Good morning my Glib and Gliberinas! And what a lovely morning it always is!
Biden has paused oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands for 60 days.
Impossible as the corporate media told us that it was a lie that he planned on banning fracking.
Attorney Butch Bowers to represent Trump during Senate trial.
Democrats continue to be insane.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Biden has paused oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands for 60 days
Biden is raising energy prices and fucking the economy in the ass. I hope anyone who actually voted for this gets what they voted for, good and hard.
Yes but we’re getting what they voted for good and hard as well.
And you know any bad results will be blamed on Trump.
Of course!
Just like when Obama’s “recovery” efforts made things worse the official and “Fact Check: True(tm)” response was that Bush just made things so bad that there was just nothing poor little powerless Obama could do!
That was until Trump fixed it by getting rid of most, if not all, of the progressive bullshit Obama enacted with a pen. Then it was Obama’s stuff that made the economic boom happen…
These people really want to make sure everyone lives in a made up version of reality.
Not only a made up version of reality, but specifically the reality they themselves make up.
The fucking asshats that told us we can’t drill our way out of the artificially created (by them of all things) energy deficit will tell us Trump was not successful at drilling our way out of it while not admitting the reason we are back to an energy deficit is that they reversed his policies that drilled our way out of the problem their policies create.
Anybody paying attention will notice that Biden’s flurry of activity is all about RE-regulating everything to death. He’s actively throwing up roadblocks.
Trump largely just cancelled a bunch of shitty regulations and economy choking measures.
Even a casual observer would have to notice that Trump was for less government interference, and Biden is for more.
But only about 20% of Americans are paying attention.
We heard there was more mystery money to be deposited in our accounts.
Classic government-offers-crutches-after-breaking-our-legs scenario.
And then they pose for a photo op as they generously bail us out with Monopoly money.
It is about picking winners and losers, and the new fascist left wants to make sure government has and keeps that power. It is an absolute necessity for their existing globalist movement and to allow them and their selected few to steal from tax payer provided lucre.
Yep. And about 1% of Canadians.
The one move that helps some of the world’s worst actors and anti-freedom countries, fucks over U.S. energy independence, and screws the people already slammed by horrible elitist globalist policies in the US, is this Biden reversal on fracking (as if you couldn’t see that coming). Now that Canadian oil will end up going to China – which is precisely why Obama resisted that XL pipeline – and the price of oil will go up because we will no longer be an exporter and undermining OPEC, which benefits countries that economically depend on oil sales like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
^This. And we aren’t allowed to build new nuke plants, or even think about switching to more modern, safer, scalable, molten salt thorium reactors.
DON’T YOU EVEN SCIENCE, BRO???
That thorium reactor could melt down and blow up in a 500 Gigaton nuclear explosion killing off Gaia!
/Any studies major that has zero physics/chemistry background and got their nuke info from Hollywood movies
What part of “NUCULAR REAKTOR!” do you not understand?
nuclear + salt = extra bad
It makes you a mutant with high blood pressure.
Oh Tonio… Sexy, sexy Tonio…
Stopping fracking will only hurt icky flyover red states like Oklahoma and the Dakotas. Who cares about those racist deplorables anyhow?
/progtard while pumping gas in his car and paying his natural gas bill.
Cool avatar! I’d do an alien!
I married an alien. She’s naturalized now.
*narrows gaze*
My beloved gal is fully invested in the idea that it’s a new day in America. Each morning she points me to her stock investments as proof.
Tried to get to the point of “will your opinion change when gas is over 4 dollars and our GDP is under 3% over the next two years?” But she ain’t taking the bet.
Sigh.
Raising energy prices is a major ass fuck. Raising energy prices amidst artificially imposed mass unemployment should be a crime.
Amazing how old Joe managed to piss off our closest neighbor on Day One. He just dove right in and started fucking up.
I suspect Mexico is also less than excited about Joe starting up the Central American migrant caravans again, as well.
Let’s hope he keeps fucking up. If the GOP can take back the House in ’22, it might… well, slow the decline. A little bit.
^This. But that will be tough as they almost have most Americans convinced (fooled) into thinking that the GOP is the party of racism and white supremacy.
I’m not so sure the GOP takes back the Congress in 22, there are plenty of people who have woken up and realized the GOP doesn’t really believe in all the crap they’ve been spewing for 40 years, that Republicans really are nothing more than Democrats in the slow lane. The symbol for the GOP shouldn’t be an elephant, it should be a possum.
While you are correct about that, there is the “anyone but the incumbent vote.”
Also, I’m sure the GOP is about to engage in sincere self-examination and figure out how to reposition itself for the post-Trump… [loses it like Chris Farley during a skit]
Legit LOL!
I think it is next to impossible for them not to take it back. Between safe seats, GOP doing the redistricting and a midterm election, flipping a handful of seats is pretty much assured.
So, yeah, probably, the GOP will find a way to screw it up.
The saddest thing is that eventually people tire of their miserable economic situation enough to no longer give a damn about chicken little accusations of racism and white supremacy, and that’s when the real racism and white supremacy start.
What makes you think that? The GOP _hated_ Trump. For the most part, they’re _for_ most of this. As long as Raytheon is handing out the big checks, the GOP is very happy.
The GOP is the party of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush (one of which I assume will be the nominee in 2024). They mouth vaguely limited government platitudes to remain in power, but they do absolutely nothing to limit government expansion.
It wasn’t about pissing our sibling to the north as much as kowtowing to the pimp nation run by fascists still pretending to be marxists in South East Asia that he is bought and paid for bye.
The WaPo actually “fact-checked” the statement that Biden would ban fracking and found it to be “false”.
They don’t even try to hide it.
It was false then, and now it’s true. What’s so hard to understand about this?
Fact Check says this statement is false. We have always been at war with Eastasia. Friend Computer says to report to the nearest disintegration chamber.
Remember, Happiness is Mandatory, Citizen.
Will “Friend Computer” be a product of Apple or Alphabet, do you think?
Tencent
That reminded me to check on if the Paranoia game had made it to Steam… looks like it got pulled from the Epic store a couple months/weeks after release, and radio silence from the publishers. Reviews were middling/average for it.
That information is above your clearance level, citizen
IIRC he’s only banning “new leases on federal land”, whatever that means.
It means the existing contracts are a hassle to break so the path of least resistance is to stop progress rather than try to claw it back.
President Not-Trump can do no wrong. He’s rebuilding America.
Build
Back
Better
Bend
Over
Peasant
Bend
Over
Odious
Peasant
It’s just the gubmint giving you a lil boop! Nothing to worry about!
Boop!
I prefer
Baby
Got
Back
Build
Back
Bitter
Attorney Butch Bowers to represent Trump during Senate trial
Why bother? The only conviction for impeachment is removal from office, which Trump does not hold. And the senate has no authority under the constitution to try a private citizen.
Although I’m sure we can count on enough worthless shit Republicans to go along with the farce.
I wonder what Level 99 Senate Mage Mitch has in mind. You have to try thinking several moves ahead to even guess.
He’s already accused Trump of inciting insurrection. At this point, he pretty much has to vote to convict.
He’s supposed to be good at playing the rules, but he’s not majority leader any more, so there’s not much he can do to prevent the trial.
Nah, he can vote “moot.” That will let him suck up to both sides by saying “gawrsh, that orange Man is os very very bad, but there’s just nothing we can do about it. We need a law to give us the power to prosecute private citizens.”
That would be my best guess at this point.
Known knowns. The known unknowns are in Mitch’s mind. I’m not suggesting he somehow has a miracle pro-Trump plan or anything ridiculous and nonsensical like that, just that he’s usually several moves ahead.
I think there is a lot of… wrangling going on in the senate right now, so I would guess that this is part of his positioning for how the GOP goes forward. And, no, I am not thinking some sort of 7th-dimensional chess type BS, but with the Senate divided 50/50 with the push going to the house (Kamala toes the line) he needs to be very careful about how he plays things.
