Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful day it always is!
Rittenhouse testifies in his own defense, breaks down on the stand
Rittenhouse Judge slams prosecution for trying to use his 5th amendment right against him.
Rittenhouse defense lawyers ask for a mistrial
Is Manchin about to tank the reconciliation bill over inflation?
Kamala’s presidency will be just as entertaining as Biden’s
LAPD Advises City Residents to ‘Cooperate and Comply’ with Robbers
Pennsylvania court overturns state’s mask mandate for schools
NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney concedes to truck driver Edward Durr
Supplier Donates Year’s Supply Of Milk To Family Of 11 Struggling With Price Increases
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Rittenhouse testifies in his own defense, breaks down on the stand”
WHITE SUPREMACY!
I would have never broken down were I him.
Well, is that because you would be looking forward to sweet love in the pound-me-in-the-ass-prison, or just cause like me you never cry?
Sad fact. Like Chuck Norris, my tears also cure cancer. But also like Chuck, I have never cried…
I only cry at beautiful sunsets
Pussy.
real men cry all the time
Only when good dogs die though.
Especially when they are told to make their own sammiches!
never got the sammiches thing as real mean don’t eat bread
real men goddamnit
Real Mean eat lead and fart bullets.
“Crying is for babies and Italians.”
—Red Foreman
I would think French also
I cry every time I watch Apollo 13. I think that my manhood is safe.
At least you don’t cry after sex like some guys do…
At least you don’t cry after sex like some guys do…
Mace will do that Alex.
That’s some kinky shit you do there your holiness if mace is involved..
is that because you would be looking forward to sweet love in the pound-me-in-the-ass-prison,
I don’t know. I’d think prison would be a pretty fertile hunting ground. It’s just a question if the jailers can figure out why so many inmates are found exsanguinated in their cells.
I would have never broken down were I him.
Me neither. And I would not be taking shit from that cunte prosecutor. But I’m also an asshole.
I don’t think any of us know what mental state we would be in if we had killed two people, seriously wounded another, and were in jeopardy of spending the rest of our life in a penitentiary.
And, yes, as someone who has been recently deposed in a relatively low-intensity civil matter, in the frinedly confines of my own lawyer’s conference room, it is extraordinarily difficult to keep the talking points front of mind. Back-seat drivers are in the back seat. From what I have seen, Rittenhouse did extraordinarily well on the stand.
You mean everything that’s wrong with America?
HOLY WAR ON THE UNWOKE!
That’s some interesting writing, “white allies among the protestors [in Kenosha]”, “Predominately white people [on Jan 6th]”. You can’t really bend the facts to fit the narrative junior, so just ignore that reality and stick to your imagination.
I need a shower after skimming that. Holy shit, what a steaming pile.
I’d read that but then I’d have to lance the sties that developed on my eyelids.
“Those protesters made him shoot them. It was their fault, and only theirs, not Rittenhouse’s. He was trying to do good, to protect this dying nation.”
This, but unironically
This is where I really struggle with not dehumanizing my cultural adversaries. I know that it only leads to really bad places. But if you dont believe that every human being has the right to defend themselves against criminal violence, than as far as I’m concerned, you’ve dehumanized yourself.
You dont have to dehumanize Commies to defeat them. The truth exposes them for what they are – slavers. They have dehumanized themselves.
Commies are trying to steal from you, enslave you, imprison you, and kill you. If you dont have the moral high ground against pieces of shit like that, I dont know what to tell you.
I dont advocate harming anyone else except in self defense. When they come at you, defend yourself. If they attack your country, defend yourself.
How far in advance of their attack can I take action?
Or do I have to wait until I’m damaged? When can
I take action on others behalf?
“self defense” sounds nice, but it’s hard to know what
that actually implies in practice. Even if we happen
to agree on the principle, my self defense may differ
wildly from yours.
You can preemptively defend yourself. There is no clear line . Most people dont attack others, so once you are reasonably in fear of your life from bodily injury, shoot away.
I have defended myself before and the principle of self defense doesnt really differ in real life. I knew that I would have to articulate why I was defending myself and the criminal would never have that burden. Luckily, dead men tell no lies too.
My only hope is that, one day in the not too distant future, after the current madness passes, these people will have this as a thing in their past that they’re humiliated by, like leisure suits and disco in the 70s, only X10,000.
But if you dont believe that every human being has the right to defend themselves against criminal violence, than as far as I’m concerned, you’ve dehumanized yourself.
It’s burglary writ large. I don’t have to reject the burglar’s innate human dignity to shoot him in the chest for breaking into my house at night.
These people are wrong. More than wrong, they are wicked. However, they are still redeemable and should be given every chance to see the light until they either pose an imminent threat to life and limb or they consume their own.
I trained my wife to unload the magazine into a burglar.
The utter horseshit that the prosecutor was trying to imply that once you need to defend yourself, you have to still give the attacker some chance to kill you or medically help them.
Fuck them. If you attack me, I will do everything in my power to make sure you never breathe again.
Lesson: Dont attack people unprovoked.
I get why defense is doing it this way (make him seem like he’s being bullied by the pros), but I wish they had coached him to push back on some of the ridiculous anti-2A bullshit the pros was spouting. A clear answer saying “I felt the need to be armed in case things got out of control, but I expected to be putting out dumpster fires and bandaging up cuts and scrapes” would’ve taken the wind our of pros’s sails.
I agree and what you mention is not only true but resonates with people.
The reality is that a witness chair is a tough spot to be and trying to remember talking points while trying to remain genuine is tough.
This young man did very well on the stand. The prosecutors were trying to trip him up and say something “mean” and he never did.
One of the central tenets of leftism, as it now stands, is Victimism. Someone, somewhere, has to be a victim, and that requires a victimized. Screaming about “White Men” absolves much of the progressive stack. And those it doesn’t absolve are required to debase themselves.
you have to still give the attacker some chance to kill you or medically help them.
I’ve been trained to do no such thing. It only increases your legal exposure, but civil and criminal. You have no duty to do so, and little capability unless you a trauma-trained medic of some kind.
If I drop an attacker, my first call is to 911 to report what happened. My second call is to my lawyer. In that order, because calling your lawyer first is a very bad look.
As soon as I see the cops coming, I clear my weapon and put it out of arms reach. I know I will be arrested, and I will be “cooperative”.
Asa buddy that played D&D told me: He likes playing Paladins in the game because of the challenge, but in real life, where there are no resurrection rules, he thinks that doing that stuff is idiotic.
‘If Rittenhouse is convicted, he will likely stop being a right-wing mascot and become a right-wing martyr. If he isn’t convicted, he will set a precedent for others like him to pick up guns they shouldn’t have and thrust themselves into the middle of unrest they should avoid — confident in knowing that prison won’t be in their future.’
Sure, sure. There’s thousands of bloodthirsty right-wing vigilantes just waiting to murder icky leftist once the appropriate dog whistle has been heard.
*Reads rest of article*
White people are evil, got it.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
Lots and lots of lefties conveniently forgetting, for the time being at least we have freedom of movement in this country. Kid can be in any damn city or state he wishes, without having to answer to you or anyone else.
The insane left is radicalizing the right. The number of conservatives i hear who are wholly black pilled and just biding their time until the shooting begins is horrifying. I would guess that there are multiple millions of them who won’t take the first shot, but will gladly take the 2nd and 3rd and 4th and 5th and 6th, etc.
Maybe it’s just the people I pay attention to. Maybe it’s just bluster. However, the idea that a large segment of conservatism would declare the country lost and speak of armed conflict as inevitable would’ve been laughable in 2019.
Sorry, forgot the punchline. Your average conservative recognizes the miscarriage of Justice that is this trial. No matter the outcome, Rittenhouse shouldn’t have been tried in the first place, and a guilty verdict would stick the fork in the judicial system for a lot of them. The fact that the left is leaning their weight on the judge and jurors is absolutely radicalizing more conservatives who were moderate before the trial.
However, the idea that a large segment of conservatism would declare the country lost and speak of armed conflict as inevitable would’ve been laughable in 2019.
I won’t say I’m rooting for any armed conflict. But, I am increasingly an advocate of “national divorce” or secession, precisely because I see it as the only potentially peaceful alternative to an armed conflict.
There is no way Democrats will peacefully ditch their golden goose. Notice, even with Civil War 1.0, the Democrats already seceded peacefully and then shot at American troops.
Unless you want to keep fighting these Commies in America every day, they have to go. I personally would give them a choice to leave for Communist China or Cuba. I would pay their share of the national debt just so they leave peacefully. That wont happen, so there will be blood.
All they have to do is follow the rules and limitations of the US Constitution or get enough support to change the rules and they refuse to do that.
already seceded peacefully and then shot at American troops.
The history is slightly more nuanced than that. And todays Dems are no the Dems of the 1860s. But you knew that.
Enlighten me on how history is different than what I said about secession and shooting first? The CSA could have worked on compensation for federal forts and property to be turned over. The CSA demanded federal troops abandon the US forts.
The CSA could have lived in peace but chose not to. History shows that Democrats were trying to force Abraham Lincoln’s hand to give the Confederacy what they wanted. More Americans didnt want slavery and the Confederacy couldnt convince them that slavery was good. So the Democrats shot at Fort Sumter. FIRST SHOT.
Todays Democrats have slavers, slaves, useful idiots, and the determination that if you dont do it their way, they will burn it all down.
The more “nuanced” version of events is that seven of the most southern states held state conventions and voted to secede from the Union they had joined voluntarily, and presumed they could leave voluntarily. They formed a new government, the Confederate States of America (CSA). All these occurred without a shot being fired.
About two months later, Lincoln ordered a Union held fort in CSA territory to be resupplied. The southerners viewed this as act of war and opened fire. Lincoln, refusing to recognize the legitimacy of this government, declared the CSA to be Union states in rebellion, and started mustering troops to put down the rebels.
Perceiving this as an act of war, four more states seceded from the Union and joined the CSA.
Then a lot of people died or were maimed in the war Lincoln chose to start.
Civil War 2.0 is here whether you are ready or not. Be glad that American patriots are ready to fight. Defending yourself, your property, and your way of life is not radical. Non-Lefties dont want Civil War 2.0. What choice is there? Soap box, ballot box, ammo box.
As with Civil War 1.0, the shooting didnt start immediately. Democrats always make sure that Patriots have the moral high ground because they attack first.
America is lost unless Americans does something quick to take it back. Democrats openly admitted to stealing an election. When is enough enough for you?
Otherwise, Civil War 2.0 must play out and Democrats wont like the outcome of this Civil War either.
The local battles have begun, with victories.
*points to school boards*
I’ve got some optimism left in me.
You might be correct that Civil War 2.0 will be resolved at school board meetings and Democrats losing elections around the USA.
I personally, dont think evil shits like Pelosi, AOC, Cheney, Brennan, Comey, McCabe are going to give up that easily.
Some on the dissident right are so blackpilled they kind of resent recent victories because they don’t want anyone to have hope for voting their way out of this. For my part, I’m going to keep voting until I can’t.
Waffles: I see that from some people too. I cant be too harsh on them because lefties will never stop trying to destroy America. Part of me thinks that the sooner we get the bloodletting over with the quicker we can move on. Recovery from civil wars can take decades.
I want a peaceful resolution too but the window for that is closing. Im still voting and dissenting but ready for violent war.
Historically, the Patriots of the Revolutionary War also tried and tried with King George and waited years before that war began with the shooting. American history really is not wanting war but someone else always pushes us too far.
