One of the most beloved episodes of The Simpsons is Bart the Murderer, where Bart gets a job working for Fat Tony. Mixing drinks, cutting cigars…you know, a job. A hijacked truck carrying cigarettes to Springfield meant an immediate shortage of cigarettes, but assurances from the Laramie Cigarette spokesman suggested otherwise.
This is my review of Innis & Gunn Rum Barrel Red Beer.
Was there a shortage of cigarettes? Hardly. Fat Tony was selling them at a price that was practically giving it away for free. There is a real shortage going around though, on N95 surgical masks due to a combination of inventory practices keeping stocks of nearly every manufactured good at such exact levels any run due to say, a panic buy related to a [probable] overreaction by a totalitarian state on the other side of the world related to a viral outbreak…
…we are once again reminded these same idiots will cry out in panic at the smallest hint of raising the price relative to demand, lest you be accused of profiting as a result of their emotional reaction to a viral outbreak on the other side of the world. So lets just do what we always do and be apologists for the greedy:
To be sure, there are counter-arguments. At their heart lies the notion that if a demand spike is caused by an unanticipated emergency, allowing sellers to significantly raise prices in response will undercut the morally imperative distributional principle of equal access to necessities. If ten people with the same fatal illness need the two available doses of a life-saving drug, the argument runs, it’s immoral to award the drug to the highest bidders.
This intuitively appealing distributional argument helps explain why anti-price-gouging statutes are both widely supported and strictly enforced. But as with every regulatory regime, it’s important that we consider the cost. Suppose that our concern about equity in distributing the life-saving drug leads us to forbid the producer to raise prices. In that case, unless the government forces production at gunpoint, we’re going to get less of the drug (or the generators or the masks): the very thing we say we want. Certainly we can decide to make that tradeoff. But let’s not pretend there’s no tradeoff to be made.
He does go on to argue forcing vendors to keep the prices low will not solve anything—it just leads to a shortage. Assuming no other barrier to entry, letting the price float will encourage outside vendors and manufacturers to ramp up production to meet the new demand, because a higher price for the good is an incentive.
450%? Screw you. I’m going to learn to swim, then I’m going to make you eat that life guard chair.
Other reasons for letting the price float are high prices remove the incentive for a hoarder to hold on to the goods, because its more valuable to others without it. If it becomes too expensive to replace, those with the product will be incentivized to not use it, or find a way around the product. I recall living in Colorado during a panic buy of ammunition when they passed gun control laws. I couldn’t replace my reserve ammunition as I shot it, so I eventually switched to two other calibers that aren’t as popular (at least for my age group). That way I am more likely to have a reserve of at least one caliber on hand. My behavior changed to accommodate the new market conditions.
Yes, moralists will moralize and tell you its wrong because this is about health, and survival, or well-being and leaving these things to the highest bidder is morally wrong. None of these moralists are going to be upset when they sell their house for hundreds of thousands more than they paid for it. People after all, will need a house long after this panic is over and selling a house in a seller’s market is somehow justified price gouging.
This beer like anything Innis & Gunn has the desirable charred oak characteristics everyone seems to enjoy about barrel aged spirits. This being a rum barrel makes it quite a bit different than the usual whiskey barrel aged ales that tend to be whiskey overpowering beer. Its much lighter being a red ale but still tasty and a product of Scotland, so you can make your joke about sheep. Innis & Gunn Rum Barrel Red Beer: 3.5/5.
Sounds like an interesting beer. Curious to see your patio is cleaner than your kitchen counter.
I am surprised at the number of neat freaks here.
#notme
Me either! Slobs unite. Life is messy. Once in a while I go on a huge tear and clean up and organize. But usually I stick to tasks that will stay done.
The Mr. does the day-to-day vacuuming, dishes, laundry, etc.
The Mr. and I are both clutter-blind. About the only thing that will shame me into cleaning is the rare prospect of visitors (unless it’s my sisters, who are even bigger slobs than we are.)
I thought that trait ran deep among those on the spectrum.
Nah, that’s just me trollin’.
I am a proud and out neat freak.
I like and appreciate clean, but only if I don’t have to it.
Are you serious? Half of us are on the spectrum. I am seriously waiting on a “counting cards” article.
So how come autism gets to commandeer the term “spectrum”? There are all kinds of spectra in countless areas of nature, including human nature. For instance, I think most of us would agree that personal sexual preference has a “spectrum.” What makes autism so special?
Relentless focus and attention to detail?
Because this spectrum can be exploited in a card counting scheme?
Meeow!
This beer like anything Innis & Gunn has the desirable charred oak characteristics everyone seems to enjoy about barrel aged spirits. This being a rum barrel makes it quite a bit different than the usual whiskey barrel aged ales that tend to be whiskey overpowering beer.
Sounds delicious.
It is
I’m intrigued by a Rum Barrelled Red. I love rum and I love reds.
Redrum! REDRUM!
Random less on in Austrian school of economics thrown in when starting the discussion as though doing another topic, like 1990s American talk radio. Keep this up, and maybe this web site could adopt a slogan with “free markets” in it/ I think there is another website that has a slogan with “free markets” in it that does not seem to understand what “free markets” are…
Free markets, free college, and free healthcare for all!
We could have more of a free market slant to the site, but when we get to a free market for labor, it would upset many of our readers.
I’d be curious to see what an offshore essay mill comes up with for this site…
What makes you think Sugarfree isn’t a collective of Indian college students?
Too much command of the English language.
Would you do the kindly?
Only if you do the needful first.
too few bobs and vagene
Roses are red, grass is green. Opan plese bb the b0bs and vegene.
Fake news. Every Indian I have known had a sweet tooth.
I just submitted a post for review that I expect you to have a field day arguing with. By the way, how the hell do you add alt text? The alt text box in the edit media function does not seem to actually do so, and I recall someone (Tonio maybe?) saying there was a way to do it, but I don’t remember.
*shrugs*
I never use alt text. You’d have to ask Swiss.
I believe it’s the Description field for the image.
No the alt-text box doesn’t work. Just to be on the safe side, you can put your alt-text into every box other than the title and caption ones.
Also make sure they don’t post it during EST working time as I rarely am able to read and post during work. Peeking at the draft, I would recommend that you specifically engage with Murphy’s “Wouldn’t Warlords Take Over” to preempt accusations that you are shadow-boxing a straw-man.
