Cleveland fans are back to normal.
Wild early session of games was followed up by a boring afternoon slot. And the night game was practically unwatchable. But those early games…wow. Cleveland shit the bed so bad it almost overshadowed the brown sheets in Baltimore. And then we had the Saints-Bucs brawling. And Pittsburgh almost winning even though they have a shot-putter at QB. Just fun football all the way around. Elsewhere, Arizona State ended the Herm Edwards era. They needed to Old Yeller that coaching staff a year or more ago. And here we are with just over 2 weeks left in the MLB season and those boring races have been replaced with a furious finish for several wild card spots and a couple divisional races. Enjoy the stretch run. And that’s it for sports.
Puerto Rico has gone completely dark. Fortunately a lot of people there have generators, but the cities are gonna be a not fun place to be for a while. I’m sure this will get blamed on Trump somehow. Just wait.
Welcome home.
This is a prisoner swap I can actually get behind. Credit where credit’s due. This was the right call.
Bus crash death toll rises in China. I can only imagine how the CDC would count these deaths. I’m sure they’d add them to the list of Covid casualties.
Hey, get a load of this bigot. How dare he request what the majority of the country wants and what is an actual enumerated responsibility of the government. I’m sure Team Blue will be having a word with him demanding that he STFU.
This makes sense. The lunatics are running the asylum in the Empire State.
“You sure you want to do this?”
Yes, please please please pursue this. The fallout will be spectacular. Especially when it comes out that DHS agents falsified the immigrants forms, which this lawyer unwittingly claimed during her presser.
Dammit, how did I get this dust in my eyes? Oh no, now you have dust in your eyes too.
This is freaking hilarious. No, not what happening. But rather the pants-shitting of the writer.
This will be interesting as it gets back to the Supreme Court. And no, it’s not exactly about banning companies from running their business as they see fit. It’s about companied acting as a publisher but also receiving Section 230 protections from what’s published. I’m not so sure they deserve to have it both ways. And I’d be interested in how y’all feel about it. So please discuss it in the comments.
Here’s some grunge for you. That’s a solid song. And so is this. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy the start to another fantastic week, dear friends!
“Puerto Rico has gone completely dark. Fortunately a lot of people there have generators, but the cities are gonna be a not fun place to be for a while. I’m sure this will get blamed on Trump somehow. Just wait.”
Will they blame Trump again?
I’m surprised how little coverage this has gotten on most media. I guess the storm fear porn is temperamental and subject to the whims of our betters.
Until they figure out how to blame Trump and AGW they are stuck not reporting anything… Especially when they clearly can see people will draw parallels with how they covered this shit before and Weekend at Bernie’s guy is in the WH..
See you answered your own question – it isn’t a matter of if they will blame Trump, it is how they attempt the narrative.
My brother lives there this year (for tax avoidance reasons).
The power goes out for extended periods about 5 times a week. When it does, all the generators go on and the place is covered in a layer of smog.
In other words, not having power is pretty normal.
“This makes sense. The lunatics are running the asylum in the Empire State.”
When your politics are run like a bunch of crime syndicates, you want a legal system that will give you the breaks and advantages. Democrats are making sure that they will not face the music ever. At the same time they get to terrorize the serfs into accepting any and all idiocy in the hopes things might get better.
Were there any charges for the three people beating on the guy prior to his grabbing a weapon?
They ought to be charged with insufficiently beating him.
Did you read the story?
Dude tries to flirt with girl, girl is having none of it, dude gets mad but not violent, three other dudes get violent with first dude, dude then grabs the axe. Should they have beaten half to death, or more than half for not scoring with the girl?
This is starting to sound like Russia and Ukraine to me.
You want both to lose, too?
More in the vein of “I wasn’t there, I didn’t see it, the reporting is sounding biased, don’t know what to believe — but not my pile of cats to deal with so just moving on.”
Read the story? Are you insane?!
“Yes, please please please pursue this. The fallout will be spectacular. Especially when it comes out that DHS agents falsified the immigrants forms, which this lawyer unwittingly claimed during her presser.”
They might just be dumb enough to think their propagandists masquerading as old and social media can hide the fact they were doing far worse, but even from that perspective I think this is a dumb idea with real risky outcomes.
But they have a problem as of late where things they used to be able to get away with without doing any serious work to make it so now no longer happen, with most of these events blowing up ugly in their faces, and this leads to desperation.
Agreed.
lulz
It was mostly peaceful before the election.
Yeah, DC was boarded up in anticipation of a Trump win – funny how no one seems to recall that.
But that was Mostly Peaceful Good Think, Comrade. Priorities!
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/inauguration-2017/washington-faces-more-anti-trump-protests-after-day-rage-n709946
And there was this part:
Nobody was opening doors or removing barricades at that one.
And more revealing, those involved haven’t been hunted down across the country and denied bail while they sit for years in trumped up charges…
“This is freaking hilarious. No, not what happening. But rather the pants-shitting of the writer.”
I am starting to feel that the need to cause panic about MAGA is to distract people from seeing that the lies from government that they can’t fix the problems they keep creating is all a lie. The mandarinate went bonkers and did its best to block Trump, for example, because he basically gored most of their golden calves. Can’t drill your way out of insane energy prices? BOOM! Done. Can’t call out our allies for being feckless douches? BOOM, Done. Government can be reduced cause they need to keep picking winners & losers? BOOM1 Up yours. And so forth.
I have a feeling that Trump would have been far less effective if they had just let him be. The guy is an energy monster. And no, he was not perfect. he did a lot of dumbass things, but even so, he is always better than a state approved cunte candidate.
I agree with a lot of what you say, its going to make a matchup between OMB and “Desatan” interesting.
Government can be reduced cause they need to keep picking winners & losers?
BZZT. “Big beautiful infrastructure bill”, tariffs – Trump never preached smaller govt. But his biggest sin of all was in daring the war machine to justify itself.
He deserves accolades for going to Davos and telling them to shove it up their asses right to their faces.
