Looks like its just me and the boys for the weekend, as expected. My parents stopped by, their 18 year old fridge went out last night and they wanted to put a bunch of freezer stuff in ours, which, no problem. So as we’re kibbitzing about the weekend I mention the trip to Disney with the boys, and as my folks are loading up, my dad hands me $50, real subtle like he did when I would visit home in college. I wonder when he’ll switch from slipping me money to slipping the boys money. It just made me laugh and like my old man. I make plenty of money, but he still wants to slip his kid some cash.
The vaping conventional wisdom comes around to what folks here already knew: Banning products already under FDA inspection made vaping more dangerous*
Sketchy real estate scams, a story as old as Florida.
AI Jesus? I don’t see him living with the worms, the chatbots, and the malware.
Many here claim that Elon Musk is just a government money grifter, but if so, he sure delivers more value for money than the old aerospace gang.
*for people who wanted flavors
DNC does fireworks.
Trump: Hold my coke.
Trump 2020 in fireworks, did you notice?
awesome!
To be fair, all the DNC’s fireworks were needed at a courthouse in Portland.
He was so good the people protesting were setting of fireworks during the speeches.
Forgot to mention, Trump’s song choice is a major troll.
Help a chick out – I can’t name that tune. One of the lines sounds like “Battle Cry of Freedom,” but other lines not so much. ::feels dumb::
You got it right.
Thanks! I was getting some of the tune a bit mixed up with “Marching Through Georgia.”
“I make plenty of money, but he still wants to slip his kid some cash.”
He was just trying to buy meth.
“But these revelations were made in early 2020, after states including New York and the federal government pushed through bans on flavored e-cigarette pods and juices while the crisis was still ongoing, before a cause had been identified.”
That’s not what I remember.
““Banning legal sales of an addictive product risks pushing those who use it towards illicit sources,””
No shit, sherlock.
The War on Drugs shows none of these people are serious about ending police brutality. As long as they advocate for encaging people who alter their brain chemistry in ways the state doesn’t approve of, the state is going to use excessive force to try to stop it.
They aren’t serious about reducing gun deaths either.
“The federal Food and Drug Administration has been on notice to start regulating e-cigarettes for years, but federal action has been repeatedly delayed. If they were smart, they might push rules for “smarter e-cigarette devices,” vaporizers that don’t work with bootleg cartridges.”
No.
Right… because then you wouldn’t have bootleg vaporizers (or guides on how to cut out that circuit).
This represents a 33-percent increase for the rocket since 2017, when a “re-plan” of program estimated development costs for the rocket, including a single test flight, would be $7.17 billion.
Cost cutting, government-style.
The witch can’t help herself.
What we saw last night sums up so much of the Trump administration:
A law-breaking convention on your dime, on the lawn of your house, to celebrate a president like a king for overseeing the needless deaths of 180,000 Americans—and counting.
We have 67 days to end this corrupt administration, elect Biden-Harris, and save our democracy. What will you do?
Under a more caring and competent president, zero people would’ve died of disease.
Well of course. Biden and Harris would have done things differently. We’re not sure how, nobody is aware of any alternate plan they had, but I’m sure it would have been different, somehow, and that would have saved lives.
If they had a better plan, but kept it secret, aren’t they even more guilty?
The final paragraph says it all.
She also told her former presidential campaign communications director Jennifer Palmieri that Democrats “have to have a massive legal operation” on Election Day and that she knows “the Biden campaign is working on that.”
Soft coup 2 electric buggaloo
+1 Strzok Smirk and Shimmy
“The needless deaths of 180,000 Americans”
The United States has 33% of the population of the Americas and 28% of the deaths. The Americas as a whole (both continents) have a vastly disproportionate share of the worldwide deaths, with 13% of the population but 68% of the deaths. If the United States mismanaged the response to this disease, then so did the majority of Western Hemisphere.
And there is still no clear answer from the Democrats as to how they would have done anything any differently.
Uh hello, they would have followed the SCIENCE, like that nice lady president they have in New Zealand.
Also, they would have the media compare the total deaths favorably to some early overblown prediction of 2-3 million deaths, rather than unfavorably to zero deaths.
As far as I can tell, the only thing that would’ve made any difference would have been to quarantine everyone entering the United States from a foreign country starting in January. I highly doubt any Democrat in the U.S. was going to be proposing that under a Democratic President, and they certainly didn’t under the President we have (in fact, they were by and large against it).
That’s pretty much what Aus/NZ did and they’re still getting cases popping up.
(Although I’m entirely sure what if any proactive surveillance they’ve been doing vs just waiting for cases to bubble up. Their current cases could just be submarine community spread if they haven’t been looking.)
its gonna get in, and its gonna run the way it would regardless. The only thing you can do is identify and protect unusually vulnerable populations, if feasible.
Anything else makes no difference in the long run, and inflicts damage along the way.
Something is different between the Western Hemisphere and the rest of the world. I think some numbers trickery (mostly unintentional) is involved. But I do think the nature of the response is relevant too. Also, back in January, it wasn’t clear that this was going to flare up as much as it did. So you might be right but nobody would have known it at the time.
The rest of the world is largely made up of places that aren’t testing at all, or can be guaranteed to lie about it. I mean, moreso than the Western Hemisphere. When it comes to something like this, comparing the Western Hemisphere with Africa and Asia is comparing apples to zebras.
They would have done nothing. Which, ironically, would have been better.
Pretty sure we’re third largest in the world by pop – and yet we keep getting compared to tiny little knucledraggers like Belgium.
Not much sense of proportion.
What will you do?
