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Better shanty because jawline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU
Does no one respect the classics any more?
Disappointed! Thought it would be Barnacle Bill, for certain!
They clearly dont know how to properly shanty.
Classics, you say?
In a bit more mellow mood today. RIP Bill Paxton.
Good morning! I want to know more about this Cuba thing. I have never heard of civil unrest in Cuba until this event.
Why would they revolt? They cured AIDs!
They’re upset that the Cuban news has been censoring Biden’s ice cream choices.
*polite applause*
From drummerdave, a Cuban escapee…
“But can you tell the guy who says he’s never heard of civil unrest in Cuba that it has been going on from day one! 62 years now. There’s been civil unrest. It’s just that you don’t hear about it cause they suppress it so well but they’ve been killing, oppressing and crushing the Cuban people from day one of that revolution.”
… “In every block of every town and city in Cuba, the communist party has a so called ‘committee for the defense of the revolution’ what this means in reality is that every block has a spy and monitor to oppress and report any dissenters to the authorities for arrest. No proceedings, no due process. You stick your head out and you get either beat up, jailed indiscriminately or downright killed by goons.
Any assembly of 3 or more requires permission from these goons. Think on that!
Divide and conquer is the idea and suppress dissent to such an extent that the town down the road does not know what is happening next door. THAT IS the reality of Cuba.”
I love the smell of US intervention in foreign affairs in the morning.
/sarc
Stolen from a youtuber named styxhexenhammer666.
Major diplomatic crisis points since Biden was “elected.”
-Haiti suffers near-coup event
-Cuba undergoing mass protests
-Russia arms up its Baltic border
-Belarus becomes quasi-dictatorship
-China warmongers after Taiwan
-DPRK suspends bilateral talks
Is it fair to blame the relative peace the past on Trump and the chaos on Biden? Probably not, maybe, I don’t know. Is there an iron law about unintended consequences being unforseeable? No? Ok.
I’m worried about what’s next in the Middle East with Israel’s neighbors.
What happened there during the Trump years would have put a donkey President in Nobel peace prize contention.
But orange man bad, so MSM didn’t cover the spate of peace treaties and won’t cover their collapse under a silent US President.
He’s so doped up that his eyes aren’t even blue anymore. They look like mine when I was 17 or so. All pupils.
And the entire elite on the side against Israel isn’t exactly helping.
Energy independence disappeared overnight. Just a coincidence I am sure.
Energy independence helps the serfs, not the people in power control the serfs…
-Russia arms up its Baltic border
-Belarus becomes quasi-dictatorship
-China warmongers after Taiwan
-DPRK suspends bilateral talks
Um…those were happening for some time now. Belarus has been a despotic shithole for a long time. Finland even issued their reservists a “stand by” letter a few years back. China has been asshoe since Xi took charge and when doesn’t the Hermit Kingdom stop playing games?
Also, Haiti has a coup attempt every 5 years or so.
And not sure what diplomatic crisis the US has when Cubans are finally fed up with their government, unless the citizens are complaining that not enough citizens are getting murdered by their government.
Like the rest of TV, the news is mostly repeats and therefore not worth the bother.
The Cubans have been fed up with their government for decades. That ship left a long time ago. That’s not the problem. Communism is a cancer and when tyrants take power, just like a cancer, they are very difficult to dislodge and eradicate. Absolute power can be used in many devious ways to suppress and oppress. You would be amazed at the wickedness of a communist mind and how they strike terror and fear in the hearts of the Cuban people to hold them down. Communists are only good at that one thing! That’s about it!
They sense weakness like a dog on a bone.
Member of household is such a weaselly way to report that data. What’s the average size of a household (assuming mono racial household) for black people? Asian Americans? Hispanic Americans? Whites?
This was in response to Sean down below.
Identifying the wrong culprit 101
Emphasis added. Assuming black people only live with other black people? Or that white people only live with white people? Seems pretty fucking racist to me.
Pandemics happen, yo. The irrational overreaction by the government in no way was more harmful than the sniffles.
Grim milestones!!1!!11!
Bodies everywhere!
I just mentally replace “pandemic” with “effects of the incredible overreaction to the pandemic” automatically when I read those things now. I wish more people would do so.
I correct people now with “gov’t reaction to the pandemic” whenever “the pandemic” is the blame for something. No on has argued against that statement. Most vocally agree.
When writing up analyses for work that involve covid’s impact on the business, I use the term “Covid Response” rather than just “Covid.”
The pandemic didn’t do that. Wouldn’t a for real plague actually raise wages if it’s killing off workers? If I’m remembering my history, the Black Death led to peasant revolts and more rights and pay for workers because the supply of labor had been cut. The “problem” with this covid is that the massive die offs didn’t happen, but the government sure as fuck decimated supply chains. Same amount of labor in the market with less work to do. Hmmmmmmm
Shhhh….they’re on a roll
Now that China’s One Child policy is showing up in the inevitable imbalance of available female companions/wives, Asian (and other) nations had better exercise extreme caution in sending women over to China as interlocutors.
Doesn’t the United States have more women than men? Interesting. I like the population charts comparing China to India. I think it’s neat that China’s looks like a pagoda.
I believe the US has a female surplus overall, but it varies by age. There is a male surplus that transitions to a female surplus around age 40.
That explains Bruce jenner.
I think you got that backwards.
Caitlin(sp?) explains why we have a surplus.
Most places that don’t use selective abortion / infanticide have slightly more women than men.
When nature is left to her own devices, birth favors males but longevity favors women. Ie, more boys are born than girls, but women live longer on average.
Boys do dangerous things for the nookie, it is known.
Boys do dangerous things
for the nookie, it is known.Invading Taiwan is all about getting more poon tang?
https://www.instagram.com/hottaiwangirls/?hl=en
WTF is that thing on the top right?
