“Christ, what an asshole.”
I will confess to being something less than 100% this morning. SP and I had our usual July 4th festivities, with an emphasis on fermented French grapes in honor of Lafayette. No dead animal corpse pieces, but plenty of other grill action. And relentless mockery of the bad golfers on the course behind our house. Wonder Dog gave her strong and vocal opinions of the people whose slices landed their balls near our back fence. One poor woman was so rattled by the barking form 120 pounds of polar bear that I watched her take three strokes to get back to the green.
And now we transition back to sobriety and me getting ready for a return to work. But before we do that, we’ll celebrate today’s birthdays, which include the spiritual father of our current president; a guy who when told that it couldn’t be done, responded with, “Yes it kann!”; the greatest evolutionary biologist since Darwin; the Soap actress known for her breasts; a baseballer with the appropriate nickname of “Clank”; the guy who normalized normalization; easily the finest cartoonist since George Herriman; and some moron with purple hair who plays a non-sport.
Let’s dooze the nooze.
I’d call this “Darwin In Action,” but she was already past that use-by date.
In this case, I can invoke Darwin.
The ultimate in Affirmative Action: election of a guy representing the Living With COVID-19 community. This shows we care.
This is absolutely hilarious. Peak Telegraph retardation.
The Republican Party is an abomination. Let’s make it even worse!
Note that they didn’t choose any of his post-1865 speeches. Wonder why not…
Old Guy Music today will require a bit of skipping ahead to get to the real deal. About 2:00. And worth it. James Moody absolutely kills it on his flute, and Diz is… Diz. I wish he had won, this would be a much better country.
I will confess to being something less than 100% this morning. SP and I had our usual July 4th festivities, with an emphasis on fermented French grapes in honor of Lafayette – I finally found a Muscacdet for sale in Romania
https://vinmagazin.ro/produs/domaine-de-la-brettoniere-muscadet-sevre-et-maine-sur-lie/
That will not suck.
In this case, I can invoke Darwin. – don’t be mean old man
Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders.
Yeah, I don’t think this one’s on the protestors.
A Darwin award going out to people who protest on a freeway.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/seattle-protester-hit-car-highway-dies
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/056/858/741/original/c418ddabe3d04647.mp4?1593926417
Stupidity in action
But the highway was “closed”. It sez so right in the article.
This is absolutely hilarious. Peak Telegraph retardation. – I don’t get it.
OMWC’s telegraphed links took an especially long time to click-clack their way down the SoT*.
*Series of tubes
Is everyone dead from the chai-na virus?
*hides under bed*
No; we were already killed by the repeal of Net Neutrality.
“A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trump’s re-election now see another political feat that’s necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.”
I hope they all get the super HIV and ebola.
I’m not going to bother reading that, but I wonder if the article bothers to note that almost all of the Lincoln Project’s spending is with companies owned/operated by it’s own board members. Totally NOT a grift!
Those clowns are also delusional if they think they will ever have any influence in either party going forward.
Speaking of grift, William Kristol is one of the brains behind that outfit.
At this point, I think I despise the Never-Trumpers more than the rank and file Dems.
It’s a tough call.
Super AIDS
Brain eating amoebas? Because it’s 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/brain-eating-amoeba-infection-florida-rare-hillsborough-county-health
No Covid for the little darlings?
This is absolutely hilarious. Peak Telegraph retardation.
Of course, the link is to the Independent.
They all look alike to me.
Bracist.
Never tagged you as part of the boots and braces set.
It’s working!
I wonder what they stand for.
Getting invitation to cocktail parties.
Nothing. They’re all on their knees.
Lining their pockets with donations from very gullible people.
The nevertrumpers targeting the Republican party are the Bill Kristol types who are still pissed that we didn’t go to war with Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and who knows who else and are the worst of the worst. They’re truly reprehensible scumfuckingbags.
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Re Tempe: “Woods is currently recovering from COVID-19 and plans to re-double efforts to flatten the curve.“
Have fun being locked in your own houses and seeing your businesses destroyed Tempetians or whatever y’all are called.
I thought the curve was flattened months ago.
The powers gained due to the
Reichstag firecoronavirus will never be relinquished.“Good work guy but we’ve still got more work to do!”
/THIS is CNN
Everything they say is a lie, so that would be good news.
^This^
I see they are pumping up Hillary this morning. They may still spring her on us at the last minute.
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Fireworks across L.A. – video
https://mobile.twitter.com/ArtValley818/status/1279679749879545858
Cool.
Passing thought:
Supposedly two-thirds of the people receiving $600/week federal unemployment checks made less money when they were working. [Big Leap]
Is it safe to say this was a federally (taxpayer) funded fireworks display? Should have invested in fireworks.
Yeah that’s a great view.
