I need to knock the rust off here. It’s been a while.
One of several inconceivably bad decisions.
Arsenal won the FA Cup in a game that had highly suspect officiating. And sadly, that knocks a small club out of the Europa League. Justin Thomas won the WGC-St Jude as the players get ready for the first major of the year this week. Nothing else really happened. I’m struggling to report on baseball because I think the reason is about to be cancelled, and I don’t want to make an investment in my time.
Great player, eh.
If you were born on this day, you share it with Otis Elevator Company founder Elisha Otis, high school teacher John Scopes, crooner Tony Bennett, novelist Leon Uris, actor-activist Martin Sheen, onetime-billionaire and convicted felon Martha Stewart, hockey legend Marcel Dionne, genius filmmaker John Landis, rocker James Hetfield, hurler Rod Beck, football player Tom Brady, and swimmer Ryan Lochte.
That was a pretty decent list. Now on to…the links!
Coming soon to a street near you.
This headline needs to be corrected. Something more like “politicians who completely shut down the economy may cause 40 million Americans to lose their homes” would be more accurate.
At least we know what we’re gonna be up against now. And I gotta tell you, if they don’t start hitting the range, this boogaloo ain’t gonna last long. Man, Portland can’t do anything right.
You just can’t make some people happy. Sorry those recyclable shopping bags are traps for disease and are therefore less safe. Maybe don’t force them on people next time, ok?
Oh the horror of people having fun!
So what were they arrested for, exactly? Oh, they were arrested for breaking…no laws. Man, this insanity of giving EOs the power of law better stop soon or somebody is gonna pretty much declare him/herself a king/queen. Get this shit to the courts.
And speaking of which…I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the media douchebags saying what a great job NY has done (they haven’t) and saying Texas, Arizona, and Florida are a bunch of dumbasses (they aren’t, relatively speaking).
July went out with a bang in Chicago. And it looks like August kicked off the same way. Protip: get the hell out of there while you still can.
Do they really expect us to believe this bullshit? But even if it’s true, you can’t blame him for the actions of the gazillion looters and rioters that destroyed entire city blocks.
I don’t trust anybody who lobbies for this job. Especially the person known for doing pretty much anything to help her political career.* (*I mean Kamala Harris whoring herself out in case you were wondering.)
Hello 80s!!!! Enjoy it.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
The headlines about bad things being caused by the pandemic piss me off. The government is shutting things down and destroying businesses, not the damn pandemic.
Passive aggressive political class wants you to believe they had nothing to do with fucking us all over.
The media stating that might tend to direct anger at govt instead of fear and groveling.
Nobody in Minneapolis has any agency. They must mimic all bad actors.
Just let them carjack, rob, and ass rape you.. It’s not worth fighting back…
If I was a criminal, this recommendation to the sheep would mean it was open season…
Just remember, they are projecting – always, always – projecting from themselves onto others.
The soft bigotry of low expectation. They really see these people as infants that must be protected from themselves
I like the ”Yeah we know who he is, he is a really really bad that did other bad things and there is a lot more of people like him because he is part of those bad people gang, but no we won’t charge him nor name him. It just so happens that it fits our narrative.”
Man, this insanity of giving EOs the power of law better stop soon or somebody is gonna pretty much declare him/herself a king/queen. Get this shit to the courts.
Most of this shit is happening in blue states, with judges appointed by leftist Democrats, who will rule in favor of the Democrat tyrant governors doing this shit.
Right? That ship has sailed.
Most of this shit is happening in blue states
Is it? Our Republican governor here in Indiana wanted 180 days in jail for his mask order being violated. Fortunately out AG (elected separately) forced him down, pointing out its illegality.
I remember Shelley Luther.
If Abbot never wanted her and people like her arrested, his EO should have stated that from the beginning instead of being amended after her arrest.
Yeah, fuck Abbott. And all the mayors in TX who ordered this stuff.
The Blue states were generally worse, but hardly anyone let people make their own decisions.
Rod Beck is fifth in war, but the 3 above him are uninspiring him, so not a bad choice. HOWEVER, #1 is Hall of Famer Harry Heilmann. IN 1927, he finished 2nd in the AL MVP voting, which is pretty strong considering the competition that year. Bet you can’t guess who he lost to?
I know because I’m a Yankee fan (how’s that for a hint?).
It is a very funny hint, considering.
Fifth in peace, and fifth in the esteem of his countrymen?
That MVP result was helped by the “no repeat winners” rule during that period, no?
That CBS article was exactly as fair and balanced as I expected it would be.
It is fucking hilarious to me that “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” in January went through all sorts of fanfare (virtue signalling) about how they had mandated (not to be confused with two guys going on a voluntary date) these disposables be done away with. The environmentalists did their song & dance, and grandstanded as well. All the shops pulled the plastic & paper bags, and sold you the crappy reusable bags at premium prices. No bag, no groceries! There you go you Gaia hating bastage! Stop your bullshit about this being a bad move because it was unsanitary! Fast forward to three months later, and they pass a law forcing every store to spend a fortune getting these disposable bags back on the shelf. And now they tell you they will NOT bag for you if you bring in your own reusable. Fuck these pretenders and their shit.
It’s still a complete crap-shoot here in the PRoNY. Ostensibly there is still a ban on plastic, but nobody seems to be enforcing it and every shop has different procedures now. Some give out plastic, some paper, some nothing. Some charge for paper. Some charge for plastic (!). The one decent thing is nobody has a problem with bagging my reusable bags.
Prony is the position one takes to get fucked by a Brony.
And if not for the mishmash of contradictory laws/orders, this would almost sound like freedom. Almost.
She’s bad at handjobs?
How could somebody so practiced in prostituting herself for political gain be bad at something as simple as an Old Fashioned?
She cheaps out on the lotion.
Actually I was told she refuses to go down on ya unless you pay premium dollar…
Someone should interview Willie Brown.
Calloused hands.
i can see that as she rubs against someone on the dance floor with that maniacal giggle.
People still listen to Ed Rendell?
Marcel Dionne is perhaps one of the most unheralded and under appreciated hockey player in history. Him and Pierre Pilote.
No shit Sherlock
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/cdc-director-acknowledges-hospitals-have-a-monetary-incentive-to-overcount-coronavirus-deaths
The fact that they are admitting this makes me wonder if they know this revelation will come out sooner than later, and they are doing damage control…
WILL come out? “90yr old, obesese, stage 4 cancer patient with diabetes and advanced heart disease dies of COVID”, it’s BEEN OUT THE WHOLE TIME, and yet, here we still are.
this is why you need an NHS
National Hot Sorority?
“…It was yet another symbol of reckless socializing during the pandemic: ”
2020. Is it over yet?
Nope
I’m wondering when the taxpayers are going to revolt over schools not opening.
I expected taxpayers to revolt decades ago,
I gave up on predicting.
That one is amazing. It’s so overtly political and has nothing to do with science.
But there are parents who seem to think it’s a bad idea to re-open them saying stupid things like ‘I’m not sending them if this and that protocol is not in place’.
So parents can be just as idiotic.
Dumbasses.
Reposting from overnight thread. This is from solidly prog Bergen County NJ. The natives are getting restless.
https://www.nj.com/opinion/2020/08/virtually-fed-up-with-teachers-who-want-to-be-no-shows-letters.html
Considering the astronomical property taxes we pay in NJ, there should be much more unrest over this than there is.
My position is that if we have real leaders and not cowards pretending to be leaders they’d tell the teacher’s to get back to work or else they’re fired. Out.
I’d see it as opportunity to purge and get rid of the shit.
But we have cowards on both sides who are projecting their fears and stupidity onto children.
Way to go setting an example to our future you fucken loser clowns.
Abort them all.
In a move that really surprised me, my town has decided that the elementary school will reopen, and do so on time. The middle and high schools are a unified system (3 towns), and that group is having issues deciding what to do (a lot more union presence since that cabal was not busted like we did with our elementary school a few years back when they tried to fuck the tax payer over hard and good and ended up being the ones taking it in the ass).
Considering the product, I’d prefer government schools never open again. As soon as they open, they will cry poor.
Man oh man the 80s and 90s were an awesome time compared to this crap. I miss them.
I can’t believe what I’m seeing in 2020. Bunch of losers. Everyone. Especially public officials. They suck.
I suspected we were heading here Mr. Muppet. You can’t spend the time to pussify 2 generations like we did with the bullcrap about having self-esteem despite having zero accomplishments and participation trophies for all (and yes, I blame the fucking idiot parents, not the kids), and not get to this zero risk tolerance and love for top men decisions we have today.
