Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an absolutely beautiful day it always is!
Atlanta shooting suspect tells police attacks were not racially motivated.
Deputy Secretary of State of Georgia responsible for leaking faked Trump quotes to WaPo.
How do big media outlets so often “independently confirm” each other’s falsehoods?
Media’s entire Georgia narrative is fraudulent.
DeSantis to ban critical race theory from Florida’s curriculum.
House GOP votes to allow earmarks.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
That’s exactly what a white supremacist would say.
Damn Animal, you know how our top men think…
It’s easy enough. All you have to do is mentally shut down 95% of your active brain cells and imagine what a drooling moron would think, and you’ve got it.
Staring into the abyss?
“I picture a man. Then I eliminate reasoning and logic…”
I was going to say the same thing. The narrative must go on.
What are they watching in airports now?
I haven’t been to an airport for more than a year… maybe that has something to do with it?
ORD still bravely shows CNN to … not many people. Sky Harbor had…lots of ads or somesuch.
Same thing as before, not CNN. With everyone now having a device, who would watch that shit?
I was just in a bunch of airports last week, and I actually saw a CNN tape from last summer running on the one TeeVee showing stuff (it had a date in the chiron) that was on in Charlotte.
Why would they show that? Then it was nothing but foaming at the mouth anti-trump lies.
Also, is there anyone in airports in these trying times?
I have flown regularly through all the 3rd rate bullshit Kabuki theatre of the Kung Flu pandemic, and unlike travel 3, 6, 9, and 12 months ago where aircraft and airports were wastelands, this past week I saw 4 different airports and flights from them all being chock full. People were traveling, and it was a bunch of people that clearly wore the chin diapers cause they had places to go and a bunch of panicked animals wearing 2 or more chin diapers cause they have been turned into absolute morons by the lies from our inept “expert” class.
Can confirm. We’ve been flying back and forth between Denver and Anchorage several times this year, and both DIA and Anchorage airports seem to have pretty normal traffic levels. As for the resigned-to-it-all travelers/panicked animals ratio, I won’t hazard a guess, but it seems the former heavily outweigh the latter.
When I flew up in early Feb I did have two idiots across the aisle from me with multiple masks, face shields and gloves. Before they sat down they frantically scrubbed everything in their area with alcohol wipes until the stench prompted several people to complain.
How you can live in such a constant state of irrational terror is just beyond my capacity to understand.
My air travel curtailed before covid for other reasons, but when I was flying regularly, I would wipe down the tray and hard surfaces with wetones. Aircraft were filthy on most airlines.
I have to admit, the one thing I like about the new clean-freakiness of most businesses is that I’ve never seen my local Safeway look better — instead of a thin or not-so-thin layer of skunge everywhere, food is attractively surrounded by visible cleanliness. Even the floors in corners are clean now! It’s almost like Health Department inspectors are doing their jobs (even if I don’t think their jobs would be necessary in my ideal world, but I’ll take what I can get).
‘Course, we’ll lose all that the moment our “emergency” is declared over (but I’m sure the food prices will remain elevated).
Yep, already happening here. Reversion to laziness and disinterest by store employees as soon as possible.
It’s religious fervor? They must perform their ablutions.
And what an absolutely beautiful day it always is!
Rain and (possibly severe) storms today. Should be fun.
It’s Springtime for Hitler here. Kids are floating stuff down the ditch and there is only about two feet of packed snow left in the yard. We only broke the snowblower once last Winter and pretty girls are starting to amble. Mask mandates can go die in a fire.
CNN hemorrhaging viewers since Trump left office, down nearly 50% in key measurables
They need a new villain to tell lies about.
Well that would be you and me. Snubbed an Asian, lately?
I haven’t been to an Asian restaurant in some time. Are old martial arts films good or bad?
Good, but only if it’s the Bruce Lee satire piece in Kentucky Fried Movie.
Will DeSantis do?
That’s what I was thinking. But they haven’t figured it out yet.
I say Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson and one more to fill the shoes of trumpy poo
Ha! Crow Kancho! Where do you find these delightful memes? Nice work, Banjos and ‘Mornin!
Purges in the military. Purges in the police. Censorship. Gag orders for law enforcement officials. Open borders. House arrest and curfews for the entire population. Private businesses destroyed by government fiat. Astronomical spending of fake money and large tax increases on private individuals. Travel restrictions. Pushing of bizarro ideologies designed to brainwash people and destroy their ability to think. The destruction of any institution that fosters individual strength of character. Backdoor land reform. Disarming the public. Mask mandates (black pajamas).
I could go on all day with this. Private businesses acting to enforce government’s tyrannical wish list. Exiling of undesirables. Token elections with pre-determined winners. An unbelievably mendacious media acting as a propaganda arm of one political party.
How, exactly, is the left here any different than any of the worst regimes of the 20th century? I am surprised that puppet China Joe hasn’t proposed mandatory national service, but I am confident that he will or try to wave it into existence with his pen.
Never before in my life would I have imagined any of that could happen here yet it is all happening right before our eyes.
I forgot to put in the packing of the courts with regime friendly toadies.
I think the next two to four years will be the pivot point. Either there will be a big electoral backlash and some semblance of sanity will return, for a while, or the election system will be so corrupted that the statist Left will be able to do whatever the hell they want.
Results:
Option number A, we’re fucked, but the fucking will be delayed somewhat.
Option number B, we’re fucked, right the hell now.
I think the fucked is a given, maybe you get a little lube maybe not.
You don’t watch the news, do you?
Yeah, we already saw that this is the case.
It doesn’t matter who casts votes, cause all that matters is whom counts them…
If I’m gonna get butt-fucked, I’d rather it be nasty, brutish and short rather than some languid affair with Barry White doing the complementary soundtrack. Just steer toward the ditch and I’ll hop right in.
I’m wondering about when they ram a law through adding “assault weapons” to the NFA and then seeing that they only got about 12% compliance, what will their next move be? When they have made armed felons out of some huge chunk of the population who are making it obvious that they will not comply, what will they do? Try to round us all up?
I know they will be happy making examples of a whole big bunch of us – but what about the other tens of millions of us who they will never catch? I know they think they want to kick that can but I don’t believe they have understood where it goes.
All they have to do is pass a law. Then they tick the box and move on to the next item on the checklist.
Enforcing it is optional. You might see a little here and there but the real point is to buy votes with the bill.
When the shove 70% of firearms transactions into the black market I expect there will be some real repercussions.
I said the same thing about 2020.
I see some signs of hope at the state level, but I think the Feds are done. The Communists have taken over and are entrenched. It took 70 or so years for the Soviet Union to collapse. Look for something similar for the Feds.
The problem is that economically, we’re already partway down the path. We’re moving slower than the soviets did, but we’ve been heading that direction for 100 years and are accelerating.
What really grinds my gears about “unisex” Combat Teams is the fact that the boys will nearly always attempt to keep the girls out of harm’s way. It has been bred into us for literally millions of years. Females are more valuable going forward. What the fuck does this do to “Unit Cohesion”? I know that I’d drop everything to save someone weaker than me whether it be a woman, child, puppy or kitten. Who do they think that our adversaries would target first?
I have trouble imagining a situation in which a mixed platoon in combat suffers a female casualty that does not cause significant extra demoralization to the unit. Men generally take it harder when they see bad shit happen to women. We tend to look at each other as expendable in the moment, and deal with the emotions of the matter later. You look at what happened at the Capitol when Babbit got shot. If she were a man getting shot, I think things might have escalated in violence. Seeing a woman get shot seemed to make everyone there re-think what the fuck they were doing. That’s a good thing in a mob violence situation, but a very bad thing in an intentional combat situation.
Despite my own experiences in the military, I’ve steered my son clear of military service. Things are going to do very badly if we ever get into another foreign war. He takes MMA classes and is pretty good with a rifle already so he can protect himself and a future family some day.
You are right about men instinctively protecting women – until it is trained out of them or resentment takes over. Then they’ll refuse to help and snicker while they fail in training and die in combat. Not the kind of men you want to develop.