Same here just outside Seattle. With the exceptiin of Germany on New Year’s Eve, I never before saw so many serious fireworks popping up from purely residential areas. And there were plenty that we couldn’t see because of topography. There wasn’t one second for two hours without the constant rumble from distant explosions.
It was swell.
Yeah, it was great. They really left us no choice. I’m pretty sure that was all the money that would have been spent taking trips and attending events. It was a decent approximation of Apocalypse Now. I was happy to see they have some kind of line they won’t let the government cross. All the official fireworks were cancelled, everything was smuggled in private stuff.
Drove down to my nephew’s yesterday afternoon, about an hour south. Started home around 9:15PM, rural roads most of the way. Constant sequence of home fireworks displays all the way home, some quite elaborate. Felt strangely proud that so many people were engaging in, what seems to me, a open repudiation of the lockdown BS.
This is Ohio, by the way, home fireworks more powerful than sparklers are nominally illegal. You can buy them all over, but you have to sign a form that says you’re taking them out of state to use them *wink*
Yeah, funny how we’ve been able to hear all those fireworks coming from all the way over in Indiana. For weeks now.
What general vicinity in OH, if’n ya don’t mind my askin’?
Indiana guns, not fireworks, The M-95 Assault Killer Gun shoots rounds that look like fireworks, but kill every non-white person in 100 square miles.
The Grand Canyon is not a tourist attraction. It is not a movie theater. It is a real, no-shit giant hole in the ground. The walls are hundred of feet high. It is freezing-ass cold in the bottom at night. The walls are high and the rocks are hard and gravity still works.
I was chided yesterday for commenting on the car/protester story because I said “It’s a good start”, maybe rightly so. I suppose I am just weary of watching the Maoist cockroaches piss all over my country. In any case, I wont shed any tears over her passing.
“We need to review how we as a collective city engage with Black, indigenous and people of color…” You lost me there. Fuck that guy.
Telegraph? I will say it again…there is a reason we shot as many as we could and ran the rest out of the country.
Who needs Antifa when we already have the Republicans? God, I hate those fuckers.
Have any Douglass statues been pulled down yet?
The mediocre has-been bouncy-ball moron can go fuck himself. If it is so awful here he should leave. Why does anyone listen to a grown man that played school yard games for a living…and doesnt even do that anymore? Aside from verbal diarrhea what does he contribute anymore?
Jebus I am grouchy this morning. I hope y’all are all having a better morning than I am.
Not playing the the street reduces the chance of being a speedbump. Don’t they teach that in schools anymore?
*in the
Maybe because she was a young woman, I was sad about it. I felt she was led astray by a bad group based on a bad ideology. But maybe she really was a true believer who wanted to break our society down. I suppose I would place less value on a male and/or someone who was known to be a committed Marxist.
In any case, I find the willingness of Antifa, BLM, and the US military to put their peons in harm’s way to be sick.
It is savagery.
A civilized person should have been at home reading bedtime stories to her children, making a grocery list for her family or planning how she was going to help her company get a new contract.
Instead she and the others were bent on destruction and forcibly taking from productive people.
I have no sympathy.
I wasn’t trying to be a dick about that yesterday. I watched the video and my gut sank at the sight of those two getting wiped out like that. My initial thoughts reflected Atanarjuat’s: Young women who may have been led astray due to social pressures and indoctrination.
I know many of you here have young adult children and I’d hate to see them thoughtlessly killed for youthful lapses in reason or for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even if they willing put themselves in a dangerous situation.
I wasn’t trying to be a dick about that yesterday.
It just comes naturally to you, doesn’t it? :-p
/sarcasm
No, no. It does in fact come naturally. Believe it or not, I try to tone it down when I comment here out of respect…you dickhead. ;p
What? You were reasonable.
You weren’t being a dick. I was. Leave that to me. I promise you, I have it covered.
I know you’re good people at heart, dude. I get it, the last few months have been borderline infuriating.
The guy accused driving the car that hit the women is named Dawit Kalete and I searched for, but couldn’t find, his mug shot. He might be a supremacist but my bet is that he isn’t a white one.
Definitely a Boogaloo instigator.
https://mobile.twitter.com/comradesanchez/status/1279118665586278409
LOL. Worth clicking.
Latest in Journalist shitweaselry: “Assault-Style Rifle”
Father of the year.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Brittany_207/status/1279416122681569282
*shakes fist at GILMORE*
Wow. The first two paragraphs was as far as I could get.
Then you missed this:
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The next thing you know these people will be beating people in the street, looting businesses, pulling down statues, and creating their own autonomous zones within the US proper. Truly they are the dregs of society.
I am curious…do we have any documented evidence of these boogeyboo men wearing Hawaiian shirts? Or are they Rooshans?
As far as I know, it’s yet another 4chan project to screw with the morons in the media.
Admittedly, Hawaiian shirts are good for concealed carry.
Check out my link just below. Some guy went and interviewed them.