COVIDIOTS!!1!
Front-page Headline: “Reckless socializing blamed for possibly tens of Covid cases.”
Page 37 blurb: “Sending positive cases to nursing home may have unnecessarily led to 25,000 deaths.”
Fuck the media.
TMITE
(The media is the enemy)
This has been common knowledge since March.
Why do they act like it’s a revelation?
Because they want to control the narrative and make Cuomo a viable presidential candidate one day instead of having him be known as the person who effectively killed tens of thousands of seniors.
Like they are doing for Biden, whom they in the past called a dunce when he ran against Obama and Clinton? Now that he also has dementia thay are calling him a statesman… Fuck they are morons these tards.
Is it “common knowledge” though? None of my liberal/prog acquaintances know anything about it.
Progs are really good at avoiding any facts that might hurt the narrative. I am sure they heard it but dismissed it because it didn’t come from an approved source…
Finally, a practical encrypted device
https://wccftech.com/apricorn-announces-the-aegis-secure-key-3nxc-the-first-hardware-encrypted-usb-type-c-flash-drive/
1-2-3-4-5? That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage!
Harris is such a bad choice, but it would be interesting to see what happens if she is chosen. Right now it seems like Biden is stalling, hoping someone else will make the decision for him.
Amazingly, there is an even worse choice in that commie Bass person.
Joe is at the kitchen table asking at what time The Aldrich Family will come on the radio.
‘Joe-eeeeeeee!’
The fact that it’s being tested, and you hear that there are splits in the campaign over the choice, shows that Biden is not in charge of the decision
I’m pretty sure the DNC realizes that if Kamala Harris is the pick, Trump is going to trot out Dem debate footage of Harris calling Joe a racist.
But then they get the Yass Queen segment of the vote.
I am gusssing they haven’t considered the Joe & Joe ticket. Could Manchin deliver WV? Probably not. But I think a lot of people who dislike Trump might consider voting for Biden hoping he dies quick if Manchin was the veep. I could be wrong, but he seems like the kind of candidate that could hold some of the historical democratic vote is some key states.
He’s already said he is choosing a black
womanperson with a cervix.Maybe Manchin identifies as a black woman.
Also, since when did we start believing things politicians say?
This one is worth believing, because if Biden goes back on it, you can bet your ass it kills him on Election Day.
Is Manchin a POC chick? If not, then he’s not on any list, short or not.
Maybe he identifies as a panracial, masculine-presenting, transgender lesbian.
Biden is not making any decisions. His team is. Biden doesn’t even know if he is wearing diapers or underwear anymore. And he is being handled and hidden to make sure people don’t see how bad that is.
Someone else is already making all Joe’s decisions for him.
To be fair, it is not exactly a surprise where exactly the crime is rising. Hint: it’s the same highly localized neighborhoods that are already shitholes.
I know. But there’s still plenty of other reasons to leave. Namely: getting fleeced on your property taxes to pay for all the social programs and cops who aren’t getting a damn thing corrected.
Bury your face in Mammary Monday.
http://archive.li/IQDFx
#1. Yum. It’ll be a hard job, but I have to keep going.
#6 and #49 are the same. She has appeared in other galleries. I like her iChive gallery except for the face diaper picture.
#17 has another good iChive gallery.
#41 – strip chess?
#61 – what are you reading?
I am starting to be more convinced the covid was much more manageable if treated from the very first symptoms/detection with some vitamins (C and D) Zinc and HCQ
Get a load of this Nazi over here.
But Hydroxyphetamine was proven to not work!!!
I mean
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1232869/
2005… this does not mean it works but it was handled very poorly.
Your post violates community standards and will be censored.
Way too many people who saw profit in a panic:
Media – if it bleeds it leads.
Pharma (and it’s captured regulators) – new pandemic needs new (patented) drugs.
Politicians – fear is the health of the state.
Big Gov agencies – a wet dream of overt rule by fiat.
I mean I don;t want to go all conspiracy theory and shit but Zinc is important to the immune system. There were studies in the past which showed it may improve common cold and flu symptoms, not fully conclusive but enough when you don;t have anything else. So does vit D, deficiency is bad for colds. Vit C as well.
The whole thing is, I look at it like fitness supplements. If it is cheap, does not hurt and it may help, why not. Vitamin and zinc supplementation are these things. HCQ is m0re risky but well studied.
But the whole point is this helps most to prevent bad symptoms. So you have to take it before bad symptoms. If you can prevent the onset of bad stuff, you prevent both deaths and future morbidity. Most hospitals gave HCQ only after bad symptoms set in, and often without Zinc, although most reports of success had zinc in it. Also many studies omitted zinc. Why? It is cheap, it will not harm, and earliest information from doctors who claimed success said it helped. I cannot understand why Zinc was not included in treatment and many studies. If you have an idea it may help, why not include it? It makes no sense to me.
Zinc is very valuable.
But probably not as valuable as zinc oxide.
Pie, are you suggesting our health care heroes were derelict in their jobs?
American Conservatism is Fiddling While Rome Burns
There is some weird combination of keys I accidentally press or something else which posts prematurely. I think I hit ctrl+v then enter but somehow shit posts. Anyhoo
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/american-conservatism-is-fiddling-while-rome-burns/
. It’s the foolish libertarianism that hates the government more than it loves America. – off course thats the problem
. Today, libertarians actively side with our enemies: they promote open borders and empty prisons, and strengthen China’s hand through their consumer-focused economic policies. Ours is primarily a conservatism of countries and borders, citizens and families, none of which can take root in the barren libertarian soil of atomized individuals and global markets. – barren soils is bad
Conservatives mad that they haven’t won a single policy victory in years taking it out on the powerless.
“posts prematurely”
There are medications that can help with that.
LOL
Take your meds, dude.
Recycled Pat Buchanan. The only reason it plays any better now is because most people alive today don’t even know that Buchanan is still around.
“Ours is primarily a conservatism of countries and borders, citizens and families,…”
Blood and soil?
I know it’s kind of a cheap shot, but AmCon doesn’t really deserve fair fighting.
“Nazi!” Is a cheap shot at anybody who isn’t a Nazi. And remember, everyone The Enlightened disagree with is not a Nazi
Trump gives support for Microsoft to acquire TikTok
So instead of user data going to China it will go to the rightful owners, the American government!
I saw that this morning. It sounded like Trumps is doing the old “sink to there level” trick with Chinese business stuff.
Of course that means we all the up more screwed.
Works for me.
George Orwell to the white courtesy phone please…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-area-leaders-call-for-illinois-to-eliminate-history-classes/ar-BB17ugbx
The destruction of our shared culture is an important step on the road to Paradise.
People that know better might not accept the slaughter and human rights abuses that are needed to create the new
SovietProggie man.*glimmer of hope*
Oh… they just want to replace it with propaganda. I am shocked.
Leaders in education, politics and other areas gathered in suburban Evanston Sunday to ask that the Illinois State Board of Education eliminate history classes at schools statewide.
It’s not like they are teaching history anyway.
It was yet another symbol of reckless socializing during the pandemic
This sentence bothers me.
This exercising of freedom and civil rights is reckless and disturbing.
It should. Because it’s a fucking lie.
The pandemic may cause 40 million Americans to lose their homes
No, the pLanDEMic may cause 40 million Americans to lose their homes.
“No, the pLanDEMic”
Are you not ironically doing the SpongeBob, capitalized weirdly meme?
The Tenth Crusade?
https://www.bookwormroom.com/2020/08/02/america-is-engaged-in-a-religious-war/
I think that’s spot on.
AOC is more despicable than we thought. Wow.
And Lebron is a loser.Good on Isaac.
Remember Rufus, the schizophrenic homeless man ranting at imaginary demons on the street corner is more privileged than Lebron.
Jonathan Isaac tore his ACL in the game. There were plenty commies on the web gloating about karma. The tolerant left.
That’s it. Not the cop kneeling on him while handcuffed in a giant fuck you, I can get away with it to the watching crowd.
I would have ridiculed this a couple years ago. Not any more.
Fucking Bitch.
This doesn’t change my belief that polls are about 95% bullshit at this point.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/02/poll-trump-takes-lead-over-biden/
They’re made to drive public opinion instead of reflecting it, especially in the relatively early stages. Also, one poll doesn’t mean a damn thing even when they’re accurate, the aggregate is where it’s at.
I don’t trust anybody who lobbies for this job. Especially the person known for doing pretty much anything to help her political career.* (*I mean Kamala Harris whoring herself out in case you were wondering.)
