Goddamnit. Goddamnit. Rush. Why?
Why you fat, slovenly, cigar chomping asshole?
They don’t know, they don’t know you the way I did. While America was preoccupied watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade every year, I stood there wearing an apron while making Shaker Lemon Pie. You never could taste anything that wasn’t as bitter as your audience.
You made me sing Simple Gifts whenever the Garfield float made its way through the crowd. You would always say you’d put the liberals into camps, and it the parade always ended in your hearty laugh that filled the Four Seasons Suite like vodka-spiked whipped cream…..because you spat it out as you laughed.
You loved that fucking cat. I will never understand why.
Goodbye and tell Bobby Kennedy his brother Jack’s dick wasn’t any bigger but it wasn’t bent exactly 43 degrees the wrong direction, halfway down the shaft.
Why would they do that? Its fucking cold outside.
Gold and silver prices are manipulated? Peter Schiff is going to shit a shiny gold brick.
Is it wrong to want him to get into a shootout with the FBI? He might even tag an agent or two in the process. Please note Preet, I am asking it in the form of an ethical query and not threatening to assassinate a sitting governor.
I for one am not getting a red cent from this ponzi scheme, because I’m paid under the table and paid exactly $0 into it since 1958.
Finally! Dumbfuck pretending to be an economist doesn’t know the lowest quintile rarely pays any income tax, but let’s pretend its going to be a big help when they’re unemployed later this year because Biden’s national minimum wage will make most of them unemployed.
First two links are infowars and zerohedge.
*Adjusts tin foil hat into yarmulke*
Watcha talking about gaijin?
I’m sorry. Next time I’ll give you a trigger warning. Pussy.
Dishonest hack is dishonest.
Anyone that tells you politicians want to address inequality and doesn’t follow that up by saying “As a racket that will allow them to make themselves rich”, should be immediately seen as a fucking moron or an accomplice in that racket.
They want to enrich themselves and the useful idiots that vote for them. Both sides do it.
A response to Krugman is a reminder that some people believe all your base belong to us: https://twitter.com/rkb8000/status/1360940261505867785
Mornin’, all!
I’m not expecting anything from the Ponzi scheme either. Although I have paid in plenty.
I don’t really care – particularly if it speeds the collapse.
My teachers and professors advised my generation (X) not to even factor SS into our retirement plans.
Said yo assume we’d never see them. That did a lot to help me never get too angry about SS. I know it’s a ponzu scheme and anyone less than 50 now is likely pretty well hosed.
One financial advisor didn’t understand why I didn’t want to factor in SS into my retirement plans. Needless to say, I didn’t hire his company.
Good move on your part. I did the same – twice – when these idiots kept telling me I was being too aggressive in my numbers because of SS. When prompted that the thing was a fucking ponzi scheme and more than not likely to implode before or during my turn to suck at the government teat, they acted as if I was crazy. The government wouldn’t let that happen!
My worry is that they will come after people like me that understood the collapse was inevitable and squirreled away a ton of cash in a private retirement account to never have to care about that ponzi scheme’s payouts. And based on how they keep fucking everyone that tries to be self sufficient over, I suspect they are rubbing their greedy hands and licking their lips about sticking it to the fucking rubes that fight their kleptocracy.
That’s a foregone conclusion. I brought it up with my CPA back in 2008 and he thought I was nuts.
Now they’re starting to advise people to take the tax hit now and get it out of those accounts.
What type of account are you referring to?
IRA
Sorry I wasn’t more clear – what types of accounts are they getting out of? As far as the tax hit now, you’re talking about switching to a Roth and paying the tax up front instead of at time of withdrawal?
I’m supposed to meet with my CPA in a few weeks. I’ll have more clarity then. Right now, it’s just been emails about considering the impact of higher tax rates in the future. and tax deferred accounts.
I’m planning on doing a partial conversion of my IRA to a Roth next year (when I retire and plan to live off savings for a few months to keep my income down). The Roth will then be untouched for quite a few years as I make IRA withdrawls – in essence becoming our long term retirement (assuming I/we live to the point of exhausting the IRA, hopefully). If not, the inheritability benefits will be there for my son.
Yes, Ira.
Love that flick…..
I’m not prepared for that but I’ll lay in that bed because I made it. Who knew that fucking around for decades would lead to such a dire outcome? Work until I die.
Ponzi scheme? Ponzi scheme?
Yeah, I know, all you working folks, my own kids. I do understand who sends me a pittance every month. I’d much preferred to have made my own investment choices. SS has bought a lot of votes over the years though, even Bush 2 understood that.
Now do Medicare for all. Ain’t no free lunch.
My retirement plans include savings to make sure I can keep private insurance for as long as possible. I had one experience with the VA, and that has dissuaded me of all things government when it comes to healthcare of any kind.
My retirement plan includes a cardboard coffin and someone there to light the match.
We might all end up there once the fucking mandarinate finishes selling us out to the CCP, Festus.
It hasn’t really hit me yet. I joke and jibe but the future is not looking too bright. Glad that you are prepared, Alex.
I feel bad for people that tell me they are not, but then I remind myself that this might all have been for naught if the people in charge just take it away anyway (and believe me they will to keep power).
Hahahaha – you think ANYONE in the federal govt is going to take away benefits from seniors? No. They’ll screw the next seven generations before that, because those seniors vote.
Not after Cuomo gets done with them…
I know you believe otherwise, JI — but to me and others here, the last election made it pretty clear their plan is in the “who counts the votes matter” phase. So so what if they have to creatively manage a few more votes because the seniors are ticked off? If they complain — that’s just insurrection now!
Well, we shall in about 19 months how your belief plays out.
Free burial at sea.
Why am I suspicious that the US Attorney probe (heh) of Cuomo is just for show and will ultimately be a whitewash?
Nice Preet ref, WM.
There is some hope. Stalin is in power now, so it’s time to purge the useful idiots who could potentially be a threat down the road.
From the media coverage (ie. that they are actually covering it) it seems like Cuomo and Newsom are being hung out to dry a little bit.
Sacrificial lambs. There are plenty of slick-backed NPCs to toadie up to the DNC.
The probe’s purpose is to find a scapegoat.
I suspect they’ll try to pin it on some advisor or another, the deputy to the Deputy Director of Public Health for the State of New York or some such.
because the left would never give out an award to an absolute monster! never… not once…
Roman Polanski waves his…
“Polanski Didn’t Exile Himself!’
What goes into 13 twice?
Roman Polanski
They’ll find some white dude like that whole drew up the Powerpoint file for some advisor and show how he emphasized the wrong column of data which lead poor Cuomo to make a poorly informed decision which killed a few thousand grandmas.
Do you know who else wouldn’t have killed so many people if only he’d known the truth?
Superman?
Derek Stevenson of 184 Squadron? As if WWII wasn’t bad enough.
Once you have a one-party state, the one-party will divide into factions that snarl and rip each other. You see it already in Dem-controlled cities where there is usually a primary candidate who is a “reformer” up against the machine guys. I think much of voting fraud occurs in primaries where the intention is to quash the “reformer.”
By reformer you mean they promise to fix things but just want their chance to fuck all the people up the ass without even the courtesy of a freaking reacharound.
Lookin’ fine, Winston’s Mom. I especially enjoy the b/w image. Reminds me of high-end scotch, cheap cigars and debauchery.
Wait for me, Festus, I want to get in on some of that too. I think I would like some of those things. Go easy on my share of the debauchery though.
It reminds me of my Dad’s “girlie” magazines from the Sixties. Still gives me a chub after all these years.
https://twitter.com/DudespostingWs/status/1362224964716408835
That dude just made every bikini bottom drop on the beach.
He’s gonna get more ass than a toilet seat…
Those whom the gods would destroy…
What about these goat ropers?
Will they capture the hearts of beach goers as well?
Same twitter feed….
https://twitter.com/Moneymirweather/status/1362110923985461248
Still hope for me and my college hoop dreams.
It’ll be amazing how many WBNA superstars started off with failed NBA careers.
The story was from 2012….. where was I?
And how do you have eligibility left?
But income inequality must be eliminated! Sure, the market forces tend to set wages that value certain skill sets more than it values others.
The job of government is to counteract those automations of the market.
The Hand might be Invisible, but we know it’s white, and it spreads racial bigotry in its wake.