That’s crazy man. Why would you talk to them?
Got to throw that last one in there.
According to this reporter guy on Twitter, BLM and the Boogaloo folks have found common ground and are marching together.
https://mobile.twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1279669261372440578
These are truly the thoughts needed to lead the Republican party.
It’s upsetting the balance. Republicans are supposed to grovel and be the beaten wife of American politics.
When Republicans actually push for things their voters want, it messes with their grifting.
Agreed. Mitt shouldn’t be voted out. He should voluntarily go hang out with his spirit animal.
In a car carrier at 70mph?
There was a time when I thought he was a likable guy…that time has passed.
Likable? I wouldn’t go that far, but decent came to mind once upon a time.
A weasel?
I’m sorry. That’s not fair to weasels.
The correct answer is McCain. But weasel is close.
(Note: I said voluntarily.)
Not throw himself into a woodchipper?
Good choice.
Seppuku is also acceptable.
Mitt’s the guy who laid off your dad on Christmas Eve who then went to church and spoke about charity. He’s a living stereotype of a sleazeball Republican and a Judas to boot.
Good that they are having this debate / confrontation. Should have happened years ago – then maybe Paul Ryan wouldn’t have ever been near real power.
http://www.thetakemachine.co.uk/quiz/questions
O.85 with 0.00. So i am right in the middle of the conservative woke axis
I want to know what you get if you say ” I don’t care” to everyone.
Yeah I checked out after 10 or 15 questions and most of them were “I don’t care”.
“What would you do in the Prisoner’s Dilemma?”
Hmm. No answer for ‘Escape, killing as many guards as possible in the process.’
0.65, -0.15
0.60, -0.07
For any that care, found out today Powerman 5000 released a new single last month and a new album due in August.
Powerman 5000 – never hear of em
Without bothering to verify, I believe the lead singer is Rob Zombie’s little brother. They had a few hits at the turn of the century during the Nu Metal craze.
Hard to describe them…an American…band…metal? funk? punk?…basically whatever the lead singer (and only constant member, who is Rob Zombie’s brother) feels like at the time. They’ve been around for around 25 years, but only had one or two big hits.
Funk metal. Same derivation as Faith No More and System of a Down.
Super villain – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XiHr7qLxOvU
I remember liking this one ad well:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lxuTCSS-iiI
Spider-One helping the autists.
But, lets do a throwback. Shows off the Funk a bit more.
This was the big hit I recall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsV500W4BHU
Romans Beware! – Dacian Falx Made in Romania (Review)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0v136wHjjQ
I’ve seen his channel before, weird guy, but pretty interesting. Remaking a historical sword is cool, really brings the past to life.
Letters to the Local Rag: It Puts The Mask On Its Face!
For those of you who want to drive faster than 25 mph, think of the safety of others if not yourself. Do you have the right to endanger others with your “freedom” to drive faster? And if you drive faster than 25 and get in an accident refuse medical care and deal with the consequences of your choices.
These are the same type of fools who cheered the Nazis taking control to ensure Germany’s safety from the communists after the Reichstag fire.
OBEY
The risk of you unknowingly getting someone sick and them dying is so miniscule that the onus is on them to figure it out.
Wearing a mask properly is one thing, wearing a mask like most people wear them is another.
*take off, touch face, put on, touch face, adjust, touch face, Etc*
Unless you’re very careful the behaviors associated with wearing one will actually increase your chances of catching it and most people would be better without except in specific situations (showing symptoms, visiting elderly relatives, and the like).
It’s like “no need to wear a mask if you’re not showing symptoms” never happened.
The masks are purely to comfort the “too scared to function” crowd at this point.
It is, indeed, an IQ test. It’s not being scored how you think though…
Letters to the Local Rag: We Should Totally Update Their Processes and Procedures, Yeah… That’s The Ticket
I think I understand the members of law enforcement quite well. That’s why I generally despise most of them.
I’m all about the community learning all about why shitty cops never get fired
I am trying to cheer myself up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB2i4gbxUJI
I am trying to cheer myself up – shoot a gator or whatever it is people do in Louisiana
If you’d like something bluegrassy but more uptempo, friends of ours, a couple kids trying to make their living with their music (a particular challenge at the moment, as if it’s ever easy.)
Thank you.
Right backatcha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTj_wY_6Tas
Lovely cover! John Hartford was a national treasure!
The video cued up to follow that sent me on a search for a version of the same song that was more country blues than bluegrass. (Hubby from the previous couple & another of their cohorts.)
I should be careful. I could do this all day.
A new John Hartford tribute album came out just last week with lots of great artists on it. My buddy plays keys a couple of the songs.
https://bluegrasstoday.com/on-the-road-a-tribute-to-john-hartford/
Thanks! Listening to “Category Stomp” just ‘cuz you gotta love a band named Leftover Salmon.