One point which they always cover up is the fact that every female POW we have gotten back over the past 20 years was gang raped while in captivity. Heck, a lot of the guys were too. It’s an ugly truth of combat against muslim nations that nobody likes to talk about. Sending women into harm’s way is something no politician (other than the few veterans) seems to have much understanding about. Making it easier for them to get into uniform is doing nobody any favors.
It’s not just a Muslim thing
/Nanking
If it is bred into us, why didn’t the male Congressmen bunch up to protect the Congresswomen on 1/6? My Congressman openly admitted he was looking to blend in with the GOP and hide.
If you hypothesis is that decent men protect women, I think The Inusurrection proves it wrong. Unless you are going to say that Congress is not filled with decent men.
I see what you did there sir…
Brilliant.
They may identify as men …
Congress is not filled with decent men. I knew this before January 6th. I don’t see why it is not obvious to everyone after.
Watching it all from over here makes it doubly bizarre for me. It’s like they are removing everything that I would be going back there for.
Look man liberty had a sort of run, give or take, but it’s time is gone. Let it go. Now, don’t hang on Nothin’ lasts forever but the earth and sky
We’ve survived worse times as a nation all you can do is keep your head down and keep moving and be glad our betters are retarded.
Atlanta shooting suspect tells police attacks not racially motivated, was purportedly driven by sex addiction
But there is terror in the Asian community as the media trudges on with the racial narrative anyway.
Also, weird way to deal with a sex addiction. Dude should’ve just gotten a fleshlight.
Police also said Long was acting alone and that a 9mm handgun was found in his car when he was arrested.
So you are saying he used an assault rifle. ///CNN
Some people have standards.
He was pissed because after he got a Chinese rub and tug, he had to go right back and get another an hour later!
“No Substitution”!
And they wouldn’t love him long time… (He should have gone Vietnamese then)…
Hilarious people are outraged over the Sheriff’s words when he was paraphrasing what the shooter said.
“Biden said he is “making no connection” between the Atlanta attack and instances of Asian American brutality over the past months.”
Uh huh. I am not aware of any such brutality. Am I missing something?
yes your white privilege make you blind to Asian suffering
but white privilege is supposed to be jealous of Asian success isn’t it?
Well, by saying he’s not making the connection, he made the connection.
Which is weird, because he explicitly made a connection in a recent speech.
Hush, you.
I am assuming this is all leading down the road to be unable to criticize the gov’t getting in to bed further with China without being branded a racisterrorist.
He probably means the brutality of keeping them out of colleges because they’re too smart.
Asians are token whites until it’s politically expedient for them not to be.
Yup. There’s been a rash of Asians being assaulted in Democrat run cities (like Oakland) by people who’s races are never mentioned on NPR.
Bingo – the racially-motivated violence directed at Asians isn’t coming from white supremacists.
Good morning fellow serfs!
I’m a kulak and wrecker.
“She refuses to acknowledge whether she recorded the call on January 2,” Mark Rountree, president of Landmark Communications, tells TAC. “That’s what she’s hiding from.”
Well, Fuch that.
This morning driving into work, I was listening to a radio show that wouldn’t shut up about getting vaccinated and how great it was that they’re going to start using facial recognition to avoid having to scan your boarding pass. Then one of them pipes up about how happy he is with some company that you can pay to let you skip the line at airport security that uses your eyescans as identification…
It was one of the moments where I started looking around for a camera. It’s like I’m stuck in a bad movie where it starts with some radio or news show spewing out something ridicilulous you’d never believe to be true. These people were HAPPY about what they were talking about!
Are they really that dense or is there someone standing behind them holding a gun to their head while they spew this shit?
https://youtu.be/mMZOQZz4-qc?t=34
“…is there someone standing behind them holding a gun to their head…”
Not while they’re still useful at least. But once they’ve passed that stage there will be… for a second or two.
Yes and maybe?
Standing behind them are legions of journalism professors that filled their heads full of mush.
I remember that there was a Steven King story about an ex-Nazi living in the States who would dress up in his old uniform, and take neighborhood cats that he had captured and put them in his gas oven. I am thinking those journalism profs aren’t much different. They don’t even bother to hide their admiration for the Soviets, Maoists or Nazis. It hasn’t been that long since Castro and Chavez were their darlings. Who you were listening to are the intellectual offspring of those professors.
IIRC it was the kid that forced him to wear it and then his killing instinct became nascent. That was the point of the story. They poisoned each other. He was just a harmless old man until the “Apt Pupil” lit that fire again. It’s a really good tale.
Yes, I remember now. It has been so long I forgot.
I disagree with you, here is my argument in a nutshell:
Technology exists. We know there are bad uses for it, and we should do everything in our power to prevent those, but with the government we currently have, they are going to use it for nefarious purposes. There are also good uses, things that make our lives easier. No reason to oppose those uses just because the government will abuse their existence.
Feel free to fill in with whatever technology you want: facial recognition, autonomous vehicles, firearms, etc.
I could see that argument if there were an actual separation of Government and Corporation. In the giant blur that has become the quasi-goverment-corp, citizens get fucked every which way possible.
Standing in line waiting on security and getting passed by someone who has either Paid the government and given them all of their information or Paid a corporation and given them all of their information or is a protected government class, while I have done nothing wrong and am forced to wait longer, is tyranny.
Coming up with new ways to gather my information under the guise of it making my life easier doesn’t make it any better. In fact it’s a bit more insulting. They think I might be dumb enough to not recognize their intent.
This is the blind spot that Postman explores in Technopoly – the desire to only see the benefits of technology and not the costs.
You can be turned put on the streets, but at least your tenants can’t. https://www.westernjournal.com/homeowner-now-homeless-ny-covid-law/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal
Landlord can’t pay property tax, govt seizes property. Private property ownership disappears and the state owns all. Now the state can decide who gets a roof and wrong thinkers are out.
It is all upside for the commies. Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.
What are the odds the lady voted for the people who did this to her?
What are the odds the lady will continue to vote for the people who did this to her?
Oxidative stress and the differential expression of traits associated with mating effort in humans
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513821000180
In a large sample of young adults, we report preliminary evidence linking oxidative stress to several indices of investment in mating effort. Surgent, dominant, and athletic men appeared to accumulate lower concentrations of an oxidative stress biomarker overnight, consistent with a scenario in which individuals with more favorable energetic affordances are better able to invest in certain sexually selected signals. By contrast, we observe opposing, positive associations among women that are more consistent with the accumulation of physiological costs incurred from greater investments in energy production.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pInk1rV2VEg
I love fucking science.
So fit guys get laid more. Transwomen get nothing.
Despite the demand males all go beta by the feminists, these women are going to be inclined by biology to jump in the sack with the alphas. The majority of the feminist types will eventually marry some of the more successful betas under the guise that they make better partners, and will spend all that time then ruining the poor dudes life. Not sure how the trans thing works, cause I am not into dudes with tits and have no life experience to share…
Distill it down to a great big lie. Biology will out.
Biology will out.
I sense a great deal of pain – the screams of millions of “___ studies” majors crying as their dreams are snuffed out.
Another possibility; They will mate with Alphas, but be pandered to and financially supported by Betas.
Media’s entire Georgia narrative is fraudulent.
I’m sure they think it is just peachy.
Well, that’s the pits.
It worked well for something they cobbled together.
But the logic is a bit fuzzy
One hand clapping against the other makes a very nice sound for Tejicano’s comment.
Not sure that the juice is there in that story.
We should wait and see what Pie thinks.
*narrows gaze*
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/denmark-limit-non-western-residents-neighborhoods-30
Ummm… that’s not how that stuff works.
Tangentially related, what do we call people that come into a new society and demand that everyone conform to their moral and societal norms? Hint: The answer is not ‘immigrant, migrant or refugee.’
Depends on how heavily armed they are.
Do suicide vests and Trucks of Peace (TM) count?
“Let me be clear, there is no room in our classroom for things like Critical Race Theory teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money,” he continued. “So we will invest in actual, solid, true curriculum, and we will be a leader in the development and implementation of a world-class civics curriculum.”
