Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a wonderful day it always is!
DOJ may sue states returning to pre-pandemic voting because Democrats can’t win without mass voter fraud.
National Police Association calls for investigation of Floyd riots, not just January 6th.
I’m so happy we were there before this stupidity started up again.
CDCs idiotic reversal on masking based on vaccine study that failed peer review.
7 states that banned mask mandates in school.
Olympic viewership down 49% compared to 2016.
Girl survives crocodile attack while on vacation in Mexico.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
The voter fraud thing is probably the issue that upsets me the most. You would think that after 2020 we would clean up our voting processes to make sure nothing like that can ever happen again. Instead we are getting obstruction to absolutely make sure that it happens like 2020 every single election. The censorship/gaslighting/etc on this issue makes me think it’s not stupidity, it’s absolutely purposeful. Taking away the vote to “protect democracy” is insane, but here we are.
The people who won by fraud are not going to cut off their only means of staying in office.
Then they might actually have to pay attention to the plebs.
^^^THIS^^^
These people do not want you to pick who gets to set direction for the country, because the last guy they didn’t like exposed them for the inept frauds they are and almost derailed the agenda they had spent 5 decades putting together. And that’s not gonna happen. They will get their hereditary aristocracy, not based on merit, and keep serfs like you in your place, and they will do whatever it takes to make it so.
But that’s how you get violent revolutions. Maybe we are too cowed for that anymore. And I definitely must be naive to think the ruling class wants to govern in a way that actually benefits people. Oh well.
I suspect that there is a calculation that shows enough people have been brainwashed and enough people are to afraid of the repercussions for a revolution to happen, which is why things have not gotten to hardball yet, but the more they screw people over, the more they foment the necessary feeling that since all is lost, the only thing to do is resort to fighting in the people they mean to force into compliance or end.
I am completely convinced that not only was 2020 stolen, but there has been a massive voter fraud operation going on for awhile now. The way Democrats and even many Republicans are acting makes absolutely no sense. You’d think that they’d want to have a massive humiliation moment of Trump by proving him to be a giant cry baby sore loser, but this shit is being fought tooth and nail instead. Combine that with their fighting of all voter security laws really makes them look insanely guilty.
Shit like that’s been going on since the Kennedy/Nixon era (further if you want to count Tammany Hall). There have been jokes about the dead voting in Chicago for longer then I’ve been alive. I think in the past people expected there was a certain level of corruption in local and state elections, and somehow separated out the national elections. Now it’s just enforcing the Chump effect on those who thought they were at least able to stand up for themselves in a fair and honest election.
Yes, but it was always isolated and local and mainly affected smaller races due to the smaller amount of votes involved. This seems to be on a lot larger scale.
Yup. I remember hearing whiffs of this more large-scale mechanistic stuff in the political science department at school in 2008, and again in law school in 2014. Whether or not it had a significant impact back then, I dunno. Clearly, they were setting up for something bigger.
Democrats were complaining about the security/reliability of voting machines back when W was president. All that’s really changed is who is complaining about what.
The reality is our elections are always pretty sloppy (at best) or outright corrupt (at worst). In general, it evens out over time, but it makes a great rallying cry for the losers.
There hasn’t been a Republican legitimately elected President since 1988.
When Obama was elected, nobody claimed and/or produced any evidence of voter fraud. 2016 was not alleged to have been rigged at the ballot, it was that we were brainwashed by the Russians. I think the last time there was obvious fraud on the scale we see now was JFK. That’s when we decided that fraudulent elections should be wholeheartedly accepted by those who wrongfully lost, for the “good of the nation” The chorus of, ” Jan 6th was an abomination and Biden won fair and square” rang out really quickly among old school republicans who were eager to resume their positions as perpetual losers bitching about the mean DEMs while getting rich off of their grifts.
2016 was not alleged to have been rigged at the ballot, it was that we were brainwashed by the Russians.
There was no consistent story but collusion. The actual how was all the fuck over the place.
