¡Buenos diás gliberinos!
Already got a Mexican links this week? Yeah…lets see what else is going on…
We can’t let our guard down now, or the terrorists will win people will die.
Prediction: It will not quite make it. Please note I want to be wrong.
Damn. Can you imagine what they would do if she wasn’t wearing a mask?
A better title for this is “47% of the Left Coast Wants to Secede.”
At this point, they’re probably more concerned about catching bullets.
Here’s a catchy tune. Make Thursday legendary.
Morning, Sharpshooter.
Instead of letting them walk off with the land, lets just start trading them for cubans.
Morning – it is really afternoon
Its evening for me
/works nights
Funny how the people that invited everyone in the world that wants to come to the US to collect welfare (and thus keep them in power) suddenly want no people that can tell the rest how fucking evil and horrible the communism the political class of one party has embraced and peddle to the morons that should know better is, huh?
We can’t let our guard down now, or the terrorists will win people will die. – I mean you all will sooner or later
100% percent of the covid-vaccinated will die.
OMG! Why don’t the sheeple know this! It’s a plot carried out by the Tri-Lateral .
Am I doing this right?
At least I’m safe, for the win!
A better title for this is “47% of the Left Coast Wants to Secede.” – I dunno the US is a bit big to be a single country. But this would not be an issue if the federal government was small and limited and each state could then do its thing. I wonder why no one thought of this.
That would never work. Who would build the roads and fly illegal aliens all around the country?
Yup.
You can have a big country and still avoid problems if you keep a small government with limited power. The problem is the fact so many morons have been indoctrinated to believe that government should fix all problems – especially the injustices the world has – which is not just stupid, but the road to hell on earth. Government is comprised of the shitty people that can’t do any real work, pretend to care about people, but care about their own power and pockets, and create problems and never solve them because solving problems leads to less chances for grift..
I’ll see your 5.9T and raise you a T.
I don’t want to be associated with NY & NJ.
*frowny face*
Hell, I don’t want to be associated with Vancouver but here we are. Bums shooting up and shitting in the streets. I bitch about the bears but the downtown problems are worse.
I can chase bears away, at least temporarily (and permanently, if past results are indicative of the future)
Look, I swear I thought that picnic basket was up for grabs…
Hey Bubu! For4get the picnic basket and lets eat them fat tourists!
The US historically did function as quasi-separate countries, in a few different ways. #1, that’s basically the way federalism works, and #2, yeah, it’s so big that distance and differences made it practically so.
What’s different now is the dominance of the central state. DC trying to force things is what’s driving the secession interest this time. Just ain’t supposed to be that way. If they’d back off of the central-planning-and-control-by-force (not gonna happen), relatively few of us would be interested in seceding.
and what Alex typed while I was typing
His fingers are nimble. It is known.
Oh my.
Lol!
I wish I was as articulate as I want to be, but Tonio, in his succinct ways, is far better at this than I am.. Having said that..
Thank you! Try the veal. I will be here all week!
How exactly does the South end up with more than 100% support for the idea?
Southern schools are bad at math?
Because that isn’t pro/neutral/anti. It’s split by Dem/Ind/Rep in favor of seceding.
These young whippersnappers and their 2400 baud modems…
Dangit. I’m getting coffee.
Because we’re just that fer it.
No, seriously — It’s percentages of support among each of three political affiliations. The way they present that info also magnifies the importance of Independents who are traditionally a small slice of the overall population.
I dove into the original source of the info hoping that they’d break it down by percentage of population, race, etc, but no found.
*sigh*
The way they present that info also magnifies the importance of Independents who are traditionally a small slice of the overall population.
IIRC (and it has been a few years), the breakdown nationally is something like
40% D
30% R
30% I
My bad. Self-identified independents are more numerous than I remembered. (Disclaimers: Polling data)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
They’ve tried it before?
Pacific also adds to over 100. The mini graphs are a percentage of each team: red, blue, and miscellaneous.
It always surprises me how popular secession is. When the librarian from NH is calling into NPR to support secession you just know there’s something to it. I like the idea of it for the absolute chaos and butthurt it would generate but I fear it for the same reason. I am neither passionately for or against balkanization at this point. It could be cool.
Speaking of people dying
Victoria to enter five-day snap lockdown as more COVID-19 cases recorded
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-15/melbourne-lockdown-response-to-covid-outbreak/100296220
It brings the state’s outbreak to 18.
I really have to wonder what the endgame is. But then again if the last 5 lockdowns did not stop the things, the odds are good the sixth will.
Those first five weren’t real lockdowns. Teal lockdowns have never been tried before!
/fucking typos
REAL lockdowns have never been tried before!
No no, I think you’re on to something… calling badly infected areas “red” hasn’t worked so changing the designation to “teal” just might turn things around!
Mauve lockdowns are really what we need.
Remember the color-coded terrorist “threat level” warnings at the airports? You know, the ones that were always ORANGE, just like in The Prisoner. They missed a sponsorship opportunity there – “The threat level is Benjamin Moore Sagebrush.”
Mass insanity. How the fuck are the people putting up with that?
They don’t have an endgame. An endgame would require the ability to think. This is all pure panic reaction.
They’re trapped. If they relent now and COVID takes its course they have to admit they were abusing the populace for no good reason.
Lockdowns now, lockdowns forever.
I was reading a physician-only website yesterday and there were a surprising number of angry pro-mask pro-lockdown docs in the comments. They would jump all over any reasonable doc stating true facts like 95 mask fibers leave holes double the size of the virus, with vile name calling and insisting that 600,000 people would be alive today if everyone always wore masks. Even those who should know better want to ignore evidence and go with the authoritarians. I weep for my profession.
“Let’s ban pickup trucks”
Yep, he fits the profile.
https://www.theislamicmonthly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mastracci.png
And I’m snickering because I passed some NASA asshat (I know the type quite well) on the itnerstate the other day. He was driving his SMART car at 55-60mph in interstate traffic that was moving at 75mph. I was in my 96 Suburban. He gave me a nasty look as I went by, while I was thinking how damnably stupid you have to be to bring that tincan on the interstate.
I don’t know. I drove a 1993 miata on the interstate on occasion. But then again I typically went 70-90 mph. The previous owner put airhorns on it and told me they were to keep bigger vehicles from merging into you. It made a happy honk like “please see me”.
At least in a Miata you can keep up.
Driving a SMART car is having a death wish and admitting you’re an testosterone depleted beta male at the same time.
LOL, barely. My mini car has 300hp. I pass whoever I want.
The last time that I saw one of those Smart Cars was in a tony neighborhood and the owner had the ass end jacked up, working on the driveshaft. Many euphemisms.
/looks at Mini Cooper in the garage
/pats it on the hood
If you’re not stealing gold from Italy, I’m going to judge you.
That would require me to go to Italy.
And put together a crew.
Now, I have been watching Leverage again recently…
You can also use them to murder your blackmailer.
Leverage, one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Haven’t seen it recently, where is it airing these days?
Grosspatzer:
It’s on IMDB.tv (free, also linked to Amazon Prime), and they just did a revival series of 8 episodes. They killed of Nate, as Timothy Hutton was accused in 2020 of raping a 14 year old girl in 1983.
The Peel P50 says – “OI! Hold me pint, m8!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel_P50
I’m heavier than a car 🙁
Actually, I’d be lethally underweight if I tried to hit 123 lbs.
A Miata is maneuverable. You can get out of situations that Smart car can’t in a Miata.