You miss all the exec orders he canceled and wrote to reduce the bureaucratic morass during his time? Our biggest problem today is those exec orders and congress turning a blind eye to the usurpation of their power by the executive.
Yep. Maybe not a smaller government – but a less intrusive and obstructive one.
You’re right – Congress is the problem there, because both parties believe that the Presidency is the most important thing.
As Americans have regrouped from the violent aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s effort to discredit his loss also has left state and local governments reeling. Urged by conservative groups, activists and social media voices, far-right candidates and donors have targeted the nation’s lower levels of government, reshaping school boards in Wisconsin and Texas and populating races for governor and secretary of state from Nevada to Pennsylvania.
In California’s conservative precincts, far-right activists have pressured some school boards to ban the teaching of critical race theory and challenged county clerks who refused to denounce the 2020 election results. A member of the Proud Boys is running for school board near Sacramento, and in Riverside County, a conservative pastor who has called public schools “Satan’s playground” is backing a slate of school trustee candidates. But Democratic dominance of the electorate and major donors have largely prevented far-right groups from gaining traction in the state.
And that’s the way we like it. Those feeble-minded hicks don’t understand our glorious utopia.
OBEY YOU SERFS!
But Democratic dominance of the electorate and major donors have largely prevented far-right groups from gaining traction in the state.
Rigging the primary system didn’t hurt either.
And importing every moron they can from around the country that is a Dem true-believer.
If you don’t want CRT taught to your kids you may as well go ahead and get your Black Sun tattoo like the Ukrainians seem to be so fond of. Got it.
the violent aftermath of the 2020 presidential election
The what?
far-right candidates and donors have targeted the nation’s lower levels of government
Cry about it.
But Democratic dominance of the electorate and major donors
Something something money in politics.
shit piss fuck etc stupid job bah
on the links I got nothing
How do you really feel? Links some swimsuit competition and I am sure it will make you feel better my brother from another mother…
“And I’d be interested in how y’all feel about it. So please discuss it in the comments.”
Popehat shit his pants, so I’m assuming it was a good ruling.
They are colluding with the government – as far as I am concerned, they get what’s coming to them.
Popehat has long gone off the rails. I hope he gets the help he needs.
Is this the second time they had to walk this back?
I think so…. Wasn’t there a law or maybe a treaty that covered this?
Tim Dillion has launched new merch and doing it for a good purpose : helping LA homeless.
MERCH: ▶▶ https://store.timdilloncomedy.com/
For every $400,000 we gross in revenue, we are donating five dollars to end homelessness in Los Angeles. We are challenging other creators to do the same.
#TimGivesBack
This has the same feel as all the green energy shit. Expect for the fact the green energy shit primarily revolves around stealing massive amounts of money stolen through taxation to the connected and the return to help anyone is an even lower fraction than Dillon’s racket.
he plans to raise 400 million and such donate a full 5000$ to the homeless.
Tim was right about the migrants too. They should always rent first before trying to buy property in Martha’s Vineyard.
Are they buying bus tickets to send their homeless to Nebraska?
For the first time ever the most advanced Russian main battle tank T-90M was captured by the Ukrainian army – presumably in #Kharkiv Oblast.
This tank is also covered with Nakidka radar-absorbent and heat-insulating material.
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1571531776178245635
that interior looks very low tech. where are the touchscreens and stuff.
Is this like the old joke about having rifles that are almost as good as new to give away/sell because they had only been dropped by ARVN forces twice?
who has more skin in the game wrt future degree of human flourishing
https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1571700675544858624
On Jan. 5, 2021, the day before a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jones and Les Baugh, a board supervisor, threw open the board chambers to a raucous crowd, flouting their colleagues, violating state health orders and stoking the county’s divisions further.
But God’s vengeance was swift and merciless. They all died soon after, from the plague.
OK, the Salt Beta pic on the front page: It’s not kind of me to say this, but even seeing the picture of the guy pisses me off. Videos of him pop up in different places, and while the food involved is usually quite impressive, I can’t stand them. It’s not just the prissy preening for the camera in his grungy-looking t-shirt. It’ s things like “here’s a 3″ thick grilled steak (awesome) that I’m putting in oversized pieces of bread and lots of other accoutrements to make a sandwich that’s 9″ tall, and then I’ll actually pretend to pick it up and bite it like a sandwich”. Nope. The drama-mama aspect of that totally wrecks the good food aspect.
Say wut?
The pic accompanying the article on the main page. Bespectacled hipster sprinkling salt down his arm.
Then I accomplished what I set out to accomplish by using it.
Oh. In that case, well done!
Saturn has a whopping 82 moons ranging in size. Have you ever wondered how Saturn manages to wrangle them all as it orbits the solar system?
This animated graphic gives us a good idea!
https://twitter.com/AsgardiaSpace/status/1571499289565696001
What about the alien base on Titan?
I don’t believe Universe Sandbox provides that level of detail.
You mean I can’t set it up so that the amino acid chains gain sapience and try to stop me from meddling with and drestroying their solar empire?
I’ve been to Titan,
I’ve been to Juno,
I can name forty things
That come in jars, you know!
(Drink!)
It’s hard to think of a rock 3 miles across as a moon…
Look, just because we have a gratuitously oversized natural satellite doesn’t mean moons don’t come in all sizes.
And genders/seksual preferences too, right?
Oh, you’re talking about Saturn. I thought y’all were talking about the Superfit Hero thing.
That’s no moon!…
It’s no moon. It’s a space station.
Range from what to what?
You can’t make this shit up. The fucking jokes write themselves…
And this is the country that’s supposed to defend the free world?
Hah hah hah!
Right..
Free world is a white supremacy concept – white man’s burden and all.
That’s supposed to be a warning against measuring the wrong thing, but leave it to a general to get it completely wrong.
“UNEXPECTEDLY: ADV. FREQUENTLY USED BY PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING, TO DESCRIBE UNPLEASANT EVENTS OR SITUATIONS THEY HAVE CREATED.”
See, also, “unintended consequences”.