Vote for Trump, and start making plans to march on DC if the Dems really try to overthrow the election for reals this time?
The SLS is a joke, when I read that, all i thought was, Elon does it cheaper, Elon does it better, why do we pay ULA?
I assume to keep the manufacturing of former-Shuttle, now SLS components in the districts of various Congress-critters.
No other reason makes any sense — nor why strapping some SME’s on the bottom of a shuttle tank and increasing the size of the side boosters is taking so dang long. (Yes, yes … it *is* rocket science, but come on!)
I get the Congress critter BS but why use such old tech? New tech, cheaper but still pricey, Profit, see F35
Wokevid-20 is spreading like wildfire.
NFL owners should be careful. A few prominent Black players are telling me they want to sit out a game to make their feelings felt & force change/action. They are tired, frustrated and emotional. It’s only a few at this point, but sparks become flames & flames become infernos.
And the change they’ll force will be to drive fans away and eventually cut their own salaries
As I’ve stated before, finally, after nearly forty years of waiting, I saw the Chiefs win a Super Bowl. They have arguably the best quarterback in the league locked up for over a decade and with the voodoo economics baked into the NFL’s salary cap, they have already managed to retained key skill players for years to come. They could easily be on the verge of a dynasty…and I’ve never been less enthusiastic about an upcoming season. I already know the league, the players, and the networks that air the games are going to sanctimoniously virtue signal and preach at every opportunity funtil at the very least the national elections. If the Democrats are soundly defeated then maybe, MAYBE, they’ll take the hint and shut the fuck up…maybe.
Or…turn up the tantrums to 11.
“They are tired, frustrated and emotional.”
Boo fucking hoo, get to work damnit!
As far as I can tell, the inferno is the purpose. Appease now, get more trouble later.
All that cash & free medical care? Sounds super frustrating!
LeBron caved; I don’t see any of these unnamed “prominent Black players” doing otherwise.
Chinese masters want to see b-ball games?
Reminding me of this.
Trump campaign videos write themselves.
Videos posted to social media on Thursday night following the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention at the White House allegedly showed elderly people being harassed and assaulted by left-wing protesters.
“The protests started as a ‘noise demonstration and dance party’ and seemed to intensify as the night continued. Videos emerged on social media that appeared to show city police clashing with protesters throughout city streets,” Fox News reported. “Protesters yelled and threw water bottles at police at the historic St. John’s Church, which is near Black Lives Matter Plaza. There were some arrests.”
“Allegedly”. “Appeared”.
Uh, no, I watched those vids, and they showed elrderly people being harassed and assaulted by lefties, and police clashing with protesters.
If they were smart, they might push rules for “smarter e-cigarette devices,” vaporizers that don’t work with bootleg cartridges.
Golly, I wonder who’s in favor of doing that.
Assholes? It’s usually assholes.
I can’t imagine.
/pulls on Juul
Enabler!
If you’ve read The Count of Monte Cristo and want a laugh, check out today’s google doodle celebrating the anniversary of its publication.
The abridged abridged abridged Dumas.
And based on the movie.
I wonder if kids in school called him “dumb ass”.
Probably doesn’t work in French.
Swarthy Dumas writes about Dantès undergoing a Michael Jackson treatment?
Do better.
Check out the Bing page, with a pic of the actual prison.
That’s nicely done.
“Divorce rates in America soar by 34% during the COVID-19 pandemic with marriages crumbling three weeks into quarantine and newlywed separations doubling to 20 percent”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8674001/Divorce-rates-America-soar-34-percent-COVID-19-pandemic.html
wow
Grrrr, Firefox was working perfectly fine for me until they updated and broke all their extensions (on purpose)…. In trying to find an android browser, I stumbled upon Kiwi, which allows extensions, but it ran my battery down 50 percentage points in 45 minutes and is slow as mole asses when running Eyepiece on Glibs.
So here I am, typing in an Eyepiece-less Brave browser, slumming it like Brochetta.
To be serious for half a second, any recommendations for an android browser that will run tampermonkey and doesn’t suck?
They got me last night with that update too.
The only thing I see in the changelog is that they made their “add-on blocklist” effective. What add-ons did you lose?
tampermonkey is the non-negotiable one. It also screwed up lastpass (which required a Firefox addon to work right)
Tampermonkey still works as far as I can tell. Interestingly, it seems to be closed source with a very restrictive license which is funny given the sort of things people do with it.
Not on mine, unfortunately
Ok, yeah, I missed the Android part. I tested on desktop.
They have about a day to fix it before I start downlaoding new browsers.
from what I read, they’re going with it, and we’re SOL.
And now I’m on Brave.
I’m currently on iOS, but I have used Samsung’s browser on Android and liked it well enough. I’m not sure about browser extensions on it, though.
The Kyle Rittenhouse memes are expanding exponentially.
The Kenosha Mile Challenge.
Come on tough guy
“They’re lionizing a mass shooter” pearl clutching in 3, 2, 1….
I imagine this kid is going to be a wreck for the near future no matter the outcome of his trial.
He ended 2 lives and maimed a third. He won’t have the support or brotherhood of a soldier returning from war or a public that respects him. Worst case he will be in prison as a murderer for the rest of his life.
No matter the outcome his life as he knew it is over.
I hope you are wrong. There are lot of people out there who seem him as a hero and are already funding the best legal defense possible.
legal defense or no, he needs a big brother right now, literally or figuratively
Yep.
Good one: https://mobile.twitter.com/elfuhrvenugen/status/1299440572927705091
“Rose McGowan says she was ‘slut shamed’ for risqué dress at 1998 VMAs: ‘It was my first big public appearance after being sexually assaulted'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8674387/Rose-McGowan-says-slut-shamed-risqu-dress-1998-VMAs.html
So response to being assaulted was to show up half-naked in public?
