Not at my best. SP and I had a rollicking evening which featured beet greens, garlic, fresh eggs, and Clos de Briords. And we’re delighting in seeing more and more open rebellion, with massively damaged respect for government. The local news covered the big Air Force flyover in Phoenix, and they made the mistake of having their chat window open for viewer comments. My hopes for the future of America have increased greatly after seeing what things dominated the comments… Traffic was back to normal yesterday, and the only places we saw masks were in the upper class areas of Scottsdale. It’s too goddamn hot for that shit.
Birthdays of the day comprise a guy who kept me alive in my flying days; a do-gooder with a camera; the (((pride))) of Milwaukee- and one tough lady; a guy who always had his hands on his organ; one more great musician who was a fucking moron and made sure we all knew it; a Nobel laureate who probably wrote the best science book for laymen I’ve ever seen; a guy who had a very full life… but wait, there’s more!; a do-gooder who actually IS a do-gooder; and finally, Spud’s man-crush.
Let’s dooze the nooze.
They are rebelling. Everywhere.
I know, let’s put more troops here.
I blame the rapid expansion of trailer parks.
…and then the Mayor went to get her hair done.
“With the Michael Malice endorsement in hand, I’m a shoo in. Or shoe-inn.”
Team Red: “We can do stupidly political shit with the spending spree just as well as Team Blue.”
OK, listen up NFL: if you fuck this season, I’ll be in the militia. I mean, with storylines like this and this, we HAVE to be back on the field.
Old Guy Music today features an amazing lineup behind Clifford Brown- I love what Max Roach does with his hi-hat. And Clifford is… Clifford. Absolutely on fire. They don’t make ’em like that any more. Harold Land smokes on sax, Richie Powell on piano… just… holy shit.
and Clos de Briords. – never heard of it. any good?
Fabulous. Best Muscadet ever.
can’t say I have seen much Muscadet in Romanian wine shops.
Muscadet (which is confused by too many housewives with the super-sweet Moscato) is totes amazing, especially with seafood.
If you can’t find it, don’t fret — there’s always Picpoul de Pinet from the south of France, or any white Rhone, or Chablis if you have the money.
Italy has many similar crisp dry whites. If you’re on a budget, seek out Orvieto or Pecorino.
The nice thing about the Briords is that it’s produced sur lie, so it has all the acidity and minerality you’d want in a Muscadet, but a creaminess in the texture which is a surprise and a delight.
I don’t drink much whites and if I do I generally get local anyway
I do have some chablis and sancerre in the fridge… got a good discount.
One sancerte is 2005 though wonder how it holds up
For italians I have the occasional Pinot Grigio
They are rebelling. Everywhere. – meh as a mask wearer myself, I don’t see a problem with wearing one in a store.
Refusing to do something that lessens the chances of you and others getting the virus is just silly.
It’s been two months since I had the virus. Until yesterday I hadn’t seen a soul for over two weeks. The chances of me getting or spreading the virus are about on par with an inanimate object’s.
You had it? In theory, you are most likely immune.
There was no test, but all the symptoms matched, and it was right at the start of March, not long after exposure to a number of wide-travelling individuals including downstaters and a vendor account rep.
I also tested negative, but the tests aren’t that accurate.
Anyway, you could have had the flu or any number of things.
The lack of congestion is the big sign that makes me suspect Wuhan. It was a fever with cough and body aches. Fever broke after three days. Cough lingered longest.
When I get the flu, there is always congestion and runny nose.
<— If ya gotta do it, ham it up, pardner!
It’s up to the store to determine what they will require for entry.
If some guy wants to yell at an employee for that, then he’s just being an asshole.
What is that in the main page pic? Those fried onion flower things that Spike loved so much at the Bronze?
artichokes?
Artichokes Jew-Style.
‘Member when our authoritative betters were telling folks that masks don’t work and to quit hoarding them? People are tired of being lied to and pushed around.
That said, the poor $13/hour schlub at the big-box store isn’t the person to abuse.
Why not? Don’t discriminate, hate everyone equally.
Dole out the abuse accordingly, especially if someone starts going all Karen on you.
Right. They’re just following orders.
Outrage Theatre.
The Auschwitz Museum and Memorial condemned a protester who brought a sign featuring the Nazi slogan “Arbeit macht frei” to a rally against Illinois’s stay-at-home orders. – not he brightest this guy
Nazi comparisons for me but not for thee. That being said, when you start throwing around Hitler comparisons you’ve already lost the argument.
And yet, it was apropos.
Or, if one were to give him the slimmest window of good faith for just a second, and consider the context, it is actually kind of clever to turn the totalitarian nonsense on it’s head in the face of totalitarian nonsense. I realise that’s not a hornets’ nest anyone wants to poke because the Minisitry of Outrage is well coordinated in amplifying their reductive, bad faith narrative, but isn’t it funny how now only progressives/lefties get to call people nazis now, as if any mention of it from anyone else (at least perceived to be) on the right/unwoke is some sort of (not so) tacit admission of being a full on boy from Brazil 88er white supremacist? The propaganda depends so much on constantly reinforcing this very basic, one-dimensional scale of left and right, and how everything that is “authoritarian” and bad is at the “right end”, with fascism as far away from anything left-wing as it could possibly be. I’m covering very old ground here, and unfortunately the only analog for what I’m saying as understood by lefties is “horseshoe theory”, and they refuse to understand anything beyond that reductive model, which their programming tells them to reject, including any rational arguments about libertarian vs authoritarian. They’d read this and claim I’m trying to apologise for fascism somehow because it’s already assumed that not jumping straight to the signaling of “NAZIS BAD!” must be an attempt at sophistry and apologia in support of nazis. Fascism/communism/potato. Non-progressives/conservatives/conservatarians mostly just sort of give in and think “oh well we’d better not make any mention of nazis because we know what happens then”, which basically means the relentless, absurd propaganda has worked. I sort of prove my point to myself when I think “yeah, bite back and reclaim hating on nazis just as much as the screaming lefties,” because then I think, “noooooooooope, not touching that. I don’t need that noise.”
They really have won. I didn’t explain this very well and I think I will get some replies that haven’t really understood what I’m trying to say and I’ll have to keep coming back and trying to explain better what I meant. Even here i don’t expect many good faith responses because it’s just that toxic. I hate nazism and fascism with every ounce of my being. Fuck that garbage, racist, totalitarian ideology. I also hate dishonest, reductive arguments. I probably just made some, polemicising (?) to try making my point, but asdfghjkl;
Or, if one were to give him the slimmest window of good faith for just a second, and consider the context, it is actually kind of clever to turn the totalitarian nonsense on it’s head in the face of totalitarian nonsense. – meh that phrase is a bit to loaded
Yeah you’re right. It’s not proportional. People being starved and murdered in concentration camps isn’t quite the image you want to conjur up trying to protest the lockdown. Man made a bad choice. My point, I think, still stands, however autistically I may have tried to make it, but, I made it in the wrong place.