One of the things that have been striking to me is that there is a whole lot of talk about the D’s having taken the Senate, but they really haven’t. All they have is the ability to break a tie, which isn’t nothing but isn’t everything. They have to keep all their members cracked down (and the R’s have to do the same). But there is a lot of wrangling going on right now, so what things really mean versus what they appear to mean is not the same.
Points well taken.
I think the first real indication we will have on how things are going to go is their adoption of rules for this session, specifically the rules for filibuster. I believe those rules are adopted by majority vote; if Schumer can eliminate or gut the filibuster, that will really weaken opposition to the tsunami of leftist horseshit heading their way from the House. And it will show that the Dem Senators will tow the leftist lion.
That is the biggy. But, again, they have to have all 50 of their senators on board before Kamala, she-wolf of the SS, comes into play. This isn’t as easy as they make it out in the trailers.
On the other side of that is that the Republicans also need all of their senators on board to get to the tie. The Democrats appear to have a much stronger whip game then the Republicans.
A conviction also allows them to prevent him from holding public (assume federal) office in the future. That is what they are claiming to be scared of, a Trump 2024 campaign.
I don’t see him running again, even if they don’t ban him.
Show trial; another big, demoralizing propaganda piece.
Ding, ding, ding. But I think the mean-spiritedness of it all will be remembered by the American people and the GOP might re-take the House of Representatives in 2022.
All this talk about unity and reconciliation is nothing but smoke & mirrors. These people want revenge. They are furious that the fucking unwashed deplorable serfs almost wrecked their credentialed elite globalist racket. They will never tolerate another attack on the system they have created to benefit themselves and their offspring. Fuck the unwashed idiots! And fuck them good. Revenge and making examples is the name of the game.
They want revenge as their number 1 priority, but coming in at a close number 2 is to serve as a warning to others who might want to run on draining the swamp, being proud of being American, and negating economy-killing regulations.
This. I feature the situation going very dark in the next few months. Some of these people want blood.
Well, duh. How else are you supposed to achieve unity?
In order to preserve democracy, the incumbents need to determine which candidates the tax cattle are permitted to vote for.
Except “disqualification to hold positions of “trust or profit” “disqualifies people from appointed offices, not elective offices.
Ah. Thanks. No SCOTUS for him.
Bah, he’ll just get a waiver like the SecDef does.
You’d think the Democrats would remember their own living counter-example of impeachment not meaning disqualification.
They also have an example that a criminal conviction doesn’t disqualify someone from office.
Nor does impeachment and removal
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings
My guess is the grand compromise from the Turtle will be that Trump is convicted but not permanently barred from office. Which is what they want. The first President convicted, along with impeached twice, will be how Trump is remembered. Dirtier than Nixon.
This is about making sure Trump can’t ever run again (forcing them to steal another election, which might not be as easy to do without the whole Kung Flu shit to hide behind). It has also been sold to the republican establishment types as a move to protect them from him taking it out on them and stealing team red voters. Team blue actually hopes team red falls for this nonsense, because they want to be the only viable political party (we won with a 98% result!).
The question I have is how is the Supreme Court going to rule when the Constitutionality of impeaching an ex-office holder is brought into question? And is that why Nancy Pelosi is holding off on sending the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate, she’s waiting until the Democrats can appoint 6 Marxist law professors to the New and Improved 15-Justices Supreme Court? Or is Nancy just dragging this thing out for maximum effect of keeping Trump in the news, Trump being the greatest gift God ever gave to the Democrats and the news media (but I repeat myself)?
Hmmmm, does he sue to overturn just to spite them? Law Glibs – would he have to have an actual offer of an appointment in order to have standing, or is the mere status of conviction enough?
Roberts has to decide whether or not he’s going to show up for the trial.
I relish his pain.
Rand Paul should say “Eric Ciaramella” just for giggles.
Oh god, so much this!
I’d wager #1. Nancy doesn’t want to tip the boat.
I’d argue that it is constitutional. The Congress may not have been in session, or may have been busy with other matters, etc. As long as the impeachment is for conduct in office, whether the person still holds office anymore is to my mind irrelevant. You can prosecute someone for embezzlement even after they’ve left the company they embezzled from, after all. And in the broader case of judges and appointed officials, this would provide them a gameable loophole to get out of legislative accountability.
As to the punishment side, they obviously cannot remove Trump once he’s already gone, but there is another punishment they can elect to effect: they can preclude him from holding office again. I thought that included elected office as well, but WTF said above it doesn’t. That questions seems more legally interesting to me than “can you impeach someone for conduct in office once they’ve left said office” (which seems a pretty trivial “yes” to me, though perhaps the President is a special case).
Trump has already been impeached by the House, so that is a moot point. The senate then conducts a trial to decide whether or not to convict for purposes of removal from office. That brings up two issues: Trump has already left office, so the trial, even if constitutional at this point, would be ridiculous, akin to digging up Cromwell’s corpse to behead it for retroactive treason. The other issue is that the senate has no constitutional authority to try a private citizen, which Trump now is.
“which might not be as easy to do without the whole Kung Flu shit to hide behind”
You actually think the public health theater will be gone by 2024? I have bad news for you.
COVID-23 is 78% WORSER than COVID-19!
After COVID there was NRS, after NRS, there was UBT
I am sorely disappointed that Trump would have anyone other than Wood and Powell handle his Senate defense. That circus deserves some clowns.
“We do and the leases will be reviewed by our team we just have only been in office for less than a day now,” Psaki said.
And what are the odds those reports have already been prepared and are sitting on somebody’s desk waiting to be dropped off at the New! Improved! White House?
Zero. They were moved into the white house in the first shipment along with the Depends cabinet and pudding cup refrigerator.
Let me guess, the review team is led by Hunter Biden?
Morning, Banjos
An existing Keystone pipeline currently transports oil from Alberta to Illinois and Texas.
Dig it up and recycle the steel into windmills.
MANDATE 2020
RIP John Prine, double cancer survivor but tragically taken away by the Commie Cooties just last year. Is there any evil that Trump wont do?
The fact that CNN took down their Covid death total graphic as soon as Biden was Inaugurated tells you all you need to know about it.
Are you serious??
How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?
Lovingly – sheer narcissistic adoration.
Yes, they are secure in their belief that they doing the work of the righteous.
I think what you mean is that they want to convince the general unwashed masses that they are on the side of the angels, but these fuckers, if we stay in that religious vein, are definitely serving the fallen angel’s cause, and they know it. These are evil people.
I wish I was making it up.
-1 Sam Stone
-1 Illegal Smile
Saw this happening on the tweets last night. Full article today.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/01/22/national-guard-troops-moved-to-a-cramped-parking-garage-complain-of-ingratitude-after-being-ordered-to-bug-out-of-capitol-building-they-came-to-protect/
https://twitter.com/GPrime85/status/1352603144577048576/photo/1
I’m sure Snopes and WaPo will be along shortly to tell us this is fake news.
Wow, they couldn’t even give up their tennis courts so that volunteer guardsmen (and women) protecting their worthless asses could have a roof and heat. This is beyond despicable.
Why the fuck do they have private tennis courts within the capitol at all?
Wanna play tennis? Join a fucking tennis club with your own goddamn money.
I find it interesting that most of the time the Guard is called up to act as conscript labor, not for any military purpose.
I filled and threw a lot of sandbags back in the Flood of ’93.
That’s how the Romans built their ROADZ, no?
The show is over, so fuck you deplorables. Maybe they did this after the video emerged of a whole lot of these guards turning their back to the Biden motorcade.
The Congresscritters should have just put up cardboard cutouts of National Guardsmen like the NFL stadiums do.
They knew there was no actual threat; it was all for show.
And this is how you campaign for future office. Cawthorn just scored.
https://www.thefreedomtimes.com/2021/01/22/watch-rep-cawthorn-delivers-pizza-to-soldiers-sheltering-in-parking-garage-offers-for-them-to-sleep-his-office/
The Freedom Times should get a new masthead. This one looks a little, uh, Germanic.
Dems are after that guy too.
And we aren’t allowed to build new nuke plants, or even think about switching to more modern, safer, scalable, molten salt thorium reactors.
That’s not really clean energy!