How about a polka song named ‘Leftover me‘?
When people tell you “the media has a left wing bias” it’s just another way of telling you “I’m a nazi”
https://twitter.com/edwardpoole1975/status/1279066458027409417
When over 50% of the media is worker owned & actively promotes leftist goals then we can talk about a left-wing bias. At the moment 99% of media is capitalist owned & promotes capitalism.
so true…
I’ll have some of what he’s having.
Anything short of communism is right wing.
“Cancel culture” is something that does not exist but is a very popular concept among people who do terrible things and don’t like being held accountable
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1279439762806517761
Andrea Junker
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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a multiyear probe.
132,196 died thanks to Trump’s incompetence: They cheered him at Mount Rushmore.
If only that dirty jew hadn’t made that youtube video and those people at the embassy in Libya had followed social distancing protocols and worn masks, no one would have died. But what difference at this point does it make?
Sick, puzzling, burn!
Does your garden-variety socialist own anything?
Yes, more than you.
You are correct, sir!
Aren’t many mainstream media companies owned (at least in part) by Chinese interests?
None in the US that I know of.
#YusefCausesGlobalWarming
The Air Conditioning Trap: How Cold Air Is Heating the World
or you know go nuclear
First they came for our plastic straws with bad statistics, now…
A serious push against A/C would cause me to toss the NAP like a used tissue. It’s a nonstarter.
*checks thermostat*
Yup, still set at 72°
Brrrrrrrrrrr…..
Clever of them to sneak in a propaganda piece from the Grauniad. *spit*
“….Now, however, air conditioning is finally sweeping across the rest of the world. If the march of air conditioning across the US tracked its postwar building and consumption boom, its more recent expansion has followed the course of globalisation. As the rest of the world adopts more Americanised ways of building and living, air conditioning follows….”
Can’t have that. Poor people can’t have nice things and the ones in Africa in particular must be made guinea pigs for a Covid-19 vaccine.
“When you had this money coming in from the rest of the world for high-end buildings, it often came with an American or European designer or consultancy attached,” says Ashok Lall, an Indian architect who focuses on housing and low-energy design. “And so it comes as a package with AC. They thought that meant progress.”
it is progress.
“…As the rate and scale of building intensified, traditional architectural methods for mitigating hot temperatures were jettisoned. Leena Thomas, an Indian professor of architecture at the University of Technology in Sydney, told me that in Delhi in the early 1990s older forms of building design – which had dealt with heat through window screens, or facades and brise-soleils – were slowly displaced by American or European styles. “I would say that this international style has a lot to answer for,” she said. Just like the US in the 20th century, but on an even greater scale, homes and offices were increasingly being built in such a way that made air conditioning indispensable. “Developers were building without thinking,” says Rajan Rawal, a professor of architecture and city planning at Cept University in Ahmedabad. “The speed of construction that was required created pressure. So they simply built and relied on technology to fix it later.”
“….Lall says that even with affordable housing it is possible to reduce the need for air conditioning by designing carefully. “You balance the sizes of opening, the area of the wall, the thermal properties, and shading, the orientation,” he says. But he argues that, in general, developers are not interested. “Even little things like adequate shading and insulation in the rooftop are resisted. The builders don’t appear to see any value in this. They want 10- to 20-storey blocks close to one another. That’s just how business works now, that’s what the cities are forcing us to do. It’s all driven by speculation and land value.”
“….This idea of technology saving us is a narrative that we want to believe. Its simplicity is comforting,” he says. It has proven so comforting, in fact, that it is often discussed as if it is our first and best response to climate change – even as the timeframe for inventing and implementing such technologies becomes so narrow as to strain credulity.
New air-conditioner technology would be welcome, but it is perhaps “the fourth, or maybe fifth thing on the list we should do” to reduce the emissions from air conditioning, says Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, a professor of climate change and energy policy at Central European University, and a lead author on the forthcoming IPCC report. Among the higher priorities that she mentions are planting trees, retrofitting old buildings with proper ventilation, and no longer building “concrete and glass cages that can’t withstand a heatwave.” She adds: “All of these things would be cheaper too, in the long run.”
It’s “comforting”. Something tells me they’ll allow some exemptions.
“…According to Nick Mabey, a former senior civil servant who runs the UK-based climate politics consultancy E3G, air conditioning has – like many consumer products that are deeply embedded in society and, in aggregate, drive global warming – escaped the notice of most governments. There is little precedent for top-down regulation. “There is no department that handles this, there’s no guy you can just go talk to who controls air conditioning,” he says.”
He sounds disappointed. But it’s ok. Sounds like this is coming. Spark up the articles of turtles drinking freon!
“….Other cities are taking even more direct action. In the mid-1980s, Geneva, which has a warmer climate than much of the US, the local government banned the installation of air conditioning except by special permission. This approach is relatively common across Switzerland and, as a result, air conditioning accounts for less than 2 percent of all electricity used. The Swiss don’t appear to miss air conditioning too much – its absence is rarely discussed, and they have largely learned to do without.”