“As Americans have regrouped from the violent aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s effort to discredit his loss also has left state and local governments reeling. Urged by conservative groups, activists and social media voices, far-right candidates and donors have targeted the nation’s lower levels of government, reshaping school boards in Wisconsin and Texas”
Is everything January 6th with these clowns? People were “urged” after seeing what their kids were being taught over Zoom.
It’s all about deligitimizing their political opposition in a way that allows them to abuse the power of the deep state to punish them and prevent them from threatening their hold on power.
REPENT SINNERS!
Section 230 always seemed like a subsidy, and I think it was specifically justified as being necessary for “the information superhighway” to take off and prosper.
I think it serves a legitimate purpose. But it’s being abused by platforms that want to throttle political opposition but still reap the benefits of the protections.
That’s my position as well. Having a global / stock immunity for web sites / platforms so they don’t have to police every comment makes sense. Easy to troll or DOS a site a create a libel situation otherwise. But then you have to *not* police every comment or you’re obviously approving what you do let through. So, like the backend internet providers and financial sectors — the standard should be “You’re a backend provider, you’re not responsible for what other people send through your channels… but in the interest of a free and expansive dialogue that’s one of our core principles, you also have to allow people you don’t agree with to use your services.”
The progs / elitists / TEAM BE RULED camp have abandoned that principle, so they’ve abandoned the agreement in these sectors (and they’re trying for Social Credit Scores to make it everywhere), so they shouldn’t get the benefits of said agreement. I want the agreement back / enforced.
This is what I wanted to say, but you did it much better.
You get to do one or the other. If you want to censor stuff on you platform, fine. But you are now liable for the content on your site. If you don’t want that everyone gets to say whatever they want.
Too much of the Right’s push to stop censorship seems like they don’t agree with that approach either. I bet if the lawyers for the Dems and GOP were forced into mediation, the first thing they’d agree on is that libertarians can be censored on the social media platforms.
I’d also say, just change the channel. Drop Facebook and Twitter.
Eh, they can be common carriers and gain immunity, or they can be providing a platform for specific messages and therefore responsible for what the choose to host.
Ima go with the fraud side.
Facebook and Twitter market themselves as open forums and then police the hell out of wrongthink. I don’t care what the forums look like on Democratic Underground or Jacobin.
And if either of the last two wanted to censor our someone throwing in Libertarian arguments from their circle jerk, fine.
But the first 2 deny that they are tools of the DNC and the Establishment to promote The Message.
If it were actually enforced as written – that is, provides protection only for those who don’t meddle in the content moving across their platform, and allows those who do meddle to be liable for the content moving across their publicaton, then it’s fine. It’s that people who do meddle are being treated as if they are non meddling platforms, which is not what the law actually says.
Every platform like that, from Twitter all the way back to Compuserve has had to deal with flame wars escalating into threats and eventually the courts carve out exceptions and force the platforms to hire moderators. And as the platforms grow in size, the number of moderators grows so large that they think hiring ex-law enforcement will clean things up when it actually causes them to become overtly political.
And at this point the only thing keeping Facebook and Twitter alive is the fact that so many government pensions funds are heavily invested in them and they beg the feds to protect their investments.
One does not follow from the other. Actions against the platforms should have been dismissed with the response to the plaintiffs that their only cause of action was directly against anyone threatening them specifically.
Section 230 always seemed like a subsidy
The irony being that slander/defamation is already a much harder slog in our legal system.
The campaign failed to gather the signatures necessary to put the proposed ousters of Rickert and Chimenti on the ballot. But after paying about $40,000 to a Sacramento political consultant, the group qualified Moty’s recall; 56% of his district voted to oust him, and he was replaced by Tim Garman, a local school official who opposed vaccine mandates.
Jones, the supervisor who engaged the Ohio election skeptic at this week’s meeting, said the majority plans to shrink the county payroll and streamline departments such as the one overseeing land use. “This is a conservative county, and what occurred was a course correction,” he said.
Democracy sucks.
Someone’s racist against Greeks.
It’s the Turks. Who are also genetically Greek.
he plans to raise 400 million and such donate a full 5000$ to the homeless.
Will he dispense his largesse in the form of nickels tossed from an open top limousine to the adoring masses?
First of all, that’s a hatchet not an axe. Second of all, only “violent” crimes are eligible for bail in NYC, and the lower degrees of homicide are legally “non-violent .” This frees up needed jail space for hatespeakers.
Repost from last thread: Dave Smith rebuts Ben Shapiro.
https://youtu.be/ZxE3cAuHjI0?t=180
Now I’m fairly certain the GOP will crush it in November.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/06/nancy-pelosi-eyes-italy-ambassador-gig-if-gop-wins-back-house-report/
Nancy is already looking for her next job.
That’s just her backup plan for if they fail to “fortify” the 2022 election….
Given she promised to only serve until now back in 2018 when she had to cut deals with the AOC wing to stay in, I think she’s just prepping for being out either way.
Wouldn’t Egypt be a better destination for Pelosi. They revere mummies there.
Not the kind that are still moving around according to that mummy movie I watched with that hot Rachel Weisz babe…
After this, you can bet AOC will want revenge on these ungrateful future gardeners/maids/pool boys/sex slaves…
She’ll have her revenge by making their children go to school and learn all about their parents’ wrongthink.
‘Orning ‘ordle: Warmup round was going well, then I got stupid and blew a guess so it fell to mediocre. Main round was a lot better than I expected given the target words, probably got lucky on early guesses — but with the seeds I used, didn’t see much else so tried them and it paid off.
Also glad I’m not Hype and targeting time goals — wife decided to talk to me on DuoTri right after I started. 😉
Daily Duotrigordle #201
Guesses: 36/37
Time: 11:02.21
https://duotrigordle.com/
Daily Quordle 238
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 238
5️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
Daily Quordle 238
5️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
You and Sean’s brains both evidently work very differently (or you had more appropriate seeds). LL burned a guess for me because there are other forms that are, shall we say — in more common usage.
My 2 seed words gave me 4/5 for the left side. And LL got me too.