Interestingly I think he made my case. I don’t predict warring warlords. I predict that the mechanisms that prevent such will become a government. Private police acting at the behest of insurance companies are a government. But I’ll let it stand as submitted
I added a couple paragraphs making that more explicit.
Add it in the TITLE box.
I don’t it’s that one. It’s something like “image characteristic” or some such.
Ope! You’re right. I also put it in the caption, tho.
Caption puts the text under the image, no hover needed. I want people to work for my text! (none of which was remotely clever), but I got mocked for no alt text once so I must add it.
Image Title Attribute is the correct box.
In HTML that’s called the title attribute so that sounds right to me.
Are you implying that if a legally mentally competent legal adult signs a contract that expecting the adult to abide by the contract even if the person changes mind about the deal is, what’s the legal term, “involuntary servitude”?
I hate to speak for HM, but he is almost certainly talking about open borders, which he favors. And taking a subtle shot at the closed borders types who are heavily represented here.
I’m all for legal immigration, as long as it is extremely expensive and restrictive, that way dirty brown people don’t stand a chance.
As long as you don’t stop the flow of women from Asian Country who haven’t been corrupted by feminism and still want to be submissive wives to fat slobs.
WHYCOME U DONT LET THOS ASIN IMMIGRANTS IN UR HOUSE IF U LOVE OPEN BOARDERS SO MUCH
It sounds as if he is indeed willing to let certain Asian immigrants into his house. Or at least into two rooms of it.
Bingo.
I doubt we have any actual closed borders types, as in, no more immigration, period.
Ah. Thank you.
To be sure , I had to check to see if the quoted article was from TOS.
The price gouging thing irks me for a number of reasons. The immediate one is that it’s a typical situation where people are eager to substitute emotion for reason in such a way that they’ll make terrible policy decisions. Another is that it shows they have no idea how pricing works or how markets work but sure as hell aren’t gonna let that stop them from creating arbitrary rules for them.
Those same people will also stockpile those price controlled goods when they can, and bitch about the stores being out when they can’t find them.
Spoiling children leads to this idea that things you NEED should be free. No, things you need do not magically appear because of your need for them. Someone still has to make them and get them to you, when you are young your Mommy does this for you. I am not your Mommy, and you are no longer a toddler, so freaking pay me.
Entitlement by definition.
My 2 year old has a better command on “I don’t get everything I want or ‘need'” than many adults. Entitlement is beaten out of children… or it isn’t.
BTW, the surgical masks don’t actually protect against Coronavirus. The virus isn’t spread through the air. It’s spread by touching something and then letter touching your mouth or nose.
The hospitals where the personnel were wearing all the masks had the same infection rates.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, EPIDEMOLOGITARD!
*puts on two condoms*
Just don’t take the mask off, ever.
It WOULD be very painful.
So wash your hands and don’t tongue-kiss Asians and you’ll be fine?
Right. Surgeons wear the mask to protect the patient from the surgeon.
The Solution
The final solution?
Which is EXACTLY the reason healthcare is so expensive.
Yes, rich people eat better than poor people. They drive nicer cars. They go on better vacations. They drink better bourbon. They live in nicer houses. Why in the fuck shouldn’t they get better healthcare? Why shouldn’t a rich person live longer than a poor?
These alleged moralists can suck my dick. You want better healthcare, make more money and pay for it. Allow free market competition to bring the price down, as it does with every product on the face of the earth that isn’t regulated, and the cost of healthcare will drop to the point where all but the poorest can afford it.
Free markets work! Stop fucking with them, ya ignorant fucks!
I have been waiting, since 1998, for Walmart General Hospitals and Clinics.
No insurance (like no member cards to scan, no coupons, no special deals).
Low prices.
No unionizing.
No middlemen.
Enforced low wholesale prices from sheer volume of products purchased*.
My kid applied for a job there (haven’t heard back yet), and they’re paying $11/hour. For a 16yo kid and her first job in a place where minimum wage is $7.50.
I will have to find a link about Vlasic pickles and Toro lawnmowers. Vlasic came down to Walmart’s firm offer and the margin is minuscule. Toro said “Fuck you” because Walmart’s firm offer was a net loss for Toro.
There’s only one thing preventing it…and the “party for the poor” keeps asking for more of it.
The Party of the fiscally responsible just announced its deep and abiding love for Medicare, so it ain’t just the Party for the poor.
Ain’t hypocrisy grand?
More government regulations???
Ding, ding, ding…
As Rand Paul says, “Stitches R Us”
Walmart has started opening full blown health centers in a few states, and they provide primary care and services like labs, x-rays, etc., not just minimal walk-in service.
I know for electronics companies will often make Wal-Mart-specific models in order to meet the price requirements to get into Wal-Mart. iRobot makes Roombas specifically for Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club that use cheaper parts and manufacturing than what they sell elsewhere. Same with TVs. Sort of like the Old Navy/Gap/Banana Republic thing–same designs more or less, just slightly better material and craftsmanship, more/different colors and styles, and higher price as you go up the line.
I have absolutely no problem with this, so long as said policy is made known to the customer. You pay less, you get less.
It is made known, kind of. WalMart sells the Samsung 58 inch 4K TV for $399. Target sells the Samsung 58 inch 4K TV for $499. The difference is the model numbers TV-4582W and TV-4582T, but nobody bothers to look at the model numbers and ask themselves why two apparently identical models have a $100 price difference.
That is a branding problem.
Who’s to say TV-4582T ISN’T the same as TV-4582W and it costs $100 more at Target because people will pay it to avoid shopping at Walmart?
My local Target doesn’t feel that much classier than the Walmart.
The first time I was in a Target was in 1986 in a ghetto Target. It was dim, dirty, and gross.
There was no Target in my life until maybe 15-20 years ago, and I can’t shake that first impression.
Sorry, I mean a ghetto BALTIMORE MARYLAND Target.
I think the word I would use to describe both the local Target and Walmart is “disorganized”. Well, maybe “slovenly” too.
I rarely go into the Walmart, mostly because it’s in a really crappy location to get to. The main shopping road goes along the bottom of a hill, with stores on a flat plain to the west and a hill to the east, with the stuff on the hill being built ad hoc with no consideration of where everything else was being built. If you’re coming from the west, everything on that side is easy to get to with a lot of the stuff on the hill being tougher. Walmart is probably the worst because it’s all the way on the end.
Sam’s Club doesn’t seem particularly bad.
My Walmart isn’t slovenly but it is poorly stocked all the time.
Their need for employees now is for shopping for online orders. OTOH, those employees know where EVERYTHING is, down to which shelf.