Only the beneficent hand of Daddy government can undo the white supremacy inherent in freedom, cuz as everyone knows, meritocracy is racist.
And shut up about the rising tide lifting all boats. The elites have yachts while the poor have speedboats. We can’t rest until we’re all clinging to floating debris. That’s only fair.
Floridians have fan boats. Whither the stimulus for Florida Man?
He’d just blow it, anyway…
So spending money on crack hos (sorry Winston’s mom for bringing up the competition) and meth is not a stimulus?
Don’t forget to tie weights to good swimmers for equity.
Diana ‘Moon Glompers concurs.
China is getting every cent out of Joe and the Ho!
https://www.irishpost.com/news/joe-biden-defends-china-on-human-rights-record-and-accusations-of-genocide-and-torture-citing-cultural-differences-204074
Google algo’s have suppressed it. Had to use Yahoo to find the story.
Interesting, I just google’d it (without reference to irish) and it was the first thing that came up. Google must have some reason for keeping YOU from seeing but not me.
Wtf… it’s working for me now to. Now I feel like I need a tinfoil hat.
Nah, they’re gaslighting you (or are they?).
Think of it as China cashing in its long term investment in the Democrat party.
They’re entitled to make a ROI aren’t they?
They have made 10-50x their investment so far IMO. These fucks were bought for peanuts, and usually using US tax payer dollars transferred to the CCP, and they went to war with the serfs for resisting their sellout racket by electing that anti-CCP evil orange guy..
Meanwhile, in China:
https://twitter.com/Woj_Pawelczyk/status/1362037763944636419
That’s cultural, yo…
I am starting to think that to the political leadership, but especially the democrats, the shit that went down on January 6 was our Tiananmen Square. And they are taking the lessons from the CCP to make sure that never happens again.
Probably one of the worse things I’ve seen on Twitter, but for once I don’t regret the click.
For a group that acts like they hate Nazis so much, the left sure does sweep a lot of the Nazis’s worst atrocities under the rug when done by the ChiComs (credit to Rush, PBUH).
Ugh…just make it black and white shot in 35mm and it looks like footage from the 1930s.
Wow, holy shit.
I can’t even.
Oh, it gets better.
Most of the stories claim the exact opposite.
For me, the Business Standard was the top link. Their headline? “China will face repercussions for human rights abuses, says Joe Biden”
Now, here’s the actual quote:
That’s the basis for the repercussions. They’ll have a tough time with other countries if they want to be a world leader and continue these abuses.
Now, here’s the actual quote about Biden’s policy, copied from the New York Post because they have more of the actual quotes:
Bonus: Following the BBC expose, China banned BBC news from China. Coming soon to a country near you.
Up is down. There are 5 lights…. get with the program, people..
Biden is worse than even I thought.
^this
In every way.
Bottom quintile? Hell the entire bottom HALF of income earners pay 3% of the total income tax collected in this country. We have a progressive income tax and the left-tards still whine just to prove how fucking clueless they are.
I’m just impressed that Krugabe’s Twatter followers are even dumber than his NYT adherents.
It’s all about race.. money comes second. America is split between equality for everyone and racists
Impressed? I suppose that’s different than surprise.
Bottom quintile pays a negative income tax.
If you want to make the system more progressive, end the excise taxes. It is the least progressive federal tax. Plus, beer prices would drop.
move the excise tax from beer to hops.
You know it was due to a tax (on the gruit herb blend) that hops became the preferred bittering agent, right?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/we-went-over-48-hours-without-power-sub-freezing-texas-heres-what-it-was-like
I’m convinced I should quit my job and just go sell firewood and fix burst pipes. One of my co-workers has neighbors tearing down fences for something to burn.
Huh. I guess the preppers don’t seem so weird now.
…and the S hasn’t HTF yet.
We need to take the firewood from the haves and redistribute it, it isn’t fair…
+1 Strategic National Firewood Reserve
So you seen Fourscore’s wood shed.
Lol, “shed” got pushed to a new line. Made for a much different read.
Everybody loves to make fun of the preppers until a disaster happens. Of course, when it’s all over, they go right back to the same mindset.
AOC says Texas just needs to green harder and none of this would have happened.
More frozen windmills would definitely improve the situation.
The media is getting behind the fact check that wind turbines didn’t cause this more power was lost through fossil fuels.
although simple math on percentage of power that stayed up shows if you replaced them with natural gas about 500,000 more people would have power.
When you don’t understand the concept of load caused by using these unreliable renewables, you will fall for the bullshit that the windmills freezing was not the reason the whole thing cascade failed. Yes, the pipes to the gas power facility and sensors in the nuclear site went bad, but that happened because the cascade failures pushed the system into the problem of needing to find power elsewhere.
Texas will have to harden their infrastructure to cold like this (unfortunately even if it could happen once, it is too much these days), but they should blame the cult of AGW for telling everyone winters were a thing of the past….
A lot of the talking heads keep laughing at the idea because lol, Texas must have like 1 turbine in the entire state.
If only there was a fact checker who could find out what state has the most installed wind capacity (and the most currently under construction).
Related.
Burning treated lumber?
Many/most fences down here are cedar.
So at least it smells nice down there.
?
*begins writing up business plan for feminine hygiene product*
I wonder how many nuclear power plants froze up?
Alex noted above, one did shut down due to some type of sensor failure.
I have about 13 rick i cut this fall stacked up next to my outdoor wood burning furnace. Normal price of a rick is about 45 dollars here. My wife tells that people she knows are paying over a hundred a rick right now. If I was wasn’t using it, i’d have quite the little gold mine out back right now.
Libertarian answer:
Because the government has “anti gouging” laws.
We had that effect down here after the last big hurricane a few years back. There was a shortage of generators, so some dude up in Wisconsin bought up all the generators he could find at retail, loaded them on a rental truck and drove them to Florida. He got arrested for gouging – he charged a 100% markup.
But he also had generators for sale. Home depot didn’t.
But good job, big brother.
Same thing applies in your scenario…. although I think the big box retailers are more agile with their supply chain these days.
If you understand that the promise to fix inequality is an excuse for government to pick winners & losers, it will become obvious that the people peddling that bullshit feel shrinking the economy and fucking over the people is a bonus for their plan, and not a detractor.
More to the point, most of these idiots don’t know or refuse to admit that there is, economically, absolutely no problem with income inequality. It’s an inevitable facet of the human condition.
Inevitable? All the more reason to create a govt program dedicated to its eradication – there’s no limit to the money we can dump into it!
That’s the frustrating thing – everybody knows at least one person (probably several) who are poor because of their own shitty decisions… Walking out of jobs, never making any effort to improve their skills, immediately spending all their money on bullshit, smoking cigarettes when they can’t pay the bills, etc.
And these people will complain about “what life has given me” and bum money from everyone else, but most people know that you’re not helping them at all by handing them money – you’re just allowing them to continue their bad behavior while basically throwing your own money down the toilet.
Yet, the welfare proponents always insist that poverty is only caused by the cruel, capricious hand of capitalism. I don’t think there’s good data on this, but my hypothesis would be that a majority of poor people could easily improve their situation by making some simple changes that are totally within their reach. I wish more research would be done on this, but there’s probably not much government grant money in that, so it won’t be done.
Baseball birthdays are pretty good today.
Tops is HoFer Joe Gordon with 55.7 WAR.
The next 6 are between 32.5 and 25.0 WAR, that is a deep list of solid careers: John Valentin, Kevin Tapini, George Mogridge, Alex Rios, Sherry Smith, and John Mayberry.
Didi Gregorius is sitting at #9, but will join that group in another 2-3 seasons.
At #52 (-1.4 WAR) is Kyle Abbott. Despite also starting his pitching career with the Angles, and despite having twice as many hands, he was nowhere near as good as Jim Abbott.
DeepFuckingValue’s statement to congress was published yesterday. I guess today is when he actually testifies. It was a very good statement, obviously didn’t have a team of lawyers preparing it like the others being called (I am also sure it was edited by his lawyer, because he clearly isn’t stupid). He actually said (or wrote, I guess) “I like the stock”, which is a WSB meme.
I just hope some senator is forced to call him by his reddit user name instead of his real name.
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BA/BA00/20210218/111207/HHRG-117-BA00-Wstate-GillK-20210218.pdf
I can just imagine the retarded questions they’re going to ask trying to look clever on TV. I hope he ever so politely snarks the shit out of them.