Are they looking to meet men in my area?
Yes, they want you to do a zoom meeting where you drop your pants and beat your baloney silly while they record it… They will then reach out to you and tell you the video will be going to Facebook unless you give them gift cards or bitcoin or some such lucre…
If you mix Tang® breakfast drink into prune juice, do you have…..
/removes glasses
Prune Tang ?
*Throws rotten cabbage*
Boo!
Oh, come on. That was a real plum.
What do you call a vodka and prune juice?
A pile-driver.
Vodka and Milk of Magnesia?
Phillips screwdriver.
Alternatively:
Yeah, that one really plumbed the depths of punning.
Tres is going to be a big hit with the ladies in a Florida retirement community.
German ladies?
Here’s the China-India population animation.
The number of basket-cases on that 2050 projection graphic is alarming.
I’d guess that the inverse correlation between economic and social advancement and population growth has something to do with that projection.
I’m more than half expecting the next Joemala to include Biden hallucinating JFK’s ghost encouraging him to get more involved in Cuba.
Avenge me, Joe! Avenge me!
Ha ha ha. Imagine intervening on behalf of people suffering under the yoke of communism.
(not that I would advocate it, but with this White House?)
Good morning.
Cubans taking to the streets? Drink!
Brain drain!
“In education, we have responded to opposition with truth and facts and being able to say, ‘Yeah, I can see why that’d be a concern, but this is what is really happening.’ In most cases that works for us,” Harrison said. “But when facts are no longer part of the discussion, our tools to reframe the conversation and get people back on board are limited.”
Against the backdrop of hostility to discussions of race in schools — and as five states have passed laws limiting how teachers can address “divisive concepts” with students — administrators and teachers across the country say they have been pushed out of their districts. Some have opted to leave public schools entirely, while others are fighting to save their career. The result in these districts is what educators and experts describe as a brain drain of those who are most committed to fighting racism in schools.
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“This is going to cause an exodus among an already scarce recruiting field in education,” said Kumar Rashad, a Louisville, Kentucky, math teacher and local teachers union leader. “People aren’t entering the field as much as they were, and now we have this to chase them away.”
Oh, no. Dedicated hard working professionals are being driven out of their calling by a bunch of ignorant yahoos who want to tell them what they can and cannot teach their children. What is the world coming to?
If I knew I would be treated fairly and wouldn’t have to put up with a mountain of bullshit I would love to be a high school science teacher. As it stands, no fucking way.
I would love to be a high school history teacher except for all that shit – and constantly having to deal with teenagers.
Bureaucracy: Sorry sir, but you painted communism negatively, so we must let you go…
You: Wut? The fucking marxist murdered between 100-150 million people and enslaved close to 3 billion people in their fake quest to create Utopia, but have a problem with kids knowing that?
Bureaucracy: Yeah, the globalist agenda can’t work without marxism, so teaching kids marxism is bad hampers that, and we can’t have that…
Yes, I have considered trying to work with a local high school to create an “engineering prep” course as a pre-retirement/retirement gig, but the way schools are going now, there’s no way I’d set foot in that den of vipers.
Yeah. No step on snek!
I think den of vipers describes it perfectly. I am with Waffles, I would love to teach but my God…the poison that is public education today…
If but that poison was only limited to public education….
Despite a terminal degree and 7 years of teaching freshman chem, math, and physics, I am considered unqualified to stand in front of a bunch of high schoolers and teach them what acids and bases are.
Because you lack the proper creds to discuss their junk and the glories of marxism with them?
I actually looked into what it would take to get accredited to teach — sort of a plan for semi-retirement.
2 years of classes costing $10k. 1 year of unpaid classroom experience. Then you start out at the bottom of the pay grade at about $30K per year.
Fuck that. I can be a part time contract engineer for as long as I like and make way more than that.
Only the best and the brightest go into teaching!
If a math teacher will quit her job because she can’t or won’t avoid talking race in the classroom, then it’s a net gain to the school and students when she exits.
Undoubtedly correct.
Their brains were drained well before they the set foot in a school.
I’m finally giving in and headed to the ER, my hip pain is unbearable to the point I can barely walk. I’m pissed I have to take time off of work, but I went in and at least tried, but I had to give up.
At least the boss is cool with it.
Good luck
I hope you get good news!
I need to do something, I live on my feet, so it must be repaired, whatever “it” is,
Thanks for the kind words.
Fair sailing, Bob!
Good luck. Hope for the best.
Best of luck to you!
Make sure they check your thermostat!
/Best wishes for a positive outcome.
Good luck, bro.
Shit, I hope you are better soon.
“Trying to explain to someone that systemic racism is a thing, at the core of that you’re trying to show that my lived experiences as a person of color matter,” Harrison said.
At the same meeting, school board members also argued over whether to survey middle and high school students and parents on their experiences with discrimination. The survey would be anonymous and optional, but some residents and board members didn’t want sixth graders to be asked for their gender identity or sexual orientation, so they tabled it. Board members agreed to the survey a week later after clarifying that students could only take it if their parents gave permission.
“Education”
I remember years back, leftists arguing that education in this country was just capitalist indoctrination.
As demonstrated, they don’t mind the indoctrination, they just want it to be their indoctrination. The same goes for racism and they are fans of free speech, for leftists.
Systemic racism is not a thing. Hell, individual racism is barely a thing anymore. There’s nothing off limits to anyone of any race in America. Anyone pushing racism as a rral problem is either a maximum retard or a straight up commie. There’s no other reason.
If you constantly attempt to brainwash a people into believing they are victims, especially starting with an obviously troubled people. You will see all the disparate outcomes you need. It’s all a scam. The only two places I know where you can find real racism in modern america is prisons and the democrat party.
America, it seems to me, is one of the only places in the world where you can get rich telling people how oppressed you are. It really is incredible.