My seeds are SNARE and PILOT, so I had all five letters for LL with two in the right place.
Daily Quordle 238
8️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
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I’d like to thank the Academy and all my fans who never gave up on me, we did Ma!
Daily Duotrigordle #201
Guesses: 37/37
Time: 03:52.73
Not to shabby either
Daily Quordle 238
5️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Opera clap. Nice job!
You might not to tell too many people that.
So that’s how it is in their family…
Mia Sara, yes please.
(… might not WANT…)
Chessle 219 (Normal) 4/6
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🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
https://jackli.gg/chessle
Daily Quordle 238
6️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
I am not sure LL is really a word.
ROFL — check out https://www.merriam-webster.com/ and the “Top Lookups Right Now”. I think you’re not alone (sorry if this verges on spoilers).
Its the British spelling. Totally shouldn’t be included.
Daily Quordle 238
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4️⃣6️⃣
Ah, back home.
Daily Quordle 238
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Seed words worked ell — no guessing required.
well (my “w” key is not working ell).
Daily Quordle 238
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3️⃣5️⃣
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“Tripping ball players! Packers’ endzone celebration sends up AYAHUASCA ritual in nod to QB Aaron Rodgers’ love of the powerful psychedelic”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-11226111/Packers-endzone-celebration-appears-players-miming-AYAHUASCA-ritual.html
*sensible chuckle*
“One Twitter account tagged NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, telling him: ‘Packers just advocated for drug use in there TD celebration. Not being a NARC but there are youngsters.'”
Please keep me posted on the wisdom of “one twitter account,” Dailymail.
I just love the po’ faced befuddlement of people like the guy who wrote that Shasta County thing.
“So many people are so angry, these days. Why? How can it be possible that they disapprove of all the wonderful things we’re doing to make the world a better place?”
By the time the reactionary wave shows up, there’s always a bunch of utopians who are caught completely off guard because they’ve spent their entire lives in a bubble.
https://www.chewboom.com/2022/09/19/talk-like-a-pirate-for-free-fish-at-long-john-silvers-on-september-19-2022/
Heh.
Garrrr…
What, you don’t have to talk like a pirate in their app to get the “free” food? Or upload your pirate picture to social media? Clearly, they need more youthful marketeers.
Just don’t be tryin’ to grab the server’s booty… arrrr….
Why do brothels never have a “Talk like a pirate” day so you can get some of that fish for free, huh? Pie wants to know….
Arrr… if ye brothel be smellin’ of fish, yer wenches be in need of a good bottom scraping, lubber. There be clams and crabs ye don’t need to be boarding!
They’re still in business?
Didn’t we just have this discussion with Mojo a couple of days back?
Well, shiver my timbers and walk my plank!
Or are we ready for a keel haul?
What’s up with this Criss guy running for Mayor in Florida attacking De Santis for being a fascist?
Are we still doing phrasing?
Crist? He’s going to lose, he knows he’s going to lose, so he’s going scorched earth.
He’s also a vile human being.
Is he now? He sounds like a vile jerk off.
What are examples that make him so?
Other than the constant comparisons of himself to Jesus?
Considering the large Hispanic population in Florida, I’d compare myself to Jesús as well. And Juan and Pablo, too.
He’s attacking his opponent’s voters, many of who voted for him in the past, in the most vile of ways. Also, he looks like a skinny Oompah Loompah. Dude’s oranger than Trump.
Crist is such a morally malleable sack of shit he makes televangelists look good.
Well, even they just claim to be working for Jesus — not to be him.
The magician?
nope a pol who shouldn’t be crossed
Pope nailed it.
But he didn’t address the 5 fold increase in expenses Crist will bring to his state. We’re just waiting for pentecost.
Don’t worry the Feds Lent us a bunch of money.
“The $250m anti-hero who Warner Bros is battling to save at all costs: Inside the crazed world of ‘groomer’ Ezra Miller who has extensive rap sheet and calls themself ‘Jesus’ from at-home altar adorned in The Flash figurines”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11225263/The-250m-anti-hero-Warner-Bros-battling-save-Inside-world-groomer-Ezra-Miller.html
He looks a bit like Richard Ramirez.
Sounds like Honey Harvest
He has an Easter Island statue for a head. I mean a strong jawline is desirable in a guy but good grief.
It’s “they”, bigot.
Prediction:
Electric cars will be to the green movement what mRNA Covid shots will be to Covid-19.
A miscalculation.
If I’m wrong I will buy you all a TimBit.
Swiss gets a whole box.
If you’re wrong, you won’t be able to get them to us.
I’m with you. We were watching TV last night and there were all kinds of EV commercials on. Mrs. TOK asked if they’re selling that many. We thought about it, and realized we knew only two people who bought one. As much as the government is pushing them, a) they’re still expensive, b) they can only build them so fast, c) there is a bottle neck in the heavy metals required for the batteries, and d) we are still very far off from having the electricity infrastructure to handle many more EV’s.
Just like mRNA, they can narrative all they want, but sooner or later reality will rear its ugly head.
Just in time to bail out the auto companies after they go tits up for pissing away billions on electric cars.
What? Swiss got monkey box?
I can haz 50 Timbit box?!
Lawyers for 30 of the Venezuelan migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard by Florida Gov. DeSantis call for CRIMINAL probe because he ‘falsely promised jobs and immigration help’
So we are going to arrest literally every Democrat as well, right? Because this is exactly what they promise.
The fallout will be spectacular.
I need to see if I have enough popcorn.
So they are arguing that MA won’t provide these things? And since when is it criminal for a state to lie to a criminal non-citizen? Maybe it should be, but it generally isn’t.
LE lies to citizens, routinely, and gets applauded for doing so.
Don’t presume that Democrats will be held to the same standards. “No reasonable prosecutor” etc. etc.
NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association sued Texas after the law, known as House Bill 20, was passed last year, arguing that internet companies have a First Amendment right to curate content posted on their platforms and decide which types of speech they saw fit to be there.
That logic seems a bit convoluted..