Some on the dissident right are so blackpilled they kind of resent recent victories because they don’t want anyone to have hope for voting their way out of this.
I’m of two minds on that. On one hand, no matter the victories that still occur, the electoral system is hopelessly compromised. “Vote harder, patriots!” doesn’t fix that. On the other hand, just because the electoral system (and the political system behind it) is broken doesn’t mean that they aren’t still able to be leaned on for improvements in the immediate term.
Cutting to the conclusion, this is why I’m in camp withdraw. I don’t think the effort required to get the political system to respect our God given rights is worth it. I also don’t think that planning for some armed conflict that may or may not happen in the next decade is worth it. The best move, in my estimation, is to surround myself with people who think and live like me and purge the toxic mainstream culture from our lives.
That toxic Lefty culture will keep coming. They need converts and enemies.
Honestly, its like religious organizations. They need converts and enemies.
Civil War 2.0 will be resolved at school board meetings and Democrats losing elections around the USA.
I find the idea that being ruled by the Red fundraising wing of the uniparty will be the solution to our problems . . . unconvincing.
Well, don’t fundraise, run for your local school board or city council or whatever base level of politics is in your part of the world.
Thats the reason that I dont give politicians money.
I have advocated for years that the best way to fight the Uniparty is to run for office as Libertarian/Republican/Whatever and get the corrupt Uniparty politicians out of office. Honestly, its the only way Libertarians will be taken seriously.
Otherwise youre voting between bad and worse.
Red fundraising wing = Republican Party.
Depending on how you count, it took the Marxists 50 years to capture the Blue fundraising wing of the uniparty. I don’t think we have that kind of time.
I once read someone somewhere who made a really good point in response to some SJW who said Trump had turned her (the someone) into a radical. She said “Trump never radicalized my. The Left radicalized me”.
The insane left is radicalizing the right.
Feature, not bug.
That has to be one of the most mendacious articles I have read in a long time. TMITE indeed.
The author is a college professor to boot.
We witnessed tears of the oppressive white man.
In reality though, that young man did very well on the stand. He should have said “self-defense” MORE but he got the point across that he didnt want to shoot anyone and didnt shoot anyone. He shot those that attacked him, were trying to hurt him and take his weapon away, and were a threat to his life.
Commies dont like that many Americans wont have any sympathy for them getting shot dead.
Scottsdale School Board Member Publicized Parents’ Social Security Numbers, Divorce Proceedings, Financial Records In Effort To Track Outspoken Parents – if you have nothing to hide you have no problem with this stuff being publicized
Maybe Suthen is right. They hate you and they want you to die.
they hate you but they want you to submit and live like a serf, not die
They need people to do the icky work…
A soundtrack for them (definitely not for you Festus)… NSFW.
Needs more Anarchy Burger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuiHI0-z3c
And they want your children to be raped
https://mobile.twitter.com/taradublinrocks/status/1458585609274941441
Twitter is Goddamn cancer.
Maybe. But I found a few glibs and glib-adjacents there and now have a 90% fun time on twitter. Even though left-twitter is huge and most of twitter I only come across it in glancing and mocking ways. I am also wasting my life on that hellsite, so there’s that.
The thing Lefties hate the most is being ignored. They cant spread their lying nonsense if you ignore them.
Lefties only “ban” people like Trump for so long because they need non-Lefties to engage them.
The reason that Commies in America are scared right now is because they have no idea what average non-Lefty Americans are talking about and planning. Non-Lefty Americans have mostly learned their lesson and its why they are the Silent Majority.
Well the bubbles are now far more cocooned and isolated. That’s for sure. I don’t engage with them but I do fancy myself an amateur kremlinologist.
Nah. Progressive thought is goddamn cancer. Twitter is just the transmission agent.
Yes and no. It is just a medium. But, it’s a medium that has proven to reward and encourage the worst of progressive instincts. It provides a veil of relative anonymity and approval for the most sociopathic of leftist commentary while silencing pushback. In a civilized time and place, the Tara Dublins of the world would refrain from wishing prison rape on a 18-year-old boy, if nothing else than out of fear of the consequences. On Twitter, they get a bunch of likes and “you go, grrrl”
Sadly Festus, I am right. They have nothing but seething hatred and contempt for us irredeemables. They hate the ideas this country is founded on and anyone who subscribes to those ideas.
Lefties are desperate, so they even hate those that try to remain neutral and dont pick a side.
Its typical for most to stay out of conflict. Only a small percentage of Colonists actively picked a side during the Revolutionary War.
Huh. I wonder what other Soviet tactics they are going to employ.
Is Manchin about to tank the reconciliation bill over inflation? – inflation is a right wing myth
“Is Manchin about to tank the reconciliation bill over inflation?”
I sure hope he does. We are facing some real though shit because of the current inflation scenario – happening by design because people that want government to pick winners & losers need to undo all the economic growth done under bad orange man so they can keep telling us they can’t do anything to lower prices of anything bleeding those not comfortably earning more pay – and if they do even more of the marxist shit this bill is intended to push to completely reverse any history of economic growth from before, we are going to be seeing times that make the crap of the 70s look like child’s play.
Does “cooperate and comply” translate to” ventilate?’
They probably just need your stuff more than you do, Citizen.
cooperate and comply with their demands. Be good citizens.
I take this as a direct admission as how the state thinks the serfs should react to the state’s use of force.
Don’t you get that if the serf does what [fill in one of 57 sexes] has been told to do, there is no need for violence, and we get utopia?
It’s the same advice given in regards to hijackers before Flight 93.
So good citizens cooperate with criminals? When did that change?
When the criminals got elected to positions of power?
Victimhood = good.
Therefore good citizen = victim citizen.
It’s like you don’t even transitive property.
The Commie elite in America will make sure all Americans are criminals, so problem solved.
It’s insane.
Emphasis added.
Friend Computer agrees!
Is Paranoia! the best RPG or really, really, really the best RPG?
I remember that game. I never played it but it always intrigued me.
Back when I used to go to Origins, one of the big events there was Mega Paranoia. They did a LARP with over 100 slots open for players, one of the creators as the head GM (and several assistants running around), and unlimited clones. Everyone had their mutant power, secret society (and signals to meet up with the others in the society), secret goals, and public goals. All handed out with pre-made characters. It also usually took place right around the corner from the Big Bar on 2.
They even gave out prizes. I won for most deaths one year when I managed to have machine empathy as my mutant power.
I was reading that as some sort of false flag operation intended to nudge the voters to stop re-electing criminal-friendly DA’s in a landslide.
*knuckles rhywun’s chin, smiles fondly*
Silly kid.
LAPD Advises City Residents to ‘Cooperate and Comply’ with Robbers
I mean this is common sens. Don’t be a hero and you’ll be safe.
This is how you get vigilantism and complete and total disdain and disengagement from government. Maybe team blue is trying to teach people to stop depending on government even if they don’t understand that is what they are doing? I bet gun sales in LA are gonna go up.
I think we know how this ends.
Anything with Gary Busey is automatically awesome.
Lions, and tiger, and bears. oh, my
Does this mean they’re going to try to make Death Wish again?
For real..
Starring Bernhard Goetz.
Make Subways Great Again!
Is that the point of those shitty new commercials?
Heh. They should roll out a campaign featuring Bernie. Can’t be worse than Jared.
The point of those commercials is to justify why you should spend around $10 or more for a foot long of what UCS has eloquently described as “distilled disappointment”.
“We use better ingredients now!”
Your ingredients are still mostly shit. Bring back the $5 foot long or get out of my face.
Fun Subway story. The first year I lived in Madison, WI there was a Subway on the first floor of my apartment building. Within a week I had filled up my card and got a free sub. And that was the last time I ate there.
About a week and you are entirely sick of Subway.
Who greenlit Megan Rapinoe as a spokesperson? Seems like a really poor decision. On the plus side, I’ve only seen her commercial once.
Cue up Charles Bronson movies and how popular they were.
White guy gunning down black criminals and the audience cheering.
I’ll simp for Megan Kelly until the cows come home. Red-pilled, she is! Plus she’s really purty.
Example the First – https://youtu.be/3PpAN5P5IBQ
Cooperate and comply might equate to good advice if you don’t have a gun but it doesn’t equate to being a good citizen at all. So what, if you fight back and get popped it’s sort of your fault? The balls on these fucking people.
See Rittenhouse trial for your answer…
Commies in America have a huge problem. Americans by and large dont want to look the other way and let criminals steal from them.
Commie nations depend on citizens letting the criminal elite steal from them.
Cooperation and compliance is often the best option, if your goal is surviving uninjured. But let’s not forget that a lot of criminals ain’t really in it for the money. They’re robbing people because they like to dominate and hurt people weaker than themselves. The money is a bonus.
Complying with a process predator will get you some combination of beaten, raped, and killed.
“NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney concedes to truck driver Edward Durr”
So what mobster made sure Durr knew he would now be expected to do whatever Sweeney tells him he should, when he is told to do what the crime syndicate running that state does what it does?
Jimmy Hoffa?
It wasn’t just the 5th amendment thing. That was bad enough and the judge gently reprimanded Binger for it. The thing that sent the judge ballistic was that he tried to introduce evidence that had been specifically excluded in a pretrial motion. Rittenhouse had said months earlier he wished he had his AR to stop some alleged thieves. He was just talking out his ass and of course that was excluded. If that evidence were allowed in, then anytime anyone made a stupid comment on a stupid message board about woodchippers and federal agents, that would be proof of their violent inclinations in a trial.
Binger flat out ignored the order and the judge lost it. It was three gross acts of misconduct within an hour of each other and the judge had enough. Binger also lied to the court about something else as well. He wanted to use the “pinch and zoom” feature on an ipad to prove that a video showed something. He promised that it didn’t alter the picture in anyway, which is of course untrue as the device adds pixels to compensate for the zoom. The judge didn’t know enough, but smartly said Binger wound need an expert to say it’s fine and the issue was dropped.
I hope it gets tossed for misconduct. The true believers won’t accept a not guilty from a jury anyway. Binger has been a slimball to an insane degree all trial. His arguments are so disingenuous and he’s so smug…I could say what I think should happen to him but we know what happens when you do that.
The prosecution is trying for a mistrial without prejudice in order to get another shot at the case is my belief. I don’t see the judge torpedoing the case though. Considering the ridiculous amount of misinfo the media is putting out there he’d be likely to end up with rioters on his front lawn. Intimidation tactics work unfortunately.
The defenses was citing case law they clearly looked up after the lunch break when they announced they’d be bringing a motion for mistrial. If the prosecution intentionally provokes a mistrial, it’s dismissed with prejudice so cannot be re brought.
The funny thing is, if the case law cited was correct (and they did look it up quickly so they might be wrong) the conditions have been met. It has to be 1) intentional, which two 5th amendment and going into evidence you know is excluded is obvious and 2) done to damage the defense or force mistrial. The judge, on the record, has said he doesn’t believe Binger was acting in good faith. That was the big part of the blow up. That is officially on the record. To me, that meets part 2, so by case law it should be gone.
How much is the prosecutor being paid to provoke more rioting? Is the check directly from Soros, or going through #BLM?
One conspiracy theory is the prosecutor is trying to get a mistrial with prejudice. He knows it is a losing case, but if the judge declares the mistrial, he gets the blame instead of the prosecutor.
I think that is insane, a mistrial with prejudice does not look good on the prosecutor’s record.