That, they are. But they are sickly anemic, power wise. At least out here where all mods are illegal. The Sky is at least as good handling and comes with 260hp but a tune puts it around 310 or so. Cramped and uncomfortable, but quite fast and slot car feeling.
I’m sure they crash tested those before putting them to market.
At any rate it can’t be any worse than taking a motorcycle on the highway.
On a motorcycle, you have far greater visibility and maneuverability. The motorized phonebooth is stuck try to compete with the scary trucks and they’re wide open mouths. Most motorcycle accidents occur because the rider did something wrong.
I drove past one a week ago in my ’01 Audi S4 wagon (avant in Audi-speak). I felt like I was driving a ’96 Suburban next to that crap can. My wife had a co-worker that bought a new Smart car, she had it for 6 mos and it was a POS from day one. She got rid of it after the 3nd check engine light. She was really disappointed with the gas mileage. She expected it to be better, but was close to what her Civic had gotten. May have even been better in the Civic.
That’s supposed to be 2nd, not 3nd
I know somebody with one. You are correct, mechanically speaking they are dogshit.
How many sets of K03s have you gone through?
Last time I saw a SMART, it had stopped and about 50 or 60 clowns came pouring out.
I tried to drive one once, but I didn’t have any quarters on me.
“Reducing further climate destruction and harm from needlessly fatal road accidents is more important than corporate or consumer freedom.”
So cavalier with everyone else’s freedoms. I would give credit if he pointed out all terrorist attacks with trucks, like they do with guns.
Wouldn’t banning useless op-ed journos make more sense?
Pickup trucks are big and ugly at the moment. How much bigger can the grill get?
Still better than any freaking car with a damned/stupid COEXIST sticker…
See below, but the good news for now is, it doesn’t have to be either or.
I thought that said “co-exhaust.” Like the 442, with a 4bbl, 4spd and dual exhaust.
It’s mostly due to the emissions crap under the hood. They’ve vastly increased the engine compartment size, but they’re still struggling to fit all that shit in there.
The transportation sector’s problems go well beyond the pickup truck — we need to shift away from relying on private vehicles entirely, regardless of if they’re a Toyota Prius or a Ford F-250 — but I’ll focus on them because they take what’s bad about cars and make them worse, and yet are coming to dominate the market.
Ah I see, he buried his true intentions.
If I hadn’t already planned to go buy a huge honkin’ F450 Diesel, I’d do anyway it just to piss this guy off.
At least that map was smart enough to lump NY in with New England. Although they really should also carve out NoVA from “The South.”
Similarly, ALL of PA is Northeast? Pennsyltucky too?
Funny how sacred state lines can be when divvying up the country.
Breathless hysterical melodrama
Milley viewed Trump as “the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose,” the authors write, and he saw parallels between Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric as a victim and savior and Trump’s false claims of election fraud.
“This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides, according to the book. “The gospel of the Führer.”
Ahead of a November pro-Trump “Million MAGA March” to protest the election results, Milley told aides he feared it “could be the modern American equivalent of ‘brownshirts in the streets,'” referring to the pro-Nazi militia that fueled Hitler’s rise to power.
Rucker and Leonnig interviewed more than 140 sources for the book, though most were given anonymity to speak candidly to reconstruct events and dialogue. Milley is quoted extensively and comes off in a positive light as someone who tried to keep democracy alive because he believed it was on the brink of collapse after receiving a warning one week after the election from an old friend.
“What they are trying to do here is overturn the government,” said the friend, who is not named, according to the authors. “This is all real, man. You are one of the few guys who are standing between us and some really bad stuff.”
A gripping tale of superhuman courage and heroism.
“How I singlehandedly saved DEMOCRACY! from Tyrannical Orange Tyrant.”
It’s delusional attention whores, all the way down.
I’m sure Milley is just fine if Uncle Joe tells him they need to use the military to round up all the trump supporters because they are domestic terrorists.
So, rather than stand up for the constitution they were planning to cut and run, like pussies. And leave America’s military with new top brass in time of crisis. Worthless, they are.
Seeing a whole lot of the Obama-era GOFOs (and the political officers they’ve fostered in the ranks) resign would be a net benefit for the country and the military. There’ve been numerous reasons they should have for decades, but none of the perfumed princes are interested in throwing their stars on the table and losing the USG-contractor gravy train.
We have more GOs now than we did at the end of WWII, when we had 10 times the people in uniform.
We should slash the billets in half (and even more at the top): one 4-star per Service, no more than a dozen 3-stars, etc.
I also get the impression that the “up or out” policy has an overall detrimental effect as well.
That’s another problem.
Ike was a MAJ for 11 years in peacetime. Can’t have that now!
“Up or out” caught me (after 22) and now we reap the results. I tried to warn them but nooooo, no one listened.
In reality I was happy to leave, my kids were young teenagers and I wanted to give them some stability.
One thing the Obama admin did, and did well, was replace the top members of the military with people whose allegiance was to the democrat crime syndicate over and above the US or the Constitution. Congress rubberstamped these people that kept telling us the real problem was climate change and not China or Iran. Trump inherited a military that was top heavy with fucking idiots. We just saw more of it related to the whole military activity since Biden took office of purging even the lower ranks of people not loyal to the deep state apparatus. These manchurian globalists don’t feel China or Russia , Iran, and other such bad actors are a problem, because the agenda is to keep power at home while serving Beijing in the new global order.
Same guy who said white rage is the biggest problem in military right now.
Yeah yeah, suicides and sex assault, are bad, but white rage is the real problem.
He can’t do shit about the suicides, doesn’t want to do shit about sex assault – so yeah, he’s plenty happy to talk about white rage.
Illegal orders, you say. Like using the military to transport ILLEGALS? Fuck Milley, the Himmler wannabe.
Yeah, he’s bad.
He’s not particularly bad, he’s just the kind of bad that the system will now always produce.
Every general is a politician as much as a soldier, it just gets progressively worse with each star.
That fucking authoritarian Trump. He was so bad, he transcended red vs blue and got his own separate color. He almost unilaterally dictated that the government should back off a teensy bit. He forced us to keep more of our money and had the nerve to try and force congress to pass legislation to handle the dreamers. Guy just went around forcing people to be forced to do less. Pretty sure he forced the military to kill less people too. All he did was bitch and moan about all the totally righteous fake investigations and political prosecutions of everyone who ever stood near him. Scary how close we came to having a decent economy and a tiny bit of our freedoms restored to the level they happily sat at…about twenty years ago.
You joke, but I am now starting to believe Trump really was an existential threat to these fuckers and their agenda, and not just an overreaction on their inept/stupid part. The guy exposed the fact that our government slow walked solutions to problems real people were baffled would not be solved, and instead, often were exacerbated, that the legal system was broken and corrupt, that the deep state cared little about either the people or the country and was more concerned with its own power and wellbeing, that the media was a willing shill for the deep state and shamed entities like Pravda in their chicanery and ability to produce propaganda for their masters, that China owned or expert/leadership class, and that in general they were nothing but credentialed idiots and not even close to the experts they told us they were because of their accolades.
Trumps first big crime was to win an election these smart people though they had rigged for the candidate they wanted. His second crime was to refuse to bend the knee and refusing to let them remove him for not bending the knee. But the crime they hate him most for is showing the people paying attention that they were being fucked over by the people in charge. That last one is why they chose to steal an election and are now abandoning any and all pretense of actually being in it other than for their own benefit. The globalist movement is a criminal enterprise by the various ruling classes to sell out their own people to a global cabal of masters whose primary agenda is to have the power and control the world. Have no doubt this new order is not interested in the drones being anything but compliant, dependent, and subservient followers.
was an existential threat to these fuckers and their agenda, and not just an overreaction on their inept/stupid part
I suspect they didn’t make that distinction, or even care to – because they’re that fucking stupid.