If not for the tax subsidies, nuclear would be eleventybillion times more expensive than solar, and fossil fuels would be twentyseventybillion times more expensive.
/Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Union of Concerned Scientists
20,70,000,000,000!!!!!1111
Good morning, Banjos!
And good morning to the best little oasis of sanity in this desert of derp!
Man, I can’t wait to pay more for energy! Hopefully the new administration will enact a bunch of regulations that will fuck up my industry, so I can start earning much less. That will be cool! Especially as they continue to hammer the dollar, making what I have managed to save worth much, much less.
Ahhh, progress.
Let’s go!
And you ride yourself over the fields,
And you make all your animal deals,
And your wise men don’t know how it feels,
To be thick as a brick.
I look at the T.V
Your America’s doing well
I look out the window
My America’s catching hell
I just wanna know
Which way do I go
To get to your America?
Spin me back down the years, and the days, of my youth
Draw the lace and black curtains, and shut out the whole truth
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul.
The soldier, whose unit initially was put up in a local hotel, said that many later-arriving Guard troops had to find places to sleep in the Capitol.
At first, they were sleeping in the basement, then in the fifth-floor tennis courts, the soldier told Military Times. Then it was back to the basement.
Wait, what?
BURN IT THE FUCK DOWN.
TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST!! HOOT HOOT!!
GET HIM! HE IS NOT ONE WIRH THE BODY!!
Got some new convid email to the entire company about how it is imperative and REQUIRED (it actually isnt that we put our shame muzzles on when away from our desks. I guess someone snitched on me. Anyway, if I am to participate I might as well go all in.
When I was wearing my plague dosctor mask out in public, literally nobody gave me shit about it, which surprised me. Now that the weathe is cols, I should start wearinf it agin. The lenses fogging might be a problem though.
Me: https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_20200409_172427-scaled.jpg
Of course I’ll probably just get something from these fine people.
https://www.minimallycompliantmasks.com/
When I went to the uparmored and armed-guarded doctor’s office, they had a big poster about which masks were acceptable and which were not. Ahm’a thinkin’ those wouldn’t get you through the mantrap.
Wear your chin diaper and shut up you fucking serf!
I was never a Trumpster but I liked how he tried to get out of the way and let the market roam. This shit has 1974 written all over it. All of that underpriced oil is going directly to China.
“This shit has 1984 written all over it”
FIFY.
Anyway, if I am to participate I might as well go all in.
Or you could wear one of those stupid V For Vendetta masks.
Was that supposed to be Guy Fawkes?
Given Mrs. Q’s situation and upcoming events I may be intermittent for some time. I will, however, to continue with the cheesecake as much as I can. You know where to find me.
Friday Funbags!
https://archive.li/QZRzx
Getting close! Good luck, brother!
In bad news, Mira Furlan has passed, making it even less likely that a B5 cast reunion can happen.
In news that may have some larger ramifications, an Ohio court blamed the government, not the ‘vid for the shutdowns, specifically in relation to a restaurant insurance policy.
clicked on article, side questionaire popped up:
Is your restaurant business focused on recovery or growth in 2021?
Possible answers:
Yes
No
I didnt get to the article, the stupid hurt too bad.
I don’t get any popups, but then I’ve got my browser set to aggressively block scripts and ads. Part of the takeaway:
I was just about to post that in ref to Hayek’s post above. Sounds like West Nile Virus.
When B5 has a cast reunion, they can get the Beatles to play it.
The warm-up act will be Sigfried and The Righteous Brother.
The reunion was already going to be difficult with Vir, Franklin, Garibaldi, G’Kar and Sinclair dead.
…that was the joke.
And you left out a couple of people.
She always seemed like a nice person, That’s too bad.
Goodest of mornings to you all, Glibs! There have been 144 carjackings in Chicago in 2021.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/21/as-police-investigate-carjackings-and-related-crimes-victims-say-sense-of-security-is-gone/
Hold on a moment, folks – some late breaking information is coming in. I’m now being told that the number is actually up to 148 since the link I posted earlier was published.
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2021/01/22/4-more-carjacking-reported-within-4-hours-overnight/
Have a terrific day!
Seven a day
That’s impressive
Well, I make sure to eat foods high in zinc and I take vitamin E supplements.
If that’s your definition of “carjacking” remind me to never sit in your car without using a disposable seat cover.
In the spirit of unity, let’s call it Chicago Ridesharing.
I’m a little (or a lot) confused about Climate Change. Do we want warmer weather or cooler weather? I’m all for doing my part but if given a preference I’d like warmer winters and cooler summers, can we do that?
Do we want change or no change? I can live with heating my house in the winter and cooling it in the summer but I want to make sure I have my priorities right. Youngsters like Biden have me worried that I could have been wrong my whole life.
From what I have read, the warming that’s occurred over the past 50 years or so has resulted mostly in milder winters rather than hotter summers, so I’m not really seeing a down side.
Greenhouse gas, as in Greenhouse Effect.
What is it that greenhouses are good for? Hmm…I want to say it has something to do with making plant life flourish.
But what do I know. The government scientists will tell me where to go and will dole out my candle ration for the house.
Of course nobody has demonstrated that manmade CO2 is causing any warming, rather than just a continuation of natural warming and cooling cycles that have occurred for millennia. Rising CO2 levels seem to follow warming, rather than precede it.
Oh, I totally agree with you on that. Man’s conceit (perhaps a fatal one) that he can change the earth’s climate is ludicrous.
But I find it instructive to cede the point that the earth is warming, even to say “let’s pretend it truly is man’s fault.” Because the next question I like to ask is “Is warming a bad thing? And if so, is it as bad as the consequences of stopping our emission of CO2 will be?”
Baseball birthdays are so bad today I wont inflect them on you.
Yes, but it’s the birthday of both Lev Landau and Alan Heeger.
Landau kept a list of names of physicists which he ranked on a logarithmic scale of productivity ranging from 0 to 5. The highest ranking, 0, was assigned to Isaac Newton. Albert Einstein was ranked 0.5. A rank of 1 was awarded to the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Satyen Bose, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger, and others. Landau ranked himself as a 2.5 but later promoted himself to a 2.
^^From wikipedia^^
Haven’t read the Wikipedia entry on Landau- does it mention his multiple deaths?
I used his QM textbook when I was in school. Don’t know what ever happened to Lifschitz.
Pay them what they’re worth
President Biden on Friday is set to take steps to lay the groundwork to increase the minimum wage for federal employees and contractors to $15 per hour.
The order directs the various agencies to review what workers earn less than $15 per hour, and prepare rules for contractors to ensure their workers are not paid less.
Under the order, contractors would also have to provide emergency paid leave to their employees.
Biden hopes to finalize the actions within his first 100 days in office.
All you losers in the private sector can suck it. You should have devoted your lives to the service of the nation, like Joe.
You know, screwing up the economics of government leaches doesn’t bother me nearly as much as a nationwide $15 minimum.
How does this screw up their economics?
Is just employers assigned to federal projects or every employee of any company that is a “contractor”, aka all company that provides any goods or services to the government?
It varies for other rules. I have turned down federal grants in order to avoid getting sucked into the entire morass of org-wide requirements if you take them.
“Davis Bacon” – and the private sector gets screwed too.
Hence my “nearly as much” instead of “not at all”.
I thought FedGov was banning the name “Davis?”
Biden has paused oil and gas leasing and permitting on federal lands for 60 days.
And he ended the Keystone pipeline, which was already under construction after jumping through every hoop possible and securing the land at an astronomical expense, canceling thousands of jobs* and even pissing off the Canadians**at the stroke of a pen because SCIENCE.
*I guess the plebs can just learn to code.
**Something something relations with our trade partners and allies.
TheHill.com
Biden seeks $15 minimum wage for federal workers, contractors
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Biden seeks $15 minimum wage for federal workers, contractors
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President Biden on Friday is set to take steps to lay the groundwork to increase the minimum wage for federal employees and contractors to $15 per hour.
The order directs the various agencies to review what workers earn less than $15 per hour, and prepare rules for contractors to ensure their workers are not paid less.