Does not look good to people who live in the real world. The woke world is a different story.
It doesn’t help that “peaceful protestors” have been following the jurors and threatening them with bodily harm if they don’t ” Vote Right!”
I don’t think intimidation would get far with that judge.
The prosecution is trying for a mistrial without prejudice in order to get another shot at the case
I don’t see what there is to gain from their prospective. The facts will remain the same and Kyle will then have experience on the stand.
Rittenhouse shouldnt want a mistrial. He has a really great chance of being acquitted and then never have charges brought against him again.
A mistrial would give the state multiple attempts at getting a conviction. They messed up this trial and could possibly fix that on retrial.
This. The best outcome here is that the trial continues till the end, Rittenhouse is acquitted on all charges with the state’s apologies, that slimy DA and his team are post-actively held in contempt by the judge for their conduct at the trial, they lose their jobs and are disbarred, and are sued civilly by Kyle and follow the Nifong trajectory for a couple decades.
Note that I said “best outcome” — I don’t believe one bit of this will happen except the trial concluding in the traditional way.
Mistrial with prejudice means Rittenhouse cannot be tried again.
Yes, but more important in my mind is, mistrial with prejudice will give many the impression that “he could have been convicted, if the prosecution hadn’t committed some sort of procedural error”.
No, I want full acquittal, so it’s very very clear, in this country, the right to defend ourselves is unalienable.
It’s the same way I feel about suits against the jab mandate. They all revolve around contract language and bargaining agreements and religious exemptions. I’ll take whatever I can get, but I really would like to see the lawsuits that state bluntly “It’s illegal, it’s unethical, it’s unenforceable, and in this country we don’t entertain garbage like this”.
No, I want full acquittal, so it’s very very clear, in this country, the right to defend ourselves is unalienable.
I don’t think that will matter to many people. I’m certain there are still lots of folks that think Zimmerman was in the wrong.
I agree with you both DEG and RC Dean, I would put a huge chunk of money on the “compromise verdict”. It’s just my frustration with the timidity in this country against what’s a pretty tiny but vocal minority. I don’t want my right temporarily upheld by some squirrelly technicality, I want the mother of all bitch slaps to be delivered to the abusers with a deafening “NO!” screamed right in their faces.
The kind of slap that puts these ideas out of commission for a few generations yet to come. The frustration comes from knowing it ain’t happening, and I’m as much to blame as anyone else.
Not gonna happen. The only thing that shuts up religious fanatics for generations is being drowned in an ocean of blood.
ignoreLander, I’d like to see an acquittal too, but I just don’t think it’s going to have the effect that you think it will.
It’s just my frustration with the timidity in this country against what’s a pretty tiny but vocal minority.
I agree with you here too.
No, I want full acquittal,
As do I, but I will be shocked if that’s the result. This begs for a compromise verdict, especially from a jury fearful of more rioting, if not of violence directed at them and their families.
I am far less concerned with the optics of a directed verdict, which I think would be the right result. The DemOp propaganda machine will spin any acquittal regardless. Fuck them, and don’t do anything because you think it will make them behave like anything other than what they are.
I hope he ends up in the same bankruptcy court alongside Nifong.
Crenshaw correctly points out that idiocy like this permeates the reformed Obama created top military brass cadre of fucking idiots and is insane. I am now investing some time into improving my broken Mandarin so I can do a proper John Cena apology when they make us all their bitchez.
Russian’s where it’s at and the women are prettier too. Now to find a nice track suit so I can fit in.
+1 Adidas Squat
If I tried that I would probably do a Biden. Gettin’ old ain’t easy.
I like how them ladies of the orient whine when you are working them…
It’s weird. Is it something that is passed down through the generations like skip-rope cadences?
Have not banged a mom and daughter pair in that demographic yet, so can’t substantiate your hypothesis Festus.
+1 sportsman’s double
The system that creates the top level leadership in the military has been broken and corrupt for a long time. Obama just added a gloss to that. As for the MIC flunkies on the civilian side, that’s a different problem.
Obama didn’t create Colin Powell or John McCain.
I don’t understand how the right can have any nostalgia for the George W. Bush era. Cynical exploitation of patriotism, laundering of bullshit intelligence to start wars, massive entitlement expansions, ballooning of government spending and employment, doubling down on the public education system; the list of ways in which the GWB administration was just the “conservative” face to make the progressive pill easier to swallow is staggering.
Now he pals around with the people who mocked and laughed at him like a schmuck. Neocons are two-faced mooks.
Fair point, but we didn’t have runaway inflation, mask mandates, and CRT in the elementary schools back in those days.
The price of gas more than doubled from 2001 to 2008, though most consumer prices did not rise that much.
And, for what it’s worth, the reason CRT wasn’t being applied to K-12 nearly as heavily then was because it had only just begun promulgating in the education departments. Ladson-Billings wrote her “seminal” paper in 1995. By 2001, the most avant-garde schools of pedagogy would have begun incorporating it, but by 2008 it was de rigeur at any “reputable” school. Add another 3-5 years for those teachers-to-be to become teachers and you see it manifest in the schools around the mid-Obama years. Nice coincidence, that, but it doesn’t change the fact that it was already stewing while Bush was signing the union handout known as NCLB.
It’s also worth noting that there’s essentially “light” CRT which more closely aligns with the original “thesis”, and reflects what was already begun by 2016, and then there’s “heavy” CRT, which tracks closer to the general retardation and wokification of the mainstream left discourse, enough so that it percolated up to normies. The tumblrification of politics was an acceleration of a lot of these things in the late 2010s, but the ground was already fertile.
Bush was bad but Gore would have been worse.
The key is that more and more Americans know that we need to avoid NeoCons like Bush AND Commies like Gore.
Now he pals around with the people who mocked and laughed at him like a schmuck.
That’s what I honestly just don’t get. I mean, I get that he was never particularly conservative, just as you say, a conservative coating on the progressive pill. But, it’s not like the guy’s got a political future to worry about. He’s gone as far as you can go. If it’s money, he can easily go the Jerry Ford route and quietly sit on whatever corporate boards he needs to keep the money rolling in. But, going out and sucking up to people who talked about you and treated you like a piece of crap does exactly what for you? The family legacy? This stuff has only diminished the Bush name with the people (Republicans/conservatives) who might vote for a Bush in the future. The people whose rear ends he’s kissing certainly won’t.
You’d think he’d want to preserve some modicum of self-respect or dignity.
But, going out and sucking up to people who talked about you and treated you like a piece of crap does exactly what for you? The family legacy? This stuff has only diminished the Bush name with the people (Republicans/conservatives) who might vote for a Bush in the future. The people whose rear ends he’s kissing certainly won’t.
Those are his people. He’s not here in Dallas slumming it with the average Joes. He’s living in a mansion in a wealthy, progressive neighborhood, headlining dinners with wealthy elites, attending galas, and making speaking fees off of think tank conferences. He doesn’t give a second’s thought to the rabble who voted for him, I’m sure.
Those are his people.
Precisely. Its a ruling class (that he is a member of), with a uniparty front for political cover. The two fundraising wings are in no way “enemies” of each other, and are mostly “opponents” on selected issues (that never get resolved, BTW) because they are proven fundraising hooks for the rubes. In fact, the fundraising wings are mutually dependent, joined at the hip. Neither could accomplish anything without the other.
Exactly. GWB was a legacy Bush and his brother Jeb Bush was supposed to be the same.
These elites think they are best educated and bread to lead America.
GWB went after Trump because his election stood for dismissing of the elites from US politics and Trump starting to dismantle the bureaucrat machine that the Bush’s spent decades helping to build.
Neo-cons fundamentally differ from many Americans because they advocate intervention in foreign affairs without concern for consequences to American interests and our future. There is also a religious nut part where some Neo-cons want America in an endless religious war against Muslims.
I get your point. That was why I said that I understood that he was just a conservative coating on a progressive pill. What I’m talking about is more personal. I don’t care if you’re “my people” or not. If you’re spending years calling me a Nazi, trashing my family, wishing death on me, etc., I’m going to take that personally. Maybe I won’t seek out any sort of vengeance. But, I’m sure as hell not going to be inviting you to Sunday dinner.
And let’s not kid ourselves, George Bush’s life in Dallas wouldn’t be one iota different if he didn’t suck up to the progressives, if he simply went the Gerald Ford route and retired from public view. He’d still live in the same, nice, tony section of Dallas. He’d still get into all the same clubs. He’d still be collecting those same speaking fees. And, politically (because I have no doubt that matters tremendously to families like the Bushes), his family would be in a better position for future races without W. making a spectacle of kissing progressive rear end.
I bet Bush, Jerry Jones, and Mark Cuban all live on the same street.
John Cleese ‘blacklists himself’ from Cambridge Union as historian banned for Hitler impression
https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2021-11-10/john-cleese-lacklists-himself-from-cambridge-union-over-hitler-impression-row
His comments came after a backlash over art critic and historian Andrew Graham-Dixon’s impression of the German dictator.
The incident occurred on November 4 during a debate on the motion: “This house believes there is no such thing as good taste”.
Cambridge Union president Keir Bradwell said the remarks made by Mr Graham-Dixon were “grotesque” and apologised for his lack of intervention at the time.
The Cambridge Union… “remains a unique forum for the free exchange of ideas and the art of public debate.”
For some values of “free”.
“Free to be you and me” RIP Marlo.
+every grade school music class
But he didn’t play Hitler. He played Mr. Badolf Hilter
“He’s right, you know.”
Additional topic:
ATF raids Lake of the Ozarks gun store, confiscates all firearms
Another federal agency that can be completely shut down and all agents fired.
I would be shocked at any gun store owner who didnt know federal unconstitutional firearms laws better than the ATF. The Commies in govt will do anything to go after law abiding firearm owners and sellers with no real repercussions for violating the constitutional rights of this store owner.
“ LAPD Advises City Residents to ‘Cooperate and Comply’ with Robbers”
+1 lowered expectation
“LAPD clarifies: by “robbers”, we meant the CA tax collectors.”
Fire Monkey 99
@FireMonkey993
Replying to
@patrick_perring
and
@JohnCleese
John Cleese is funny but out of touch with the current state of the world.
John Cleese
@JohnCleese
And since the world is going more and more insane, being out of touch is an ideal position, if one is to keep one’s sanity
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1458673144139505666
this was supposed to be an answer to my previous john cleese thing
Yeah, I don’t want to be “in touch” with any of the recent craziness either.
Yep, the recent craziness is what happens when devotion is taken from religion and applied elsewhere.
Wokefication of science:
“Astronomers expect that the galactic center is an important source of cosmic rays. These are protons and nuclei that have been stripped of electrons and accelerated to relativistic speeds by powerful magnetic fields. There are a number of objects in the galactic center that could act as cosmic ray accelerators: supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and the supermassive hole at the Milky Way’s heart, Sagittarius A*.”
Anyone see the word missing here to describe a black hole?
We already know what’s at the center of the galaxy.
White holes theoretically could exist and black holes almost definitely do. Removing black from the hole robs it of all its descriptive power. What dreck.
Pathetic.
Ugh. I am sick as a dog today/last night. It started as a bad headache—strange for me as I rarely get headaches.
By the evening, it was pain in my joints, pain in the muscles of my lower back, fever, fatigue. I went to bed at 6pm, and aside from trips to the bathroom, have been in bed ever since.
I don’t know what this is, but I’m not a fan. COVID-19? If so, then my vaccination was useless (aside from being my ticket to continue working).