This takes a lotta balls
https://twitter.com/marknorm/status/1362044716850806789
One aggressive foul is a game winner.
Doing Kevin McHale low-post moves because one air-ball = game over.
MY PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED
https://youtu.be/T0EFqPWWrMI?t=150
Can’t you get that from just wrassling gatoprs?
“Israel To Allow “Green Pass”-Holders Only To Access Public Spaces”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/israel-allow-green-pass-holders-only-access-public-spaces
Coming soon to a location near you but, hey, you ain’t being forcibly vaccinated, amirite?
Israeli’s making a list…
Huh.
I guess Israeli politicians don’t do irony.
The List is life.
Incredible.
Yeah, this comes here and that’s it.
I will not comply. Says I.
According to my scan of the headlines, it were a lack of regulation what dunnit.
If Texas’ utility grid were owned and operated by the federal government, there would have been no power outages.
The feds are well regarded for their proactive planning and not screwing the pooch, it is known.
The news would just be covering it differently. See Cuomo and the grandma killings or literally Newsom DESTROYING and impoverishing millions… No big deal
California says hi.
I can hardly wait until they spend billions to make sure that Texas will never have 7 days of spotty power during a once in a century ice storm.
Billions…
I say we throw trillions at it!
/running for Congress
https://people.com/human-interest/woman-child-die-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-in-texas-after-using-running-car-heat-house/
Has this made the rounds yet?
ugh
The fact that so many people don’t realize this is something insane to do a stain on our public education system. I bet they knew about the evils of CO2 because of the warmist cult, but had no clue CO kills for real.
^^
Maybe they thought they had an electric car?
Very sad but, I hate to say it, Darwinism?
A woman’s version of “Hold my beer?”
Very unsurprising
People do this all the time with generators and heaters.
I don’t want to be THAT guy, but something something Charles Darwin…
So we’re down to 1,999,998 people without power in Texas.
Winston’s mom has the links with the kinks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTsY-oz6Go
If anybody knows about unnecessary and heavyhanded actions…
“Facebook was wrong. Facebook’s actions were unnecessary. They were heavy-handed and they will damage its reputation here in Australia,” Frydenberg said at a media briefing on Thursday.
Why don’t you just lock Facebook in the basement until they agree to your demands?
Goddamnit. Goddamnit. Rush. Why?
Rushed away too soon.
How on earth can one’s penis be bent in the right direction?
https://www.restorex.com
Thot Thursday wants you to know that if you put egg shells in the trash instead of down the garbage disposal, you should be cancelled and sent to the camps.
https://archive.li/WoP0q
I can hardly wait until they spend billions to make sure that Texas will never have 7 days of spotty power during a once in a century ice storm.
They can dot the landscape with gigantic water towers (not for drinking or agriculture, of course); Windmills will pump them full, so the water can be released through turbine generators as backup power when the wind (or the windmills) quits.
*This is a real thing.
The Rube Goldberg power plan? Sounds legit.
I remember talking to someone in Arizona along time ago about a system that pumped water from a river to the top of a bluff using wind power. Then the water flowed down to produce electricity (very small scale hydro-electric). This was in off grid applications. Quite effective at providing stable, continuous electricity driven by sporadic wind.
Pump storage plants are viable, however they’re usually done with a hollowed out mountain and deployed on a grand scale to soak up excess grid power in a region.
The maintenance on a bunch of distributed towers is going to be obscenely prohibitive in terms of labor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka5g5xR4bXA
Maybe that’s what all those displaced frackers & coal miners should learn to do…. remotely….
The Seneca power station in northern PA is a very effective pumped storage facility.
When I was in the power industry, my employer was involved in some big research projects to look at various energy storage schemes. One used compressed air storage in underground facilities. The idea was that during off peak hours, compressed air would be stored in underground caverns and empty porous rock structures. Then during peak hours, the compressed air would be released to provide combustion air for gas turbines. Since the compression step is the most energy intensive part of the Brayton cycle, in off peak hours, wind energy could be used to offset the requirement, and the gas turbine plants could put out, on net, more peak power during the day.
Another item was a very interesting subterranean storage system that could actually be installed within city limits: There would be two large vertical cylinders underground, one of which would have a large concrete piston fitted to it. In off peak hours, water would be pumped into the cylinder with the piston to raise it to the top of its stroke. Then during peak hours, the piston would be allowed to fall, driving water from the power cylinder into the reservoir cylinder, through the pump/turbine, generating power.
We use HPAC on all our gas turbine ships. It’s the emergency backup for starting an engine if you lose power. Gotta test regularly too. HP Air is dangerous, but an excellent alternative.
Not sure if it’s online right now but the lessons learned discussion from the USS Cole CO on how they improvised systems to restore power is excellent.
That’s the general idea of how the Danish wind farms store power. They fill up reservoirs in Norway for later energy production. In that specific case it probably works pretty well. The dams were already built and nearby. Doing it from scratch in the US is probably impossible.
Dems have read the tea leaves.
So the DNC media wing is on the attack!
“Dems Pounced!”
Why do they still have the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” header on their site? I thought Democracy had been rescued now that Beijing Joe had been installed by their Fortified™ election.
This is a local kid – https://youtu.be/gIE_hY2cmAE Sorry for the crappy sound and production values but this was ten years ago. I heard him on the college station a few times and he’s a gem! Wish there were more recent videos but (of course) all he has is a Pinterest page. Fucking Zoomers. Building a fan base artisanally with stupid hair-cuts one fan at a time. Search him out, if you please.
NPR had a delightful minutes-long dyslogy for Rush, where they had at least five different speakers come on to shit on him. All. Class.
I loathed Rush, but it was because it clearly was all an act. He had no principles. He supported ‘the right’ every-time the winds changed on what ‘the right’ was. It was a schtick. But I wouldn’t dance on his grave.
That describes so many people in that line of prominent conservative thought and opinion. It’s like someone said yesterday, apparently his understanding grew over time. I was an idiot, once. I still am, but I’m less of an idiot. Perhaps Rush took a similar journey, but much more publicly. There’s a certain feedback in that the so called “thought leaders” don’t so much as dictate the culture, but reflect it and distill it clearly for those that listen. It doesn’t mean they’re always right. That’s how I listen to it. I’m sure plenty of us have been at odds with VDH over the years, but he’s absolutely on point these days. The new divide between swapists and populists has produced some interesting developments.
No, his understanding didn’t grow over time, in fact it seemed to retard (please don’t run away again LH). He just seemed to go with whoever was the defacto head of the Reps line of propaganda, which made for some fun listening during primary season at least, when he’d switch horses mid-stream when the popular candidate changed. Like I said, I found him a vile person, but for reasons of integrity, unlike those who are dancing on his grave.
That’s where Rush’s weakness was. He though of himself as the GOP kingmaker and comported himself as such when it came to day to day politics. He put himself in many awkward situations when he backed so many candidates as saviors of the republic (*cough* Paul Ryan *cough*) to only flip on them when they did something particularly egregious later on.
Rush was amazing when he stuck to lampooning the media, exposing the long term plans of the left, and talking first principles. When he got into the interniecene GOP squabbles or the rah rah TEAM crap from the day to day news cycle, he missed more than he hit.
I contend, if they had been in power when that egregiousness happened, he would have again just switched horses. He tried to sound smart, mentioning Burke, which is really terrible starting point for American conservatism; but he was just always about being for the reps and against the dems. I can’t fault that as a strategy to gain listeners, but listening to his horseshit when I was a kid is probably what made me first realize I wasn’t like the other ‘conservative’ boys (did yall get my alluding to my own ‘awakening’ to that of a gay, like all the cool kids are wont to do?). I wanted intellectually consistency.
He was very smart, in a very limited area. Unfortunately, like pretty much everyone else, he overestimated how far his insight extended.
listening to his horseshit when I was a kid is probably what made me first realize I wasn’t like the other ‘conservative’ boys
Yup, I got to that point, too. I saw it as outgrowing him. I think that most people who actually thought about ideas rather than TEAM got to that point. Unfortunately, very few think about ideas.
He was the lone voice exposing the bad faith of the media for a quarter century. He was the most articulate defender (with any semblance of a megaphone) of constitutional principles from the 90s through the early 2010s. He knew the progs better than they knew themselves.