Under the order, contractors would also have to provide emergency paid leave to their employees.
Biden hopes to finalize the actions within his first 100 days in office.
In 2014, then-President Obama signed an order raising the minimum wage for federal workers from $7.25 to $10.10, hoping to pressure Congress to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time since 2009.
GOP senator calls Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan a ‘non-starter’
Beau Biden Foundation to deny lobbyist donations, make major donors…
The minimum wage of $7.25 has remained unchanged for those not employed by the federal government or subject to higher state and local ordinances. Biden’s COVID-19 relief plan includes a plan to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $15, but the plan faces Republican opposition and cannot be passed through budget reconciliation, a process that would allow Democrats to sidestep a GOP filibuster.
Biden’s executive action will also restore certain collective bargaining provisions to federal workers and eliminate Schedule F, an employment classification former President Trump created in October that would strip most civil service protections and make it easier to fire them without cause.
Trump was often frustrated about the civil service and his inability to summarily dismiss career civil servants.
At Will employment? Where the fuck do you think you are, Somalia?
Those people deserve a promise of a lifetime paycheck, and a generous pension after that.
*President Biden on Friday is set to take steps to lay the groundwork to increase the minimum wage for federal employees and contractors to $15 per hour.
You can do anything with the people’s tax dollars and a money printer.
Well if they were real businesses and not parasites they would face some consequences in the market.
Goddammit- sorry about the extra baggage on that copypasta.
“President Biden promised to end all new oil and gas leasing on federal lands when was a candidate,” a reporter asked. “Does the administration still have that commitment today? To end that lease?”
“We do and the leases will be reviewed by our team we just have only been in office for less than a day now,” Psaki said.
Does that mean existing leases remain or just new leases will be prevented? He has already shown that he cares not for the massive investment in time and resources it takes for these ventures so I wouldn’t be surprised if he wipes away how ever many fracking drills there are with the stroke of his pen.
He doesn’t care. He won! After all this time old Joe grasped the brass ring! See DB’s little story for the truism. It’s fucked. It’s gear-crashing fucked. They will try to reverse any and all things that OMB did even though they’ll be cutting their own noses off to spite their faces.
You’re assuming that Biden has a single clue what he’s signing. I doubt he does.
We finally see what a President Le Petomane can do for us.
“I didn’t get a harrumph outta that guy!”
They will shut down any new ones because that’s easy on day one.
Shutting down the existing ones will be the job of the EPA. That will take a little longer.
Our only hope is if Biden’s masters in Beijing decide they don’t to pay the higher (global) prices for oil and gas that will result.
South Carolina lawyer Butch Bowers will represent former President Trump if there is a Senate impeachment trial
“Excited to announce that Columbia, SC-based Butch Bowers has joined President Trump’s legal team,” Trump advisor Jason Miller tweeted. “Butch is well respected by both Republicans and Democrats and will do an excellent job defending President Trump.”
If they are going through with this farce anyway he should have pardoned Assange and Snowden.
Democrats Expect to Fail on Coronavirus Relief Until March
If only Republicans would just give them a number.
The people need impeachment, not relief.
Does that mean existing leases remain or just new leases will be prevented? He has already shown that he cares not for the massive investment in time and resources it takes for these ventures so I wouldn’t be surprised if he wipes away how ever many fracking drills there are with the stroke of his pen.
My guess is they will, at minimum, prevent anything not actually producing from going forward.
You spent millions on actual geological tests to see if there is any gas? Too bad.
You spent millions on environmental studies? Too bad.
You spent millions in court defending yourself against bullshit nuisance lawsuits? Too bad.
Democrats continue to be insane.
Water is wet. The sun rises in the east.
SCIENCE!
President Joe Biden’s first full day in office on Thursday focused on rolling out his national strategy to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and signing several executive actions, including ramping up vaccination supplies and requiring international travelers to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test prior to traveling to the US.
“Our national strategy is comprehensive, it’s based on science, not politics. It’s based on truth, not denial, and it’s detailed,” Biden said, speaking from the White House. He said the 198-page plan is posted on WhiteHouse.gov.
Biden’s plan starts with a national vaccination campaign in order to meet the President’s goal of administering 100 million shots, which is enough to cover 50 million Americans with vaccines that require two doses, in his first 100 days in office.
“We’re at Day 1,” Biden said.
He said the plan was developed with input from the nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, among other advisers and experts. Fauci was at the event at the White House, along with Biden’s Covid czar Jeff Zients.
Science, not politics.
Hold on. Ballgag. I think I need an umbrella.
If it was based on science you would be operating off of the original and correct premise that you cannot stop the spread and that cloth face masks do not stop the spread of pathogens (there is disclaimer on all of them that says this, I wonder why…).
He can pretend all he likes to be mr non-political, healer, scientist.
I remember when he showed his vicious commie colors during Bork’s confirmation hearings and Clarence Thomas’s too.
Biden is not sweet affable grandpa. He’s a selfish rotten leftist through and through. He’s a piece of shit and the Dems knew early in 2020 that they’d lose the election if he were their candidate. They needed a miracle, and when the WuFlu cane along, they rustled that horse and rode it into non-legislative decrees that allowed them to steal the election for him.
He’s an idiot, but he’s not a sweet manipulated idiot.
Have I told you that I love you, lately?
It’s the avatar, isn’t it?
🙂
I maintain that Biden was programmed for the nomination when it was looking like Trump would win in a walk. Biden was eminently disposable, the perfect sacrificial candidate. By the time the ‘Vid showed up and gave them a path to victory, it was too late.
Yep, he was the Romney lookalike, politically speaking. Past experience and all that…
Thank You Banjos for being such a peach throughout this bullshit. I tip my tin-foil top hat to you!
The previous president was a pretend tough guy who was afraid to fire anyone, but Joe Biden is quickly showing a spine of steel and toughness that has been missing for the last four years.
It’s not just okay, it’s downright commendable when our side does it.
The wailing and gnashing of teeth whenever Trump got rid of someone still echoes in my ears.
Trump was a pretend tough guy who spoke loudly and carried a small stick while Biden is going to be as ruthless as his closest advisors, some of the worst people in the world, tell him to be. That and dwelling within the remaining dumpster that is his mind is a petty, vindictive, and stupid asshole.
One of the things during the Obama Administration that I found to be in very poor taste were all of those signs they’d post next to a new but of road repair or other “government” project site, displaying nifty new graphics about the Recovery and Stimulus act, and the signs said “President Barack Obama” right on there in big font.
As if he here some private donor philanthropist.
Taking credit for a pittance of our tax dollars returned to our districts. Not to the taxpayers of course, but to the local district toadies who worshipped Obama and admired the way he took American pride down a few notches where it belongs, well below Obama’s beloved Indonesia where he grew up.
It didn’t have to be new. They updated existing project signs to add the propoganda.
I still have shovel ready work being done in my town from that BS money drain. They had the Obama signs up at the town hall until just last year, 3 years into Trump’s presidency. They essentially got money from the feds to re-pipe the entire town (gas, water, sewer, etc).
I understand that the work would need to be done at some point, but i’m sure that there was a cheaper way to do it. The point was to get people back to work after a major recession, but the work didn’t start until near the end of his second term and still hasn’t ended. We are getting the handy caped curb cutouts with braille marks on all intersections now.
Governors do that — they put their stupid fucking names (R or D) on everything.
Even our local utility trucks have the mayor’s name on the side.
You’re assuming that Biden has a single clue what he’s signing. I doubt he does.
Sure he does. Deep down inside, he’s a bitter, petty, vindictive asshole. He’s been waiting for this chance to punish his enemies for decades.
He’s playing at dottering.
Exactly the point I was trying to make above.
He’s not sweet doddering Joe. He’s a vindictive ambitious politician of middling intellect whose prior attempts to run for the presidency were dashed in the 80s and 99s because of his plagiarism and lies relating to his academic record.
Imagine that: a news media that published even negative stories about democrats now and then.
Ah, the nostalgia!
OT: love your avatar choice today, lass!
Thank ye.