I think the Michigan governor is flailing, and the Streisand effect is making more people realize that she’s the Nazi in this example. But I’m an optimist.
You have to speak to gov’t in their language.
“”In the short time beginning on May 1, 2020, that face coverings have been required for entry into stores/restaurants, store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse,” Stillwater City Manager Norman McNickle said in a statement.”
I think it’s fine if the stores require customers to wear masks. It’s their store.
Although in this case the city is asking store employees to enforce their proclamation.
They require stores to be tax collectors.a
Then there’s Kansas City’s totalitarian 10/10/10 plan, which involves businesses having people sign in so they can track who gives whom teh sickness. Sure, put yourself on a registry. That’ll bring in the business.
Although, the track and trace approach is apparently very effective – I don’t necessarily think making businesses keep a register of customer’s visits is the right way to do it, but it works. Much better to apply that intelligently than a one-size-fits-all, state-wide lockdown.
You might be okay being tracked, but I’m not. I can eat at home or go through the drive-thru.
It’s like eschewing airlines: I can roadtrip.
I don’t need to eat or travel badly enough to have to endure tracking or the TSA.
Its effective if you start it while cases are in single digits.
If we had sufficient tests and started in January, it might have worked, for some definition of worked.
Contact tracing is useful for STDs and diseases that require fluid exchange. With droplet and airborne diseases, it is useful only very early on.
We are long past the point that it is useful with the ‘Vid.
I don’t give a damn if it’s effective. Tracking the positions of all cars is effective. Locking everybody into boxes would be effective. That’s not the point.
I don’t want a government that wants to tell me I must wear a mask when I leave the house. I don’t care what their justification is. Government by the consent of the governed, remember that? Since when did we consent to dress codes?
To top it off, these are the same people that told us masks were totally not needed just a few weeks ago, now they’re mandatory.
Unless they are checking IDs, I predict they will find that Mickey Mouse and Heywood Jablowme are among their best repeat customers.
Do you have to show ID?
Because if not, I’m signing in as B. I. Yomama.
Mike M. confirmed.
IIRC, yes.
I’ll leave the city altogether. No way in hell am I going to voluntarily do that.
Serious question: Do you think Sly James would have gone along with any of this voluntarily?
“I couldn’t deal with her. I was so disturbed by it,” he said, adding that he snapped the photo when the other nurses he was with began confronting her.
Jesus wept.
Well, my morning is improving. Got almost 1200 words written.
Now I have to decide what kind of defense the dwarfs have on [redacted]
Just use Snow White as human shield
I’d go with 4 down linemen and 3 linebackers. Dwarves would probably go old school, right?
I would assume that a pass play is out.
Florida Man doin’ it right.
The 42-year-old said he didn’t hear numerous deputies searching the private island for him on foot, by boat and by air because he was asleep in a building. He told the deputy he didn’t know it was a restricted area, despite there being numerous “no trespassing” signs.
Ah the old George Costanza defense
Why did they close Discovery Island? It was a nice place to escape the crowda and find some shade.
“Going back to the way things were is a terrible idea,” Kosuth told The Hill. “Normal was wrong, and I already had a lot of problems with it.”
And there you have it.
Fuck you, nursie. Go live in a hole in the ground.
“White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany confirmed the possibility that the Trump administration could use sanctuary city reforms as a bargaining chip for funding states in Phase 4 of the coronavirus stimulus.
“Phase 4 is something we want to start negotiating on immediately and get to work on,” McEnany said Friday during her first appearance as White House press secretary, adding that funding shouldn’t “be an excuse for decades and decades of bad Democrat governance that have run these states into a financial predicament.”
“I don’t want to get ahead of negotiations but want to emphasize he has mentioned sanctuary cities. It is something he would like to see in phase four,” she said.”
I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I came along too early. Oh, to be 30 years younger.
“We will shut you down, we will cite you, and if we need to, we will arrest you and we will take you to jail,”
“Yeah? How about you blow that out of your ass. Here, let me give you a hand”
Study in Brown
Another Study in Brown, one that should be the national anthem.
“I Have Seen the Future—And It’s Not the Life We Knew
Cities around the world might slowly be coming back to life, but there’s no going back to “normal.”
Suzanne said that although he’s still fearful of the virus, he “can’t be inside locked up” for long. Nevertheless, he’s not spending time with friends, in part because there are few places to meet, but also because everyone knows this ordeal isn’t over. The government is still sending texts with messages such as “‘wash your hands, be afraid, the second wave may be coming,’ so everyone is kind of expecting this second wave. And we definitely don’t want to be a part of it,” he explained.
“In the very beginning of the lockdown you start thinking, Oh, this is just a quick thing; it’s just like a hurricane; it’ll be done in a couple of days,” Suzanne continued. “And then a couple of weeks into it, you start reading into conspiracy theories and rabbit holes, and then you get past that point, and you’re talking with your group-chat buddies and they’re sharing their cooking videos, and how they’re using beer and ketchup to cook food, just to make jokes. And then it gets to this point like, okay, this is getting old … when is it going to go back” to normal?
If Suzanne, in Wuhan, is asking that question, then what does it mean for those of us on the other side of the world still very much in the midst of our outbreaks? More than four months into the worst pandemic in a century, no one can predict whether we’ll ever return to something like the life we used to know.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/life-after-coronavirus-china-denmark-south-korea/611011/
If you’re healthy then cowering alone in order to avoid a sickness that kills one out of every 500 or so that gets it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. He’s right about things not going back to normal though but we brought that upon ourselves.
Citation needed.
Morni’ Old Man and Glibbies.
Food report: cornbread in the oven. The second the tax deductions saw I had bought corn meal, they started demanding it like baby birds with their beaks open.
On the plus side, they like your corn bread.
They like my cooking, period. There are dishes XX won’t eat, but it’s not because of how I cook it. I make special dishes for her, but they’re simple.
The corn bread, or the corn meal?
Cornbread, but you knew that. ?
I will break keto for cornbread.
Just a teeeedge overdone (IMO), but that’s what butter is for.
Is that proper cornbread, or that Yankee shit? So sweet, it’s like cake.
Recipe on the Aunt Jemima bag.
Aunt Jemima should have run off with Uncle Ben.
She’s banging the Quaker Oats guy.
“Nothing is better for thee than me!”
I’d pay to see some hot Aunt Jemima on Mrs Buttersworth action.
So, full of high fructose corn syrup. Gotcha. Hard pass. My Dixie bones shudder at the thought.
Your body can’t tell the difference between corn sugar or cane sugar.
That’s not the point. Sugar doesn’t belong in cornbread. Real cornbread is for soppin’ and moppin’. It isn’t a fucking dessert.
Do what now?
WTF is corn syrup in the recipe on the Aunt Jemima bag?
What’s the ingredients of the corn meal?
I’m guessing no-fructose corn syrup and corn starch.
No. No, no, no. Why are you assuming such things?
From the bag:
Good gravy. Corn MEAL is ground corn. It is not as fine as flour.