Because of those things alone, he has been a more effective defender of American liberty than the LP could have dreamed of being. The fact that he was a TEAM player and not particularly good at applying his espoused principles within TEAM is a stain on his legacy, but it doesn’t change the fact that he was more successful at laying bare the threats to liberty than a dump truck full of ideologically pure libertarian thinkers each with HS girls basketball sized audiences.
In the pragmatism v. purity battle, he was much too pragmatic/wishy washy/unprincipled/hacky for my taste, but i think he’s a big reason why the GOP didn’t completely surrender to the “slow roll socialist” crowd during the Clinton/Bush/Obama years.
Citizen Limbaugh must be a lesson to the rest of us. Would you want to be remembered so disfavorably, citizen? I thought not. So, heed the lesson therein. Citizen Limbaugh was a bad and troublesome citizen, who did awful and cowardly things such as try to educate himself, and express cogently his considered opinion! Be not so foolish, citizen Not Adahn. Be a brave and good person, and you shall be remembered as such.
You’ll burn in the ditch just like the rest of us.
Yet they perceive themselves as classy.
Not like that crass Donald Trump, more like Martha Stewart.
Geez.. I can’t even imagine having to agree to this to stay in the military. What a ridiculous crap fest.
There used to be a couple sayings in the Army that were supposed to guide policy:
“Mission First”
“Train For War”
I guess they can still use the first, but change the second to “Train For Culture War”.
“You GIs Will fill the front holes and the back holes on command! Sir, Yes Sir!”
Will they put names on the back of their pants like the Navy?
The Army also has gone down the “culture over mission” path. The Army’s transgender plan wasn’t just choice of uniform and free surgery. They get to use the physical fitness standards for their chosen gender.
That’s…. just insane.
Yep, the genderless standards were unfair to one gender.
The standards already included differences for gender and age. The change allows biological males to pass using the female standards. I always thought the standards should be based on MOS and billet.
It started back in the ’70s with the integration of women into troop units. At the beginning it was TOE signal positions. A 90 lb roll of field wire doesn’t care those is stringing it but few of the lady soldiers (and a lot of men) could not do it. Change a tire on a 2 1/2T, Damn, who put these lug nuts on so tight? I liked a soft voice answering the switchboard though.
Impact drill. There is no way I could manually loosen lug nuts tightened that way.
My prog sister-in-law who works for a state government branch actually seriously asked for my advice because what the feds are proposing for the project she’s been working on would be wasteful and take a long time. She want’s to introduce competition to reduce the price…I really do need to find that shocked face now, but I think I lost it amid all the ‘ironic’ ones…
Oh no, you have to take full advantage of the opportunity. How can she question the wisdom of federal bureaucrats who are no doubt paid more handsomely than she is. She should simply quiet down and accept that her betters know what is best. I would go on about that for DAYS.
Honest questions here.
I see endless posts, including Krugman’s about how increasing taxes on high income earners (“the wealthy”) is addressing income inequality. Can someone explain to me how taking a little more cash from the rich in any way makes the poor better off? How does it reduce inequality? As far as I can tell, welfare programs, which are what the taxes are supposed to fund, produce more people in perpetual dependence on the government. The rich don’t seem to be much poorer as a result. I’ve never seen a good argument for how increasing taxes actually fixes the problem they’re claiming to solve. It’s just blithely asserted without any need for evidence or even a request for any.
Can anybody explain this to me? Why is nobody asking why the clothes have no emperor? What am I missing?
Even more fun, ask that of progs. They have no answer. They don’t actually care about improving the lot of the poor, they only care about cutting down those above them. It’s obvious, even to them when you ask them how this benefits the poor. Make them squirm, make them scream in hate at you for making them confront their own true motives.
It might be my least favorite of their songs, despite agreeing with the message. Not sure why.
But this works too:
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
Because it’s cheesy metaphor at its cheesiest.
“The poor” are just people. People are temporary, expendable, and easily replaced. “Income Inequality” is an idea and worth so much more. Just like any amount of harm can be done to human beings and the benefits to “Society” or “The Greater Good” will more than make up for it.
It’s like you don’t even read the NYT ethics column .
Can someone explain to me how taking a little more cash from the rich in any way makes the poor better off?
Considering the income tax has always been progressive, you might have to conclude…we need to double down.
Hah. I ended my recent letter to the editor this way: “Pretending to be compassionate is a politician’s greatest skill, but there is no reason the rest of us should be fooled.”
Can anybody explain this to me?
Yes, it’s very simple. You’re trying to take the argument in good faith, which is your error.
The progressive leadership are not stupid. They fully understand that increasing taxes does not fix the problems they’re claiming to solve. Increasing taxes does provide opportunities for graft and power. That is the sole reason they make these arguments and hold the policy positions they do.
btw, I was being facetious CP. Hard to convey tone in these comments.
What y ou are missing is that the tax increases inevitably affect the middle class. That is where the meat is. ‘The rich’ dont pay more, they pay less. Written into those tax laws are a million dodges for the rich. When our tax rate was at its highest (90%?) for the rich the revenue generated was zero. The rich paid nothing.
The majority of the increased revenue from the middle class does not go to the poor. It gets soaked up by government and redistributed to cronies, i.e. the rich.
They are grifters and thieves, plain and simple. All of the talk about fairness, reducing inequality, blah blah blah is just part of the con.
So the Trump tax cuts actually increased the tax burden at the top. Yep, the tax was collected even more progressively.
FATCA forced us to close our account in my wife’s homeland. We had about $10K there. We were real fat cats.
This is about creating the illusion that government is the best entity to decide where money needs to go, because only government can resist the temptations of dark forces, and thus, battle inequality. That the most despicable and corrupt fucks ever man the battlements of government decision making ramparts never seems to register with the fucking idiots.
Note also that they are NOT targeting the really wealthy either. Billionaires, and especially those that are seriously socially active (pretenders the lot of them), tend to have zero income (if not, they should fire their accountants), but those trying to get real wealthy all have to produce to grow there, and that’s whom they are targeting. The tax system becomes just another mechanism for government to control who gets to join the inner circle of top men.
It helps to first think of tax policy as concerning social engineering rather than revenue generation. In other words, you are taxing to change the shape of society rather than to get more money into government hands.
To that end, the goal of very high marginal tax rates is to remove very high incomes entirely (or nearly so). Think of it as an income ratio limiter (like, the CEO can be paid no more than 100 times the lowest-paid employee) but for the entire country instead of just a single company. It reduces income inequality in the most basic sense: your Gini coefficient goes down because there are literally not any people making above a certain threshold anymore.
The argument then goes that this has a trickle-down effect (though they would probably object to calling it such) on cost of living and the relative benefit of welfare services. Because economic theory says that the marginal utility of a dollar (or any unit of currency) goes down as your income goes up, capping incomes increases the marginal utility of the dollars made by high earners, which means they spend fewer of them, which means they don’t drive up prices as much. The narrower range between low and high income somewhat equalizes the living standard expectations of the two groups, which in turn reduces the knock-on effects of income inequality. Moreover, since money and power always find each other (one of our axioms, not necessarily theirs), capping incomes also caps the access to power.
Or so the theory goes. This is my attempt to steelman the opposing argument, though I admit it may still be weak.
There are a few problems with this argument, however. The first is that remuneration is reward, and so while a fat cat lazing around long after his glory days may seem like a wastrel and his income unjustifiable, that is the exception rather than the rule. Love him or hate him, Bill Gates brought computing to the masses (not singlehandedly of course). Jeff Bezos reinvented logistics and how a lot of behind the scenes of the Internet work, Elon Musk did the same for electric cars and space travel, etc. Even Mark Zuckerberg and the Google/Alphabet people earned their billions by removing inefficiencies in delivering advertising. We may find their renumeration excessive, perhaps outweighing the relative value of their contribution, and no doubt the modern American tax-advantaged corporation has distorted incentives, but effective exploitation of capital is a skill and those people have, or had, it.
The next is that raw taxable income is only a part of the picture. The names I gave above are all based upon estimated net worth. That net worth is primarily tied up in securities, i.e. it’s “paper” wealth. Far from being the sole province of the uber-wealthy, securities are a type of investment and investments are the way that smaller fish get access to the resources of bigger fish. Investment is an important plank in an effective economy, and so capping income is also capping the ability to invest. Investment is risky of course, and that risk can be structural, but the structural risk of reduced investment is unseen yet shouldn’t be ignored. Thus also even the lazy fat cat generally makes a contribution to the economy, as Scrooge McDuck-like vaults of money are not productive.