Word.
Good morning, Banjos!
I woke to a video from my kid playing Enter Sandman on the ukulele. So the day is already off to a good start.
So cool! Mornin’ Friend!
You can drop-tune a ukulele?
Yes you can, slack tuning, any key you want
/Uke master
I defer to your considerable skill and knowlege on the subject. *bows with flourish*
Baseball birthdays: Dwayne “The other D Murphy” Murphy, Elbie Fletcher, Jimmy Callahan, and JT Realmuto.
Realmuto is only 7 seasons in and already at 19.8 WAR. 2017-2019 he was over 4 WAR each season. If he continues that he will top this list in a few years. Triple his games played and he was over 4 again in 2020.
Don’t worry: playing for the Phillies will kill his stats, lead to some key injuries, and otherwise obscure his achievements.
Speaking of Asians
Asian Bikini Contest 2018 by DAREA Runway Time part.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW6M6OyZWfM
Mee so ORNY!
I never used to dig on Asian girls but I might be coming around. Too late for real world application but hey, I’m learnding.
Tiger moms are fun as long as you can quit it.
Young Asian girl at work dresses dumpy but one day she forgot to do laundry-https://youtu.be/-993tLyeVqw – Holy Moly!
That took a long time
CNN headline:
“Unsettling questions surround the motive of massage parlor shootings”
This doesn’t conform to our “all racism, all the time” narrative. We’re baffled.
“Incels are the new Whites”
I’ve sure CNN has a firm grasp of the situation.
What you did there, was a stroke of genius.
Sadly, CNN is only teasing with this, and this will lead to a great sense of frustration when the story does not have a climatic conclusion.
One might say they would be blue after that happens.
. . . climatic conclusion.
I thought CNN always threw something about Climate Change in there somewhere.
Somehow the c receded. I blame Obama.
…imma let this one slide.
/imagines Swiss gazing narrowly at himself in the mirror
The dude literally said why…
Ah, the need to understand why someone kills. It isn’t enough to chalk that up to any time honored notion of simple aberration, nope – the therapeutic culture must understand so it can cure this in all others. Well oh mighty therapists – what if this is just an evil fuck, what do you do about evil?
Apparently you tut-tut about it and then move on to something else.
Don’t be ridiculous, you use it as an opportunity to punish your opponents, no matter how hard you need to beat that square peg into a round hole.
Fetishists
Investigators said it was too early to say whether the crime was racially motivated, and instead pointed to the suspect’s claim of a potential sex addiction.
They’re fetishized and hypersexualized. They’re seen as docile and submissive. On top of that, they’re often working in the service sector and are subject to the same racism that affects Asian Americans more broadly.
The way their race intersects with their gender makes Asian and Asian American women uniquely vulnerable to violence, said Sung Yeon Choimorrow, executive director of the non-profit advocacy group National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum.
Uh huh. Yellow fever is real. And it’s obvious who suffers from it.
And there it is – the psychological perspective in all of its glory.
“The way their race intersects with their gender makes Asian and Asian American women uniquely vulnerable to violence,”
No, they happen to run massage parlors in which sexual acts are exchanged for money.
No, they happen to run massage parlors in which sexual acts are exchanged for money.
Which is of course illegal, so no recourse to the normal means of protection in commerce.
And the standard strip joint probably has better security.
They’re fetishized and hypersexualized. They’re seen as docile and submissive.
Maybe, just maybe, a lot of American men have an Asian fixation because there’s something inherently feminine in that docile submissiveness that’s missing from the modern American woman? Maybe the modern feminist conception of women as supermen with tits is wildly unattractive to most (unindoctrinated) men?
Nah, it must be that Asians are victims.
I’m thinking there’s a certain level of attractiveness in someone different.
I don’t dig Asian women because they’re submissive, I dig them because I don’t see them everywhere I look. There’s a mystery there.
Well, the pixelation certainly doesn’t help.
I am still dubious on the whole concept of sex addiction
We wouldn’t last long as a species if we didn’t have drive.
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.
The only viable path for restoring the United States political system requires Democrats to modify Senate rules that allow obstructionism, expand federal courts, and un-rig the political system. Unless Democrats enact all three parts of this agenda, democracy probably cannot be revived. Expanding the courts probably will be necessary to un-rig the system unless the current Supreme Court tolerates democratic revitalization, an unlikely prospect. To pass legislation to un-rig the system and expand the courts, however, Democrats will need to modify the Senate rules. Finally, if Democrats pursue modest good-government initiatives but forego aggressive reform, they will fail to un-rig the system. Thus, Democrats need to enact all three parts of the democracy agenda, not just one or two.
“If we can’t get what we want we will change the rules. Fuck constitutional constraints on government.”
I would respectfully submit that American democracy has already effectively died because the Republican Party has burned most of our normative house to the ground. The United States will continue to refer to itself as a constitutional democracy and to hold elections, and Democrats will occasionally win those elections, to be sure. But here is the three-part catch: (1) As a partial result of gerrymandering, voter suppression, and dark money, Democrats require landslides to prevail in federal elections; (2) Even when Democrats do prevail in federal elections, unprecedented GOP obstruction prevents them from getting much done; (3) Even if and when Democrats do manage to enact a handful of important regulations and laws, the stolen Supreme Court will curtail or overturn most of them.
It’s almost like districts and states elect people to represent them and they have differing views on government that they will pursue. You know, like in a republic.
These people are insane totalitarians.
That book was a warning, not a “How To” manual you fucking douchebags!
Of course they lack the foresight to realize the shoe will one day be on the other foot and the “obstructionism” is required to prevent rebellion. Radical transformations in short periods of time are recipes for war.
Fuck constitutional constraints on government.
This has only been the modus operandi of the Democratic Party since Wilson. It isn’t the problem that the party believes in this – it is that the party has the support of a sizeable share of the populace.
Thisssssssss
Ah, yes.
Tell me about all of the Republican “obstructionism.”
I mean, it’s right here. Just look at how badly America wants Democrat rule.
https://brilliantmaps.com/2020-county-election-map/
I mean, having to fortify the election, losing seats in the house, and failing to take over the senate is totally a clear sign of a democratic mandate.
Not to mention the failures at the state level.
In my previous line of work, it was called circular reporting and we took great pains to avoid it.
The press these days, or as I would assert, all days, run entirely on confirmation bias and sensationalism.
7 German Words That Perfectly Describe Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic
I can do it in one…
Scheisseporn.
Furchtbar.
And if we can make compound word neologisms, I’ll inventärgererregend.
Ack, there probably should have been a space in there before the tongue-twister.
The Hamster terms are old…
Give us what we want, and nobody gets hurt
As progressives push the Senate into a brawl over nixing the legislative filibuster, a group of senators is setting out to do the impossible: prove that the moribund chamber can still function.
A group of 20 senators, mostly centrists but also including some more ideological members of both parties, is seeking to replicate its success last year in breaking a months-long logjam on coronavirus relief. The so-called G-20 hopes to develop bipartisan approaches to issues like the minimum wage, immigration and infrastructure, in the process providing a compelling argument against axing the filibuster — if it can produce results.
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“What the group wants to do is figure out how to get the Senate to work better in a bipartisan way,” Portman said. “We have done nothing this year except nominations, which [take] 50, and the Covid bill, which [took] 50.”
Shaheen added that senators are eager for the chamber to return to its days before partisan polarization took hold, when legislation and amendments could be brought to the floor: “Everyone I know in the Senate, Republican and Democrats, wants to get back to that place.”
But wrenching the Senate back to legislative life in a political environment that’s plumbing new, bitter lows won’t be easy. Some members of the group are privately doubtful that big breakthroughs are around the corner. They’re working against snowballing energy for retooling the filibuster as activists cite an ever-growing list of House-passed bills now stymied in the Senate — including legislation to enact police reform and expand voting rights, which many Democrats view as an existential issue to their party.
Bipartisanship means letting the Progressives completely run the show. Otherwise, they’ll kill the hostages and burn the place to the ground.