/self-pity party
Test and treat. Quickly.
I might get tested.
It’d be nice if a positive Covid test meant I would be exempt from boosters, but the feds seem bound and determined to make the cycle endless.
No wonder the CDC cards have so many blanks. They knew it would exceed two shots all along.
100%. Ivermectin immediately + zinc, vitamin C, and jam some vitamin D – or hang out outside for 20-30 minutes a day without covering arms/face). Don’t know what the current state of getting a prescription nor having it filled is; I got a years supply (at human dosage) of the the liquid version (not the horse dewormer paste, I ain’t no Joe Rogan) middle of last year, specifically Noromectin. Still available at Amazon, though about 2-3 times more expensive than when I bought it! Took it at the FLCCC dosing within 2 days of feeling something like what I thought might be COVID and was fine within a week with minimal illness. The only reason I think it was COVID was that I completely lost my sense of smell for ~3 days, without any congestion, coughing/stuffiness, etc. Entirely possible I would have been fine without it as I’m pretty good with my overall immune system, but I’m pretty sure it’s no harm even if not effective. But I think it is effective.
Looks outside at drizzly gray weather (41°).
I don’t think hanging out with no hat or sleeves is going to be good for you.
Get some horse dewormer?
Sounds awful, maybe flu? Hope it is short-lived.
Me too. Sucks that it’s on a four day weekend, but there it is.
I would start with a large quantity of vit D if you don’t have a reason to avoid it, 50k UI or so
Should be good for cov, flu, cold etc
I would say 10g of intravenous vit C if you can get it but that is more difficult
I just chugged 5x 10k UI vitamin D. I’ve been sucking on Zinc + vitamin C rapid melts. I had been tipped to the magic of Zinc rapid melts for shortening cold years before the Covid crap, so I’m a believer.
So far no respiratory distress; I’ll keep checking my blood ox meter for an objective look.
I couldn’t find human dose ivermectin anywhere.
Thanks for the advice and well wishes. I don’t understand why it’s making my joints so sore…
Inflammatory response. I hope you feel better soon!
Add quinine to your zinc intake.
I couldn’t find human dose ivermectin anywhere.
Well, I got the veterinary ‘grade’ stuff, noromectin, and adjusted dose based on FLCCC recommendations and the concentration of the Noromectin. Did research all the components and there’s nothing there that poses any danger to humans. And I haven’t grown any extra limbs or anything. Yet. Didn’t even try to get a prescription since I haven’t seen a dr. in… over 30 years? Cept, when I had to go to get a referral to get the 1/2 century Chimney Sweep.
And I haven’t grown any extra limbs or anything. Yet.
Disappointing.
There are many telemetry doctors who will prescribe ivermectin and provide a pharmacy that t will deliver. Google them or try flccc.com IIRC
Get tested quick. I bought two home tests for $25 at Walgreens.
Don’t wait around until you get real sick. The earlier you treat covid the better.
Don’t delay and take a chance of being hospitalized. The hospitals make bank off of ventilated covid patients and the independent covid Dr.s are saying that ventilators are what’s killing many hospitalized covid patients.
Don’t forget Quercetin (that’s what helps the zinc and D do it’s work… or so I’ve read), also NAC, and Glutathione. Seriously, get these now.
And drink water till it hurts…
GET BETTER SOON.
Being sick sucks. I enjoyed being able to loudly complain about it. I think our vaccine (J&J) is mostly useless, just like the masks and social distancing.
I hope you get some good rest and quickly feel better.
Definitely get a COVID test so you know what you’re up against. Around here you can schedule a free drive-up test at Walgreens and you get the results in an hour. Or you could get a test from a doctor or urgent care.
The really dangerous part is lung issues, so if you have a cough or shortness of breath, get in to see a doctor so you can get steroids and antibiotics to prevent pneumonia.
I’m watching the lung capacity and Ox saturation. If it drops, I’m going in.
Sorry. I hope you get well soon.
Well… just submitted documentation for my “religious” exemption appeal. I noticed that this time they didn’t ask me what accommodations I was requesting. And the questions were slightly different then the first one (this one asked how long I’ve had my beliefs).
“Since birth asshole!”
Nah. I was honest, over 25 years.
In fairness, I was a Roman Catholic Republican before becoming an Agnostic libertarian.
When I enlisted in the Marines, the Sgt asked me what my religion was and I said “none”. He asked me if I had ever been baptized and I said I had been as a Catholic, so he put that into my file. I didn’t realize what he had done at the time.
When I got to boot camp they called out the Catholics for some special service one evening and my name was called. So I went because it was better than sitting in the squad bay polishing boots.
I was in boot camp during Easter and there were at least a half dozen or so special services for various saints and what not. I didn’t care, I loved it. You got to sit quietly in a pew and no DI was screaming at you.
DI: Private Jimbo why are you looking at me like you are liking me?
Jimbo: erm…
DI: Private Jimbo you know that liking leads to lovin, and loving leads to fucking…
Jimbo: wut?
DI: Private Jimbo you aren’t trying to fuck me now are you? GET DOWN AND GIVE ME 50!
Pulllleeeeeaze!
I was Recruit Jimbo. At Marine Corps Recruit Depot – San Diego we weren’t allowed to call ourselves privates because we weren’t Marines yet.
The Women Marines at Parris Island got to call themselves privates though. But C’mon Man! Do I look like some chump who would go to Parris Island?
Also it would have been “SIR! erm. SIR!”
You got me there, Marine.
GET DOWN AND GIVE ME 50!
Same as downtown.
I had “Zen Nihilist” put on a set of dog-tags when I was in the Army
because I’m a smart-ass. The older I get the more reasonable it seems.
I created a set of dog tags for me one night that had “None” in place for religion. It was when I had the overnight firewatch at the squadron HQ. The dog tag machine was sitting there. In addition to the None tags, a lot of very juvenile tags might also have been created.
Good luck with that. I never imagined a day would come where official permission was required in order to earn a living.
Uh, only since 1875 or so… the Slaughterhouse cases.
(this one asked how long I’ve had my beliefs).
“This should be irrelevant to your analysis of my exemption request, as the Supreme Court and the EEOC have made clear that even recent beliefs are protected. However, requiring me to burden myself by writing responses to clearly irrelevant questions feels an awful lot like retaliation. I hereby request that you stop your retaliation or else I will report your retaliatory behavior to the appropriate authorities.”
TUCKER CARLSON: “A rapist called Joseph Rosenbaum was released from a mental hospital and then went directly to join the mob that was burning downtown Kenosha… Rosenbaum died as he had lived, trying to touch an unwilling minor.”
Tucker coming off the top rope with style.
He’s a loon sometimes but I listen to his show at the small site. Get’s me revved up.
As Mark Dice says, he was the poor man’s Jeffrey Epstein (except he sort of did kill himself).
I’ve been watching Tucker clips a little more lately. I have to admin he’s pretty good at crafting those rants.
Here we are on fucking Remembrance Day. Fully 85% of our civilization forgot what “Freedom” means. No, I did not buy a poppy this year.
The hills are alive
https://pasteboard.co/0LWbTLVtFIl9.jpg
(I don’t know what the bears this far south do for hibernation, but I’m hoping to see one – at a safe distance – while I’m here. They have visited the house in the past)
Be careful what you wish for. We had a 500 hundred pounder sleeping under the Ash tree on Monday night.
Damn, didn’t know Kanook ladies go that heavy…
Festus needs to learn how to fine tune his roofie dosage. She shouldn’t pass out on your property. She should still be ambulatory enough to get into the uber and go home even if she is still out of it.
Wow! /drools
Purty!
WOW. SUCH INTENSE COLOR.
That looks so good.
Nice.
Wow, all our leaves are pretty much down.
This year all the different trees turned at different times so it wasn’t a great year for looking at leaves.
are you in my Backyard? bears,deer and Color, coming to a neighborhood near you!
Mark Dice video on the Rittenhouse stuff:
https://youtu.be/OQkQGyQwRus
I’m not sure if the various clips are fresh or from back when it happened but man oh man, if he’s acquitted he’s going to be rich.
Sailors often used tattoos of the Pig and Rooster in the hope it would keep them safe during a shipwreck as animals wooden crates often washed ashore. If placed on the knees it would mean “Pig on the knee, safety at sea. A cock on the right, never lose a fight.”
https://twitter.com/manoghosts/status/1458763572696256519
Rittenhouse Judge slams prosecution for trying to use his 5th amendment right against him.
That prosecutor needs to be
tarred and feathereddisbarred after this clown show is over. At least the judge has stones. But it might not be enough to avoid the Chauvin treatment unless he has balls of steel.Meanwhile everyone else pays for milk price increase from donated milk. Because we all know or should know that the milk producer will always pass on that donation cost to the consumers paying for milk.
Its why I dont donate for some cause at the grocery store or any corporation where I am shopping. The company gets to write off the donation in one lump sum and it appears that the company is the generous party when it was really a whole bunch of little donations by customers.
Just donate directly to the cause of your choice.
✔️ NO THANKS
One exemption, if you’re using Amazon, use smile.amazon.com instead. Same price, but 0.5% of your purchases go to the charity of your choice. It’s not a lot, but at least the small amount is going to the Institute for Justice for me.
That would be different since Amazon might not be pooling the donations and passing them off as “their” donations. Im not a corporate accountant but I have this feeling that all donations that pass through corporate accounting dept get sent out every quarter or so and the corporation gets the credit and tax credit.
Makes sense since what is the incentive for companies otherwise?
Same for Veteran’s Day deals and freebies. The company gets patriotic credit, the veteran gets something, and the company writes off the charity. Fair enough deal but I just want it out in the open.
Oh, I’m pretty sure Amazon is pooling the donations and sending them in as a batch to get the write off. But as it costs me nothing, and I get to pick the charity, I can at least direct some money away from National Alliance for Hispanic Health, Environmental Defense Fund, Ocean Conservancy, Hope For Paws, and American Institute for Cancer Research (the current spotlight charities for me) to something I really want funded.
That’s my impression of the Amazon Smile thing. I think they have an amount they set aside for charitable giving, and spread it around a little by allowing purchasers to select a charity of their choice. I had mine directed to go to the SPCA, back when I was using Amazon a lot. I try to never use it at all now, because f*ck Amazon.
Parents with children enrolled in the Scottsdale Unified School District were appalled when they uncovered that one of the district’s school board members had editing access to a Google Drive that included personal pictures and information on a slew of outspoken parents, including their social security numbers, a divorce proceeding, and financial records.
Grab your ptichforks…
More like “Grab your nerf pistols”.
“Irish Health Minister Sues Van Morrison Over Criticism Of COVID Measures”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/irish-health-minister-sues-van-morrison-over-criticism-covid-measures
I liked the Irish so much better when they were violent, drunk, and surly.
Like the Scots, when they weren’t pro-EU cucks?
Uumm, never? They were always asking the French or someone else for help. Fuck, my people are Scots.
Might have been well before my time.
The Spanish back in the day, fellow Catholics and all.
Semi-relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urIsx9rxZ4U
Is Manchin about to tank the reconciliation bill over inflation?
Hopefully.
Kamala is ridiculed for putting on French accent and talking to scientists ‘as if they’re toddlers’ at COVID lab in Paris on tour to repair relations with Macron and rehabilitate her image
Taking notes from Hillary, I see.
I nicknamed her “Hillary with a tan” years ago. I see she’s still living up to it.
I’m willing to bet that her pant-suit swishing sound is just a little louder.