Marxists are idiots. Michael Moore and Patrice Cullers, to name a couple of people, became stinking rich peddling marxist tropes to these idiots while charging them big cash (movie tickets or BLM donations of shame). You would think these marxists would at some point wise up and decide they were being played and marxism is stupid, but that seems to be something you can’t do when you have accepted this cult’s teachings..
With the “lived-experience > objective data” paradigm of critical theory, all it takes is some interaction that could be construed as racist by the “victim” to validate their claim. I do find it interesting that these claims usually involve some degree of reading the mind of the “offender”.
The effective extinction of actual racism in America is exactly why they are pushing this narrative. Grifters afraid of losing their grift.
^^^INTERNET WINNER^^^
It makes sense only with this concept in mind. They are actively trying to cause racial strife. Of course it only is rational for the ones making hay. For the rest, it’s brainwashing.
Al Sharpton hardest hit.
“…blah blah blah my lived experiences as a person of color matter,”
Except that they don’t matter. No one cares about your ‘lived experiences’. You’re a silly useless asshole swimming in a sea of identical silly useless assholes. The world will keep revolving whether you keep existing or not…
How disappointed would the Cubans be if the Harris Administration took over – and they became more communist?
It would certainly be more tyrannical…
God forbid it!
Good morning friends!
People seem to be getting fed up with authoritarian bullshit. I would love to see a free Cuba.
Speaking of Cuba:
Everyday is like a vacation with you
A free Cuba might be a really great place to move to in the next decade or so. The people’s memories of the disaster of communism/socialism will be fresh for a long time.
Plus there would be plenty of opportunity.
Libertarian paradise is just one revolution away, comrade. Actually for real this time.
A lot of the people there are very liberty minded and industrious. If the shackles of the state were removed the opportunities there would be incredible.
I seem to recall that since the disintegration of the Soviet Union, more than a few Russians have pined for the days of Stalin. Too bad they don’t move to North Korea to get exactly what they’re asking for.
Some people prefer stability, even if it comes at the cost of brutal and unfair dictatorial systems, over any system that requires them to make their own choices and then be responsible for the results. For some reason people that make lots of bad choices tend to also sooner than later pine for systems where people are denied that freedom of choice..
More people are driven by a sick urge to get happiness from other people’s misery than finding that joy in their own freedom…
Somewhat Cuba-related.
Heck yeah, Cuba was America’s vacation spot from the Spanish-American war to Castro. I would vacation there in a heartbeat.
The idea of opening a gun store in Havana is interesting…
yup.
What became of that band. They were here for a hot minute then… poof.
Brought over from the dead thread – some meth-head stole a bag of trash from the bed of my truck yesterday. Whatta world…
Maybe that methhead has Doc Brown skills and will turn the garbage into super meth?
Or at least fissile material.
A lot of it was cat litter so I suppose that it’s within the realm of possibility.
Hmmm.. Cat piss = amonia… was there any bleach? Chemical weapons could be on the table.
I remember reading a story about some clever NYC dweller who disposed of their garbage during a trash hauler strike by wrapping it up in gift paper and leaving it in the back seat of their car (unlocked).
This MUST be a giant bag full of expensive horribly smelly French cheese! The cash we are going to make selling this stuff to a store!
I had my first (?) porch theft recently – I hope they enjoy the can of bug spray. That was probably the single least expensive thing that’s been delivered in months.
Befuddled old man is horrified
“I mean, it’s ideological rigidity,” Fauci said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think there’s no reason not to get vaccinated. Why are we having red states and places in the South that are very highly ideological in one way, not wanting to get vaccinations – vaccinations have nothing to do with politics.”
Fauci also labeled scenes from this weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) “horrifying” when participants cheered following a comment that the government was not able to achieve 90% vaccinations.
“It’s horrifying,” Fauci said. “I mean, they are cheering about someone saying it’s a good thing for people not to try and save their lives.”
“I just don’t get it,” he added. “I don’t understand that.”
The personification of
SCIENCE!blind unquestioning belief doesn’t like it when you disagree with him.Pope Covid the First has a sad.
““I just don’t get it,” he added. “I don’t understand that.”
The fuck you don’t, you lying sack of shit.
Actually I believe him. I’ll bet you can float a destroyer on an ocean of the things he doesn’t understand.
“Why are we having red states and places in the South that are very highly ideological in one way, not wanting to get vaccinations – vaccinations have nothing to do with politics.”
Said the political appointee, working for the executive branch of a government that intends to use force to confiscate money.
Then use that money to pay state agents to go door-to-door “suggesting” you get vaccinated.
And putting you on a list if you refuse.
While other political appointees openly advocate using armed government agents to get the holdouts in the military to take the jab, and jail the dissenters.
With the obvious implication that civilians holdouts would be to last to experience a final solution to this problem.
From an administration where the politician heading it has openly speculated about using nukes and attack jets on civilians.
Nothing. To. Do. With. Politics.
I do worry that since the VA called me two or three times to schedule an appointment to get poked that I politely declined, I may be on the naughty list.
“President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who heads the Communist Party, blamed US for the unrest [in Cuba] in televised speech”
We are to blame, just not in the way he means it, since the prosperity and relative * freedom in Miami are going to make living with a Commie boot on your neck harder to accept.
* Plenty of people here diligently trying to turn the U.S. into a socialist worker’s paradise, even though it’s not that hard to fly to Cuba and volunteer to become a citizen of their regime.
Communism is about looting. There is nothing left to loot in Cuba, thus their attention turns here.
Ceausescu also blamed foreign agents for like 80% of the issues. the other 20% was hoarders and wreckers
Isn’t it amazing how such a glorious and wonderful system like communism is fragile enough to be broken by just a couple of wrongthinkers?
It is like a finely tuned mechanism one wrong thing ruins it. But the best things are finely tuned mechanism. Not like that chaotic capitalist shit.
