I’m shocked, absolutely shocked, nobody asked where I’ve been.
…well not really I’ve been working.
200,000 right wing nut jobs descended upon the nation’s capital. Not a single one of them asked for my time. Bunch of cucks if you ask me. Seriously I rolled in with a duffel bag full of condoms and clean underwear for nothing.
Its okay though, I am already stocked up for the Kentucky Derby.
Companies are already a$$essing their books for a probable $15 minimum wage under the Harris administration.
Homely research fellow-lady plays moral equivalency games with the cost of commie virus regulations and public health:
Many of the nation’s foundational regulatory statutes were enacted a half-century ago, when municipal sewer systems emptied billions of gallons of raw sewage into rivers, cars ran on leaded gas, and the rotary dial was considered high tech. Much of today’s regulatory apparatus is thus a relic of this bygone era, and systemic reforms are sorely needed.
It is rather telling that none of the 454 agencies listed in the Federal Register tracks regulatory costs either cumulatively or in the aggregate. Some studies estimate that compliance costs the private sector an estimated $2 trillion annually. The paperwork burden alone now requires 11.6 billion hours annually, at a cost to the private sector of $149.8 billion.
This cunt needs to die already.
Why didn’t you lock her wrinkled ass up yourselfs?
Way to opt for trade war there dumbass.
Shit like this is why I accept payments in gold.
Finally, professor cocktease says, “It won’t cost this much to break windows on a global scale.” Not that they ever overestimate the costs…
…never ever.
Byline error?
The jig is up.
It’s like that awful revelation about the legitimacy of the Easter Bunny.
The Easter Bunny is the Devil. We all know that.
SAY IT ISN’T SO!
Come again?
“Cum again”?
That is extra $.
+1 half & half
MSOG is pretty standard these days.
Oops, I do babble on so…
She’s not really the whore of babble on.
Uttered as a challenge to the universe and all the gods — sufficiently bad things cannot happen to Gretchen Whitmer.
The only musical selection which seems to fit the times for me –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJj-ED-y-5k
(present company excepted)
If they somehow pull this off, watch for the coasts to push for $20 or $25. And if I’m making (say) $30, shouldn’t I really be making $40 or $50 now? I mean, it’s only fair.
I’ve yet to hear anyone explain why the minimum wage in downtown NYC should be the same as bumblefuck Montana, but I’m the economically illiterate one…
Shit, in the suburbs around here, the fast food places are already up to $11/hour.
Here in Bumblefuck Montana, they are starting at $12-$13.
It’s zero. Always has been. Always will be.
Because NPR will probably run an interview with someone in Bumblefuck who is on minimum wage and poor, and portray that as a highly prevalent situation that necessitates raising the minimum wage.
Lefties are very unwilling to accept that some people are financially stupid and will be poor no matter what. Throwing money at them (or forcing others to do so) is like trying to smother a fire with newspaper. And the funny thing is, every single person probably knows at least one person who is poor entirely because of their own bad decisions.
I wonder if this will happen during the Harris administration or the pre-Harris administration?
“the pre-Harris administration”
Stolen.
That’s the only way I am referring to it. Any prog who questions me will be mocked mercilessly.
[golf clap]
This is going to spur a jump forward in robotics and automation. Magnus the Robot Fighter or Blade Runner?
RoboCop
#defundthepolice
Robot Chicken!!!
The otherwise free state of Florida voted to raise the minimum wage to $15, phased in over several years. If nothing else rural counties here can function as a case study.
Lots and lots of extra automation. Also lots and lots more IoT stuff. No more slacking off at McD’s. You will have everything measured and if you aren’t doing your job it will trigger an alarm.
The worst part of this stupidity is that minimum wage jobs are where a lot of kids learn how to conduct themselves in the workplace. Show up on time, do what your boss says, network with the other flunkies.
With a $15 min wage, there will be far less min wage jobs and less opportunity for kids to learn how to make a living. When I was starting out it was the depths of the Carter/Reagan recession. If you were able to get a job you had to work your ass off because there were adults who were willing to work if you didn’t want to.
You just want to perpetuate the neo fuedalist slavery where people think they have to work to live.
Somebody’s recent vox populi interview video asked what would happen if there was no minimum wage. Some responders worried that it would allow slavery to return. Because of course people would take jobs with zero compensation, they would have no choice!
sigh
People are dumb. I had to explain to a co-worker once that Slavery isn’t about “not getting paid”. This was because i was talking about the Draft and that it is slavery, and he asked “Did they not pay the conscripts?”. No slavery isn’t about not being paid, it’s about not being free to come and go. I know that when i was in elementary school they explained slavery as working without getting paid, probably because it benefits government to not explain the true meaning, because… well government is the only institution that still claims a right to enslave people.
Yeah, it’s a horribly damaging misconception that has a wide ranging impact.
First off, working for no pay is called volunteering, not slavery.
Second, they were paid. Mainly with non-monetary contributions like housing, food, etc.
Just one example of the idiocy about slavery pouring over into modern life is college sports. The scholarship athletes get tuition, room and board, top flight medical care, and tons of other perks and people still call them slaves because they’re not being cut a salary.
>>This cunt needs to die already.
Gee the lockdowns from earlier this year… and the mask mandate… worked wonders. Let’s try it again!
Something hammer something everything a nail.
But it feels so good to smash the things you hate (normal people) with that sledge-hammer. Why stop?
related: The Evidence Keeps Piling up: Lockdowns Don’t Work
Oh, they work alright. Just not for the stated purpose…
For now, Michigan has “paused” the three things the Heir of the wasteland cares about: bowling alleys, restaurant dine-in service, and in-person learning. He’s going to be inconsolable.
And just so it’s clear, the DHHS is the one “mandating” this partial shut down, which Gretch made sure was part of the announcement. Because she got stomped by the Michigan Supreme court for her earlier lockdowns . . . so she got the DHHS to do her work for her. Sigh.
Does DHHS have special statutory authority to do so? otherwise isn’t she just playing a shell game?
There’s not even a theoretical reason why they should work. Outside of “flattening the curve”, if you remember that canard, to stop hospitals from being overwhelmed, there is nothing gained from a lockdown even in the magical perfect world of medical papers.
It was originally acknowledged that the lockdown would only spread out the severe cases over a longer period of time; there was no pretense that it stop or eradicate the virus. So by that original logic a lockdown in the absence of hospitals being overwhelmed will only extend the pandemic conditions and do more harm than good.
Yes, but if you’re an authoritarian, they are fun. As a bonus, the economic devastation will allow you to ram through a bunch of crap you always wanted anyway.
Trudeau (Canadian Castro offspring) said as much in a public address recently.
video
https://mobile.twitter.com/rally4resources/status/1328152902775435264
If Biden’s going to make HRC an ambassador, he should at least do us a solid and send her out of the country.
Time to restart the Clinton Foundation money laundering scheme?
I can’t see that happening if she’s just the UN ambassador, a toothless position.
The Clinton Foundation made bank from a lot of “donors” who fully expected to benefit under her inevitable presidency.
I figure she’d like to become one of the Nazgul as her final act.
Paging Eowyn, Eowyn to the white security phone!
That will be the pay off to Chocolate Jesus. Fuck, I just made myself nauseous even typing that.
Constitutional scholar! Most qualified justice evah!!
Barf.
Obama knows the US constitution well enough to find ways to thwart it.
If it has to happen I would send her to open the Cuban embassy. Give her the symbolic mission to do the whole “reset button” theater (and fuck up the translation again) while putting her somewhere that can’t afford to give her anything more than chump change for her services.
I hear we need an ambassador in Benghazi.
What? Did we lose one there who needs to be replaced?
I’ll sell myself into slavery for not scrolling.
Opens bidding at 0.05 BTC. I need a manservant to manage my social media accounts.
Going once?
Damn, tough room.
Ok, hop to it. The password for all of them is “podesta”.
What difference, at this point . . . . ?
Heard there’s an opening in Bengazi.
Does the UN Ambassador have to be confirmed by the Senate?
There could be a lot of good trolling in those hearings if the GOP grows a pair.
I vote we get Trey Gowdy a cape and a staff and let him destroy her in the hearings.
“Way to opt for trade war there dumbass.”
I read that as “trade war three” – and I thought, we haven’t finished the first one yet!