I thought white girls with wagons like that were a modern day invention, guess not!
I was eighteen at the time and I personally, *cough* uh, fully supported her decision to dress in such a manner for the event.
If they have to pixelize your picture, you’re not wearing enough to be out in public.
A troubling new development
As Kyle Rittenhouse secured a legal team Friday after being charged in the fatal shooting of two men at a protest against police brutality, demonstrators and law enforcement grapple with how the deadly gunfire in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has injected a chilling and long-feared dimension into protests.
“We have been very fortunate that shootings have been rare at demonstrations where emotions are already running high, but (Kenosha) is an example of a lot of people’s worst fears,” said Gil Kerlikowske, a former Seattle police chief who also served as Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner during the Obama administration. “We are living in unbelievably unsettling times.”
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On the streets, rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails and fireworks served as protesters’ weapons of choice against bursts of tear gas and rubber bullets. But handguns and rifles, similar to the one Rittenhouse wielded Tuesday night, are increasingly appearing at demonstrations in gun-friendly states that allow their open display — dangling from holsters and shoulder slings. They also loom as potential game-changers for social justice advocates promoting peaceful resistance.
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Brian Levin, director at California State University San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, called the introduction of weapons during a contentious demonstration “a recipe for disaster.”
“We have to make sure that police departments have policies on how to manage situations when these (armed) people show up,” Levin said. “But unfortunately, the horse seems to have left the barn on that point.”
The ‘inevitable outcome’
The dreaded mix of guns and large crowds has been a persistent and growing concern for law enforcement for years.
Ed Davis, a former Boston police commissioner, said the the violence in Kenosha is the “inevitable outcome” when private citizens – armed with military-grade weapons and driven by visceral reactions – take to the streets to assume the role of law enforcement.
Arson and looting are okay, but anybody who tries to stop them is a Nazi.
Leave the law enforcement to the professionals, who may or may not decide to intervene.
Who may be ordered not to intervene by politicians who side with the looters over the residents of their cities.
California State University San Bernardino’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism,
I built that building
was it a labor of hate?
No, but it built… on rock and roll!
“We have to make sure that police departments have policies on how to manage situations when these (armed) people show up,”
If they had decent policies on how to manage situations where the Molotov cocktail people who up, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Nothing says “peaceful resistance” like “rocks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks”.
The vacuum of policing will be filled by somebody. Either armed locals or Antifa.
Oh, fuck off
Not discussed: why the role of law enforcement was available to be assumed by a 17 year old with a cheap AR and a single (1) mag.
Who, judging by the following night’s relatively tame demonstration, did more to restore the peace than the Kenosha PD and the WI National Guard combined.
I’m still waiting to see what he was doing in the first place that warranted people near him to attempt a public execution, um, er, citizens arrest. Unless he just walked up to the first person he shot and summarily executed them without warning or provocation, I can’t understand why they would pursue him if he didn’t instigate the confrontation in some way that I haven’t heard about yet.
That’s unless he just happened to identify himself to a nearby mob as someone who objects to their actions and they stupidly decided to bum-rush a kid for wrongspeak despite the fact he was armed and a small handful got lit up as a result.
I’m trying very hard to be principled and give the story more time before reaching a conclusion here but,….bah!
“Martin Luther King Jr’s granddaughter, 12, vows ‘we will fulfill my grandfather’s dream’ at March on Washington’s 57th anniversary as George Floyd’s siblings and Breonna Taylor’s mom demand change and justice in front of the 50,000-strong crowd”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8672893/Thousands-expected-March-Washington-commemorations.html
Rep. Alexander Green was wearing an “I Can’t Breathe” mask.
I have been told that MLK’s dream of a colorblind society is tantamount to white supremacy and is not the goal of antiracism.
That dream is dead and buried.
And locked up in copyright.
Sorry, AI Jesus. I do not accept your cookies.
Accepting holy cookies is a fork one makes upon the sea of paths. May the fork be with you.
Eating dessert with a fork when it was intended to be eaten by hand?! Why, I never…say…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w_57N1EI1Uw
“After Sen. Rand Paul was surrounded by the violent left-wing mob in Washington, D.C. last night, recent comments made by prominent Democrats are striking.
Squad member Ayanna Pressley called for targeting GOP officials with “unrest in the streets.””
https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1299342001180114946
CWAA
Love the “just like the tea party” stuff. Don’t you remember the tea party riots?
It happened in Boston a while ago.
Heh.
A mostly violent display of cleaning up the errant litter left after their rallies before peacefully leaving.
Go after her the way the Democrats went after the Republicans when Gabby Giffords was shot.
Of course, the Republicans wouldn’t go on the offensive after Steve Scalise was shot….
there’s shameless politics and than there is this-
https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1299340910749155328
The blue governors in the midwest and west coast were never going to allow football. this ad is especially going to age terribly when we have in person sec/nfl games in a couple of weeks.
That doesn’t even make sense. So Trump stopped all public gatherings including sporting events but is also down playing the seriousness of the virus at the same time, and this is from the candidate who said he would close the country?
these people exist in a world I can’t even imagine logically.
They all hit the fainting couches last night during Trump’s tightly packed, super-spreader acceptance speech.
I don’t get it. Stadiums are empty around the world.
All Trump’s fault.
“Saturn, Jupiter & the Moon Form a Triangle in the Sky This Weekend. Here’s How to See It.”
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/how-to-see-saturn-jupiter-moon-conjunction-appulse-august-2020
Tune in Sunday at noon to find what this means for your horoscope.