Kalashnikov laughs at Stoner.
The forecast for Mammary Monday is mostly bouncy with a high chance of cleavage.
https://archive.li/mD0gT
Grauniad clickbait with something for both gyno- and androphiles:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/10/where-else-can-i-make-a-months-rent-in-two-days-the-unlikely-stars-of-onlyfans
I wish I could get paid for jerking the Gerkin. If you include my early teens, I would be Elon levels of rich.
Id have to learn to play piano. Id be blind.
Yeah, I think I wore him out, poor thing.
A quote from an old guy I used to work with: “Son, if my dick was a 2×6 and my hands were 80-grit, by now I wouldnt have enough left to pick my teeth.”
“Then my wife said, ‘Why don’t you step it up a bit, let’s see what happens?’”
Crush porn?
“Jessica joined OnlyFans after her daughter Brittany, 19, became a creator on the platform.”
wut
The family that plays together stays together.
“The Aristocrats!”
If we could post gif’s here – that would get the Mal speechless response.
I foresee mucho marital happiness in both their futures.
Extra-governmental authority
CIA paramilitary operations date back to the agency’s founding. Yet in Afghanistan and elsewhere, these actions against the Taliban, al-Qaida and others became a defining feature of the spy agency over the past two decades. They’ve been marked by successes — and major controversies.
But with the U.S. military all but gone from Afghanistan, and with the Taliban rapidly gaining ground on the battlefield, the CIA faces a new set of challenges as it attempts to monitor developments in that country.
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CIA Director William Burns told the Senate Intelligence Committee in April that the CIA wouldn’t be leaving Afghanistan when the military did.
“The CIA will retain a suite of capabilities, some of them remaining in place,” Burns said.
But he added an important caveat.
“When the time comes for the U.S. military to withdraw, the U.S. government’s ability to collect and act on threats will diminish. That is simply a fact,” Burns noted.
The CIA and the military depend on each other in war zones. The military provides protection that allows the CIA to operate more freely. The CIA provides intelligence that shapes military operations.
Apparently the CIA is its own supranational police force.
Westernsloper remains silent…
😀 ahahahaha God I love this place.
What he’s really upset about: he never got the chance to get into the really freaky stuff before she died.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15562014/videos-wife-pleasuring-herself-dozen-men/
That is bad business should have made an only fans
This is how you do capitalism.
This was a fun(ny) read linked at the side, great stuff
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15480978/boyfriend-fetish-polish-women/?rec_article=true
Has Pie been around ?
Seven sent back to Canada after entering U.S. across library lawn
“The occupants were from Canada, France and Romania.”
There’s been a bunch of illegals from Romania attempting to cross the border lately.
They’re looking for discounted bourbon.
Hooligans gonna hooligan.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/police-make-49-arrests-after-24513132
Interesting Cuba questions. Lets assume the commies fall, what does it do to Florida politics?
Is there more immigration from Cuba? Are they Rs like past cuban immigrants or Ds like other hispanic immigrants? Is there mass emmigration back to Cuba?
What is the net? How does it affect Florida R vs D?
Is there more immigration from Cuba? – yes
Are they Rs like past cuban immigrants or Ds like other hispanic immigrants? – they should not get to vote for quite some time
Is there mass emmigration back to Cuba? – highly unlikely
Assume a can opener …
What takes the place of the regime once it falls and creates a power vacuum?
What takes the place of the regime once it falls and creates a power vacuum? – usually the same people rebranded as capitalists after they privatize whatever part of the economy is still vaguely functional to themselves and take the best real estate. I mean this is what happened in Eastern Europe no idea about Cuba. My answer was based on that.
But from Easter Europe many people left west. Few who had escaped before 89 returned.
This seems like the most believable outcome. If things improve, ex-pats won’t return but you might get an increase in immigration from worse places. I don’t know what levels of immigration Cuba is seeing but I suspect it is very low. If things improve and immigration picks up, the government elites will profit and will keep milking the cash cow rather than try to slaughter it too soon.
Grifters…
I’d say it helps R’s. Cuban newcomers will probably integrate with the existing Cuban-American population in Miami-Dade who are solid R. Just being surrounded by that will influence the newcomers since the Cuban-Americans see through the bullshit and will communicate that to the newcomers.
I am guessing some of all. A lot of Cubans are going to return…with blood in their eyes.
Or with blood on their hands, since the current people running Cuba are unlikely to give up power peacefully.
I’m not smart enough to make predictions like that.
But I don’t see more than a token thousand or so Cubans “moving back” unless the opportunities are so great that they’d be crazy to stay here. Any Cuban that has decent living conditions in the US is not going to move back – some of the rich ones may start a business in Cuba (and that wouldn’t even be limited to Cubans anyway) but would likely keep their primary homes in the US.
Basically it comes down to direct and indirect taxation. If Cuba’s total taxation becomes smaller than Florida’s you might see some changes in Florida politics. But any taxation advantage would have to be true for 10 straight years before Cuba regains any trust. I’d assume if Cuba starts getting their taxation in line with sanity, the first takers will be Venezuelans.
What I could see is them financially supporting family back there if they can reestablish links. Then over time you might see a little movement in that direction.
No special insights, but here are my guesses:
Is there more immigration from Cuba?
Probably. The same dynamics are in play with immigration. My guess is that a lot of it will be sponsored immigration.
Are they Rs like past cuban immigrants or Ds like other hispanic immigrants?
Much more likely Ds. The circumstances of past Cuban immigrants were kind of unique. There was a communist revolution that displaced the middle and upper middle classes. So you had educated people forced to make their way in the world with no love for communism. That is, or at least should be, an ideal market for the GOP. New migrants will probably be among the country’s poorer people with little education.
Is there mass emmigration back to Cuba?