Illegal orders… like restoring order and protecting innocent civilians and property from the depredations of mobs. Unless they’re Trumpers, then smash the criminals.
Fuck you Milley your disgraceful piece of shit.
“Cuban protests risk exacerbating COVID-19 spike”
I’ll take Shitty Hot Takes for $1000 Alex.
The marxists that have been telling everyone how great their agenda is and how well the experiment in Cuba was going, suddenly find themselves with dick in their mouths and want you to not notice..
Only in Cuba. Over here, they are protesting in favor of communism and that kept them totes safe from the capitalist menace of covid.
“I’m skeered. I wet my panties.”
But it still gets cooling air, right?
Or maybe it’s just a reaction to the movie Cars and automakers wanting to increase sales of newer vehicles by making them have faces, and changing up those faces.
…and dress up the rear, maybe with some extended tail fins…
Have you considered not being a giant wimp? Then maybe you’d be able to get through life without being intimidated by a freakin’ truck grill…
I haven’t read Jalopnick in years. This reminds me why I quit reading. Car and Driver is rapidly going there as well. They had an article that said car dealers pray on women and minorities. Yeah, they treat whitey fairly. Car dealers are saints until a woman or minority darken their doorway, then the shady practices come out.
Car dealers prey on the ignorant. Be an informed buyer and you’ll be fine. Moto journalism sucks ass. I’m old enough to remember Brock Yates and pretty much every mag from the 70’s/80s. Now, they get all excited by whatever the government wants them to get excited by.
That’s very sad to hear. Car and Driver was once a great magazine.
“required cooling air and more about creating a massive, brutal face of rage and intimidation.”
It’s so when you hit animals on the road (i.e., deer) they die and you don’t.
I mean, I’m sure MENZ love the intimidation factor as well.
U.S. Black Hawk helicopter makes emergency landing in downtown Bucharest
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-black-hawk-helicopter-makes-emergency-landing-downtown-bucharest-2021-07-15/
Would you people be careful? Traffic in that intersection is already a nightmare. I don;t even want to think how it is now.
Whaddya mean “you people”?
Americans and whomever you get to fly those things
Canadians buy lots of F-250s?
When the good author will let me dictate to him how he shall worship God, then he can dictate to me what vehicles I can own.
Lots. Canadians LOVE pickup trucks.
My experience in Canada is a small area between Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec. That undoubtedly affects the vehicles I’ve seen.
But really it was mostly a dig at the relative proportion of the F-250 to the F-150.
They’ll carry a shit ton of donuts, beer and hockey equipment. Eh!
He was driving his SMART car at 55-60mph in interstate traffic that was moving at 75mph.
That’s as fast as that outhouse-on-wheels can go, probably. You’d think a “rocket scientist” would have some understanding of aerodynamics.
Well…actually…
Smug stupidity overrides any and all intelligence..
Perhaps he was trying to optimize fuel consumption by traveling at the ideal speed for such.
It’s exactly the type of thing a virtue-signaling engineer/scientist would do, ignore all other variables and focus on that one for maximum smug.
/engineer
I did exactly that, once. I had a ’67 Chevelle and I had to drive out to Pheonix to help my buddy pick up a Trans Am. I tweaked and tuned it to optimize mpg and drove at a steady 55 mph the whole way. I got 27 mpg the way out there. I saved enough money in gas that my budget allowed me to romp the hell out of it all the way back, reaching 125 mph at times. All this with a 350, a quadrajet carb and fat bias ply tires, back in 1990.
How day today. Turned on the AC at 10 am. Usually I turn it on at 12ish.
Thermometer wise it is not that hot at 32C with humidity at 30% but for some reason the real feel thing is high and it feels hot.
You home or at the massage parlor? It would explain the heat, ya know…
Turned on the AC at 10 am.
Stupid Euros. We run ours all the time.
At this point, they’re probably more concerned about catching bullets.
They get free health care, either way.
Stalin used to charge the family for the bullet…. Was part of their health plan…
The original source of the secession graphic is totes about top men.
Experts say that if you use the word “expert” enough, than experts and prols alike will find your opinions more expert…………expert.
58 times in the article, fyi.
One would think most people would have seen how the “expert” class handled the Kung Flu, and come to their senses and realize these experts are neither immune to political chicanery nor saints, and will peddle real evil shit in the quest for TeeVee time or more government money, making the whole “Let the experts lead us into Utopia” shit was a dangerous racket, but the fucking stupid people seem to have doubled down on wanted more experts….
They never indicated what constitutes an expert. What it indicated to me was that their experts are out of touch with the population they claim to be experts about.
“An expert is someone assigned to an expert’s job. No other qualifications are necessary.” – Scott Adams
Scott Adams must have decided he has fuck you money now.
Holy shitsnacks. Fuck You money and a hacienda somewhere outside the civilized world…
Damn, this one may have been even better.
Funny, but I think a better punchline would have been:
“BUT I’M NOT A RACIST!”
“Yeah, all the racists say that.”
He discussed the arc of this comic on his podcast, and believe me, he has a real good plot to turn the whole woke cancel culture thing upside down…
Why the fuck would you want to hang around with people that indisputably hate you? That viciously want you dead? Seems a mystery to me.
to troll them?
Seems legit.
Stupid consumers, with “preferences” different from mine.
How dare they?
Parents’ disgust as actor in rainbow coloured monkey costume with fake penis and nipples appears at library event encouraging children to read
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9781507/amp/Parents-disgust-Labour-council-hires-actor-rainbow-coloured-monkey-costume-fake-penis.html
I mean that just looks stupid
Furries running amok.
Sounds like someone needs oversight.
This is going to end with people getting beatdowns in back alleys. And people who don’t deserve it are going to catch hell too.
If the left’s goal was to create a world where any racial minority or person whose sexuality differs from the traditional was hated and oppressed, and they were intelligent, their course of action would look pretty much the same as it does now. The idea that you promote tolerance and understanding by
highlightingmagnifying out of all relation to reality everything frightening or offensive, or dangerous about minority groups is insane. You want black and white to get along? Don’t encourage riots and then hold up the looters and arsonists as black heroes. You want people to get along despite differing sexualities? Don’t present 11 year old kids dancing in clubs for adult men as stunning and brave. Don’t jail parents, or take away their kids, for refusing to allow their adolescent to have surgeries with permanent and irreversible harmful consequences.How did not make the links en Espanol?
After 10 straight days of hiccups, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital
And of course the left cheer and hope he dies. Some things really are the same everywhere.
His problem is, he doesn’t scare easily enough.
Nosotros no hacemos portugues!
How the hell does that work?
Evangelizing Catholic?
Jesuit?
Just hedging his bets
It’s like being a leftist and a libertarian.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1415535995588599809?s=20
I’m in the same spot. “Fact-checker” just means “my preferred propoganda”
Well, to balance out all the shite news, have a small piece of good news from Ohio:
DeWine signs bill banning Ohio public schools, universities from requiring COVID-19 vaccines
Looks like DeWine (RINO – OH) may be concerned about his re-election chances (the massive amounts of begging e-mails from them isn’t hurting that impression either).