Bipartisanship means that the Democrats gets a three course meal while the GOP only gets bread and butter and maybe a glass of water.
And it’s funny when bipartisanship happens, a little more of our liberty gets snuffed out. It never goes the other way around.
“while the GOP only gets bread and butter and maybe a glass of water.”
It’s because the GOP sucks.
expand voting rights
I.e. eliminate election integrity. But, of course, they want to “fortify Democracy.
Maybe try not shoveling massive bills daily that are progressive pipe dreams?
To the extent that republicans are “obstructing” things, it is almost directly correlated with the bill being highly objectionable to republicans.
D: But we can’t get anything passed in the senate!
R: Maybe try not sending bills that you know for a fact will be rejected like massive gun control laws or laws that codify in to federal law the exact things we’ve been complaining about, like permanently fortifying all future elections?
Democrats are acting like preteens trading baseball cards. “Why won’t you trade your Honus Wagner for my 7th year Barry Bonds and a handful of commons?”
If you want cooperation, you have to incentivize it. Writing bills you know that every R will reject, then complaining that the Rs are rejecting them, is fucked.
Before C-SPAN and the other 24/7 media, Congress worked a lot on personal relationships including across the aisles.
Our new media-driven politicking is all about entertaining the base, not running the country. Congress worked no better when the Repubs were in charge.
Concur.
When politicians weren’t busy getting their sound bites put on the air every fucking day, things went more smoothly.
The problem for them is that the internet means they can’t control the flow of information. People are not limited to the only 3 sources of news in the country, where every bit of information they get is consistent (because it was all vetted beforehand).
They’re desperately trying to fight the flow of a massive torrent THATS counter their messaging, and they’re doing everything they can to combat it, hence the never ending need to be more and more brazing.
Worse, there is a vast flow of stupidity across the internet/twitter/etc where every idiot is an idiot with a megaphone. Honestly, I don’t know how this ever gets better.
Writing bills you know that every R will reject, then complaining that the Rs are rejecting them, is fucked.
It’s also a great way to win over the “let’s all just be friends” moderate middle, which happens to be composed of a shit ton of single and divorced women.
New jeans arrived from Amazon today! Now I can finally sashay with the confident feeling that comes from being a real man! Like anyone looks at my middle-aged ass. I just wanted pants that fit. They do cup my buns quite fetchingly, though.
Pics or GTFO.
Saturday Zoom. You have been forewarned.
Those buns better be cupped!
Yeah, uh, I’ve got a . . . thing on Saturday at that time. Won’t be able to attend. Darn the luck.
Ass jeans.
Fuck yeah!
To make them easy targets?
The U.S. military has announced that it is actively working to develop a personal lift device that would allow soldiers to quickly enter and flank enemies on the battlefield.
The concept of such personal “jetpacks” has been considered by the military for decades, but a recent release of research proposals from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in early March shows that the Pentagon now wants to actively develop “portable personal air mobility systems” for use in a variety of combat, surveillance, and rescue operations.
“Systems may be air deployed to allow for [infiltration] to hostile territory, or ground deployed to allow for greater off-road mobility,” said DARPA in the release.
Is it more sporting for the PLA to yell “pull” before our troops jet up into the air, or do we just go whenever?
Yeah, I’m not sure I’d want to jet up into the air when the other side has any sort of massed firepower aimed my way. I’m also going to guess that the jet pack might be full of highly combustible fuel.
The traditional fuel for jetpacks has been hydrogen peroxide.
I dunno, I think it is one step closer to Mobile Infantry, add some tactical nukes and we are nearly there.
Get the working power armor first.
As I understand it, DARPA has been playing around with exoskeletons for quite awhile. They just haven’t to scale it up and Soldier/Marine-proof it.
If you think the battery life on a Tesla is limiting, take a look at actual power armor.
Battery life is a problem for the soldier level electronics – radios & other devices. The idiot conceit of power armor or soldier-borne lasers/DEW?
Yeah. I go through a lot of fusion cores.
“Don’t worry about power consumption! Our Battle Suit 5000 has a FULL 9 minutes of battery life, and only takes 3 hours to go from 0 to a 40% charge!”
No need to yell anything, but I believe the rules of war include a bag limit. If we send enough soldiers that each enemy soldier reaches the limit, any additional troops are safe.
Is it also like pheasant hunting? You can only shoot cocks? You have to let hens go?
It is why we need maternity flight suits.
thinking of this?
I could see officers using them in the field, or maybe messengers, for faster and more direct comm immediately behind the lines. Radios don’t always work and their transmissions can be intercepted. In some situations face to face comm might be preferable.
BTW, Plisade is dead to me now. Why?
Memphis is the best part of Tennessee! Show me anything in the rest of the state as cool as Graceland! OK, now we’ve already established that Memphis is the coolest place in TN and we didn’t even have to go to Sun Studios or Beale Street.
Memphis is the only place I’ve ever been where I legitimately thought I was going to have to fight some bums to ensure my wife’s safety.
We were there for the St Jude marathon, and usually for events that size in cities, they’ll put some cops between the race hotel and the other event locations to give the illusion of safety and to help give directions. Nothing like that in Memphis. We had to walk through some sketchy park filled with syringes and very aggressive panhandlers who were trying to surround us and were looking at us like a dog looks at a juicy steak.
What are you complaining about? You went to Memphis to run? We just made it extra interesting.
When I used to go for Memphis in May they had stationed cops on corners a few blocks off Beale to turn any tourists back, We were trying to skirt the large crowd to get back to our hotel and the cop told us “I can’t stop you from going down there, but I got a gun and a badge and I wouldn’t go down there this time of night.” We turned around.
Sorry, brother, I owe you a beer. I’ll give you Graceland, but The King’s realm is a world unto itself. I’ve been twice and would go again. That man knew how to live.
My favorite part is that it’s basically just a regular house.
No worries. Memphis is an interesting place. Every hillbilly from west TN, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, southern Missouri and SW Kentucky make a beeline to Memphis in the hopes of making it in the “Big City”.
Makes for an interesting mix of people.
The new generation of radios are much more secure than the PRC-77 and VRC-524 I used. Broadcasting in the red isn’t the standard anymore.
You’re saying I’m old, aren’t you?
I’m old enough to remember when the Army’s mission was to kill the enemy and occupy territory.
Easy counter to jetpacks–portable 5.56mm miniguns.
https://youtu.be/7VFNDmlNglY?t=160
Our oldest daughter is a nurse-practitioner with fifteen-plus years of experience in emergency medicine, almost completely in small towns where she sees a lot of elderly patients in various degrees of dementia. Received this from her this morning:
Biden has advancing dementia. That explains his sexual inappropriateness. It explains his agitation. And of course the confusion.
Anyone pretending to not see this Animal is doing so by design. They do and are lying, or they do, and are lying.
Inappropriate sexual behavior in a person who used to not be that way is a dead giveaway but he’s always been a bit weird with it as far as that goes.
Yeah – he has always been a perv but he used to be able to lie clearly and concisely all day long.
Oh he’s definitely demented but unless he tries to fingerbang a reporter during a press conference or some crazy shit like that you can probably chalk it up to Joe being Joe.
You sure this has not happened already?
Why do you think they had to send the dogs back to Maryland?
So are we in a Woodrow Wilson/ Late second term Reagan situation? Is Doctor Burgermeister Grand Mufti Jill running the show or is it members of the administration puppeteering Joe?
Reagan never got anywhere near that bad while in office.
I tend to agree. But it is hard to tell, the press narrative of the day is that Nancy was running the show at the end. It hard to see through that much bullshit.
His last speeches were early in the Clinton Administration – over 4 years after leaving office – and he was still better than Biden is right now.
I bet you could air condition the White House all summer simply by having DR. Jill and Kamala walk past each other.
You know there has to be some insane levels of tension between those two.
And there is nothing better for a work environment than two women feuding in an office. /sarc
Hawt.
members of the admin. The national guard have the capital cities power centers barricaded and secure for a reason.
It’s whoever is also behind The Squad that is running the show now.