At this point, Biden choosing Harris is the only thing I can think of which would cause me to vote for Trump.
Bass doesn’t do it for you? Sounds fishy.
I have subwoofers for that.
Everyone he’s considering is a Commie, but Harris is the closest to a Stalinist.
What if they pick Hillary? Hard to imagine with all the “yup, it’ll totally be a black chick*”. Come to think of it, she hasn’t Ben visible and nobody is mentioning her as a possibility.
*read broadly to include Harris
Nah, black lady for VP, Biden drops out after receiving the nomination but before the election, Hillary is replaced as the presidential nominee. Presto, an all woman Salt & Peppa ticket.
*buys up popcorn futures*
Push it!
Ok…
https://youtu.be/vCadcBR95oU
Apparently Harris cares about Black Lives Matter but many say her career as a prosecutor does not show this. So what is the truth of it? Is it simply an attempt to basically say forget anything that happened before 2020? I think I could not work as a journalist if I had to simply ignore fact and objective reality…
You could, you just couldn’t get a job with one of the big name news outlets.
I would posit that she cares more about BLM’s Marxist platform than their pretense at caring about “black lives”. Either way it doesn’t matter when everything is all race, all the time. All she has to do is play the race card and convince enough people to vote purely on race.
Running interference on RBG’s health status
TMITE
Remember Trashy, it’s the Right that politicized the SCOTUS.
If she kicks it this month, do you think Trump will nominate someone before the election?
If he does, will McConnell schedule a vote?
Yes, and Yes, but Mitt Romney would vote against the Nominee so he can get some more of that sweet sweet love from the left he craves.
eh there are more republicans in the senate now than the kavanaugh debacle. he’d do nothing.
That would be too perfect with the Dems promising to completely end the filibuster.
He should. And the left will bitch and moan because “muh Merrick Garland”. And I will point, laugh and explain that the circumstances are different because in this instance the president’s party holds the senate. Cry me a river.
My god… when she kicks it the hagiographies are going to be insufferable. I have not witness anyone in my lifetime slobbered over so heavily.
The infuriating part is she celebrated for ignoring the constitution and voting based on her personal political desires.
IMHO it’s based entirely on abortion. Everyone I know who worships her could not care less about any other issue she’s opined on but they care very much about abortion.
I remember being in a KELO discussion where the lefty was totally shocked with who voted which way and didnt believe me until they looked it up.
You mean the power of the state isn’t all about protecting the little guy? /dumbasdirt
If she kicks it on Friday before the election, McConnell will schedule a vote for Monday afternoon.
Actually, slightly kidding, as they will be in power regardless in the Senate through December, they will schedule the vote sometime before end of year.
Ginsburg, who was in and out of the hospital last week, said she intends to remain on the court, a decision that likely was influenced by the conservative nominee President Donald Trump would put up to replace her if she were to retire.
So it’s about politics then.
like that time Harry Reid fell down the stairs?
I thought harry lost a fight with a shower stall.
I couldn’t remember what kind of Mob soldier Harry had run into.
I thought Hairy Reed got beat up by his own exercise equipment. I’m sticking with that version. It’s more preposterous.
For some reason, the DNC has a taxidermist, speech simulation experts and a team of robotics engineers on call 24/7.
I suppose we can hold out hope that something better will arise Phoenix-like from the ashes.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/08/01/even-though-i-should-know-better-i-still-experience-a-sense-of-disbelief-about-whats-going-on/
I take comfort in the fact that my everyday experience shows that people are still largely decent and that it seems those driving this nonsense are a very loud and influential minority. We shall see what comes of it, but I would not be surprised in the least if at least part of this is due to ChiCom agitation. The “cancel culture” stuff is straight out of their playbook.
Over at TOS, Bailey did a review of Shellenberger’s new book Apocalypse Never.
Forget about it. People buy doom and gloom, not good news. It is the same with politics – the loudest (and stupidest) are called “leaders”. The question is whether or not they are charismatic enough to go with the loudness and stupidity. Trump certainly is, for some. And that demonstrates the limitations right there. Biden is a Dem version of Kasich – so many boxes checked, but no real substance and all of the charm of a piss-soaked rag.
Today’s headline you never thought you’d read.
https://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-ants-soviet-nuclear-bunker-1469573
I’m disappointed.
I for one, welcome our new insect overlords
I hope they don’t punish me for forgetting to finish the link the first time
I for one, welcome our new insect overlords
I’ve seen the movie
At least we know what we’re gonna be up against now.
Street gangs? Because this is more likely to be part of an ongoing gun battles that have been happening for several months or rando shooting than from antifa or boogaloos.
In Europe they don’t have gun battles. This is why we need common sense gun reform.
Victorian occupations
https://twitter.com/Catrionaward/status/1289202491238674432
Looking at my ex wife nowadays, I guess “cow banger” would fit for me.
Or… trolling, not a new thing?
‘Umbrella Man’ went viral breaking windows at a Minneapolis protest. He was a white supremacist trying to spark violence, police say.
Yeah, sure. In related news, still waiting on mayor Phony to provide evidence of his similar claims about the “protests” in RVA. And apparently he has given himself a special security detail on account of an unspecified threat made against him. Show me the evidence, a-hole.
Yeah, have they produced any actual evidence to show this umbrella guy is an actual white supremacist?
He must have liked a Richard Spencer post on Facebook once or something.
what’s he gonna do? Come out and correct the record?
Well now there’s another thing my sister/family can trot out with a smirk as if it’s the incontrovertible truth, and absolute proof of wHiTe SuPrEmACiSts being responsible for the Dem hellscapes on fire.
So the Dems don’t support having the Feds put down White Supremacist riots?
Perhaos they think the feds are in league with the wHiTe SuPrEmAciSts because Bad Orange Man in office? Maybe that’s how they might spin it.
Hush, you.
Yep – the MSM’s sacred duty is exactly to throw shit like this against the wall and see what sticks.
And it works.
Czech Republic might enshrine the right to use firearms in self defense in their constitution:
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/07/czech-government-endorses-right-to-armed-self-defense-amendment/
First they had Ivan Lendl and now this. The Czechs are definitely my favorite Slavs.
Hmm. Sounds Anti-Democratic. The EU may have to squash them for it.
Hasek, Jagr, Holik, Hejduk,
Let’s not forget Václav Nedomanský!
Great story.
I’m still pissed that the ‘vid freakout wiped out my trip to Prague.
There was also that amusing, non-hockey-playing Hašek.
Gee, a country that has been taken over four times in the last century (including three by commies) and was ruled over by Austrians before that, might have some views on self determination and freedom backed up by individual right to use force? Imagine that.
I wonder how hard it is to learn Czech…
At least they don’t use that weird alien alphabet like the Russians.
https://rb.gy/pjg7ry
I’m motivated.
Strč prst skrz krk. (= Stick your finger through your throat.
You be the judge.
I’d like to buy a vowel.
We’re out of vowels, have a Q
I’m more or less fluent in Slovak, which is similar. The rules of grammar in Slavic languages are really stupid and complicated. However, they stick to the rules with very few exceptions. So once you learn the rules, you can do pretty well. It took me about a year of immersion before I got good. These days English is much more prevalent over there, so it’s harder to learn by immersion.
Given that my wife is descended from self described bohunks, mine too.
In my brief stop in that country somehow through my presence I collected a small band of locals who soon showed me that they had somehow retained the right to be armed – licensed to carry handguns – and were always carrying. They all were armed with CZ-75’s as I would have been given the choices at the time.
YES!
I like Prague. Good beer. Good food. Hot women. Beautiful buildings. Interesting history.
Biden’s delay in announcing running mate intensifies jockeying between potential picks
The suspense is killing me.
I was feeling a strong disturbance in the force from Susan Rice, but then both her and Biden are directly implicated in the biggest scandal since Watergate that noone in the MSM is talking about, so I wonder if they will avoid that one, and she’s probably too establishmenty for the Bernie Bros and the shock troops. They don’t want to risk putting someone up like her or Harris up who will be decried as “not black” or “race traitors” or something retarded by the TRUE SCOTSMAN identity zealots. Bass maybe has more appeal to the lunatics because she’s on record being a big fan of Castro, perhaps? I don’t know. Who else is there? That lady from Georgia?
Having said that, the D’s know they can get away with it all anyway, because they’re complicit in the attempted usurpation of due process and rule of law with the new ochlocracy, which ironically is what they accused Trump of for four years and counting, and then we’re back to the “his supporters take him seriously but not literally” observation.