Ok, then I’m pleasantly surprised they haven’t weaseled it in, somehow. Being drunk, right now, I would give your cornbread a try. But, I’d also hit AOC. I never said my judgement was based on sound principles.
Admit it, you’re adding grounded Peeps and Miracle Whip.
“Many of those with objections cite the mistaken belief the requirement is unconstitutional, and under their theory, one cannot be forced to wear a mask. No law or court supports this view,” said City Manager Norman McNickle in a statement. “It is further distressing that these people, while exercising their believed rights, put others at risk.”
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“It is unfortunate and distressing that those who refuse and threaten violence are so self-absorbed as to not follow what is a simple show of respect and kindness to others,” he said.
I find it distressing that mental defectives such as this person are elevated to positions of power.
I dont recall a dress code requirement for the right to peaceably assemble.
I believe that is the FYTY provision.
Good morning so far.
Splashed a little mayo on the roast beef.
Sipping a nice cup of joe.
“Splashed a little mayo on the roast beef.”
That better be a euphemism.
Dammit!
‘Splashed a little mayo on the roast beef.’
Phrasing is truly dead.
A guy who always had his hands on his organ — he was more interested in having his hands on other guys’s organs.
I got to meet Virgil in the early 70s. To call him quirky is to understate with positively Foxian drama. Sad that he let his penchant for grandiosity get in the way of his talent.
Lori’s brother Gordie, has better hair and doesn’t worry so much about it. Lori preaches to the choir but I’m not sure how well she can sing though.
Gordie, on the other hand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzTkGyxkYI
As the time goes, my confusion about covid does not go down. I hve no idea how contagios it is, but I doubt it is supercotagions given the relative low number of people who got it in Romania. The official numbers may be off, but no one or their fairly got it in my 400 people company, or similar large companies friends work for…
What I do doubt is that is very contagious outdoors. My aunt who is quarantined with her husband and avoid contact, was sad this weekend that her grandchildren will not be able to come cherry picking in late May. the tree is in the yard 20 meters from the house. I doubt my cousin and his kids picking some cherries can be an issue.
jeez I misspelled the shit put of supercotagions which is not a word anyway
supercontagionexpialidocious?
You win the internet. Everybody can go home now.
I see tweets like this
16,000 New Yorkers dead in 8 weeks! This is a SLAP in the face to healthcare providers nationwide risking their lives and dying on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic. I’m in Central Park right now and it’s business as usual.
https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1256667909872648193
and somehow doubt it will transmit that much in the park. Off course this twitterer is annoying because people mention how the perspective can be misleading as to distance between groups and the answer is
I shouldn’t have to prove how CLOSE people are together. It’s pretty evident, but here ya go! – it is not evident from the zoom in original video at all
Thar’s yer problem.
What you did there, I sees it.
Being outdoors is a sort of isolation. It’s one reason why flu season is during winter.
Right. Like the people closing beaches. I’m a half mile from the nearest person when I go to the beach, assholes.
“This is a SLAP in the face to healthcare providers nationwide risking their lives and dying on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.”
I haven’t seen anything showing they are at greater risk than the general public.
Look, if one doctor or nurse dies from this, then the entire profession is at great risk.
A few weeks ago a nurse at one of the hospitals in the area came down with some sort of illness. Her husband took to social media to rip the hospital a new one for not providing his brave wife with the right PPE for the coronavirus which resulted in her getting the virus. It got thousands of shares and retweets. Turns out she did not have the coronavirus nor did she ever come into contact with confirmed PTs.
This guy can suck it. And I’m also an ER doctor, so his appeal to his authority means nothing to me.
I’m really tired of this “I’m on the frontlines” shit. You aren’t in a war, honeybunches. You signed up to be a physician. You treat people that are sick. If you don’t want to treat sick people, you shouldn’t have gone into emergency medicine as a profession. It’s like cops bitching about “putting our lives on the line”. That’s the job. If you didn’t want to do it you could have done something else.
If you aren’t getting furnished PPE by your job, I’m right beside you saying that’s horseshit. If the city refused to give cops bullets for their guns, I’d say the same. But pretending you’re some sort of martyr because you’re still getting paid to show up to a job you selected that entails exposure to infectious patients as a core component of it pisses me off.
I used to climb steel structures. We had to provide our personal fall protection harnesses, but in some cases there was nothing to attach them to, so we didn’t wear them. Never did anyone put a gun to our head and make us go up there.
^This.
If the city refused to give cops bullets for their guns, I’d
say the samebe OK with that.If all the virus victims were in Mississippi and Alabama, would it even make thw news in NYC? Please try to convince me New Yorkers would collectively give a shit.
Also this weekend at my moms counted 12 apricots in the 2 trees. Maybe there are a few more unseen u=but the frosts really wrecked em. Then again they were huge numbers last year so this year the trees had fewer flower anyway.
Back to normal? But we enjoy wallowing in hysterical self-pity.
Trump, who has supplanted his daily coronavirus task force briefings for more controlled and structured appearances, is eager to get past the public health crisis that has dominated the news cycle since the end of February and allow businesses and American life to return to normal.
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Meanwhile, the virus, which is still killing hundreds of Americans every day, has been reduced to just one of many topics covered when the president holds court with the media.
On Thursday alone, Trump spoke to the press for about 55 minutes. He fielded questions about the fate of his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, the health of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and sexual assault allegations against former vice president Joe Biden.
Health officials like Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx are now spotted as frequently on television and in Oval Office meetings as economic aides like Larry Kudlow and Kevin Hassett, further signaling that Trump may be looking to transition away from the public health aspect of the crisis.
“They are sidelining public health because public health, I think they perceive, gets in the way of the back to work message,” said Lawrence Gostin, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University. “I think that’s a grave mistake. I think public health and economics are not in tension; they’re actually synergistic.”
Fear sells. And besides, we like being here in the spotlight.
The writers for The Hill et al must really enjoy working from home. Stay home then but let everyone else get back to business.
” I think public health and economics are not in tension; they’re actually synergistic.”
I wouldn’t mind him expanding on this.
But since he didn’t here’s what I read: People are dying so it’s very selfish of us to re-open up while I sit here in a bubble with my income guaranteed. I can pontificate about the synergies of what ought to be until I bleed this designer coffee I picked up at a corporate coffee shop that was allowed to stay open while ‘Joe’s Best Coffee Piss’ goes under.’
“Ooo. There’s a certain synergy to one business staying open and another closing. Maybe even some sad poetry.” /jots down notes.
“Suffocating Progress
FDA regulations block usage of a feature in Apple Watches that would help millions of users monitor their blood-oxygen levels.
Millions of Americans own an Apple Watch, which commands roughly a 50 percent share of the smartwatch market. Among its many features, the Apple Watch can take your pulse. It also contains hardware to measure your blood-oxygen levels, and it has been doing so since the watch was released—but the hardware is not operable by the watch’s wearer, who thus cannot obtain the results. Under current FDA regulation, the function is disabled. It’s another example of how federal regulation of the production and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices in the United States is less focused on stopping viruses and other diseases than on blocking private-sector innovators from developing solutions that may not work or might have harmful side effects.