I don’t have a black arm band to wear, so this will have to do.
Hey, smart people. I have a problem with my electric oven.
When I put it to bake something at, say, 365 degrees, it goes thru the preheating stage, but never quite gets to the right temperature.
I’ve found that if I turn it off and then on again, it will reach the desired temperature (or so it seems to indicate), but still doesn’t ‘feel’ hot enough, and the food takes a bit longer to cook than if it were working correctly.
So what I’m asking is, is that the thermostat that needs replacing? Or possibly the element? Thanks for any input.
Thermostat.
That’s what I’m thinking.
It’s only a few years old, too. Rotten modern appliances….
I would guess the thermostat as well, but depending on the age and the model of the range and the location of the thermostat, it may be simply that a piece of insulation or something has fallen down and is giving the thermostat a false reading. (Although normally false readings on the thermostat tend to result in your oven running hotter than it should rather than cooler.) Still, it may be worth a search on your model of range to find the location of the thermostat to see if you can’t do a quick visual check on it. Or, in the event that it’s a newer all-electronic unit, it may be possible to re-calibrate the oven temperature through the control panel.
Interesting, thanks
Sometimes the petty annoyances of living in close proximity begin to accumulate and next thing you know those home fires start to cool. Have you tried buying your oven flowers? Telling it how pretty it looks? Just giving it a kiss and thanking it for cooking your food?
We have the same problem with our Samsung electric oven. We put an oven thermometer in the oven to verify what temperature it actually reaches. We usually set the temperature a little higher than the target temp (e.g., 425 vs 400). When the oven beeps that it’s reached set temp, we check inside. Often, we have to give it a few more minutes to actually reach the desired temp (which is actually lower than the set temp).
We’ve learned that Samsung appliances are crap. We bought a full set when we remodeled our kitchen about 5 years ago. We’ve replaced two appliances (dishwasher and microwave) and repaired another (fridge). I’m not going to spend any money to repair that damn oven. We only use it occasionally since it’s just the two of us and we have a toaster oven that works great.
I’m listening to a presentation by my company’s outside economic consultants on inflation. They listed the drivers of inflation. Monetary policy wasn’t even mentioned.
I’m loath to curse, but “Fucking useless”.
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick.
This moron just literally said, “Inflation is accompanied by money growth, but it’s driven by developments in the the labor and product markets.”.
These halfwits are getting paid sizeable amounts to spout this idiocy. How do I get in on this sort of scam (I probably couldn’t, but that’s a different story.)
Amount of money pumped into the system, velocity of spending, and amount of goods/services in the economy that might offset the new money coming in.
Monetary policy? Don’t be silly. It’s common knowledge that inflation is driven by racism, income inequality, transphobia.
I’m going to hang up on this nonsense.
The guy behind Slate Star Codex (who shut it down when the NYT threatened to dox him after promising they would respect his pseudo-anonyminity) has launched a new blog at a new location.
If I subscribe to substack, will the money go just to creators I designate (and the administrators, obvs) or will everyone on there share some? I REALLY don’t want to give money to certain people.
I have no idea on that one. There is a free subscription option that will just alert you when a new public post goes live.
Uffda. Those dang kids won’t follow the SCIENCE rules!
Since when has “letter of the law” stopped being a pejorative and something people are actually supposed to do?
Various state flacks are quoted talking about how important it is that these kids wear masks because of science. Last fall sports had no mask mandates for youth sports and no one died. In fact no one between 5 and 18 has died in Minnesoda from the Rona yet. But we need to close schools and shut down sports. Yeah, we are sciencing the fuck of the the Rona here thanks to King Walz’s deft manipulation of his God Dials.
I was just talking to a coworker about this. A High School classmate just posted pics from his daughter’s basketball game on FB. She plays for Barnesville Mn. Everyone is masked up while they play. Meanwhile per the CDC website only 165 kids under 17 have died from Covid in the US. Out of the 327,000 that the CDC is tracking. I guess “SCIENCE” doesn’t include looking at numbers and levels of risk.
I sweat like a pig when I exercise. The guys I play hoops with call me “Slimey” and insisted that I always had to be on the Shirts team. My sinuses are also bad and I’ve always had trouble breathing through my nose when playing games.
I can’t even begin to imagine how horrible trying to wear a wet mask would be.
Waterboarding: Too terrible to use on our enemies, perfect for our kids!
How many kids died from dihydrogen monoxide poisoning in 2020?
That some dark age shit.
I find this page interesting. It puts things into perspective.
https://data.cdc.gov/widgets/9bhg-hcku
Monetary policy wasn’t even mentioned.
I have been watching Bloomberg News in the morning, off and on, for years. The parade of the same people saying the same (flagrantly self-interested) things is incredibly tedious. They babble about the bond market as if it is in any way rational. I guess if you have a few billion dollars to play with, you end up with something resembling a return. And fees, of course. They talk about the Federal Reserve Bank as if it is staffed and operated by gods, not men.
But now, I’m done. The giddy gleeful undisguised slobbery adulation for Biden has made it completely unwatchable.
We could help the Feds if we printed our own money, take some of the load off their backs. We could give out $3000 to our friends/neighbors/ relatives(optional), thereby having them spend it and give the economy a boost.
At this point does it really matter who is printing the green stuff, since none of it if backed by other than the full faith of Joe/Kamala and associates. I am a man of little faith in government. I’m on the right side of history, too.
Speaking of Minnesoda SCIENCE……
It might be safe for us plebes to come out of the basement. Our betters in govt have determined that there was no post New Year’s spike in the Rona.
I am soooooooooooooo surprised. I mean just because we managed to avoid the predicted post 4th of July, post-Labor Day, post-Thanksgiving, post-Christmas spikes in the Rona, who’d a thunk we could avoid one more potential Armageddon?
And they are still flogging the idea that we could still get hit with NY’s Day Rona cases? 3 weeks later? And the flack from MPR didn’t laugh in their faces?
If you want proof positive that the Biden Administration is getting shit down Rona-wise, here it is.
I am 100% sure that if Trump had won, that paragraph would not have been in this story. So the Biden Administration has ripped the shroud of secrecy off the Rona epidemic and the MSM is finally able to report on the fact that this disease is only killing the old and sick.
I did a rough back of the envelope estimate, my chances of catching/dying from the corona are about 1/800. From all other causes about 1/10. Take this mask and shove it.
Ya’all were so tanked over the holidays that every Minnie-sodan’s BAC was high enough to kill any pathogens in the bloodstream.
Duh.
That would be Wisconsin.
MInnesoda is where the blue noses who couldn’t put up with the excessive brandy drinking moved to.
excessive brandy drinking
*cocks head quizzically*
“copious”?
Now is no time to die.
The release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.
No Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film’s website said.
It had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.
Probably delayed so they can shoot and insert some new footage of 007 foiling white supremacists lynching U.S. politicians or infiltrating peaceful protests in Portland.
Is this Bond film going to feature that one black chick from that one movie as James Bond or have they not gotten the news yet?
I have a feeling after some of the chatter and pushback, that may still be up in the air. They may still want to go full woke but that would kill the franchise faster than even Star Wars.
I had an interesting conversation with my MIL last night. She gets all her political information from the evening news (so much like most Americans). She’s already questioning why Biden would open the border, especially in a pandemic, and especially when southern California has so much Covid. I didn’t have the time to have “that” conversation with her, but it’s encouraging that 2 days in she, of all people, is seeing things that don’t add up.
What strikes me as different between Trump and Biden is that Trump had an overarching plan or theme to his presidency. MAGA wasn’t just a hat, he actually believed in the idea. But so far Biden is just willy-nilly checking things off the wish list of his base, without regard to long term effects.
The other thing I’m noticing is that it’s a lot easier for the press to run cover for the opposition than for the people actually doing something. “Trump wants to do this”, “Trump is racist”, etc. is a lot easier than trying to explain why Joe just made energy prices higher. I also think they try to whitewash people’s memories with propaganda. Again, easy to make you question your memory about Trump calling white supremacists “fine people”. But it’s going to be hard to make people forget that gas was 2.00 a gallon, now it’s 5.00, or my heating bill used to be 150.00 now it’s 300.00, or I used to have a job, now I don’t.
