Now we are getting into the Covid times. I know a lot of you have given Trump a pass on this, but fuck that shit. He allowed it to happen and encouraged it. He did that asinine stimulus with his name on the checks. He let Fauci call the shots. He took a year of my life away from seeing certain family members. He fast tracked the vaccine. Fuck that shit. I don’t care if the world burns, he’s not getting my vote. Kanye 2024! If I’m voting for a crazy asshole, I’m voting for the craziest asshole!
The Hat and The Hair Animated: Rerun ep 27
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CPRM
Organic troll farmer.
Zoom like it’s 2020 while we drink like it’s 2020!
I’m doing my part!
Sorry, my computer froze, rebooting…rebooting…rebooting…
I wear many different hats, too. Hmmm…
I’m kind of enjoying these flashbacks but I’m also starting to get PTSD.
Ugh fuck me… South Park is showing a plague episode – I have not seen these. Everyone is masked up and shit.
I have no idea where it might go.
They could at least muffle their voices like reality was.
FAIL.
Kenny’s voice is always muffled.*
*Haven’t watched in many years. Did he ever finally stay dead?
Seems like he was randomly in and out. So no.
Between that and Walz all over, I can imagine.
I hear that. My vote goes to anyone who is not a Democrat so anyone who fits that criterion and is on my ballot is game.
Ahem:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2024/02/my-2024-presidential-campaign.html
Me: 39 years old, natural born US citizen, resided in US for past 14 years
check, check, check
If you’re not a Democrat, sure!
I chose the greater of two evils a few months ago and registered as a Republican in FL after 20 years of being unaffiliated. My campaign song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryVdIxMQZjE
Also: I’m an Army veteran, speak Arabic and Swahili, and have a degree in chemical engineering.
My other campaign song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo
Don’t forget the campaign song classics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaR5OnX-7VM
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYEhir_PRSA
I know a lot of you have given Trump a pass on this
Not me.
I don’t care if the world burns, he’s not getting my vote
I’ll be a no-vote for president.
I plead guilty to airbrushing a lot of that year out of my mind – it was a real shit year and not just because plague.
I do want to vote, though.
Your preamble is a good reminder for those that thought (think) Donald was(is) the republican savior. I won’t vote, don’t want to spoil my almost 50 year boycott. My wife is a diehard Trumpinista. She’ll vote the anti-Kamala ticket.
I’m voting Burge
I didn’t vote for Donny Dipshit the first two times around. I am seriously considering it this time as my small way to give a middle finger to all the crooked assholes making this country look like a banana republic.
lol I don’t remember my voting history at all.
I may or may not have voted for Donald once. I know I voted L once but I don’t remember which year.
I came. I saw. I Firsted.
🥒💦
And where the fuck were you last Thursday?
Keep your perversions to yourself, this is family friendly website,
I won’t fault anyone for not voting for Trump and Covid is the strongest argument against him, but I will say he was tricked into the Covid bullshit. I didn’t vote for him in 2016, but I did in 2020 despite his Covid shit because Brandon was promising (and was) worse than Trump on the Covid horseshit. I’m not sure what I’m going to do this year. What I will say is I have never voted for the eventual winner, so I feel like I must be doing something right in the voting booth and you can’t blame me for any of this mess.
Trump added 8T to the debt, Biden like wise. Obama 8-9T but over 8 years. The next president will easily surpass those rookie numbers
After all the bird/swine and other pandemics, the cry of Covid sounded the same. Old, sick people die. Nothing new.
I didn’t vote for him in 2016, but I did in 2020 despite his Covid shit because Brandon was promising (and was) worse than Trump on the Covid horseshit.
Same here. I won’t vote for him in 2024. I’m not going to stroke his ego again.
To clarify:
If Trump had repudiated his Covid bullshit, yeah, I’d vote for him in 2024.
Voting for him in 2020 I saw as simply a self-defense move against worse stuff coming.