This morning my dad told me with complete confidence that lots of “Q Anon” people are running for Republican seats. Truth or just what the Guardian/BBC put in his head?
“This morning my dad told me with complete confidence that lots of “Q Anon” people”
I think it’s quite amusing that a conspiracy theory that the elites of the world are riddled with pedophiles is considered outrageous and beyond the pale.
The government is in fact spying on you, but that was a conspiracy theory for decades. But it turns out, the conspiracy theorists had it right all along.
They can have company with Piss Tape Truthers.
I don’t understand the black woman angle – Joe has a solid grip on the black/Dem vote without any additional pandering. He needs to shore up the hispanic vote.
I saw a Spanish language Trump ad asking why the Democrats didn’t want to pick a Latino VP. There are more Latinos than blacks, so why is the token minority VP black, not Latino.
I just saw that. There’s no appeasing the racial identitarians, it’s a loser no matter what you do. Problem is I really think they are looking at record low black participation this year.
Or worse, black defection to Trump – that has to really scare the shit out of the Dem power-brokers (who mostly happen to be white).
I saw that video. I thought it was too on the nose, but i’m not generally convinced by Identity politics stuff anyway.
Front edge just arrived, wind and rain starting. My county is under tropic storm warning, one county north is hurricane warming.
Stay Safe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFgEBq0EKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv8GW1GaoIc
Gotta love those warm hurricanes…
Supposed to start here later this evening and continue through tomorrow morning. 25-30 mph winds with gusts to 50 mph at the peak and 2-6″ of rain.
Supposed to 50-60 with 70+ gusts here this afternoon. First bit is already over, just a tease for what is to come.
That was the strangest storm ever.
It went right by here… and it never even got all that windy. Maybe 25-30 mph winds and they eye was some 40 miles away. And it barely rained. Most of the time it was sunny.
For those who don’t live in Hurricane country, those outer bands can sometimes lead to cloudy, rainy, stormy days for 3 or 4 days. These things are huge. And with this one you couldn’t even see the eye of the hurricane on radar because there was no rain at all around the core of the storm. Really weird.
Shear on the west side kept the precipitation from forming much there.
A woman who works at my PT center is on vacation with her fiancee and some friends on the Outer Banks. They’re staying on Hattaras Island. I don’t know if they evacuated. I see Dare County issued an evacuation order for Hattaras Island.
I hope you ride the storm out OK.
Arguing with a Face Derp friend about mail in ballots. They don’t seem to get it. The primary issue to me, isn’t whether or not your mailed in ballot is secure (although I have doubts it is), it’s about the people voting on behalf of others.
I am also worried about the Postal employees throwing ballots away from places where they feel the voters might not align with their vision of what team our overlords need to be members of.
Good morning and welcome back, Sloop!
Yeah, these fuckeheads have been pushing the white suprmecist umbrella douche thing for weeks now.
‘People’, huh? Kind of an important paragraph there.
Anyway, the rest of us who understand that hurting people and taking their stuff is immoral will continue to live our lives peacefully and listen to Foreigner.
But mostly listen to Foreigner.
Have a great day!
He used his white supremacist magiks and tricks to get the other people to loot and burn down the store, so really it was all his fault. That makes this story even more ridiculous. Even if the guy was a white supremacist, what about all the people who looted and burned the place down?
He used his tricknology to compel them to do it.
This is more of an indictment of how leadership in those cities view the citizens. If people see just one person break a window, they just can’t control themselves and they start stealing. Once again it just seems like thinly veiled racism.
Thinly veiled? I read it as some of the most racist shit imaginable.
“Everything would have been fine until the windows were broken. Then the evolutionary biology brought about by systematic racism caused the helpless minorities to loot and burn.”
I’m being very generous, I guess. Every time I hear about “white fragility” or “systemic racism” I hear “those poor helpless minorities need smart white people to right the wrongs of the past”. I guess being disabled makes me kind of a minority, and I see all this as being condescending and insulting.
It’s like my sister claiming wide-eyed that the bats/weapons were put there deliberately by police. Okay, maybe they were, and maybe they weren’t, but do not the people that used them to smash things have any agency in deciding to do so?
“Man, this insanity of giving EOs the power of law better stop soon or somebody is gonna pretty much declare him/herself a king/queen.”
Our governor in Indiana tried to impose a fine for not wearing a mask. Within a few days he walked it back because he was getting all kinds of push back from his own party. Sheriffs were telling him they wouldn’t enforce it and legislators were telling him he didn’t have that power. So there are still some sane people out there.
Late reply . . .but there IS a fine for it still. What they got him to back down from was 180 days in jail
Death penalty or GTFO
I agree, the Death Penalty for Governers trying to impose mandates.
Oh, for crying out loud. They’ll just say anything. Conflating “plastics” with “major contributors to climate change” because “fossil fuels” and “single use plastic bags” is beyond scientifically illiterate. There’s so much wrong in there that it is hard to respond to, and it is only one sentence.
1. Plastics are not a major contributor to climate change. They are what you call a carbon sink… they end up in a landfill where the carbon is sequestered.
2. Single use plastic bags are not a major portion of plastic use.
3. Reusable plastic bags do not use less plastic than single use plastic bags. Counter-intuitively, single use plastic bags use less plastic and cause less environmental harm that both reusable plastic bags and reusable cloth bags.
4. To the extent that the British nonprofit City to Sea is fighting pollution of the seas (judging by their name), focusing on single use plastics in the US is idiotic – our waste management chain is pretty tight, with almost all plastic waste ending up in landfills, not in the sea. Assuming that they are worried about things like the Great Pacific Gyre, that stuff comes from places like China. The US contributes less than 2% of ocean plastic waste, despite being what was until recently the world’s largest consumer of plastic.
5. Plastic companies are just fine with the government mandating reusable plastic bags. They actually use much more plastic than disposable plastic bags and they sell for much more, so plastic companies and manufacturers both make more money and move more product due to the mandates. (I don’t recall the exact number, but it turns out that you have to reuse a plastic bag for many years for it to wind up on par with a single use bag… plus, people use the disposable bags for other things, things that require them to buy single use bags when the reusable ones are banned)
That is a heck of a lot to get wrong in one single sentence. And shame on the reporter for not knowing any of it. Sure, it might be a bit much to expect a reporter who does this for a living to know more than some random dude in Florida, but you gotta at least know some of that stuff. It is all available with a quick google, and most of it received heavy coverage in the science media at the time. I mean, ask a question or something.
I knew I missed something…..
6. Not all single use plastic bags are made of fossil fuel… they can be made of starch based plastics or from renewable sources too….
Sending your starches to be made into plastic bags… Isn’t that how the Potatoe Famine started?
No that was caused by Quayle accidentally shipping Potatos to Chicago instead of guns one year.
A majority of the worlds recyclables end up in China so it’s not surprising the majority of that ends up in the ocean. On the net we are going to find out that people who recycle have much larger net carbon output than the evil selfish people who don’t.
Waste in China only makes it into a landfill about 60% of the time. (compare with 98%+ here). At least, that was the number a year ago or so when the studies about the GPG came out tracing the source. One big driver for me learning about it was how annoyed I was at my local city for banning plastic straws. So I guess it was a little more than a year ago that I read all that stuff.
It’s not that the reporter doesn’t “know” stuff, it’s that his employer has an obvious agenda to push. We will never learn what he “knows” because he has no interest in telling us.
This is actually the correct analysis. The assignment was “write a story about how this is bad for the environment and climate change” and the trash activist is only there to provide a pull quote.
Still, amazing to find a pull quote that has more things wrong than actual words in the quote.
So my youngest (hes 4) had a dentist appt today. Got out of the car and masked up (I’ll play along with the theater for my kids health) and went inside. Answered all the standard questions, then they told me “We’re having parents wait out in their cars while we do our examinations”. Luckily, he’s a fairly confident 4 year old, so it was no issue. I ended up finding out that if parents wanted to be there with their kids, they would not only need a mask, but a gown as well. WTF??? Also, while I was sitting in the car waiting, I watched one of the office employees walk right in with no mask. Theater for thee, but not for me.
A large part of this is a hecklers veto type affect.
I work for a business that brings a lot of people in the door. We have the full on “sanitize hands, temp check, person asking you questions” thing to enter. We surveyed our customers, and this was the preference of the majority. The majority of the people who responded, who are probably the paranoid people glued to their media feeds about THE PANDEMIC OF DOOM. The people who couldn’t be bothered to respond probably think the whole thing is dumb, but they didn’t engage against the shriekers.