But does she also carry hot sauce in her purse?
She’s in France, so Grey Poupon.
French’s no less, so it’s authentic.
But of course.
Send in the external visiting committee to determine how tight and well-rounded Thot Thursday’s operations are.
https://archive.md/kDGgy
Just for a bit of fun in the online all hands meeting for my company I threw the notion that countries with 90% vaccination rate like Netherlands and Belgium are having large numbers of cases and increasing deaths. Cue screams of being uneducated and how this is cherry picking. It was like screaming blasphemy in church
The Kung Flu is far closer to something cultish than any kind of science…
It’s worse than “Duck and Cover”.
Low cases in a vaccinated populace, the vaccines work; high cases, we need more vaccines: Makes perfect sense.
It’s hard not to cherry pick when we’re living in an orchard.
Someone with genuine scientific curiosity might begin to wonder if all of these countries with high vaxx rates that see these 6-month downstream “spike in cases” among the vaccinated – and deaths – might be reactions to the vaccination itself, since it merely mimics the virus’ spike protein, rather than giving the body’s immune system an actual copy of the virus to build immunity against. Whatever.
It doesn’t matter. People are going to keep rolling up their sleeves for nothing and taking their chances. I’ll be over here watching the destruction.
The Swedes have conducted probably the best study on long-term effectiveness (for values of long-term applicable to a brand new vaccine). Sebastian Rushworth, a Swedish doctor, summarizes the study here. He seems like a solid guy – he’s looked at studies on a variety of things over the years, with an emphasis on nutrition, and writes up what his take is in accessible posts that seem pretty objective.
So vaccinate everyone, then lock them all down for six months to flatten the curve! If that doesn’t work, rinse, repeat, until you run out of vaccinations or people!
Yeah, but none of that addresses the harms caused by the vaccines themselves AND what that looks like long-term. And that’s at the heart of the problem. All the talk is over “benefits” (short-term) and “efficacy” (short-term) talk with zero discussion allowed about what our friend Bastiat is spinning in his grave over: The Unseen.
That guy Hirsch or Kirsch that someone linked to may be a little too far the other way, but he makes a great point: the signal from VAERS is massive – truly unprecedented – and being covered up and ignored. There is an Under-Reporting Factor (URF) to VAERS and it can be calculated (or at least estimated a number of different ways) to produce some kind of consilience about the URF. Even if that factor is only 5-10 (Kirsch calculates it at 41 using the head CDC scientists own methodology for calculating it), these novel mRNA shots are the deadliest biologics ever attempted – and their long term effects may very well surpass the harms – both deaths and long-term health destruction – of the virus that they’re supposedly ameliorating against.
And that doesn’t even begin to address the harms to people’s rights from the programs to force these on people.
It’s a crime against humanity on a scale that rivals the Nazis – with big chunks of people brainwashed into cheering on their own deaths, that of their neighbors, and of the coming generation.
But yeah, it helps prevent some miniscule portion of the population who is at serious risk from getting sicker.
Risk/benefit has two sides. The Swedish study kicks the props out from under the benefit side. They didn’t study the risk side, but I don’t see any reason to discard the study for that reason. A study on vaccine effectiveness inherently will not look at risks, but needs to be done anyway.
Now, the risk side is absolutely critical for resisting the boosters and the mandates, no question. But a study showing the risks, with no studies showing the (lack of) benefits, isn’t going to get us home, either. Its too easily discarded by saying “Sure, we always knew there were risks. Every treatment and vaccine has risks. We adopt them because of the benefits, and [insert pro-vax propaganda here].”
While I agree with you RC, the fact is that relative risk reduction (RRR) is garbage. I have a paper I’m going to send to you in an email that destroys these efficacy claims – the Stanford study on ARR – absolute risk reduction – vs. RRR. Once you understand that, the whole thing collapses. Fundamentally, there is no “efficacy” to the vaccines. They don’t do any better than the immune system. Not even close. The RRR rates are reliant upon the fact that 99% of the people who are exposed to this have nothing more than mild symptoms in the first place.
Excellent. The Swedish study looks at relative risk reduction of COVID between the vaxxed and the unvaxxed. I’ve wondered about the risk reduction impact when most people are at very low risk from COVID to begin with. A look at the more global risk (the risk to the vaxxed of COVID plus vax side effects, v the risk to the unvaxxed of COVID) would be awesome.
And the confounding factor of, how many people in the vaxxed cohort actually have natural immunity, which would make the vax look better than it really is. I don’t recall if the Swedish study tried to control for that, or even if you could.
Unfortunately, for PR purposes, I think most people are going to grok relative risk reduction more intuitively.
Speaking of “it’s a fucking mystery”.
Highly-vaccinated Vermont has more COVID-19 cases than ever. Why is this happening?
Gaaaa!
National divorce now, before it turns into a shooting war.
The usual suspects on the twits (Joy Ann Ried, Ensign Sulu) are calling the judge a deplorable and a defense witness.
He is harshing their narrative, and they want him punished for that..
This case really makes me think the divide is irreconcilable.
For you.
A CNN guest claims that Kyle Rittenhouse was a beneficiary of “a lot of sympathetic media towards him.”
““If you are being robbed, do not resist the robbery suspects; cooperate and comply with their demands. Be good citizens.”
Fuck you. After shooting the robber dead I hope that near-victim goes and pays the LA mayor a visit.
I have a feeling that the political class telling the serfs to just let the perp fuck them in the ass would immediately sick their private security on the asshole, and if they don’t have a security escort, will demand the police do something about it. Their new orders apply to the serfs, not the elite.
Doesn’t DiFi still have a concealed carry permit? Why yes she does. Of course she really needs one to defend herself against all the Chinese spies she finds in her car.
do not resist the robbery suspects
Interesting choice of words. If they are robbing you, aren’t they just plain old robbers?
Yeah… the stories I’ve read about people cooperating with robbers… the victims getting tortured or the wife raped… co-op is not happening.
Point five on the release says, “If you are being robbed, do not resist the robbery suspects; cooperate and comply with their demands. Be good citizens.”
This should mean ventilate the robber.
Looking for a good history read, and since it’s Veterans/Armistice/Remembrance Day, I have a hankering to read and understand more about WWI. Any recommendations?
“The Guns of August” will give a pretty good overview of the politics.
Fiction but “All’s Quiet on the Western Front” is always a great WWI read.
This. I just finished it and it is a terrific book.
I also enjoyed Dan Carlin’s Blueprint for Armageddon.
I asked for book recommendations awhile back – here are the responses.
Whole lot of generals thinking that ubiquitous machine guns
didn’t require a change of tactics.
A lot of everyone else thinking that if they just push harder
one last push will win the war, and it doesn’t matter how
much it costs because they’ll make the enemy pay for it.
Repeat for three and a half years, and salt with a complete
failure to realize that no matter what there will be serious side
effects.
I’m rather fond of Dreadnought and the follow on Castles of Steel.
Nice overview of how the naval arms race started, drove Britain into alliance with France and ramped up tensions with Germany, setting the stage for the Great War. Then the naval actions up through Jutland — but written in a very readable way.
It’s worth looking into the air war as well. That’s what took us from glorified kites to rudimentary airliners in roughly 30 years. Aerial reconnaissance, bombing, ‘dog fights’,but aerial reconnaissance had the greatest military impact.
Worth noting as well, the only aircraft innovations, as opposed to refinements, that occurred in WW 2 were jet engines and radar (and arguably ground to ground missiles, but that’s pretty borderline for aviation). Heated suits, in-flight serviceable engines, radio (admittedly only air to ground), long distance bombing runs, etc., all appeared in Katherine Great War’. The largest aircraft ever to bomb England flew in WW1. Those became airliners.
Climate change is being caused by *checks notes* kids losing their toys?
https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1458521869339009027
I need to step away for awhile, Dear Friends. This news is breaking me and I have shit in real life that needs done. See ya later!
Later, Festus. Keep ?
I can’t Imagine saying, “Kyle shouldn’t have been there” at this point in time.” You didn’t care that people were burning down parts of your community? The cops did nothing and the Feds were pumping out propaganda through their surrogates in the media calling you white supremacists? This is insanity.
If Kyle shouldn’t have been there neither should have been all the antifa & blm asshats that went there to do early Christmas shopping and follow that up with acts of arson/destruction.
Kyle had a right to be there with a gun just like everyone else. Kyle also had a right to defend himself from theft and bodily injury.
The 1A protects peaceful assembly, so once some people started burning stuff and attacking others unprovoked, their protected right to peacefully assemble ended.
I said it before, I’ll say it again now. Rittenhouse helped exactly bupkis by being there.
He ventilated a known child molester, ended the future criminal aspirations of another, and probably ended a third guy’s future crimes.
That ain’t nothing. I mean, I don’t know what you’ve got on your scoreboard, but that’s not “bupkis.”
I may disagree with him – or anyone – being a “riot tourist,” but that term itself is carrying a whole lot of water for the bad guys.
Sorry, ES, I think you’re a little attached to the “don’t go where there’s trouble and you won’t have any!” narrative.
It’s not like the kid isn’t from that area or has no ties to it – that’s his “backyard.” If people were burning down businesses near me and someone asked for help protecting their livelihood, I fail to see why I would be in the wrong if I “manned up” for a friend’s business and the exact same thing happened to me.
Would I fall into the same category as Rittenhouse?
And why doesn’t your logic apply to the guys who were there burning and rioting? Why is the only person’s agency that maters the kid who was defending himself, rather than the people actually engaged in unlawful violence against others and property??
What Ozy said. He had perfectly good reasons for being there. Shit went sideways when he actively intervened, by himself, to try to put out a fire that had been set already. That was his bad decision. The decision to show up, I can’t fault.
As far as accomplishing bupkis, was the car lot he was (initially) guarding burned like the other two belonging to that company? I don’t think it was, but I’m not sure. If not, then I would say he absolutely accomplished something.
Okay, yeah, in the abstract a world with three (well, two and a half) fewer violent felons in it is a better world. I hope that Rittenhouse was okay sacrificing himself for it. I mean, going by what happened with George Zimmerman, the kid is going to have to leave the civilized world entirely to have any shot at a normal life.
And the riot still went on.
Speaking for myself only here – there are a handful of people who, if they texted me and said, ‘Hey ES, I need you to jock up and roll over to my place,’ then I’d do just that. Those are all people who I’d be willing to die for. I’m not gonna lay down my life for some vague concept of ‘community,’ especially having seen how quickly and viciously the community can turn on you.
That’s me. Some people have a different rule base, and that’s fine.
And the reason that my logic doesn’t apply to the rioters, is because logic doesn’t apply to the rioters. I don’t expect anything out of violent criminals except violence and criminality. I honestly figured that would go without saying.
He cleaned off some graffiti, and put out a couple of fires.
I think that if a bunch of assholes were rioting in a nearby city? I’d show up the next morning after things have settled down, with my tools and my air compressor and a pickup-load of plywood and sandwiches and Gatorade.
Also a constructive response.
I never saw this question asked. Was that prosecutor going after rioters? If he was declining to prosecute like they were doing in Portland, he’s got blood on his hands. If that’s the case, a really ballsy defense attorney might call him to the stand and ask why these rioters were on the street to begin with.
One side gets to act with a free hand, literally busing people around, with the press running interference, to maintain the appearance of widespread support. The other side is supposed to sit at home, glued to their TVs or cellphones, doing nothing and consoling themselves that “it’s just the big cities” (how big is Kenosha, exactly?).