It is also the most-shoplifted-from store in the metro area.
Every time I go to Target (not often), it’s a ghost town.
I go the Target because its easier to get to and draws the cute women who stop in after work.
I picked up an online order this morning and it went fine, other than they routinely can’t supply the quantity of seltzer water I request which then requires another stop at the Safeway. Sometimes their substitutions suck but whatever, it still simplifies my life and I didn’t think I could get more simple.
I shop at both. Target is about 10 minutes closer and less of a hassle to get to/ shop at. That’s probably the biggest benefit of Target. I don’t feel like I’m navigating through a sea of humanity/clueless employees with giant carts in the aisle, etc.
That’s not really how people think.
Walmart = cheap Chinese shit.
Target = same cheap Chinese shit, only costs more so hoity toity people don’t have to shop with the deplorables.
Ikea = trendy cheap Swedish shit, but perfect for starter-outers and destructive children, and those meatballs!
I can afford to shop almost anywhere. There are things I’ll buy in Walmart and things I won’t. The discriminator being how much I value the quality of a given product.
But, I can honestly say, I’ve never gone elsewhere based upon the “quality” of the folks who shop there. But, I guess, everyone’s definition of value is different and if their definition includes not shopping with the “lesser folk”…so be it.
IMHO, Walmart is the single greatest thing ever to happen to poor people and they should be applauded for it.
Yes, WM is the greatest thing for poor people ever, and I’m not saying that people with more money won’t shop amongst the poor.
I’m saying progs who don’t want to mingle with the poors won’t shop at Walmart.
But my other point stands: No consumers know if the higher-priced TV at Target ISN’T the same one sold at Walmart, the only difference between them the model number.
When I lived in central Cali I went to Walmart in Paso Robles once or twice a year to mass buy shotgun shells for quail season. There was a woman in the parking lot who sold the absolute best tamales which I never missed purchasing from as well.
I have Target fairly near my place. To get to Walmart I have to cross the island.
Nothing against either place since they both work in the market place.
Toro refused to do that because it would dilute their brand.
Target is every bit as ruthless as Walmart, but they somehow have a better image. I’ve done lots of consulting for clients who do business with Target and none of them like Target at all. One client was a manufacturers’ rep who stayed in business entirely because Target is so difficult to work with.
My favorite practice is that Target has a floor in their Minneapolis HQ that is a series of conference rooms with glass walls. Target brings in various competing vendors, puts them in separate rooms and makes sure they all know that their competitors are next door negotiating for floor space for their products.
but they somehow have a better image.
They weren’t founded and aren’t headquartered in the Old South.
I think it’s 100% aesthetics. Walmart had and to an extent still has a warehouse aesthetic. Target doesn’t.
This. Target just feels newer, cleaner, and more welcoming.
I only buy a few things at Target, but their stores are laid out wonderfully and their self-checkouts are the best in the biz.
And yes, cleaner and more cheerful.
Walmart has wrecked many a supplier:
(1) Offer to carry their product. Supplier jumps at chance for big new market.
(2) Demand that supplier ramp up production bigly or lose contract.
(3) Supplier invests in new production facilities.
(4) Walmart cuts price.
(5) Supplier can’t cover debt taken to expand production, declares bankruptcy.
Sure, the supplier should know better, but Walmart is the vampire squid of retailers.
Having Amazon and Ebay as potential backup outlets probably helps this situation immensely.
As a consumer, I have a hard time criticizing Walmart.
As a capitalist pig, I have a hard time criticizing Walmart.
As a former part-time employee who had a fun time in the fabric and craft department, I have a hard time criticizing Walmart.
But when I read what they DO, my eyebrows shoot straight up to the moon. And then I wonder why smaller companies, KNOWING THIS IS WHAT WALMART DOES, goes ahead. “I’ll be the one he loves! I’ll be the one to fix him!”
Vlasic complied (took one pickle out of each jar). Toro wouldn’t make an inferior product that would damage their brand.
I did this with one of the books I published (not one I wrote). Deseret Book wanted to carry it, but I had to comply with returnable books (essentially, consignment) and normal wholesale pricing. On a print-on-demand book. It was financial suicide, but I took the risk because I felt obligated to the editors who were pushing it. Fortunately, I didn’t lose any money (only had 4 books returned), but I didn’t make all the work worth it, either.
I didn’t make enough* to make all the work worth it.
As a former part-time employee who had a fun time in the fabric and craft department, I have a hard time criticizing Walmart.
I did sporting goods. I’m kind of in the same boat. Its a great place to get a start if you understand its just a place to start.
Walmart also has a program where they open up their logistical system to their vendors and tell the vendors that it is their job to make sure each store has a certain number of the product in stock. If a store’s inventory falls below a certain level they will be penalized. So as a vendor you have to look at inventory levels and then schedule shipments to stores. Not only does it save Walmart money, it performs better than when Walmart ran that system itself.
Target was going to use the same sort of program but their IT department couldn’t open up their internal systems to their vendors in a timely manner so the initiative was scrapped. That is how I found out all about this. My client was in a lot of meetings about it.
Not sure how the supplier going out of business benefits Walmart?
It doesn’t matter. There are others.
Yep. It doesn’t benefit Walmart to drive a supplier out of business. But it doesn’t really hurt, either. A small time or up-and-coming supplier getting to sell their stuff in Walmart is worth more to them than it is to Walmart. Indeed, accommodating said supplier to keep them from going out of business may cost more than it’s worth to Walmart.
Walmart is about moving volume. The margins can be razor-thin on each sale but if you sell enough you still make lots of money. If you can fit in that model well, then your partnership with Walmart can enrich you both. If not, well, … you’re not the only one.
See also: shipping. The cheapest mode of transport, pound-for-pound, mile-for-mile, is to fill a tanker or container ship. But if you can’t fill a whole ship, you’re better off using an intermediary.
Sounds like something the free market will iron out on its own.
It already has. As R. C. Dean noted, seller beware was already in effect. You go to Walmart to make money quick, maybe to ride the tiger and see if you don’t get bit. If you want steady and stable growth, you sell somewhere else.
Walmart’s benefit is getting stuff dirt cheap, for a little while. Below the fully loaded cost of production, in some cases.
Yes.
And then?
Not saying this hasn’t happened, but if it’s company policy one of two things happen:
1. Their suppliers dry up and they are forced to modify their policy.
2. Their suppliers dry up and they go out of business.
More than likely, the suppliers this happened to failed to meet their agreed to efficiency targets and were booted in favor of those who could. That’s not wrecking companies, that’s just free market competition. But, yes, I’m speculating.