Maybe some. There’s would to be some pretty good opportunities for people to make a good career move as things open up. And Cuban Americans would be pretty well positioned to take advantage of that. That said, I don’t think it would be massive. At this point, most of the Cuban Americans are essentially Americans at this point.
+1 Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y De Acha III
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000789/bio
NALU Swim by Johanna Chone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EauDC7MFUgg
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2021/07/10/school-district-that-suspended-kids-over-bb-guns-at-home-forced-to-pay-up-n47588
Ha Ha!
that link is blocked at my work cause guns bad but from the title who is forced to pay up? the taxpayers or the actual school district officials?
You know the answer to your own question.
Gotta love a country in which when the State screws up its citizenry still pays.
And don’t forget, the citizenry shrugs its shoulders and doesn’t kick the officials responsible to the curb in the next election or demand their immediate resignation.
That is the real kick in the nuts
Karens lament!
For some values of “ha, ha…”
So the taxpayers get soaked for an additional $165,000 dollars, and get nothing to show for it and are apparently still saddled with problem employees.
The students who did nothing wrong still have suspension on their records, not that this matters to anyone once they graduate, but they did absolutely nothing wrong; their records should have been completely expunged, and some school employees fired.
But it is gob-smacking that the ACLU weighed in on the right side of the issue.
My gob has certainly been smacked.
The ACLU got one right?
I give you the ACLU’s [only] interest: Ka’Mauri Harrison.
Slurp slurp slurp
President Joe Biden was at a public transit station in Wisconsin, talking about repairing roads and bridges, when he shifted gears and began defending his plan to send money to parents for each minor child, payments some critics call a “giveaway.”
Biden folded his arms, rested on the lectern, leaned into the mic and lowered his voice.
“Hey, guys, I think it’s time to give ordinary people a tax break,” he said, almost whispering as he addressed his critics. “The wealthy are doing fine.”
It was the latest instance of Biden speaking volumes by whispering.
The White House and communications experts say Biden’s whispering is just this veteran politician’s old-school way of trying to make a connection while emphasizing a point.
Biden’s critics on the right as well as some late-night TV talk show hosts say the whispers are “creepy” and “weird.” Conservatives use the dramatic soft talk to fuel the narrative that the Democratic president is unfit for the job, and comedians deploy it to generate laughs.
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Beasley said the use of whispering by Biden, who was a U.S. senator and vice president for a total of more than 40 years, is a throwback to a long-ago time of chummier relations between lawmakers and members of the Washington press corps.
“I think it’s a symbolic gesture to a kind of intimacy and familiarity,” she said.
Beasley and others noted the contrast between Biden and former President Donald Trump, who often spoke loudly and angrily.
“One of the things that Trump never did was whisper,” said Robin Lakoff, professor emerita of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
“Joe Biden is our kind of President. His asshole tastes just like strawberry ice cream!”
I’d call the whispering talking down to people and being an asshole but that’s just me.
“a kind of intimacy and familiarity”
Yeah, that of a domineering boss being an asshole to his subordinates. Mucho intimate. Mucho familiar.
Right? It comes across as condescending
“Hey, guys, I think it’s time to give ordinary people a tax break,”
So ditch the Trump tax reductions and raise taxes?
Yeah, the parsing on the tax reduction expiration is so sleazy. If I pay more because of that you raised them.
Oh how it gives me a thrill when my betters notice me, way down here, being all ordinary and stuff!
“Old school”? What old-time politician did that weird whispering thing?
Daisy Buchanan?
Only when she was with Jay.
I mean, seriously: “One of the things that Trump never did was whisper,” said Robin Lakoff, professor emerita of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.”
Forget Trump – when the hell did Obama ever whisper? I can’t think of a single president who did that.
Teddy Roosevelt?
Lakoff has always shilled for Democrats. The woman doesn’t have an honest bone in her body.
Pretty sure none of them have a half hour compilation vid of them sniffing the hair of little girls either. Why is the word creepy so readily deployed for Biden?
Do you know who else conveyed his policy wishes in hushed whispers (probably)?
Woodrow Wilson?
Sorry, we were looking for Teddy R. The guy with the big stick.
Spicy!
“communications experts say”
Oh, good lord. /eye roll
“The dumbest bastards in the room” say…
“It’s so sexy when Biden whispers into the ear of pre-teen girl” – This author
“CUBA HOOMANS NOT HAPPY.”
NYT and the Twitterati say they’re mad because that’s not real communism.
Is there really an insurrection there?
I didn’t see a bunch of unarmed grandmas and loonies wandering around their capital taking selfies.
Also – was a
fully constructed model of Cuba done with Legosminecraft user-created world of the island found on a computer? These are important clues!The reason TMITE is trying so hard to obscure it, is that one of the complaints from the protestors is over the shitty state of the state run healthcare system, which TMITE been touting as ‘the best in the world’ for over a decade now. They really hate it when their artificially created reality is at odds with what makes the news.
It’s hard to overemphasize just how truly bad their health care system was. My friend married a Cuban girl (he was French and he would keep visiting there via indirect travel).
The system was so bad that if someone cough, others would cross the street to avoid them (before Covid). No one wanted to get sick under it.
They couldn’t even get aspirin or bandages.
The fact that these dipshits in our country are trying to sell it to us is just evil beyond belief.
[Team America Matt Damon voice] MICHAEL MOORE [/TAMDv]
What does TMITE stand for?
The Media Is The Enemy.
the media is the enemy
also
social media is the enemy (smite)
When Winston asked that I so wanted to reply:
Thy Mother Imitates Tasteful Erotica
or somesuch.
I doubt comparing a collapse of communism in Cuba to the fall of the Soviet Union is possible. Cuba is an island paradise, easilt reached by boat or plane from the wealthiest nation on earth. Before the murderous thugs took over, wealthy Americans invested, vacationed and enjoyed the place. It wouldn’t take long for that to all be restored, given enough freedom and stability.