This matters in the Covid pandemic. On April 20, emergency-room doctor Richard Levitan described in the New York Times what he’d observed treating patients in Bellevue Hospital in New York. Levitan had seen many cases of “silent hypoxia,” unknown oxygen deprivation in which “patients without respiratory complaints had Covid pneumonia”—even those admitted to the hospital for non-Covid-related health concerns. By the time most patients made it to the hospital, they had “remarkably low oxygen saturations.” Levitan’s recommendation: “Widespread pulse oximetry screening [as] an early warning system.”
Pulse oximetry refers to the measuring of blood oxygenation noninvasively, by firing wavelengths of light—red and infrared—through the skin. Variations in absorption between the different wavelengths by arterial blood allow us to read oxygen saturation. That sounds high-tech, but it’s an old technology, first developed for earlobes in the 1930s; fingertip pulse oximeters were developed in Japan in the 1970s. The plethysmograph in the Apple Watch that measures pulse works essentially the same way.
Yet the Apple Watch currently on the market cannot make this feature available to the consumer. Relatively inexpensive pulse oximeters remain widely available—usually. Like other items, from toilet paper to surgical masks, they’re unlikely to be widely available in a pandemic, when everyone wants a device and public demand outpaces manufacturing and distribution capability. Delivery dates on Amazon are already backed up for weeks.”
https://www.city-journal.org/fda-blocks-apple-watch-blood-oxygen-feature
https://twitter.com/CityJournal/status/1256899806443843584
Maybe one of the good things to come out of this situation will be the smashing of the FDA. Their positions all through this have been fucking disasters.
True. The worst was how they prevented testing.
“prevented testing”? The FDA has approved a massive number of testing devices/methods in an extremely short time period.
A good summary to the subject:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/mar/23/dan-crenshaw/did-fda-regulations-slow-testing-coronavirus/
Prevention is an overstatement but the overall gist seems to be correct.
Yes, they prevented testing by not allowing testing they didn’t approve.
The pendulum is already swinging back. NPR was running horror stories about unlicensed and unapproved tests being sold to consumers.
You’re quite the dreamer . . .I think they just need more funding!!!
A Crime a Day
@CrimeADay
21 USC §§331, 333, 352 & 21 CFR §348.50(d)(1)(ii) make it a federal crime to sell lidocaine for preventing premature ejaculation without telling men not to use more than 10 sprays on their penis.
18 USC §42 & 50 CFR §16.14(a)(5) make it a federal crime to acquire a Fuding fire-bellied newt without a permit.
21 USC §§331, 333, 343(g) & 21 CFR §133.154 make it a federal crime to sell high-moisture jack cheese if it isn’t moist enough, but not too moist.
I mean in general seems like some solid laws for a happier US
“make it a federal crime to acquire a Fuding fire-bellied newt without a permit”
What if it agrees to settle peacefully?
A Salty Salute: The Oral History Of Guided By Voices’ ’90s Indie Classic ‘Alien Lanes’
Gen X > Boomers
I skipped there body of the text but agree with your conclusion, of course.
Fantastic article!
Thanks, Crusty!
“Meanwhile Amsterdam restaurants prepare service teams for new social distancing measures caused by COVID19.”
https://twitter.com/BunmiKajola/status/1250804064096485377
LOL
Certainly worth the cleanup for that.
War on SCIENCE!
As a cellular immunologist, Birx’s anguish was all too understandable. But she is not only a scientist, she is a diplomat, and since Trump made his contentious remarks last week she has declined to criticize his flight of fancy.
Other leading scientists have felt less obliged to be circumspect. “Trump’s constant antics are a danger to the American people,” said John Holdren, a Harvard environmental scientist who was Barack Obama’s White House science adviser through both his presidential terms.
Holdren told the Guardian the current approach to science and expertise within the Trump administration is a “shame on many levels. Trump’s talking nonsense risks misleading the public, and it distracts top scientists who spend emotional energy neutralizing the damage he causes when they should be tackling the virus.”
Three months into the pandemic, with the number of confirmed cases passing 1 million, the tension that has been simmering for months between Trump and the scientific world is at boiling point. His improvisation about injecting disinfectant encapsulated the sense of demoralization – of despair, almost – that many American scientists now feel about the drift from evidence-based leadership.
We’re all Joan of Arc, now.
When I see “evidence based” and “environmental scientist” used in conjunction, I think “BULLSHIT”. The guy worked for Obama. Of course he hates President Cartoon Villain.
“His improvisation about injecting disinfectant encapsulated the sense of demoralization – of despair, almost – that many American scientists now feel about the drift from evidence-based leadership.”
They’re just going to keep repeating the same lie.
These are the same people that are still spouting the Russian collusion horseshit, of course they’ll continue to push this nonsense interpretation.
Gee whiz, I’m awfully sorry that those scientists feel bad when people won’t take their shitty advise.
“evidence-based leadership”
WTF does that even mean?
You can’t say anything unless it’s either:
1. Directly attributable to (if not entirely misinterpreted from) a paper written by academics (aka, people under publish-or-perish pressure) using (very often shoddy) data collection and (even shoddier) statistical analysis and published in a “peer-reviewed” (read: if it ticks the right boxes, it gets in) journal (but has not been replicated, and might be impossible to replicate). Bonus points for being a “meta-study” of other papers (read: garbage in, garbage out) or longitudinal or cross-sectional (read: we spent lots of money on this) study (but without any meaningful control of variables not being studied).
2. Marxist or otherwise appealing to the prejudices of well-off progressives, in which case some study will be probably be drummed up to support it eventually (see above; also, reality has a well known left-wing bias, and all that).
Unprincipled leadership.
The Auschwitz Museum and Memorial condemned a protester who brought a sign featuring the Nazi slogan “Arbeit macht frei” to a rally against Illinois’s stay-at-home orders.
I think it would be a mistake to assume this person was protesting against the lockdown. I suspect it was some “anti-work” lefty showing those dopey yokels how they are being tricked into willingly going back into the field to serve Massa. But, since that particular phrase has attained the power of a magical incantation to summon forth the finger-waggers, we’ll never know, for sure.
Prove me wrong.
Doesn’t matter, any opportunity to use the Nazi slur is a good opportunity.
The optics of using that phrase during these types of protest seemed a bit off. Now I just think it’s a plant
Last night was a 16oz. reverse-seared ribeye, broccoli with Hollandaise sauce, Caesar salad, and two shakers of Manhattans. I’m afraid if I roll over onto my stomach, I might explode.
https://twitter.com/NYCSpeakerCoJo/status/1256349197407866880
CWAA
Acronym Definition
CWAA Clean Water Action Alliance (Minnesota)
CWAA Children of the World Adoption Agency, Inc. (est. 1995; Syosset, NY)
CWAA Chicano Writers and Artists Association (California State University, Fresno; Fresno, CA)
CWAA County of Warwick Archery Association (UK)
CWAA Camas-Washougal Aviation Association (Washington)
CWAA Committee on the Working of the Abortion Act
Given halfthor deadlifted 501 kilograms, what i the official glib position on deadlift suits? Is it cheating or is 501 kg still 501 kg?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8280951/He-really-Mountain-Game-Thrones-star-Haf-r-Bj-rnsson-breaks-world-deadlifting-record.html
that does not answer the question.