Basically, for your dentist, if they don’t do all this shit, they get blasted on social media by the Chicken Littles about how ABC DENTISTS ARENT KEEPING OUR KIDS SAFE. But if they do this stupid security theater, than Nikkodemus just rolls his eyes and goes along with it to get his kids dentist appt done.
The theatre is reaching fever pitch though. I can’t come into work without the urge to want to punch public officials in the face for what they’re doing to people.
It’s sad and distressing to witness.
I think that’s the case on a lot of things these days. The only reason the shriekers get what they want is because people like me just want to live our fucking lives and be left alone, so we go with it because its easier than starting an argument that could be put on social media and used to destroy said life.
And by “customers” you mean “people with no choice aside from find a new job that hopefully doesn’t use the same provider”, right?
No I mean, customers, as in our customers.
Without doxxing myself, I work in a business that has been given guidelines by the state govt for reopen.
So, we could have chosen to go to max allowable entry, but we chose, on the supposed preference of our customers, to go to a smaller number than the max allowed.
It’s like if state govts allowed restaurants to open at 50%, but my restaurant listened to the small minority of shrieking nervous nellies and opened at 20% TO BE MORE SAFER THAN OTHER BAD RESTAURANTS. Chasing the good feels of paranoid shutins over the ability to put more paying customers in the door.
sry, I was more referring to the healthcare “customers”. Your customers are actual customers.
A gown was a step too far to prevent child molestation.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1289629736201838595
Germany has by internal police estimates a million person protest against lockdown restrictions masks/business/distancing New York Time’s
“This was the scene in Berlin, where an estimated 17,000 people defied social-distancing and mask requirements to join a protest supported by neo-Nazi groups, conspiracy theorists and others who said they were fed up with the restrictions.”
lmao.
And they have the audacity to say that they are not the enemy of the people, as they support and cry for more restrictions on freedom.
How about this. Because there is so much bad information being spread by Newspapers re: the coronoavirus, no article can be published without being approved by the president, it is hereby ordered by this president.
“Any article about the coronavirus must wear a mask and remain 6ft away from readers at all time.”
Totes constitutional.
I don’t think it was quite a million. But it looks significantly more than 17 thousand.
The comments are not as bad as I thought they would be. Some people are pushing back on the ghouls that root for the death of every lockdown protester.
The ghoulish laughter from the root for death people is fucking scary. The amount of people not only would support the deaths of their political opponents but would find it hilarious is fucking frightening.
This right here ^^^ +1000
They have created this alternate reality where every single one of their political opponents is either a white supremacist or a Russian asset.
The first three:
Daniel Johnson
@nytimes
As always, I feel for the healthcare workers who will treat these people. Even the ignorant succumb to pandemics, but their foolishness impacts so many other lives.
Heather Badenoch
@nytimes
and
@FuzzyWuzzyTO
As though these restrictions are somehow hurting them instead of saving their lives.
J@DesertFlower843
@nytimes
Well, that’s another 17000. saying good bye.
“and others”
Yeah, LMFAO.
Never change, The New York Times.
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I am beyond sick and tired of every fucking protest or movement or anything they don’t like being “RACIST AND MYSOGNIST” (Whitmer) and “NEO NAZIS etc” NYT, MSM in general. They know it’s absolute lies, in the exact sense that both Goebbels, and his Soviet counterparts since had use them. It’s all callous, bad faith, disgusting hate.
supported by neo-Nazi groups
Sure…
When Germans won’t follow the rules, you know the rules are bullshit.
Leader: “Put them in the oven”
*crowd cheers*
Leader: “wear a mask”
*people look around confused. Mumbles of “isn’t this a step too far”*
“Dear Zardoz: The pastor spent about half her sermon yesterday praising Cong. John Lewis to (no pun intended) high heaven. Today, I feel like sending her an e-mail pointing out that this heroic, courageous man subsequently turned to politics, becoming another creature of the swamp. His voting record was terrible, not just for his minority community, but for the rights of every American. He was a supporter of war with Iraq, militarizing the police, draconian jail terms for drug users, enabler of destroying the black family structure, advocate for illegal immigrants who took jobs from his people, friend of the welfare queen, supporter of Barney Frank whose mortgage meddling helped set off the Great Recession. So, do I send this e-mail or keep my mouth shut so I don’t piss off spousal unit and other friends in the church? s/Not feeling the Lewis love”
Jesus loved the statists, creech. It is known.
Send the email. It’s time to start pushing back.
If I thought we’d be living here more than another year, I’d be shopping for a new church. The nice thing about remote church is that I can just turn off the commie sermons.
I hear the Southern Baptists of all people, are having a big crack-up over BLM.
Strange that you mention Foreigner today… I was just over at TOS over the weekend. Kurt Loder has a piece up about the Go-Go’s not being in the Rock and Roll hall of fame, inspired by a new documentary coming out.
I spammed all over the thread because the Rock and Roll HoF is a watered down joke. I started listing other bands that had albums out the same year as the Go-Go’s seminal album… Foreigner 4 is among them. That was actually a pretty great year for music.
I suppose a link was in order
https://reason.com/2020/07/31/review-the-go-gos/#comments
why on earth would the Go-Go’s deserve to be in the HoF?
There was a whole argument to that effect.
I used facts and logic. I was countered with “first all-female band with a number one album!”
It was a spectacular clash of intellect over one of the seminal issues of our time. I think the “Rock and Roll HoF is a joke” crowd took the day.
Because without The Go-Go’s, season 4 of The Surreal Life would have been a little less surreal.
I find arguments over what “deserves” to be there to be just as tedious as any “top ten” list.
Well, that’s undoubtedly true. But what else are you gonna do when you got food poisoning and are stuck waiting for it to work itself out in the middle of the night?
“It isn’t actually “groundbreaking” because there was no ground there to be broken. The reason there have not been hundreds of follow-on groups growing int the fertile soil of the ground the broke is that nobody cares if they are all women, or if they have a dude playing bass, or any of it. They don’t want all women, and they don’t want no women. They care if the music speaks to them and if they have a charismatic and entertaining stage presence. That’s about it.”
Good stuff, Cyto.
By the way, my favorite punk rock album of all time came out in 1981 as well. The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash. I have no idea if The Replacements are in the HOF either, i assume not, but I’m one of those ‘HOF is dumb’ people so I haven’t paid much attention.
https://twitter.com/TruthsOverTrump/status/1290285429011480576
Trump loves Russia more than America! That’s why he doesn’t want to keep the troops in Afghanistan like he’s supposed to!
The Russia bullshit pisses me off so much. When I was growing up and learning to think critically, I used to come home from school with all manner of ridiculous conspiracy theory (The government gave people aids!!!!). Every time, without fail, i would get an eye roll from my mother. And to be fair, most were warranted. Now, 30 odd years later, I get to hear that same woman screech about “TEH ROOOOSIANS!!!!”. Because its totally different this time. Its hard not to feel resentment at this point.
I really enjoyed the latest revelation about the Russia hoax – Steele’s original source is just some kid from a think tank who doesn’t even know *any* Russians. That’s genius level stuff there.
Great job by Mueller and his team too. Investigated this crap for 2.5 years to the tune of $30+ million and they never got around to figuring out that the entire thing was a sham to spy on Trump and sabotage his administration? They should have been able to get there the first time Comey or Brennan explained that the entire thing was because they had “intel” from the Steele Dossier that Russians were trying to infiltrate the Trump campaign… so they began a counter-intelligence investigation to prevent that…. and never told anyone at the Trump campaign, but instead started spying on them instead of spying on russians.
Everyone here had it figured out the second they revealed that they had indeed been tapping the phones of various Trump campaign officials. Remember when they said he was a paranoid-delusional for claiming “his wires were tapped”? If you believed the Russia Collusion story for even one second after that moment, you had your blinders on. And everything Mueller did came after that moment.
they never got around to figuring out that the entire thing was a sham to spy on Trump and sabotage his administration
I think its pretty well established from their own internal documents that they knew immediately.
In government, you can commit any crime, as long as 1) You never admit that you did that, and 2) You have the political clout to get people from challenging you about it.
I vaguely remember a fact check that called Trump’s wiretapping claims wrong because a phone was not physically tapped electronically, like wiretapping was done 50 years ago.
It’s fucking ridiculous.
It’s not like these Deep Staters just stumbled across some evidence of collusion and had to take action for the good of the country; they’ve pretty much admitted that the whole thing was just a way to destroy Trump. Andrew McCabe said on national television that they discussed ways to get rid of him and settled on using a special prosecutor.