But since 2020, at least here in NH, there has been a bunch of work done at the state level to mitigate some of the excesses. And I don’t see another round of Covid-like bullshit coming.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fried_dough_foods
pistoffnick’s theorem: Every culture has a recipe for fried bread dough.
/prove me wrong
My mother made them, on bread baking days. Heavy, hot, slathered with butter. Us kids loved them. On rare occasions, doughnuts with sugar on them. About the same time frozen bread became available, 5 loaves for a buck. Mom switched, the store bought stuff was much better than hers.
When the missus was off traveling I would get the frozen buns (whole wheat) and bake them in a countertop oven. I was a kid again, hot bread from the oven.
Yummy x a lot
Indian tacos!
OOf-da Tacos!
😱
MinnySoda stealing from the injuns, no wonder they needed a flag.
*looks at site*
That’s just sad.
They don’t taste sad. They taste like good ol’ fashioned ‘murican colonialism and cultural appropriation. Delicious!
It’s kind of primal,
Dogs and Man, but my 6 pack of dogs loves a nice fire, even in summer,
Dags!
So, a half dozen hot dogs?
Heh.
Weiner dogs?
Just watched the Biden CBS Sunday Morning interview. Fucking liar repeated the Trump Good people Nazi bull, that Trump promised a bloodbath, and there would be violence if Trump won in Nov. No discernable pushback or follow up by a hole interviewer.
Why did one Willie Horton ad in 1988 be so successful, yet dozens of Trump ads about numerous violent illegal immigrants are having no discernable effect?
+36 more years of propaganda
As always, writing in Barry Goldwater.
My vote and take: I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016. I was tempted in 2020. The Incident in ’19 didn’t keep me voting for him in ’20. I knew Biden would be the shitshow he turned out to be. In Trump-safe Indiana, there was no fucking way I was gonna meander out to the polls in fucking Carmel in the midst of the scamdemic. Wasn’t worth adding to Team Blue-family nonsense. They don’t mind me having a different take, but I bite my tongue to get along. We fundamentally disagree.
I absolutely am voting for him this year. Decided a few weeks before the assassination attempt. The nightmarish ways to stop Trump from running are blazing Red Flags that cannot be ignored. I didn’t love all of Trump, ‘specially COVID. But he was shockingly *decent.* A respite. We agree: Power is never voluntarily ceded.
Honestly, my vote is just a number to add for the popular vote metric folk love to froth over sans understanding. Trump, fairly good, no new wars! That ain’t nuttin’ at all. Blue won’t give up Power. It needs to end. Now. Result? Massive riots if Trump wins. Possibly ‘big’ ones if he loses. Might as well let the Big Argument happen now. Red is far too well-armed to start a straight-up Civil War 2.0 me(ignorantly)thinks. (Hopes.) Get this shit out now before it can continue to fester and get worse. Something Big is gonna happen eventually. Fuckin’ do it now and get it over with.
Rips the band-aid…RIGHT OFF!
The response song for Joe ‘Potato Head’ Biden.
To repeat a comment I posted yesterday regarding Starbucks because I posted after the thread was dead. I was having trouble keeping up. I am reposting because the thought wandered around to other topics.
Perhaps high-end coffee shop and fast food restaurant models aren’t compatible? Using lower quality coffee as the fulcrum to balance the two doesnt work? Good coffee shop is a mom and pop coffee aficionado operation. Dunkin Doughnuts is a good FF coffee shop. I think of Starbucks as an overpriced Dunkin doughnuts on a dark and stormy night.
As for the purple prose…I was standing in line at a Starbucks in Shreveport once and my wandering bored eye caught some books on a small shelf near the register. I strolled over and attempted to take one down to glance at while I waited only to discover that the ‘books’ were props…the row was simply a molded light paper box, the face of which was painted to appear as 8 or 10 books. I had tipped them out enough that the ruse made a light thump when I let it drop back. The look on my face must have said volumes because when I turned back around to return to the line there was a MILF staring at me with one hand over her mouth barely holding back her laughter. She winked at me. I got it. She got it. Yet we both stayed there and went through the motions.