Some quick questions before I go to the jobsite:
I am supposed to go to Gettysburg Thursday.
How bad has the lockdown been for PA?
As a mask refuser(I make exceptions for restaurants,since the Health Dept has boots on their necks), will I be able to enjoy the weekend?
Any suggestions are welcomed.
Masks are required in bars and restaurants, grocery stores, and pretty much anywhere public indoors. Gas stations and the like are not that hard core, but it depends on the business. Outside is mask free and alot of places have outside dining. The work site is a complete unknown, as some places don’t care and others where it is mandatory.
If you like the beer, go find one of the many brew pubs around with outside dining or inside you need a mask going to and from your table and bathroom (ridiculous as that sounds).
Timeloose summed it up pretty well.
Mask wearing in my region is like 99%+ compliance. I’ve spotted only a handful of people not at least making an attempt.
The upside is that apart from that, most people likely to be out in public are pretty chill about things.
Keep in mind it’s a college town. According to my son who goes there, but is remote right now, they’ve got that population pretty well indoctrinated.
How to do conduct election fraud without even trying to hide it.
Dominion Voting Systems Security Chief Was Participating in Antifa Calls, Posted Antifa Manifesto Letter to Trump Online
and…
Smartmatic Voting Machine’s Chairman of the Board Peter Neffenger Named to Joe Biden’s ‘Transition Team’.
I assumed they would try to stuff the ballot boxes in some cities, but this is beyond anything I’d have believed.
I pledge allegiance to the flag and the banana republic for which it stands.
Now it’s clear why Biden didn’t even bother to campaign. They knew ahead of time that the election would be rigged and campaigning wouldn’t matter.
I remember thinking on election night that VA was going to flip back to Trump. There wasn’t enough remaining precincts in NOVA to make the difference with Trump’s lead. Then all of sudden Biden jumped to an enormous lead out of nowhere. It looks like we cab add VA to the list of stolen states.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/breaking-exclusive-multiple-reversals-proportional-vote-entries-virginia-election-night-11-pm-indicate-election-fraud-occurred-state/
I remember doing the analysis 2 or 3 times for VA and saying that it didn’t seem like there were enough votes to swing the state back to Biden, knowing full well that it was going to flip back blue somehow. Whaddya know? Ballots materialized from nowhere in a single update and pushed Biden over the edge.
At the very least, I found it curious. I wrote it off as flaws in the reporting system. Now, I’m not so sure what to believe.
“The most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics”
That wasn’t idle boasting.
Same way in my district. Freitas was up like 1600 votes with 99% of the votes in. I wake up the next morning and suddenly he’s down 5000 votes. Magic!
A walk through the election numbers during election night – while counting votes, obviously percentages will constantly change, but the totals for each candidate will keep going up. But – during a bunch of count updates, Trump’s vote count went way down. He was winning by so much, they had delete hundreds of thousands of Trump votes to make the states like PA close enough to steal.
They thought at first they were Trump votes, but they turned out to be COVID cases.
There’s clip out there of Biden saying “I don’t need your vote”. Now you know why.
“we’ll fix it in post processing”
The eagerness of the media to run interference to cover up the obvious fraud is really disturbing.
No shit. The difference between useful idiot and cynical opportunist is really hard to distinguish anymore.
JHTFC
Where does this go from here?
Is there anyone with enough juice in DC to make this move forward? The FBI is obviously not interested in pursuing it.
Pursuing it? They are in on it. They are a wholly political org completely devoted to the establishment.
I assume it’s the same reason DC and NOVA all vote blue: the bureaucrats and apparachiks will tend to do what is necessary to save their own jobs.
Why buy retail when you can buy wholesale?
Good morning WM!
And good morning to the rest of you wonderful people.
I would sympathize with our Michigan peeps if our shit brain governor weren’t following the same path. Infuriating, especially as so many people are willing to follow these bullshit orders.
I’m truly baffled with what’s gonna happen with this election. To be able to assemble that many people is pretty astonishing. I don’t get the feeling that the establishment understands what they created here.
Well, let’s get out there and be the chumps we know we can be! Have a great day, people!
People that want you to conform because of their ideological blinkers suck…
Assembling that many people is impressive, considering DC is enemy territory and lots of people are down on their luck right now. A Trump tweet that says “I WON THE ELECTION” has 534,000 likes and is ticking up as I looked at it. (source https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328200072987893762)
The takeaway from this year is understanding why “may you live in interesting times” is a curse.
200,000 right wing nut jobs descended upon the nation’s capital. Not a single one of them asked for my time.
You could’ve out killed corona in one day.
+1 la petite mort
So who is gonna freak out when they disclose that the CIA was behind meddling with the vote counting in that Dominion software, especially in those key states Biden somehow managed to win with massive voter turnout that exceeded Clinton or Obama?
/just asking..
That would also explain how loathsome swamp creature Abigail Spanberger (CIA, VA) drew ahead of libertarian fave Nick Freitas at the last moment. [rustles tinfoil]
What, you don’t buy a thumb drive found in the middle of the night with 80%+ Spanberger ballots?
She is truly repugnant.
Companies Are Preparing to Cut Jobs and Automate if Biden Gets $15 Minimum Wage Hike, Reporting Shows
Even engineering interns do not get paid that much. (I know because I used to be one.)
These are intimidation tactics. If the min wage would be 25 tomorrow companies would suck it up and no jobs would be lost.
Lets go with $200 an hour so we can afford Winston’s mom for a week on one hour work?
Summoning the Kraken with that low ball estimate.
That’s what my girlfriends always seem to tell me when they feel frisky and want me to erm, be agreeable…
they tell me to release the Kraken!
Accounting interns receive $25 an hour.
But then you are doing accounting.
There’s a widespread, and false, belief that Europe is a broadly liberal continent. Anyone who believes this needs to read a history book. With the exceptions of Britain, Ireland and some other parts of northern Europe, the continent is illiberal as hell
https://twitter.com/PornPanic/status/1328303084020396032
these days I am confused to the meaning of liberal.
Seriously I rolled in with a duffel bag full of condoms
Only cucks use condoms. I want the Real McCoy. //jk
This cunt needs to die already.
The Gretch is working on a nefarious plot to steal Christmas.
Indoor dining at restaurants and bars is also banned in the new order. As are theaters, movie theaters, stadiums, arenas, bowling centers, ice skating rinks, indoor water parks, bingo halls, casinos, and arcades.
I hope she gets genital herpes on her esophagus. Psychofuckinpath.
I can see a movie theater out my bedroom window that has been closed since March. I wonder what will happen with that building. It’s not part of a chain so I assume it’s long since bankrupt.
I thought a court had previously ruled that she had no authority to do this, or am I confusing it with another state?
I think that was Wisconsin. She had a set back, too. IIRC.
How expensive is it to limit global warming to less than 2C?
It’s like two schizophrenics argue about which one has the wiser voice in their heads. That is all gibberish. We can limit climate changes the same amount with $0 as we can with $100T.
At some point the grifters and thieves are going to run out of blood to suck but they never think about that, do they. They think the American Taxpayer is a bottomless well.
As for the MAGA march….no, they don’t know what they have created. They still haven’t figured out why Trump won in 2016. If Biden gets in and they execute 1/4 of what they say they want I fear for what may happen.
They’re just pissed that they didn’t have this kind of infrastructure in place when Reagan was pres.
Believe you me there is a lot of that with these entitled credentialed mendacious aristocrats. They believe they are the smarter and entitled ones, no matter how much they resemble the ineptness of the old inbred aristocracy, and the rest of us should just be content their new serfdom system they have implemented isn’t as brutal as the older one their counterparts ran.
Yet.
I think AOC is working on that.
It’s like two schizophrenics argue about which one has the wiser voice in their heads.
Years ago we had two patients on an inpatient psych ward who both believed they were Jesus. The charge nurse thought it would be funny to make them roommates.
Not long afterwards a noisy fistfight broke out between the two patients. We ran to break it up. We found one guy on top of the other, punching the other guy, and shouting down at him ” Who’s Jesus now, motherfucker?”
9 out of 4 Jesus’s would have won that fight!
To be fair, the charge nurse wasn’t wrong.
See also The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
Why are they chanting “Lock her Up!”? Trump didn’t push for it when he had the power. The great goatee’d one Durham didn’t do shit. No one is ever going to touch Hillary and it only signals impotence chanting a demand that has no chance of being fulfilled.