I didn’t get any written communication outside the norm this past week as promised. Harumph.
Do autographed dick picks count as written communication?
Or is that not outside the norm for you?
Well, if I had AKSHULLY gotten any of those it certainly would have counted!
I’ve been getting out there a few nights over the past week to put the telescope on saturn and jupiter. it’s really nice to be able to have them both in the same section of the sky. Of course the moon is going to ruin it all by spraying the entire area with photons.
Mars has been bright and high in the sky this month. Due East at 11:00 pm EST
There’s a tree in the way of due east for me, so I may have to walk down to the park at the end of the street and give it a try.
The struggle is real.
Jupiter and Saturn have been fine viewing until the moon is drowning details out. I’ll be happier once it moves out of the way.
If you are out with binos or a scope there are multiple deep sky treats in that same area for easy viewing. Open and Globular star clusters, nebula with forming stars, very bright stars- all sorts of easy viewing.
By October Mars will be a real treat as we close the distances. It will be as bright as Jupiter and up earlier at night.
I assumed this means Capricorns are fucked.
As if that would be a change from the norm.
Same as every week?
For anyone interested, I will host the happy hour tonight at 7:30pm Eastern. Hope you can join us!
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86786227128?pwd=QllnQ2tRVlR0aGx5bjZrVlNyK29RZz09
Thank you @
Not a joiner, but thank you! And Neph too. Know it means a lot to other Glibs.
nice try FBI.
Curses! Foiled again!
How late does this usually run?
Sometimes into the wee hours. Depends on who’s there & the flow of conversation & booze
Ain’t no party like a Glibs zoom party, cuz’ a Glibs zoom party don’t stop.
Festus’ mustache hucked me at 4 am or there abouts once.
Now that’s how one does a euphemism.
Garbage in, garbage out
A well-known coronavirus model previously cited by the White House forecasts more than 317,000 US deaths from Covid-19 by December.
As of Friday morning, the model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington projects that 317,312 people may die from the illness — marking an increase of about 8,000 deaths from a previous estimate the model projected one week ago.
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The new IHME estimate suggests that the United States could see more than 136,000 additional deaths between now and December, and the daily death rate could rise to more than 2,000 per day.
Yet IHME researchers noted on their website on Thursday, when they updated their model, that “if mask wearing in public increases to 95%, more than 67,000 lives could be saved.”‘
We plug some numbers into our model with assumptions fine-tuned to produce the outcome we’re looking for, turn the crank, and voila! SCIENCE!
According to my model, you’re all going to die.
jfc these people have no shame.
I am by no means a student of virusology or whatever, but I’d be curious how many viruses, if any, have followed the pattern this model is predicting. We have a peak and are generally on the downward slope pretty much everywhere. In the first 4 months or whatever 180,000 (if you buy the official numbers) deaths. The model is predicting that between the first 4 months and the next 4 months, deaths will only go down by 25% despite the clear downward trend right now and the pretty standard bell curve distribution that most virus models I’ve seen have.
We can get there. We just need to double the financial incentives for attributing deaths to COVID. Maybe triple, just to be sure.
This should have gone in the reading post, but…
I wish I had both fuck off money and lots of awards just so I’d get a chance to do this
Silly JK. She doesn’t get to decide whether she is transphobic or not. Twitter mob gets to make that decision.
Nice.
“Ripple of Hope” has to be the dumbest name for an award.
I thought Ripple of Hope was a brand of booze hobos regularly drank while riding the rails.
I’m waiting for the Mad Dog 2020 award
Not sure if anyone already posted it, but verbruggen at nro posted the Wisconsin self defense statutes – any marginal lawyer could get Rittenhouse to walk based on the evidence. 1st degree murder was vastly over-charged (par for the course).
They’re hoping they can present Rittenhouse as a criminal from the start, so anything that follows is illegitimate use of force. Just like a convenience store robber that kills the clerk after the clerk draws a weapon on the robber.
Notice how they haven’t arrested mr. false surrender?
From the text I read- even if it was technically illegal – having a weapon as a minor across state lines – the fear for his life and demonstrated intent was real thereby justifying him.
I mean, you also don’t charge a minor if they shoot an intruder in your house with dads gun.
I haven’t read the Wisconsin statues, but if they can show he had some sort of criminal intent via SM or statements or convince a jury of such, that would be enough. The unlawful possession charge is about framing the narrative, and isn’t the sole basis. The convenience store robber can say he feared for his life too, but that still doesn’t make an adequate defense. And there’s a difference between picking up a firearm in your own family home in the immediate moment and leaving that home to go participate in riots.
Process is the punishment, get him to plead to a lesser charge, meanwhile the media narrative is right wing killer kills innocent protestors.
if they can show he had some sort of criminal intent via SM or statements or convince a jury of such
That will be a heavy lift. I understand his socials show support for the police, there are pics of him cleaning up graffiti in Kenosha, he chatted amiably with police who commended the group he was with before the shooting, he complied with police orders not to return to the first car lot he was guarding, he likely called police after teh first shooting, ran to the police , and tried to surrender to the first cop he saw.
1st degree murder was vastly over-charged (par for the course).
IANA Wisconsin criminal lawyer, but I think it was charged that way on purpose based on the statute I saw. Essentially, they’d be conceding that he was acting in self defense if they charged him with 2nd degree, but it can always fall down to 2nd degree if the state doesn’t prove its case.
https://twitter.com/JeremyBWhite/status/1299426649251823617
there’s nothing left to say about these people.
Positive tests have been the only metric for a while, and all the terrified Karens lap it up.