Single-payer legal care. Because no lawyer does anything worth more than minimum wage.
(I’ll let you all figure out how much of this is serious.)
*thinks about the work I do*
This checks out.
Seriously, I’m more valuable to my team as a software dev than as a patent attorney.
But, that would make the supply of lawyers dry up!
Ooh, I get it. Carry on.
Imagine how expensive your car insurance would be if it was required by law to cover car washes, gasoline, tire replacement, driver’s training, and oil changes.
“But I only have to shell out a $1 copay at the car wash!”/derp
I was driving to see Yusef a few weeks ago. He lives way the fuck up in the northwest corner of AZ (Go BhC!) and I’m in the valley, so it’s quite a haul. There’s a long stretch of empty road once you’re on Rte 93 and if you don’t plan your gas stops right, you can find yourself in trouble. The gas stations in Wikieup seem to know this.
Gas in AZ usually runs about $3/gallon; at least it was when I was headed up to see Yusef.
I didn’t plan right and had to stop in Wikieup for gas and I didn’t even look at what the price was because I didn’t have a choice. I was running on fumes. When I started paying attention and watched the numbers spin, I was like, “Holy shit! It’s over $4 a gallon! Those gouging mf’ers.”
I walked in to get a drink and I was thinking about this exact issue. By the time I got back outside, it had hit me why my outrage was unjustified. I looked around at the surrounding countryside and something from my days in the military hit me: how hard must it be to get gas all the way out here? Just in terms of cost to run lines, or for a truck to come out there, I was in the middle of fucking nowhere. What must the costs of bringing that “good to market” have been for those gas stations in the first instance?
Price gouging is the economics of adversity and most people are so used to living in suburbia or metropolitan areas, basically in living lives of plenty, that no one considers the costs – what is seen and unseen – of bringing “goods to market” in adverse conditions and simply can’t get past their emotional response to “getting screwed” during adversity. When the reset eventually happens, we shouldn’t despair. A lot of people will simply get to re-learn what our distant forebearers did the “hard way.” It turns out there really is only one way to truly learn.
I don’t know about elsewhere, but in Missouri, margins on gas are slim to none. Most of the price of gasoline is eaten up by taxes.
Maryland’s like that. Most gas stations make their real money off of the convenience store. The market for gasoline is so competitive that you rarely see a price difference of more than, say, two cents on the gallon, and that’s if the station is relatively isolated or especially easy to get to. Otherwise, if you bump your price up you’ll either lose business on that basis alone or the station across the street will cut their prices by a cent or two and get you that way. The prices are what they are because of the taxes and fees, not the station owners or gas companies.
The feds and state make more per gallon from taxes than the store owner does in profit per gallon.
As a fellow MD resident, I can say there’s more variation and competition in the high test gasoline than the regular variety. The price spread can reach $0.50/gal for 93 octane when comparing e.g. wholesale club price to the most expensive station in town. Even when comparing like to like (Royal Farms, Wawa, Sheetz, High’s, etc.) there can be a spread of up to $0.20/gal for 93 octane.
I’ve read that the 80-20* rule applies to gas stations. 80% of the sales receipts are for gasoline and that provides 20% of the profits. 20% of sales are the c-store stuff and that accounts for 80% of the profits.
*gross generalization, but most have a similar mix.
Plus the issue of having to provide a living for yourself with a limited number of potential customers. Some of my equipment at work is outrageously expensive, but the suppliers probably sell fewer than one a quarter on average. And it takes highly trained, really smart people to design and build them. So the margins on a parts-plus-labor-to-construct-basis must seem absurdly high, but without that none would be built ever.
People up here bitch and moan about the price of gas in the villages off the road system, and yeah it’s $4-8/gallon, but like you said, look at the cost to get the relatively small quantities of gas to the villages.
This a year old, but it shows how expensive fuel is for these small, remote villages.
https://dcced.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=bb871a9cbc024e1bbd4fc65c679f8612
We all compare prices with what we ‘used to pay’ or ‘want to pay’. Really the proper comparison is always: Do I prefer to pay this price or do without this good. Having driven all over the west, lest me say I prefer to pay the “Last Gas for $250 miles” price in Utah, AZ or New Mexico, because doing without means a pretty good shot at dying in the desert. Besides, in Utah at least I ended up having a pleasant chat with the little blond Mormon girl working at the gas station. Super friendly (probably because she saw 1 person every hour or two ), cheerful and sweet.
“Chat”? Is this your way of announcing your conversion?
Right now, according to GasBuddy, the lowest price you can pay for a litre of regular gasoline in Pitt Meadows (where I used to live in the Lower Rainland™) is 132.9¢ CDN, while in my new city of Edmonton, Alberta is 80.9¢/litre. That’s a 39% difference in price, and it’s pretty consistent over time. There are two reasons for the difference:
(1) too many idiots in the Lower Rainland™ have repeatedly delayed the building of a second crude oil pipeline to Burnaby, where the regional refineries are located; and
(2) the regional supergovernmental umbrella authority, the GVRD (Greater Vancouver Regional District) puts a stupid amount of additional taxes on a litre of gas to fund all of their pet projects, their crappy regional transit, etc.
Driving from (say) Maple Ridge (inside the GVRD) east to Mission (outside the GVRD) can oftentimes see the price of gasoline drop by 15¢/litre or more without blinking an eye.
And yet, people in the Lower Rainland™ are always astounded by the difference, and think that somehow that gap is because “the Albertans have all the petrochemicals.”
No PST in Alberta probably helps as well.
Yep. It’s just tax layered on top of tax layered on top of yet more tax. I found living there incredibly disspiriting, and I was constantly baffled that so many people there weren’t even aware of the astonishing pile-on of taxes for most of the stuff they bought.
People rip on Wikieup, but its pretty nice country. It also gets bonus points for being 30 mins from Thunder Ranch.
None of these moralists are going to be upset when they sell their house for hundreds of thousands more than they paid for it.
+1 Antique Road Show
I’m reminded of a quote from Milton Friedman on Donahue. Something along the lines of “Everybody wants the products they buy to be cheap and the products they sell to be expensive.”
Oh dear Lord
I didn’t know Mike! was suicidal…
Jan 21st, breaking WHH’s record.
Who doesn’t want to shoot themselves in the back of the head? Happens all the time.