It’s basically that one guy can only do so much.
Tonight, @MichiganHHS issued an emergency order that enacts a three-week pause, targeting indoor social gatherings and other group activities to curb our state’s rising #COVID19 infection rates.
Just a couple weeks to flatten the curve, comrades.
Thursday DeWine is supposed to announce if we get to keep our bars, restaurants, and gyms/fitness centers or if we’ve misbehaved too much and he has to take them away from us again.
Sisolak made his daddy warning last week. Shape up in 2-weeks or I have to put in ‘severe’ actions. Also, enjoying the newly minted rebranding of ‘lockdowns’ with very obviously focus group tested terms of ‘freeze’ or ‘reset’.
Piece of shit Cuomo called it a “pause” back in March, which I think they even made a fucking acronym for.
Trump plans last-minute China crackdown
Doesn’t matter once Beijing Biden takes office.
Look at those out-of-control skyrocketing numbers!
DeWine can join the fucking list if he opts for another shutdown.
Interesting that the deaths, ICU admissions, and hospitalizations are all trending downward while the case count goes up, isn’t it?
That’s why the media is only reporting cases, and not deaths and hospitalizations, except for the occasional “most hospitalizations since August!!!!”
Shit like this is why I accept payments in gold.
I was wondering where I was going to run my debit card…
Oh wait, maybe she’s saying they’re hung like jockeys.
Tripods.
Mammary Monday sez when ogling tits is outlawed, only outlaws will ogle tits.
https://archive.li/Ujug7
Nope, even lovely #3 doesn’t cheer me up much.
Even this?
https://archive.li/NWskz/c6dd3365ab166c753f3e5d2dd4c573a9593ea21a.jpg
https://archive.li/Q4rmE/735c8a8beb8b292f2fa3461b128808f4cefc4155.jpg
NSFW.
Judging by #2’s iChive gallery, those are implants.
I second Festus. #3 is lovely and also has a good iChive gallery.
Looks like a lot of silicone in this gallery.
I like #9 and her iChive gallery.
I want to run a Google image search on #19, but nope. Can’t do that anymore.
I think #29 is going to kill someone.
#42 – Artsy.
#46 looks crazy.
#55. Yes.
#58 is a RealDoll.
Though #59 is a nice return to normality.
In case you were wondering if there is going to be any justice.
A source familiar with Durham’s ongoing investigation of the bogus Russian collusion operation tells @FDRLST: “Durham isn’t doing anything. Dropping his investigations. He’s worried about blowback from Biden. What an absolute disgrace.”
That was predictable. We all knew it would all go away if Trump didn’t win.
“We all knew it would all go away if Trump didn’t win”
Which constitutes my theory of why they went all in on the fraud this time. It’s not like they haven’t been capable of doing this for at least a decade (if not longer), they just didn’t want to blow their load until it was something truly monumental. I think they would have preferred to wait until there was already going to be a blue wave election then the fraud could push them over 2/3 in both houses and they could literally do anything they wanted.
However, the specter of boatloads of Swamp Creatures going to jail made them move their timetable left. Silver lining: they’re going to learn that regardless of when they decided to pull out all the stops, no one will face any accountability so they’ll get their 2/3s majorities sometime in the future anyway!
Well aren’t you just a ray if sunshine today?
That scenario is depressing AF and is likely accurate.
I figured as much.
Fucking unprincipled cretins don’t even have the spine to leak the evidence.
Who do you leak the evidence to when the media is part of the corrupt machine?
Just look at how they buried the evidence of the Biden family corruption.
The first morning here in Saratoga, I went to a creperie downtown. Excellent coffee, exellent pommes frites, but crepes aren’t really my thing. A few weeks later, I stop in, and the owner puts a cup of coffee and a pitcher of cream down in front of me before I get a chance to ask. That was nine years ago, and I’ve been there almost every week since. I’ve been there when the first owners sold it to a second couple, who made the menu less European and more Quebecoise. I was there when the lady-half of the owners ran off with one of the waitresses. They’ve kept me in good food, great coffee, and fun gossip about the downtown merchants and the local restaurant biz.
They are closing in thirteen days.
Fuck you, Cuomo. Fuck. You.
I can’t tell you how much I hate reading these kinds of anecdotes. Pisses me off here too.
I’m blessed to not get riled up by the news. It’s just history playing out in real time. I don’t get worked up over the Khan’s horsemen piling corpses into a ramp to overtake the city walls nearly a millennia ago either. It’s all out of my control.
Except beloved mom n’ pop businesses going under due to the Antifa-lockdowner axis of evil. That shit makes me murdery.
That chump article linked last night nailed it for me. Nothing gets me ragier than responsible people getting shafted for being responsible.
You mean like the old guy that paid off his grand childrens’ college loans so they could get a fresh start out of college?
Yup. Makes me wonder what they’re going to do to my kids’ 529 plans after forgiving all student loans…
It’s only fair that you use them to help pay for less fortunate students.
Sucker!
That’s depressing.
Fuck. Sorry.
Hate to hit and run but I hope you fine folk have a better day. My last shift was easily in the top five of terrible since I landed this gig.
Hope you have a good day’s sleep.
Sorry Festus.
We’ll have some extra special dirty jokes for you this weekend, then. Chin up, Festus!
C.D.C. For The Holidays
Anthony Cumia reads through the CDC holiday recommendations.
Remember when all the States were doing lockdowns and then some cop murdered a guy and the media tried to tell you that both lockdowns and massive riots were good and that those riots didn’t lead to additional virus spread, but also Trump’s campaign was a super spreader event.
Peppridge farm remembers.
There was even an article that said the protests reduced the number of cases because more people stayed home.
The British Twitter Stasi
Police forces should not be secretly recording my tweets as ‘hate incidents’
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-british-twitter-stasi/
A couple of healthy-looking inquisitive Amur tiger cubs filmed in the Far East of Russia. Hunting control inspectors visited the area and confirmed that the mother tigress was nearby all the time, and has already taken the cubs away. Video by the Amur Tiger Centre
https://twitter.com/siberian_times/status/1328261109766262786
I see lots of economic “bad luck” in our future. And it will be said “yeah that’s all Trumps fault” and Biden was responsible for the boom when trump started.
Send me all your money and I will keep it safe for you.
As always, it’s going to be “the cleanest shirt in the laundry” type scenario. You could see a rebound in GDP all fueled by deficit spending. What goes up must come down, but this ride could go on for a while.
The 0-Hedge article brings up something that has consistently puzzled me:
I agree with their argument, fiat currency has always been a joke and the insane stimulus and bailouts have undercut any legitimacy it has. So Nixon nuked the gold standard decades ago; how does that square with the fact that quality of life and overall wealth has increased pretty much monotonically since then? If money is fake, then is all this value that’s been created just due to technological advances *in spite of* such policy or does it take advantage of the collective illusion of money as a real measure?
Macroeconomics consistently confuses me because it seems to follow different rules than microeconomics even when it shouldn’t. It’s like Quantum Mechanics vs. General Relativity; there really should be a GUT but no one can find it.
Well i think there are few things. 1st Your point about technology is… on point… A lot of the boost in standards of living have been due to huge technological increases sense the 70’s that have led to increased real earnings for labor, in spite of inflationary spending by the government. 2nd i think is that there is a bit of either “overzelousness” by those who explain it or confusion somehwere in the mix, because it’s not that fiat money has no value. It clearly does, as people trade in it and and use it as a money.
I like to think of it as we never actually left the gold standard. If you look at things as priced in gold, ignoring technological advances, things are priced about the same. Its a rough measure, but close enough. Then you add in the technological measures that have increased productivity and made many goods much cheaper and that is why we are all richer despite money that is worth shit compared to before.
Just because money is fake doesn’t mean that you can’t play Monopoly.
All money is fake, even gold. The advantage of gold is that the supply is relatively fixed which limits the amount of gameplaying by the government. In the end any medium of exchange depends on the willingness of others to exchange actually value in goods and services for the medium. So, yes, you can expand the supply of the currency for a long time without crashing the economy or having runaway inflation, since people are motivated to ignore the Emperor’s nudity because the alternative is trade grinding to a halt, but only as long as nothing tips the first domino starting a panic. Once a panic starts people no longer want to trade their work or their goods for the currency which leads to those needing the goods and services offering more and more currency. Markets are not physical equations where you alter the equilibrium with every infusion of currency. Markets are psychological phenomena which both makes them resistant to large changes beginning, and prone to catastrophic changes once that resistance is overcome.