Ah, edited content then. Sorry Zuck et al, you ain’t covered.
Exactly. You have 1A rights for your speech, not someone else’s. Sooner or later, the inherent contradiction between “our platform is just a conduit” and “we have the right to control content on our platform” was going to catch up with them.
Now, the way Section 230 is drafted . . . .
But if you bake wedding cakes you’d better damn well write whatever the gay couple wants on their cake or else!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That last one was hella impressive.
Last one was a known fake, IIRC. Still looked cool.
Sad it didn’t include Kelly Barons’ incredible catch back in 2004 & I can’t find the video. Really athletic grab, had to fully stretch it out.
Forcing private companies to give equal treatment to all viewpoints on their platforms places foreign propaganda and extremism on equal footing with decent Internet users, and places Americans at risk
Good golly, Miss Molly!
Our modern church-ladies!
I can fix that statement for you:
“Forcing private companies to give equal treatment to all viewpoints on their platforms places alternative viewpoints on equal footing with Internet bots, and might cause people to use their critical thinking skills.
In February, an alliance of MAGA activists, secessionists, vaccine resisters and self-described militia members ousted a longtime board member and won a 3-2 majority on Shasta County’s all-Republican — but officially nonpartisan — main governing body. Since then, the most populous county in California’s upper reaches has been a case study in the forces reshaping the Republican Party and governance in conservative parts of the country.
Local control is wholly un-American, obviously.
I’m sure this will get blamed on Trump somehow. Just wait.
Nonsense. A generally lackluster hurricane season is the fault of
global coolingglobal warmingclimate change.‘including of work opportunities, schooling for their children, and immigration assistance’
So, you’re saying Massachusetts is a shit hole?
This is going to be a tough case for the gov to beat.
Good news, everyone!
President Joe Biden said in a 60 Minutes interview Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic is a thing of the past.
“The pandemic is over,” he said. “We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, and so I think it’s changing, and I think [the Detroit Auto show resuming after three years] is a perfect example of it.”
The National Institutes of Health defines a pandemic as “an epidemic of disease, or other health condition, that occurs over a widespread area (multiple countries or continents) and usually affects a sizable part of the population.”
So are we really in the clear?
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also eased up on COVID-19 restrictions, such as issuing the same guidance to both vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans and shortening the quarantine period from 10 days to five. Though, it has not publicly declared the end of the pandemic.
NPR seems reluctant to put the cudgel down.
[Insert obligatory “if Trump said that” disclaimer]
We have newer, shinier reasons to oppress you now.
Really scuttles the student loan forgiveness due to COVID “emergency” powers though. And the remaining Federal mandates. I would so love to see him held to that statement. And for the states to be sued accordingly to be held to it and finally have to give up their dictatorial powers.
And I might as well wish for a winning powerball ticket, I know.
US Marine Corps Quietly Changes COVID-19 Vaccine Policy
Maybe. Of course if the emergency was really over, all the vaccines would have to go through full testing protocols to ever be administered again. And the approved vaccines would not enjoy liability protection for harming recipients.
What does this do to the EUA?
If the emergency is over, then the liability shield should be gone. I’ll bet it’s not actually formally over and it requires a official statement from HHS. The GOP should demand one now that Biden has put it out there. But they won’t.
Do you know what kind of damage that would do to their Pfizer stock?!?!?!?
No probs. All our representatives in DC will be given 24 hours to dump their stocks before they make this announcement.
The “real” official statement is when Pelosi sells her shares off.
Over for: Electoral purposes, grandstanding, and fact checking
Not Over for: Mandate justifications, legal maneuvering, and demonization of opponents
Unless amended to a later dater, the Prep Act declarations expire no sooner than 10/1/24.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/07/2022-00151/tenth-amendment-to-declaration-under-the-public-readiness-and-emergency-preparedness-act-for-medical
That date wasn’t an accident.
Hey, it’s just the end of the fiscal year! Nothing to see here folks…
See here.
The section headed “Access to Medical Countermeasures Through FDA Emergency Use Authorization.”
The whole thing is fascinating — a goody basket of perverse incentives.
Something about nothing is as permanent as a temporary govt program?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_telephone_excise_tax
And the approved vaccines would not enjoy liability protection for harming recipients.
That ship sailed 35 years ago. Now line up for the double arm air injectors.
I’m discussing with co-counsel whether this constitutes supplemental authority for the court on some of our claims.
i.e. We’ve claimed that there isn’t/wasn’t and has never been an “emergency.” The President just went onto a nationally televised interview on 60 Minutes and claimed repeatedly that the pandemic is “over.”
I’m trying hard to see how a court just says, “Ohhh, that’s only the President talking shit. What really matters is what the agencies he ostensibly leads think. So…. FYTW.”
I want to get a court on record with that defense. Specifically because they’ll have to provide some evidence of how the pandemic “continues” – like, by definition and numbers. Since the govt won’t provide that shit as a matter of record in any case, I’d like to at least force them to provide evidence for the claims.
Is it possible that the political side of things has forgotten the bureaucratic and legal considerations?
It seems that Biden’s statements have created a divergence between the two.
I think it’s more calculated than that. I can’t claim any insider info, only my observations from being in multiple suits and watching dozens of others as they unfold.
I think that Biden did it on purpose. I operate from the view that nothing on these staged shows is an accident.
I think Biden’s allowed the vax companies (specifically Pfizer and Moderna) to milk this thing for billions, but it’s pretty clear that the American voting public is pretty ‘over’ the plandemic.
You can only keep the state of emergency for so long – several judges and courts have mentioned in their opinions that we are way past the expiration date on “emergency” powers at 2.5+ years of this.
It wouldn’t surprise me if this is Biden backstabbing his pharma benefactors because it’s no longer politically expedient (i.e. midterms are coming and he is polling in the fucking toilet).
I view most of this administration through the Game of Thrones™ lens – a weak regent brings out all of the factions vying for their piece: NatSec + MIC vs. State Dept vs. Kamala’s Ambitions vs. Biden + Team Looter vs. Far Left Commies vs. Pharma + FDA, etc.