When Obama was elected, nobody claimed and/or produced any evidence of voter fraud. 2016 was not alleged to have been rigged at the ballot, it was that we were brainwashed by the Russians. I think the last time there was obvious fraud on the scale we see now was JFK. That’s when we decided that fraudulent elections should be wholeheartedly accepted by those who wrongfully lost, for the “good of the nation” The chorus of, ” Jan 6th was an abomination and Biden won fair and square” rang out really quickly among old school republicans who were eager to resume their positions as perpetual losers bitching about the mean DEMs while getting rich off of their grifts.
When Obama was elected, nobody claimed and/or produced any evidence of voter fraud.
They did, but it was hushed up as being “not significant” by the GOPe. Interesting things were observed, but not at the same scale as 2020.
I think California was like that since the 90s. I was there in ’93 – popular Republican Governor and Mayor. The ballot question limiting state benefits to illegal immigrants passed overwhelmingly. Then all of a sudden, another Republican never won again.
Yep. The area I grew up was solid republican and then in 98, it changed…suddenly. It wasn’t a gradual shift. I think redistricting was the play that moved that area left.
What were the policies that made Republican politicians in CA popular? Or were they just running on fumes? The only reason I can think of these days to vote for a Republican is because they aren’t a Democrat. Otherwise, there is nothing appealing about them.
Controlling costs, fighting crime, keeping taxes reasonable, making the place livable for normal people…
I’m sorry, but there isn’t a Republican run govt I know of that has cut spending, they just grow it a little slower than Democrats.
When you have an election system designed to make it as difficult as possible to audit, let alone keep simple audit trails, and with giant problems that would allow abuses, giving winners the amount of power and money our election does, it is impossible to believe the system will not end up abused. The want to cheat goes to a completely new level when you factor in that our own intelligence and legal bureaucracy, our political class, our academia, and our cultural class are all part of a cabal that has sold out to a globalist movement that has been trying to create a global marxist world order with them ruling us while pretending we have a choice in the matter. These things have always been races between 2 picked candidates, and the establishment has always done what they cabal wanted, because the candidates were basically owned. Then they decided to pick a non establishment guy in 2016 because the one they had to give the office to was simply unelectable against any other candidate from the opposite party, and things fell apart for them.
2020 was different because it was such a desperate attempt to steal the election – stopping shit in the middle of the night to make sure this time, unlike 2016, they get the necessary vote counts to pick their dark horse – that was then followed with censorship and attacks against anyone that dared point out that something was rotten about the whole thing. People that don’t get their opinions assigned by the psyops masquerading as news felt that something really bad had happened, and the machine moved in to punish anyone of them that posed a threat.
Voter security is priority zero for them, because to them the problem is the voters actually having any sort of say.
I get this. But it’s so truly awful I think most people don’t want to get this. I certainly don’t.
What you wrote, you can substitute ‘election system’ with nearly everything that the government does. IRS/Taxes? Yep. Bill making? Yep. Healthcare? Yep. It has been manipulated and designed to protect itself better than SkyNet.
They are not Marxists. Ideology is peasant food. They will use Marxists to achieve their goals, and they will speak in the language of Marxism from time to time because it has enduring cultural cachet among academia and the left-elite, but they don’t believe it any more than they believe in capitalism when they act through corporations.
The big lie is that marxism is a system of equality/fairness. It is exactly the opposite. Marxism is a system where ONLY the powerful can have and have wealth.
These people in charge & peddling marxism have used the concept that the universe is unfair & unmotivated by feelings/emotions, and that life rewards those that have the ability to resist the temptations of instant gratification that plague the vast majority to convince the masses that when others randomly end up with wealth and thus power, it is a real bad thing and an injustice. That negativity, the sense of unfairness and moral injustice, was exaggerated on purpose to appeal to the basest of human emotions: envy/greed. The powermongers have banked hard on people that will never admit that they are neither willing nor able to apply themselves and do the things that generate normal wealth, let alone massive wealth, loving the ability to shift blame for their own state in life to the insane belief that they the wealthy stole from them which is why they are not wealthy. This then allows those in power to milk the system and accumulate wealth & power while peddling the fact others are doing what they are. The end goal of that system is that it will allow the people in charge to keep these things and the power they have accumulated when all the stupid and evil shit they have been doing collapses the world’s economy finally.
I think of them as fuedalists. They want to be the nobility and you’re the serfs.