I am reminded of the ending line in a Scandinavian movie about a cop chasing a man who got fed up with civilized life and went to live in the wild alone. After much drama and many characters the cop catches the guy but is mortally wounded in a struggle with some thieves. The ‘wild’ man and he talk as dies. The ‘wild’ man apologizes to the cop for all of the trouble and explains his behavior as “I guess I was just playing dress-up.” The cop responds, while reflecting on his life now ending with “We are all just playing dress-up.”
Re: my vote.
The year is 2019 and I am topping off my gas tank. I glance at the pump and notice the price I am paying – $1.85 per gallon.
I had not noticed how low the price of gas had gotten until that point. I was surprised and very, very pleased. I thought ‘Ok, good. Now the price of tennis shoes, loaves of bread, utilities, rent and ER visits should start reflecting this. The price of everything depends on the price of the energy it takes to make it and bring it to us. If we could keep this going for ten years we will be wealthier than any society in history. ” This made me happy because prosperity gives people options. It is the lifeblood of liberty.
Despite all of the petty whining, TDS, the lunacy and Trump’s own shortcomings in my eyes, I am gonna vote Trump.
Trump sucks less than the only other person with a chance of winning. The idea that the fedgov will be administered in the same fashion regardless of who wins is delusional. At least with him and for all of his faults there’s hope, false hope maybe but at least he doesn’t actively want to metaphorically kick my teeth in.
Voting still matters. Barely.
Good morning to you all! Including any commie .gov lurkers.
😳☕🍳
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LTz88cmXie4
I wanna go back. 🎶🎶
Morning.
Good morning, Sean, U, and Suthen!
How goes?
The all-staff meeting went well, but we were still having trouble getting payroll finalized. Turns out our regular payroll manager had a family emergency and will be out the rest of the week, so we had to explain the remaining issues to his sub. We got a notification during the meeting that payroll was once again ready for review, but unless my boss took care of it remotely when he got home, I’ll have to do it first thing this morning. AND it’s time to get ready for next week’s Board meeting. 😕
How about you?
I have to deal with insufferable people today.
I’m sorry…but isn’t that pretty much every work day?
Not most of the time
I spent all day troubleshooting something that broke months ago and none of my coworkers (and our QA people) noticed.
We have some legacy code that is deployed using a completely shitty automated process. It has always been shit and one of the problems is that when errors occur during the deploy it doesn’t necessarily get flagged. So people run it and then think everything went well.
Turns out a library was updated to a new major version that caused all sorts of issues with our deploy. As in, it hasn’t actually worked since May! Of course, I wanted to do an experiment and manually deployed a bit of code. Then when I ran the auto deploy process I discovered that everything wasn’t working.
Of course, the whiniest person in our group (who is supposed to be a senior manager) noticed a bug in our portal app (caused by my experiment). The bug prevented him from clicking an icon and opening a new browser tab with the target site in it. Oh the wailing he was going on about! Of course, he couldn’t just click the new tab button and paste in the url for the app he wanted. Nope, he was completely blocked.
So I spent all day looking into our crappy process, sending email to our team trying to ask nicely how none of them noticed that the deploy didn’t work, and ignoring my tedious colleague. (It was sort of fun to tell him to pound sand and I wouldn’t be going to any meetings with him).
Thanks for letting me vent. It has been a day of frustration.
“You lack sufficient technical skills for your job, mr former senior manager. You are no longer employed by this company.”
Mr. Senior Manager is asshole buddies with our director.
Director brought him with him when he joined the company. Mr. Sr Manager never seems to actually do anything. He is always making suggestions that we change to some new framework. Director is convinced that makes him a visionary.
He’s made some improvements though. He no longer sends out red ball alerts when he sees a certain endpoint fail anymore. We finally got him to learn that the solution to that failure is to login again.