It’s not cheating. Have you ever tried one? It feels like your nuts are getting ripped off.
Both. It’s damn impressive, suit or no suit. But those sorts of suits, like bench shirts, do enable you to lift more weight. It’s not the same as a raw lift. If you have a better designed suit than the next guy and you lift a bit more, that doesn’t make you stronger. That being said, there’s a ton of steroid use in weightlifting so it’s all probably out the window anyway.
Re Riis: “He endorsed the implementation of “model tenements” in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller.”
Did the tenements end up being good for NY or was it a progressive idea and subsequent failure?
John McAfee, still my favorite crazy brilliant libertarian:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/go-buy-guns-first-john-mcafee-warns-governments-are-deceiving-you-about-virus
And he recognizes the superiority of the AK platform which is a big plus in my book.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1256824168345198593
also assman
He makes a persuasive statement but poop comes out of there.
Damn shame he’s crazier than a shithouse rat. Probably the best libertarian out there.
Awesome, I haven’t had an AR-vs.-AK argument in like three hours! *cracks knuckles and neck*
Also, McAfee is 74? What the hell has he been eating?
Ass?
AR v. AK? The answer, of course, is FAL.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8279159/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-plunging-metallic-one-piece.html
As I mentioned in last night’s threads, people are quietly just going to unwittingly (or otherwise) engage in civil disobedience. I noticed parks were full – for the most part – and people weren’t practicing social distancing.
I think as the medical bureaucrats and dummy politicians keep screaming ‘we’re not out of the woods’ and ‘there’s going to be a spike!’ and ‘stay home, save lives!’ (the government of Canada is so bloody incredibly tone deaf they’re stilling running those stupid PSA’s) the more they realizing this virus is out there and they’re not going to let it control them. Plus they’re not stupid. They see in the news how we’re learning about every single day and I think the basic conclusion will be ‘herd immunity’ is probably the best way to go. You can’t keep shutting down or telling people to stay home panicking. It’s insane. Not with the good weather coming.
It would take a special kind of poor, mean-spirited leadership to push back harder on this.
Sweden is looking better every day. I pray they do pull it off just to piss off the people who want to see them fail. Assholes.
I don’t think you’re giving them enough credit.
That Chicago Mayor is the very definition of ignorant cunt. That’s not a leader. That’s a fucken loser.
Speaking of Nazis
A federal judge on Saturday gave the go-ahead for city officials in St. Louis to start clearing a homeless encampment due to concerns over COVID-19 transmission.
U.S. District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk denied a request from Ranata Frank, a homeless woman residing at the Market Street encampments across from City Hall, to temporarily block planned removals as the case was being litigated.
ArchCity Defenders, a non-profit civil rights group, represented Frank and sought to have the case classified as a class-action lawsuit representing all of the encampment’s homeless residents.
The group told Newsweek in a statement that it could not comment on pending litigation, but that it stands by “the lived experiences of those who are currently homeless in St. Louis.”
“They have heard these promises of shelter from City of St. Louis government time and time again and historically those promises are empty,” the group added.
The city says it needs to clear the encampments and relocate homeless residents to nearby hotels in order to protect public health.
On Wednesday, Dr. Frederick Echols, the city’s health commissioner, posted a notice requiring homeless residents inhabiting the Market Street park to vacate the premises. Echols called their encampment a “serious health threat” due to the potential for COVID-19 transmission.
He described the conditions there as unsanitary, referencing the unavailability of hand-washing stations and substance misuse.
Holocaust.
Relevant
Recipe on the Aunt Jemima bag.
*clutches chest, falls to floor*
It seems I have set many of you clutching your pearls and given you the vapors this morning.
*waves smelling salts under Brooks’s nose*
So what is the PROPER recipe for cornbread?
They are razzing you for using racist cornmeal.
Although, for most on the bag recipes, I typically find putting in only half the sugar specified is a good idea.
Only Brooks, and I didn’t catch that the first time around.
DGWF really was indignant over the possibility of corn syrup. LOL
Half the sugar. Will remember.
As I said, I baked a leeeeeeeeeettle too long is a leeeettle more crumbly than I like (which is not at all), but it’s good.
He was probably mistaking cornmeal with cornbread mix.
If you’re making cornbread qua cornbread for eating by itself, or for breakfast with honey, butter, and coffee, sweeter is fine by me.
If it’s going to be an accompaniment with beans, greens, smothered pork chops etc, I like less sweet.
Or if it’s going to be the base for chicken and gravy, then I’ll go balls-out with the additives of creamed corn, cheddar, chiles and all of that.
I finally deduced as much.
I use box cake for poke cakes, but otherwise make them from scratch (the chocolate cake recipe from the side of the Hershey’s cocoa box is the best ever chocolate cake, hands down).
I like box brownies, but XY swears up and down mine from scratch are better. I don’t agree.
Yes, the Hershey’s cake recipe is the best I’ve found.
The cornbread was for a breakfast treat for the tax deductions.
I use the AJ one too and like it. But then again, I’m a no good Yankee.
Pre-heat oven
Bowl #1 Beat egg, then corn oil, then sugar (but not too much), then buttermilk
Bow #2 Sift whole-grain unenriched medium-ground corn meal, AP flour, salt, aluminum-free baking powder, and baking soda
Fold 1 & 2 together, do not over mix
Let it sit a bit
Turn into buttered pan, put in oven, test with toothpick
C’mon, Mo. AFAICT,, I’m the only one giving you shit over Aunt Jemima cornbread. I was just picking on you.
Pfffft. I’m picking on you back. 😉
Oh boy, more good news. In addition to potatoes going to waste (unless donated like here)
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/05/hutterite-farm-donates-potatoes-unsold-to-restaurants-during-coronavirus-outbreak.html
was the story of girl who randomly sold feet pics for 80$ covered round these parts?
https://twitter.com/AnnaDsays/status/1256216448214728708
Probably fake.
everything is probably fake
Enlisting in the Old Navy?
Slutty Sunday is full of narcissistic instathots.
http://archive.li/g4jrW
… you know my complaint by now.
What you ask may not be possible. The adoption of ink by this demographic is so widespread that to assemble a group that simultaneously:
1) Has enough self-esteem/daddy issues to post such pics
2) Is worth looking at half naked
3) Has not one woman with ink
would be highly statistically unlikely.
Since there is a subset which is ink-free on each list, it is indeed possible with curation.
The problem then appears to be outsourcing that curation to the chive.
I’m guessing that whoever is curating these links thinks that a significant number of their viewers like ink, and skinny white girls.
speaking of Probably fake.