Remember when Joe was the “moderate” candidate? That Joe would not be pushing all the far-left crap they’re pushing now. But like any president, Joe doesn’t have any principles so he’ll go along with whatever the Machine is telling him to.
The massage parlor shootings were the act of a racist?
Well that is a happy ending to that story.
Now, don’t go off half-cocked.
I luv you long time.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
Who cares? If you rub me the wrong way, I don’t want to spend a long time with you.
Isn’t that a bit premature?
It’s wrong to joke about it. Really. It’s totally fucked.
At least you learned something about the world.
The Atlantic published a story today about a Princeton grad student named Xiyue Wang. Wang was born in China and moved to the U.S. when he was 20. He became a naturalized citizen and did graduate work at Harvard. After a year working for the Red Cross in Afghanistan he was admitted to a PhD program at Princeton in 2013. Then in 2015 Iran granted him a Visa to do historical research and study Persian in Tehran. At first everything seemed to be going very well but four months after he arrived he was put in prison. He would remain a hostage of the Iranian regime for the next 40 months. But in that time he says he came to see Iran for what it really is.
We are to the Iranians what the Russians are to us which is a convenient scapegoat for ineptitude and a Goldstein figure. That being said, the Iranians do have some legitimate gripes when it comes to the US.
So now he knows what Gitmo is like.
Whodathunkit?
Deputy Secretary of State of Georgia responsible for leaking faked Trump quotes to WaPo.
Of course he was. The most ridiculous narrative of the 2020 election wasn’t that it was “the most secure elections ever”, but rather the belief that the establishment GOP in various states would never join with the Dems to get rid of Trump.
This narrative was often repeated by the WSJ and other conservative outlets to defend the fraud in GA. Who are you going to believe, your lying eyes that saw GA vote counts somehow decrease for Trump right out on live television (was Chavez or Putin ever even this blatant?) or the GA state eGOP that solemnly swears no shenanigans went on.
There’s one party, the swamp party, and the eGOP will keep up the façade of being controlled opposition until that role is no longer needed.
Yup. Team Red is submerged in the swamp just as deep as Team Blue is.
That source sort of lets the WaPo off the hook doesn’t it?
They found information that confirmed their biases that the Bad Orange Man is Bad and ran with it. See: The piss dossier et al.
“Of course he was”
She. I think that’s her preferred pronoun.
“eGOP”
I prefer GOPe, as it rhymes with NOPE.
wtf does that even mean?
I don’t like the establishment, GOP or Dems?
Oh, “e” means establishment? That’s really the question I was asking. I wasn’t attacking you.
My question:
The people who actually were on the call, the SecState and one other (who the source heard about it from, if you believe her on that), said absolutely nothing when the false accounts were published.
So, the people in charge of the Georgia election were just fine with a false anti-Trump narrative being used to discredit him and ultimately as a basis for impeachment. And we are supposed to believe they ran a fair election?
See, also, the AZ SecState calling Trump voters neo-Nazis before the election. But she gave these neo-Nazis a scrupulously fair election? Sure.
Look who’s talking tough. Minneapolis police chief vows to re-open ‘George Floyd Square’.
I don’t get it. Why is the US Attorney quoted. Surely Brother Keith our AG should be leading the charge to bring these lawless protesters to heel?
Better a US Attorney solving this than me, my solution would involve the application of crew-served weapons.
j/k, mostly
It’s not a matter of if, it’s when it happens
Not asked: “Why not right now?”
every tool and federal statute to hold people accountable
Not specified: which people.
Just what is it that think they’re proving by not shutting down these “autonomous zones” immediately, or even, *gasp*, not allowing them to form in the first place?
One can only guess what might happen were a militia group to take over part of a major city, but you can bet that it wouldn’t be meek acquiescence.
From Rebel Scum’s link:
Neither electoral politics, norms preservation, nor modest goodgovernment reform can restore the political system because they cannot mitigate the primary threat to the American democracy, Republican radicalism.
The only way to save DEMOCRACY! is to neuter the Republicans and impose one (Democrat) party rule.
Okay. There’s no conceivable downside to that.
Their religion doesn’t require a god but they have to have a devil – and you’re it.
They just want to get rid of the GOP. That doesn’t mean they want one party rule. I’m sure they are perfectly fine to compete against the LP in the next elections.
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that the state’s education curriculum would not be teaching any Critical Race Theory in the classroom.
Good.
NH’s governor won’t oppose Critical Race Theory. When asked, he said, “This isn’t a decision that should be made at the state level. You should take it up with your local school board.” I am not sure if he buys into some of the CRT bullshit. He did speak well of BLM which makes me suspect, but sent the Guard into Manchester the night before BLM planned to have a riot/protest.
The U.S. military has announced that it is actively working to develop a personal lift device that would allow soldiers to quickly enter and flank enemies on the battlefield.
Somebody should tell them “Ironman” is a work of fiction.
Their design is more Rocketeer.
Dammit! I want power armor and flying cars. All the World’s Fairs of the 1950s and 60s told me there would be power armor (or something similar) and flying cars by now!
I shit you not, there are people in supposed positions of responsibility that will turn to you and say “but I saw this in a movie/TV show – why can’t we do it”.
Trump?
No, this goes well back before his administration, and continued through it, and will continue into the future (at least I have high confidence it will).
Star Trek (TOS) Communicators were more or less the inspiration for flip phones. So there is that.
Yeah, I have no problem when people try to figure out things that seem impossible. The issue is spending billions on stuff that is already practical.
Yeah, that is the rub. Publicly funded R&D < Private R&D
I remember the diving catches that I once made in the outfield. The throw-outs from my knees at first, second and third base when I was a catcher. Man, if you don’t feel some pain you will never get good at anything. It was well worth the lost toenails. Fuck these soft people!
I was thinking they’d been watching too much Captain America: The Winter Soldier. That’s the whole origin of Falcon in the MCU, after all.
Thot Thursday’s got the T&A comin’ in hot.
https://archive.li/2FV64
my solution would involve the application of crew-served weapons.
Does a water cannon count?
It does, but it is still totes racist to put “Whites” and “Colored” signs on the water cannons.
Is “HOT” and “COLD” acceptable?
That would be OK as long as you made sure to use the HOT one to spray a few fatties. Otherwise you are gonna get an earful about fat shaming.
In a pinch, I suppose. A hail of 40mm HE was more in line with where my head was at.
It is more equitable that way, everybody gets a fragment.
I’m so glad we get another most transparent administration evar.
The Biden administration is restricting the information Border Patrol agents and sector chiefs can share with the media as a surge of migrants tests the agency’s capacity at the southern border, according to four current and two former Customs and Border Protection officials.
The officials say the restrictions are seen as an unofficial “gag order” and are often referred to that way among colleagues. The officials requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media about the topic.
Border Patrol officials have been told to deny all media requests for “ride-alongs” with agents along the southern land border; local press officers are instructed to send all information queries, even from local media, to the press office in Washington for approval; and those responsible for cultivating data about the number of migrants in custody have been reminded not to share the information with anyone to prevent leaks, the officials said.
Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, have requested access to or photos from inside overcrowded border processing facilities holding unaccompanied migrant children; they have been denied. The DHS press office released one photo late Tuesday of a mother and child undergoing a health screening inside a border facility, but no wider shots to show conditions or sleeping arrangements.
Paranoiac fantasies in service to a narrative
U.S. intelligence agencies believe domestic terrorism poses an “elevated threat” to the homeland in 2021, predicting in a new joint report that social and political factors including the coronavirus pandemic and “emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol” will “almost certainly” spur domestic violent extremists to engage in further violence.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) issued an unclassified summary of a joint assessment of the national security threat posed by domestic violent extremism, Wednesday.
The comprehensive threat assessment provided by ODNI, the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to the White House and Congress was produced at the direction of President Biden, who solicited the report in the wake of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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The report arrived on the same day DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called domestic violent extremism the “greatest” and “most persistent” threat to the homeland.