It was endemic before it was announced as a pandemic.
‘Dammit, how did I get this dust in my eyes? Oh no, now you have dust in your eyes too.’
Weird sort of nut punch combo your got there.
I’d like to thank Fourscore for hosting the bestest Honey Harvest ever!
I was touched because MikeS actually sent me an email because he was worried about me being so late to the party. Especially touching because we all know what a difficult time NoDaks have with writing.
This year was a personal best/new low when it came to avoiding work at the HH for me. The wife and I showed up just after the food was being served and left before the cleanup started. I blame our late arrival on Altar Boy #1. He talked about going to the HH all weekend and then backed out. After delaying our departure. I tell you I’m the victim here!!! The closest I got to work was watching Stillhunter load his truck up with wood that Fourscore gave him. In my defense I was standing right next to Fourscore and I figured if the host isn’t going to toss chunks of wood I don’t want to show him up by helping too much.
There were quite a few first timers at the HH and all of them were perfect Glibs. (you know, they were anti-social, weird and well even weirder). Yusef hooked up a laptop and there was a bunch of remote zooming by other Glibs. The one time I tried was with Tundra and the sound was broken (I swear I didn’t push the mute button).
Once again everyone passed the hardest test ever – getting the nod of approval from my wife. Granted it is easier to get after I have spent 30 years lowering her expectations, but still be proud of that . The excellent mead that Kinnath plied her with probably helped a lot too.
I don’t know if Putrid Meat or UCS won the longest trip to the HH because I’m an American and I don’t know if NY or AZ is closer. But it was great to see them there. Poor CPRM turned out to be the only Sconnie there. One aberrant loss to the Vikes and Packer Backers won’t even cross the river?
The star of the show was still Fourscore and Mrs. Fourscore. Fourscore kind of puts a crimp in my plans for the future. When I am his age, I had planned to be super cranky and mean to anyone who wanders near me. Watching Fourscore circulate at the HH making everyone laugh and smile made me reconsider that plan (for about 5 minutes). Mrs. Fourscore spent waaaaaay too much time telling Mrs. Holiness how good her Korean dumplings were and thanking her for the batch we brought.
If you missed it this year, plan on making it next year.
Wait… I was supposed to wait until I was his age?
Really scuttles the student loan forgiveness due to COVID “emergency” powers though. And the remaining Federal mandates. I would so love to see him held to that statement. And for the states to be sued accordingly to be held to it and finally have to give up their dictatorial powers.
It’ll get walked back, just like everything else he says.
“Haha, you just mis-heard him. He’s just saying we think we’re coming to a point from which we’ll be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, wear your mask, wash your hands and get your shots!”
You’re out of your weight-class, bro. But please persist.
Hey @GovRonDeSantis, clearly you’re struggling, distracted, and busy playing politics with people’s lives. Since you have only one overriding need — attention –let’s take this up & debate. I’ll bring my hair gel. You bring your hairspray. Name the time before Election Day. @CNN
Will they hold it at that fancy restaurant that Newsome likes so much?
He wants to do it on CNN? I don’t think DeSantis is that stupid.
Stelter can come back as a guest moderator?
Probably too busy with his new sinecure at Harvard:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/09/13/brian-stelter-gets-a-new-job-n2612991
I knew that tubby little rascal would land on his feet.
He sly that way. Host it on CNN, only ten people will see it.
Also, CNN will moderate in his favor.
By bringing in a DeSantis mannequin.
Governor DeSantis, are you the most evil governor in Florida’s history, or in the nation’s history? Candidate Crist, same question.
“German Bakery Slapped With €330,000 Gas Bill After Contract Canceled”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/german-bakery-slapped-eu330000-gas-bill-after-contract-canceled
Mein Gott!!!
Is he really that unaware?
I’m sure he was expecting something but a 1200 percent hike does seem a tad steep.
LNG futures are doing quite well in Europe.
I’ve become half convinced that this entire energy disaster is a massive Enron-style scheme for some very well connected people.
Walk in ovens?
Not much of a contract.
He’s attacking his opponent’s voters
“He” being Crist.
This seems to be a new strategy.
“If you’re the sort of soulless fiend capable of voting for my opponent, I don’t want your vote. I will rely on the votes of good, decent Americans, and the angels above. And when I am elected by a landslide, I pledge my solemn vow make your existence a living Hell.”
and the angels above
As divined by 1000 NGOs and 501c3s staffed by militant blue hairs and hipster soyboys.
I don’t have words I could share on Crist. Not sure who his political advisors are, but he’s clearly changed his tune since his early days of party flipping. Maybe just another one whose brain was broken by OMB, or just joining in on the grift. Either way he’s despicable.
this is so good Brooks.
‘As Americans have regrouped from the violent aftermath of the 2020 presidential election’
Wait, what? Did I miss an orgy of bloodshed?
Just one unarmed woman shot to death.
Don’t forget the Hero of the Republic Brian Sicknick clubbed to death with a fully automatic fire extinguisher filled with bear spray and hatred for democracy!
Oh, and one unarmed woman beaten to death. Or it may have been the gas. Hard to say.
‘within weeks conservatives erupted ‘
The whole article is a matter class on deceptive framing, even better than ‘conservatives pounce’. The dastardly Republicans went about business as usual, defying the Science, and our heavenly representatives on earth, like Newsom (who incidentally, also completely ignored how own proclamations).
Putting a thumb on the scale of justice.
President Biden spoke about the classified documents the FBI found in former President Trump’s home. When Mr. Biden saw the FBI image of the documents he says he thought to himself, “How anyone could be that irresponsible?”
Joe’s handlers are keeping anything important out of his reach.
Unfortunately I had the TV on when I heard this. It’s fucking paper on the floor.
Five minutes later they are talking about Hunter Biden.
You mean, after the FBI arranged them for the camera? Those documents?
Good morning to all you fellow miscreants. I was out of commission for two days and part of the weekend with some sort of cold or sinus thing. I didn’t test for COVID because I didn’t want to deal with all that baggage. But doing much better today.