Checking out, Glibs! Have a great one if you can!
I say flick the Bic.
Indeed.
no, I will not click on pictures of bicycles
I feel like authoritarianism tonight. Just for a while, to set things right.
To play a bit off of waffles’ quip, I’d just say that embracing authoritarianism to set things right is likely to go no better than “two weeks to flatten the curve,” and likely far worse.
Just the tip.
Isn’t that Road to Serfdom?
I dunno, Peru and Spain worked out fairly well, at least compared to the alternatives.
The death tolls of those regimes are laughable when plotted against other authoritarian regimes.
Hold on. Nobody choosed anything! Did you choose anything?
“President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who heads the Communist Party, blamed US for the unrest [in Cuba] in televised speech”
Stupid materialism and freedom. We’re a bad example for the rest of the world, but we’re trying as hard as we can to be better.
I think I am going to try for a walk around the block, just to see how much it impacts me.
Don’t worry, I’ll pay attention to how I’m doing.
well break a leg 🙂 . Walking is good if you ask me for as much as you can without pushing it
Good luck.
Looks like around the block is as far as my incisions will let me go right now.
The biggest problem is that my feet wanted to carry me faster than my condition wants.
Around the block is better than sitting on your ass.
Nice work.
Around the block is a milestone. Congrats. But don’t try to be Speedy Gonzalez.
Feet Don’t Fail Me
Now ?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KSMR9CfDioM
” impressive profits are being driven by freight rate hikes that have jumped by 50 percent, and will be realized despite congestion at seaports and a persistent shortage of containers”
Do they think ‘in spite of’ means ‘because of’?
Heh.
But in reality it is another manifestation of magic hat Econ. In their view, if something bad is happening then people are “owed” a break. So prices rise, in spite of a shortage, because the believe that cosmically they are owed prices to go down due to the trial of a shortage.
literally
Re Hayexplosives comment about post suggestions last thread – I think a lot of us military folks look for jobs supporting military, etc because it still resonates with us on various levels. The security clearance stuff helps, but honestly, I can parse most contract jobs even if I know I’m not qualified. I look at a job listing for most civvie stuff – exceptions growing – and think that I’d be bored out of my mind, etc.
Can anyone give me a QRD on Jacob Zuma and the riots/unrest going on in South Africa? It seems spicy but I don’t want to get too excited.
There’s nobody in a bison helmet taking selfies, so I’ll be honest…. 6.5 out of 10 at most.
Oil spreads and low inventories are signaling higher prices.
It took a Democrat to fully sate the Saudis’ avarice.
I’m told by the MSM it’s definitely not any of Biden’s policies.
That would be racist.
Yeah, it’s funny how amazing coincidences always seem to match totally unrelated mishaps the the predictable adverse consequences of Democrats’ policies. I guess it’s all Heinleinian bad luck.
“NFL linebacker Barkevious Mingo ‘pulled at teenage boy’s underwear before attempting to have sex with him’ in a hotel over July 4th weekend in 2019, according to police search warrant”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9779501/Barkevious-Mingo-pulled-teenage-boys-underwear-attempting-sex-him.html
Never mind that shit. Here comes Mingo!
Um, did the teen who was pretending to be asleep fight off this Pro Athlete? Or Does this 30 year old man not know how to do butt stuff?
“Damn! I put it in the pillow, again!”
Que?
Meh, at least an SMG is closer to an assault rifle in concept than a MSR.
An Uzi in a Lambo? Peak 80’s confirmed.
Just needs a kilo stashed in the glove compartment.
I don’t know what a kilo of coke costs, but as the years go by, the trade on an UZI SMG gets closer and closer to par.
He was just guest starring on Miami Vice.
He didn’t bring enough lube.
So, linebacker has no idea how to tackle tightend?
Too slow to catch wide receiver.
He can’t plug those holes.
Interesting, they’re leaving out the age. Was the teen 13 or 17? It’s still sleazy and whatnot but there is a difference.
I love barkevious dog vids on YT. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKO2fSW8Vxg
‘Barkevious Mingo’
That’s one hell of a name.
Tucker Carlson engages in verbal fisticuffs with an actual potato.
I wonder when people are going to start taking their frustrations out on the media.
“Don’t worry so much about money. Worry about if people start deciding to kill reporters. That’s a quote,” Hyde said in a phone interview, laughing.
I can remember when this sounded shocking to me. How quaint.
It’s hard to choose between Stelter and Lemon as the worst balloonhead at CNN.
Or Fredo.
Gah, they’re all so horrible.
The answer is Stelter. Lemon’s an idiot and doesn’t know any better. Ditto for Cuomo. Stelter’s actually passably intelligent and knows exactly what he’s doing plus he has a smile that’s a combination of Jared from Subway and Jaws.
Whatever happened with the guy he supposedly sexually assaulted?
#MeToo does not Apply to those of authoritarian persuasion.
It’s Stelter for me. God that guy sucks.
Hey, Glibs. Want some great fuel for your tinfoil hats? I had no idea, but a friend posted this and… well…
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=121779426810096&set=pcb.121779470143425
If linky no work, I’ll summarize: MSM matching headlines that go like this – “Burundi Says It Doesn’t Need COVID19 Vaccines”/”Burundi President… dies of ‘cardiac arrest’ at 55”
Ditto for Tanzania’s President – opted out of COVID lockdowns and vaccine, President dies. Haiti’s President? Yep, him, too.
I mean this would be like the dumbest conspiracy ever, but I like it.
Why is it ‘dumb?’ When I was a prosecutor, every conspiracy looked like the dumbest one ever. Especially once they’re exposed.
OTOH, do you know how much blatantly illegal shit goes on in the government – and I mean blatant – with absolutely zero consequence?