The ‘top men’ telling us that we can keep on borrowing and easing because “hey look, nothing really bad has happened and 2-3% inflation is ‘healthy’ are stretching one hell of a rubber band, and eventually even the most elastic band snaps.
Local “news” has a nice scary covid map of the state.
And look, moar restrictions!
Under the new restrictions, public and private gatherings will be limited to 25 individuals instead of the current 250 person cap. According to the governor’s press secretary Alena Yarmosky, the cap does not apply to religious services, employment or schools. The rule will only limit things such as parties, celebrations and social events.
Now all Virginians over the age of 5 will be required to wear masks indoors, previously children under 10 were not required to wear a mask.
“Face coverings are one of the best tools we have to fight COVID-19 so everyone needs to wear them,” Northam said.
Essential retail businesses such as grocery stories and pharmacies will see stricter enforcement of rules such as face covering use, physical distancing and extra cleaning. Violations can now be enforced as Class One misdemeanors.
According to Julie Henderson, Director of the Office of Environmental Health Services, the Virginia Department of Health may now apply a misdemeanor charge to essential businesses not following the governor’s amended guidelines. The punishment for those misdemeanors will be set by a court of law and includes up to 12 months in jail, a fine up to $2,500, or both.
Establishments serving alcohol on-site such as breweries, restaurants and bars will be required to cease alcohol sales, consumption and possession by 10 p.m.
I will not be participating in this tyrannical nonsense.
So many Sheeple. So many GD sheeple.
‘Fairy curse’ behind dips in Irish road – Danny Healy-Rae
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-40863737
Without government, who would build the roads and make them fairy proof?
This was never a problem in the past — the iron horseshoes kept the fair folk at bay.
They’ll obviously need to call in some Druids to deal with this.
The real curse on Irish roads is drunken Irishmen driving their tractors.
And here I thought it was tipsy American celebrities who then have the exceedingly poor taste to later do car commercials.
This weekend on our Zoom call Swiss talked about Chicago pushing back on the new Illinois lockdowns. This morning I got this email from the Chicago Park District.
“Please be advised that in accordance with the Mayor’s Stay-at-Home Advisory, the Park District will continue to offer essential recreational outlets to the citizens of Chicago. Our operations will largely remain the same and our facilities will remain open with continued strict adherence to all health guidelines; however, we are urging all staff as well and patrons to step up and Protect Chicago as the number of COVID-19 cases are surging across the City.”
So hockey practice is an “essential recreational outlet.” Finally someone is talking sense.
We are in a bad place where the City of Chicago is the more sensible of jurisdictions in the State.
Happy birthday Dwight Gooden.
Dwight put up 53 WAR despite wasting his talent with drugs. He would have been something special.
No other baseball birthdays worth mentioning.
If you see the 30 for 30 on Strawberry and Gooden, it appears that Darryl managed to turn his life around. You never know for sure, but good for him if so.
You know I’ve spent a lot of time hunting over the last few weeks. Didn’t pay any attention to this crap and was sort of hoping that by the time I did start paying attention things would be back to normal. Still seems like a lot of moving parts.
One of the points I made to my dad when he was telling me that Trump should concede for the good of the country was that if the Dems get away with fraud this big, both of those GA seats will be Democrat. No way they wouldn’t really rub our noses in the fraud shitpile again if they realize no one will fight. The old guy said he hadn’t thought about that and is now no longer calling for Trump to concede.
I think that both those senate seats will go R in the run-off, as usually happens in GA runoffs — especially with a tight watch on fraud. So I am agreeing with you.
And where is this tight watch on fraud coming from?
A bipartisan coalition of Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton!
“Second COVID breakthrough as Moderna says its vaccine is 94.5% effective – making it better than Pfizer’s – as shares go through the roof and America now looks set to have enough shots for EVERYONE next year”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8953651/Moderna-says-vaccine-94-5-effective-preventing-COVID-19.html
…and Biden hasn’t even taken command of the ship of state. 95% plus masks and double social distancing and we’re free, free, free at last. Makes his old boss look like an average republican.
He’s meeting with them all this week to make it look like he was involved somehow.
Finally! Now, we can millions of people from shit that would’ve never harmed them in the first place!
Looks like a pretty good Religious Freedom case is about to land at the Supreme Court. Been through some appellate courts. They’ve petitioned the Supremes. Let’s hope they take it up. It could end this gubernatorial overreach crap.
https://thetablet.org/diocese-of-brooklyn-takes-religious-freedom-case-to-the-u-s-supreme-court/
Odds are ACB will not come to their aid, we know how Roberts feels, and he doesn’t seem to feel ashamed after Newsome ran away with their decision and embarased the court.
I’ve seen a pattern of things where higher courts are unwilling to lay an unpopular smackdown, so say “We’ll allow it, but have good faith” and then end up with egg on their face because the people they should have smaked down were clearly acting in bad faith. See Flynn’s Debacle.
ACB has shown she is OK with lockdowns.
Too bad that 2nd amendment jurisprudence has already established the precedent that any “right” is subject to “reasonable” restrictions based on a governmental “compelling interest” rooted in “public safety”.
Because FYTW.
“‘Christmas is not going to be possible’: CNN host Jake Tapper writes off the holiday season as Dr Fauci tells him new covid restrictions will last well into next year”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8953175/Tapper-suggests-Christmas-not-going-possible-Fauci-tells-Covid-rules-2021.html
His penis is three sizes too small.
You can pry my Christmas from my cold dead hands, you weaselly little fuck!
I mean, they did take out the holiest day of the Christian Calendar, why not the second?
Cromwell banned Christmas too.
Cromwell was one of the greatest cavalry commanders in history. Fauci doesn’t have the horses to stop my Christmas.
Huh. You’d think the Cavaliers would have better cavalry.
Jake Tapper writes off the holiday season
If he wants to tap out of Christmas that is his prerogative. But leave me and mine alone to do as we please.
I don’t get the Glee they have of tearing people down like this. To me it seems like throws of “YOU MUST FALL IN LINE!”
If nationwide lockdowns done result in nationwide insurrection, then the terrorists have won. And then you won’t see states talking about how Pres. Biden is a big fascist pig who oversteps his power of the states to send his goons squads out. No it will be about how much better Biden is at stoping Inssurection than Trump was.
There is not “seems” Fauci staight up said we are disobedient children and that individual and freedom streak that still resides within some American’s must be stamped out. Okay, I expanded his statement
Fauci – “….but now is the time to do what you’re told.”
New reporting reveals that Chief Financial Officers at top American companies are “considering raising prices, cutting workers’ hours and investing in automation to offset a potential rise in labor costs.”
Greatly fucking over teenagers that want to get a start in life. Thank you Harris/Biden!
The MDHHS billed the action as a three-week “pause.”
Three weeks. Sure. Gauletierin Whitmer is scum. One Michigan legislator wants her impeached.
Over the weekend it was reported that Biden is considering Hillary Clinton for his administration’s ambassador to the United Nations, should they be able to pull off the steal and win the election.
More grifting for her.
So you are saying that the fix is in.
BREAKING: More than 600,000 Georgians have requested their mail ballots for the January 5 runoff elections.
Security being signatures, right? That seems crazy to me.
I love comments like the one made in Kathleen Parker’s column today: that an attentive God will make sure Trump doesn’t meddle in U.S. politics going forward.
I guess that implies God is sometimes inattentive, like with allowing the chicom-19 virus to destroy so many innocent lives? I’ve actually had a “Christian” tell me that chicom-19 is God’s way of removing Trump from office. Yes, let’s kill 240,000 Americans instead of just one? Sort of like the fundamentalists who claimed AIDS was God’s punishment for tolerating homosexuals.
Religious fanatics are so tedious.
These cuntes worship government.
*facepalm*
God, in many of these people’s eyes, is an anthropomorphized combination of karma and a genie.
“If only I wish hard enough, I get what I want!”
News you can use?
Just noticed this handy new feature in the Minnesoda Rona tracker page.