It’s almost unreal how quickly they changed up the messaging. If they had petered down slowly maybe people wouldn’t have noticed so much but it went from forward to reverse overnight. Especially with the Covid messaging.
I agree. They didn’t have the sense to change the message gradually. People are noticing the quick 180, which is good.
they can’t help it they view this as a victory and can’t help but bask in the rays of the new dawn. They are spoiled children. Be thankful that these are the retards we are up against for now.
The slow roll tactic would have run the risk of too many of the useful idiots catching on to the racket…
Hence the need for the immediate pivot. And believe me, most of the fucking team blue lemmings will not bat an eye and just go along, because they are conditioned to respond that way…
We’ve always been at war with East Asia.
Too bad all those negative effects were caused by nature in the form of COVID. Trump made it even worse by not clamping down on human interactions ENOUGH early in the unavoidable plague.
Those mean viruses locked up businesses and shut nonessential people in their homes.
At least we have the steady hand of uncle Joe to lead us during this tragic time.
Like repealing the ban on certain travel from terrorist hit spot countries (stupid, but at least a fig leaf defensible) but reinstating the ban on travel from Europe and Brazil (instituted in the early days of covid when those countries were the latest big hotspots but really makes no sense a) when it’s now spreads worldwide b) or the new requirement than all travelers must get tested prior to entering the US).
the new requirement than all travelers must get tested prior to entering the US
I’m sure there aren’t any large donors making money off of that.
People are really starting to get butt-hurt at the prospect of this country going back to some semblance of how it was in Feb/March of 2020.
You must embrace the Great Reset, tovarisch!
There’s one particularly blue pilled dbag on facebook whose now openly talking about how much he prefers the new normal and doesn’t want it to go back because of all the waste companies are going to go back to with office space and traveling. This person was one of the most ardent branch covidians on my feed. They have literally caused so much pain and suffering by continually whipping up hysteria and telling people they can’t do what they want to do while living the way they want. People like that are immoral fucking pigs. It’s just beyond disgusting. This is someone who I was pretty good friends with before all this happened that’s done.
Agreed. The assholes who have faced no actual hardship via this nonsense have absolutely no understanding of the millions of people who have endured great hardship, losing their jobs or businesses and facing financial ruin.
What’s most galling is that those assholes are also the people most convinced of their superior morality as compared to other people.
waste companies are going to go back to with office space and traveling
I can’t say I disagree with that. I wonder how many companies have realized that shit gets done without travel. Or trade shows.
If I was in the trade show/convention center business I think I’d be looking for new work. This year pretty much proved that that super fancy booth at the trade show didn’t produce any extra revenue. And not only did you save on the price of the booth, you didn’t waste a shit ton of peoples’ time planning for the show or creating pointless demos for the booth.
I once had a client who took me aside and asked me if I could stop booking non-stop flights between me (Mpls) and them (Detroit) because it was so much more expensive than switching in Chicago. I pointed out that the layovers were always multi-hour. They didn’t mind because my hourly fees came out of a different bucket than travel. The ultimate kicker was the same client wanted to have a super big pow wow with my group, them and our German overlords. The meeting would be for one day in Amsterdam. On my birthday. Then they were mad that I only planned to call in and not actually fly there for the one day conference. (Again, different bucket).
Unfortunately, I was too busy with other projects so I couldn’t just get them to pay for my trip and then fuck off for a week with other BS meetings with other Germans.
You’re a mean one, Governor Gretch.
A $5.6 billion COVID-19 recovery plan unveiled Tuesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer carves out $5 million to be put toward upgrading security at the Michigan State Capitol.
The administration indicated it would send the formal request for a budget supplemental to lawmakers on Wednesday. The $5 million would go toward enforcing a weapons ban at the state Capitol.
Like everything else in Whitmer’s relief proposal, the appropriation would have to be approved by the GOP-majority state Legislature.
Nothing says convid relief like unconstitutional gun ban enforcement.
I have yet to see any think pieces in the MSM that ask the question: “If people – that you are supposed to be representing – are so mad at you that you fear for your life, maybe you should rethink what you are doing?”
The sad fact is that it wouldn’t even be hard to cool things off. Just stop doing overtly bad things. You wouldn’t need to spend $5M for security. You wouldn’t even need to roll shit back. You could just push in the clutch and let things coast and most people would settle down.
Whitmer has the crazy eyes. From childhood we’re told to never judge others by their appearance, but it’s impossible to deny that physical traits are often a dead giveaway for certain people’s moral fiber or lack thereof.
You know, the thing about a Whitmer is it’s got…lifeless eyes, black eyes like a doll’s eyes. When it comes at you, it doesn’t seem to be livin’, till it bites you, and those black eyes roll over white…….oh, and then you hear that terrible high pitched screamin’.
Maybe having a meeting with those who are upset about the Covid restrictions? You’re the governor of all of the people of your state, you know.
Whitler.
And the flack from MPR didn’t laugh in their faces?
I dream of a day when a properly cynical “press” would chant, in unison, “BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT! BULLSHIT!” during government press conferences, just as we used to do, at the old Broadmoor World Arena, when the hockey refs made a call against our team.
Feck it. I’m done fir the day! Have much fun, Glibs! One more shift and a day off.
Forgot to mention above about the email, apparently maskless people cause masked people a great deal of anxiety. But that is not the real reason. The real reason is propaganda about convid.
Following one of yesterday’s links:
https://retractionwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Gmail-STOTEN-paper.pdf
IDK how it works at Pitt, but at OU, “Assistant” professor means they’ve gotten tenure.
Wow
That’s just… wow.
What do you want to bet that dude’s selling Nephrite-Jade amulets on Etsy or some shit? Jesus…
This is what we are calling science?
Well, I just went and cleaned out my silverware drawer, threw out all the knives and spoons ’cause we’re totally forked now.
PSU/UNC/PItt should all be rethinking the way they do things.
Looks like they have Assistant -> Associate -> (full) professor, so this idjit is on the tenure track. With this kind of groundbreaking research the P&T board is going to grant him tenure for sure.
Reminder for the morning crew: the celery is under the left rear tire. 9pm ET tonight. Check the PM links for the link.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can find out tonight at 9pm on our little weekly meet up.
If you know what I’m talking about, shut yo mouf.
The chair is against the wall. The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache. John has a long mustache.
Alex loves the beaotchez. Alex loves the beaotchez….
It’s a cold day for pontooning.
It is only cold if you don’t keep your BSSBAC properly elevated.
*ButterScotchSchnappsBloodAlcoholContent
Hmm, I had previously thought you were a male glib, when did you transition? And why did you decide to go all the way to freshmen sorority girl?
Ice fishing is a known exception to the schnapps rules.
You need the added the sugar.
That’s the counter! The challenge is “The spotted cuckoo bird flies backwards.”
Mitchell is definitely in my top five episodes.
I was wondering if anyone would pick that up. You just made my day LOL.
Us MSTies gotta stick together.
“Joe Don Baker IS Mittens! He’s a cop!”
Hillary Flamand: Who do you favor in the Virginia Slims tournament?
Blind man: In women’s tennis, I always bet against the heterosexual.
That’s one if my favorite movies. More confirmation that we are all Tulpa.
A ray of sunshine!
I’m sure the Mpls City Council is supporting this for a bunch of reasons I don’t agree with, but it is still the right thing to do so kudos to them.
Now do license plate scanners and stingray cell tower spoofers.
They support it if the search is for one of them… One of you dirty serfs however, is fine….
The local news had a bit on a “new technolgy developed” in Rochester — a temperature scanner that can be used on crowds to locate individuals not wearing their masks.
Greenwald on the Parler situation.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1352340424426459137
I spoke to a Russian once.
I must cleanse myself of influence.
I drank with a russian once if it’s anything like that it’s going to take a while for the alcohol to completely clear your system.
I like Russian dressing on a sandwich. I denounce myself.
It’s too late, you’ve been tainted. Apparently dealing with a Russian is like making out with a leper and you can never quite wash it off.