The third problem with this argument is that our axiom captures better the relationship between power and wealth. “They will always find each other” is more accurate than saying it only goes one way. Capping income does not cap power. If anything, it uncaps power, but captures some of it in the hands of the taxing authority (almost always, this is the state). However, since power can find money just as well as money can find power, a high marginal tax rate just shifts around and obfuscates the relationship between power and money. We know Zuckerberg or Gates have outsized influence partly because we can see it and partly because we know they’re very wealthy. The exact business model Microsoft or Facebook executed may not have been as viable if you mucked with the laws, but it is laughable to believe such men would not exist just because of a change in tax policy. They might be Maduro cronies instead, but they’d still be there.
Bloody good news!
I’ve heard their schools are very well red.
From first period to last.
The goal of public schools increasingly seems to be normalizing the institutionalization of the populace. Do not take care of yourself, it is the job of the state to do that for you. All it asks in return is your unquestioning obedience.
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But who will feed the kids on weekends? How will college be free if the students have to pay for their meals?
Can’t wait to see what the boys do with the tampons.
Rush Limbaugh was one of my first political influences.
Living in Okinawa when I was 22 and just married, I was working as a carpenter. Often I would end up doing labor jobs by myself and would listen to the US military broadcast. He was played everyday from 13-1400.
This was during the Republican “Contract With America”, how naive I was. Rush was very insightful and entertaining to my young ears and I will always appreciate him for starting me out and helping to explain why I hated politicians and their apologists.
The thing that Rush started and the guys on the right mostly understand was that he fully understood that his job was to be an entertainer. He said this explicitly many times. Politics was just part of the product… the product was an entertaining radio show that could draw and hold an audience.
The left never understood this. That is why Air America failed. That is why they have to subsidize the left political talk class. Acting pompous was just that… an act. Folks like Rachel Maddow don’t get that. They get high on their own product, always a mistake.
Nah I enjoy getting lectured by breathy radio voices softly telling me I am a piece of shit. Looking at you NPR
^This^
And all the ‘hateful” stuff Rush would say were no worse than mild locker room teasing.
Like a lot of you guys, I had the same sort of history with Rush. Heard him young and liked the program. Generally moved on from him as I got older. Still would tune in if I was driving around because he was far more entertaining than local sportzball radio.
He was sort of a proto-Trump. He’d say things that “polite society” had agreed that would never be spoken, but the rubes liked. Then he’d use the MSM’s over reaction to really tweak them.
The left never understood this.
Jon Stewart figured it out. He was funny and pithy and only occasionally sanctimonious (at first). But then he got too far up his own asshole and birthed a generation of people even less likable than Rush in return: John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah, Larry Wilmore, and the most successful of them all, Stephen Colbert.
First job out of college I worked with a very gentle soul, old-school liberal quasi-hippie who smoked a pipe. He listened to Rush nearly every day.
Clarification: I worked FOR, not with.
The probe by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York is apparently in its early stages and is focusing on the work of some of the senior members of the governor’s task force, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter who is not authorized to comment publicly.
Prediction: Like the investigation into the PA governor and PA nursing homes, nothing will happen.
When asked if they were relying on Social Security for their retirement, 27.2% of Americans responded yes, adding that the so-called social security program was their main retirement funding source.
Only 27.2% of Americans that responded to this survey are stupid? That seems low. I think the survey pool was not representative of America.
Paul Krugman can go fuck himself. I suggest Winston’s Mom charge Krugman extra for the jerk-off-instructional video.
35% don’t know what social security is. 25% don’t know what retirement is.
https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/02/jameson-irish-whiskey-will-pay-you-to-take-a-day-off-for-st-patricks-day-2021.html
Can I drink Tullamore Dew instead?
At that price point, yes. But if someone else is paying then Red Breast.
Let’s see… the Irish I’ve got in my basement at this very moment:
Jameson Cold Brew (really meh)
Jameson Gold Reserve
Jameson Black Barrel
Tullamore Dew (standard)
Tullamore Dew 12 year
Tullamore Dew Warehouse Edition
Redbreast 12 Cask Strength
Middleton Very Rare
Middleton Very Rare Barry Crockett edition
I should be good for options.
Nice collection. My standard is TD. Red Breast is better but I’d rather spend $60 on scotch. Have a bottle of Slane which is not bad. If I can get Powers for under $35 I often buy that.
Tullamore is my go to as well. I’ve introduced many people to it (generally after they get a round of Jameson shots). Almost all of them have switched to Tullamore going forward.
I like Powers as well. Gave McGregor’s Proper Twelve a try, not bad.
This amused me.
Some quality trolling from our Wisconsin neighbors.
Because that is more important than fighting his tyranny (the state supreme court knocked down his state of emergency orders for the lockdown, but the mask shit he keeps re-upping and they don’t bother to challenge it, because then they would like have to keep doing it man, that’s way too hard)
More petty dumb shit. Sorry, but trolling is not why I elect– wait a minute, maybe it is. Maybe I don’t want them writing laws but recreating high school.
Human rights advocates also criticized Facebook’s move. Elaine Pearson, Australia director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement posted on Twitter that the social media giant is restricting important information such as Covid-19 updates.
“Facebook is severely restricting the flow of information to Australians,” she said.
“This is an alarming and dangerous turn of events. Cutting off access to vital information to an entire country in the dead of the night is unconscionable,” she added.
How did people get access to vital government information prior to the arrival of facebook?
Dude! The govt has to get word out about the threat of redheaded cockchafers!
Swear it wasn’t me (besides global warming has been making my glorious red hair gray lately).
“…redheaded cockchafers!”
Damnit, Jimbo, you are a tease. I was expecting something else.
Damn, I clicked that link with trepidation thinking it would pop up an article or image of my old redhead girlfriend that had broken up with me cause I wouldn’t beat the shit out of her (not spanking, but she demanded hard punches, and to the face) during coitus…
Wasn’t that a subplot in Californication?
Poor Mr Sheffield never knew what his little Gracie would grow into.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-doctors-want-to-pick-their-covid-19-vaccine-fearing-reactions-lower-efficacy-11613649603
Nothing to see here. The governments and media are now calling it normal and expected that younger people experience days of crippling pain and fever after receiving the vaccine.
Typhoid vaccination back in ’89. IIRC I had to wear a sling because I couldn’t use my arm for at least 2 or 3 days. (admittedly only in 2nd grade, but it was bad).
I’ve never seen a good argument for how increasing taxes actually fixes the problem they’re claiming to solve. It’s just blithely asserted without any need for evidence or even a request for any.
It’s not about fixing anything. It merely satisfies lefties’ envy of those better off.
Most of their programs decode as “punish the winners, reward the losers”.
Most of their programs decode as “punish the winners,
reward the losers”.Participation trophies means there are no fucking winners, yo.
since 1958.
*spits out coffee*
What??
Would not.
I need more than one picture to make a decree. In fact, I need to see this video evidence, alone, for like 10 minutes, then I can make a ruling…
Does the video show Ressler’s face or will you need her to recreate the scene to confirm identity?
I’ve worked in video for almost 20 years, I know first I’d have to see the evidence, alone for about 20 minutes, then to confirm I’d need to try to recreate the footage, while I watch from behind a 1 way mirror. I’m an expert, my process must be respected, it’s #science!
Be thorough. We don’t want a false conviction.
Dead eyes, like a doll’s eyes…
Shame CNN already has a legal analyst.
Wow – child molestation seems a little harsh but I’m not sure what the alternative would be.
Don’t they have a lesser “exposure to minor” charge available?
It doesn’t say what grade level she was
teasing‘teaching’. I mean, bad look either way, but didling yourself around kindergarteners is I think distinctively different than a bunch of 17/18 year olds.Maybe it was a HS jurno class and the next lesson was gonna be about Jeffery Toobin’s work flow?
Second grade.
Well that is a bit young to be learning about the “Smell my finger” game.
At my last job a couple of us “seasoned” managers were stunned to discover that most of the young developers had never heard of “smell my finger” stuff.
ask Doofy
Elementary school. But no physical contact with the kids.
I woulda been into that in second grade, but I wouldn’t have known why.
Making porn without a license?
Yeah. I thought molestation meant something different.
I thought many words had different meanings. Maybe it’s an update in the latest Newspeak dictionary.