This mother fucker. We were a week off of his fascist monitoring list and my schools were preparing to open. Then BLAM, he introduces these new guidelines that will be nearly impossible to hit in any area of moderate density. He is such a shit head.
My kids have been at daycare for 2 months. They go, spend the day there, and come home. No outbreak. The daycare is literally ON THE SAME GROUNDS AS THE SCHOOL. The walk past their class each day, sit down and open a chromebook to Zoom meet with teachers in a classroom 150 feet away. Literally, my daughter waves to her teacher as they both go into their rooms for the day.
This is inane. It is absurd. It is insane absurdity the likes of which even god has never seen.
“”A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box.”
That is incredible. Do they do any testing at your kids daycare? Or any of the other covid BS?
Oh and you have to maintain you’re levels for 21 days.
https://twitter.com/jhaskinscabrera/status/1299370220713324548
I’ve seen people claiming Biden is making big ad buys in Virginia. If that’s true, and I have no idea if it is, then the panic must be reaching a fever pitch in Grandpa’s basement.
I’ve seen only Biden ads on my cable so far. Lots on the Weather Channel. They’re not compelling in any way.
The entire message is ORANGEMANBAD. One of the first lessons of politics is to run for something, not against.
If that is the first lesson, why is it so often ignored?
Because they are running a candidate who can’t string a speech together or stand on his own for longer than 20 minutes.
Good question. I think in a lot of cases it’s cowardice.
Because who ever wrote those lessons is/was an Idiot. While people may say that they don’t like smear campaigns, their actions (votes) show that negative ads work.
Something, something, Goldwater, something, daisies.
Of course negative ads work as a tactic, but as a strategy, it’s rarely enough. Both sides can (and will) run negative ads.
The entire message is ORANGEMANBAD.
“Remember, the president said there were very fine nazi’s and white-supremacists. We need a return to normalcy and decency. And I need another Worther’s Original.”
– I’m Joe Biden and I forgot this message.
“The entire message is ORANGEMANBAD.”
So, the ads are all just recordings of the DNC?
Hoffer (The True Believer):
I’ve seen about half and half, but so few of either as to be irrelevant.
Biden ads supplanted the endless Trump ads recently for me on YouTube. I don’t know if it’s because they think Missouri is a swing state now(not likely), or because I clicked on a few Jimmy Dore videos recently after kinda forgetting about him for a few months. And maybe the endless recommendations YouTube feeds me about listening to Mexican Mariachi bands is because I clicked on a MS article and recently made a Mexican butt sex reference here…basically, what I’m saying is that Google/YouTube ‘s algorithm is a basic bitch.
He has one on YouTube that you can’t hide. Just hangs at the top of your suggested videos list.
It’s only august but I think between the schools not opening up and the riots the polls can’t be good. Honestly if you’re trump you just run video of schools that are full in person in the redstates like GA, business’s open and the people in the stadiums in the sec saying the dems are the ones from preventing you from this occurring. That and the video of Dems talking about how they support the protests juxtaposed with the city’s burning and I don’t see how he loses.
Kanye is on the ballot in Virginia so it is most definitely in play for Trumpy. I imagine that Ye is gonna get 3% or so. He is by far the best “fuck you” vote going. Trump lost by 4% or so I think there last time.
It was close, I think it was 3%. Trump could definitely win VA this time and probably will win Minnesoda
And in today’s “Oh, go fuck yourself” moment….
Gee whiz, why don’t people trust the experts???
Something double standard something something no standard
Not mentioned: he is a failed Dem Congressional candidate.
TMITE
“this is a public health crisis they are marching against”
Sure it is, just like Arab Spring.
The model is predicting that between the first 4 months and the next 4 months, deaths will only go down by 25% despite the clear downward trend right now and the pretty standard bell curve distribution that most virus models I’ve seen have.
Are you saying they should adjust the model to reflect reality? Why would they do that?
I didn’t know the Bee was on Twitter. Holy crap they are crushing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/thebabylonbee
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Leftists Fight Fascism By Marching Through Streets Forcing Everyone To Perform Their Special Salute
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Well done, Bee. Well done.
In Major Deal, The Babylon Bee Purchases Competing Satire Site CNN
Let me try:
Declining Ratings Leads to CNN Being Bought Out by Weekly World News
Martian Violence Blamed on Indiana Guns
Ice Cream Truck Tune Offensive, Says Man Who Raps About Rape, Murder
[golf clap]
P.S. To our Bee lurker, please steal this…But make sure not to include a covert hat tip Drake for it either. Because, hey, fuck that guy. 😉
John Tutor sent it to them
Titor*
Motherf-er..
suggested music: Everything You Know Is Wrong (Weird Al)
Republicans Blast Democrats As Socialists. Here’s What Socialism Is
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/25/905895428/republicans-blast-democrats-as-socialists-heres-what-socialism-is
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Schwartz says the term socialism actually refers to a political system in which the state is in charge of the economy and provides not only social welfare services such as health care, but where “all sorts of other things are in state control, including the large sections of the private economy.”
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And while Sanders and “Squad” members Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib identify as Democratic Socialists, their vision is more aligned with Scandinavian nations such as Denmark and Sweden, where universal health care and a wide range of social benefits — and higher taxes — are the norm, but capitalism still prevails, rather than with countries such as Venezuela and Cuba, where the state does control major industries, and authoritarians rule.
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You see? No need to worry. They just want the good kind of socialism, not the bad kind.
Is that the case though? The Squad shit talks capitalism on a regular basis if memory serves.
QUIET, YOU!
The squad have their own little collective hive mind and it looks uncannily like the hive mind of a 3rd world shithole. Wonder why that is?