That’s precisely what collectivism produces in practice: feudal systems. The lords, because they have power, have the wealth and decide its distribution. The serfs live at and by their mercy. Unfortunately things have gotten so good that many people willingly accept the role of serfs for table scraps. It isn’t until nothing gets produced and they exhaust the existing wealth that the shit hits the fan for the morons that sold out…
You just Heart-Pegged a little more, Banjos!
You’d think that they’d want to have a massive humiliation moment of Trump by proving him to be a giant cry baby sore loser, but this shit is being fought tooth and nail instead. Combine that with their fighting of all voter security laws really makes them look insanely guilty.
Word.
It is yet another reflection of America’s slide into a corrupt state.
Other “western democracies” with their voter ID requirements and simple, tried-and-true voting processes look at the mess we have come up with and STDH.
And yes, the mess has been deliberately constructed to hide stolen elections.
Olympic viewership down 49% compared to 2016.
Gee, it couldn’t be that their woke leftist social signaling has offended and pissed off approximately half the country?
This is why mandatory love for network tv in general and the Olympics in particular needs to be taught in schools.
All TVs must be on 24 hours a day and only government approved channels will be allowed. For the children!
Who would have that Max Headroom would be the next dystopian world they wanted to emulate?
Touch your toes, Montag!
Yes, I think people are just trying to turn away from programming in general. The incessant noise machine of politicized messaging is such a turnoff. It’s not just the olympics, it’s all sports.
20 minutes of sob stories about the poor, overcoming the world against them athletes, followed by 3 minutes of … something with over the top announcing reactinng to every little thing like we just saw the BEST PERFORMANCE EVAH!!!!!!!!
*I watched the rugby 7s, and have skipped the rest after a couple of days**
“This match is getting interesting, so we are going to cut away to something else.”
VDH diagnosis the cause.
https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2021/07/29/victor-davis-hanson-what-is-american-wokeness-really-about-n2593268
I’m so disconnected now I didn’t realize the MLB All-Star game had come and gone.
That’s the game that moved from the state with a proposal for less-restrictive voting laws than the laws that were already in place in the destination state because reasons?
It’s also, IMO, because they made the decision to go all in on the female viewers. Everything from the announcing to the advertisements to the lead in segments to the post-event interviews are sappy emotional appeals. If you just want to watch sports, you have to DVR it, mute it, and have your finger on the fast forward button.
Even my wife, the biggest Olympics junkie I’ve ever known, is making heavy use of the fast forward button. Large parts of the programming are unwatchable.
Years ago I recall streaming the College World Series. It was a live feed not the network coverage. No play-by-play, color commentary or network garbage. It was enjoyable. The only thing I missed was the overlays for score and the like.
Rat, if you are in the US are you familiar with NBCOlympics.com? They have over 5000 hours of coverage commercial free, and streams for every event (unless it’s showing at that moment on Peacock or one of the NBC channels.) Even the announcers are pleasantly bland, and there are no pre-event profiles or post-event interviews. Last night I watched the semifinals of women’s table tennis (no commercials even during timeouts or between games) then the last two swimming races of what would have been Thursday afternoon’s Tokyo program.
Another example–track and field starts Friday (tonight in the USA) and you should be able to watch every jump in men’s high jump qualifying, every throw in men’s discus qualifying, and all the preliminary heats, not just the American races and not just the start and finish of anything over 1500 meters. And it’s unlikely you’ll hear any back stories on the competitors. That’s the way Rio track and field coverage was, anyway.
Looks like you need a pass. I don’t have Peacock or a TV subscription.
No one tunes in for the quitting? Weird.
And don’t forget about the praising of the quitting as brave and heroic. It’s like they’re Sir Robin’s minstrels, singing her praises for bravely running away.
Poor Kitteh! Mornin’ Banjos!
I think it was Lolbot that proffered the idea of a toilet paper tube on a cat’s paw in order to achieve the Pirate effect.
Indeed. Pair it with a jaunty sailor’s hat folded from some newspaper and you’ve got yourself a genuine sea captain.
That’ll have to wait for the next two.
It should be in the Geneva convention that doing what that gif of the cat shows is a war crime…
Good morning all!