“He shouldn’t have been there” is just laundering the media-promulgated narrative that these were organic grassroots protests against systemic racism. The fact that the three people he shot were equally out-of-place white felons trying to attack him ought to give anyone pause to accept that narrative.
No, it’s really not.
Saying that Rittenhouse shouldn’t have been out playing riot tourist, is just restating an important self-defense affirmation – ‘Not my circus, not my monkeys.’
Misthread – see my comment above. You’re only applying your own standard to one side of the equation, ES.
The rioters were also “tourists”.
Should all 4 (Kyle + 3 shootees) of them (and thousands of others besides) stayed home? Yeah, probably, if we’re going to play this “civil discourse” game a bit longer. But they didn’t and so we are dealing with the situation that existed not the one that “should” have existed.
Trying to finish the rest of the testimony I didn’t get to yesterday and this cunte prosecutor is trying to make the case that Kyle should not have shot at the guy that kicked him in the face or the guy that beat him with a skateboard. IOW the state’s representative is literally against self-defense.
It’s about boot licking and the favored class gets to to determine what boots you lick.
Kyle ain’t pretty enough. What if he were an Hispanic or Black kid?
This motherfucker just made an argument that Kyle was in an advantageous position just because he had a rifle and Gauge McBicep only had a pistol…
I am done with this simulation.
And apparently it is not ok to shoot someone that has leveled a gun at you…
And apparently you are supposed to offer assistance to people that are attacking you even as a mob continues its pursuit…
Yet trained cops are allowed “good shot” if someone makes a “furtive move” that caused said cop to “fear for his life.”
“the problem for truckers has less to do with finding someone to watch their kids than with the lifestyle associated with being on the road and away from home, isolated, for weeks on end”
Why then, pray tell, was this not a problem as recently as 18 months ago? Did the nature of the trucking profession change? Or could it be perverse economic incentives, stifling regulations and market distortions that all appeared sometime in the past year? What could have caused that?
The stifling regs seem to be the big one as it’s driving a lot of the oldsters into retirement. Who wants to put up with that bullshit?
More and more I realize how much of our economy relied on oldsters who just stfu and do their jobs. Youngsters too often know how to do neither. We have a problem. A fixable problem, but still a problem.
Speaking of trucking regulations, I feel the need for a Smokey and the Bandit rewatch. Eastbound and down, motherfuckers.
Hemorrhoids.
I have a family member who was a trucker. He said the biggest reason to leave trucking was the digital log books.
Via perverse federal AND state regulations, the digital logs, and drive time rules would prevent driving a few miles more to get home to rest. When the logs said you had to stop the truck, you had to stop even if it meant you were 20 miles from home.
For those that dont know, there are miles of rules regarding payment for loads, waiting for loads, drive mileage, and rest mandates. There has to be a better way to minimally regulate interstate trucking and make trucking worth it for drivers.
We used to have a regular (Gordilocks IIRC) who was a trucker and wrote several pieces about those regulations.
I worked a contract for a company that sells the tracking/logging devices
that phone the data in and then they prepared the needed reports.
Was interesting seeing their attempts to get the database to collect
everything and put it together for all the various reports and management
metrics and such.
I learned more than I thought I would about trucking. One thing that
struck me was that states hate tax competition. A number of states (most
IIRC) have a deal where they all report the gas taxes from truckers
and then use the mileage logs to even out the tax payments. So even
if you (say) buy your gas in Minnesota, if you then drive across Wisconsin,
the tax revenue will be split up between Minnesota and Wisconsin in rough
proportion to the number of miles you drive in each state. As you might imagine,
this requires a lot of very specific data.
Look up the company SalesForce. Its a huge company tracking market/business details that most people have never heard about.
Yep. I had a contract relating to them as well. I got
to write a bunch of code using their API. Ugh. But
I suppose if your target market is sales folk, you can’t
really expect a particularly good database.
Its just one of those infinite battles between sales wanted every bit of data they can get and consumer privacy.
A lot of that would be nipped in the bud by reasonable budgets and consumers trying to protect their privacy more. Sales would have to make decisions based on budgets.
Its the same principle behind limited government having small budgets so they cant do as much harm, even if they have the technology to do great harm.
Very familiar with SalesForce (I do call center support).
I’ve done a lot of work in building Big Brother for truckers too.
On one hand, the regulations are onerous and should be removed, reset. Most of the regulations were crazy from the get go, but since the truckers were juking the stats with paper logs that were easily falsified, no one cared. Once IoT solutions started coming out that monitored everything, those stupid regs really started hurting.
The other hand though, is that the digital tracking has stopped a lot of actual dangerous activity. Driver’s can’t take a bunch of amphetamines and drive for 24 hours straight anymore. Also, trucking companies were able to discover that driver’s weren’t driving directly from point A to point B. And they were driving in ways that abused the engines/trucks and cost the companies money.
So like everything else, there are tradeoffs.
I feel bad for truckers having to put up with the stupid regulations. I don’t feel so bad for them because now the trucking companies know that they are pulling off early to have some fun times with their favorite lot lizard.
I recall that a lot of the reports were for management oversight
rather than regulatory compliance. It seems like it’s one of those
things that, while some sort of way to discourage dangerous or
fraudulent behavior was probably warranted, the solution went
too far.
The big cost savings for the companies was providing the data to their insurers. They got a much lower rate by “proving” that they were complying with all regulations and counseling bad drivers.
Good points about truckers abusing the system too.
The reality is that there are less truckers willing to put up with the regulations than are needed to get supplies around the USA.
I always thought a financial incentive for truckers not driving too long was the way to go.
People are clever monkeys. It’s hard to think of an incentive system
that someone won’t figure out how to abuse. You get what you measure.
Driver’s can’t take a bunch of amphetamines and drive for 24 hours straight anymore
then what is even the point of being a trucker anymore
It’s too bad he doesn’t hang with us anymore. Moj is in touch with him on the Tweeters.
Gordilocks plays on Twitter.
I hate to say this story is good news because a poor kid is dead because of these fucks, but at least they won’t be able to skate.
Fuck the judges in district and appeals courts.
My wife visited patients at their homes and often worked with social workers. While there are a few rare good ones, generally she saw that social workers didn’t care about people who bended the knee. The mother starving her child got pass after pass from social workers despite my wife and the child’s aid reporting it. The mother was of course on the government teat and never did anything to rock her gravy train when talking with the social workers.
One of my wife’s coworkers’ patients was literally baked in the oven by the mother. Sweet boy about 4 or 5 years old that she had seen for years. Coworker was shook for a very long time. Another case where there were several reports and the social workers did nothing. They are a weapon of the state aimed at those who push back (such as homeschoolers) and not to protect abused children.
Truly abusive parents are usually violent and dangerous. If they are willing to beat and torture their own kid, what do you think they are capable of doing to a pesky social worker?
Much better to spend your time hassling the nice mom who was reported by some Karen for letting their kid walk home from school alone. They tend to be safe and so scared of losing their kid that they will do anything you tell them to.
NJ Senate President Steve Sweeney concedes to truck driver Edward Durr
I hope that hurt.
Won’t anyone think of the
kidspoliticians?A sob story about the poor politicians being abused and threatened by the serfs. 81% of them have been hassled by their constituents!
I don’t think Clarence has to worry about holding an election and having no one run. We have deep reserves of sociopaths who are more than willing to use power to abuse their fellow citizens.
“Geez these peasants are sure touchy. Lock them up, take away their jobs and call them racists and they sure get uppity.”
Well, yesterday was interesting. NOTE: This is just an account. I am not concerned in any meaningful (health-related) way. I just smoked a joint and am watching QI before I bounce to bed before my Friday sched begins.
I decided to leave work early on Tuesday. I had another olfactory episode. The morning gig went great and on my walk to main gig later I started to detect an oddity going on about me. I was nervous about a class that has a brand new curriculum that is totally unsuited to them. I don’t REALLY get to choose. (Hence blackjack/poker games where I just make sure the kids speak only English or at least get to be interested to listen to me speak with my native accent.) I have decided that these events are directly related to anxiety. Clicks perfectly in.
The first class is always just too damn loud, though I love them as elem students. Even the other Korean teacher and I talked today about how we’re frustrated with how they are actually great and excited to learn, but they are just fucking out of control loud and uncontrollable. (In a classroom setting.) I started to notice it then. Smells, and a weird dizziness/weak/lightheaded type of feel. Then the Bad Class came. I got through the first one, but it was small. It got worse and then the bigger problematic class came. It was fucking overpowering. I could have gotten used to the smoke/burning smell, but I was actually worried about the other mental things that were going on. Talked to the other teacher and I only skipped out on an hour of teaching cuz the clinic closes at 6 and I got our of there by 5:45 I think.
Felt bad about that. But it was smart. Doc said everything was normal, as far as it goes. To rest and relax. We upped my dose a bit, but I am 100% of the source being from my anxiety at work. It was odd enough for ME to ‘voluntarily’ bounce from work to go see a fucking doctor. (Sorry, to docs. Y’all and nurses/etc are great, but hospitals are not places that I attach good memories too. I avoid them until I no longer can convince myself that I still can.)
Seems like I just needed rest. I felt fine yesterday and today. I don’t like the inconsistency of it all. I’d rather it ALWAYS hurt. That would be predictable and I can/have adapted to that with no problem. The relative randomness is much worse. But to be frank, I missed a 30 minute class, the shortest of the day, that was the final class of the day. Missed maybe 20 minutes of end-of-day work time. I’m not happy about that. But my health is surprisingly good. It’s just an account of the oddity of having these new olfactory hallucinations that I’m not nearly as familiar with. Maybe I’ve just gotten used to the other ones, though those RARELY happen these days (maybe a slight, tiny auditory something once a month?) and I’m just going back to the minor leagues to learn how to get used to this new one. I like that it’s always the same smell, though the mental sensations were more off-putting than the others. Spitball: They are NEW olfactory hallucinations I’m not used to, but ALSO (my real point) is that smell is the only sense that goes directly into the brain, the olfactory cortex…that is directly in the temporal lobe…and I have temporal epilepsy. It think I’m onto something there about why it’s so much more jarring.
I didn’t mean to make this this long. Just getting ideas out, mostly for myself. It’s great that I get to share them. I’m chillin’ at home, eating blue cheese and just chilling and smoking. I am not in a meaningful way, concerned. It is just interesting exploring new places that this is taking me. Just gotta get used to The Fire, in more way than one.
Whoops. This happened on my Tuesday. That was fucked. Wednesday was just fine and Thurs is ending right now and it is well as well. Damn you all and your time zone/daylight savings confusion!
We can sometimes be our own worst enemies when it comes to taking care of ourselves. In your case, you have to take extra good care, so I understand it can be tough. Especially when you suffer from the old PWE.
Hope you get into the groove with your classes and can find some time to wind down when you need it.
I’ll be just fine! Though I am certainly my own worst enemy. The classes will go fine, though I will have to improvise some more. My Tues schedule with them is settled for now, as I see both classes separately instead of bulked together (middle schoolers are THE WORST)….Have 6 days to think of my next assault on the combined class next Thurs.
I’m quite confident. ESL teaching, especially younger kids but also young teens, is a constant performance. I got the performance nature, experience and ability…Just have to figure out some new routines, and I think I’m on the cusp of a big one with these kids. It’s literally like working as a stand-up educator AND comic at a bar five times a week to 7 separate audiences. It’s actually quite exploratory and fun, but there’s a lot of thought/work involved.