He doesn’t want her, she’s making him the unwilling host.
Hillary is Krang and Bloomberg is the robot body.
I’m seeing it more like Chekov and Kahn. Hillary pulls a wriggling worm from some orifice and it burrows into Bloomy’s brain and puts him under her control.
Kodos and Kang…….
I’ll re-post the comment I made in the dead thread:
Naming Hillary as VP sounds like a sure-fired way to become the first US President to commit suicide.
Be fair! It might be a mugging in the oval office.
That combo would be the biggest FU to the left wing, especially the yutes. I guess that it’s so bizarre and ironic it’s really fitting for the DNC. Would be expect them to do anything that wasn’t opposite what they say they believe?
Mike Bloomberg ‘is considering picking Hillary Clinton as his running mate in the 2020 Democratic race to help take on Trump’
So she can help you lose to Trump? And that is if she doesn’t kill you to take your spot.
Well, he needs a chick or a POC on the ticket. Dem rules.
But why her? Is he thinking everybody who voted for her last time will vote for her again as VP?
The Drudge Report claims that they have access to internal documents that show that poling that Bloomberg paid for says that she is the people’s choice for his VP. They also claim that Bloomberg is considering it, as though he already knows that Hillary Clinton wants to run or that she will do it whether she wants to or not. Perhaps Bloomberg is taking it as a sign that she wants to be VP this time that Hillary Clinton said on Ellen that she does not want to be anyone’s VP for 2020.
It wouldn’t surprise me if any of the following are true:
1) This is a bullshit story planted by either Bloomy or one of the other candidates for some short term gain
2) Hillary has planned this with Bloomy from day one with the goal being to get her into power without forcing her to go through the primary process
3) Bloomy thinks this is an actual good idea and poses no threat to his life or reputation
For fun, rather than taking this as claiming what is, assume that Bloomberg believes the betting odds that US President Donald J. Trump will be reelected. In that scenario: What is the return on investment for his campaign for the nomination? What is the point of bringing Hillary into the mix either as actual pick or as trial balloon?
If ten people with the same fatal illness need the two available doses of a life-saving drug, the argument runs, it’s immoral to award the drug to the highest bidders.
And, of course, the guy who owns the recipe will take that cash and buy an island in the South Pacific. He’d never use that revenue to brew up more doses for the next two or three high bidders.
The “highest bidder” immorality argument is pure distilled class envy. If you don’t distribute a limited resource on the basis of who can pay most for it because it’s immoral, what’s the “moral” option? Some third party arbitrarily deciding who needs it more?
The moral option is to give it to people in the political class first. Duh.
I was wondering the same. If those types don’t like the rich getting it, they’re free to contribute $$ to the person they think more deserving.
And why is it immoral? Even assuming zero sum logic, 8 people are dying and 2 living no matter how you choose. Why is random chance fair and bidding unfair? Bidding rewards the person who is saving two lives the most. Random chance doesn’t even do that. Or, should we pick based on some other criteria? Who decides? I’m not rich by US standards. I have no health insurance and am toast in this scenario, but that is my problem not anyone else’s.
I’m going to find a Dermatologist that takes Cash/Debit, and have a spot of Cancer burned off the forearm, I’ll gather it will be pretty cheap,
it’s immoral to award the drug to the highest bidders
Because when I am forced with a difficult moral choice, I always just flip a coin. Randomness is the essence of morality.
Because nobody has an inherently greater claim on the drug, the challenge is find the better way to allocate it. I’m waiting. . . .
Obviously children first (the younger the better) then women (the hotter the better) then people with important skills like doctors and carpenters.
In beer news, next week I may have to make it up to one of the Fat Head’s near me. They’re planning on doing a Leap Day Stout tap takeover. 17 Imperial stouts on tap ranging from 8.8% to 16%. Then a handful of regular strength stouts.
That’s pretty sweet.
Literally.
Looking over the list, only about half of them are dessert/pastry stouts. The others should be heavy with coffee/roast notes. The one downside is it’s at the smaller location, which usually has a long wait for a table (or bar seats).
That’s good. I like a good Imperial Stout but many of them are just too much.
Oh, just cracked one of the 40th anniversary Sierra Nevada beers. I am a fan.
That is good stuff.
Yummy.
Silly rabbit. You should have gone to work for the FBI.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/navy-yard-worker-gets-6-months-lying-fbi-about-being-n1136826
Spot the stolen base:
In case you are wondering, nowhere in the article is the assertion even made, much less supported with evidence, that Vanguard America uses or advocates violence to prevent others from exercising their Constitutional rights.
The article quoted the SPLC as saying Vanguard was a nazi group! What more proof could anyone want?
Duh!
Don’t forget the completely unnecessary and irrelevant inclusion of the Charlottesville killing.
I totally get this. After all this was very very much more serious than an officer of the court working for the FBI lying to a FISA court on a repeated basis.
Checked the ADL webiste for Vanguard America. All the ADL comes up with is ‘Murcia is fo Wpipo. They seem to post a lot of flyers. Even the ADL doesn’t assert and violence or advocating of violence.
Oh, but wait. there’s this
“Auburn, Alabama, April 18, 2017: VA members attended a Richard Spencer speech at Auburn University”
I’m sure every member of the Brady Campaign or Moms Demand Action is subject to the same treatment.
He was at Charlottesville just like that other guy they helpfully include in the article for further understanding.
What in the fuck. Talk about a witch hunt.
Why would you do that? That seems terminally stupid. Does he get to keep his security clearance or something?
So much for the courts’ already tortured reading of the First Amendment…
One wonders if McSwain would feel the same way about Communists.
Tuned into abc pre-xfl and they are showing the X Games. One of those snow bike thingamabobs is seriously on my want list.
Go Grauniads!
Go DC DuhFenders!
Bloomberg will use the power of the state to
enslave you keep you safe.*sigh*, “keep you safe” was not supposed to be stricken.
Bloomberg will use the power of the state. Valid.
A Nanny in Manhattan https://youtu.be/4fINpWTj-Bw
My kid applied for a job there (haven’t heard back yet), and they’re paying $11/hour. For a 16yo kid and her first job in a place where minimum wage is $7.50.
I saw your comment about this the other day, Mojeaux. I have known several people who went to work at Walmart and ended up doing very well. Disclaimer: most of those stories were from the Sam Walton days; Walmart has really cut back on the potential earnings and stock grants an employee can get, now.