And everything that has come out since the end of the Mueller investigation has only confirmed that the entire story was fabricated bullshit. The continued mentioning of “Russian collusion” by the corporate media shows us where the real “fake news” problem is.
Our best. Our brightest.
The government should again impose strict coronavirus-related lockdowns for a month or longer across the U.S. in order to boost the economy, a top Federal Reserve official said Sunday.
Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, said the nation needs to control the spread of the virus, which is increasing across much of the country, to get back on a path to economic health.
“That’s the only way we’re really going to have a real robust economic recovery. Otherwise, we’re going to have flare-ups, lockdowns and a very halting recovery with many more job losses and many more bankruptcies for an extended period of time unfortunately,” Kashkari said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
To do so, he suggested strict shutdowns, which is contrary to what President Trump and many of his allies have been pushing in recent months as measures to aid the economy.
“I mean if we were to lock down really hard, I know I hate to even suggest it, people will be frustrated by it, but if we were to lock down hard for a month or six weeks, we could get the case count down so that our testing and our contact tracing was actually enough to control it the way that it’s happening in the Northeast right now,” Kashkari said. “They had a rocky start, but they’re doing a pretty good job right now.”
He warned the virus will spread throughout the country with flare-ups and local lockdowns for the “the next year or two,” causing more businesses to fail, without such measures.
“We’re going to see many, many more business bankruptcies, small businesses, big businesses, and that’s going to take a lot of time to recover from to rebuild those businesses and then to bring workers back in and re-engage them in the workforce. That’s going to be a much slower recovery for all of us,” Kashkari said.
He also said that Congress can afford large sums for coronavirus relief efforts, though Republican lawmakers are looking to lessen the amount of supplemental aid for unemployed Americans as part of the next relief bill.
It’ll be fun. It’ll be like we’re all on vacation. And don’t worry, we have plenty of checks.
One more degenerate who should be hanging by his heels.
American Central Planner of Currency, thinks he is smarte enough to control a virus. This isn’t all that surprising.
“They had a rocky start, but they’re doing a pretty good job right now.”
I’ve noticed TPTB are trying to spin out of this, because the news has gradually spread to people that NY, NJ, CT absolutely had the worst deaths. Like, the media is trying to make DeSantis the moron, but people are actually counting deaths and death rates and aren’t buying it.
So now the message seems to be “Mistakes were made, but Great Governor Cuomo rallied in the end and finished really strong”
LOL. So, we could have done nothing, and they would still be praised?
Worst covid response in the first world but now all the vulnerable people are dead so the curve is flat. yay.
What. The. Fuck. These people are engaging in open class war at this point.
If you want to be sick to your stomach either aier.org or econblog has posted a graph of the effects of lockdowns across different social classes I forget which.
As expected almost all the financial brunt is on poor and minorities while well off people get to work from home.
If they didn’t want their family to die homeless and starving they should’ve learned to code.
Yeah? Why didn’t they at least get an on-line MBA??
try running for president, that’s lucrative even if you don’t win.
People that stupid deserve to die in the gutter.
Headin’ to Vegas with these odds, Baby!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/severe-covid-19-can-lead-to-kidney-failure-medical-studies-reveal.html
Anecdotal, but my dad in his last days did start to develop renel failure. Docs couldnt or wouldnt attribute to the VID though.
My mother died from kidney failure, 1990, probably the first covid victim, she had been in a nursing home for 11 months. The more we learn…
What % of patients that die in a hospital bed have some level of renal failure? 90-95%?
my point being, not that you actually believe she died of the ‘Vid, but that “dying of old age” IS dying of organ failure.
Growing up near farms, one of the first things I remember my dad emphasizing to me was – never approach a horse from behind. Antifa girl learns why.
She’s lucky, that was just a little tap.
That article was really strange…
Apparently, working with animals is the be-all and end all. And if you don’t know how to handle horses you should go work at a farm and learn how to handle large animals….
My immediate take beyond “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” was “who thinks it is a good idea to spook a large animal in a crowd? ” I mean, she had her buddy filming it, and then what? Best case, the horse jumps and throws the cop? He ends up like Christopher Reeves? Worst case, he panics and stomps a half dozen people?
No, best case is that the horse kicks whoever is messing with the animal and no one else is hurt.
Oh, wait you meant from the dumbass’ point of view.
It was a little over the top, but still made a good point about cops and preppers.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8587493/Demi-Rose-showcases-peachy-derri-glory-lounges-beach-Ibiza.html
^This is the guy who invented “trial by monkeys,” right?
Still not as well known as his brother Perry.
Paging Swiss… Swiss, please report to the courtesy desk.
Perry works generally go unnoticed by the general population. Make no mistake about it though — they’re out there, below the surface.
Yes, philosophical treatises are not typically best sellers. They are too deep for the average reader.
I don’t see it, you have sunk to a new low
More Kashkari-
“Right now, the U.S. can fund itself at very, very low rates. Congress should use this opportunity to support the American people and the American economy. I’m not worried about it,” he said. “If we get the economy growing, we will be able to pay off the debt.”
We’ll borrow our way to prosperity! We’ll all be millionaires!
If we get the economy growing, we will be able to pay off the debt.
Which has pretty much NEVER happened in a good economy.
Of course not – you’d ruin a good economy by trying to pay down the debt.
Look, buddy, there’s a Just Right economy where we can pay off the debt, anything else would just be irresponsible.
I watched Kinnath’s lined Paul Harrell video, and I actually own half of those handguns. Which considering I can pack my entire collection into a range bag, surprised me.
And I don’t have any of them.
Me too, as long as the range bag is the size of a refrigerator box…
How do you wind up with $1500 of shotshell caddies? I mean, even buying them from Doublealpha or other full-price outlets, that seems like a LOT more carrying capacity than could actually be… carried.
Honestly, a lot of it was shiny-object chasing. It’s kind of a running joke among 3-gun shooters, chasing that last quarter-second on the reload.
Friends of the Little Guy speak out on their behalf
More than 100 current and former top executives at major U.S. companies are calling on Congress to pass long-term relief for small businesses to ensure they survive the coronavirus pandemic.
In a letter released Monday that was sent to top congressional leaders of both parties in the House and Senate, the CEOs and other executives warn of significant consequences to the economy if Congress doesn’t immediately act to save small business.
“By Labor Day, we foresee a wave of permanent closures if the right steps are not taken soon,” they wrote. “Allowing small businesses to fail will turn temporary job losses into permanent ones. By year end, the domino effect of lost jobs — as well as the lost services and lost products that small businesses provide — could be catastrophic.”
The letter, spearheaded by Howard Schultz, chairman emeritus of Starbucks, was also signed by Facebook chief operations officer Sheryl Sandberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donahue, among many others.
In addition to pushing for another round of short-term relief through the Paycheck Protection Program, they called on lawmakers to pass legislation similar to a measure proposed by Sens. Michael Bennet, D-Co., and Todd Young, R-Ind. Their bill would extend the period for the hardest-hit businesses that have seen their revenues decline by at least 25 percent to use their PPP funds and meet requirements for loan forgiveness.
Let’s load them down with more debt. And maybe we can continue to incentivise their employees to not go back to work. That will definitely help.
Or maybe we could stop actively destroying the economy.
Are you privy to what some governors are planning?
Men’s Warehouse files for bankruptcy.
Will i still like the way i look?
I guarantee it
But where will I be able to buy one suit and get 3 free?
Maybe the wouldn’t be bankrupt if they weren’t giving so much merchandise away for free.
Does Men’s Warehouse do that now? They must have adopted it when they bought Jos A Bank.
“The break finally came last week, when a tip came in naming “Umbrella Man” and revealed he is a member of the Hells Angels, a motorcycle gang made up of mostly white men who ride Harley-Davidson bikes. Christensen soon discovered that “Umbrella Man” is also a “known associate” of the Aryan Cowboys, a white supremacist prison gang based mainly out of Minnesota and Kentucky.”
So someone said he was a “known associate”. Why hasn’t this person been arrested and his name released?
Thats more info than the npr article I read on him. They just straight up asserted he had “ties to white supremacist groups” with no citations whatsoever.
Because the tip was from anonymous friend of a friend, from what i’ve read. Now if i were basing my story off of facts, i’d probably ignore that until i got corroboration. But if i was trying to push a certain story, i’d run with it.
It’s pretty obvious that the Boogaloo Bois are behind all the rioting in Minn, Portland and Seattle.
(Is that the most ridiculous name you have ever heard for a group that is not a gay male stripper doo wop revue? There is no way that was a self applied moniker).
damn, do they have a non-stripping show?