I did get to see some roller derby this weekend. My wife’s old team played and this was the first time we went to a game since she retired. It was much fun.
Also, my coach is super pissed with my team because last night we had to cancel our fourth practice due to not enough people signing up.
“Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.
12:44 PM · May 16, 2017”
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/864522009048494080
Muh panicdemic!
While cases are falling, Biden’s comments come as hundreds of Americans continue to die from the infectious disease. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the US is averaging around 400 deaths per day.
As of September 17, data from Johns Hopkins University found that the US has some of the highest COVID-19 figures globally in terms of cases and deaths. Next to the US is Japan, with 1,139 deaths recorded over the previous week.
How will we parade our superior understanding of SCIENCE! before the ignorant unwashed boobs if we can’t look down on them for ignoring public health expert-ism?
*I don’t even bother to read any numbers, anymore. They have been manipulated so completely they are meaningless. Like that “some of the highest numbers” crap quoted. Who is higher? Also lacks context; assuming that 400/day is remotely close to being accurate, how does it compare to other fatalities?
A beginning to understanding
Reposting from previous thread:
Watching Steelers/Pats game from earlier today…my god is the CBS coverage terrible. Multiple times the camera is focused on the sidelines or someone in the booth while a play has started. I don’t need the camera to stay focused on Robert Kraft for 30 seconds and miss half the play because you can’t cut to it in time, or the camera to be on Matt Patricia on the sidelines on a 3-1 coming out of TO where I once again miss the play. Bullshit talking over the officials as they call a key penalty.
This shit isn’t that hard.
Agreed, but since both teams were playing like Pop Warner teams I consider it a measure to preserve mental health.
And speaking of teams playing like shit, what does it say when your fans have to track the play clock for you? (Broncos?)
I was kind of watching that game at the gym. Looked like they were starting the game clock fast and surprised the teams on the field as well as the cameramen several times. Fine with me – speeding up play would make it more watchable.
It has become evident that the Broncos brought on new coach Nathaniel Hackett to learn to be a head coach on the job, which is a bad move when you pay a quarterback a quarter billion dollars to win now.
Am I the first Honey Harvester to post this morning? That can’t be. Perhaps nobody else made it out alive.
My wife and I had a lovely time, and I don’t think our six-month-old came away from his first HH too emotionally battered. The food was great, as were the people. Thanks again to Fourscore for putting up with us for a few hours.
Not sure if you are mad I forgot to mention you in my writeup above or you just have a clever filter to remove all my posts…
Good to see you and your family too Double-T! I can’t think of a worst place to go for parenting advice.
Ah crap. I even scrolled up to check whether anybody beat me to the punch. I’m gonna blame kinnath’s tasty mead for my oversight.
It was good seeing and chatting with you too. And given the utter lunacy I see with some parents, I figure I can do a heckuva lot worse than hearing you guys talk about your experiences.
Well I must say how shocked I am that sloopy just utterly ignored the biggest sports news of all from yesterday – the WNBA finals!
[falls over in paroxysms of laughter]
Chris Cornell is probably the best male rock singer of this age.
Yep. I’ll slightly amend (and pick a nit) and say “best male rock voice” because I’m not 100% sure he’s the best male rock singer (period) of his era, but for sure, an amazing voice.
Tragedy that he left when it seemed he’d made it past his demons.
I believe that SFGate/Chron article is about the third one I have seen from them in the past year about the Rednecks in the Mist up there in the State of Jefferson. It really, really bothers them that there are pockets of disbelievers in the one true faith that still reside within the borders of the state. Of course the ignorant hicks cannot be allowed to do what they really want to do and form their own state, they must be protected from themselves. Mostly they are just ignored, but when they get restless like this and try and take over whatever small levers of local government, then they warrant some attention from their wise and beneficent overlords.
Years of “democracy in peril!” talk and then I open that article and read the bone-chilling details surrounding MAGA monsters…. running for office.
Good morning, Sloop!
That’s a weird sentence. It suggests that there are more that simply aren’t “on the radar.”
Incompetent fucks.
The yacht story is wonderful. Thanks for that.
Sweden’s Moderate Party leader gets nod to try form a new government
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/swedens-moderate-party-leader-gets-nod-try-form-new-government-2022-09-19/
Jockeying for position
Former President Donald Trump is complaining to aides in private that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stole his limelight, per a new report from Rolling Stone.
Two sources close to Trump told Rolling Stone that the former president has been telling his close aides that he fears DeSantis is attempting to pull the spotlight away from him.
Specifically, Trump was concerned about the political stunt DeSantis pulled last week, when he chartered two planes to bring 50 migrants to Martha’s Vineyard. The migrants, who were living at a shelter in San Antonio, were tricked into boarding the plane, thinking they were going to Boston, per Reuters.
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Trump suspects DeSantis timed the Martha’s Vineyard stunt to boost his profile among GOP voters, per Rolling Stone’s sources. The former president has also been irritated that DeSantis is getting credit for this stunt, which he claims is his “idea.”
Trump has repeatedly lashed out at the implication that DeSantis might be a contender for the 2024 GOP presidential ticket. In July, Trump slammed Fox & Friends for reporting on polls that showed DeSantis ahead of him, accusing the show’s hosts of having “gone to the dark side.” This month, Trump took a swipe at DeSantis, sharing an Insider story about his polling lead over DeSantis via his Save America political action committee.
DeSantis, meanwhile, has been propping up his own profile. In July, he launched a fundraising blitz that bore similarity to the Trump Card, selling a gold “Florida First Fighter” card of his own. Among DeSantis’ high-profile supporters are podcast host Joe Rogan, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and billionaire and Trump megadonor Peter Thiel.
More “anonymous sources say” journalisming.
This just in: political attention whores try to upstage one another.
Does Rolling Stone really think Trump and his circle pay any fucking attention to RS?
This could be a clever ploy on Trump’s and DeSantis’ part to get the left to support DeSantis against Trump, should Trump’s plan to be Republican King Maker rather than actually run for prez himself.