But- they all said basically the same thing. Walmart is desperate for good people, and if you (your XX) are willing to do more than stand around with a dumb look on your face, you will get plucked out of the mud and given raises, training and promotions. And if you are willing to relocate to a different store, so much the better.
I remember getting a job at IBM while in college that paid $10.20/hr (min wage was $5.25?). I was willing to stab people for my manager at that price. Shoot, I’m still so grateful, I’d probably help Claude bury a body today if he showed up and asked. That job was enough to let me live in poverty and not have to go ask the govt for help while I was in college.
I had a good time working at Walmart in their fabric and crafts department.
It was only a part-time gig because generally speaking, when I was single, I’d get a second job to avoid being alone in the dark during the winter.
The store manager noticed and told me he was putting me on management track, which was flattering, but I knew I couldn’t work on my feet 8 hours a day.
If my kid can do that (I have my doubts because of orthopedic problems the docs don’t feel are severe enough to do surgery), then she has a good path, I agree.
I think employers today are much more accommodating for issues and ailments then when we were younger. It might not be as detrimental as you think. ??
I really really really want her to get this job (she got pinged for amphetamines, they had to contact the pharmacy to verify the rx, but they haven’t called back) and I want her to do well.
I think it will give her something her soul really needs, something of her own to hold onto, as well as hope for the future. This house revolves around my son and she has had the worst end of the worst stick.
I hope it helps.
Getting a job when I was teenager helped with some things. The others couldn’t be helped.
I love how employers, for the most part, are now quite accepting of flexible hours so people can get their kid drop off and pick ups done, come in when the commute is best for them. Get your 40 hrs in at the minimum, and get your work done.
Yusef, I saw the gofundme Hayek set up for you surpassed it’s goal. I hope that helps things go easier, and lets you know you’re not alone. Godspeed.
Thanks C, I can finish the task now, and then begin the great Purge….
I’m proud of each and every one of the contributors, including those who couldn’t help financially but provided emotional support and encouragement.
Yusef need never doubt he has a Family in Glibs.
^^ THIS!! ^^
And Thanks to Hayek for putting it all together so fast, time is of the essence, in a way,
Damn seasonal allergies.
Go DC DuhFenders!
I’ve chosen to be a Houston fan, I think.
I’m taking DC because, like the Redskins and DC United, it is the “home” team. Also, eastern conference > western conference, which is my general rule with sports I watch.
Right??
The opposite for me,with some exceptions. (eg KC over SF because the Chiefs treated my Soldiers very well after we returned from Iraq and SF has Pelosi.)
What did the Chiefs do?
No team near me, and the only midwest team, St. Louis, looked like crap. I can’t cheer for anything from DC, NY or Seattle.
Right there with you CPRM. Looked up the list of teams, and the closest team is DC.
I don’t have a team yet, it’s just I watched the Grauniads win last week and well they are NY.
Touchdown!
P.s. I hate the extra point(s) rule. If they want to emphasize the td just award 7 points for it to make it more significant than a field goal and have no extra point(s) after the td.
I’m on the opposite side. I much prefer the extra point rule and wouldn’t mind seeing it catch on in other leagues.
Worstest photo bomb ever.
https://mobile.twitter.com/thefigen/status/1226903310814318592
Lol.
Why do so many women want to video themselves doing yoga? Seems quite narcissistic.
Um.
Ever clicked one of Q’s lynx?
You answered your own question.
Checking their form?
Allowing you to check their form.
If they’re willing to show it…
That’s hilarious
LOLOL
That was awesome.
That’s nuts.
He looks like he’s having a ball.
That’ll testes her patience.
No matter how vital a good or service is to human survival, it’s not immune to scarcity. As long as healthcare is a scarce resource, it will be subject to supply and demand and will be allocated accordingly. Whether it’s allocated according to a market or according to some faceless bureaucrat changes nothing, it still *can’t* be “free” and there will always be winners and losers.
C’est la vie.
Have these folks never heard of triage?
Joaquin Phoenix is a nattering moron.
I take it he doesn’t like veal.
I hate the @#$@%! chyrons on ABC/ESPN. Cover MORE of the screen, why don’t you? FOX >> ABC.
The excessive on-screen graphics drove me crazy when I tried to watch the dearly-departed Independents on Fox Business Channel. I took to listening to it (often recording it to listen later) on SiriusXM because I found the crawls and sidebars made it unwatchable.
i HATE ABC too! They are the only major “broadcast” network that won’t stream their content to FUBO (an online a la carte service you can subscribe to on Roku). So no ABC for me. FUBO does NBC, CBS, FOX, and several others, including tons (tonnes?) of “foreign” sports like futbol, Aussie rules, rugby, etc. The networks then get their cut of FUBO subscription money and everyone is a winner.
But ABC is a total dick about it.
They want you to subscribe to Disney Plus, or whatever they’re calling it.
They have nothing to offer me. I’m going to go outside and sip a mimosa while eating chocolate covered strawberries and looking at Mount Palomar.
Fuck Disney.
I see that ESPN+ has the current ABC game on.
I like them – tons of soccer, hockey, tennis, and other sporting events not on Fubo and it’s only 5 bucks a month. No Disney.
ESPN is Disney.
Hulu is as well.
The girlfriend requested we add Disney+ (we already had Hulu w/ commercials). So technically, I’ve got ESPN+ too.
I know. I meant no Disney programming.
I wanted to see a movie whose trailer I liked. I looked everywhere for it. Only on Disney.
One movie.
No thanks.
Which movie, i may have it?
It’s stupid and I am embarrassed.
Noelle with Anna Kendrick.
She’s in the Hilton commercials for their app, right? I like her in those, but I’ve never seen her in anything else. Can imagine she’d be delightful in a comedy.
Nobody’s judging you.
*points, snickers*
I found it. I’m at my local brewpub, Rockaway Brewery, sipping a delightful milk stout. When I get home. I’ll get it into my Mega drive and post the link in whatever current thread.
I find the Hilton commercials to be pretty obnoxious, and she’s wearing too many clothes.
She’s in The Accountant, which is rewatchable.
I think she’s adorable. The Hilton commercial is tongue-in-cheek.
I knew I would be judged, you bunch of judgy cats.
+1 on Anna Kendrick. My spouse hates almost all female actors from the past 15-years, but likes her.
She’s trying too hard to make the Hilton Ads tongue in cheek. That’s why I don’t like them.
Meeeow.
Here ya go. Link expires next Saturday.
Thank you! I’ll download it when I get to my office.