Towards the bottom there is a map of the region where you can click on an area and it will give you stats by zip code. I never paid it much attention before, but I was looking at the differences of where I live and where I grew up. The stats include total cases, new cases this week, cases per 1000 and …… Non-white population! WTF? My guess that that was a stat that was added at the beginning when the Twin Cities was spiking and lilly-white Greater Minnesoda wasn’t. You could see how the poor minority neighborhoods were getting slammed by Trump’s racist policies.
Now do total deaths from all causes.
Key Mortality Statistics for Minnesota in 2017
Number of deaths: 44,361
Mortality rate (all causes): 794.7 per 100,000 population
Leading causes of death:
Cancer (22% of deaths): 177.3 per 100,000
Heart Disease (19% of deaths): 147.6 per 100,000
Accidents (6% of deaths): 50.0 per 100,000
Falls (2.7%): 21.1 per 100,000 population
Accidental poisoning: (1.6%) 12.8 per 100,000 population
Motor vehicle (1.0%): 8.1 per 100,000 population
Looks like ol’ corona gonna have to step up a little more. Even the 2017 figures are kicking ‘rona’s ass
Did you add to the 2020 Deer Mortality rate this weekend?
We filled our last tag on Friday.
Does this asshole hear himself?
“I think that there has been this sense over the last several years that literally anything goes and is justified in order to get power,” Obama advised. “And that’s not unique to the United States. There are strong men and dictators around the world who think that I can do anything to stay in power. I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can run phony elections. I can suppress journalists. But that’s not who we’re supposed to be. And one of the signals I think that Joe Biden needs to send to the world is that no, those values that we preached, and we believed in, and subscribed in, we still believe.”
That man has so many dark triad traits that in another world he would have been a serial killer.
He’s a serial killer in this one. Drone strikes and wars, extra-judicial killing of American citizens, what more does it take?
I can kill people. I can throw them in jail. I can run phony elections. I can suppress journalists.
That’s too on point by half.
Someone should point out to Obama, that clearly Trump is better at running a safe an secure election than Obama was.
+1 Drone Processing
Thank the dogs he hasn’t given up on the USA yet, despite us all being racists and shitty people. When will we ever begin to live up to his idyllic vision? At least now that braindead/copsucker cheated their way in, there’s hope that all the evildoers can evade prosecution and implement some real draconian socialism. Hey, it’s a start.
I know some of you don’t Twatter. Hopefully you find this entertaining.
Trump tweeted:
And a slightly different side of the story from Thomas Massie:
After a mini-hump in late October, South Carolina death rate from covid is back down to late June levels — 2.1 per million per day, which is about where it was early in the summer wave. The pre-wave bottom in mid June was 0.9.
Sweden is having a 2nd spike, it is up to 2. Which is well below most of Europe right now. They aren’t at true herd immunity, but close enough that R is struggling to get much above 1.
Belgium, which was bad the first time around, peaking over 28, is back above 16. UK was 14 first wave and above 6 this time. Sweden’s 9 and 2 look pretty sweet in comparison, apparently considering the relative amount of non-lockdown they did.
But Finland and Norway are better. So lockdown.
Why compare to Finland, they aren’t even Scandanavian?
Finland is close to Sweden so they must be very similar. Belgium is further away so nothing alike.
*dives for cover*
Pie, please be careful. Don’t let any Finns hear you saying that they are just like Swedes or Norwegians.
I don’t know why they are so touchy about that either, but I do know that the Finns are tough as shit and not to be trifled with.
Finland is one of those places where the proximity to asshole neighbors defines who they are as a people. They are essentially Scandinavians who live way to close to Russia. As a result the “Scandinavians” want nothing to do with them and the Russians want to rule them, and their politicians can’t figure out who to suck up to.
I don’t know about Cultural differences between Finns and Scandinavians, but often such distinctions are drawn on linguistic grounds, and Finnish is far removed from the North Germanic Languages of Scandinavia.
Rest of World: Hey Finland, you gonna kill Soviets or Nazis?
Finland: Yes.
“Finland is close to Sweden so they must be very similar”
*waits for Viking ships to land near Pie*
Looking at all the blonde haired, blue eyed Finnish girls the Vikings were there already.
//Sighs for Elsa
“Sweden has relied on ‘wishful thinking’ to handle Covid-19 and got it wrong on herd immunity, the country’s former state epidemiologist claims
Sweden now has much higher infection rates than Norway, with daily case totals doubling in a fortnight and hospitals filling up faster than any country in Europe. Linde said the government should have begun preparing for the second wave in late summer, by cracking down on large gatherings and insisting on mask wearing. This would have reduced the number of ‘seeder’ cases among the population as autumn arrived, when respiratory infections typically circulate much faster.
Instead, it took until October 20 before Tegnell issued the first set of local restrictions, a move that Linde said left the government on the back foot. Those restrictions have now been applied across much of the country, with a nationwide ban on alcohol sales due to come into force on Wednesday. Tegnell has already raised the prospect that measures will have to go further, suggesting that travel bans could be in place over Christmas.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8953315/Coronavirus-Sweden-Wishful-thinking-left-country-exposed-second-wave.html
nationwide ban on alcohol sales?
See my post above, I think Sweden should stick with what they have done…although if hospitals are filling up, flattening the curve is appropriate (which is what Sweden did the first time around…they just didnt move the goalposts).
IIIRC, Sweden did prohibition about the same time as the US (or was that Norway), and never relaxed it as much as the US did.
There is no fun or pleasure in covidtopia.
In Missouri, it’s not the governor; he’s on the “open her up!” side of the equation. It’s the blue cities, counties, and municipalities. KC’s mayor would like to lock down even more than he has, but you see, the KC proper is YUGE and its boundaries touch 9 counties, so all THOSE counties have to take up the lockdown banner because they’ve got so much of KC proper in them. And people are dutifully wearing their masks. *sigh*
There are massive floods in southeast Mexico right now.
These guys in a boat found a good boy who was cold, frightened, and clinging to a wall.
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1328033934685384704
The Matco tool guy just informed my mechanic that the state of VA is shutting down mechanic’s shops and issuing first class misdemeanors for not enforcing the mask requirements. Just hit two shops a couple of miles away.
I really hate that POS Northam.
Wow.
Fuck.
I really hate that POS Northam. – I am sure he truly hates you back
You’d think mechanics shops would be able to effectively hide a couple of bodies.
They were shut down for not enforcing government talisman edicts? Or is Northam considering those hotbeds of mingling and covid spread?
Yes. Not making customers wear masks when entering.
So I’m putting up signs now.
I’m sure he’ll add a rule that if you don’t enforce the rule with joy in your heart, it doesn’t work, and shut you down.
Obviously intention is key to Rona infections. That is why BLM protests have 0 infections and Trump rallies are super spreader events.
Any credentialed public health authority worth their salt will see Scruffy’s ill signs and realize that his shop is a cesspool of infection because his heart isn’t pure.
“You will gain Strength Through Joy!”
/Northam
If I were to encounter any business here in Arizona that posted such a sign, they would have a customer for life.
So paid vacation for the hard working civil servants. Tough break, fellas, go home until you find a mask that fits.
I’m going to offer a counter point to all the “cases are going up” stories. I have been following Indiana’s COVID site from the beginning. I feel like it has a lot of good data, though you have to dig a little to find the numbers that are meaningful.
Right now, deaths and hospitalizations are up significantly. I think everyone expected that as we got into winter. Related viruses like colds and flu always come on strong this time of year. But if you look at the numbers, you will see that 55% of deaths are in nursing homes, and 92% of deaths were people 60 and older, even while a majority of positive cases are younger people.
This is why I still hold this position: COVID is very dangerous to older people, especially ones in nursing homes. We know who those people are and we should be concentrating all our efforts on protecting them. Younger people are in little danger and for them we should just let the virus run its course.
WHY DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE?
If we took that tack starting in the end of March, we’d basically be done with all this BS.
Could not agree more. But just like everything else, it had to become a political issue and so here we are.
Yep. In addition ~43% of children have immunity (only 5% of adults) due to previous coronavirus colds. Kids get a lot of colds, so have a lot of immunity. It fades with time, so fewer adults have the immunity.
What are you saying?!? Have you even considered the consequences of opening things back up for the most part?