Why does it matter which GOP candidate the Left supports during the primary?
While anecdote is not evidence, the liberal media does influence “conservatives,” my own mother being a case in point, as well as others that I know who are woefully misinformed particularly regarding all things Trump. TDS and all.
The Democrat party does spend money to promote Republican candidates whom they believe are easier to beat…
https://nypost.com/2022/09/12/democrats-spend-53m-to-boost-far-right-gop-candidates/
That’s a fair point.
I know the Dems have been pouring money into anti-establishment GOP candidates in various states, but I’d be surprised if they took that route for the presidential primaries. I’d see it more likely that they support someone like Cheney (or Romney, Bush, etc) over De Santis regardless of what happens between DeSantis and Trump.
Possibly DeSantis would actually call bullshit after they rig the elections (though maybe he’s an insider like the rest). But the Dems and establishment GOP definitely want a controlled GOP opposition candidate who dutifully accepts the rigged results and writes the concession speech.
“but I’d be surprised if they took that route for the presidential primaries”
They took that route with Trump by giving him tons of free media.
Exactly. How did that end up for them?
Becky told Sally who told Jane that Elly is a slut.
Anonymously
That makes it newsworthy.
TW: Jalopnik
Detroit Car Show A Depressing Ghost Town
Who knew that forcing car companies to make electric appliances would eventually dampen the enthusiasm of car guys to check out the latest wares?
It’s become pretty much a big three show.
Excluding EVs nothing really new from them. C8 debuted and next gen ‘Stang is really the only thing new. Stellantis shoving its last V8s anywhere they will fit.
Meanwhile who doesn’t want either an SUV Ferrari or a hybrid 5,000lbs V8 supercar.
The 2024 Mustang looks angular and bland.
The interior is going to be harder for me to decide about.
Regulations have killed cars.
I think this could be a kick ass fish house.
Euphemism?
Fatphobia Sucks, Especially If You’re Trying to Have a Baby
What does science say? NOTHING IT IS WRONG.
Nice weaseling there.
What % of women with high BMI are just too muscly?
metabolically healthy fat people, who do not experience health issues typically associated with being fat.
Are there any examples of this? Does anyone have anti-gravity fat that doesn’t impact skeletal structure? Are there any fat marathon runners?
Being pregnant is also not equivalent to being sick. It is more like gearing up for one of the most physical things you will ever do.
Being in shape so you can carry extra weight (not extra extra weight) and then have enough muscle to squeeze a baby out is important.
And the health of the mother significantly impacts the kid. Given your child the best chance at a healthy life seems worth putting the fucking twinkies down, doesn’t it?
Are there any fat marathon runners?
There are, actually, but they don’t win!
I read that only 7% of people in the US are truly metabolically healthy. That’s fucking terrible and weight is only a small part of it. You can be skinny and be a complete train wreck.
Clydesdale division
TIL where the name (probably) came from (and that I’ve met the guy who named it)
More live coverage of an old lady’s funeral and burial.
https://youtu.be/P6y8cNVDbOg
Route from Westminster Abbey to Windsor was almost completely shoulder to shoulder the whole way. Most travelers can only dream of getting to Heathrow in that short of a time. Quite a few flowers landed and are still on the funeral car.
Oh crap, they showed the corgis. They know what’s up. Stupid smoke particles.
This is extremely demoralizing
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1571853674976276482
neah again I say bring it on
If it weren’t for society, women would be winning World’s Strongest Man contests.
“A Chinese-based biological research company purchased 1,400 acres for $5.5 million in July with hopes to build a primate quarantine and breeding facility, according to Levy County officials and records.”
https://www.chronicleonline.com/news/local/chinese-based-company-buys-levy-land-for-primate-facility/article_46487116-1003-587e-814b-15dfabf665f4.html
What could possibly go wrong?
Chinese cut-out from our MI-bio-complex? In Florida – are they planning on skunk-apes as research subjects?
Isn’t this how Planet of the apes started?
A Chinese-based biological research company purchased 1,400 acres for $5.5 million in July with hopes to build a primate quarantine and breeding facility, according to Levy County officials and records.
JOINN Laboratories bought the property from L & T Cattle & Timber LLC, which is owned by Steven and Justin Lamb, longtime Citrus County businessmen. The Lambs purchased the 1,400-acre tract of land at 6870 SE County Road 326 in 2020 for $675,000, records show.
I wish I had the kind of real estate savvy where I could get a 815% return on a couple thousand acres of swampy scrub and pine trees.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1571796465168838658
CWAA
fake
Obviously.
That’s probably ten grand worth of damage on a Mercedes-Benz.
At least the insurance company will have a good laugh.
In many states insurance won’t cover “hit & run” damage.
What? That can’t be right.
It’s the law in some states that insurance of the damaged vehicle won’t cover that damage because it’s the liability of the unidentified driver, unless the policy covers damage that is the insured own fault (ie. “collision”). I learned this when I had a car that got hit in a parking lot.
Who knew that forcing car companies to make electric appliances would eventually dampen the enthusiasm of car guys to check out the latest wares?
As much as it confuses and terrifies me, I have come to the realization the car-as-appliance (electrified or not) market vastly outweighs the car enthusiast market.
As baffling as I find it, apparently people really do want their cars to be a rolling extension of their living room infotainment cocoon.
“…apparently people really do want their cars to be a rolling extension of their living room infotainment cocoon.”
They sure as hell drive like it.
How’s that whole geopolitics thing working out, Brandon?
Actually, if he’s getting a cut, probably pretty well.
This cunte has some nerve…
Biden: “We have not a president like [Trump] who has made politics” about “personal attacks.”
“When a President insults one man, that’s a personal attack. When a President insults an entire voting bloc of his political enemies, that’s politics”
to paraphrase Stalin
An accused jilted madman who flew into an ax-wielding rage at a Lower East Side McDonald’s was released without bail at his arraignment, authorities said Sunday.
What could possibly go wrong?