I would love to know about this….paging Swiss!
“Geneva, which has a warmer climate than much of the US”
Bullshit.
The average high in the summer is less than 80 degrees.
“much” is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Alaska is rilly, rilly big, so that’s “much,” right??
Journalism!
I support a ban on A/C in Washington DC.
Hear, hear!
“Do without”
Communism summed up in two words.
“we’ve decided you don’t need it”
The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.
“The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. “Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”
Read more here: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article243939577.html#storylink=cpy
What this place needs is a good old fashioned PURGE. Round up the heretics and start gathering fuel for the pyres.
They really do want a shooting war, dont they?
Message I got:
“Republicans.
Wonder how they would have done during the polio years.
And – the fish rots from the head down?
This is on Trump – 100%.
Is he now the greatest peacetime mass murderer in American history?”
He’s a doctor.
Doctors are the best examples of the Dunning Kruger Effect in existence.
To wit, the premeds at Hopkins hated the engineers because the engineers busted the curves on the required math and science courses.
“Is he now the greatest peacetime mass murderer in American history?“
As long as he isn’t your doctor. If he is, take two aspirin and call another physician in the morning.
I didn’t bite on the loaded question.
In fact, he has sent me about a dozen in the last week I summarily ignore. That guy isn’t into good faith debating he’s so up his ass with TDS. He thinks he’s so cunning and smart.
He’s an idiot.
When the fuck did we enter peacetime?!
One of my favourite youtube channels is Awakening with JP. His latest, always funny of course, was a disappointment. He’s gotten political lately and for the most part, he’s been on cue. But he seems to think ‘systemic racism’s a thing and took a rather lazy shot at religion in trying to combine the two in his latest.
People have, particularly progressives, have a serious blind spot when it comes to Christianity. I’ve taken to ‘reconnecting’ with Christianity in the last couple of years just to bush up on things. The modern position on the Church is hopelessly shallow corroded with secular arrogance in my view.
Andrew Schultz also has a great segment on his channel. It’s fantastic and, again, he’s more on cue than not except he seems to buy into ‘cops are killing black people’ narrative. It’s a couple of videos now he does that goes in that direction.
Blind spots.
But the beauty about blind spots is if you look you….see.
I like Andrew Schultz but he buys into a bunch of nonsense, including on economics.
Yeh, I noticed it.
His sidekick is one ignorant fool.
Re: Tempe electing a black Mayor.
So….example of ‘systemic racism’?
Mayor: Send me a report of systemic racism. We must tackle this.
Aide: Report? There are no reports.
Mayor: Whaddya mean? How can we tackle a ghost?
Aide (waves arms): Mr. Mayor. Systemic racism is in the air. It circulates like ghouls all around us. If you see it, you believe it.
Mayor: What the fuck you talkin’ ’bout Willis?
AIde (repeats word with convincing nod): It’s….systemic. It doesn’t need to be in a report.
Mayor: Oh. So if we assume it’s real, it’s real?
Aide: Yes.
Mayor: But how did I get elected?
Aide: That’s different.
Mayor: How?
Aide: Systemic racism is like the Covid virus. It’s smart. It knows how to distinguish between a protest and funeral. It’s a virus that believes in social justice.
Mayor: What did the school system do to you?
You can have a mass movement without a savior, but never without a devil.
I listened to the speech. I don’t see what was so ‘dark and divisive’ about it.
Yet, that’s the buzz phrase the NPC media seems to be going with. I’ve noticed it was used a couple of times.
Those dumb fuck neverTrumpers have their heads so far up their asses it’s ridiculous. Democrat vs Republican is completely meaningless. They are all on the same establishmentarian team.
Trump is the giant flaming bag of dog shit America put on their front porch.
They learned the lesson last time and instead of putting up a breakfast sandwich, they nominated Joe Biden.
A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trump’s re-election now see another political feat that’s necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.
“The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. “Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”
Holy. Shit.
Especially the ‘except Mitt’ bit.
“…fire purifies the forest…”
I think I have heard that kind of talk before somewhere….
Just wait… The “it’s capitalism’s fault” is a couple years away.
Be a real shame if the winds change on those assholes after they start the fire.
A spineless, corrupt, hypocritical empty suit with fantastic hair…everything they could possibly want.
Meh. Still pissy evangelicals would rather have Obama than a Mormon.
The never-Mitters got what they deserved. Unfortunately, they gave it to everybody else too.
Kaepernick VINDCATED!
He absolutely knelt as a way to spit on the flag and America.
Nike, since corporations are bottom-line sociopaths, can market who ever they want but this company does business with China (and its abhorrent human rights record and sweatshops) and this ignorant, pampered moron but to me Phil Nike, if he wants to go political, can’t say ‘it’s just business’. He’s making a choice. Says a lot about him.