Not clicking on any links today. Apparently the computer has been accessing badlinks and I’m on Teams with someone from IMIT-Security-Cyber Defense. Doing a full virus scan — estimated time remaining 26 min.
Hentai gone ! Hentai gone! Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for you, Friend…
frankenstein was actually the name of the author
https://twitter.com/inkbitspixels/status/1420420749765001218
That’s a typo. The book in question was actually the biography of Mary Shelly by Francis Nathan Stein, ‘Frank N.’ to his friends.
“Ah’m sorry Sir. Would you like to Stupid-Size ya order today?”
So what is the the official glibertarina position on the whole China tech company thing?
There are no Glibertarinas.
*pinches arm, feels nothing*
You transitioned, Festina?
It’s 2021. No transitioning needed.
Not officially, anyway.
Damnit.
* removes tutu *
Desmond, Osei or other?
CDC Director Rachelle Walensky said fully vaccinated people “have just as much viral load as the unvaccinated, making it possible for them to spread the virus to others,” which is why all children should wear masks in schools, NBC News reported. The White House announced it would start requiring masks in its buildings Wednesday.
#BELIEVEHER
At least it’s looking like DeWine (Cunte – OH) will not be attempting to bring back a statewide mask mandate here in Ohio. Based on the number of fundraising mailings and e-mails I’m getting from them, I think they’re realizing they don’t have much good will left in the state (not that I’ve given them a dime in the past anyways).
Our Guv rolled into his ’emergency orders’ which are still active that they will do what ever the CDC says. How fucking idiotic do you have to be to have that type of language. Of course our legislature are useless. So masks it is for Vegas again starting Friday.
Which is funny because if it is deadlier! scarier! OMG!….why wait two days?
I will be very disappointed in the subculture if the people who go to Viva are overwhelmingly masked. They have said no tattoo room this year, and that they are doing optional vaccination badges:
Emphasis mine.
So she’s saying the vaccines don’t work.
Apparently USA Today ran that and then later scrubbed it cause it was against the narrative push. Ill have to look for that again. I think it was on ZH
It’s exactly what she’s saying and it validates the concerns raised by epidemiologists that objected to a vaccination program in the middle of a pandemic.
They are making it more likely that a vaccine resistant version of the virus will arise.
We are already seeing evidence of that, since the vaccines induce immunity based on reaction to the protein spike, and the entire virus. This is also why natural immunity in recovered people is more robust than vaccine-induced immunity, but with the lockdowns and masking and other restrictions they are doing everything possible to limit acquisition of natural immunity which occurs when healthy people get infected and recover. The most sensible course would be vaccines for highly at-risk populations such as the very old and the sick and people with specific co-morbidities, and just let it run through the rest of the population to acquire herd immunity. But we are in thrall to political scientism and zero-risk mentality, so it will never happen. Plus the never-ending pandemic is just too useful for the nobility.
Edit: “not” the entire virus.
The moment of the olympics so far for me is the Austrian woman winning the cycling race, partly due to the Dutch not being able to count to five.
The moment of the Olympics for me has been to pointedly ignore them unless someone pulls a boner.
Heard this this morning on the radio:
https://www.insider.com/kaylee-mckeown-wins-gold-interview-f-yeah-live-tv-2021-7
Then again the dutch chick winning the next race was also an inspirational moment because she got very badly hurt in the last olympics and came back. So one dutch cyclist to inspirational moments.
I can only count to four!
“I can only count to blue”.
I have peacock to watch Indycar. It has a lot of Olympic clips. I watched a few of the women’s archery. That’s the only thing I’ve seen.
You like you some recurves huh?
Bobby Finke’s last 50m in the 800m Freestyle to take gold from 5th place was actually epic.
That was pretty kickass. He did the last 50 faster than most 200m swimmers.
FML…
Cousin was in Kodiak for the big 8.2 last night. They moved the 2 big tender boats out to sea incase of tsunami. My big boat is over in Prince William Sound, so they shouldn’t have any issues.
Sister texted wife last night at midnight with a death threat, so that’s always something nice to wake up to. We haven’t really fully trusted her yet account of her and her boy friends mental stability. So we said no when she offered to baby sit the kids on Friday… Gee… wonder why?