In seriousness though, the scapegoating and xenophobia vis a vis the Russians would be delusional if it wasn’t calculated.
Now do Chinese CCP!
The CCP is warranted to a degree. They make Putin’s regime look like choirboys in comparison plus they’re actually more of a credible threat.
I’ve been to Russia twice. Applied for a visa three times. During the application process I almost certainly spoke with a Russian intelligence agent. Put me on the list.
Yesterday was my second day without Facebook. Out of habit I opened the app but immediately realized it and closed it right down. It’s amazing that for almost 40 years, I had no way of broadcasting useless information to a large number of people, and seeing their useless information, and I survived just fine. But now I find myself thinking, “What if I have some useless information I want to share, and now I have no way to do it?”
You’re here, aren’t you? Are we not useless enough for you?
Yeah, I know I bring the worthless daily!
“Hello, my name is Kevin.”
“Hello, Kevin.”
“Today is my second day without FaceBook”
*applause, facilitator give TOK a coin with “2 days” on it.*
I feel you.
My goal is to open Facebook exactly once, and only to post an event for my baseball league. In fact, I’ll do that now so it’s just done.
Forgot to mention above about the email, apparently maskless people cause masked people a great deal of anxiety. But that is not the real reason. The real reason is propaganda about convid.
Your mask is a placebo for your fellow workers, Citizen. Why do you not love your fellow man?
DO
YOUR
PART.
Of course.
Like turning water into wine, the Betsy Ross flag, a symbol of racist oppression just yesterday, is suddenly good again.
Biden healed the flag of hate.
Maybe lUncle Joes soldiers should be housed by residents of dc free of charge they are after-all protecting them from the scary seditionists leaving the rest of the heartland exposed and the dc residents aren’t paying a dime for it as they are all state national guardsmen.
They have gone after every other amendment, might as well destroy the 3rd too.
they already have fucked the 1st and 2nd in the city might as well continue down the list.
Over the years the Dems have developed this habit of shitting on people and taking them for granted. I’d like to think people are waking up to that. Trump did get more black votes than any other (R) in a long time, and the endorsement of the national police union. And the biggest Trump fans I know are union guys.
OK, anybody else already had enough of this ‘Bernie Sanders sitting in a lawnchair’ meme?
I don’t want to see that old Commie fuck normalized.
+ infinity…..fuck that guy
One of my coworkers thinks it’s the most hilarious thing ever.
Which is ironic given that Sanders is the most truly humorless DC creature since Joan Claybrook.
So does Mrs. Dean. *shrugs*
The dork cult merges with the Bernie cult. The new look is pajama boy wearing mittens.
It makes me long for more Twisted tea and Bitchy woman/Smart ass Cat Memes. There is nothing funny about Bernie. Is it thought to be funny because of how much of an old man he is? I don’t get it.
It’s a little funny if you remember the DNC fucked him twice and as a reward he gets to watch Biden be inaugurated.
Agreed. The assholes who have faced no actual hardship via this nonsense have absolutely no understanding of the millions of people who have endured great hardship, losing their jobs or businesses and facing financial ruin.
What’s most galling is that those assholes are also the people most convinced of their superior morality as compared to other people.
I was thinking about that, recently.
The very same people who will unhesitatingly accuse “libertarians” of having no empathy for their fellow man, have glided serenely through this “adventure” with nary a care and not the slightest recognition of the harm done to millions of people in the here and now.
They think the costs are zero, and the benefits are unlimited. Because that’s the shit pablum they have been spoon fed by the propaganda machine.
As Solzhenitsyn wrote, “How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?”
The next plague.
Right in time for a new era in Washington, just as Left and Right America’s opening its mouth for our brand spanking 4-year shouting match…a big fat bug’s ready to fly right in.
Up-in-arms orators, sink your teeth into this: Along the eastern seaboard — and for the first time in 17 years — cicadas are about to appear above ground.
Mark it on your calendars: The ascension’s set for May.
And how many locusts are we lookin’ at?
That’d be trillions.
In fact, scientists have a name for our impending arthropodic companions: Brood.
According to Entomology Professor Emeritus Michael J. Raupp, the incomers are poised for a population density of up to 1.5 million per acre.
Cicadas are not locusts.
Also, evil colonialist wypipo settlers genocided the noble locust in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2EmdPWOFHo
KILL A
COMMIECONGRESSMAN FOR CHRISTCatchy, huh?
Why not both?
Both? I thought it was redundant.
OT: after last evening’s shenanigans with my husband’s trip to the ER right after I got home from work, we got back home at about 8:45. I realized I was feeling woozy and my heart was beating fast.
I hadn’t had time for dinner and I’d already worked through my lunch break, so I borrowed my hubby’s blood sugar tester. It was at 65. I have never seen it so low.
So I drank a pint of orange juice and gobbled down some leftover chicken and dumplings.
I think I’ll take my blood sugar routinely for a while and see if it’s reacting normally to meals and fasting. 65 seems rather low.
Good news about your hubs! Well, as good as that could be. Caught up with it after the kids went to bed. Wow.
And we all lived happily ever after.
Presidents Obama, Bush, & Clinton’s Special Message to President Joe Biden
They’re admirable paragons of virtue and all but I think I’ll pass on looking at that.
“There is no uniparty.”
This is probably from Drugs, Ass Dept, but…..
The jig is up. The Libertarian Moment is over. They have figured it out. To ignominy to be undone by Brennan
“Leave me the alone and I’ll leave you alone” is the rallying cry of the would-be tyrants.
I wonder if the staff at TOS is self-aware enough to see where their TDS got them. The choice was between a occasionally accidentally libertarian spendthrift and a openly authoritarian spendthrift. Choice was clear to me. They should’ve seen this coming miles off. I know I did.
orange man icky
lol “laser like fashion”
Is a steam roller “laser like”?
Steam rollers with frickin’ laser beams are.
“Insurgency” is a funny word to use here.
fascists
Look in the mirror.
religious extremists
It is about time we did something about environazis.
It is light enough, now, to report visible measurable snowfall. Just a few inches, but the ground has turned from brown to white.
WHITE SUPREMACY
Customer: why isn’t the video I uploaded showing up on my home page?!?!?!??!
Probably because you didn’t select your country from the list that says “Issuing Country” that’s literally the 2nd field after the Title?
I am amazed at how people still think, in this day and age, that a web site & content management system are some kind of sentient AIs that just somehow sense that you want that video posted to your home page.
SCIENCE!
DWIM – Do What I Mean.
The command that every end user thinks exists.
That is the goal of AI.
*WWYDWIM
(so it looks more like WYSIWYG)
We are now looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed, are now moving in laser like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we’ve seen overseas, where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, Nativists, even libertarians.
WTF? Who wrote that?
My space-alien-to-pidgin-english translator must need new batteries. I can’t make head nor tails of that.
The Commie former CIA director
The one who says the government is coming for …. Wait for it…. Libertarians, among other deplorables.
Some sentient Easter Island Head it looks like.
Some semi-sentient Easter Island Head it looks like..
FIFY
Joe Buck?
The other downside of a perpetual war state is that, when it can’t get satisfied fighting external enemies, it will turn inward.
When it comes to the cult of expertise, I’m a believer in what I’ll call “The Tail Race Standard”. You see, there’s a pub in town called the Tail Race Tavern. It seems like a nice enough place, but definitely somewhere that gets all types. When I hear an expert speaking, I ask myself, what would I think if I heard this coming from a guy in a baseball cap down at the Tail Race? Would I think “Gee, that guy has some pretty good insights.”? Or would I think, “Gosh, the rural meth problem is worse than I thought.”? Too often, what I hear is the latter.
The Blue Oyster Club Standard is a much different standard.
wdalasio-
You mentioned your recent delayed entry into driving. You might consider finding a high performance driving school for a weekend class. I believe there are some (maybe Bondurant) which focus on road skills as opposed to track day lap times. There’s no substitute for experience, but getting a chance to play with a “skid car” under controlled would be fun, if nothing else, and you can get a basic foundation of what to do when something unexpected happens.