The home team kept their streak alive, but I was reminded again why I don’t watch basketball – foul after foul after foul. ***YAWN***
Todd-o-phonic Todd is interviewing Robbie Robertson on his show today. 3 to 6 pm EST on the fun 91 WFMU!!
Wfmu.org
@CPRM In a doc office that plays waiting room music way too loudly. Pop music, half of which is 30-40 years old. So a song comes on. I recognize the voice but can’t place it. About halfway through it the voice twangs a bit and the hint of a steel guitar and think…”Is that supposed to be … COUNTRY music?” I go googling. Huh. It IS.
When *I* can’t tell if I’d classify it as country, it’s bad. ?
Mr. GT on modern country music: “Rock & roll wearing a cowboy hat.”
Shit, that ain’t even rock n roll.
Srsly.
Sixx:A.M.’s “Modern Vintage” album is not hard rock. It tries, but it’s very pop-y.
My musical taste is terribly pedestrian, so I like a lot of it. Whatever catches my ear, you know? I don’t bother with esoteric stuff that requires an acquisition period anymore. I just want a dopamine hit and I don’t really care what genre gives it to me.
I no longer have to care for country, it is a relief. Back to early 00s metal!
Just play TOOL on a continuous loop, they’ve never made a bad song.
My idiot state is attempting to institute “universal” pre-k. Given the abysmal outcomes of k-12, I can only assume it will be a total failure.
Goddammit.
I can only assume it will be a total failure
It succeeds at leftist indoctrination. Gotta get ’em young!
and union contributions to the Dems. So by that metric it’s a success!
My state is starting to rope in 3-year-olds. Because why not.
Closer and closer to the cradle.
closer and closer to the grave
The Defenders are defending better than the Guardians are guarding.
“Mr. Guardian, what do you think went wrong with the offense?”
“Everything.” (paraphrasing)
LOL
That was funny going into halftime.
His interview after that interception was much more professional.
I’m reminded of John McKay, the first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers:
Reporter: How do you feel about your team’s execution?
McKay: I’m in favor of it.
“We didn’t tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking.”
https://youtu.be/PkxaunLybuM
https://youtu.be/qKtGiLyka5A
A Swiss friend, my wife, and I saw a drag show where one of the contestants sang that song while wearing a bright yellow fringe dress. When she gyrated her hips, the fringes flung out like the bristles on a automatic car wash.
Gay 90’s bar in Minneapolis back in the 90’s. To get to the drag show you had to go through the men’s bathroom. There was actual fucking going on as we walked through. Quite eye opening for a simple country mouse like me.
Got fed up with the seats in the FJ Cruiser, which are universally and justifiably loathed. Went down the rabbit hole, popped out with Recaro seats. Fuck me, that costs. Bonus – no side airbag, no weight sensor, so my guy is going to have to disable some beepers and other bullshit.
He’s cool with it. The owner, who I know, signed off on “disabling safety equipment”. They also do speed shop stuff, so they aren’t exactly what you would call safety conscious. Which works for me. I hate getting nagged by my car.
+1 “Your door is a jar.”
Relevant
I love my seats. I’m not sure what some of the switches do, but they seem to make it more comfortable.
Heated seats are the best thing ever! Maybe someday I’ll strike it rich and can get a car that has COOLED seats too!
Cooled seats, especially on a long drive are the schnizzle.
Cooled seats are awesome! Only way I could have black leather seats in the summer.
I did cloth on my truck. I love it. Heats quicker in the winter, cool in the summer. And it’s incredibly tough.
First cloth I’ve had in 30 years!
What type do you have? We are in the market – a lot of driving in our future.
Make sure and drive a Volvo. They make amazing seats.
We rented a Volvo on our last trip to Austria/Germany -nice.
I’ve had a bunch over the years. No matter the vintage, the seats are fantastic.
Unfortunately, like most super nice cars, they get spendy as they age.
They do. So did Peugeot.
Saab had the very best seats.
Lexus GX 460 Luxury.
If you liked the Land Cruiser, the Lexus SUVS are just rebadged Toyotas.
Lexus LX 570 = Toyota Land Cruiser
Lexus GX 460 = Toyota Prado (not sold in the US)
The GX 460 is slightly smaller, which I needed to fit in my garage. I can’t say enough good things about the seats. Variable lumbar support, heated and cooled, the position adjusts about 7 different ways, etc etc. I used to get back and leg cramps when driving, but now it’s a thing of the past.
Local brewpub took all my LPs off of my hands and are plying me with beers as remuneration. I like milk stouts. I like milk stouts very much.
Purging/downsizing? Hope things are going as well as can be expected.
Yeah… still have no idea where I’ll land but I’m purging so as to travel light.
Hope you can get some cash for some of what you’re purging so you can hire a good “advocate.”
Sadly, triblive.com did not have the content that I was anticipating.
The voice of black America
Yet black America needs Bloomberg neither to have had a perfect past on race nor to “get it” 100 percent today—and neither does the rest of America. What black Americans want by overwhelming margins is for a moral and intelligent candidate to replace Donald Trump, and fetishizing wokeness above all other concerns may be antithetical to that paramount goal.
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Claims that these statements are “racist” are exaggerated, illustrating how heedlessly overextended certain Americans’ usage of that word has become. Nothing in what Bloomberg said suggests a sense of black people as lesser beings. The phrasing is more bumptious than Trumptious. Bloomberg was indecorous.
For example, Bloomberg’s justification for concentrating on black and Latino neighborhoods was sound. Those areas suffered from a disproportionate amount of crime for reasons beyond most residents’ control. As a matter of crime fighting, primly assigning just as many cops to the Upper East Side and Kips Bay would have been insane.
The problem was that the policy morphed into an onslaught on millions of innocent people for no real reason. Out of 2.3 million friskings up against a wall or car, no weapon was found in 98.5 percent of them. On 99 percent of the black people stopped, no weapon was found. Contraband (such as drugs) was found on 1.8 percent of black people stopped—and on 2.3 percent of white people.
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The question is: Does Bloomberg’s lack of understanding disqualify him from the presidency? Here is someone who as mayor, taking no pay, accomplished a great deal that people on the left salute. He has supported gun control and climate change. He even made a serious try at learning Spanish. His controversial attempt to ban large soda portions was intended as a strategy to improve the health of, primarily, poor people of color.