How would Biden have been able to win the presidential race if he had to campaign or the economy rebounded?
I get the impression he’d have found a way.
Covid is mild flu for those under 60 and healthy. It is a nasty little bugger for others.
Cases going up is a good thing. We already know we are not in a range where hospitals are in no real danger of being stretched. We had way more serious cases before.
Maybe that UN Ambassadorship for Hillary is just what we need to get rid of the UN. All those captives being forced to listen to her speak for an hour and they’ll burning it down like a Minneapolis CVS.
If the Right was as violent as the left, i might welcome it, since then maybe the right would burn down the UN…
Shot
“Winston saw five fingers, and felt the love of Big Brother wash over him.”
and chaser
consider that orwell correctly saw the future as it would be organized, but was confused and terrified. he projected his own fears into it, and lacked the mental framework to put it in a positive light.
https://twitter.com/paniq/status/1328293462253428737
In Response to the question “Did you read 1984 and Animal Farm”?
“Yes i did, both good books, but fiction”.
Most people don’t know that George Orwell volunteered and faught alongside the Spanish Republicans, and it was there that he became disillusioned with them and saw the totalitarian tendencies.
The Catalan Commune would totally have worked if allowed to
Stories of the Masshole coworker
Last night he was talking up Kamala. Excited for 8 years of her, but also said he’d really like 16 years best. Adding of course the only people that don’t like her are racist.
Damn. Even when I was a Republican, I only voted for McCain as the not Obama. I never talked him up, only spoke of him as not being Obama. How tribal do you have to be to become a Kamala supporter and virtue signal your BLM support with the employer issued BLM ID holders to boot
Turn it into a game T&T. People like that are so throughly blue Pilled. The fun is seeing how well you can in-person troll them. No matter what Kamala Does your co-worker will praise her, because that is what the media is telling him to do. So create a list of things and see what things you can get him to mindlessly praise, which ones give him pause and etc.
Man she isn’t even popular among Democrats.
Didn’t win a single delegate and yet she will get to be president.
If she does, it’s a good thing for Republicans. It will tank the next election for her party badly.
She would still win re-election.
i doubt it.
Fact whoever is nominated by the GOP will be “EVEN WORSE THAN TRUMP”, by the fact that they are the closest threat to them.
What the GOP will have going for them is that it will be extreemly dificult, if impossible for Biden/Harris to hide and make it a referendum on the guy/gal (Run Noem run!) against them.
I’m assuming mail-in voting and vote harvesting will continue to be expanded thereby concentratng more electoral power in the urban centers that can maximize these votes.
Republicans would have to make some sort of inroads there. And I’m guessing the next Republican nominee is gonna be some complete zombie fuckstain like possibly Mitt Romney. The party leaders will take a page from the Democrats and rig the primary good and proper this time.
Yeah. I mean I don’t think this election was a super big mandate for democrats. Their party’s only advantage is not having the odious Trump at the helm.
I’m sure they will to make the next guy worse than Trump.
But here’s the thing.
We really see Trump unfiltered every day. we know he’s an asshole. we know he doesn’t really understands half the shit he rambles about.
They pulled all this shit with the last Bush. Didn’t matter. The voters picked him again.
The GOP will win the House in 2022 and expand their Senate majority. Then they will do what they always do and renege on all the promises they made to their base to win those midterms.
In 2024 the base will be completely demoralized. The assholes from the Lincoln Project will rig the primaries to make sure a wimpy swamp creature (but who has all the right credentials) wins the nomination.
The final kick in the teeth will be the MSM and the Dems running on the narrative that the GOP majority in Congress is extremely dangerous and Candidate Milquetoast would use them to enact a true Handmaid’s Tale type society if he won.
The ineptitude of Biden/Harris administration will be completely ignored.
I contend that Biden is the most popular Democrat simply because he is able to now seem like a congenial and harmless old man.
I don’t get it. I just don’t fucking get it.
Try understanding why an Islamic fundamentalist voluntarily straps a bomb to his chest and blows himself up in a crowded market.
Same application, different use case.
Yeah, there’s something about being on a Team that messes with people’s thought processes. Back in 2016, I went after some of my conservative friends who were extolling Trump as a conservative, pro-life guy. My response was, look if you want to vote FOR him or just AGAINST Herself, fine. But don’t turn the guy into something he’s not.
Even during the primaries last time, I had a friend who was a Bernie Bro. After Bernie conceded, he posted on FB about how he had been investigating HRC and come to the conclusion that she was a good choice for him to vote for. Again, vote for her b/c she’s on your Team or because you hate Trump. But don’t try to tell me that, if you supported Bernie’s position, you can possibly embrace HRC for her policies.
This time around, I got disgusted with all the Dems (and some Rs) who insisted on Biden being an honorable man. I get it, you hate Trump and you have to vote against him. But don’t turn Biden into something he’s not.
Swiss, if you’re still around, did you see the All Blacks’ score from the weekend?
the most diverse score ever?
Hah! Well played.
What happened in the two weeks since beating Oz?!
All Blacks 15 – Argentina 25
Oh, I know the scores – but what the heck…how do you go from destroying the Australians, to lose to them a week later, and then the Argies?! Da fuq?
The World’s Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule has a Scale Length of 24m
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/244935-the-worlds-largest-commercial-cylindrical-slide-rule-has-a-scale-length-of-24m
Needs a banana in that image for scale.
On top of a hot potato work project, plus my normal workload, plus my dog’s ill health, I now have a mouse (or mice) in my house on top of it all.
Pretty sure One More Thing is going to break me. Seriously.
I hate mice.
I’m with you. Trackballs today, trackballs forever!
Sigh… the best trackball ever, the one I’ve kept running with spit and baling wire for 2 decades, is forever gone because of some asshole patent troll. Bring back the Cordless Trackman FX!
Talk to Unciv for tips on eradicating htem.
No matter. The forever war will be ramped up again once Biden is rigged in.
“As we prepare for the future, we remain committed to finishing the war that al Qaeda brought to our shores in 2001. This war isn’t over,” Mr. Miller wrote. “We are on the verge of defeating al Qaeda and its associates, but we must avoid our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish. Indeed, this fight has been long, our sacrifices have been enormous, and many are weary of war — I’m one of them — but this is the critical phase in which we transition our efforts from a leadership to supporting role.”
“We are not a people of perpetual war — it is the antithesis of everything for which we stand and for which our ancestors fought,” he wrote. “All wars must end. Ending wars requires compromise and partnership. We met the challenge; we gave it our all. Now, it’s time to come home.”
Huh. See the strategic error was sending them arms and money to fight a proxy war against syria for us. And ironicly the guy who you are counting on to “wage that war” was part of the administration that did that.
I can imagine the dress down Lockheed/Raytheon/etc are giving their little puppets in Congress on the mere thought of pulling back some of our troops (not even all of them) from these wars.
Serious question: is it worth voting anymore after this?
Point: Not voting signals refusal to support an illegitimate voting system ostensibly resulting is such low turnout that the election can no longer be said to be with the “consent of the governed”.
Counterpoint: What’s stopping them from simply manufacturing more votes to make it look like big turnout.
Point: Continuing to vote forces them to become ever more blatant in their fraud perhaps drawing enough attention for someone to do something about it.
Counterpoint: They’ve never faced any accountability before, why would it start now?
Point: Not voting signals demoralization and if enough opposition follow suit, they win by huge margins even without fraud since their side will continue to vote.
Counterpoint: The numbers are meaningless since no one knows what’s a real vote and what isn’t.
You’re becoming disillusioned is the result they want.
Obviously the Dominion thing would be huge but I don’t believe it’s real.
Having partisans count mail in ballots is a terrible idea that allows Democrats to put their fingers on the scale, but many places don’t allow it.
What makes you doubt the Dominion thing?
Keep in mind: from their perspective, cheating is a moral imperative. If you are 100% convinced that the opposition are Nazis, then why wouldn’t you cheat? All you have to do is co-opt a few key people at a voting machine company; there’s already ample evidence that people in the tech field are zealots willing to play along. I don’t doubt at all that electronic voting is gamed.
It might be. It would be incredibly easy to prove. Even with a simple recount.
Seems too good to be true for Trump’s cause.
But will there even be simple recounts?
Think of all of the blatant crime and corruption that could be proved if it were investigated.