-controlled CONDITIONS-
me wrute gud
Thanks for the advice. I’ve got six months before I can take the driving test. So, that might be a fun thing to do in the interim.
You are learning side-by-side, from a distance, with my two teens who just got their permits yesterday.
Biden Tells Freezing Troops Sleeping In Garages To Be Patient Until He Can Get Them Shipped To Iraq
Should we start wondering how long until the Bee gets shutdown?
There is too much brutality in that for me to quote — I’d have to copy it all.
Not going to link to Salon. The heading is good enough:
The anticipated violence at Biden’s inauguration never happened — thank Trump’s Twitter ban
AMANDA MARCOTTE
Confirmation bias at its finest.
also no tiger attacks
I forgot she existed.
Stupid is as stupid does
“ Tennessee Principal Placed On Leave After Criticizing Big Tech Censorship”
https://www.ntd.com/tennessee-principal-placed-on-leave-after-criticizing-big-tech-censorship_554783.html
Et tu Tennessee?
Et tu Tennessee?
This happened in Oklahoma so I’m not really sure what you’re expecting. Red states are just blue states that can’t come out of the closet yet.
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/05/non-binary-oklahoma-first-elected/
Confirmation bias at its finest.
Next up:
Think of the unimagineable death toll had it not been for masks and lockdowns!!!!!
Text exchange this morning with my Associate General Counsel:
AGC: If its OK with you I’d like to work from home today . . . have handy man around.
RC:
Hawt.These euphemisms!Sure. No problem.I swear, you people are going to get me fired.
Oh, and the rest:
AGC: Thanks. You’re the best!
RC: I know.
Just got documents from the condo about the buyout process. The price that I had originally thought is confirmed.
I’m a little nauseated, tbh. Change is hard for me. But I will be much happier unencumbered by property or many possessions for at least a few years.
Let the Gypsy Wind blow your Gypsy heart to where it wants to be.
/anchored-down wanderluster here trying to be satisfied by living vicariously through other’s wanderings
I think by summer 2021 I may get back to my Midwestern roots and denounce my East Coast citizenship. I’ve lived in various parts of the NE since 1979!
Chuck Schumer: “Donald Trump Incited the Erection”
#hostileworkenvironment #metoo #ewwwww
For Kristen
Pretty!
If Senate moves ahead with trying a private citizen and the Supreme Court cucks it; I except a whole slew of post-administration impeachments for our past sins.
“Me today, you tomorrow” is one of the Iron Laws that no one seems to remember until it’s too late.
Because the Republicans are cowardly shits who generally don’t have the balls to retaliate in kind, and the Democrats know it.
Its all “look what we did today and who cares what happens tomorrow because of it”. It may be constitutionally sound, but the spirit of it and the doors opened because of it, are going to be ugly I think.
If the Republicans get the House back they should impeach Obama for assassinating American citizens without due process, just for starters.
Now I’d buy that for a dollar
I wonder if a conviction will negate all postincident pronouncements and pardons and L’il Wayne and Kwame Kilpatrick will have to go back to jail. Sounds silly but why not if an an official who is no longer an official can be tried using a process that’s explicitly meant for people currently holding a position.
Since he was still in office at the time of the pronouncements and pardons, nothing would change.
Just retroactively remove Trump from office to before whatever you want invalidated. Go all the way back to 2017. Then they don’t have to pack the courts since Trump’s nominations would be invalid.
Doesn’t mean they wouldn’t try to overturn some of the stuff he did at the end (though I can’t think of anything specifically).
At that point we could stop pretending that the law or the constitution matter at all, and admit that whoever has the reins of government can just do whatever they please to whomever they please without restraint.
DNC approves as long as it is their Top Person.
Ugh, I have to go to OKC for training. I thought I was done with that place. Guess Ill bring my raspberrypi and hole up in the hotel room for a week.
we are not that bad.
The very same people who will unhesitatingly accuse “libertarians” of having no empathy for their fellow man, have glided serenely through this “adventure” with nary a care and not the slightest recognition of the harm done to millions of people in the here and now.
Because it isn’t about empathy. It never was. In most, or at least many, arguments, empathy is a lousy guide to judgement. Usually, both parties have some legitimate claim to one’s empathy. The demand for empathy is more often than not, you suspend your independent judgement and negate empathy for the side they want you to ignore.
What I’ve come to realize is that a huge portion of the public are functional sociopaths. They don’t really have much empathy, so much as a sociopath’s display of emotional bonding that will make them popular. That’s why they reserve the claim of “no empathy” for such damnation. It’s a breach in their implicit contract to fake emotional support where they’re mostly social signaling.
Which is interesting because I have seen more empathy here among almost total strangers that at least hold to some form of libertarian principles than I have probably only seen in small-town churches or tight-knitted communities.
Empathy means that you can understand what someone else is experiencing and how they feel. It is the “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes” concept.
This does not mean that you have sympathy for that person. In fact, grifters and con artists depend upon empathy to be able to con someone else.
I argue that people on the left have great sympathy with no empathy. They “care” so deeply about the “poor and downtrodden” without having any fucking clue what those people actually experience and what they want.
So the solutions offered by the left are always wrong and make things worse.
Exactly, and the lack of empathy is why they so hastily write off the 70 million Trump voters as Nazis. They’ve never made a good faith effort to understand where they’re coming from and what motivates them.
WHY SHOULD I TRY AND UNDERSTAND LITERAL WHITE SUPREMACIST INSURRECTIONIST NAZIS WHO WANT TO KILL EVERYONE NOT LIKE THEM!?!?!?
What’s actually amazing to me is the literal blinders some people have. A sizable % if not the outright majority of this country has been working in person everyday interacting with everyone at work the entire time and there is a group of people who know this yet are screaming and wailing about having to do the same thing. I have so much contempt for that class of people.
In what seems like a cruel joke, Midwayusa sends out an email that ammo cans are on sale.
The empty containers?
Yes
I went to the website where I bought buckshot a few weeks ago. At that time, they had hundreds and hundreds of boxes of shells of all types and gauges.
Last night, they had zero. Everything was gone.
Biden is good for business.
The auction sites still have ammo.
The prices they are getting . . . .
I was in a gun shop yesterday (one with a top 5 web presence), and they had a limit on all ammo. Even weird calibers that aren’t very popular.
Only LE could buy 9mm, and that was because the only 9mm they had was branded as LE-only (meaning they get tax breaks). And what they did have was top dollar.
They did have an Uber cool bang stick I may or may not have purchased.
Oh yeah? I actually need a few more…
It’s times like these, when I get gloomy and despondent, that I take some solace from the wise words of the Who: Hope I die before I get old.
I wonder if 70 year old Roger Daltry still sings that tune.
OK one more Bernie meme. I didn’t make this one.
https://giphy.com/gifs/bernie-sanders-jason-momoa-folding-chair-R9BMyZ0Tu23Daa3Oxj
RIP Hank, another hero gone
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/hank-aaron-legendary-baseball-player-dies-at-age-86.html
Nearly 50 years ago Aaron passed Babe Ruth in career home runs
That long ago? I remember it clearly. Damn, I’m old.
He always seemed like a class act.
damn he was fucking all time. Just a good guy allaround.
🙁
These aren’t the “domestic extremists” you need to worry about.
The narrative on this “INSURRECTION!! “ would be hilarious if it weren’t so stupid. These stupid fucks know full well it was rabble that entered the capital. If it had been a legit, no fucking around paramilitary bent on overthrowing the government, there would have been lots of dead congresscritters because they would have been heavily armed and highly coordinated, not preoccupied with selfies and random podium fuckery.
For fuck’s sake. I just came across this and wish I hadn’t. I hate these people already.
https://www.gq.com/story/air-jordan-1-diors-inauguration
Why do the people that claim to champion the working class always seem to perform the most egregious displays conspicuous consumption?
The same reason anti-2A people always have heavily armed security; “open borders” people live in gated communities with controlled access; that Branch Covidians can be seen doing non-essential recreation in public in large groups without masks.
It’s OK When We Do It™