I like 10 face wise, 24 looks cute
We’ll put them in coding camps
This May Day, workers in pretty much every sector are struggling. In the wake of the covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. is almost surely facing Depression-era levels of unemployment. Fossil fuel workers are no exception.
On Thursday, the Federal Reserve announced changes to its emergency Main Street lending program which look a lot like a lifeline for struggling the oil and gas industry. That might sound good for workers, but Bharat Ramamurti, a member of the Congressional commission overseeing bailout funds and former aide to Senator Elizabeth Warren, pointed out on Twitter that under the alterations—which are basically what the industry asked for—“these companies will still have no real obligation to retain or rehire their workers.”
The rule changes have it all wrong. Bailing out fossil fuel executives instead of workers is not only craven, it’s short-sighted. Fostering a just transition for fossil fuel workers makes more financial sense—and is the only ethical thing to do given that fossil fuel use must end for the climate’s sake. And there are steps the government could take right now to ensure that happens.
——-
A better way to stimulate the economy isn’t to bail out oil and gas companies. It’s to phase them out but protect workers. That means providing solid unemployment benefits and access to quality healthcare. Joseph Uehlein, founding president and executive director of the Labor Network for Sustainability, said worker provisions should start by providing for wage and benefit parity for five years.
“[That] means that if you’re a worker at an oil refinery making $100,000 per year with a good health care plan and a good pension plan, that those are all continued for five years,” he told Earther in an email.
A stimulus package should also, he said, help workers transition into new jobs. It should pay for education for transitioning workers, “whether that be a trade school or a worker who wants to study anthropology at Harvard.” Even relocation funding should be available.
Sure. Magic harder. A bunch of rig workers would probably raise the intellectual quality of Harvard’s student body appreciably.
What is, a plan for total Chinese dominance of the world economy in 5 years?
To address that huge spike in demand for anthropologists??
100,000 grand for five years plus benefits for not working and pay for classes at Harvard? Get the fuck outta here!
Talk about pissing in the wind. The kinds of people, generally, who work in oilfields are very practical, get it done. now, capable, no bullshit types. The person that wrote that gibberish has no idea what they are talking about and would probably get their ass kicked in less than a minute spewing that shit to actual oilfield workers.
Anyway, here’s Biden’s denial to Mika Brzezinski:
Looking at Gropin’ Joe’s denial that’s he groped Tara Reade:
“Look at the facts. Check it out. Find out whether any of the what she says is asserted are true… To the best of my knowledge there’s been no complaint made against about me in terms of my Senate career, in terms of my office and anything that’s been run.”
Lunch Bucket Joe elaborated:
“I’m absolutely positive that no one that I’m aware of ever was been made aware of any complaint, a formal complaint made by or complaint by Tara Reade against me at the time this allegedly happened 27 years ago or until the I announced for pres — well I guess it was April or May of this year.”
You know what I don’t see?
A denial that he groped Tara Reade.
You know what I don’t see?
An individual capable of putting together a coherent thought. Just a bunch of fragmented nonsense indicative of some kind of thought disorder.
He said it didn’t happen.
Mika “Did you sexually assault Tara Reade?”
Joe “No, it is not true. I am saying unequivocally it never, never happened, and it didn’t. It never happened.”
What a weaselly non-denial denial.
Correction noted.
“Remember, It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Senility FTW
The widespread protest and non-compliance with tyrannical diktat are certainly heartwarming.
Perhaps the nation isn’t completely made up of indoor cats yet. The lockdownistas, Karens and Dem operatives are greatly overrepresented online and I feel their demoralization campaign was beginning to work on me. Sad.
Fortunately, the protesters are an antidote to that.
people will die.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/05/dont-be-a-knucklehead-signs-are-all-around-nj-state-sen-says-theyre-offensive.html
Perhaps Supreme Leader Murphy (PBUH) should take his own advice.
Meet the Press is on.
Chuck Todd: When will we know this (relaxing quarantine) was a mistake?
As soon as you ask the question.
As soon as ORANGEMANBAD mentioned it.
Did they leave out “or if it was a glorious success”?
I’m assuming it was a loaded question.
Hawaii is a special case of Cobalt Blue state. The only thing that allows them to PROGGING INTENSIFIES is the fact that they vacuum up so much tax money from tourists. Now that that’s gone, it will be interesting to see how they handle it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-01/coronavirus-hawaii-s-paradise-islands-are-deserted
Federal bailout.
Or should I say, another federal bailout, because the states have already gotten billions in unrestricted funds.
I’m guessing, based on being a session aide in the HI state Senate during the lack of tourists after 9/11, that they will raid special funds and do creative bookkeeping and not fire any unionized state employees. Because the unions run that state with an iron fist.
Some jackass from Johns Hopkins is on. “If we stop social distancing, millions will die.”
Isn’t that what needs to happen anyway for the good of the planet?
They would prefer billions.
Mr. President, I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
It’s Bawlmer. Speaking of which…
https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/bs-md-new-coronavirus-data-baltimore-20200428-kwons56qdffudd66mkvatrn6gm-story.html
So, 80 deaths from Wuflu. But wait, there’s more!
https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=90
62 homicides. Sheltering in place in Baltimore seems like a good idea, after all.
Experts: The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, except when it isn’t.
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020/05/did-murphy-have-the-constitutional-power-to-lock-down-nj-heres-what-the-experts-say.html
It’s amazing how the market will always provide an expert willing to say whatever it is that the asker wants them to say.
There’s going to be a lot of litigation following this in all of the states. If the courts side with the restrictions then we’re fucked which means we’re probably fucked.
Oh, we’re fucked. It’s just a matter of from which direction the fucking will come.
it is not, after all, a suicide pact.
If the various clauses and amendments of the Constitution require everyone to commit suicide, then it is. Deal with it, bitches.
Moms and doctors will destroy us all.
JFC NPR is insufferable this morning.
How is that different from any other morning?
Good point. Just seems extra insufferable this morning. I had to turn it off.
Scott Simon is only on Weekend Edition?
He’s Saturdays. Sundays is Lu Lu. Her drippy over dramatic voice really gets on my nerves sometimes
I guess it’s been a while since I was a regular listener. Checking wiki, Liane Hansen was the Sunday host then. Completely forgot about her.
Ya, I remember her. She retired and Lu Lu took over. I am usually a weekend listener but sometimes I can’t take it. They actually covered news back when W was in office but that ended when His Holiness Barack was elected. Now it is uber TDS mostly from what I hear.
So what is the PROPER recipe for cornbread?
AUNT JEMIMA?
So racist.
ps- I luv cornbread. Haven’t made any in a long time. I used to put a little sour cream in the mix.
That sounds interesting.
Get rid of the sugar. Feel free to add bacon, sour cream, green onions, etc. Savory, not seeet.
It’s not cake. If you want it sweet, add honey upon serving.
Maple syrup or GTFO.
I added too much salt. That’s something I never thought I’d say.