Sorry to be petty, but that dude is unfortunate-looking.
He cleans up aight. It’s like he’s TRYING to make himself ugly. You’re right, though, it’s not a long trip.
That’s a real power to the people pose he’s got going on there.
Heh, yeah, exactly. It’s why I like the pic.
That’s all they need to show whenever he acts up like a faux-civil rights advocate.
And he seems to revel in it. He’s the Marouane Fellaini of America-ball.
He seems level-headed.
That fist is darker than he is.
He was raised, for a bit of his childhood, by his white grandparents in a town close to here, real hotbed of racism; so much so local bars threw parties when he was in the Superbowl (after beating the one team he regularly dominated, the
Dom Capers DefenseGreen Bay Packers.“Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.”
The same Mitt Romney whom the press were happy to caricature as some sort of fire breathing radical libertarian who would completely dismantle the government and destroy civilization as we know, when he ran against Obama?
Yeah, that’s the one. The gracious loser who wouldn’t defend himself against lies.
Good morning, Old Man!
Sorry about the pinger, but you’ll live. I laughed out loud picturing Wonder Dog terrorizing Bushwood!
Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist ever. I have several collections of C&H and I was thrilled when my kids read them over and over, laughing like maniacs every time. Great memories!
Another collection of books my kids loved was the “Death In ________” series for the National Parks. The ways that tourists manage Nature-assisted suicide are quite impressive. Still, there are hikes that are downright pucker-inducing and I can see that if someone is not physically prepared, things could go sideways pretty fast.
Yes, the jazz flute was insane. Back then, there seemed to flutes in a lot of music. Tull, War, etc. And of course, these guys.
Steamy one here in Minne today. I hope all of you are sweat off the hangovers and have a fantastic day!
Bill Watterson lives here in the Cleveland suburbs. Back in the day when his strip was running, he would randomly go into local book shops, and leave signatures in certain copies. He stopped doing it when the managers at one store started following him, taking the books off the shelf after he left, and raised the prices on the autographed books. He has done a couple of comics recently, including one for Stripped, and a couple Pearls Before Swines strips.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Is this guy’s math about cops killing more blacks sound?
https://twitter.com/ThomasMPierce/status/1279496811426783232
I guess he has to do the same with reported crimes and get more context.
Meh, I hate that argument. Police misconduct is a bad thing and it does seem to affect blacks at a higher rate, whatever you may think the reason for that is. It’s like saying you cannot have a charity for MS because cancer kills way more people.
The problem with BLM isn’t that they are protesting something that’s wrong, but not a endemic as they want to pretend. The problem is making the issue of police misconduct about race, which has ground any progress that was being made on that front to a halt. That and all the other far left politics that BLM pushes beyond the policing issues.
BLM is not protesting. They are hardcore, formally brainwashed marxists and what we are seeing is a tactic for putting marxism into power. They couldn’t give less of a shit about black lives.
Unfortunately for them, if their goal is reached they will find themselves up against a wall.
I don’t care if they end up against the wall. Unfortunately for us, if they get their way we’ll be there with them.
Just to lift the spirits, a finger-picked hymn and some tempo di tear-ass bluegrass “blues.”
OH
my
GOD!
As the nation marked a somber Fourth of July with many Americans confined to their homes amid an alarming rise in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump used his stage on the White House’s South Lawn Saturday to put forward a mystifying — and dangerously misleading claim — that 99% of coronavirus cases in America are “totally harmless.”
The President’s assertion without evidence about the virus was his latest attempt to minimize the threat of the coronavirus as it ravages the United States with cases rising across the country, and as an increasing number of top Republican officials from the nation’s governors to members of Congress pleaded with Americans to redouble their efforts to curb the spread of the virus, warning of the dangerous consequences if current trends continue.
Looking to distract the nation from the frightening spike in Covid-19 cases and America’s grim death toll as it surpassed 129,000 people, Trump has plunged deeper into a racially charged strategy meant to bolster his support among White Americans who feel threatened by the cultural change sweeping America after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
Serious “news” for serious people.
Wasn’t he just following the CDC’s position in the beginning?
I’m waiting for BLM to go back and finish the job they started at CNN HQ
Who was it here that said that the anti-Trumpers always take him literally but not seriously? Sounds about right here.
And pro-Trumpers take him seriously, but not literally.
Was that yours Mojeaux? I figured it was either you or Scruffy but I couldn’t remember. It’s pretty much bang on.
Nope. I just remembered it because it was so en pointe.
Speaking of hysteria, we have New Jersey guv saying there should be a NATIONAL mask diktat.
He empathizes with those poor deluded fools who ordered food and hired their staffs back and now have been told they cannot reopen their restaurants.
Christ, what an asshole.