“Newer sociopolitical developments — such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the US Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence — will almost certainly spur some (domestic violent extremists) to try to engage in violence this year,” reads the unclassified summary.
I wonder why they didn’t mention the active and focused campaign to dehumanize and vilify anyone who does not obediently tow the Democratic Party’s lion.
You might also want to ask if the right has watched the left riot all summer with no attempt to rein them in and decided that they better up their game.
^This. If nothing else, this style politics trend will drive more, “radicalization”
If someone pays you to find right-wing domestic terrorism, you are going to find right-wing domestic terrorism.
Frank Church is rolling over in his grave over the use of intelligence agencies against domestic US citizens.
That’s the beauty of this now – the utter reversal of party role in this whole debacle. Church was a Dem although the commission was bi-partisan. But now the Dems are all on board with domestic spying – they have enemies to persecute! After all, it isn’t like they’re something icky like McCarthy – they are noble! The human power to self delude is truly something.
As Greenwald has been pointing out, the intelligence agencies have been caught lying to the media over and over and over and over.
Yet, the media just goes ahead and eats this bullshit up.
Can you really blame the agencies for taking advantage when Americans are so painfully fucking stupid? We’re making it easy for them.
The government has become one large positive feedback loop.
Argh! Our web-based workflow management system has shit the bed. Now we are sort of stuck. There is a considerable amount of work we can do in meat-space but this is cramping my style.
get drunk and blame the system
Anyone else feel like they are going insane?
Yes. It’s been a rough few weeks for me in that department.
I can handle change pretty well, but watching from afar as my home country descends into nihilism is a new one for me.
It isn’t much better up close.
I’d say it probably is.
In Japan, he doesn’t have the opportunity to see that not EVERYONE is completely insane. It’s one thing to read here that there isn’t complete submission, or to talk with us on the weekends. It’s another to walk outside your house and have your neighbor tell you shit’s fucked.
And despite the media narrative, many, many people see quite clearly how badly shit is fucked.
I’m in agreement with Straff’s comment last night: this can’t go on forever. I can’t quite see an end, but something is definitely different. There is visible resistance.
It’s actually not that bad. I read the news and get depressed. Then I got out into the world and interact with people (no doubt many who would disagree with me on almost everything) and it’s fine.
I think this is mostly true.
Outside of Branch Covidianism, most people still seem sane.
No, but the rest of you are clearly fucked up.
So kick that style, wicked wild
Happy faced African American
Never seen me smile
We are all Tulpa.
No. I feel like I’m watching everyone else go insane. Because I am.
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, underscored in a statement the “transnational element to the threat of domestic violent extremism.”
“The threat of white nationalism in particular has become a global phenomenon,” he said.
Those bloodthirsty Finns, and their quest for world domination?
One of the reasons you learn the difference between the Swedes and Norewegians and Finns is because the Finns are the nasty ones. The Swedes and Norwegians will mostly be pretty passive and nice. If you find yourself getting ready to get in a bar fight in NW Minnesoda, you probably are talking to a Finn.
The worst group are a bunch of Finns who started farming just south of the White Earth reservation and took Ojibwe brides. The Finndian kids are mean bastards who can’t handle their liquor. A great combination.
The Finns might not want world domination, but you fuck with them at your own peril. Just ask the Ruskies.
Damn your nimble fingers!
Hmmm….
*draws up super soldier breeding plan using Finns has Filipinos as starting stock*
LBFM is now going to be Little Brown Finn Machines?
Gonna be a lot of confused sailors and Marines in Subic Bay.
Hello, my name is Marko Flying Turkey Tapaninaho Teuvenen and I’m your new cellmate.
If Schiff’s planning on f*cking with the Finns, he’d better bring his “A” game.
“The threat of white nationalism in particular has become a global phenomenon,”
In Africa and Asia?
“nationalism”
” global phenomenon”
The guy is a fucking moron.
The Irish are the real threat. Woe if they ever run out of alcohol.
Anyone else feel like they are going insane?
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, god, I wish he’d go away
I’m like herpes.
So you remain consistent.
So… Butt stuff?
I’ve beaten herpes dozens of times.
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/18/978463364/u-s-intelligence-agencies-warn-of-heightened-domestic-extremism-threat
It’s like Rachel Madcow on a national level. The countdowns laced in fear with Any minute now…. Maybe tomorrow… next week!
Jeebus, the coercion to get vaccinated is getting ramped up. How many Glibs have surrendered who didn’t have to?
Co-workers who just got shots said the local center looks like a “camp”. Military tents and NG everywhere.
Not gonna happen for me. Full stop! Of course I already said that about the masking. If it comes down to keeping food on the table I will break. Pretty brave whilst typing, less so when they can steal the bread from your mouth. So fucking sick of this.
Doesn’t matter here in The Great White North — The Hair That Walks Like A Man™‘s incompetence at managing the situation on the Federal level has ensured that there’s a highly restricted supply of any vaccine until probably 2022, so unwittingly, he may have “failed upwards” yet again, allowing the vast majority of Canadians to watch and wait to see what happens to everybody else in the world that gets one of those vaxxes.
And some researchers/medicos already have a suspected reason why the AstraZeneca vax is killing people:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/norwegian-doctor-claims-find-link-between-astrazeneca-vaccine-and-rare-blood-clots
Not I.
Coworker commented recently that he didn’t want to but his family is pressuring him into getting it. WTF?
Between my wife and being pretty sure that I will need proof of The Cure before being allowed to fly, I’ll get the shot.
I realize it means that I’ll be giving up my claim to the One True Libertarian throne, but so be it. My fear of long term consequences from The Cure is as low as my fear of the Rona. But if I get the shot, my wife will quiet down.
My guess is that phase 1 of flying will be to say that if you want to keep your PreCheck/Global Entry status you will need to get the shot. And I will not lose my Global Entry status and stand in line with the rest of you cattle!
Not sure why choosing to get the jab would invalidate your OTL claim. Nothing un-libertarian about making your own risk/benefit analysis.
Yep. Make your own choice. Trust the cronyism and warped incentives of the people making the vaccine or don’t. Choose wisely.
I do not wear the shame muzzle and will not get the jab.
If I have to do it it to fly, I might decide to go full lizard but until then.
I have no plans to get it.
A relative who had Lil Rona wants to get vaccinated so that this relative can live life again.
Wait, had it and wants to get vaccinated?
I know two people who have gotten it who wanted to get vaccinated immediately. Mostly because their families wouldn’t see them otherwise.
*got.
Yes.
Immunity only lasts three months you know, and you could asymptomatically spread it at any time.
I get along quite well with this relative except for Covid bullshit. It has… not been easy. Though, to be fair, this relative probably says the same thing about me.
Good.
My buddy sent me some pics from when he got his shot. NG just get voluntold to do the heavy lifting and logistics but I didn’t get the impression they were there to make you do anything. If you don’t want it, don’t show up to get one, no? I’m not saying it won’t come to that, but even the hateful people pulling the strings in the executive branch must be at least smart enough to realize that it will become de facto mandatory without them having to slap down yet another EO on Joe’s desk. All domestic airlines will end up requiring proof of vaccination to board, there will be checkpoints set up on state lines to check your papers upon entry into the bluest states. Tickets for large sporting events and concerts will be issued only with proof of vaccination and you’ll need matching numbers paperwork to validate them. Maybe I’m talking out of my ass, but I’m just trying to say that there is plenty that will happen so that the official angle from the administration and their ops in the media will be calling right-wingers crazy conspiracy theorists who are claiming that vaccines are mandatory while they are technically not mandatory, even though the argument is that they are de facto mandatory. There will be definitely be certain fields of employment in which many positions will be open only to those with proof of vaccination, perhaps coming from a health and safety perspective, or from the unions, just something that will manage to skate by any discrimination suits.
My co-workers were told, “Keep your record safe, you’ll be needing it to ‘do things.'” Chilling, no?
Also, concerning the NG, it’s the appearance of the camp that is unnerving. They there to protect the vaccine apparently. Got to keep those filthy Canuckistanis from stealing the supplies, eh?