Let me give you an example: at the Church Committee hearings in 1975, govt officials admitted – under oath, on live TV, to the entirety of the country – that they had knowingly and repeatedly experimented on and tortured US citizens… and nothing else happened. Nothing. Not a single official ever was even charged or investigated for it.
You can go into the Congressional record and find hundreds of instances of govt officials admitting they committed federal fucking felonies to some committee. And nothing else happens. There are some great ones involving FDA officials who decide which drug gets approved. That committee is fundamentally on the big pharma payroll – but they’ve waived their own conflicts of interest – because they’re superior humans and they can operate without regard to their own personal financial interests. Then the drug had to be recalled because it was deadly. Whoopsie!! And nothing else happened.
with absolutely zero consequence?
I see the trivial stuff every day – incompetence promoted as success (which is technically a little worse than zero consequence I think). The only reason I can be skeptical of evil-doing (like assassinating foreign leaders) is because that implies work and if there is one thing the govt will avoid, it is actually doing work. All manner of shit can just happen by the grace of God; but actually get someone to do something – on purpose?
There’s just not enough gain for an insane amount of effort.
There are billions and billions being made by two pharmaceutical companies in the forced vaccination scam.
You think it’s beyond the pale that the same people that got in bed with our govt to mandate vaccines – and it’s not going as well as hoped – wouldn’t spend a bit on whacking a couple of recalcitrant third world leaders?
I didn’t need any more, but thanks.
Seriously.
*Adds tin foil to subscribe & save*
Looks like Burundi’s president died last June.
And he was cooperating with the anti-Al-Shabab clusterfuck in Somalia. Doubt the CIA would want him gone.
I don’t think the CIA does whackings as often as people think they do. But there are a whole lot of other even less scrupulous folks with variegated interests out in the world. IOW, almost every country has some even worse equivalent to the Agency. Just let that sink in for a few moments. They may not be as capable, but they’re also a lot less inhibited.
Oh I don’t doubt it.
People suck, people in groups suck even harder.
Vice President of Asset Protection and Liability Reduction.
“Peaceful protests are growing in #Cuba as the Cuban people exercise their right to peaceful assembly to express concern about rising COVID cases/deaths & medicine shortages. We commend the numerous efforts of the Cuban people mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.”
https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty/status/1414334778095046656
CWAA
He better watch out, I heard Cuban Healthcare was teh bestest, and didn’t you know communism taught them all to read!
Do they have a “right” to protest?
¡No!
They have freedom to protest, but not freedom after protest.
Every person on this planet has the right to protest. The question is does an armed government stifle it or welcome it. We are seeing our culture lose that picture at great speed.
So Swedish monarchy needs to be on alert?
Also a couple of Olympic athletes are going down.
“Yet for a year and a half we have been largely unwilling to fully believe it. Children now wear masks at little-league games, and at the swimming pool, and when school reopens in the fall they will likely wear masks there, too. But the kids are not at risk themselves, and never were. Now, thanks to vaccines, the vast majority of their parents and grandparents aren’t any longer, either.
But first: the kids. Over the course of the pandemic, 49,000 Americans under the age of 18 have died of all causes, according to the CDC. Only 331 of those deaths have been from COVID — less than half as many as have died of pneumonia. In 2019, more than 2,000 American kids and teenagers died in car crashes; each year about a thousand die from drowning. More American children die in an average year from RSV — another respiratory ailment, whose prevalence is now growing because 18 months of quarantine have deprived young children of immune exposure — than died in either of the last two years from COVID-19.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-from-covid-the-whole-time.html
I think we need a new virus that only kills public sector unions.
We should be celebrating the fact that New York Magazine published this. With any luck it means the tide is turning.
Of course the comments are beyond stupid.
Right. I bet that person brushes the reports of heart enlargement under the rug as not a big deal also. Fuck em.
“However, current science also show that even in asymptomatic patients, we are seeing organ and brain/nerve damage.”
That makes no sense.
Nothing has made sense for quite a while.
Also, we are — in fact — not seeing that.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210401/many-show-long-term-organ-damage-after-covid
Would be my guess on what they are referring to; though they probably got their information from the Facebook Telephone Game.
Then there’s the fact that the study was of people older than 65 and it was of people who were hospitalized. Pretty sure hospitalization was extremely rare among kids.
A study of hospitalized people is be definition not a study of asymptomatic people.
It’s easy for you to say that, oh, the current science says kids don’t die as much even if they get the disease.
Uhhh…yeah. Because the current store of scientific knowledge is all we have to go on. We don’t base our lives around the possibility that there’s a secret hidden asteroid hurtling toward the earth unbeknownst to us. Because we have no rational reason to assume there is.
A generation impervious to Water Boarding, Excellent! *Mr. Burns GIF*
I can confidently say that almost no kid in North Texas has worn a mask at little league game the entire year. Also, if you go to a Texas Rangers game with thousands of other people no one is bothering to wear a mask either.
This has to be a New York thing.
And look at the data. The numbers are exactly the same and flat. Amazing. It’s almost like it doesn’t make a bit of difference.
Yeah Vegas is booming and some wear them most don’t and magically it isn’t that bad.
People were even coughing at church yesterday, sans mask, and nobody panicked. It’s almost like there are a whole bunch of people who decided to continue living their lives, despite the panic porn from TMITE.
The media and state officials have done a number on my family and friends in Cali. These people think that it is roving around, like a pack of gnats, and that merely being outside it will attack you and that their threshold to their house and shitty doors/windows keeps it at bay.
It is sad.
Yay! Next will be using toilets without washing hands afterwards again. I welcome the return to unsanitary habits.
I prefer washing before hand. I know my junk is clean but I ain’t touching it before I give a good scrub.