I kinda wonder where this experience could take me later on in life. I have a rough outline/idea now….but quite curious, am I…
Neph,
I posted on PM links yesterday, but I assume you have seen about Larry Bell selling to Lion?
Bell’s and New Belgium are now part of the same company.
Yep. It was hashed over in the afternoon links. Sad to see it happen, but Larry’s been open about wanting to retire for a while now, and Laura (who was originally slated to take over), stepped away from the brewery to go into other work quite a while back (2018).
The rest of the leadership is staying. I have met John Mallett before, he is basically Brewmaster with a fancier sounding title.
Two stories from him stuck with me.
One was after opening a new brewhouse, literally the first shift a forklift driver put a hole in the wall…the distances were different from the old one.
Also, a hypothetical story about brewers: If you locked a brewer and a cinder block in an empty room for an hour, the block would be broken, there would be an inch of water on the floor, and the brewer would have no idea how either happened.
I had a buddy once tell me that you could put three cinder blocks in a Marine Corps squad bay for an hour, and when you got back one block would be broken, one would be missing, and the last one would be pregnant. And no, none of the Marines would have any idea about how this happened…
That is probably the basis for the brewer story. The inch of water being the key change to make it about brewing.
There’s at least two brewers in my area that are retired military. One’s a retired Marine…
Any recommendations?
The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
“When one runs for office, they sign up for criticism. They don’t sign up for death threats, threats of physical violence, destruction of property and hate speech,” said Clarence Anthony, the league’s CEO and executive director. “Who would continue to run given this trend?”
Consequences should be outlawed.
The people who rule us are weak souls who profit primarily by the mutual acceptance of their equally weak peers.
Sir Tugs-a-lot is still on Commie News Network?
Jeffrey Toobin, who masturbated in front of his coworkers on a Zoom call, accuses Kyle Rittenhouse of being an idiot
Yes. Yes, he is.
And I would bet good money that the vast majority of CNN viewers have no idea why that’s remarkable.
And apparently it is not ok to shoot someone that has leveled a gun at you…
That’s not what good citizens do.
Psalm of the day
Psalm 146:3-9
A good one, trashy.
Thanks Trashy! I look forward to these.
Good Morning Glibbies
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-ties-seniors-vaccine-passports-to-booster-shots/
Booster mandate, yeah!
What we need is some civility in politics.
Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Donald Trump just teased a run in 2024. How does this affect the Republican Party?”
Begala said, “Well, I think he’s going to run. And that’s not just me from the outside. Talk to people close to Trump. It’s close to 100% certainty that he’s going to run. That’s going to chill, I think, many other Republicans from getting in the race. And it’s going to further solidify what was once a great political party is now — it’s become a political death cult of personality around Donald Trump. It’s lamentable for the Republicans. It’s dangerous for the country but almost certain to happen.” …
“These folks, some of them are, especially Donald Trump, are a threat to the republic, a threat to the nation. Which means Democrats better get their act together.”
Off to the camps with the Trumpites!
Of course, we know that by “threat to the republic” the Commies mean threat to the Democrats version of the USSR here in America.
This is weird, right?
Seems to the be popular thing with “curated” fast food menus. Popeyes had some fugly chick with disgusting nails pushing their food. Nah.
https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/thursday-life-food/megan-thee-stallion-popeyes-team-up-for-global-partnership_235239?profile=1244
She owns a franchise location.
Huh. I did not notice she had fingernails.
The news was on in the breakfast room here at the hotel.
You’ll be pleased to know the cure for inflation is continuous unconstrained government spending. A few more trillion dollar pork sausages will get us back on track.
BIDENOMICS, FTW!
I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx.
The trial should have been over two days ago. I hope the kid gets off, but his life is pretty much over. The big cities will burn again and the lefties will try to ram home more gun grab bullshit.
Kamala is a freak show. I don’t play 4D chess but I can’t fathom how they thought she was a suitable plan B.
Watching the trial, it strikes me that cooperating and complying with robbers might be the smartest path. Defending yourself appears to be more risky.
Anecdote.
She acts like a badly programmed robot. Originally a sex-robot but everyone lost interest, so repurposed as a politician. Charles Stross could explain.
Another, from a couple months ago.
They didn’t. But Biden painted them into a corner by making her the only candidate who could be chosen.
I watched the clip and I honestly didn’t hear any part where she had a French accent. Maybe “The Plan” was the frog part, she sort of made it sound like “Ze Plan”?
But yeah, she totes talked to the scientists like they were child actors who wanted to look through a telescope.
There was always Stacy Abrams. ///therightfulgovernorofGA
One of the most dangerous people I know, was personally robbed at gunpoint eight times. Seven of those times he complied, gave up his money and drugs, and had no further problems. The eighth time he got a feeling that the robber was going to kill him, so he fought back. He survived, but lost most of the hearing in his right ear.
Try to avoid fighting, but if you need to fight, you’d better be real good at it.
You are more likely to be attacked after you have been once. There’s a vibe of fear coming off you and it attracts predators.
Generally true, but not in this particular case. He was doing a job at the time that involved having drugs and cash while interacting with low-level scumbags.
Yikes.
My rule is “don’t be that person”.
Guns are a great equalizer. Kyle showed that even outnumbered, his rifle helped him protect hims life from a mob of violent criminals.
Guns are a great equalizer, and assault rifles are even more so. If you have to bang it out with a group of bad guys, accept no substitutes…
I am having some difficulty reconciling “robbed at gunpoint eight times” with your scorn for people who put themselves in dangerous situations, supra
That’s reasonable.
I don’t want to go into a lot of details in public (hit me up on the forum if you’re really interested), but suffice to say that the situations are very very different.
Don’t worry, government issued heart attacks are good for you.
https://mobile.twitter.com/consent_factory/status/1458000327861485568
Clown. World.
Get ready for annual lockdowns.
Denmark will re-introduce COVID-19-related restrictions after a rise in cases, said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Monday, coming less than two months after ditching the rules.
Frederiksen cited the Danish Epidemic Commission’s recommendation that the government classifies COVID-19 as a “socially threatening disease” for reimplementing restrictions, telling journalists: “The government will follow this recommendation.”
About 86 percent of people aged 12 or older are fully vaccinated in Denmark. Despite that, authorities said last week hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed due to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. Critics of vaccine mandates have said that because COVID-19 vaccines cannot entirely prevent the transmission of the virus to others, such requirements are not necessary and will create unnecessary economic and social hardship.
Interesting. I wonder what variable changed.
Dissent from endless govt mandated tyranny cannot be tolerated. Denmark caved to EU pressure.
Covid tyranny that will soon be coming to a state near you.
I’m still banned from restaurants and theaters and such but I don’t see any momentum to ban me from grocery stores. Though with Deblasio out the door come January 1 now would seem like the opportune time for him to exercise his authority boner on the way out.
Speaking of NYC: City-Journal (Nicole Gelinas) on the problem of excessive noise in Gotham: https://www.city-journal.org/noise-threatens-new-york-post-pandemic-recovery-and-livability
Saw that. The roaring bikes and the douchbags with the unmuffled cars are really trying my patience.
Only sign of light is Winter Is Coming. That shit mostly comes to a stop by then.
Their only hope is liberation by the Russians ironically enough. That some terrible stuff there.
Under that J D Vance twit:
The Great Kyle Rittenhouse Gaslighting Operation is a sustained Republican effort to encourage vigilante violence against anti-authoritarian agitators like Black Lives Matter & Antifa under the guise of maintaining order and protecting businesses from potential rioting & looting
Property is theft, man. They’ll put you back in chains.
Down with kkkapitalism.
against anti-authoritarian agitators
“anti-authoritarian agitators”, “authoritarian agitators”. “Flammable”, “inflammable”.
“These folks, some of them are, especially Donald Trump, are a threat to the republic, a threat to the nation. Which means Democrats better get their act together.”
Unity.
Healing.
Harmonious coexistence.
Another day, another Rekieta stream! This is the power of social media and the “democratization” of journalism. We can interact and comment with the talking heads, rather than some dimwit fuckhead telling us what’s happening and what to think about it.
I’m on it. Unfortunately, I have a bunch of stuff to do at work and lots of meetings so I’m not paying a lot of attention to it. Sounds like the defense expert is testifying now, Binger has objected to something.
Livestream link for those interested.
From Sean’s carjack link:
“We can begin to turn this ship around,” said James Clark, the Director of Public Safety for the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.
“We have a number of programs and efforts that are working. The solutions start in the neighborhood, on the front porch and in the living room. We’ve got to take this upcoming cold season, strategize more plans, direct resources to do more outreach and then we’ve got to prepare for next spring and summer,” said Clark.
Yeah. We can turn this ship around, but we’re going to need to shovel a whole lot more of your money into the boiler to do it. Pay up, sucker.
White-privilege.
During morning announcements at Upper Merion Area Middle School on November 1, a school staff member said she had “an exciting announcement,” but asked everyone to first watch a short video about drones. The video included footage of students flying drones, and snippets of TV news reports where anchors noted that “drones are in high demand,” and “if you want to go into drones, you’re going to need those (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) skills.”
After the video, the staff member announced a drone flight camp at the middle school on Saturday, according to a recording of the announcement a parent posted on Facebook. The camp was free, but there were only 24 seats available, the staff member announced. Seats would be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, she said.
But there was another catch.
“Here’s the thing, it is a black-student-union-sponsored event,” the staff member said, adding that “you must be black, African American, a person of color in order to participate.”
The KKK would be so proud! Black Americans self-segregating from Whites.
Oh wow, so by deduction then, if the white student union sponsors an event, they can make it white only? Man, I didn’t think that would fly in today’s political climate but here’s proof right here!
This sort of thing should be drawing lawsuits. Make it cost them.
Every time.
If you needed more proof that BLM was nothing but a destructive marxist movement fomenting chaos and desperation on people, have a look at this revelation they just made. It’s as if they need the community subjected to constant abuse and crime for some reason…
I suspect that this shit is backfiring on these marxist cuntes, and that things like this will serve to make them even more unpopular outside of the circle of progressive white women living far away from where people are made to suffer from their idiotic progressive policies.
“If they think they are going back to the old ways of policing then we’re going to take to the streets again,” New York BLM co-founder Hawk Newsome said outside Borough Hall after the meeting.
“There will be riots. There will be fire, and there will be bloodshed,” he threatened.
Imagine if any group to the right of Karl Marx said that.
I’m back to playing an ancient game: Red Orchestra 2, probably the most serious WW2 FPS around. The people left – on the mostly European servers – take the game very seriously.
Welp the weather got cold enough where the neighbor’s teenage daughter – a few houses down – has stopped wearing the mid-riff baring top with no bra and short short shorts.
When she walks by I ask EF: “Am I going to jail or prison?”
Her: “First one then the other.”
Mrs. Dean: “Neither. You’re going into a hole in the desert.”
The ADA, what can’t do?
A federal judge has ruled that Texas’ ban on mask mandates in schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, according to court documents filed Wednesday in US District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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But as the state grappled amid a nationwide spike in cases and hospitalizations over the summer, some school districts sought out ways around the ban or chose to ignore the governor’s order in hopes of curbing the spread of the virus.
Disability Rights Texas, an advocacy group, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of several Texas families against the governor, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, claiming the spread of the virus was posing “an even greater risk for children with special health needs.”