Sigh.
Voting still matters. Locally. Maybe, depending on where you live. Not sure if that’s the case in federal elections or not. When the people that try to expose a rotten system get pilloried or even prosecuted the situation is dire.
Yeah; apparently the FEC wants to go after Musk and Trump for the interview.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/14/trump-musk-interview-campaign-finance-violation-claim/74797076007/
So we’re also going to go after MSNBC, et al. Right?
What a joke lawsuit.
Morning all. It isn’t the voting that’s the problem – it’s that the votes keep going to people that perpetuate the problems.
Re FEC: Good God, what a crock of shit. Didn’t read but what are they saying, that it’s a contribution in kind? More two-tiered garbage enforcement and statute stretching.
I only saw the headline, since my work computer doesn’t let me select about:blank for my home page. Those arguments are unhinged and frankly evil.
Its the End Citizens United PAC..in a normal world, the FEC would just toss this. It will move forward though and probably end up nothing but fodder for the legacy media to chew on until October or so.
“Here—the considerable resources of X to host Trump’s campaign event, including dedicating real-time staff to address technical difficulties specifically for the campaign event and the time of its owner to participate in the event—are of significant value to the Trump Campaign,” the complaint reads.”
Looks like it’s a complaint that’s been filed and won’t necessarily be taken up. Still shitty though.
This kind of shit is seriously delegitimizing this govt in people’s eyes. Where are the investigations into all of the in kind campaigning on the D’s behalf by all of the legacy media and social media companies?
Speaking of election shit…
Nice timing
Maybe the hackers could have looked into this 3 years ago?
Oh, also good song. If you aren’t talking grunge that’s pretty much peak ‘90s.
I didn’t know how people deal with employees.
I think I hate being a manager. Or maybe I just hate this employee. Hmmm.
Hate is the wrong word, but despite trying to support the person in question they don’t ever seem to get any happier with their situation.
Sometimes the person is just in the wrong place. All you can do is your best.
‘Sometimes the person is just in the wrong place.’
Maybe. This person has aspirations for leadership, but is much better at execution than at planning. They seem allergic to writing anything down, which isn’t appreciated by the powers that be, and you won’t be able to run your group if you can’t meet deadlines for budget requests, etc…
A lot of changes are also getting pushed to me to implement on their group and I think that is affecting things somewhat too.
This person has aspirations for leadership
Welcome to the world of managing! Employees for some reason always seem to want to do things that they are bad at and get out of whatever role they are good at.
And you will be the dick who keeps them from achieving their dreams. Another manager and I were just chatting about a junior developer who we both loved because you could give him a task and he’d just get it done. If he had to ask questions, he’d come prepared with background info, a summary of the issue and some suggested solutions.
His code is decent, not great, but decent. What makes him a superstar though is his work ethic and how independent he is.
You can call it whatever you wish, but that is price controls.
That will fix it.
Trump’s ideas are at times…shit, but really? You are going to pitch that horse manure above?
Of jailing and using them as slave labor.
If we go down the price controls road we are in deep, deep trouble. That idea, particularly on a large scale, is frankly retarded.
It is not retarded. It is deliberate evil.
The road is long and endless…
Price controls…I see no mention there of her pitch for a maximum wage.
Both of these strategies are calculated to produce shortages and poverty. Every commie does it because they know exactly what results they will get.
I remember the pinkos here being completely confused as to why Chavez, their imagined savior who would show us this time, was seizing food and medicine supplies while people were killing zoo animals for food.
How long did it take for it to sink in to the Russians? How long before they actually had a human being for a leader who got it?
https://blog.chron.com/thetexican/2014/04/when-boris-yeltsin-went-grocery-shopping-in-clear-lake/#photo-433894
I forgot what a great song Elected is. (listening through headphones)
Alice had some amazing chops, and the arrangement with the horn section is killer.
suh’ fam