Everything must be national! What we need is a global mask Accord. The US should organize an agreement across Nations to institute mandatory mask laws and set some targets to hit globally.
We could host it in Paris, Texas
Or, London, Ohio…..Dublin, Ohio
To makes the leftys get a tingle down their leg…..Russia, Ohio.
*fun fact- its pronounced Rooo-She by its residents
Worse than an asshole.
IMMORAL.
Bills vetoed by Murphy:
https://patch.com/new-jersey/tomsriver/gov-phil-murphy-vetoes-5-nj-coronavirus-bills
What a degenerate pig.
He deserves a Bible type fate.
That was wholly intentional and a massive “Fuck You” to the construction industry. I hope the Mafia buys him some new shoes and dumps him in the river.
Surprised there are papers that still permit comments. Those comments are why the Star Ledger dropped theirs.
Because rural Montana should be subject to the same dictates as downtown Jersey City. Eat a dick gov.
I’m ready for them.
You could be, too!
“Virus fatigue”?
It’s bullshit fatigue, you retards.
It’s both.
Great. Susan rice is on Meet the Press. They must be prepping the faithful for her VP nomination.
She is OUTRAGED.
Please god let it be her. Crooked, Russophobic, and uncharismatic won’t bring in many votes. Hell, it’ll wreck Biden with the more lefty types. Rice is about as establishmentarian as you can get.
I’m thinking Harris.
Me too but Rice would be better if you want Biden to lose plus she’s so milquetoast she wouldn’t be as bad when she takes over if Biden somehow manages to pull off getting elected. Harris is a vengeful authoritarian bitch who’d weaponize the government against non leftys like nobody’s business.
Rice was up to her nostrils in unmasking and setting up the Deep State coup. And pushing the Benghazi lies. She is as toxic as anyone.
I bet nobody mentioned the lies she she was caught spewing in earlier appearances.
Whatever you say are lies, she was just discussing her grandkids.
If governor Steve “Monkey-see-monkey-do” Bullock issues a mask requirement, mine will say Vote for Daines. In large letters.
I’m waiting to read the actual law for the mask mandate here in Cleveland. If it’s as poorly done as most things here, a Zorro mask will meet the requirements. Otherwise, I may have to splurge for a plague mask.
Ooh, that’s funny, Susan.
President Cartoon Villain pits Americans against one another!
Obama never did that, nor did the media while he was in office.
Those bitter clingers and racist Republicans were accepted.
Be informed. Know your risk. Stay safe.
Where’s the chart on your risk of dying?
So the people working out in the gym are more likely to die from the COVID? FFS, I’m probably the highest risk person in the spin classes I go to, I’m in my 40’s, overweight, and have high blood pressure. And I’ve still been in the top 5 rankings in the class (adjusted for age, weight, and gender) since they opened back up.
Why is a shopping mall much more dangerous than a grocery store?
Consumerism, obvs.
“Science! The doctors and scientists hath spoken! Are you a science denier? Denier! DENIER!”
Didn’t see “screaming at cops while attending a peaceful protest” on the list.
That’s just because the scale doesn’t go down to zero.
Not pictured: Attending a BLM protest.
1) Attending leftist rally.
If it’s as poorly done as most things here, a Zorro mask will meet the requirements. </em.
Zorro, Lone Ranger, Donald Duck, whatever.
Well shit, I have been thinking about getting a Sam mask for Halloween.
Really scare the shit out of folks; get a Trump mask.
I’m strongly considering this now, thank you for that idea.
Haha, “Left Wing Fascism”? That doesn’t even make sense.
Slutty Sunday is hungover.
http://archive.li/gD18B
#4
Some fine ass booties in that lineup. Good jerb.
And #17
Sudden urge to reach for the ping pong paddle, so many need a spanking.
I don’t know why this would surprise me, but the I Fucking Love SCIENCE mob are resolutely opposed to any re-examination of their hypothesis, no matter how much additional data becomes available. They are completely invested in the “Most contagious, most lethalest virus ever!” narrative. The outrage with which they report on President Cartoon Villain’s remark about how the virus is not nearly as deadly as claimed is enlightening.
Nobody asks, “What if he’s even partly right?” It’s all screeching and shit-flinging about “How dare he contradict our pet fearmongers?”
All you have to do is look at their views on genetically modified foods to realize it’s not science they’re pushing, it’s politics and it always has been.
Primitive man smashing plant genetics together like making Barbie dolls scissor, tote’s safe. Actually knowing the why and how of crossbreeding plants, FRANKENSTEIN!!!!!!!!!!111
Fish genes in my tomaters!
I want my organic bananas and maize!
Have fun eating your Teosinte and seeded bananas.
See: ‘Climate Change’
“Fourth of July bloodshed across the US sees a seven-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy shot dead in Chicago while in NYC two are killed and 10 injured by gunfire as violent summer continues”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8491507/Independence-Day-chaos-two-children-shot-dead-Chicago.html
Does BLM have a position on the WOD?