Yes, very chilling 🙁
My family will not be getting the shots no matter what comes. If a vaccine passport ends up being implemented, we’ll do whatever possible to acquire these.
I imagine there will be places who will be willing to record your vax administration then inject it into the trash. Alternatively, I’m sure counterfeit passports will be readily available. The former is much preferable but will be difficult to find such places.
I could have easily gotten a real CDC card and two of the official stickers that say you’ve gotten the shots for Mrs. Dean. I mean, as easily as picking them up off a pile in a table in front of me while I was voluntolding at a pop-up vaccine clinic.
I didn’t. Because this is all going into a national database. Unless whoever you get your vaccine passport from someone who can hack the database, it won’t do you any good and will probably get you in a lot of trouble if you try to use it.
Unless whoever you get your vaccine passport from someone who can hack the database, it won’t do you any good and will probably get you in a lot of trouble if you try to use it.
Agree but depends where. I wouldn’t use a counterfeit passport at an airport but have no qualms flashing it to get into a restaurant or Home Depot or whatever.
Tangent but there was a guy in my high school who hacked into the DMV database and sold fake driver licenses. Had the real-deal printer, official holograms, and everything. Ran steep at $200 but they would successfully scan at the state-owned ABC liquor stores.
I got the first Moderna shot yesterday.
I’m in a fairly high-risk cohort 60+ yo, high blood pressure, asthma, obesity.
I can’t imagine why someone 40yo or lower and in good health would want to risk the vaccine.
Choose wisely.
And fuck any government effort to impose “travel visas” based on vaccination.
Hello fellow three-percenters and right-wing nutcases! How about some domestic extremism today? Good luck with your insurrecting and sedition! Happy extreming!
Fed alert.
You are interfering with a Federal investigation.
I would never. It was just a quip about how much I love federal the federal reserves banking style. I being a good lib love the gov as it’s trying to protect me.
Have a good day, sir.
Indeed fellow extremist! May the revolting be with you!
*goes back to day job and raising kids*
CNN hemorrhaging viewers.
“Exxxxxxxxxcellent, Smithers!”
BEAM escaped Commie Coast-land! Used to be a fun place to visit twenty or thirty years ago. I’d rather hit Edmonton, nowadays.
I enjoyed my time in the Lower Rainland™ back in the early 80s, but my recent experience living there was a lonely, isolated, expensive, time-wasting and surprisingly fearful Hell. I can’t think of many places in the world that would be improved by dropping a nuke on ’em, but the Lower’s one of ’em. Afterwards we could pave it and let what’s left of the Tsawwassen band erect a casino. Be a vast improvement.
It would be if their anchors, producers, writers, and executives were hemorrhaging. Preferably from their mouths, noses, and eyes.
be *better*
So you are saying that the Mexican president hates brown peole.
Mexico is reportedly preparing to “significantly reinforce” its efforts to stop illegal immigrants that are entering its southern border with Guatemala as they travel on their way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The effort comes in direct response to the border crisis that has erupted under President Joe Biden.
Mexico will “deploy security forces to cut the flow of migrants, the bulk of whom come from Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, whose economies were battered by the coronavirus pandemic and hurricanes last year,” Reuters reported. “Two of the people said the National Guard militarized police, which led efforts to bring down the number of illegal immigrants entering Mexico from Central America during an increase in 2019, would be at the fore of the containment drive.”
So they are going right back to the older plan except this time it is kinder and gentler under President Dead-Eyes! Outstanding.
Chaos! Anarchy!
In recent weeks, a small slice of rebellious Republicans have been requesting recorded House votes on non-controversial bills and forcing votes on motions to adjourn, causing headaches for their colleagues and scrambling the floor schedules as members are forced to drop everything to make it to the floor. Those Republicans say they’re reflecting broad frustration with how Democrats are running the House, from the lack of GOP amendment opportunities to the razor-wire fences erected around the Capitol.
The ongoing dispute over floor procedures is a wonky but critical one for House leaders of both parties. If GOP lawmakers refuse to relent in their delay tactics, it would mean a slog of roll-call votes on the most mundane of issues — forcing lawmakers into a new way of life where half of their days are spent shuffling on and off the House floor.
Rank-and-file members said they increasingly fear that the House schedule will devolve into chaos, with Democrats struggling to keep proceedings orderly as GOP lawmakers seek to disrupt the day on a whim.
Forcing those poor Congresscritters to show up and vote? Making them do their jobs?
Madness, I tells ya!
Well if they have too much to do maybe they can outsource some of the decision making to the States or the People.
days are spent shuffling on and off the House floor
Racism detected!
Come on man. It not racism. It’s ageism.
^This guy doesn’t work with Chinese women.
ISTR that Dems were doing the same thing to any R who voted against proclaiming Biden the only immaculately elected president.
“Democrats struggling to keep proceedings orderly as GOP lawmakers seek to disrupt the day on a whim.”
Resistance is patriotic?
Following established procedure is disruptive?
As I recall my civics text books, the procedure being taught us poor students was of the House and Senate, all 435 and 100 members, meeting in big chambers, debating “serious measures” and then voting. Then we took a field trip to D.C. and got to sit in on “an important debate.” If there were 10 congressmen on the floor, I’d be surprised. No teacher ever mentioned where the important work got done: at cocktail parties, lobbyist soirees, and between the sheets (looking at you, Mrs. V.P.).
Good day, Glibs! I’m needful of chow and rest. Have the best one that you can manage!
Later, Festus.
Be good, good sir!
“Have the best one that you can manage!”
No can do. Mrs. Q is still out of commission.
See you later Festus!
The more I hear out of that DeSantis fellow, the more I like. He’s no Rand or Massie, but if that is the direction the GOP is going to take it would be an improvement over the neo-con and establishment go along Mittens bullshit. I checked out his Wikipedia page and man have the lefties really written a fantasy section on his COVID response. It’s like it is still May and Andrew Cuomo is the one true leader, lockdowns now, lockdowns forever.
In other news, it is almost a sure thing that Greasy Gav is gonna face a recall this year. Let’s see if it succeeds. As I’ve said before I don’t hold out any hope for my state, I just am very happy that he is going to have to contend with that. It should at least speed up the glacial reopening here (I’ll try my best not to scream).
I thought most of the signatures on the petition were fraudulent and it was all a plot by sneaky Russians? Has the “intelligence community” floated that one yet?
Not yet. For now they are running with Proud Boys, 3 Percenters, Oath Keepers and QAnon.
Whatever, because they better get at least 1 million extra signatures because the petition sigs will be scrutinized to a degree that even Trump could have only wished for in 2020 recounts.
It’s all a subversion of democracy even if there are enough valid signatures. The petition process was only intended for approved causes.
Yeah, well Noem sounded real good too until she talked about stopping the pot legalization they state’s voters had passed.
the state’s
While I think Noem is OK, she would get hammered on South Dakota’s death/million rate, which is in the top 10.
Less than a million people live in South Dakota, so the number is deceiving.
she would get hammered on South Dakota’s death/million rate, which is in the top 10.
Not any more. More like 15th.
Worldometers has South Dakota ranked at #8. Not sure about the Coaches’ ranking though.
You’re right. I was looking at the wrong data – cases, not deaths.
Those numbers are all bullshit.
Maybe, but that’s irrelevant. In a campaign she’d get hammered on those numbers.
This should surprise no one.
He’s either exceedingly stupid or he felt himself immune from criticism and investigation. I’m guessing some of both.
The simple fact that he’s a children’s court judge makes me hope he gets hard time, but I know they’ll put him on probation instead. Fuckers.
There are 99,000 voters that ought to be asking themselves a question right about now.
If you think that they’ll stop using their votes as a virtue signaling device, I’ve got some property over here that I’d like to show you….
I said “ought” didn’t I? You think I don’t know that they have immunity to considering just how foolish they are?
I am however looking at property next weekend…
I wouldn’t blame them too much. It was an election for a judge. They probably just voted for whoever the local paper or the Bar Association recommended. Those are the ones who should be asking themselves some questions.
They probably knew.