The U.S. has 17 intelligence agencies. They can find someone hiding in a cave half-way around the world, but they couldn’t find the emails of their own Secretary of State?
The only reason to oppose simple recounts is if there is systematic fraud that mostly benefits one side. There is systematic fraud that benefits one side, therefore simple recounts won’t happen. Why participate in a system where you’ll be defrauded either directly or indirectly?
Serious question: is it worth voting anymore after this? – was it ever?
from an individual standpoint it never is.
At least attempt to prevent the Democrats from voting for you, by voting for SMOD. Granted they might change the vote after the fact…
My normal protest is to turn in a ballot with only a few races marked. This year I strayed and voted straight up GOP because I wanted the Dems to pay for the last four years of malarkey.
If people simply don’t vote, that means that a) FedGov will spend even more money on PSA’s telling us how important voting is and b) it becomes easier and easier for less scrupulous operators to vote for you via mail in ballot.
Instead, I’d be super happy if people took the time to go to the polling place and turn in an empty ballot. Basically a “None of the Above” vote. That way it would be harder to blame apathetic voters. It would be clearer that more and more of us do not consider the current system as ligitimate.
Skip President, vote down ballot. That’s the only way it will register as disgust at the candidates provided.
It needs to start much earlier than that. It needs to be show in the primaries (you know, where no one really votes but they really should). Once a candidate receives their party nod at the conventions, they carry the “I am the choice of the people (my team).” aura about them.
They will make up for this by having a truck load of ballots for the prez show up… Like we had in 4 key cities, after they suddenly stopped counting overnight cause they were tired and going to bed, but then in the AM reported they had continued counting and hundreds of thousands of ballots all broke at 100% for Biden.
^This, the unprecedented count stops along with the unprecedented vote shifts are evidence enough for recounts with strict observation and rights of challenge at the very least.
I should have said count “stops” because they didn’t actually stop. I wonder if the ballot watchers went home and slept while they were counting in the middle of the night.
That is exactly what they did… In the places that they did allow watchers, these watchers went (were sent) home so the “special counting” could get started…
There are supposedly scores of affidavits from people that were there (those they didn’t send home or couldn’t care to get rid off) about ballots being trucked in,. ballots being put through the counting machine numerous times;;; and a slew of other irregularities that somehow allowed the 4 affected cities to overcome deficits in the hundreds of thousands count in the dark of night.
The alternative to the ballot is an extreme choice I’m not ready to embrace, yet.
That said, I get your (counter)points.
Some real evil fucking guy reminded us all long ago that “Who votes has never counted: whomever counts the votes is what matters”…
Our new inept credentialed aristocracy has decided that they can’t trust the people to make the right choices (meaning to choose them, no matter how corrupt, criminal, and inept they are) and thus, they will going forward make sure the right people win. So as long as you vote for those right people, then yeah, your vote counts…
Vote. And none of that holier than thou bullshit.
I am still a registered Libertarian, but this election decided for me that I am going to vote for who is actually bringing the most liberty, at least in my eyes.
70 million people voted against this bullshit. That number is real, is nothing to sneeze at, and it does tell the fucks that be that there is real anger in the population, and no matter what happens over the next few weeks, that we aren’t demoralized, we aren’t broken, and we aren’t going away. That more and more people were aware of what was going on and believed that the ballot box is sacred. That constantly needs to be shown. In some ways, the covidiocy has been very good for the non-totalitarians as it is breaking the back of the education/indoctrination complex, as sad as the destruction of academia makes me.
Reviewing last nights post, I can’t believe more of you don’t use eyepiece . . .I don’t know hot you live without it.
It’s easy – you don’t have to futz around with extra add-ons like whatever-monkey that can add extra instability to the browser, plus Trashy’s code.
No offense to Trasmnstr, but none of the functionality seemed worth it.
I use a work laptop so I’m a little wary of add-ons. Not always sure what policy is about those.
“I rolled in with a duffel bag full of condoms and clean underwear for nothing”
I hear that Proud Boys and MAGAites prefer pegging.
Next time bring your strap-ons.
She did. That’s why she has so many horse-sized condoms left over. They were for making the strap on easier to clean afterwards.
I can’t figure out if Winston’s Mom is T. Sowell or W. Williams, in drag. Today’s reporting really was spot on.
Ms Winston’s Mom, if I wasn’t so old I’d be a player
INSTANT KARMA
I will give the idiot some credit…as soon as he hit the poll, his face immediately had the look of ‘man did I ever screw up’. Now if he actually learns from that, who knows. What a clown.
The only lesson that will be learned is to outsource the violence.
I thought the same thing. The guy even copped to “It was me who wasn’t paying attention”.
Hopefully that will turn out to be one of those life changing events and they guy will stop getting wrapped around the axle by stupid politics.
Got him for “Driving Without a Mask” and “Damage to Public Property”
I decided not to buy more ammo this weekend. Instead, I am buying US junk silver coins.
Silver? Is there some lycanthrope infestation in Iowa I haven’t heard of?
gd, had a call and you beat me too it you sly…. Lycanth?
I can’t afford gold.
This is the way. According to my anonymous source high up within the yard crew that works for the white house down the street, the vaccines are known to cause at least 25% of people to become werewolves.
SAY WHAT????
Yeah, no way someone like this would be a dirty player…..
A few people in my neighborhood have signs posted on their front lawns that profess their progressive articles of faith. If you live in or near any major metropolitan area in the US, then you’ve probably already seen these. They begin with “WE BELIEVE” and then list off whatever boilerplate left-wing dogma is the flavor of the month. Among the bullet points is the following:
“WATER IS LIFE”
This one really struck me because, seriously, who the fuck doesn’t believe this? Real earth shattering revelation, that one. You know what else is life? A significant portion of the periodic table, but I guess that doesn’t dovetail nicely into a reasonably sized placard.
Maybe they are Dune fans?
I’m sure they couldn’t transmute it even if they wanted to.
SCIENCE IS REAL
No shit Sherlock
Like the BLM signs, these are spurious and weak attempts by small minded morons to virtue signal to the alligator when it comes looking for food to please eat the neighbor without the signage.
I’ve sen those when i (rarely) visit the big city. Yes it stirkes me as signaling “I’m an idiot who will accept anything the self appointed elite tell me to accept”. So you have a sign that says ‘we believe in sicence”, etc. That one really makes me laugh a bit because it is so ironic. You are dogmatically saying you belive in something which is supposed to be the test things and experiment before making dogmatic assertions”.
It goes along with “settled science”, when they make an assertion about something they really really want you to believe without questioning it. “Climate Change is settled science, therefore we need a Green New Deal”.
In this house, we believe that:
Puppies are cute
Apple pie tastes good
Rap music sucks
Corvettes are cool
mendacity has replaced American values
Preach it, brother.
“Corvettes are cool”
Get out of here Commie.
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-11-12/pandemic-hurting-childrens-mental-health-emergency-room-visits-suggest?fbclid=IwAR1NGHz4VHbGsOQwSoaFMHCLAtLHNJsMNakA1GwGv-Fmk4vDcqksl-kof8w
Pandemic Is Harming Children’s Mental Health
That is not what is harming children’s mental health.
The headline is crap, but the story shows a lockdown cost.
A few months ago I came across a local news article about an elementary-school-aged girl that was seen being sexually abused by a relative while on a remote learning session. I turned off my computer and went for a long walk, because I could barely process what I had just read.
I worry about my little girls. The oldest is young but understand about “the sickness”. We aren’t worked up about it, so i think they don’t think much of it except why they have to wear masks at school.
Can confirm. All this being cooped up in the house and having limited interaction with their friends is definitely not doing my kids any favors. They’re often sullen, grouchy, and throwing temper tantrums at ages 10 and 12 that would embarrass a two year old.
Apparently Oleksii Novikov won WSM. Weird.
Per Facederp, this was a year ago today. This pic is in the dictionary next to “bittersweet”
https://pasteboard.co/JAEeLz9.jpg
Let the book burning commence.
Until further notice, teachers in the area will not be able to include on their curriculum Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Theodore Taylor’s The Cay and Mildred D. Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
Four parents, three of whom are Black, challenged the classic novels for alleged potential harm to the district’s roughly 400 Black students.
What a shame, we’re raising a(nother) generation of coddled pussies.