Cosmos scream TYRANT!
French judge is fired for offering sex with his daughter, 12, on wife-swapping website
Olivier Bailly was fired after putting daughter, 12, on wife-swapping websites
Bailly, 55, was a vice-president of the law courts in Dijon, Burgundy
He admitted his action but pleaded to keep job, saying he suffered from PTSD
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9790679/French-judge-fired-offering-sex-daughter-12-wife-swapping-website.html
You deleted the punch line.
Put a bullet in him for being an evil, sick SOB.
Not fraud? It’s a wife-swapping website, not a daughter-swapping one.
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
Not for causing “serious damage” to his 12 year-old daughter, mind you.
/looks at WebDom
/shakes head sadly
Upthread: “many morons have been indoctrinated to believe that government should fix all problems”
Yes, the belief is widespread that government is the first responder, not the last. At the church, there’s a committee to “promote affordable housing.” Now the church has 8+ acres it could try to donate to a developer who could put up nice, low cost apartments or townhouses (ala Habitat for Humanity). No, the first “solution” is to lobby the local and state and federal pols for more housing dollars and tax credits for developers.
You really do need a slum in your neighborhood, it’s just that you’re a mean ol libertarian and have no empathy.
you also need an actual church
I’m betting Episcopal.
They’re not the only secular church out there.
“Prediction: It will not quite make it. Please note I want to be wrong.”
You’re not wrong. And this is why the GOP are idiots and will shoot themselves in both feet, again.
We’re going to tax you into oblivion and take what you have left via inflation, but we’re going to let you have some weed to help ease that pain /democrats
Team blue’s end game is people that depend on EVERYTHING from government. You own those people if you are the government…
Independent/self-sufficient people are a huge problem for those that want to institute full government control.
*peers into living room of rich proggies*
Honey, where’s the people to mow the lawn and trim our rose garden?
Oh, umm, they don’t work anymore, the government paid them to stay home and smoke weed. They can be artists now.
/unintended consequences not so unintended. News at 11.
This is what will tick these people off the most… As long as their crazy shit impacts other people, they are content to virtue signal.. But when it hits them in the pocket or the virtue signaling cunte, well, then it is full scale war time..
There’s always the option of hiring white deplorables…
‘You own those people if you are the government…”
Idiots always think they can time the market.
Every government that has owned people eventually regretted it. And people that want to be dependent on government are never happy. Why would anyone want to be responsible for a bunch of malcontents?
We’ll never hit peak derp.
They would much rather be ‘responsible’ for people than responsible to people.
In politics ‘responsible for’ is an empty and meaningless phrase.
China and Russia laugh at the notion of regretting owning people. Or did I miss a blood soaked revolution in the 1990s?
What’s different now is the dominance of the central state. DC trying to force things is what’s driving the secession interest this time. Just ain’t supposed to be that way. If they’d back off of the central-planning-and-control-by-force (not gonna happen), relatively few of us would be interested in seceding.
If stupid people with stupid ideas weren’t trying to ignore what’s best for them, total central control would not be needed.
… But I want total control over them. Therefore, the people are stupid.
I’m frustrated at how much my endurance has dropped.
I started out this morning feeling really good, everything was going great. I decided to take a walk before it got too hot out. I picked a route that was pretty short because I didn’t want to push it. Apparently, even one mile was pushing it. My legs couldn’t decide between being normal and rubbery, and my energy just seemed to drain away until I was slogging the last half block to my door on willpower.
On the plus side, not much of a complaint from the surgical site.
That is to be expected… it will come back
Yeah, I went through exactly the same thing after my hospital stay in 2019. It will come back, just takes a few weeks/months.
Depleted glycogen?
I have no idea. I just observed the symptoms this morning, and I think any tests for that would be more hassle than they’re worth.
I’m just going to keep going for walks and try to increase my distance back to where I was.
I doubt depleted glycogen affects walking that much
Your body has been through a lot of trauma, gonna take a bit to get back to normal. Keep pushing you will be back soon enough.
I’m also annoyed that my mental focus isn’t back yet.
Though I did manage to focus fairly well on dismantling ships in Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It’s a rather zen experience if you turn the shift timer off.
“It’s Time To Ban The Sale Of Pickup Trucks”
Those unwashed construction workers can just tow a wheelbarrow full of their stuff behind their all electric Peapod car to the construction site. Or maybe just walk and push the wheelbarrow.
My expectation is you can apply for a pickup truck permit to both purchase and drive. You will either have to be connected or be employed in very specific occupations.
For example you can own a pickup truck and use it on your own property, but not on public roads.
These type of systems work very well for other things here in NJ.
Wait this is serious? WTF
Comparing the proposal to NJ’s actual gun laws.
Phew, I can handle unhinged screeds. It’s terrifying when the unhinged screeds become enforceable law.
NJ is already the shithole of the country. They’re working hard on having zero competition at that.
They have all but outlawed 1976-2000 cars here. They just kept tightening the smog laws and then reducing the number of smog testers. They also went completely nuts with the gross polluter program and “bought back” a massive amount of cars and then destroyed them, even going so far as to disable the motors so they can’t be salvaged. Every car out here is late model jelly bean looking shitbox, or a massively overpriced “classic.”
What about an El Camino?
Or a Subaru BRAT!?
That not far from the NJ system for non road legal vehicles. (Tractors etc). They also have a special license plate class of “Farmer” for trucks that has less taxation/oversight.
You can operate them on your property all you want and you can move them directly between properties you own/lease on the public roads.
Farmers will often lease and use adjacent or nearby fields, and you will be stuck behind them on smaller roads. (Slow moving vehicle triangles required).
I have to use that exemption to get from one part of my property to the front field with the tractor since there is a stream in the way.
If I am going a further distance to/from land I don’t own, I have to put the tractor on a trailer.
C’mon now, he outlines a work exception to the ban.
LULI FAMA / Bikini Swimwear LIVESTREAM Fashion Show / Miami swim week 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP6pZZm4wZs
Perhaps he was trying to optimize fuel consumption by traveling at the ideal speed for such.
It’s exactly the type of thing a virtue-signaling engineer/scientist would do, ignore all other variables and focus on that one for maximum smug.
Hypermiling the Smart Car. On the fucking interstate.
“I’m an excellent driver.”
Hypermiling is one of those things that sounds cool but is , in reality, impossibly lame.
You CAN smarten up a Smart Car
Did they turn in that video? Or was it just straightaway?
I paid 3.73 for gas today. Keep blowing smoke about how this is due to Covid reopenings, and not the government’s war on every day Americans
Some government types love to create certain serious problems that make people become more amenable to big government solutions that serve to make people dependent on government to solve those original problems..
I watched a Dallas yesterday wherein JR was in a heap of trouble as he was sitting on 5 million barrels of crude for which he paid $33 apiece but the price dropped to $31 per barrel and he was going to lose Ewing Oil Co. to Cliff Barnes if couldn’t pay off the loan he took out to buy the oil.
Why didn’t he just call his Senator and have them shut down some pipelines?
“A better title for this is “47% of the Left Coast Wants to Secede.”
Just get it done already. Don’t come begging for help.
See how Moscow has still not given up on reconstituting the USSR for how this plays out here….
FFS, Russia has been a dynamic set of borders for centuries (like most the rest of Europe). This is the geo-political expression of the climate change mindset – there exists one precisely correct setting.
I suspect that model will change once they have the old borders back to encompass the globe (like the USSR wanted to do), and once they achieve that, expand it to the solar system and eventually the galaxy and universe….