They’re trying to scrub all evidence of his involvement with the Drag Queen Story Hour but the internet has the receipts. I’ll bet the rest of them have been deleting their stashes and purging their hard drives like crazy.
Good morning Banjos! Always good to have a chipper, happy Bsnjos mourning Lynx to start the day!
Good on DeSantis. It really is too bad that this will be held up as proof of DeSsntis’s “racism” when in reality, critical race theory itself is what is both blatantly and insidiously racist.
I’m not taking the vaccine. Call me an anti vaxxer, I don’t care.
A friend of my step-brother – 78 year-old Vietnam vet – got the vaccine. The first round was hard on him. The second round killed him in four days.
I don’t think I’ll be volunteering to get it unless there’s a really good incentive.
Granted, I don’t remember ever having an adverse reaction to any vaccine including the swine flu shot in 1977. But I don’t like the way this one is going.
Sorry to hear that. Do you know which one he got and the cause of his death?
Why would anyone trust this corrupt system that spit out this vaccine? I don’t trust the govt to be able fix a pothole these days and I have no confidence in their ability to crony capitalist their way into my cells.
I have been asked several times when I’m getting my snifflecootie shot. I just say I’m giving my spot in line to someone who needs it more.
Fuck that noise.
Like this douchebag?
https://twitter.com/katie_honan/status/1372556889897193476
Actually, the Johnson & Johnson vax is probably the only one, given my present knowledge, that I would put in my arm. Not that we Canucks are going to have any choice in the matter for many, many months . . .
Wow. Look at those guns.
I have been asked several times when I’m getting my snifflecootie shot.
I refuse to ask anyone that, in spite of some . . . incentives . . .to do so at my job.
Nobody has asked me. My boss already knows because she was in our clinic when I got it. I think everyone else either assumes I did or is afraid to ask.
If asked, my response will be “I don’t ask you about your personal medical information. I suggest you do the same.”
Stupid me. I bought the minivan with the HID headlights way back when.
Now instead of aftermarket replacements for about $80 each, they’re $1,000 each.
See if you can find one from a salvage yard. Also if the lense is OK, but the electronics shot you may be able to buy a cracked lense with good electronics.
Not a fan of the cost of new headlights, but I like the light output. If only our betters in DC would allow the adaptives that Europe uses.
My biggest issue is all new headlights craze from UV. You can try to polish and protect them, but they will eventually yellow again.
Are there LED retrofits of some kind available. We’ve gone LED from the original halogen, and the only thing about them is they can be too bright. I occasionally get flashed by oncoming traffic. They regret it, of course, because I flash them back, and if they thought the low beams were too much, well . . . .
I feel like I’m watching everyone else go insane. Because I am.
Once upon a time, hysterical germophobic hypochondriacs were mocked and heckled for their mental imbalance.
Now they are hailed as heroes.
Now instead of aftermarket replacements for about $80 each, they’re $1,000 each.
Gadzooks!
Time for a set of “off road” driving lights bolted to the bumper.
I replaced a headlamp bulb in my dad’s Cadillac CTS last Summer. You have to practically disassemble the front of the car to do it. I bet it’s $500 to take it in and have the $15 halogen bulb installed by a real shop.
Told the wife that I’ll just be polishing that shitty plastic that all headlights are encased in nowadays instead of getting her new assemblies.
The good news is it is just a blown fuse.
What’s the bad news?
The way the car is designed, we have to remove the engine to replace the fuse. It’s going to cost you.
Interesting, you have to click through two additional confirmations to watch Crowder’s latest episode even though you have adult content allowed in the settings:
https://youtu.be/abm04y4g7bM
Yay social engineering. Also, he needs to get rid of his new cohost because he’s way way funnier than Crowder is.
I dislike Crowder as much as I dislike Shapiro. Shapiro I would have picked on in middleschool and Crowder comes off as an annoying try hard.
Crowder’s black farmers rant wasn’t funny at all. I tried mentally reversing it and having someone like Charlamagne Tha God do a bit where on urban white brand strategists get upset about something but uses hick/hillbilly accents for them — nope, still not funny.
He is annoying but his show is sometimes OK. Dave Landau, former Cumia sidekick who’s hosting this particular episode, is great though-I was pleasantly surprised.
Anyone else feel like they are going insane?
No. Look at what you thought or said five years ago. Or even six months ago. My bet is that it isn’t that far removed. You’re not insane. They’re (academia, the media, the government) gaslighting you. Believing you’re insane is what they want you to think.
The idea that children should get the vaccine makes my fucking blood boil. These people are fucking evil.
Anyone else feeling like they are a little drunk and trying on their wife’s lingerie?
who hasn’t?
Well, I’ve tried on your wife’s lingerie, and she has great taste.
Perhaps you could buy some used from one of the may convenient vending machines?
Nice thing is that machine will have music and voice prompts that will guide you through the whole process.
what day is it?
I had too many beers and vicodin last night…did I take the trash out? Wait- is it Thursday? I think I gotta work tonight.
Shit- this is what happens when Jugsy is shipped South of the Mason-Dixon and I have 2 nights off in a row.
I think VA sent a nurse over yesterday, which explains why my fingers smell like a combination of Grizzly wintergreen, shame, and chlamydia
Inventory shows have a 6-pack and 2 pills left. Ya’all, I need lunch.
*calls Donatos
I hope you’re extracting the codeine in cold water and discarding the acetaminophen.
Im not proud to say I know what a cold-water-extraction is, and how it works.
You and I should never party together.
Dude, St. Pat’s day is over and done with.
You ain’t an honorary mick anymore, so take the women’s grundies off and put them away until next year.
This damages my calm.
A New York City judge has removed a 6-year-old girl from her mother because she did not wear a mask while dropping her off outside of the school.
In a shocking and egregious move, the court also told Dr. Epstein that in order to get short supervised visits with her child — she will have to wear a mask inside her own home.
Karen, the Nurse , and other assorted actors in this tragedy should spend the next 30 years looking over their shoulder to see if anything bad is coming.
If people got their asses handed to them for pulling this shit, incidents like this would be less likely to happen.
^^^
This is so fucked up. I would like to think that whoever would tried that shit on me and take my child would get these hands, but we’ve been conditioned (including myself) against physically defending our rights when the government violates them. So they’ll keep on doing this shit until a large portion of the population puts a stop to this shit.
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You are too genteel in your comment.
Divorce nastiness. I’d put money down that the father knows the judge.
Anything goes in these cases. But the school nurse needs to be slapped around.
Upper East Sider.
I’m still enraged, but odds are quite good this particular person thought that the state and its powers were just fine until it came for her.
A lot of my “educated” friends can’t understand the link to the increase of government power and abuse. They’ll all for the government’s boot until that boot comes down on their necks.
There is a strain in American politics (perhaps elsewhere too, but this seems to one of the defining characteristics of “high-trust” vs “low-trust” societies) which can be summarized as “loathe thy neighbor” (the inversion of “love thy neighbor”).
People vote on government policy for two primary reasons:
1. Personal benefit
2. Protection from bad neighbors
Examples of 1 include transfer payments, jobs programs, tax credits, etc. Examples of 2 include policing, zoning, school curriculum, etc. Financial and physical security are the nominal justifications but they’re really one can provide for oneself in a free society. It takes a government to extract money from others and give some of it back to you, or to stop your neighbor from building that ugly shed, etc.
Similar to other surprises
But I’m sure they still vote for more boots on necks.
I remember those idiots. We have far too many morons like them.
I saw this, and yes it’s distressing but I feel there’s more to the story. It doesn’t make any sense. There’s no law or even ‘order’ about masking outdoors. The judge has no grounds for the decision.
Why would anyone trust this corrupt system that spit out this vaccine? I don’t trust the govt to be able fix a pothole these days and I have no confidence in their ability to crony capitalist their way into my cells.
They cranked out a “cure” for a completely novel, unique, miraculously contagious and relentlessly fatal disease in record time.
That indicates, to me, the snifflecooties is nowhere near as horrifically lethal as they claimed, or they cut an awful lot of corners.