I have an aunt who makes bread with never enough salt. It’s awful.
The Left can’t meme.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/china-mocks-us-response-coronavirus-21965864
Especially corrupt Commie government apparatchiks.
China cant meme but it only needs to appeal to a subset of western morons who are sufficiently willing to believe anything anti-west.
They don’t need to meme well. They just need to continue exploiting a bitterly divided foreign populace to further deflect blame and attention from themselves. I will give the PRC commies this, they have gotten better at it than the Soviets ever were.
hey have gotten better at it than the Soviets ever were. – I dunno it helped that the western education had more years to do it’s job of elimination rational thought.
^^This. Ironically, the Soviets’ propaganda campaign started working best after the Soviet Union fell.
While I don’t doubt that education played a role in it, I and presumably the rest of us here are products of that same system. If we are suffering from a dearth of rational thought, it would seem that there’s more to it than just who taught all of us and how they did it so many years ago.
The content has changed, and that’s significant.
My cohort read The Lottery in sixth grade. That’s long gone. And that’s just one example.
We are living through an unprecedented use of the term “unprecedented”
https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/1256629479394480128
*polite applause*
Good Morning Glibs!
I just woke up to a text, Landlord asked me to look at an AC system for one of his tenants, Now. He said he would pay me, I wonder if he knows what I charge for emergency Sunday Service?
He’s about to find out….
Play nice for repeat business.
Also, the little Gizmodo commie has this to say-
If the U.S. invests in it sufficiently, an important source of new jobs for fossil fuel workers will be the renewable energy sector. An analysis by the Solutions Project found that a transition to 100 percent renewables would create 4 million long-term jobs and millions more short-term positions. A recent report from the International Renewable Energy Agency also found that the transition could provide a return on investment of between 300 and 800 percent globally, showing the path forward isn’t just good for the climate.
“Climate policy is good for the economy and good for job creation,” J. Mijin Cha, an environmental policy scientist at Occidental College and fellow at Cornell University’s Worker Institute, told Earther in an email.
However, merely creating new jobs in the renewable energy sector won’t be enough to protect oil and gas workers. The new jobs must also provide good pay and benefits and treat workers fairly. And they should be unionized so workers can protect those conditions.
Power to the People! Workers of the World, Unite!
Also, we made up some numbers so it looks like this will all pay for itself.
I also made lemonade with bottled lemon juice and Splenda. Wow, is that tart (much more tart than with sugar). nom nom nom
Splenda – why ruin perfectly good lemon water?
Using it up.
have you considered the garbage bin?
I don’t throw out perfectly good food.
we were not talking about food though, but about Splenda
I had to go to two stores to find bottled lemon juice.
my preferred brand disappeared from stores pre quarantine.
Bottled lemon juice is a staple I keep in good supply in my larder. I use a lot of it, relatively speaking.
I do too, but I’m going to the store way less often.
I use 1.5 cups lemon juice, 3-4 tablespoons of stevia, .5 cup lime juice, and 6 cups water
I have never used Stevia. I’m told it has a bitter aftertaste. As I told Pie, I’m just trying to use my Splenda up.
Usually, it’s just 1 c sugar, 1 c lemon juice, 6 c water.
Can I get an AMEN!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/03/dont_expect_losers_of_the_quarantine_to_sit_idly_by_forever_143101.html
this is probably a good time for everyone to buy a new car
The other fallacy here being that public opinion polls matter at all. So what if 80+% of people want lockdowns?
If a policy is unconstitutional and/or immoral (slavery anyone?) whether it has popular support is irrelevant.
97% of SCIENCE! says you are wrong!
/Badthink!
AMEN!
Finally some damn rain.
Coronavirus Kills People an Average of a Decade Before Their Time, Studies Find
https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-kills-people-an-average-of-a-decade-before-their-time-11588424401?mod=hp_lead_pos4
paywall because I would be curious how the hell this is ascertained
All people would live to 95 if it wasn’t for the CCP virus. This is well known.
Womens’ sports would instantly become 10x more popular than mens’ if the athletes looked like this and were required to play in either sports bras or lingerie.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11518696/paige-spiranac-boobs-real-size-golf/
I volunteer to check if they are in fact real.
“For the Sports Illustrated shoot I lost 17lbs and my chest dropped a couple cup sizes because of that.”
My condolences Q.
It’s these damn societal pressures to look thin. The patriarchy strikes again!
The Hitlers that Stalin Caught from the best history channel on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/osqiYaiSxOo
There were a surprisingly high number of them.
So far I’m about 10 for 10 in walking into stores with a sign out front saying they require face masks, per city and county orders, not wearing a face mask. Nobody has said anything to me about it, employees or customers.
Apparently Costco has severe signage saying they will deny entry to anyone without face masks. So I’m gonna test that this week.
Yelling at employees is wildly counterproductive. Bad optics. Someone will break out a cell phone and record one being the jackass. Calmly asking to talk to the store manager is the way to assert your rights.
“Calmly asking to talk to the store manager is the way to assert your rights.“
OK, Karen.
So you would yell at someone with no authority to decide whether the store is gonna do the bidding of law enforcement, instead of asking to talk to someone who could decide if they are gonna choose to permanently lose a customer?
Not seeing how being politely assertive of one’s rights is Karen territory. Seems like the opposite.
“I’d like to speak to the manager” is one of the things Karen is known for saying.
I’d be interested to hear your results with Costco.
At my nearest location, they’ve always had bouncers checking for cards. They won’t let you in without seeing the card. I would guess that they won’t let you in without the mask.
Butch Otter is a good dude. He was a good governor and a nice guy. He was still riding in roundups at 70. The fact he has a well worn copy of the Constitution in his pocket doesn’t hurt either.
Frank: Wait, wait, wait a minute. What’s an otter?
Dee; Subsection of bear. Still hairy but whereas a bear generates his
power through sheer mass alone, the otter generates his power through
extraordinary quickness, cunning, and skill.
Mask, or no mask? The partisan divide, defined.
Will Americans accept their responsibility to care for their fellow man, as defined by blind unquestioning obedience to politicians? That is the question.
No one says shit to me for not wearing a mask, and around here people are too polite to complain,
/Armed society= polite society
Good morning Old Man!
And good morning to all of you shitlords and ladies!
Last night there were gatherings at three of the six houses in my cul de sac (including mine). I think most people are well and truly done with this shit. I was out walking yesterday and ran into a friend I hadn’t seen in awhile. I have never heard the guy say a word about politics but when I called bullshit on the ‘crisis’ he went off on the governor and the government in general. It was pretty funny.
The numbers just don’t justify this bullshit. And I think that if the idiots don’t loosen up quickly, the ‘threats of violence’ will become no-shit violence.
In cheerier news the weather yesterday and today is why I can still live in this hellhole. Sunny, warm, blue skies and low humidity. Heaven.
I’ve never been a jazz guy, but I do enjoy your selections. That dude’s rhythm section is amazing!
I hope you all have a fantastic, slaver-free day!