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The truly enlightened response to any pious insistences that Bloomberg be sent home over stop-and-frisk is to ask: Even if it means letting Trump have a second term? People who say yes will reveal themselves as fringe extremists, while the harrumphing of those less forthright will illuminate the difference between striking a pose for posterity and working for the better in an imperfect world.
He may not be perfect, but gol dang it, he’s the authoritarian busybody do-gooder the black folk need to save them from themselves.
It’s worth reading in full, just to watch this guy’s rhetorical contortionist act. Most black people might think they have a reason to despise and distrust Bloomberg, but they’re wrong. They’re just too dumb to know what’s really important.
Bad Orange Man is bad.
I generally like McWhorter but I think I’ll pass on that.
The press is trying to dress up Shorty Bloomberg and Grandpa Gulag so they can be seen in public.
See Krugabe “Sanders is not a real Socialist” last night with Winston’s Mom. And this in the NR.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/02/the-medias-bernie-sanders-makeover-begins/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=flex&utm_term=first
“What black Americans want by overwhelming margins is for a moral and intelligent candidate to replace Donald Trump”
Yeah sure, you are the official spokesperson for an overwhelming margin of Black Americans. What is it, like 97% who want exactly what you want?
I’m still enjoying the XFL.
This will probably make the drugs fall out of your ass, but the President retweeted a fart video:
https://twitter.com/PaulSam27131285/status/1228413300884504576
I like Kirk Menafee calling the Saturday game.
“NEW VIDEO: 12 y/o Drag Queen ‘Desmond is Amazing’ Is In Real Danger
Video evidence exists that he may be being drugged
His mother has also placed him on video with a convicted murderer & drug addict.
This is so more serious than “drag isn’t for kids”.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1228740771328622592
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mT9vP4jxIQ
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/child-drag-queen-desmond-is-amazing-is-in-real-danger/
“Disturbing allegations” from people who saw a picture and watched a video. Get back to me when someone who actually knows the kid is involved and I might be able to find some outrage then.
What?
The article you linked to had no first hand knowledge of the alleged abuse only citing that “many” were upset by what they saw on a video, and that others are “concerned”. Get me a family member or ‘in loco parentis’ type voicing some concerns and I may give a shit, til then it sounds like a bunch of busybodies telling someone else how to raise their kid.
Raise your kids how you want. But if you let your pre adolescent dance in drag while people toss him dollar bills Imma judge your ass.
You ain’t woke, you transphobist!
Good afternoon, wokesters.
When I was a kid, there was farmer who used to slaughter his hogs in a barn near the road right where the school bus stopped. He had a wagon right there beside the road and he’d put the heads of the slaughtered hogs on that wagon. So some days, we children would arrive and be getting off the bus, only to be greeted by smiling dead hog heads. I don’t know why he did hat, for the shock factor or what, sick bastard.
Anyway, every time I see an article with a photo of William Barr’s fat hog head on it, it reminds me of that. And I suspect Trump will have Barr’s fat hog head on the chopping block soon.
The West Side market in Cleveland has several meat stalls that will have full skinned goats, pork skin, and other items for display and sale. Never seems to bother the kids, it’s the pre-teens and teens who get freaked out by it if they’ve never seen where meat comes from before.
I glanced over that and thought for half a second it read “Barr’s fog hat“.
NOT QUEER ENOUGH!
The activists were part of a group protesting outside the event that reflected a growing disquiet among the LBGTQ+ community when it came to the Buttigieg campaign. Buttigieg may be the first openly gay candidate to sweep the national stage and perform as well as he has in Iowa and New Hampshire, but more and more young queer voters say they feel he is not representative of them or their experiences.
“I’m definitely proud of the fact that a gay candidate has made it thus far, but it’s hard to enjoy or appreciate when his stances are so middle of the road and speak to a predominantly white, upper class audience,” Celi Tamayo-Lee, one of the activists escorted out of the fundraiser, said in an interview before the event.
Friday’s protesters cited many of the same issues that members of the LGBTQ+ community nationwide say are giving them pause – Buttigieg’s unwillingness to support Medicare for All, free college for all, his issues with communities of color, his ties to billionaire donors – all issues that are not specific to the LGBTQ+ community but still affect them at certain intersections.
“We need better, we deserve better,” Adiel Pollydore, a 26-year-old program director with Student Action who is black and queer, told the Guardian. “There’s a level of irony that this event costs hundreds of dollars to attend in the Mission, a historically Latinx and immigrant neighborhood. What does it say that this event is not accessible to the folks that live in the neighborhood where it’s being held?”
Fanatical cultists, they are.
How come there weren’t articles that Obama wasn’t black enough? Or did I just miss that somehow?
Wasn’t that the entire point of the “Magic Negro” moniker?
I saw an ad today for Norwegian cruise lines. I laughed out loud. Who would get on a cruise ship right now?
A fool. I wouldn’t get on one in Europe now.
I dunno. It might be peak time to get a killer deal on a fjord cruise.
“Pete Buttigieg represents a very small percentage of the experiences of queer and trans people in this country, being white and being cisgender and being a man, being someone who is highly educated,” Pollydore said. “We know queer and trans folks of color, especially black queer and trans folks, live at the intersection of so many systems of oppression in this country. This run for president could have been a really unique opportunity to lift up those experiences and talk about all the different ways we are criminalized and our safety is constantly threatened and we are shut out of institutions on the regular. But this campaign has not been about that.”
Twinkling regurgitation plethora instantaneous butterfly.
Purple monkey dishwasher
Here’s a slightly more coherent explanation.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-queer-opposition-to-pete-buttigieg-explained
Mike Munger is your man on the topic of “gouging”. As a bonus nachos check out one of the very early episodes of Russ Roberts’ Econ Talk podcast in which he talks to Mike Munger about same, and his personal experiences with such.
Excellent link, JD – thanks!
“Do you think real man should hunting &killing the animals? Do u think hunting it’s a sport? See this hunter so proud of killing this poor wild pig using sniper rifle and his dogs while he filming .RIP poor pig I feel sorry for you .RT if u are against trophy hunting”
https://twitter.com/davidsting414/status/1222852306066190336
“sniper rifle”
I feeling bad the pig but need learn man do freedom his way and not in my freedom very sad but Dragunov make fast death of bacon dog
Did someone say “bacon”?
I hope that tweeter’s neighborhood is overrun by wild boars.
Heh.
Good shot.
With a 12 gauge.
“pete buttigieg wears shoes with fake toe extensions to make his feet look bigger”
https://twitter.com/mooncult/status/1228635486601613312
que?