Maybe she was protesting for civil rights?
ps. Has anyone seen Brett lately?
Kony 21?
“facing traffic in a vulgar manner.”
Is there any other way to face traffic?
Alternate joke: Steve Winwood hardest hit.
School has definitely changed since I was a kid.
The next time someone tells you that the parties are the same, or worse, that the GOP represents the working class, compare the distributional impact of Trump’s main economic policy and Biden’s
Nothing helps the working class like job-killing regulation, taxation, minimum wage, etc. Oh, and killing energy sector jobs and promoting policies that make energy more expensive.
Uhhh….I could be mistaken, but didn’t the proportion of taxes paid by the rich actually increase post-tax cut?
You are not mistaken. Even better, the top 1% income share went down slightly 17 to 18, but their tax share went up.
Krugnuts once declared that higher taxes and mountains of regulation help businesses. Also, I want to know where my trillion dollar coin is. I am going to need it to prepare for the government faked alien invasion needed to boost the economy.
He isn’t buying what he’s selling, the dude’s an ideologue not an economist (anymore).
He isn’t entirely wrong. Big business loves regulation, it prevents small guys from competing. It kills off creative destruction, so see, Krugman is right!
It’s surreal how shameless the media is. If anything comes of this Cuomo thing, will anyone walk back the boot licking, what with the best selling book and fancy poster, and talk show appearances? Hopefully at least some people will remember this and public cynicism will increase more. People’s opinion of the media is already in the toilet, let’s see how low it can get.
Sacrificial lambs cleanse all sins; just makes me wonder what moves his brother is trying to make. He going to come out as genderqueer and be the first genderqueer WH press secretary?
“If anything comes of this Cuomo thing, will anyone walk back the boot licking, what with the best selling book and fancy poster, and talk show appearances?”
It’ll be walked back about as much as the media ass eating of Michael Avenatti was. Which was not at all.
Michael Avenatti, oh the Trump Slayer! They had him that time, until his little squirrel friend showed up.
I was waiting for one of our maple-scented loonie-slinging beaver-petters to link this, but…
Baber said the “We Are All in This Together Act” would cut the salaries of MPPs to $2,000 per month until all emergency orders, except orders relating to hospitals and long-term care homes, are revoked.
Fuck with the moose, you get the antlers.
Ever since they closed the border, you can’t link to Canadian news in NY
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-mpp-who-denounces-lockdowns-introduces-bill-to-slash-parliamentarian-salaries-to-cerb-levels-1.5312401
Fuck up the link, you get …
Dummy didn’t even make his act name spell anything.
“Since Ontario’s lockdown went into effect on Dec. 26, COVID-19 cases in the province have fallen substantially.”
Something something correlation something something caustaion …
Took the lady to work. Then got to my office and it starts sleeting heavily. Barely been here an hour and I might have to leave before it gets too bad. Figures.
So… did you sneak into a corner office for a quicky?
In a survery of patient satisfaction for those people being medicated for ADHD, depression and related disorders, the most popular treatment, by vast degree?
Meth.
Amphetamines can’t hold a candle to Modafinil and it’s variants, all of the fun without most of the drawbacks or the jitteriness (dear lord the jitteriness).
Do I mail you cash or a credit card number?
How many people saw the coverage of Rush Limbaugh’s death?
The NYT obituary was particularly tasteful. Called him misogynistic, racist and a conspiracy theorist in the first sentence.
I’m so happy I’m still off Facebook. Good job, me. * pats own back *
Congrats TOK!
Local news here has been tastefully neutral, but he had ties to the media here and to the Royals, so nobody’s going to go batshit insane.
I have been avoiding that, I figured it would be nasty.
Oh…. you have no idea…..
https://www.reddit.com/r/ToiletPaperUSA/comments/lm00cy/rush_limbaugh/
Reddit is only good for porn.
This car jacker deserves a stiff sentence!
Just kidding. I will have to see a picture of the deceased before passing judgement.
C’mon man!
I throw this fat pitch right over the plate and no one?
Not even a simple “Seemed like a professional crime ring. Like they had re-hearsed before stealing the car”
So you’re saying we all embalmed that one?
“The driver left the white 2012 Nissan NV1500 van running”
We’ve all had those moments when time/speed is of an essence (or soon will be).
These guys committed a grave offense. Of course, when they are caught, the local Soros-attorney will bury the case.
Been nice knowing all y’all. Looks like I’m in a DANGEROUS state. How could you not trust a health study that includes this line:
I am “pretty sure” I had it in Feb last year.
My wife got what we thought was the flu and I got it from her. I have never had a flu with a hacking cough like that one.
I don’t think I would tell a survey that.
From what I can tell, the defining feature of Covid is that it is weird. Not always worse… but weird.
I had weird body aches and neuropathy. Taste was really odd. Anything acidic like vinegar was just beyond foul. And I am still not over the respiratory effects. Overwhelming fatigue, but kind of all at once in waves. Weird.
But I’ve had several bouts of flu that were much worse overall, probably because of the high fevers, which were absent in the round of Covid I had.
I’m “pretty sure” I had it in JULY 2019. Not kidding. Never get sick that time of year, but I had very severe respiratory issues and a fever. Definitely not the flu. Might have been pneumonia. Oh well.
“they had tested positive or are “pretty sure” they had it”
From the toilet seat, right?
I am in a telephone meeting right now, trying to figure out how to maintain social distancing after we had a positive COVID test for one person.
One lady has a 13 yo who is terrified to go outside because of COVID. My first thought “not COVID, it’s because of you.”
She is also very upset that not everyone is being cautious and that’s why we had a positive test.
I hate people.
Gaslighting your children into neurotic messes, is apparently how we do parenting these days.
I owe my folks a lot for not putting me through that.
“i hate people”
The good thing about this pandemic is that you can feel justified no matter if you look left or look right.
We had a lady at church call us to report that she wasn’t feeling so good and wouldn’t be able to volunteer on Wednesday. Has lost taste… had a contractor working in her house the last two weeks who is not coming because he has covid. But she doesn’t think she has covid. My wife explains that this is exactly the symptoms that she had, so the lady says she is going in for a test on Tuesday morning. Tuesday night, our neighbor sees her shopping at the local Publix.
Yeah… there is a reason that we can’t have nice things.
Making all of our kids sit in their room on a computer with no human contact for a year is idiotic. So is going shopping when you have Covid-19.
Damn, people are stupid.
Oh… bonus “people are stupid”… she’s a New Yorker. That’s been a theme lately. New Yorkers at my dad’s assisted living facility keep letting family in through the back door and refuse to wear masks or distance. They’ve brought 2 cases into the facility so far. (and then everyone has to stay in their room 24/7 for 2 weeks)
I feel you on “I hate people”. But New Yorkers kinda go to the front of the line.
Treating each other as human is not an option I guess.
Refusing to respect the facility’s policies is teh suck, IMO. Especially a facility full of high-risk people.
I get that, but the whole”social distance and masking” just rubs me the wrong way.
Well, that’s a side effect I haven’t heard of before.
Good catch. I didn’t even see it…..
There was a time when being around the guys all the time would have prevented such problems.
Curious why the facility is allowing that to happen.
In my experience NYC is at approximately 100% mask usage at all times and everywhere in public.
Going to bed now. Tell me a nice story or sing me a lullaby? Leave the door open a little and the hallway light on, please?
Uniter-in-Chief
President Joe Biden’s White House is giving its support to studying reparations for Black Americans, boosting Democratic lawmakers who are renewing efforts to create a commission on the issue amid the stark racial disparities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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“He certainly would support a study of reparations,” Psaki said at the White House briefing. “He understands we don’t need a study to take action right now on systemic racism, so he wants to take actions within his own government in the meantime.”
Biden captured the Democratic presidential nomination and ultimately the White House with the strong support of Black voters. As he campaigned against the backdrop of the biggest reckoning on racism in a generation in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, Biden backed the idea of studying reparations for the descendants of slaves. But now, as he tries to win congressional support for other agenda items including a massive coronavirus relief package, he faces a choice of how aggressively to push the idea.
He’ll be a President for all Americans. He’ll move the nation forward.
It’s funny how the AP completely overlooks the strength of the black Trump vote.
Ah, another ridiculous program that I should add as a guide post on my “get the hell out of retirement accounts” plan.
I wouldn’t put it past them to designate anyone pulling out of retirement accounts as being obstructing justice.
