, because the commie caucus wouldn’t vote for it, so the Repubs saved the Dem’s bacon.
And right after the electoral surprises on Election Day, too. Hard to imagine a more contemptuous way to kick their base in the teeth.
I read that the progressives defected because they knew enough Republicans were crossing over that they could do their little symbolic dance.
yup
It would’ve passed anyway. Those progs voted against it just to make a political statement after they knew it was gonna pass.
Corn ’24! https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/donald-trump-funny-look-alike-thumb.jpg
Republicans are vying for critical positions in many states – from which they could launch a far more effective power-grab than Trump’s 2020 effort
Such progjection…the real coup was the 2020 election.
Look, they know he knows how to steal an election – after all, he did it in ’16. [this is what they actually believe]
I have no more pearls to clutch.
Bwahahahahahaha
I hope his very popular platform of banning guns in Texas is still in play.
Dude looks old for 49.
/premature grayers in my family shriek, sob, and run away
Mine went straight to albino.
You laugh, but his voter base is growing rapidly, is it not?
Is that an Idiocracy allusion?
Biden and Kamala’s relationship is in crisis as their poll ratings crash just one year in: Her staff feuds over why she is being sidelined with no-win migration task while President’s team say they’ve given up on her already
Curious that the Trump policies on the matter were popular…
Rumors. Claims.
I want to believe.
It’s interesting how much the blame is being directed at Kamala.
Biden may be more popular, but it’s not like he’s particularly popular.
Conservatives probably predicted this one wrong. They thought that Biden would be thrown under the bus to be replaced by Kamala. Now Kamala is the scapegoat.
I think Biden’s team is running the show. Biden’s team is more capable than the catty infighting exemplified by team Kamala.
Time to dust off the knee pads?
Based on those instructions….all the jury should be thinking…WTF mate?
The instruction on reckless endangerment of McGinnis was terrible.
He basically said he was guilty in the way it was worded… There was only emphasis on having no self defense exemption. Really badly worded, the way it came out when he said it was difficult anyway.. But then he had a coughing fit and got lost, right after saying there can be no self defense claim on this one.
They should be trying to figure out how to put the prosecutor and the entire justice system in WI on trial for fucking letting this shitshow happen. This shit makes the crap done by the asshole that knew the Duke Lacross case was fake but went with it so he could get reelected look tame.
Ok, post weekend update – https://twitter.com/FishLikesFlicks/status/1460277427712765952?t=EGbq7TxHJDflxhk_b_d7gA&s=19
Gonna submit a claim on the fridge – exterior ice is regrowing and I can’t maintain heat on it constantly – moreso with upcoming drill, holidays and reserve stuff. Rust is also flaking off as ice melts so kinda a pain.
As far as the floor – I reattacked with bleach solution and several other types of brushes yesterday. Not sure i can do much more at this stage but uncertain about short-mid term options? Should I sand, etc or just keep it nice and air dry with occasional bleach checks- at least until I need to move a new fridge into position?
As I said before – not much leakage below so I don’t think it had been going on that long – still not sure what caused it. Back wall cleaned up great except for white molding strip which I think had paint completely stripped off.
Your cleaning is well done. The fridge may be past its sell-by date.
Thanks. Back is completely rusted through in several spots – still think it’s the ice maker, but may be associated with something else. Wish I knew exactly what kicked it off, but based on placement, may have been a lack of airflow when it was straining after I turned icemaker back on or something else….maybe started in the summer when the AC went out?
Anyone had experience getting an appliance replacement from American Home Shield? I’ll be doing that, but I wouldn’t mind some tips up front about the process.
Not your Q, but water lines are too fragile to be a worthwhile feature. Get a countertop ice-maker? Or the two old-fashioned ways…
Don’t normally use the icemaker at all. Don’t really care about one. This was a fancy fridge (came with the 7 yr old house) – probably over $1500 (new) – french doors up above with water/ice dispenser and freezer down below.
I’m happy with just a plain fridge/freezer combo (up top is fine) – as long as I can get roughly the same cubic footage.
LOL I’m feeling very triggered right now. My work has a chat-bot to handle service tickets now, and it just throw me the White Power signal ??
I think I should report it to HR.
Larf
lockdowns to varying degrees eviscerated trillions of commercial arrangements reached over many decades around the world.
No kidding.
A massive government induced supply shock and helicopter money. What could possibly go wrong?
Dramatic Husky convinced he’s dying |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YaBLkXV1FE
https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1460227493458231297
LOL still a national treasure
Tuesdays are my nemesis.
In wonderful news…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-patrick-leahy-announces-he-will-not-seek-reelection
I honestly had no idea who Vermont’s other senator was. What the hell has been doing all this time, sleeping?
If only, he’s a noxious gasbag – actually makes Bernie look like a decent human.
YouTube shut down Rekieta…after 8 days of streaming it…now its a policy violation? lol
It’s still up, at least for me
It went up and down a few times…they found a stream.
It streams for me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7YXd2M5E-8
It looks like all the 3rd party commentary steams keep getting automatically pulled for copyright. The bot identifies the network stream and pulls it automatically. Happens a lot in cases where a network uses public video feeds and has an arrangement with YouTube to protect their video.
You will note that Fox, CNN, NBC etc have no such trouble.