These fuckers will praise Sweden as a utopia we should emulate at every turn. Except when they actually do something that promotes freedom and the ability to choose for yourself.
Socialism requires authoritarianism/totalitarianism. All socialism is bad socialism.
The places that were the opposite of diverse when they were socialist?
QUIET, YOU!
+1 “your vision of paradise is 5 million white people living off oil money”
Whew, it’s good thing we don’t have that.
Schwartz says the term socialism actually refers to a political system in which the state is in charge of the economy and provides not only social welfare services such as health care, but where “all sorts of other things are in state control, including the large sections of the private economy.”
Interesting how they immediately exclude health care. As in, “Oh, well OF COURSE the government should run that large sector of the private economy, Duh!”
+ 1/6 of the US economy
I’ve heard a joke that oncologist should be spelled on-call-ogist, because they spend so much time on the phone with FDA bureaucrats.
Yep, same old nonsense, they never learn.
Scandinavian countries are all about 1/30th the size of the US population wise. And they have very Homogenous populations, that are full of… Scandinavians!
You can’t compare those countries, which are ALL capitalist countries with social programs, with the USA, if you have a brain.
But no one with a brain is accusing the Twat Squad of having a brain.
Plus as they keep pointing out- they gave up their socialist economies over a generation ago because their quality of life was tanking. Even the pussy Swedes will point that out to you very forcibly.
I’ve said it a few times, and I don’t think it’s the best idea ever or anything, but if you taxed the entirety of the country a flat 20% on all income, and gave the 50 million poorest households in the nation 40,000 a year straight cash, then that would be 2 trillion from a 3.5 trillion federal budget. Which leaves you a trillion for defense and general government spending, along with 500 billion to pay down the national debt, which would take what 40 years at this point? Something like that?
If we are going to have redistributive welfare policies, they should be straight cash from Rich to Poor, not Rich to Government Middle Class Bureaucrat who skims a huge chunk of the taxes off the top then hands it to Poor.
Way to go, Spain!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/coronavirus-cases-in-some-european-countries-are-rising-again-but-with-fewer-deaths-for-now/ar-BB18tipL
Social distancing stewards? God help us.
actual CNN chyron: fiery but mostly peaceful protests after police shooting
https://youtu.be/lKrraHPBBhw?t=142
Better CNN
RNC, Vaccine Update, Mostly Peaceful Fires, And Zombie Hitler — The BNN Week In Review 8-28-2020
*slow clap*
Schwartz says the term socialism actually refers to a political system in which the state is in charge of the economy and provides not only social welfare services such as health care, but where “all sorts of other things are in state control, including the large sections of the private economy.
What, like when government officials decide which businesses are “essential” and which aren’t?
No, that’s fascism. Just like the fascist Trump government running this country that will instantly transform into a peaceful Biden government in January.
Zing!
What is the dumbest part of this latest NJR piece? Here are my nominees:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/your-oppression-was-predictable
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The fact that in this country, there are many white people with guns who will kill without hesitation, is indeed a descriptive fact, but you can’t justify it by pointing out that it’s predictable.
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Now do Islam and blasphemy, you dolt. Or black on black crime if you’re feeling especially bold.
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Personally, because I tend to be sympathetic to those who do not have very much and are not listened to….
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Now do College Republicans, you dolt.
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looting is not solely the fault of looters
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Is rape not solely the fault of rapists?
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the people responsible for protests against police are the police
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Does that include the looting and arson?
CWAA
I tend to be sympathetic to those who do not have very much and are not listened to
You don’t actually because you wouldn’t know those people and you wouldn’t like what they had to say anyway.
QUIET, YOU!
Sheesh, 3rd one today. Take a chill pill, guys.
Well, now I’m just confused.
I’m pretty fucking sick of the idea that a guy who owns a restaurant where he works 10 hour days six days a week to pull down ~70,000 bucks a year tops is some kind of Elite 1%er String Puller that can pick up a phone to the government and end systemic racism if you properly motivate him by breaking his window.
Whelp, I finished out my work day angry. TGIF.
Join us on zoom and vent
Thanks for the offer, but I’m anti-zoom.
Isn’t that standard practice?
Rashida Tlaib
@RashidaTlaib
US House candidate, MI-13
How the f**k do you handcuff Jacob Blake that you paralyzed to a hospital bed after you shot him in the back seven times?
I oppose a system where the perpetrators of attempted murder get to handcuff their victim. No system should have this much power. You can’t reform this.
Wasn’t he being arrested at the time he was shot? I don’t think probable cause (assuming they had it to begin with) goes away just because the cops shoot you.
He also had an open felony warrant I think.
He did. Being injured in the course of an attempted arrest (because you are acting a fool…) does not mean you are not still under arrest.
From a long article on the subsequent shootings…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/nation-world/kyle-rittenhouse-charged-kenosha-shootings-jacob-blake/507-cf7a10d8-3433-4325-9574-3aedb9fc87a6
“A Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department spokesman told CNN Friday that Blake was handcuffed to the bed because he “has felony warrants for his arrest from crimes he committed prior to the shooting incident.” Those warrants have been vacated, the spokesman said.”
Huh. Vacated felony warrant, charging Rittenhouse with first degree murder, not charging the one armed bandit… almost see a pattern in the DA’s office…
Technically, aren’t the warrants vacated because they have the subject in custody?
Where’s Irwin Schiff when we need him?