It’s been all downhill since the “Greatest Generation” fucked up raising the baby boomers.
Leftists are doing a great job at making standard public education of 10 years ago seem subversive.
Great choices – a major theme of Huck Finn is that Huck, despite his lack of education and growing up in an antebellum slave state, grasps that Jim is a man just like any other. I can see how harmful that is!
Same thing with The Cay. Racist kid gets marooned on a tiny island with an old black sailor, realizes his racism is wrong, is kept alive by the old man, they become close friends, kid is devastated when the old man dies. What a horrible message.
Had The Cay read out loud to us as 4th graders. I distinctly remember two things:
1) Our teacher reading all the bad words out loud
2) Her crying when the old man dies (and it was a sacrificial death, too, IIRC: Protected the boy during a hurricane).
Was powerful.
What point is there to incessantly harping about America’s rotten, racist core it all of the cultural artifacts from it are prohibited from being examined? I guess we’re all just supposed to take their word for it.
Rand Paul hates science.
“Today, Biden’s talking more about a lockdown. This is absolutely why he’s going to be a terrible president if we get him,” Paul warned. “He’s going to ruin the country. Lockdowns don’t work. And in fact, all of the evidence on mandatory masks show that they don’t work either. There’s about 10 different countries or venues, maybe 20, that instituted mandatory masks, and everyone one of them — to a T — the infection rate, the COVID rate went up after the mask mandate. Now, this is just showing that … all these mitigation strategies — washing our hands, staying six feet apart — they really don’t work, frankly. And the virus, as the Wall Street Journal put it, is insidious. It does going to do what it’s going to do. The only thing that’s going to stop it is either enough immunity among individuals in the community or a vaccine.”
He concluded, “I’m going to do everything I can to try to prevent Biden from locking us up and locking us down and forcing us to wear masks forever. We can’t go on like this forever.”
I have a liberal friend who hates Rand Paul, i imagine because he had the temerity to work with trump and probably talked him off the warpath more than once. Thank heavens for that. Don’t get why a liberal would be against that…
And now he’s standing up for civil liberties, and the left hates them for that.
Of course i’m being facetious. I know that they don’t care because the Left is the party of “Experts” and Technocratic Grift. We’ll tell you who the “experts” are and then they fuck it all up and get money and we don’t tell you how they fucked it up. It seems to work. The media has lost any semblance of legitimacy on the right, i wonder how long it will last with the people on the left.
“washing our hands, staying six feet apart”
These 2 actually make some scintilla of sense, if I am being honest. Crappy cloth or paper masks? No. Lockdowns? Hell no.
“Mailchimp, a common email delivery service, has refused to provide service to the Northern Virginia Tea Party, citing that it violates their terms of agreement about “potential… misinformation.” It had attempted to notify members about a recount rally.”
https://twitter.com/lukerosiak/status/1328170513332572160
Hmm. I feel like there is a market for a service that would provide third party terms and conditions that puts users on a good foooting, rather than “we’ll fuck around with you”. If you wrote into your ToS that you didn’t reserve the right to deny service despite payment, I’d bet a lot of people might join on.
Companies just change their TOS as they go along. IANAL, but I don’t know how that’s legal.
They change TOS and clients acknowledge the new TOS when they sign in or whatever. It’s totally bullshit in the real world but it likely holds up legally.
The issue is that the outrage mob will pressure any and all companies that service that business to sever relations with them. As the Woke people percolate from universities to corporate boardrooms, this is only going to get worse. It’s particularly difficult when it happens with credit card processors, Internet infrastructure companies, and other things that are not easy to just start up from scratch.
Muh credenshulz
Atlas, a physician with no expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology, has won favor in the White House in recent months by advocating against coronavirus restrictions and downplaying the disease’s threat.
He has also publicly attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci, accusing the nation’s top infectious disease expert of stoking fears about the pandemic for political purposes ahead of the presidential election earlier this month.
*morose laugh*
Fauci is not an infectious disease expert. This cannot possibly be repeated enough.
He’s a politician with an MD earned 5 decades ago.
“Since some ppl have misunderstood my tone, and censorship is an important matter and as a public educator I have a duty to be precise, let me clarify:
I do NOT advocate defacing library books.
I DO encourage followers to steal Abigail Shrier’s book and burn it on a pyre.”
https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327743400553172997
CWAA
“@graceelavery
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Prof. @UCBEnglish
; PLEASE MISS @SealPress
; GenEd @tsqjournal
. Rep’d @atatelewis
. Cut-price Freddie Mercury, thug prof, octopus-fucker, demon, quince.
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Brooklyn, NY”
Then it gets even more stupid:
https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327969473505218560
Censorship for thee, not for me.
This person is a professor of English.
I also like how “snowflake” has become mainstream, so it now just means “Anyone who reacts negatively to my views”.
I didn’t realize that any of the follow up tweets could possibly be more idiotic, but here’s one comparing books to contaminated crops:
https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1327746546851524608
This is an English professor???
Well, at Berkley, so there’s that.
The whole screed is a pile of pseudo-intellectual tripe that seeks to label anything and everything disagreeable to them as “fascist,” perhaps the single most over-utilized word in the English language.
I don’t know who Abigail Shrier is or what her book is about, but this makes me want to legally purchase and read it.
Here. Cries for censorship should drive sales! It is the best revenge against the censors.
They don’t like the Jews, they want to drive undesirables out of the public sphere, they think they represent the working class, they have a hierarchy of superior and inferior races, and they want to burn books. How, exactly, are these people anything other than Nazis?
SHUT THE FUCK UP NAZI
They don’t have a snazzy fashion designer coming up uniforms.
(Yet)
+ They hold that race is a key component of a person’s identity, base their worldview on racial collectivism, and pronounce guilt and demand punishment for entire racial groups
An excellent undertaking for the next 2 to 4 years would be devising and implementing a vote system that would be fraud proof (or closer to it).
How to ensure your vote is properly counted without linking your name to your choices. Something that leaves a record if recounting is needed. Totals can’t.be updated by hand. People could vote only in eligible and only once.
The National office of President should be a uniform ballot across all states. Then the states have their own local ballot. Don’t know about this one…
Anyway, point being if it’s done with transparency no one could argue against it.
So revert to pre ’16 vote systems?
Prior to ’18 we had a pretty predictable set of districts which would vote red. this shows what changed when all of those districts flipped. Later, the use of Dominion became popular across the whole country. Now, we’ve had the most obviously fraudulent national election ever. There has to be a connection of some kind here.
Florida seems to have figured it out.
It won’t be addressed because one side disproportionately benefits and they also have a say in whether it’s done or not. Should happen but ain’t gonna…
How to ensure your vote is properly counted without linking your name to your choices.
I’ve been thinking on the vote system issue in fits and starts, and it comes down to an issue of balancing all the competing interests.
I have ~70% of a system in my head that’s going to eventually make it into an article. The idea is that you give up some secrecy (in the form of a receipt with an encoded ballot identifier that you can take home) in exchange for the ability to 1) confirm that your vote was counted correctly, 2) confirm that all votes are from verified eligible voters, and 3) all but eliminate the ability to inject votes after the fact.
I keep gnawing on the idea because it’s not my area of expertise and I don’t want to sound like an idiot when the article publishes.
Sounds like a system where you would have to be in-person to vote, and such a system would obviously be voter suppression.
Suffrage is a key component to the leftist origin story, and that is in part why anything that could even slightly inconvenience someone from voting is emotionally reacted to.
Ask yourself in whose best interest is designing a fraud-proof voting system …
Raise the minimum wage to $15/hour and allow more illegal immigrants in. Sounds like a great plan.
I’m not sure you can come up with a set of policies more likely to engender frustration between a native population and imigrants than “We’re going to force employers to price you out, while not enforcing rules to ensure they don’t hire illegal immigrants to undercut you.”.
It make me wonder if the people who support this stuff are too stupid to make the connection, or if they are doing it on purpose for some reason.
They hate us and want to do us harm.
Devastating.
I’ve flown into Cordova several times which is the stop before Yakutat. There are sirens that go off before the plane lands to scare off whatever wildlife might be on the runway, but I imagine that the wildlife get used to that. When landing in a Cessna one time we had to do a pass over the runway to do a visual check to make sure the runway was clear.
From the archives
https://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/flying-fish/