I’m not talking about their mindset.
Very amusing that the ‘progressives’ are hellbent on preventing change.
Or even better rolling back to some previous condition. That’s damn near the definition of reactionary – politically speaking.
All Beijing and Moscow has to do at this point is sit around and watch the USA self destruct from wokeness and then they are the sole 2 superpowers battling it out for 1st place.
I think both of them are active participants in speeding that along…
Moscow isn’t a superpower. They are a nuclear-armed regional power. They’re on their way to being Pakistan.
The Russian economy is on par with Spain, not Germany.
The super-power era was probably an international affairs anomaly.
They were a super power, as long as nobody saw the little man behind the iron curtain. Just a little man.
Russia is a failed petrostate.
Fully vaccinated Catt Sadler is sick? Oh no…also who? Also IDGAF, I’m sure she’ll be fine.
She most assuredly got it from an icky Trumpista.
Judging from her pics, her immune system might be ganked from malnutrition. Eat a couple of sandwiches whydoncha?
She is probably immuno-compromised from Botox.
So, my boss has finally registered for his first practical shooting competition (Kayaderosserras). Now he hasn’t actually paid his money yet, but still, I might have recruited him into the cult.
We’ll know if he buys a belt rig for his 1911. This match he’s using his EDC.
Any Glibs that want to join the party, it’s Saturday and Sunday next weekend (7/24-25). $15 to shoot one day, $20 to shoot both. It’s NRA-sanctioned, so you’re allowed to bring out-of-state guns into NY.
*Ackbar gif*
Good luck, NA.
Just sayin’, those P7s have magazines that hold less than 11 rounds, so there’s no problem.
Plus I’m sure UnCiv will let you crash at his place.
*narrows gaze*
I’m in no shape to clean this place to guest-ready status.
The girlfriend and I were forced to clean up the common areas for the flooring install. Need to pick up some boxes and totes today to pack up the leftover flooring, and move a couple of pieces of furniture back and it should be done (so… many… felt pads).
Of course, she wanted to re-arrange the living room while putting things back.
The worst part is I have my shelves to help my organize the disordered stuff that’s the biggest morale problem. But they weigh too much for me to assemble them until I’ve recovered more. A lot of the clutter is hollow, empty space and stacks of stuff that need a real spot but I lack the storage for. (hense the shelving)
That sounds like what you have is a real girlfriend girlfriend…
Not telling you you should follow my advice on this, but after my divorce, whenever I had a girlfriend start telling me about rearranging my furniture (note none of them ever lived with me, by design) it was my queue that I needed to get a new girlfriend…
I have a good friend coming over the first week of August. Unfortunately the fence contractor isn’t looking like they’ll be here by then. Which means my kitchen will still need to be a puppy containment area. This makes me unhappy, because when cleaned, my kitchen is quite nice. And the house does not smell the way I want it to when women are over.
Those invisible fences work pretty good. Depending on the size of your yard you can probably install one yourself. Take about a half a days work. Cost around 150 bucks if i remember correctly.
While Southern Republicans are the group most in favor of succession, they’re not the only ones. Across the country, Bright Line Watch finds, people have more favorable views toward secession when their political party is dominant in their region.
No shit, Shirley?
“We could really jam it up those deplorables’ asses if we didn’t have to worry about those bastards in the United States Senate.”
I just want to remark about how happy I was to see Derpy show up again yesterday. I was actually thinking “What the fuck ever happened to The Derpoligist?” that afternoon… Spooky!
And then we find out that he found a dinosaur bone! How fucking cool is that?
Euphemism?
A lemon party by any other name would smell as musty?
#metoo. Seriously. I knew he looking for work was all I remember.
Did they turn in that video? Or was it just straightaway?
That was just the first video I found I jumped around, and at one point he says the suspension isn’t “fully sorted”. I doesn’t exactly look like it corners as if it’s on rails.
I paid 3.73 for gas today. Keep blowing smoke about how this is due to Covid reopenings, and not the government’s war on every day Americans
I picked a great time to move.
That was the “cheap” 85 octane
85? That’s tractor fuel.
Altitude 87-> 85.
Or so I’ve been told
In Romania we get 95 and 99/100. The cheap one is currently 5.7 lei per liter.
Is your automobile gasoline cut with ethanol?
yes
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/gm-chevrolet-bolt-ev-fire-risk.amp
Now GM gets to learn from experience. Unlike Tesla the other manufacturers all outsource battery production so you are reliant on your partner to figure out what is going wrong.
I’m pretty sure GM outsourced the battery pack to LG or Panasonic.
Top of my head I think it was LG. Panasonic is Tesla’s partner and I don’t think does much other volume business.
SK is the other large supplier.
LG chem makes the packs.
They tweaked the chemistry back in 2019 to give them more capacity. They use a NCM (Li Ni Co Mn) formulation, that is more energy dense but more at risk for issues than LFP ( Li Fe P) chemistry.
I wonder if the tweak to the chemistry was for other issues, as the 2020 bolts are not being identified as a risk.
I believe the issue was manufacturing.
The right to arm bears
There’s an easy way to see if people have a latent desire for fruit and veg. Go on an all inclusive holiday and see if people fill their plates with it. I have and they don’t.
https://twitter.com/cjsnowdon/status/1415556637289558019
I usually try to get at least one salad a day while on vacation.
Beer is made from flowers and grain, so it counts as vegetables, right? If it’s a fruited beer, then there’s fruit AND veg!
I try to avoid word salad while on vacation.
Future V-8 company salesman of the year?
You’re just drinking a pizza!
This is brewed a couple blocks from my house – Hawaiian Pizza IPA
I can feel the hate being concentrated on that poor business – hopefully you’re far enough away to not be collateral damage.
With grape jelly?
What? We now discussing salad tossing?
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea began as and remains a democracy.
South Korea began as a colony and military dictatorship and now has an imperialist, capitalist dictatorship.
This search for purity in leftist discourse and struggle ultimately pollutes both.
https://twitter.com/NorthIdahoDSA/status/1415359803078160388
tankie tweet of the day?
A self-identified Democratic Socialist pimping for North Korea?
Bernie’s got some catching up to do.
Have they done Cuba yet?
Considering their penchant for Juche they might think Castro’s a right wing radical.
at the very list a revisionist counterrevolutionary
Wait. There are tankies in North Idaho?
Probably one, a reformed Aryan Nation type who just flipped allegiance (and never changed otherwise).
They are chained to the nazi’s basement walls and get brought out for weekend funtime.
News you can use. Or Not. NTTAWWT.
How likely are they to smoke poles? I said poles. Not Poles…
I’m sure it was government funded.
What, the smoking, the lesbians, or the study?
The thing about banning the sale of pickup trucks is ideally suited for making me extremely angry even at this early morning hour.
I’m guessing the Venn diagram of people who’ve actually owned & used pickup trucks vs. people who want them banned for the “greater good” is pretty much just two independent circles.
I don’t even have a truck anymore but this sort of Karen writ large drives me bonkers.
(Disclaimer: I made one of the earliest reservations and down payments on a Tesla cybertruck. Definitely will be driving a truck again in my lifetime.)
Yep. I don’t often use the bed of my little pick-up but it’s there for for me. FWEEDOM!
I can’t even think of a way to put into words just how much I hate these self professed saviors of the planet. Send them all to Venus, there’s lots of work to do there.
Support for the left coast seceding is even higher outside the left coast.