It’s like these people have never seen a movie where the obviously incapacitated man is handcuffed to a gurney and the bleeding heart doctor/nurse says “is that really necessary” so the chastised deputy/detective takes off the cuffs. Three scenes later the nurse/doctor has a scalpel in his eye/her eye and the bad guy has the deputy/detective’s gun and a ball cap and jacket he swiped from random rooms he passed. Happens all the fucking time.
Oh I almost forgot the part where he grabs a bouquet of flowers from a candy-striper’s cart near the exit and uses them to hide his face from the security guards.
+1 Hannibal Lecter
Blind survivor of Chinese Communist prison speaks at RNC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB-O2zRqMVw
For some reason, the result from Trump’s channel is not the top one. What strange coincidence!
And CNN cut away to a panel discussion when he was on.
All together now:
TMITE
?One. Two. Three. Four. Can I have a little more? Five. Six. Seven, eight, nine, ten, TMITE. ALL. TOGETHER. NOW(TMITE).?
Doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as the original British mop-top’s version.
[epic guitar riff]
I am a capitalist! An I am a pragmatist! Know what I want and know how to get it. Gonna prosper by creating value…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmWs6Jf5dc
The Sex Pistols were WAY better than they had any right to be given their circumstances and formation. I think most of that is down to Steve Jones, but amazingly Johnny Rotten was quite a capable vocalist. It’s a great album, really.
The accompanying piece by the band to highlight the times:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcauCclfytI
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
If only they’d decently fall apart immediately after asking that question like some folks.
And you see
This is why
TMITE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4C_lUy58Rw
What are the odds?
https://mobile.twitter.com/NoahRevoy/status/1299053765157322759
illegally armed felon
I’m budgeting a “meh” for this even if I don’t need one
“Russian proverb: if you see a Bulgarian on the street, beat him; he’ll know why.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/PeanutJellyBut6/status/1299132795953065984
Never heard of this one.
But are you?
Melvin: Perhaps you’ve heard one of the chief criticisms of the Biden/Harris Ticket by some is you’re radical. You’re a radical liberal. And some who are saying they’re not liberal enough.
Harris: The most important point I think can be made about the diversity of who we are is an embrace of who we are. That’s who we are as democrats. We embrace who we are. We’re not requiring people to march and fall in line. If you want to call that radical, perhaps it is in the eyes of Donald Trump. But I would say a quest for unity and a fight for an America that sees everyone and a vision of the future of America in which everyone can see themselves is reflective of who we are and who we are aspire to be as a nation and our strength as a nation.
Melvin: So it sound like you’re a radical centrist.
Harris: I am saying I’m radically in love with my country.
Um…
I wonder when he’ll switch from slipping me money to slipping the boys money. It just made me laugh and like my old man.
Por que no los dos? When you go to Disney World, watch and see if any of your boys have any extra spending money as well.
Well, I for one am glad Jacob Blake won’t be raping any more women (or 14 yr old girls). What?! I thought we were supposed to believe all women?
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1299473915383656448
Enthusiasm.
Time to toggle back to talking about coronavirus.
“Hundreds of Trump supporters endanger others by gathering without masks as they give Nazi salute” – CNN
fun fact
The words theology and enthusiasm both come from the Greek word for god. Enthusiasm means to have a god inside you, like you are possessed by one.
The reason the fish is used as a Christian symbol is because in Greek, the first letters of the sentence Jesus Christ, Son of God, spells fish (icthyos) in Greek.
Iēsous Christos, Theou Yios, Sōtēr – Icthyos
When Christianity was illegal in the Roman Empire, its followers used secret symbols to communicate. Kind of like today in certain non-Christian majority countries.
ΙΚΘΥΣ (Ikthus):
Greek acronym for the words “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour”
– and it should be “´Uios” above, not “Yios,” pronounced “H’wee-os”
/D00d with Bible College B.A. in Religion, as well as Greek studies in University.
QUIET, YOU!
Upsilon is a Y.
Not at the various post-secondary institutions I studied at. Nor the profs I studied under.
The Polite Racist
“I’m sorry, may I call you ‘Spearchucker’?´ Do you prefer ‘Chuck’?”
Dr. Oliver Harmon Jones?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz
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Koontz was born on July 9, 1945, in Everett, Pennsylvania, the son of Florence (née Logue) and Raymond Koontz.[3][4] He has said that he was regularly beaten and abused by his alcoholic father, which influenced his later writing, as also did the courage of his physically diminutive mother in standing up to her husband.[5] In his senior year at Shippensburg State College, he won a fiction competition sponsored by Atlantic Monthly magazine.[6] After graduation in 1967, he went to work as an English teacher at Mechanicsburg High School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.[3] In the 1960s, Koontz worked for the Appalachian Poverty Program, a federally funded initiative designed to help poor children.[7] In a 1996 interview with Reason magazine, he said that while the program sounded “very noble and wonderful, … [i]n reality, it was a dumping ground for violent children … and most of the funding ended up ‘disappearing somewhere.'”[7] This experience greatly shaped Koontz’s political outlook. In his book, The Dean Koontz Companion, he recalled that he
“… realized that most of these programs are not meant to help anyone, merely to control people and make them dependent. I was forced to reconsider everything I’d once believed. I developed a profound distrust of government regardless of the philosophy of the people in power. I remained a liberal on civil-rights issues, became a conservative on defense, and a semi-libertarian on all other matters.”[7]
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Sokath, his eyes opened!
Koontz is King minus the hippies and abortion politics. Lots of libertarian themes in his books. And dogs.
I can’t read his stuff. For me, the writing style is bad. I’ve tried several times and made it about 30 pages. Nope.
Ground angus is down to $1.99/lb. Been awhile since beef is cheaper than gas.
Where are you, It’s still 3-4 dolla/pound around here.