So now I can’t even leave the babies at my house alone with a teenage baby sitter and I’m probably going to miss a shift at work until I get this stupid shit sorted out. As if I don’t already have enough on my plate? Do I take the death threat seriously, if so how seriously? Do you brush it off and try to calm the situation down?
Fucking people. All my sister had to do was call me. Do people ever stop being crazy?
Sorry for your troubles, that’s fucked up! I never even heard of the quake until now.
I have no advice on death threats as most are not serious but there is still a chance… Although the text is a little confusing who got a death threat the sister or the wife?
The wife, from the sister. It was extra dramatic: “I will plot your demise and enjoy seeing you rot.”
Ain’t family fun?
that is messed up… sorry…
That’s Alexis Carrington-Colby material.
While I am vaccinated against the cov I have no intention of making a rule out of this. I never got a flu vaccine and I don;t plan to until maybe older, and the same will be with the covid from now on. Honestly I think at this point I would be better off getting the thing and having my body used to it. If my mom is vaccinated and healthy anyways In think even she could get it without major issue. But the yearly vaccine thing for a mutating respiratory virus aint the way to go imo.
news
ARTHUR reportedly cancelled after 25 years:
point
I always hated this show as a kid. Glad it’s dead.
counterpoint
https://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1420355225886593025
I have no idea what Arthur is but this amused me.
Hahaha
The left can’t meme. That’s fucking Gold!
It’s an anodyne children’s show that kids never watched unless they only had PBS or the CBC. Captive audience.
It gave us this.
From the replies
Who knew that Winston and Aurthur shared a Mom?
Drugs, ass, high velocity, etc.
As long as Calliou is dead all is right with the world.
Oh, goody, another tale of noble believers risking it all to practice the True Faith
The Covid-19 vaccine has become so polarizing that some people in Missouri are getting inoculated in secret for fear of backlash from their friends and family who oppose vaccination, a doctor told CNN Wednesday.
Just like those early Christians who risked death to worship the One True God.
I’ll take “SHIT THAT NEVER HAPPENED” for a hundred, Alex.
???
Yep. Note how it’s Missouri, not, say Illinois, in which less than half the population is also poked. Gotta play up those Redneck Rubes as DENIERS!
“Shit That Never Happened”, indeed.
Well, now that they’ve grown up together, they’re afraid of what they see.
It’s the state of the nation.
All you get from me is “shellshock”. ?
Living in the catacombs beneath Branson, they are!
No one cares if someone gets it. People care about mandates because bodily autonomy.
Are we going to get another Missouri Compromise out of this?
Will MO be a vax or no-vax state?
Some random soldier called me last night asking about the vax – and how to prep for the inevitable military mandate. Evidently, google-fu on “what the fuck do I do if I don’t wanna take the vaccine!!!!” eventually gets one to me. I’m not sure if I’m proud or depressed.
/sigh
Why not both?
**Puffs up chest while trying to suck-start pistol**
^This
to use a bad joke “lay down and think of Uncle Sam”
Bad joke? I thought it was the Marine Corps’ motto!
(thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week)
You know, before I enlisted in the army I was hoping to be a marine.
But my head wouldn’t fit in the jar
/exits stage left
The Green Weenie, now with extra barbed wire!
Now DOD is threatening to bring back indoor mask mandates even for the vaccinated in some areas. Haven’t heard from work yet, but I think it may hit Norfolk.
2 weeks before we were planning to get all our out-of-town folks in for the first face to face drill in over 18 months.
Its all so tiresome.
On the news last night was talk of Biden mandating vaccination for all federal employees and contractors.
They already are walking back the word ‘mandate’ and now a “if you don’t want to have to follow all these rules….that we just reinstituted for vaccinated people”
Messaging as always, on fucking point.
They did that about a week ago where I’m at. Lot of grumbling and outright confrontations.
Speaking of voting
https://twitter.com/finnitejest/status/1420654523446566916
I do not see links to the NYT but the title is There Is No Good Reason You Should Have to Be a Citizen to Vote
apparently noncitizens voting is both fair and would improve America. Apparently written by a Swiss of all people
My mother agrees with this while simultaneously believing that Africans shouldn’t get to vote in the UMC’s General Assembly.
Africans shouldn’t get to vote in the UMC’s General Assembly. – to progressive?