Don’t remind the left coasters their water will get cut off until after they secede.
Bah. They can just write an app to get water for them.
Lol.
I laughed hard at that.
They can build desalination plants. But can they build de-plastication plants?
Lol.
I moved to San Diego in 2018. Figured I could take it despite the politics.
I still believe that the most sane city in California is San Diego. But I’m looking to come back to the fold of the non-socialist Union of States.
And yet one of the best job offers I’ve gotten is at Sandia National Lab in Livermore CA. But that is waaaay too close to San Francisco and Berkeley. No thanks.
The bay area sucks. There’s an intolerant snootiness that I just can’t take up there. My brother’s up in Bezerkly. Working on some high powered magnifier at Lawrence Livermore. The smug is very thick in the whole upper/western portion of the state.
I just back from Fla, and I’m seriously considering moving there. I’m researching it and everything. I belong out there. It’s deflating coming back.
California has greedily looked at the PNW water more than once. That will almost instantly dissolve any union they form.
But is it free range, fair trade, no GMO, gluten free water?
Everyone in Oregon and Washington know that California would suck them dry. [yes, phrasing]
What would happen to all of the air and naval bases?
Not to mention all of the Federal contract work?
Hmmm…
1. PRC
2. PRC
What would happen to all of the air and naval bases?
I’m sure the Californians can continue, and even accelerate, the wokification of their new military.
Disinfo campaign
On Thursday, Dr. Vivek Murthy is releasing the first surgeon general’s advisory of his time serving in the Biden administration, describing the “urgent threat” posed by the rise of false information around COVID-19 — one that continues to put “lives at risk” and prolong the pandemic.
Murthy says Americans must do their part to fight misinformation.
“COVID has really brought into sharp focus the full extent of damage that health misinformation is doing,” Murthy told NPR in an exclusive interview ahead of the advisory’s release. Surgeon general’s advisories are reserved for significant public health challenges that demand immediate attention.
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The new surgeon general’s advisory comes as welcome news to Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a group that tracks COVID-19 misinformation online. But Ahmed also says that asking individual Americans to fight misinformation won’t be enough.
His group has identified a dozen major spreaders of vaccine misinformation, and many continue to operate unchecked on social media. “At our last count 30 of 89 social media accounts for those 12 people have been taken down, but that means 59 are still up,” he says. “They’ve still got millions of viewers being pumped misinformation and lies on a daily basis.”
Social media companies profiting off clicks are spreading misinformation faster than it can be counteracted, Ahmed says. He’d like to see the surgeon general exert even more pressure on those companies.
“On tobacco packets they say that tobacco kills,” he says. “On social media we need a ‘Surgeon general’s warning: misinformation kills.'”
Yes, you lying sack of shit. Keep telling me how you and the rest of the public health mafia can banish death, if only the filthy peasants would OBEY. Keep puking up bogus “studies” based on computer models reverse engineered to produce the exact result you are looking for.
Tell me how my freedom is destroying your perfect world.
“Tell me how my freedom is destroying your perfect world.”
You just made the list, buddy.
He is correct that ignorance and lying is killing the country, just not in the way he thinks.
Don’t remind the left coasters their water will get cut off until after they secede.
Thinking things through is not their forte.
Saratoga Springs has a sufficiently large wealthy white bored kid population (see: Skidmore College) that it has a thriving BLM chapter. They’ve already pulled down and destroyed the civil war statue in the park (dedicated to Union Volunteers, ‘natch) so they’ve decided to start having clashes with the po-po. Bonus points for the police wearing desert camo in an urban area inside a temperate rainforest.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Saratoga-police-BLM-protester-incident-in-16315758.php
I’ve got a buddy whose daughter goes to Oberlin. She came home for the summer and immediately started in with the protests and “defund the police,” screaming at cops from behind signs in typical asshat fashion.
He has offered to remove her “privilege” by discontinuing support and tuition so she can be more accepted at school.
I went to Oberlin… long enough to buy another hat from Gibson’s bakery.
I hope that school gets hit with more damages for the shit they’ve done.
(My Alma Mater is RIT, I’ve never attended classes at any school in Ohio)
I’d say that trying the rein in the kid after a year at Oberlin is like closing the barn doors when you get a call that your horse is the next county over.
He admits it’s a hopeless endeavor.
He had to remind her that she was screaming epithets in the face of a longtime family friend (detective) who was assigned to protest duty because they were shorthanded.
Police should be banned from wearing camo.
Yep, they should stick to khaki.
Stepping away, Friends, gonna share some pizza with the wee doge and watch some prehistoric documentaries. And fap to them. 😉
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@TheEconomist
· Jul 14
The most striking aspect of Italy’s 26-man squad before it took to the pitch was that, alone among the main contenders, it did not include a single player considered as being of colour
chaser
I’m sorry buddy: Italians are People of Color. The entire team was PoC
British bourgeois magazines can only cope & seethe
https://twitter.com/AlexeiArora/status/1415280836132417537
I hardly ever drive my pickup truck, but when I need it… I need it.
It’s a work truck. I’m transporting my orphans from the mines to the monocle polishing center.
#metoo
Hello, Craigslist, thrift stores, and FB marketplace.
The Bee
…
Try again, me
Ok, that is plain hilarious.
LOL
No mention of cilantro, I see.
I didn’t write it, I only linked it.
OK, I’ve been updating you on our local legislator/race hustler who got busted for driving without a front license. The cop discovered that he had a Wisconsin drivers license. That would probably have been it, but Rep. Thompson had to go out in public and start claiming that he was pulled over for driving while black. If he had shut up, nothing more would ever have been heard about this.
Well now this has become a circus, and the newest act is that Thompson’s supporters are fully backing Thompson and agreeing that he was pulled over for being black and that it shouldn’t matter that he has a Wisconsin drivers license, or that his Minnesoda driving privileges were suspended because of unpaid child support, or even that he might not live in the district that he represents in the legislature.
How dare people not fully support transporting a mob out to an outer ring suburb so they can threaten the residents? Thompson’s supporters are also appalled that the GOP would fundraise or talk about this contretemps.
Semi-automatic assault threats? Or civilian-legal threats that can only contain seven words or less?
I’m sure all her “vicious attacks” were mean tweets, emails and phone calls. I did not hear of any GOP mobs that were bused to her house to burn an efigy of her, then shout threats against her neighbors using a bull horn.
Which is exactly what Thompson did to Bob Kroll the Mpls Cop union chief (OK, I admit it was hard to root for anyone in that situation).
He scratched out an address and then checked a box saying he didn’t have to give that address? If it does turn out to be a bogus address, well holy shit is that lazy.
The address he gave the officer who pulled him over was not in his district.
The only way you are supposed to be allowed to check that box to hide your address is if you have some legal writ of protection against someone. He hasn’t produced any of that yet.
The GOP has already had at least six members file for an ethics investigation since this happened. Yet, just the other day, the Speaker of the House (a DFL-er) said she can’t investigate anything unless there is a complaint filed. The press somehow forgot to point out that at least six have been filed.
The rules don’t apply to them. It’s going to be ugly when the other side decides the rules don’t apply to them either.
My expectation is the first signs won’t be outright confrontations (since the deck is clearly stacked against) but bodies just showing up Clinton style.
I’ve been saying for a while that it won’t be straight up conflict but people suddenly disappearing, probably starting with Antifa agitators.