Also to pedant, at 6 pound pounds per gallon unless gas is over 12$/gal it’s still cheaper than the cheap beef.
One of the main reasons designing my car to run on ground beef was ill advised.
Also, pushing cow into the beeferizer(tm) every day so I can drive to work gives new and unpleasant meaning to the term “daily grind”.
NM. It had to be a mistake, like they overordered or something. Or maybe angus means something other than cow, because regular ground beef was the usual price.
The “g” is a typo.
So that’s what the kids mean about eating ass. I was worried it’s something sexual.
Its still high here. The cattle market is shit as the same time. I have some that need to go to the sale barn, but the prices they are fetching right now are so low that its not worth taking them. Ill hang on a little longer.
Since the big processing plants are not working full capacity because of covid nonsense, the little butchers all around are backlogged until January or later. You cant get a pig or a cow or anything into them.
My buddy David last weekend killed a 800 pound steer at his house. He hung it up in with the tractor bucket and slaughtered it like a deer. The beef wont be as good as it could be because he doesn’t have a cooler to hang it, but hell, you do what you have to in these times. I may end doing the same thing eventually.
I would have to go vegetarian. Slaughter just isn’t in my skillset.
Porterhouse are down to $9.99/lb this weekend. I know what I’m buying.
I splurged and bought a tenderloin, going to do the ultimate dry brine. Sunday.
yes it’s not a dry brine (which itself isn’t akhually a brine (looks at UCS)) but it uses a shit load of salt.
Just saw a Biden commercial. The message was “Joe really likes masks”. It finished with 3 different photos of Joe wearing a different mask in each one.
“Don’t look at it, Marion! Keep your eyes SHUT!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcR9k8o4I0w
Lockdowns now, lockdowns tomorrow, lockdowns forever!
What an exciting message for America. And if they’re running with that, there’s a depressing chance a lot of morons thrill to it.
That some pretty dumb as shit political marketing. I cant imagine that even the pro-mask idiots enjoy wearing them.
Joe couldn’t keep his on during the fireworks.
But if you’re dreaming of an exciting new career as Mask Monitor.
For anyone who needs to relax: The Sound of Silence (Harp Cover)
Thanks, and would.
Uh oh, someone probably should wake Grandpa Joe up….
Kambree
@KamVTV
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BREAKING: 6 mayors in historically Democrat strongholds on the Iron Range of Minnesota announce their support for President Trump.
Ha!! Those are red meat farm boys. Only the official name of the Democrats in MN has kept them blue: the DFL for Democrat Farmer Labor Party.
Now they realize even labor is better off under Trump, and they like Law and Order.
I have mentioned here before that my first inkling that Trump would win in 2016 was when I saw a Hillary commercial in the final month before the vote. Somebody, somewhere thought “Uh-oh. We better shore up Minnesota.”
He still lost MN but that Hillary even ran ads there was telling.
The thing that drove me nuts the past few cycles was the “brown collar” guys who vote Democrat. The Democrats would love to completely ban all oil, coal, and natural gas extraction in the United States. They’d love to end all the mining, all the forestry, and they’re already talking about the “environmental impacts” of meat. They are all Greens, and Greens actually believe that we can run the whole world on solar and wind, and everyone who doesn’t work for the government, the media, or a tech company should be totally fine working as servants for them. Flyover states and public lands are just to be quaint, charming, interesting getaways for the coastal elites. No one should actually harvest the fruits of the forests and lakes and mountains, they should all set up restful B and Bs and wait for people who work in white collar jobs to take their weekends away. West Virginia is for rafting down the New River, not digging icky coal. Minnesota is for canoeing, not iron mining. Wyoming is for fly fishing, not ranching.
The dems have completely abandoned:
The working class
The white vote
The religious vote
The middle class
In favor of:
The perpetually aggrieved class
The freak show
The Coastal elite
Luckily for them, they still have tagging along, the Teacher’s unions, academia in general, minorities, entertainment, and the media
They must think that will hold for them because they didn’t even abandon the aforementioned, they now show blatant contempt for them. What I’m hoping to see is the dems abandoned by a good percentage of minorities. They’re truly screwed if that happens. But with offers like giving anyone $800,000 for starters just because of skin color, maybe that will protect the race card up their sleeve, forever.
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Trump calling out Harris right now as a losing loser that loses that even Dems wouldn’t vote for in the primary. Classic.
And touting his daughter Ivanka for first female president. As much as I detest political dynasties, I can think of worse *cough* Clintons *Cough*. At least the Trump daughter (Tiffany** who?) is pretty.
**She looked alright the other night, though. Someone was able to make her HD ready.
Poor Tiffany isn’t as pretty as her mom, Marla Maples.
Don Jr and Ivanka definitely have all the looks in the children.
Ugly leftist woman at work was talking shit about Tiffany Trump. Calling her an airhead bimbo. Bimbo who went to Penn for her BA, Georgetown for her JD.
Projection?
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” Oscar Wilde
(Not Safe for GlibFinance)
*triggered*
Rand Paul is on Tucker right now.
More of that freedom hate speech?
His wife was pretty shaken after almost being killed by a mob. Rand should never be unarmed at this point.
“””””””””””””””””””””””””protesters””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
Fuck off and die, CNN et al.
Not sure if anyone else has given thought to this. But the democrats have done at least a generation of societal damage with pushing all of this racial hatred, no matter what happens.
Even if it stopped right now, the damage is done.
All of this just to try to get rid of an elected president. I hope they are proud, but I don’t think they have any perception of morality or right or wrong, to realize the extent of the harm they have done.
For OWMC
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1299497894597271554/photo/1
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