Well they don’t actually exist, so you’re correct.
However, countersignalling is a real thing and always has been.
There is no such organized group. It is entirely a media creation based on some chat boards that threw out the term. The “bois” part is so darn ridiculous that I’d imagine it had to be a purposeful 4chan stunt to get the media to parrot the most silly shit they could think up.
when a tip came in naming “Umbrella Man” and revealed he is a member of the Hells Angel
Naturally, this has been verified. Right?
If you are fan of classic muscle cars, you’ll love this. My buddy was the contact that got these cars lined up for restoration (and shut down the scavengers trying to fleece the widow on them).
That looks interesting, thanks!
So I have been predicting that there either will be no debates this election or that they will be conducted virtually at the insistence of the Biden camp. In a normal Pres election year haven’t they already announced the dates already? Here is the first article I have seen laying the groundwork for Joe, I expect a cavalcade of similar shite in the next few weeks. “It would be incredibly irresponsible to hold a live debate with a pandemic going on.” “Trump wants to kill your grandma just so he can grandstand on tv.” I don’t know if it will be ultimately successful, but if I had to bet serous money I would say they get it down to 1 live debate or all virtual ones. Let’s see.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/trump-biden-presidential-debates-2020.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
A lot of people know that the “Don’t show them Biden” has been a good strategy. No reason to deviate from a winning strategy. So yes, i suspect that they will maneuver into getting out of debates. If the Trump Camp isn’t ready for that, then they have been derelict in thinking about it.
but if I had to bet serous money
“TRUMP WANTS PEOPLE TO INJECT CURRENCY, VOTE BIDEN!!11oneoneone”
Yeah I still think the vast majority of the country isn’t going to go along with that.
If Biden ducks out, Trump is gonna score that as a forfeit, and I think the electorate will agree with him Every single person who’s voting in America, except people voting for the first time, have cast a vote after three debates. 84 million people watched it last year, and when you add in people who watched clips or let their own preferred TEAM analysis into their brains, its higher.
They would have needed to start the propaganda back in March, I don’t think they can pull it off this fast.
I still think the Dems will make ridiculous demand after ridiculous demand until Trump says no, and then say Trump is refusing to debate.
They’ve already started, with their “real-time fact checkers”.
The deal breaker might be a demand for a “virtual” debate. I don’t see how they can roll the dice with Biden exposed on stage for an hour at a time, for however many debates. I think they are trapped, and their only exit is to collude with the debate org and the media to structure a debate Trump won’t participate in.
That will be exactly how they do it. I’d be surprised if it plays out differently.
Trump has a very simple rebuttal to that:
Biden should debate me just like Hillary did.
Yes, the Journolist will try to spin it away as PANDEMIC and whatnot, but bottom line, the American voter believes the debates are a requirement to be President, and I don’t think they can change that in two months, even with a full on propaganda effort.
yes, but you already have half the electorate already on the side of no debates.
It was yet another symbol of reckless socializing during the pandemic: The Liberty Belle was dinged for violating distancing rules, and its owners were accused of running an unlicensed bar, the authorities said.
The author can go fuck himself. The boat owners did nothing wrong.
The increasing nastiness is fueled by a sense, even among Biden’s closest advisers, that Biden is entering the final phase of the search without a clear favorite. Rather than a traditional “short list” of three candidates, people close to the process expect him to interview five or six finalists for the position.
He probably just forgot whom he chose and needs to go through the process again.
Austin, TX cops uses horses to get protestors off road
I read the whole thread. Busy night in Austin.
Just terrific. Now everyone’s gonna get the equine flu.
Poor horses.
Cavalry
1st Cav, Ft Hood, on alert!
“Trampling”
Yeah, I was hoping to see at least one bloody crushed corpse. Probably four or five.
This wasn’t exactly the Golden Horde sweeping down from the hills…
MAGA,
bitchesbears.why does the bear have a collar?
Fashion. moran.
We live in a country where people are so rich, they can offer a reward for information leading to someone who….put a sticker on a teddy bear.
just terrific. now everyone’s gonna get the ursine flu.
Yeah, but you just eat a bunch then hibernate for 3-4months, so it’s not quite as harmless as COVID but pretty benign, still.
Burn the SCIENCE! denier!
How is the data worthless?
Because the bear had to wear a collar. Duh.
First they came for the bears…I didn’t say anything ’cause I was a priest…
I’m not gonna lie: having to wear this stupid mask gives me a whole lot of sympathy for the bear.
When the data shows the bears spend entirely too much time on peoples’ porches and the bear population needs to be culled so they have enough to eat out in the wild, it’s certainly not going to be very valuable data to the bears.
LOGIC
TW: Robert Reich
What’s Trump’s plan to revive the economy? The same one he’s been pushing for months: just “reopen” it.
He wants the public to believe the shutdown orders that began in March caused the economy to tank in the first place, so reversing them will bring the economy back.
Rubbish. It was the virus that caused the downturn, and its resurgence is taking the economy down again. The virus is surging back because governors reopened prematurely, before the virus was under control – at Trump’s repeated insistence.
The sequence of cause-and-effect is clear. The virus has surged most in states that were among the first to reopen, such as Florida, South Carolina, Texas and much of the rest of the sun belt.
Because of this resurgence, many states are pausing plans to reopen and some are reimposing restrictions. But these restrictions are not the reason the economy is slowing. They are the necessary consequence of allowing the pandemic to get out of control.
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The White House argues that the extra unemployment payments have discouraged workers from seeking jobs because some are receiving more money in benefits than they would earn by working.
“We don’t want to create disincentives to work,” says Trump adviser Larry Kudlow.
More rubbish. A study by Yale economists finds “no evidence” that people who have lost their jobs are choosing to stay unemployed because of the extra federal aid. In fact, “workers facing larger [unemployment] expansions generally appear to be quicker to return to work than others, not slower.”
People can’t go back to work because there is very little work for them to do. Fourteen million more people are unemployed than there are jobs.
Where did all the jobs go? The plague killed them. Not governors.
Definitely not “public health experts” with criminally fictitious computer models.
RUBBISH, RUBBISH I TELL YOU. HOGWASHPOPPYCOCK.
TRRRRRRRRUUMMMPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!! *shaken fist*
Not only that, malarkey!
godfuckingdammit, I knew I hadn’t exhausted the terms.
Thank you for laboring my enactment.
He wants the public to believe the shutdown orders that began in March caused the economy to tank in the first place, so reversing them will bring the economy back.
The first half is correct. The second half is questionable. IMO, reopening is necessary, but not sufficient.
It’s hard to believe there’s an “economist” who believes that longer and more generous unemployment benefits does not encourage unemployment. It’s completely provable and has been proven over and over again.
It is politically convenient to believe so. Economists are little more than sophists campaigning for one ideology or another. Some are consitent with their ideology, and some are more nakedly partisan in that their ideology is nothing more than partisan politics.
The idea that we “must close the economy to save it” is based off the idea that by shutting down we are saving X amount of dollars in saved lives, and so it is better for the economy to shutdown for 3 years than to let the virus go unimpeded. It is complete shit, but it is politically useful shit, and about all they have to argue for keeping the economy shutdown.
Surely he must have at least a back of the envelope estimate of X to make such an argument, right?
The amount i’ve seen, is that based off of “value of life” estimates, used by the government, the amount of lives saved would equal 3 years of GDP, and that is why it is completely justified to halt the economy to slow the virus, because it is less than that.
Of course anyone who thinks can see that there is something wrong with this. If this were true, then it would be worth it to shutdown the entire economy for 3 years. But that can’t be because everyone would die if we all stopped working.
the amount of lives saved would equal 3 years of GDP
How many lives are claimed to be saved?
How are they saved?
Well 2 Million were supposed to die, less 200K, gets you ! 1.8 Million Lives saved.
I wonder how much the life of an old person with disabilities and obesity in a public nursing home is worth to the economy?
Thinking in economic terms only, giving most of them a good dose of the Wu FU would probably be more beneficial than keeping them around. Maybe that’s why they want to keep the lockdown and the masks; to get rid of as many dead weigh to the economy as possible.
Eugenics for the win!
Reich isn’t even the economist that Krugnuts once was.
They are not economists; they are party machine operatives.
He’s not so dumb that he doesn’t know better.
He’s not as bright as he pretends. But very few people are this dumb.
That’s why this sort of dishonest rhetoric sends me into a blind rage.
Whatever Reich suggests we do, we should do the opposite.
How the people around him resist drop kicking that little shit into the next county over, I have no idea.