Both sides are heavily infiltrated but only one side has the rules enforced. If the right starts doing that they’ll be busted in very short order while Antifa et al will get to carry on as a driver for and enforcer of the left’s pet causes. Just look how many fed informants were hovering around and I guarantee instigating the governor kidnapping plot.
Maybe. If the reins come off, they’re won’t be enough feds to keep up.
“there”
To date, the plots have been incredibly stupid. Organizing a revolt on Facebook and/or Youtube? Are you kidding me? If intelligent people with some sense get involved, the equation will change rapidly.
Yeah, and there are plenty of people out there who know what they’re doing.
I read a blog post by Larry Correia a while back, where he described three former Special Forces guys laughing about how easy it would be to bring a major city to its knees in just a few days, and how all it would take is 3-4 well-trained, well-equipped guys with secure comms. A few days of “targeted assassinations, random shootings and general fuckery” and the citizenry would be shitting themselves in terror.
John Allen Muhammad comes to mind.
See: the DC sniper
I’ve been telling people this for a couple of years now, about the national state of affairs in general.
If Ilhan Omar’s brother had any ambition, he should move back to the States and become a bank robber.
Even ninjas would be impressed by how he was able to do anything he wanted and be completely under the radar. Heck people who complained would have the Media tell them that they were crazy to even think the bank was robbed, much less robbed by Omar’s BroHub.
The problem with that assertion Scruff is that the people enforcing the rules are going to tell the other side “fuck you” and enforce the rules on them…
The system is broken because there is a double standard. The side currently being fucked by the rules is not going to suddenly get balance by just saying the rules no longer apply: they will need to fight against the enforcers…
Hence why I think the reactionary wave is going to be quietly lethal, if they have any sense whatsoever, but that’s certainly not a guarantee.
I’m using “Hence why” a lot today.
*sigh*
Yep. The street level idiots participating in Proud Boys larping seem to have dried up somewhat as they realize antifa is back by the state, not an equal larper. The idiots in charge probably think this is a good thing.
I can see members of the media, low level politicians, bureaucrats, and NGO types all being targeted. The types who have been running their mouths in public with zero accountability. Like Ireland or El Salvador. Once that starts, all those shitbirds pushing over stuff are going to suddenly find themselves at risk. Like the city employees who are stealing lanes and breaking traffic synchronization so 5 bikes an hour can meander on a busy vehicle route.
Add Twitter cowboys to that.
The Feebs will pick up the guy searching on google for “how do I murder my city commissioner without getting caught”. Not the one with a background and doesn’t do any of it online and leaves her cell phone at home.
I’ve actually been kind of surprised that organized crime hasn’t gone after antifa already. Maybe there’s an agreement in place or OC is thoroughly fed controlled at this point.
Example from the Netherlands of people threatening one of the leading Dutch mafia figures
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Peter_R._de_Vries
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Derk_Wiersum
Dutch Mafia? Do they extort tulip farms and does their muscule wear steel-toed wooden shoes?
The best way to deal with these people your holiness is to ask them how they would react if this exact situation happened but the perp was someone they hated.. Like a Trumpista, for example. You will quickly see the recognition of the cognitive dissonance on their faces, but depending on how high they score on the derp scale, they will quickly recover and accuse you of being a racist to end the discussion…
Hence why it useless to debate them or apologize your way out of it. They are not arguing in good faith. They fully intend to ram everything down your throat using your guilt or politeness as a tool.
Reading from the bottom up, this sounded like advice for marital arguments.
In South Africa a government official was murdered by another government official every 8 days between 2016 and 2018
https://twitter.com/edwest/status/1415609430033510402
Delayed abortions?
That’s a pretty astounding stat.
This is confusing. Why isn’t South Africa paradise on earth?
Be patient, it will be Zimbabwe 2 soon enough. Population control by starvation.
Same as always… kulaks, hoarders, and wreckers.
P Brooks nods.
Another update from an ongoing PR campaign in Minnesoda. This time it is the downtown fatcats trying to gaslight everyone about people coming back to downtown offices in droves. The story is about adding more cops to trains and buses. How is this a story about downtown?
They are only at 55% of pre-pandemic ridership? I guess that since it was once only at 5%, that is an improvement, but given the fact that it seems like the pandemic never happened, 55% is still abysmally low. And the consensus among us suburban sissies is that downtown is still full of rioting thugs. So the fatcats have decided that they are willing to buck the Defund the Police movement in order to try to get people to come back is pretty telling.
Wait. WTF happened to defund the evil police? Are they really walking it back?
Like I said, a lot of the rich guys who own downtown office buildings must be getting real nervous. They are the ones walking back defund the police. They need the drones to come back.
If they don’t the next big bailout will be the city buying office buildings downtown to turn into affordable housing.
Yeah. Commercial real estate is a disaster zone.
Local news wrote a story a couple weeks back about a new office building opening in downtown Cleveland. The entire article was about the new model this building is going with. Basically, they’ve managed to get some local bars and restaurants to open on the ground floor (open to the public as well), put in amenities (such as a work out room), and are trying to spin this as the new big thing.
Is ‘Money Talks, Bullshit Walks’ one of the Iron Laws?
The anti-truck guy is citing safety. I remember my high school physics teacher, when teaching us about Newton’s laws, pointing out they are the reason he drives his big pickup truck.
I wouldn’t mind seceding, but if Indiana is grouped with all those other Midwest states, I’ll pass.
Yeah, city-state secession is probably the only way to go. Living in a city by necessity means giving up any pretense of self-sufficiency (thought that rural dwellers are or want to be self-sufficient, just that they theoretically might be able to be). Since a city required resources from outside in order to sustain itself, it incentivizes controlling those others. And since those others are, well, other, it incentivizes treating them as lesser. Denying urbanites political control over their food/fuel/materials supply forces them to treat their interactions as a negotiation, rather than a demand.
From the secession article:
Nevertheless, the sheer number of Americans — particularly Republicans and Independents in the South — willing to turn “blow the whole thing up” into a signal of partisan loyalty is troubling.
It isn’t about partisan loyalty. At this point, it’s recognizing the patently obvious. The United States is an empire comprised of multiple peoples. Without devolving power to something at lease approximating the different peoples (i.e. federalism), you can’t hold it together in a meaningful way. One of the peoples will always rule and the other(s) will inevitably see that rule as illegitimate. It’s the more highly populated Northeast and Pacific Coast that have been screeching to do away with the very protections that made governing multiple peoples even possible (e.g. the Senate, the Electoral College). The reason the balkanization took such an ugly form in, well, the Balkans was the long history of one people ruling over the others. Secession is a means to prevent that. There’s really no reason the separate peoples can’t coexist happily outside of the context of either people’s self-rule being a threat to the others.
If the author is flogging the partisan loyalty narrative – then fuck you, this is all about partisan loyalty.
“Nevertheless, the sheer number of Americans — particularly Republicans and Independents in the South — willing to turn “blow the whole thing up” into a signal of partisan loyalty is troubling.”
I do love the concern trolling here, when just last year, we had Dem Politicians clamoring for bringing the system down.
Heck, they have communists in Congress
It’s a MADHOUSE!
Senate Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending package will unleash a gusher of hundreds of billions of dollars for progressive priorities, from climate programs to an expansion of Medicare to promised green cards for some undocumented immigrants, according to new details released on Wednesday.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Budget Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), a moderate on the budget panel, briefed the rest of the Democratic caucus during lunch with President Joe Biden in the Capitol on Wednesday. They discussed some of the biggest components of the planned spending bill that Democrats aim to pass without Republican support using the budget process. That filibuster-proof process starts with a budget resolution, which Senate Democrats have agreed to set at a ceiling of $3.5 trillion.