I think most people are well and truly done with this shit.
I thought the same thing based on my group around me. But then yesterday i did a group chat with my cousins (mostly left leaning) and they DID NOT feel the same. I guess I need to step out of my bubble a little more often.
My proggies are all in, but I don’t count them. They love NPR and ‘experts’.
There may be more of Them than Us.
I was on a group video chat with my wife’s siblings and spouses and other relatives, and the ones who spoke were in favor of the lockdown. They quickly switched topics when I pointed out to this group of mostly African-Americans that said lockdowns were a violation of our civil rights.
Maybe those who were silent disagreed with the lockdown, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Apparently civil rights violations are now AOK with the left if everyone is violated equally.
Is it possible your wife’s family is a) not paying attention or b) confused or c) truly not aware of the left’s end-game for black people?
Most tribes don’t listen to people in “enemy” tribes, so there is little reason for anyone to listen to anyone outside their own tribe, so I would guess they haven’t been privy to an opposing point of view.
The people who were talking seemed to be repeating the talking points from the echo chamber that black female voters appear to immerse themselves in.
A few of the AA men I know seem to seek out POVs outside the echo chamber, and might quietly vote in ways that would horrify the women.
Not sure I know what end game you think the left has for African-Americans. I think it’s mostly “All our comrades will submit to the glorious state equally.”
Yeah, my brother is quite indignant about people leaving lockdown, complete with “you’re endangering other people!” talking points.
A couple of times recently when we’ve gone out for a walk in our neighborhood, we’ve met neighbors we know and like, and these neighbors have said, “I think Dewine’s doing a great job.” I find it so disappointing.
Which is one reason I spend minimal time on Facebook now. I don’t want to be disappointed in ALL my friends and relatives.
I always ask them how many paychecks they have missed.
Like the Sly album cover Tundra, I’ve got that one on vinyl. I called an official end to social distancing on Friday. We’ve had friends over and I took a twenty mile ride with a good buddy over the bridge yesterday. (Actually, I went fishing with a buddy the week before, and have never stopped working so I guess I wasn’t so good at the social distancing thingy).
“The coronavirus may be more deadly for men but it seems to be hurting women in other ways, forcing some back into domesticity just when they thought they had escaped”
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1255452939302383620
Yeah, yeah, yeah – “Women hardest hit,” as always. Because it’s always all about (white) women. ::eyeroll::
One of the responses
“apparently some photoshopped screenshots have been going around of my account tweeting racist things against asian women/black women/jewish people and i just wanted to clear the air and say this is a link to all my archived tweets…* i only hate wypipo”
https://twitter.com/REZZY4PREZZY/status/1256651808023343104
CWAA
She gots a bad case of the Karenovirus.
Good old Meet the Press; today was all presumptively “How soon until we know this doomed attempt to let the proles off the leash was a horrible mistake? What will Trump’s body count be?”
Maybe they could try to find somebody who can make a reasoned case for not nuking the economy from space. Just one person who can see beyond “If it saves one life” or “Trump wants you dead”.
But that doesn’t further the narrative. it won’t put a Democrat back in the White House.
4/38
“We need to talk about the white terrorist movement, how apocalyptic evangelicalism and NRA/GOP propaganda fueled them, and why they see Trump and the pandemic as their chance to overthrow America.
First things first. White terrorism is by far the biggest terrorist threat in America. The fact that this isn’t widely known or discussed is because we are so terribly afraid to actually talk about white supremacy in this country that it kills us.
Post-9/11, there have been so many incidents of murder, hate crimes, and intimidation carried out by white terrorists. Unfortunately, our media never connects the dots and just calls them “lone wolves” or “mentally-ill shooters.”
Make no mistake. This is connected.
What you saw in Michigan yesterday wasn’t a bunch of “posers” or “gun nuts.” These are paramilitary separatists who are using the pandemic for their own benefit and carrying out dry runs for what they see as a fascist takeover of the US.”
https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/1256228903728943109
What really, really worries me is when some of my friends get painted with the terrorist so many times that they say, “Fuck it, might as well be hung for a sheep as a goat…”
I would doubt there are actual fascist paramilitary groups in the US but what do I know. Also how different woul the US be with a fascist takeover, in the sense lefties would not like I mean.
There are, but they’re associated with the fascist left.
Which is ATM machine.
And UMB Bank.
Now talk about black against black crime.
The profile picture matches with someone who would go by the name “Jared Yates Sexton”. What a disposable racist POS.
*despicable, but autocorrect also works
If a bunch of terrorists start shouting “for the glory of the white race” or somesuch right before attacking the government, black people, or anyone else then I will start taking seriously the claim that there is a “white terrorist movement” out there.
Until then …
All of his post-9/11 examples are… pre-9/11.
There’s a whole lot of crazy there getting a whole lot of likes.
“I don’t care if it’s blatantly inaccurate if it confirms my existing beliefs!”
There are actual Neo-Nazis out there. Maybe not many. If you go by the SPLC’s most recent newsletter, the predominant “hate” groups are black separatists.
Yeah, it’s not entirely without merit. Some people fitting the bill do exist. And, of course, there are plenty of non-white examples as well.
The best examples I can think of related to the argument in the Twitter thread are Dylann Roof’s murder spree at a black church and the Pittsburgh synagogue attack. Both of the perpetrators were pro-white racists who saw their actions as furthering a race war agenda. But both received extensive coverage, and both resulted in widespread condemnation of the actions, the perpetrators, white nationalism, and outright scapegoats, in one case the Confederate flag and in the other case Gab. Both perpetrators are never going to see the light of day again. Nobody in the public discourse seemed all that afraid to leap atop the corpses and start condemning this and that and assigning blame.
“Our media never connects the dots” is just plain crazy. Some of these “dots” do not connect at all. Reaganomics was not connected to McVeigh’s bombing, armed people protesting infringements of their rights are not inherently in league with terrorists, and so on.
i’ll just leave this here
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1256786067476434944
The “Arbeit yacht frei” thing upthread seems to be a case of mistaking as a protestor, a leftist counter-protesting reopening shuttered businesses, because said leftist wants to imply giving workers a choice to become gainfully employed is literally the same as making them slave laborers in a concentration camp.
I thought it was a comment that the only way to leave your house arrest was to be employed in a state approved position.
Parsing out that sign is tricky, given it’s ambiguity. A Holocaust center calling the sign holder a right wing Neo-Nazi seems like outrage theater, seeing as it looks .ore like a lefty authoritarian pushing international socialism.
I blame Poe.
Damn, just found out one of my all time favorite drummers died. RIP Tony Allen. The guy was amazing. Got to meet him once after a show in Spain. I loved the Fela Kuti stuff obviously, but his solo stuff was also amazing. The albums Progress/Jealousy are fantastic. This is something cool from him in the 2000’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fARSfZm-Nco
Here he is live, still rocking in his 70’s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoB10-UYUpQ
“Americans who believe in limited government deserve another option.”
Previously, our only option has been shut up and take it.