Because they are compassionate liberals who don’t want to inflict that man on Canada.
Is he for real? It was literally telling people they were not allowed to work that caused the economic problem.
HOGCOCKMALARKYPOPPYWASH!!11111
Well, the monsoon is off to a terrible start in Tucson. At the Casa Dean, we’ve had less than a half inch, maybe a little more than a quarter inch. I spent a chunk of yesterday running new drip irrigation lines. Feh.
Monsoon rains are really spotty, coming mostly from pretty contained thunderstorms. We got just the edge of one over the weekend, and as it moved off we got this view.
The Bing search page image-o-the-day was also taken in Tucson.
Nice view.
I’ve seen several of the branch covidian class saying we need to rush the Vaccine and need it now without further testing. I really think they are starting to get scared about this thing basically vanishing by the end of the month due to burnout. Hospitalizations are down in nearly all the hotspots deaths are going to follow shortly we are going to get around 100 a day by the end of the month in all likelyhood. The school shut downs will be hilarious by mid september when no deaths are occurring and they are still screaming it’s unsafe after private schools largely are open with in person learning. We are going to get through this pandemic with nealry noone interested in getting a vaccine and them having to make a national mandate on some level( I predict it’s based on school enrollment) making everyone get one for something that’s going to have killed less than 15,000 people under the age of 55.
I’m sure you are right. Just look at the Chicken Pox vaccine. People requiring a vaccine that kills about 100 people a year aren’t going to have any qualms about a forcing an unproven COVID vaccine on kids.
* People requiring a vaccine for a disease that kills about 100 people a year
Hey, if there had been a Chicken Pox vaccine when I was a wee lad, I wouldn’t be missing a few eyelashes. The horror!
I am somewhat biased here because I am presently in the Pfizer vaccine trial and receiving injections of either the vaccine or a placebo.
I really want this to go away and so I signed up.
But it’s the left now who’s worried about rushing. They’re afraid a successful vaccine will benefit Trump. There’s an article in the NYT this morning complaining that corners are being cut and an article in the right wing Federalist saying that is bull crap.
It’s interesting.
Note this: the vaccine trials are already on phase 3 and thus far it has been 100% effective .
Makes you wonder what happen if the Feds got out of the way more often.
Got a link for progress on the vaccine? I seem to recall that there are several being trialed.
Makes you wonder what happen if the Feds got out of the way more often.
What?!! Haven’t you heard of Thalidomide? We’d all be flopping around with flipper hands and feet! Thalidomide! Thalidomide!
Ghoulish has been the best word for what i have seen coming from the left this past year. They are thriving on death, reveling in it and desiring it. They are the necrophages of our time, feasting on misery, hoping to ride that bull to political power.
Is it the Feds getting out of the way? Or is the Feds promising multi-billion-dollar contracts for the resulting vaccine?
Yes this is definitely possible as well. But I think many of the people beating the drum on this thing see an out with the vaccines coming to market they wouldn’t have otherwise. A ton of smart people can’t admit they were buffaloed so completely about this.
We need a vaccine now or else how are we going to send armed squads door to door and start shooting people who refuse?
It’s hard to believe there’s an “economist” who believes that longer and more generous unemployment benefits does not encourage unemployment. It’s completely provable and has been proven over and over again.
But that one study. Correlation! From YALE!
Of all the ways for an economy to grow and prosper, the government has chosen the one guaranteed way to destroy it.
Timely! I was berated by a customer last night for our store not having any paper bags available for him. He was bitching about using plastic and I apologized, explaining that we haven’t had paper bags since the ChiComPox panic started. He questioned my intelligence and told me that the store keeps them in the back and will always bring them out for him upon request and that I should go back and find him some. I wandered off to the back and vaped in the bathroom for a while, reflecting upon the fact that I’m the schmuck who receives the pallets and we haven’t had a single paper bag in this store since March.
You don’t know about the magical back room that always contains exactly what the customer is demanding whenever they demand it regardless of how much or little the store has?
A room any store can’t do without.
That always made me laugh when I worked at a bookstore. The customers seemed to imagine an Indiana Jones style warehouse in the back, filled with boxes containing copies of every book ever published in the history of mankind. The reality was a room barely bigger than a typical walk-in closet.
Well, Amazon does it, so there.
I worked in a used books and record store. We would hear “I’ve been looking for this record for 10 years and now I have it”
We would ring it up, take the record and pretend to put it in a bag, instead have a junk record under the counter, fold the junk and hear it crack, put it in a small bag and hand it to the customer with a “I didn’t had a big bag, here ya go” Much hilarity would ensue.
“it’ll take a while, but if youll kindly remove that stick from your ass, I’ll gladly pulp it and make it into a paper bag for you”
Ha! I bet the look on his face was enjoyable for you after you came out ten minutes later saying you looked in every spot and that you’re clean out of them. I hate assholes like that. My theory is there are about 5-10% of the population that thrive off of being jerks to anyone in the service industry and they largely get their egos massaged by people who don’t want to lose their jobs. As I own my own small biz and I don’t really need more customers (and really don’t need any asshole customers) I love telling them to beat it like Michael Jackson.
My favorite is when it’s 5 degrees below zero outside and the customer comes in not wearing any gloves and reaches in the refrigerator, touches a six-can-pack of beer and yells “The beer is warm!!!”
It’s like they’ve never burned their frozen hands on the cold water tap before.
Some people.
“Arkansas Black Lives Matter protesters traveled to Zinc, Arkansas, to march on the Ku Klux Klan’s Grand Wizard’s hometown and compound Sunday.
The protest comes just four days after a viral video labeled nearby Harrison, Arkansas, as being ‘America’s Most Racist Town’ and the ‘Ku Klux Klan’s headquarters.’
The KKK’s website claims its national headquarters to be in Harrison and that its national director, Thomas Robb, uses at least three post office boxes there, the Springfield News-Leader reported.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8586773/Demonstrators-march-entrance-KKK-national-director-Thomas-Robbs-Arkansas-private-compound.html
Is that a flamethrower?
Yes it is.
Interesting choice.
Lance and shield is more traditional.
They really are trying to start a shooting war.
Hey, ‘local resident!’ You’re not impressing anyone with your AR with no sights.
She’s got some pretty righteous forearms for a chick tho.
I think I see a peep sight on there.
I doubt she was “watching over” the protestors.
If the shooting starts, I’m looking for my shot at the guy with the flamethrower.
Sure looks like it.
I know at least one Facebook friend who went to that march, probably more. By the way, having been to Harrison a couple times and having many friends (and one hippy ex girlfriend) from there, the idea that it’s the most racist town in America is so stupid. They’ve got very vocal racists outside of town that the actual townspeople are very embarrassed by. But it’s like saying LA is the most conservative city in America because Ronald Reagan, John Wayne and Ben Shapiro live(d) there. It’s probably not a progressive hot spot or anything, but my friend who went to the march lives there as an openly gay man without issues. There are Asian and Indians business owners there. Not a huge black population, but that’s the Ozarks.
OFFS.
San Fransisco?
Hollywood?
Probably still Boston, would be my guess.
DC, by dollars spent on racism.
“Mostly-stationary-combustion maintenance device.”
The protest comes just four days after a viral video labeled all suburbs as being ‘America’s Most Racist Town’ and the ‘Ku Klux Klan’s headquarters.’
DC isn’t the most racist town?
this edited quote was to point out how the mission is on to the Move Violence To The Suburbs stage. I pointed out DC in the appropriate place above.
Ahh. yeah i didn’t read it clearly. Yeah they have a hard on for destroying the suburbs.
Might as well destroy something worth destroying. How do you even know when you’ve destroyed something like a Minneapolis or NYC?
Reading the whole article, I’m not seeing much to criticize. They stayed clear of a confrontation, threw a little barbecue, there was no violence. Not, I suspect, “in spite of” all the guns on both sides, but “because of” all the guns on both sides.
threw a little barbecue
IS IT A FUCKING FLAMETHROWER OR NOT, MAKE UP YOUR MIND.
It’s a portable grill.
If you’re throwing it, yeah.
Florida man gets crafty.
It is known that the feds have a monopoly on stimulus checks. Cutting out the middleman will get you in trouble.
See, what you need to do is print it with Bezos’ account number on it so that the check clears. By the time he figures out he didn’t buy that particular Porsche, you’ll be long gone. And anyway you can always claim you were set up by Amber Heard — he’ll believe that one.
https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1290280042451238914
:clown world:
I’ll admit that the butthurt of people upset because that it hasn’t failed due to covid is amusing.