“Children with certain underlying conditions who contract COVID-19 are more likely to experience severe acute biological effects and to require admission to a hospital and the hospital’s intensive-care unit,” the lawsuit said. “This includes children with conditions including, Down syndrome, organ transplants, lung conditions, heart conditions, and weakened immune systems.”
If that kid with leukemia is at risk, no one is safe.
Shut down the schools.
No offense to children with special health needs, but I don’t see why I have to turn my life upside down to accommodate them.
100 years ago, most of them would have died before age 5, so thank a Chemist/biologist and STFU!
I see a lot of Disability Rights . Is there someone behind all of these or is it just a coincidental umbrella name?
The one here sued the state DOT to replace every every functional sidewalk corner in the state with unsafe ADA compliant ones and add sidewalk corners & crosswalks to intersections that do not have sidewalks or are completely inappropriate (freeway merge/on ramps). Fuck them all with rusty chainsaws.
It’s a grift done by some lawyers. At least one of the guys involved in the Prenda implosion did ADA suits as a side grift.
Most of public opinion has turned against all the other reasons for mask requirement insanity. Time to use disabled persons as an excuse to further political tyranny.
Anything to justify the hysteria even if it means tying common sense in knots. So, which federal court is next?
I shall have a Reuben sandwich for breakfast.
#TheMoreYouKnow
🙂
“The evidence presented by Plaintiffs establishes that Plaintiffs are being denied the benefits of in-person learning on an equal basis as their peers without disabilities. The court concludes that GA-38 violates the ADA,” the ruling said.
Spoiler alert: That is simply not possible. But the war on objective reality continues.
Attention whore shouts “Look at meeee”
Prince Harry said Tuesday that he had tried to warn Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that people were using his platform to organize a riot on Jan. 6, the day of the Capitol insurrection.
“Jack and I were emailing each other prior to January the sixth. I warned him that his platform was allowing a coup to be staged. That email was sent the day before, and then it happened, and I haven’t heard from since,” Harry said during a RE:WIRED 2021 panel discussion on misinformation.
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Harry’s comments come as social media and tech platforms are being increasingly scrutinized for how they have handled myriad issues, including combating the spread of COVID-19 and election misinformation.
The kid’s a genius. Listen to him.
Anything they don’t agree with is “misinformation” and a pernicious lie.
Lock him in the Tower of London before he says something else that’s stupid. Not only is he a pussywhipped idiot, he’s a censorious snitch.
The Inglorious Revolution
Apologize for the War of 1812.
Everyone stop and watch this. Not optional.
Especially for Banjos.
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OK – where is Heroic Mulatto?
This is likely to be argued forever, but on the plus side should piss off just about everyone in Asia.
Japanese-Korean-Turkish language group traced to farmers in ancient China
lol.
Yup. I’m sure my wife will still lecture me on Korean being the best language and Hangul the most scientific writing system in the world. Probably also throw in how Koreans invented the printing press long before us stupid big noses did.
Well compared to written Chinese and Japanese – Hangul is genius.
It was created by Top.Men to avoid the hell that is Chinese characters. OTH, Japan essentially doubled down on Chinese characters and made them even more complex than the Chinese they come from.
Justice
A New Jersey gym owner who punched a police officer during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in prison, a likely benchmark for dozens of other rioters who engaged in violence that day.
Scott Fairlamb, 44, was the first person to be sentenced for assaulting a law enforcement officer during the Capitol riot. His 41-month prison term is the longest among 32 riot-related sentences handed down so far.
Fairlamb’s punishment likely will guide other judges who sentence rioters who clashed with police at the Capitol. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said it was significant that his sentencing of Fairlamb was the first for assaulting an officer, with more guilty pleas likely in the coming months.
Lamberth said Fairlamb’s actions struck at “the heart of our democracy.” He had pleaded guilty, avoiding a trial.
He sucker-punched DEMOCRACY! Throw the book at him!
He must be made an example of. Just look at how severely they have punished the BLM rioters who assaulted cops, and tried to burn down courthouses and police stations.
Oh the tears that this is going to cause in Asia. Should be fun.
Japanese-Korean-Turkish language group traced to farmers in ancient China
More than 100 law enforcement officers were injured during the riot, according to prosecutors. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick collapsed and died after rioters sprayed him with a chemical irritant.
Again, the lie mutates. It cannot be killed.
Apparently leftists a) think Rittenhouse shot a couple of black people and b) now they’re not quite as mad at Rittenhouse because the dead guys are white
https://twitter.com/sarahbeth345/status/1458593872557133825
“…you realize you need to question everything you’ve been told, which is what is keeping me very, very busy of late.”
Is this what a red pill looks like? I kinda think so…
Down in that twitter thread , . , ,
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-game-call-of-duty-rittenhouse-lets-you-defend-your-home-from-a-horde-of-bloodthirsty-communists
New Game ‘Call Of Duty: Rittenhouse’ Lets You Defend Your Home From A Horde Of Bloodthirsty Communists
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Good on them. Better they wake up late and maybe even for the wrong reasons than never.
I am highly educated and reasonably perceptive, and it was only today that I learned the Kyle Rittenhouse victims were white.
Hmm…. she contradicted herself pretty quickly.
NPR has been pushing that, Rittenhouse is always 1) referred to as white, 2) discussed alongside other whit-on-black violence and 3) the shootees are always described as “racial justice protestors.” To be fair, in some reports they are mentioned as “also being white.” But then the reportard goes on to show how the shooting is still indicative of America’s problems with white supremacy because…
Yesterday on NPR, 2 political reporters discussing the state of the democrat party were talking about pundits saying the Dems should not always focus on race.
So they bring on a political consultant to the Dems who has a new book.
Her “research” shows that Democrats use 2 issues. Race. And class.
She says “we cannot continue to allow Republicans to use race. in order to counter Republicans, who use racist dog whistles to divide us, we must craft a new, broader message. One that uses race and class together. Because in America they are inextricably linked.
See something, say something
The Biden administration has said it will rely on whistleblowers to help enforce its COVID-19 vaccine mandate by ratting out businesses that fail to comply — because the federal government doesn’t have enough safety inspectors to do it.
The administration is betting that informants will be so outraged by their employer violating the mandate or not requiring weekly COVID-19 tests for their co-workers that they will turn them in.
Snitches made this nation great. Play your part, Karen!
Giving the worst kind of people power. This will work out well.
ZOMG BOUNTEE HUNTURZ!
So…this is legal but not reporting abortions?
Anyone can call in a suspected OSHA violation, this isn’t new. So yeah, seems with one aspect the nation is okay with citizen involvement and on the other it isn’t.
It’s just no one really knows they can and the other is a political trap
I once had an employee call OSHA on himself…
And here I thought the OSHA rule had been blocked, and so there is no “violation” of it that can be reported.
When my company was talking about coming back to the office in Summer 2020, we had a meeting and a dev asked if we would be requiring people to have a contact tracing app. She worded the question in a way that made it sound like she thought that was a good idea. Our Fearless Leader said no we wouldn’t be requiring anything like that.
Several days later we got an email from HR that reminded us that Rona was frightening and no one should be hassled over their reaction to it. Basically a lot of people had dumped on contact tracing dev about what a dumb idea that was and don’t give management ideas. Enough so that she complained to HR. She also claimed she never thought it was a good idea, she was just asking a question.
I’ve ruffled a few feathers by saying loudly during meetings that anyone who has their kid vaccinated is guilty of child abuse. But no one has ratted me out to HR yet.
I’m semi-confident that no one at my company would snitch to Biden. My main suspicion, though, would be HR. Those fuckers love them some rulez.
How soviet.
Beautiful day here at Gourmeltz. Matt finally got his permits for the outdoor bar – pic on Twitter. Great stuff.
Matt’s talking about running for senate….seems ambitious but he’s got my vote. Sounds like the LT Gov and others stopped by on the campaign trail too.
I’d give him a vote!!!
Congrats! I remember his case. Mmm, melt.
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This should get those old coots that weren’t knocked off by the Rona.
Gramps and Granny won’t be able to eat and stay warm. Yay Social Security Fund solvency!
* Looking at the 1 in 8 families are behind on their utility bill stat, I have to wonder how many really can’t pay. Have we conditioned enough people to default on basic payments because they know at some point the debt will be forgiven (or paid off by Uncle Sugar)?
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Rent Control Backfires Again in St. Paul
The View is playing in the other room.
Discussion of Rittenhouse case. Clearly none of them have watched anything beyond Huffpo clips.
The take?
Rittenhouse case is a measuring stick for where we are as a nation, because it comes after George Floyd and even though we got a conviction in that case.. we will see if this white boy is held accountable.
Said that before the shooting his social media was festooned with Blue Lives Matter paraphernalia and Trump ….. Trump refused to condemn what he did!
Said he murdered 2 people and shot a third “for no reason”
They claim self defense, but he is there open carrying an AR-15 which he cannot legally buy so he has a friend buy it for him. He cannot legally open carry. And he says he is defending himself in the first murder, but that man was unarmed.
Then people are chasing him because he is the active shooter, and he falls and shoots someone who is unarmed and then he shoots someone who is an actual EMT.
(Earlier discussion was that Rittenhouse lied to people and said he was an EMT and lied that he is going to school to be. A nurse. Said he enrolled in online classes in October.. so .. he is a liar?)
Anyway, that is their take on the trial
On the overall situation, Whoopie says that if she had done that they would not have let her go home that night. The others interjected that any black person would have been in jail. Then “the statistics tell us any black person would be dead”.
So that is the state of things on the left on TV.
The right is racist for supporting Rittenhouse. Any conviction will create a martyr for white nationalists. And any acquittal will provide a signal that vigilantes can just shoot people protesting for their rights.
On one hand, we have the Rittenhouse show trial.
On the other hand, we have the BLM organizers promising “ ‘There will be riots. There will be fire, and there will be bloodshed” in response to the NYC mayor-elect’s plans to bring back anti-crime units.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10190247/BLM-activists-threaten-riots-bloodshed-Eric-Adams-reinstates-NYPDs-anti-crime-units.html
I guess this guy should move to LA so he can have more cooperative victims.
The anti-crime unit in question, which was disbanded last summer, is not “stop ‘n’ frisk”, which ended years ago. It’s some group dedicated to going after gangs. Mr. and Mrs. Matter are trying to obfuscate the issue and are basically calling for more gang warfare.
On the teevee a minute ago:
“If you’re the Fed, you could start raising interest rates.”
If by”raise interest rates” you mean “stop propping up the treasury market in a blatant effort to enable unconstrained government spending”.
And by “unconstrained government spending” you mean “political payoffs that use checks to constituents to disguise multi billion dollar payoffs to the donor class”
Russian troop movements show wider conflict is possible, top Ukraine official says
Putin still wants those luscious Ukrainian wheat fields, resources, and manufacturing regions.
My take on someone attempting to rob you – if you think you’ll lose the fight, don’t pick it. You have the right to armed self defense, not the duty to exercise it when you think the risks outweigh the benefits.
But, by attempting to rob you, it gives you the right to resist, up to and including lethal force, if you so decide.
And, since taxation or infringing on your natural rights is an attack on your self-ownership, everything above applies. I just paid a boatload of property taxes. I did not do so voluntarily. I did it because I calculated that armed resistance had a 100% probability of me getting killed.
Ron White put it succinctly:
Now, I’m 6’4″. Weigh 240 pounds. I don’t know how many of them it would take to kick my ass … But I knew how many they were gonna use!
That’s a handy piece of information right there.