^ this guy gets it
A joke my uncle told one day while he was using the mineral sink at his shop, “You know the difference between a white collar job and a blue collar job? At a blue collar job you have to wash your hands before you take a piss. At a white collar job you do it after.” 6 year old me didn’t get it, as I never washed my hands.
They simply cannot disconnect their politics from anything. Even when they agree with the premise that things are looking up, it’s only because right-thinking people like themselves and other Democrats carried the Trump voting troglodytes thru the ordeal.
Comment: The whole point of closing the schools though was to avoid bringing ADULTS together who could infect each other. Dozens of NYC school employees have died of covid
Explain…everywhere else.
Well it was to allow the teachers to stay home. They got that part right.
I was walking thru the local park/swimming pool last Thursday around 2pm. There must have been 80 or so people – the only two I saw wearing masks were the two cops I walked past who looked like they were interested in nothing but their own conversation.
Fla is pretty much an inverse proportion to los angeles. You see an odd mask or two out here. Seems like a huge amount of old and fat people have survived, despite that.
TPTB, I’ve got a friend who escaped from Cuba who just registered so he can join the Cuba convo. His handle is “drummerdave”.
^^^ That is awesome
When we establish Glibertopia…I believe we need to purchase this
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-military-tank-listed-popular-auction-site
I am bumbling my way into the 21st century. I successfully managed to make an online transfer of funds from my bank account to a brokerage account, as a test in preparation for having the proceeds of my property closing dumped in it.
I told the guy at the title company I wanted a trash bag full of fifty dollar bills, but he said no.
I told the guy at the title company I wanted a trash bag full of fifty dollar bills, but he said no.
Damn Millennials are ruining everything.
We should be celebrating the fact that New York Magazine published this.
No kidding. I never would have expected New York to publish anything contradictory to the doomsday cult narrative.
I vaguely remember New York Mag swimming upstream against the narrative on something Trump-related. Maybe Russia Russia Russia.
They’re pretty awful. But not even them or the NYT can come close to the awfulness that is The Atlantic and The Guardian. My god, PRAVDA must have been at least a little less commie than those 2.
OTOH, do you know how much blatantly illegal shit goes on in the government – and I mean blatant – with absolutely zero consequence?
Like my link above, in which the CIA director basically says, “What does that have to do with us?” in response to our presumptive withdrawal from Afghanistan.
$509/night for a lowly SpringHill Suites. And not in Manhattan. Good lord.
125.00 for a two bedroom house, fully equiped in beautiful Ormond by the sea, Fla. Across the street fron the intercoastal and a half mile from the roasty warm Atlantic. We’re here until Wed.
I don’t think work will pay the mileage.
The better Best Western and Choice properties are sold out. Even the Super 8 is at $161.
#bringbacklockdowns
Occurs to me that the Democrats are leaning on the COVID vaccine issue because of how it plays with their base.
I think this validates that thought.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-tracker/
Politicians love wedge issues. It feeds their power and gives them an opening to gain more. They know this can drive a deep wedge with this and further divide families and general human connection. See also: guns, religion, race, and on and on and on.
This one in particular is evil.
You know why there aren’t as many vaccinated in TX? Because most of the people who lived there are dead from Covid because they wouldn’t stay inside and obey!
But, they aren’t tracking it! There is no database! No ID needed!
So it dawned on me that is one reason to get the door-to-door campaign up and running; holes in the data need to be plugged for those that received the shot with no insurance and/or IDs. Then their picture will be complete and given the current trajectory, God only knows what they will do with that information.
Two options I’m wavering between:
“none of your business”
*slams door*
Or
“we are all fully vaccinated here”
*slams door*
“I’m not allowed to talk to strangers”
Try to convert them to a strange religion? Have they heard the good news?
I would suspect that the volunteers will be instructed that if they see no vaccine card, it is an un-vaccinated household and marked as hostel.
Then in 2-3 months all the data will be ‘leaked’ and news agencies, gleefully will run with it displaying zip-codes of area where unwashed are suspected to be at.
lol…guess my autocorrect wanted hostel not hostile.
I will let a college cheer leading squad stay at my house cheap and even make them a continental breakfast.
Why would you answer your door when someone knocks, if you’re not expecting anyone?
^^This.
I’m not too concerned about what to say to them because if I’m not expecting you, I won’t be answering the door. And they can stand out there and knock for an hour for all I care.
Don’t answer my phone unless it’s a number I recognize either. If you really need me, leave a message; I’ll definitely call back.
If herd immunity is achieved at 70% per previous claims, then why as we get closer to and meet that goal are they pushing the vaccine even harder?
Shouldn’t the goal to be minimize overall risk, including potential long term issues from the vaccine?
In a sane world yes. In a sane world, our mitigation efforts would have been that from the beginning. We are not in a sane world. A relatively united people need to be broken down so a new era can be rushed in.
They haven’t even got started on the division. It’s not enough that they’ve pretty much split us into 2 different countries who hate each other by ideology. Now they’re going to split us up into warring tribes by race. Pretty soon they’ll have the lesbians and the trannies literally killing each other in the streets in broad daylight.
TERF v. Trannies/Intersectional Feminists is already a thing. The TERFs value women’s spaces and they see Trans (both pre and post-op) as interlopers in their spaces.
You might think that they care about risk and health, but you’d be mostly wrong.
It just feels dumb for places like North Dakota to go vax crazy due to how life is lived there.
My music link for the day (Tundra take note)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfEU6YdlL5Y
Sweet and funky!
Excellent selection.
I saw that Joe is trying to get rid of the real killer in society, and reimplement Net Neutrality!
Of course that fucking disaster of an idea is back.
I thought they were too buy trying to give some sort of global NGO taxing authority over all the earth?
I thought they were too buy trying to give some sort of global NGO taxing authority over all the earth?
Shouldn’t the goal to be minimize overall risk, including potential long term issues from the vaccine?
Stop it. You’re killing me.