“Protesters defy Donald Trump and risk ten years in jail as they throw Columbus statue into Baltimore harbor just hours after he called them ‘Nazis and terrorists’ in July Fourth address as protests break out across the US”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8490715/Thousands-Americans-gather-Fourth-July-protests-US.html
Those are not protesters.
If that statue of the girl on Wall Street is still up, I’d like to see somebody take it down.
Although police did attack peaceful protesters. I posted this yesterday, but it’s worth re-posting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9ThyFE0V1Q
WTF YouTube? You have to sign-in now?
Has any news come out on the counterfeit bill? I’m not saying it warrants death, but was it verified he was he had counterfeit money? If so, has any info come out if Floyd was in on the counterfeiting or just passing a bill he had? Or, is that whole part just memory holed? Fiat currency FTW.
I have no idea, and I don’t think it’s relevant. Even if he was the unlikely kingpin of a vast counterfeiting operation, he still deserved a trial.
I never said anything about relevance. I just care about reality. That’s all.
OK, although I doubt the Secret Service, or whoever investigates that now, will make much of an effort at this point.
It’s relevant because the man was most likely a felon, not some random saint that was attacked by a rabid racist. Just like that fact that they knew each other might just have some bearing on what went down.
Yes, he deserved a trial, and yes the cop should be in prison for a very long time.
who the hell watches a 47 minute show in head video?
Apparently, 162K.
Most of her videos are much shorter.
She comes across very ignorant of the facts in the bit I watched. I know you like to post her because she’s a hot chick who although saying she isn’t on our side defends a lot of our positions, but this makes she doesn’t come across well in this one from the bit I cared to watch.
she’s a hot chick – i would not go that far
There are some videos of her where she is dressed a bit more scantily where she certainly exceeds the hot/cute threshold.
defends a lot of our positions – meh. I don’t see that many… also she is a Bernie stan
Besides her buying into there were right wing groups committing violence, and I haven’t seen any proof of that, I think everything else she said was right. Instead of people pushing for police reform, it’s a turned into a bunch of contrarian culture bullshit over TV shows and syrup bottles.
Conservatives should support the 4 – 8th Amendments.
So what % of glibs support abolishing the police?
Roughly proportional to the % of Glibs who own firearms, I imagine.
I’m sure there are plenty of glibs who own guns who are against abolishing the police.
I own a revolver and six bullets. That’s my entire martial capacity. Abolish the cops. I’ll take my chances.
Today, in Hate Crime
A giant 20-by-30-foot Confederate flag was raised along a busy highway in North Carolina this weekend to mark the Fourth of July, and, despite some complaints, local officials say there’s nothing that can be done about it.
Local network WSOCTV reports that the Sons of Confederate Veterans raised the flag on Friday on an 80-foot pole along Interstate 40. It marks one of several Confederate flags that have been raised in the area after Gov. Roy Cooper (D) announced in June that all Confederate monuments on state Capitol property would be removed.
“The Sons of Confederate Veterans, we’re trying to replace the statue with flags, and we try to put them on the interstate so more people can see it,” Elgie McGalliard told the local station. “Take down our statues, and we’re going to put up a flag somewhere along the major interstates in North Carolina.”
The group said it was raising the large flag to mark the Fourth of July weekend and the heritage of its members.
Some have already complained about the flags, but officials say they are on private property and there are no ordinances against it.
No ordinance against it? That will have to be rectified ASAP.
I bet those flagpoles are higher than the local fire ladder, and thus can’t be put out if’in a fire starts. Public safety!!!!11111!!!
They raised it to celibrate the fall of Vicksburg.
I learned today from NPR Trump’s weekend speeches were “divisive”. It seemed you could have turned that word into a drinking game. Roads are racist. The latest jobs report will be decimated by the Vid. Trump is so divisive Biden is going to win. Some of the Boogaloo bois in Hawaiian shirts are white supremacists. And that young people are more at risk from “social isolation” than Covid and they don’t care if they infect Grandma because Grandma doesn’t give a shit about the environment.
I have worn Hawaiian shirts for about 35 years. They were on sale at Walmart where I stopped on my way home so I bought the ugliest Hawaiian shirt I have ever seen. 10 clams on sale.
Long ago I started putting together a list of libertarian artists who were not the usual go-tos. No Ayn Rand or Heinlein here. Also, I am interested in all arts disciplines, not just literature.
If I have forgotten any Glibs, I apologize.
Glad I’m not an artist. (Passive Aggressive FTW!)
Dude, you coulda just put your deets down and I would’ve added you.
No Vince Vaughn? I. Can’t. Even.
Heh. He’s not a little guy.
Point me to your URL again, please?
DavisCreates
Done.
Thanks.