And while that resolution’s text is still forthcoming, once it arrives it will have few specifics of how Democrats will turn Biden’s priorities into legislation. That makes the policy highlights unveiled Wednesday, as vague as they are, a meaningful spotlight on the scope of the party’s spending ambitions, which would be financed by a shaky combination of tax reform, health savings like lowering prescription drug costs, and the assumption of long-term economic growth.
“Let me be clear — this is a huge bill. This is a complicated bill. This is a transformative bill,” Sanders told reporters after lunch. “In some cases, it doesn’t provide all the funding that I would like right now.”
This country has turned into a vast open air insane asylum.
” “In some cases, it doesn’t provide all the funding that I would like right now.””
Ten thousand talents would not be enough for this man.
A talent would require individual ability, and Sanders is against that.
Sorry for that. Someday I’ll learn not to write anything while still asleep.
Ummmmm…. about that.
North American Venezuela but with more guns and polarization here we come.
“I don’t like looking at those icky people.”
More like: “Let’s literally turn everyone (except for Top. Men.) back into medieval peons, banning all engines and motors, so they’re working using only human and animal muscles, causing a precipitous crash in world population.”
Never underestimate how much “the elites” simply loathe the unwashed masses.
They’re going to stink a lot more when baths go out of fashion because they’re an unnecessary luxury in Khmer Rouge agricultural paradise.
My wife got approached to interview for a job with Facebook.
Mrs P: “What do you think?”
Me: “How comfortable are you working for Big Evil, instead of your current job working for Big Stupid?”
At her request, I looked over the job description. It was full of recognizably English words, but I couldn’t decipher what they were looking for someone in that position to actually do, except for one gem that I managed to decipher:
“They’re asking you if you are adept at dumbing down information so that people who outrank you, but aren’t nearly as smart as you, can understand it.”
Thoughts? If they interview her and then offer her a job, do you think she should consider it?
Fool me once, you’re hired, fool me twice, WOW look at our stock prices increasing!
Would she destroy it from the inside? Disrupt organization by suggesting everything be decided by committee?
You could always ask her if she’d be comfortable working for some 3-letter agency, since the core business is about the same.
Is it a step up in pay, experience, and career progression? Would a future path be stuck in FB or similar companies? Dumbing things down for higher ups is a skill in demand at most places with more than a dozen people.
I must be blessed to work in an organization where all the leadership came up through the ranks and were highly competent engineers before becoming management.
Yes you are…
I have worked in a company where they actually engaged in the practice of hiring people without the proper experience, because according to their management philosophy, managers just needed to understand that the worker bees were slackers and the two necessary skills for a good manager were to tell the worker bees to cut estimates by 25-50% (both time & budget) AND to then hold them to delivery dates regardless of moving scope. You solved the technical issues by having a tech lead deal with all that bullshit (my role).
Needless to say I left 6 months into that big management experiment, leaving a ton of stock options on the table and freaking out my management team. Fuck them and the horse they rode in.. That company got delisted from the S&P a few years ago after being one of the founding companies BTW. Never regretted that decision (I got a new job then asked them to plz lay me off). I bet you can guess what company it was….
It’s a bit more pay, but it is a gig job that could end in less than a year. Although, we live in TX, which is a right-to-work state, so technically ALL jobs are gig jobs where your employment can be terminated at any time for (almost) any reason.
She wouldn’t destroy it from inside – she’s a bleeding heart liberal. If her current job is any indication, she wouldn’t have the power to influence policy, and even if she did, she would try to talk them off the ledge if they were about to do something that would give them bad PR or cost them market share.
” cost them market share.”
Against who, mySpace?
*snicker*
Only if she wants to engage in subversion.
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/simple-sabotage-manual/
My favorite part.
(3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five.
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
I think we have people at work that are Nork secret agents.
And people say that Westerners don’t understand ideological warfare…
During my consulting days, I had a client who always wanted to waste a ton of time trying to talk me into doing crazy things on their fixed budget. It was frustrating to always be telling them that we could do X, but that means we couldn’t do Z. They would get frustrated/mad because they wanted both.
The customer also had a guy named Ross who should have already been retired, but kept working for something to do. Any meeting he was involved in would degenerate into him telling stories about how he used to be a bigwig business guy and had worked all over the world.
My strategy became “if you want to discuss how we can do X, we need to involve Ross because he is one of the stakeholders”. The other workers at the client couldn’t stand Ross so they would cancel the meeting. Any time they agreed to meet and include Ross, you knew they were super serious about it.
I do love the concern trolling here, when just last year, we had Dem Politicians clamoring for bringing the system down.
Filibuster! Electoral college! Suppression of DEMOCRACY!
Well, in a sense, the complaint isn’t entirely wrong. I mean, if you view the matter as simply one people with political disagreements, then things like the Electoral College or the filibuster (heck, even the Senate) are an infringement on the ability of the majority to govern themselves in accordance with their values. It’s precisely if you’re talking about different peoples, different polities that agreement between the polities is a significant issue.
Conspiracy time:
So we know the FBI stonewalled efforsts to reign in Antifa. What if Antifa are almost completely co-opted by the FBI, and run as a front to push their preferred politicians.
/Takes off tin foil hat to make Dutch oven dinner
I’d say that is pretty far fetched, but we do know the FBI infiltrates any extremist org. More likely rather than coopting it, they have just let it fester on purpose.
You accidentally included the words, “what if” It’s pretty plain that they’re at the minimum on the same side. That’s how you can burn down a police station and get an attaboy from the feds.
I’m not sure this is satire even though it is the Bee.
Pray for l0b0t – I’m about to go to Marshalls for new glasses (3 pack of readers for $9.99, who are you to resist it eh?). I haven’t left the Peninsula in weeks and now I have schlepp to Brooklyn and not even the good parts of Brooklyn where the great food and weed is… Man, I really want a falafel from Sahadi’s or a burger from Peter Luger now.
Will you be using public transport? Good luck.
Everyone here knows how to use archive so as not to give these gutter trash websites any clicks, right?
I started reading the “secession” article, barely made it past the masthead photo that said an “insurrectionist” was in the Capitol, but when I got to the smug description of Southern states being fueled by “victimhood”, I closed that shit out.
I have to stop clicking on any of these links and come straight to the comments. It’s terrible for my blood pressure.
See what I mean?
People are always willing to give up other people’s liberty.
Say that again!
See what I mean?
I’m seeing double,
Oooooooops…. I was so proud of that one guess I had to say it twice.
https://redstate.com/alexparker/2021/07/15/rescue-workers-find-screaming-woman-stuck-between-buildings-naked-and-you-can-guess-where-n411157
That seems rather unpleasant.
Hydraulic ring saw to the rescue.
Kinky?
I keep writing the word terrifying in my comments here. I’m not terrified. I’m not scared either. I’m annoyed, irked, pissed off etc. Time to stop acting like a pantshitter online or otherwise. Whatever I used to be afraid of has pretty much already come to pass. I need to be useful and fear is no longer useful.
As the meme I saw puts it, it’s time to stop accepting the things I can’t change and start changing the things I can’t accept.
Also, fear is the mind-killer.
After giving up your truck, don’t forget to give up private air conditioning.
That guy can eat a bag of dicks.
Great, now do heat.
Technically he’s write, it does feel good to not die of heat stroke.
I support the left coast Dems in their secession efforts.