Even though Trump increased his share of the black vote, they still overwhelmingly went for Biden.
Biden captured the Democratic presidential nomination and ultimately the White House with t
he strong support ofhistorically weak support from Black voters.Also true.
He won’t even forgive $50k of college debt. This is another watch what I do, not what I say moment for a Corporate Dem like Biden.
threatening to assassinate a sitting governor
I don’t think it counts as assassination if it’s done by the FBI, praetorian guard of the American Republic.
I really love Cuomo’s response.
“We were afraid it would be used against us”
Bonus points for refreshing honesty, I guess?
Yeah, killing a bunch of people in nursing homes might actually be used against you. Weird how that works.
“Who cares?” Was my favorite.
What a disingenuous POS.
“At this point what difference does it make?”
I LEARNED IT FROM YOU MOM!
excellent
Obstruction of Justice is so yesterday. We haven’t cared about that since the Trump/Russia hoaxers were trying to salvage their case after it came out that there had been 0 collusion.
Oh, and one thing nobody seems to be covering about this…. even after the investigation boosts the number for deaths in nursing homes to 15k, that still is at the very low end of plausible numbers. Everywhere in the western world, the percentage of deaths that come from nursing homes is between 40 and 60% … ish. A few are higher.
New York’s number in the teens was laughable… but this number is still on the low end of the scale, and they literally dumped people with Covid-19 in nursing homes. I don’t see how you could still be at the low end of the scale after that.
Also, why do we trust their overall number? They were eager to pump up the numbers early on, but then they basically had no cases for most of the year until this latest bump (which underscores just how horrible they were at the beginning.. they remained the worst in the nation and the western world even after 8 months of no appreciable cases reported).
The thought was that they avoided a second wave because so many were already infected…. but then they did get a second wave. So… why no cases for so long? Is there another scandal hiding under the scandal that anyone in their right mind knew about from the beginning?
I thought the trick NY pulled was the person had to actually die in the nursing home from COVID to be counted as a nursing home death. If they got them out to a hospital – shazzam, no nursing home death.
Yeah, that is the current scam under investigation. That was to cover for the fact that they probably murdered a good chunk of those people by ordering infected patients into the nursing homes.
But beyond that…. the “revised” numbers are still quite low. They currently list 45,807 covid deaths. They revised the numbers on nursing home deaths to 13,197. That still left them at 28%…. half of the low number for other states.
In short…. even after the investigation, their numbers are laughably low, even for a state that didn’t ship covid positive patients into nursing homes.
And they posted almost zero covid deaths from july through the start of november. Also questionable, since they have had a second wave with another 12k deaths in the last couple of months.
Somebody needs to be looking into Michigan as well. Not least given Whitmer’s new position with the DNC.
She sent the ill and infected back to nursing homes, MI has an embarrassingly high death rate, and is still mostly locked down.
Why is this surprising? It was all part of the Great Election Fortification.
The Internet of Things continues to improve security.
So when will a Glibs branded CELLMATE be added back to the merch store? Asking for
Tundraa friend.Uh…. why?
There are some things about people that I don’t understand. The purpose of a remote control chastity cage is one of them.
Do the guards have the CELLMATE password? Epstein didn’t…
I see opportunities for this in a prison or jail or scout camp or public schools.
My colleague just used Muslims to try to put a newsletter on hold. He said our Muslim audience would be gone for the weekend by the time they send it out. He’s trying to teach them to get the fucking thing done on time (he’s the one that puts it in Constant Contact & actually sends it).
Let’s see how the “diversity & inclusion” people pretzel their way out of that. Muslims don’t matter? Muslims don’t need to read the Agency news? Muslims can wait til Monday to read it after all the whites? Muslims can read it on their holy day?
I love calling the D&I worshippers out. I get to do it occasionally with the ADA (no, I can’t post your PDF that is completely inaccessible to blind people)
Am I mistaken that you work for a federal agency – why on earth would there be an objection to a delay in notification?
Management wants the newsletter to go out when they want it to go out, not when it’s actually scheduled to go out. And it’s never scheduled to go out on a Thursday or Friday because nobody will read the fucking thing (our people in Muslim countries don’t work on Fridays). It’s about petty control. These people can’t have someone else setting deadlines for them. They’re the deciders!
our people in Muslim countries don’t work on Fridays
And we are supposed to believe the ones in DC do?
Unexpected
First-time filings for unemployment insurance jumped last week in a sign of continuing strife for the labor market.
New claims totaled 861,000, the highest level in a month and above the Dow Jones estimate of 773,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
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The total of those receiving benefits dropped by 1.3 million to 18.34 million, primarily due to a falloff in those on Covid-19 pandemic-related claims in the final week of January. However, those numbers have accelerated in early February.
“We’re still at the mercy of the virus, so it’s still a bifurcated economy,” said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
Several states saw large increases in claims last week, led by Illinois with 33,491 and California’s 20,657, according to unadjusted data. Texas saw a drop of 12,428 while Rhode Island was off 6,269.
Why aren’t businesses hiring? It’s a mystery.
We might close you at whim, but hire! Hire! Hire! Can you take me high enough!?
“Chastity Penis Lock Company That Was Hacked Says It’s Now Totally Safe To Put Your Penis Back In That Chastity Lock”
I’m not falling for that one again!
This place was not designed to be shut down for multiple days in sub freezing temperatures. Not at all. If any of ya’ll are pipefitters in need of work, I have plenty for you. I bet we have 20 miles of cooling water piping in this plant and as we are thawing it out, the leaks just keep coming. Good times.
We still can’t buy gas or electricity at anywhere near the levels we need to operate. Best guess is maybe saturday morning at the earliest, but I doubt that is even possible.
I remember when it used to get cold and it wasn’t a fucking emergency.
And then the government grew and grew its reach. And politics inserted themselves in places they’d never been before.
There we have central planning. One size fits all.
This sort of thing will be remembered when they try to cram the green new deal down our throats.
These executive orders though…Biden single handedly canceled Keystone XL? And no reporter has the nads to ask about whether basing so much of the power supply on inconsistent sources like wind and solar. Vs gas fired plants?
Look if your operators would have just prepared for anything and everything you wouldn’t be in this situation!
Why aren’t you hurricane proofing your equipment! All seriousness, it sounds terrible there and good luck with all the work you have to put in.
It’s just like the minimum wage argument: “If you can’t afford $15 per hour, you can’t afford to run a business in the first place!”
Alternatively… “if your small business doesn’t have enough money to last through a lockdown, you shouldn’t be in business.”
I am supposed to go get my airport badge since I forgot to get it renewed before my b-day a couple of months ago. I think Ill just push it off to next week. I don’t want to drive in.
Er….that wasn’t supposed to go here.
All we have to do when its cold out to keep this place from freezing up is keep the orange stuff going down the line. This building is designed to get rid of heat and it does an admiral job. when there is no heat to get rid of, it turns real cold real fast.
I am guessing at these numbers…last one of these we had here was ’92. It wasn’t as bad as this one but we had no fruit or nuts that year because it occurred in April. Prior to that was ’71. That one was much worse than this one. Much heavier ice build up on everything including trees and it lasted nearly 2 weeks. I remember standing on the edge of the woods and every ten seconds or so you could hear crrraaaack…..crash. I thought, ya’ know, maybe it isn’t safe in the woods right now.
This nonsense should be over by Sunday. We got too much water mixed with snow and sleet. The road conditions here are worse than awful. They are just undrivable and we have a couple of people missing. I am sure the sheriff thinks the same as I do….they skidded off of the road into the trees and hypothermia got them.
I really could do without this winter-wonderland crap.
WE got 8 inches of snow here and it hasn’t been above freezing since last Saturday. That’s pretty bad for here. The roads are all drivable. The Silverado has been doing just fine in the snow pack. I about lost it last night coming home from work, but I was slow enough to stop before the ditch.
Early 2000’s the whole state got an inch of ice dumped on it. The roads were horrible and most businesses closed. Power lines were down everywhere, but there was no natural gas shortage. The place I work at now kept operating. The price of electricity didn’t shoot through the roof. Compared to this week, that storm was catastrophic. But its this one that shuts me down.
Road conditions here are fine-ish. 100% snow, so not very slick. It was massively worse in 2013 when we got 4″+ of sleet and freezing rain. The main difference being that the power outages back then weren’t during single digit temperatures (and sure as hell weren’t rolling).
I won’t bother to link it. Headlines says Kroger is going to shut down a couple more stores in response to local plague “hazard pay” rules.
This outrageous kkkapitalist oppression can only be stopped when the President has the power to set wages and prices, and personally review any store closures (or openings).
We will have DEMOCRACY!
Death to the kkkapitalist oppressors.
The wife has “The View” on in the other room.
Topic?
Rush.
The only thing I heard from the other room….
“Judgement day is when you are judged for all the things you have done. The way you treated people… everything you did. And judgement day has finally come for Rush Limbaugh…”
Yeah… I heard enough at that point.
These people really can’t see themselves at all.
Lol, today is the day they find religion. Rush still pulls their strings, even in death. Too bad he’ll be voting Democrat from here on out.
Ooooh Rush, I liked their first album the best. Working Man’s a hell of a tune.
2112 or GTFO…
My own Clockwork Orange hell – being forced to watch The View.
Does anyone have an actual “Rush kicked puppies” story?
Doesn’t have to be actual, they will just say it happened and the good little drones will nod their heads in great agreement.
I think we can be certain that nobody talking about how evil he was never listed to a minute of his show. Just like everything else lately, someone else forms most people’s opinions for them.
Now do RBG.
Too good
Nothing to judge there, she was a saint.
I remember when it used to get cold and it wasn’t a fucking emergency.
That was then. We’re in the glorious technocratic future, now.
I heard a guy make an interesting argument on the teevee, earlier. The topic was, of course, power grid breakdown. He said (more or less), “If the broken down windmills aren’t having a meaningful effect on power availability NOW, why should we pretend they have a meaningful impact on supply when they are running?”
This sort of thing will be remembered when they try to cram the green new deal down our throats.
*morose chuckle*
Only in the “Socialism has never been given an opportunity to be properly implemented” sense.
Our people are the BEST and the BRIGHTEST. Not like those other guys. We’ll get it right, this time.
I bet we have 20 miles of cooling water piping in this plant and as we are thawing it out, the leaks just keep coming. Good times.
MSNBC “business” news reporter:
*looks gravely into camera*
“Steel prices rose unexpectedly, this quarter, sending ripple effects through durable goods manufacturers’ earnings reports. In other news, the Federal Reserve Bank reports inflation to be nonexistent, and will continue to keep interest rates at zero.”
Inflation is finally here.
I see it at the grocery store. And the pump.
But Biden and his minimum wage, trillion dollar plans and energy policy say “hold my beer”.
^^^^ We are seeing it also.
i paid 8 dollars a piece for 2×4 lumber a month ago. most of the inflation is in the stock market where the Fed money is being pumped in, but it making its way down to goods and services. Your 15 dollars an hour will pay for beans, rice, and flour. you’re on your own to find the energy to cook them with.
^^^^
It’s 24 degrees out – how in the hell are we getting “wintry mix”? I mean, sure, 30-34 – that I can understand; but at 24 it should be snow dammit.
Meteorologists improved their models by borrowing from the Lil Rona modellers.
Depends on the cloud cover and sun angle. Or its due to climate change. I don’t know anymore.
Wintery mix on 24°ground?
Yeah … I don’t think I would be going out for a minute. Better to let the salt trucks have a go at it first.
Warm air aloft.
temperature inversion. usually indicates warmer, moist air overlying a cold air mass.
Speaking of New York:
(cyto’s comment, above)
But beyond that…. the “revised” numbers are still quite low. They currently list 45,807 covid deaths. They revised the numbers on nursing home deaths to 13,197. That still left them at 28%…. half of the low number for other states.
In short…. even after the investigation, their numbers are laughably low, even for a state that didn’t ship covid positive patients into nursing homes.
Is it possible NY was doing what some of us have been calling for all along, which is to say NOT categorizing any and every plague-adjacent death as specifically plague-induced?
It would be interesting to know what the overall death rate was in those facilities. I am assuming they must have additional deaths, from causes other than the cooties.
That is my supposition.
Based on nothing other than looking at the trend of numbers and the rhetoric coming out of the CNN comedy team of Cuomo and Cuomo, I would say that they hyperinflated numbers early on because they saw political advantage, and then they suppressed the numbers as much as feasible over the summer for the same reason.
Remember, Cuomo was riding a wave of draft Cuomo hysteria as Democrats faced the possibility of a Joe Biden ticket.
Most of the country was listing anyone who tested covid positive and died as a covid-19 death. I don’t know what the actual numbers were on that, but the incentives certainly were to ensure that every potential case was counted.
Heh – we joked about it and apparently it was floated that Trump take over for Rush.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/18/donald-trump-not-interested-in-replacing-rush-limbaugh-hes-irreplaceable/
“I’m not interested in replacing Rush. He is irreplaceable. But someone needs to fill that time slot…..”
Trump spinning into the weeds with three hours to fill everyday would be glorious, I do have to admit. It’d be a shitshow within a dumpster fire but probably an entertaining one.
Most people underestimate how difficult it is to talk for 4 hours without putting anyone to sleep. Say what you want about Rush but radio hosts have talent. Trump has talent as a speaker but not that kind of talent.
I was thinking the same thing. Young comedians struggle to put together a tight five. Mid-range comedians have been doing it a while might have 15. A top headliner can do 60 or 90.
4 hours, everyday? Yeah, that’s rough.
Having put together presentations, 15 minutes is an amazingly long time when you are talking about something you didn’t work on. And it is almost no time at all when you are talking about your own work.
The bonus thing about putting together 4 hours of talk radio everyday would be that every single second you were having to worry about the fact that the entire thing is being recorded and people are just waiting for you to put one foot wrong.
I think media matters was created entirely for the purpose of monitoring Rush Limbaugh and attempting to get him thrown off the air if he said one word they thought they could spin into an outrage.
Putting together an empire and keeping it for decades like he did is a pretty impressive feat.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-airport-power-crisis-texas
BURN THE WITCH!!!
It is known you are to never go on vacation…ever in today’s political climate unless you can have the absolute backing of the ‘free’ press.
My new notary stamp is here! My new notary stamp is here!
(Narrator: GT has a very low threshold of excitement these days.)
I shall endeavor always to use my powers for good.
Boredom is underrated.
^^ My kids cannot get that through their heads. Something always has to be going on.
Typical night is them coming out to the living room, I have no TV on, just sitting on the couch in the quiet. It is needed for a human to have some boredom in their lives.
+1 for the darkened room quiet couch nap
Even a lot of adults can’t grasp this. And not just with regards to the boredom-excitement spectrum. They think that if something is not absolutely excellent, then there’s something terribly wrong. Boredom happens. Unhappiness happens. Lack of motivation happens.
My adventures into Stoicism and Buddhist philosophy have helped me a lot with this over the years. I read quote that has stuck with me: “Acknowledge your emotions like passing clouds“.
Being an introvert helps. It is my recharge period.
I really like that. I try to do that sort of thing. I wish others did more of it as well. I see too many other people get wrapped up and twisted around their own emotions. They don’t even acknowledge the possibility of controlling, or at least not being controlled, by them.
My children have learned a family lesson. When at home, do not tell your parents you are bored. There is always some work to do.
+1 farm life. Always look busy. I told my uncle once when I was staying on the farm I was bored…after that I was never ‘bored’ again.
Our house has been drama-free for 2 months. It’s been lovely.
I personally can’t take boredom (just sitting quietly), because my hands and/or mind always have to be doing something, so I embroider, sometimes with the TV on, sometimes not. If I’m reading, it has to be quiet.
My writing well is dry, but when it is not dry, I can manufacture drama on the page and never have to deal with the fallout.
I’m kind of like that too. I actually enjoy monotonous activities like kneading dough, shining shoes, or sewing for that same reason.
… Although I’m trying to learn how to properly meditate so that I can experience some nothingness for a little while every day and also improve my focus. I have a book on zazen (Zen-style meditation) that is pretty interesting so far. I’m going to block off some time to try it today, matter of fact.
Adventure usually results in tears and empty wallets so yeah, boredom is highly underrated.
Is that a The Jerk reference? What an under appreciated movie.
Its the cans! Agreed it is a very under appreciated movie.
Heh. I was about to add “She’s SOMEBODY now!”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/mediaviewer/rm3434583041/
Also are you not also excited to receive a new phone book?