She was so happy when my sister switched churches to “the first one to have a black preacher.”
Isn’t Switzerland nigh impossible to emigrate to, or have they bent over for the EU’s efforts to let the world migrate to Europe?
“They did their own research on it, and they talked to people and made the decisions themselves,” Frase told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “But even though they were able to make that decision themselves, they didn’t want to have to deal with the peer pressure or the outbursts from other people about them … ‘giving in to everything.'”
In a hospital produced video, Frase said one pharmacist at her hospital told her “they’ve had several people come in to get vaccinated who have tried to sort of disguise their appearance and even went so far as to say, ‘please, please, please don’t let anybody know that I got this vaccine.'”
They have to skulk around in the back alleys, because those damn anti-vaxxers hold all the cards.
So now they’re for medical confidentiality?
Serious question (for everyone): can you ever remember anything that even approaches the Media’s absurdities on this vaccine push? I’m trying, but I simply cannot recall anything since TV was invented that approaches the complete and utter bullshit, lies, and out-and-out media propaganda that we have now. It’s… I don’t know. It’s insane. I don’t even have a way to fully verbalize it.
A commie under every bed? Yes it is insane. Media is driving this now. They put out op-ed that masks should be back on and CDC and WH jumped at it and did it.
The last five years have been absolutely the most insane politics and media-wise of my life. And the insanity has increased the entire time. I too am at kind of a loss when trying to process it.
Their claims that the 2020 election was not just totes legit, but that any and all attempts to discredit it were debunked…
I would bet money that if this happens at all, it goes more like: Pro-vaxx person repeatedly badgers un-vaxxed person about why they haven’t gotten the Fauci prick yet. Un-vaxxed person repeatedly insists that they’re OK with making their own risk assessment and tries to change the subject. Pro-vaxx person refuses to leave it alone and gets more aggressive, and un-vaxxed person has an angry outburst because pro-vaxx person won’t leave them the fuck alone.
The Left is really good at creating a victimhood narrative where none exists. There are people who honestly believe:
– The USA is the worst place in the developed world for women
– The media was unfairly harsh on Obama and Hillary in their elections
– Hollywood is racist
To be fair, Hollywood is racist. It loves race-swapping to get rid of white characters, but will just as quickly vanish a black one at the behest of the Chinese.
That words, sounds produced by vibration in the air that travel to their auditory canals, are actual, real-world Honest-to-God violence.
NPR story this morning was about
setting up an official shrine to RGBadding statues of the first two women Justices in the capitol. Apparently it’s Klobuchar’s idea.Why the first two? Why not just the first, since that is the groundbreaking event.
Oh, Sandra Day O’Connor, that’s why. Need to shoehorn RBG in there somehow.
Remember when you had to have two miracles before you could be beatified?
And there was a waiting period so that the emotions of people from your own lifetime wouldn’t sway the analysis.
How about the first 50? That seems fair.
The CoxHealth health system said it’s expanding morgue capacity in due to an increase in Covid-19 related deaths.
“We’ve actually brought in a portable piece of technology that allows bodies to be cooled and placed outside the morgue. We have had to expand that because the mortality has gone up so much lately,” CoxHealth President and CEO Steve Edwards said during a news briefing in Springfield-Greene County Tuesday.
Bodies stacked like cordwood. In a matter of days there will be no one left alive.
Fuck that motherfucker. Lying piece of shit!! He’s been blowing his damn mouth off this whole fucking time MASKS MASKS MASKS. He’s the motherfucker who got two bedroom community mayors to give executive orders after the city council had said no. He’s a fucking CEO of the hospital. That means he’s a money man not a fucking doctor. Like them motherfuckers can be trusted anymore.
If I seem upset at this asshat, it’s because I am.
Yeah, this is the asshat that said Mo was having such a high rate of infection now because it’s full of stupid, religious, rethuglikkan hicks.
Serious question (for everyone): can you ever remember anything that even approaches the Media’s absurdities on this vaccine push?
Not even close.
Not the Cold War, not the WWII anti-axis propaganda. And those were for-real existential threats.
Not having been alive then I can’t speak to it, but I imagine that media is much more pervasive (and invasive) than in WWII. I remember part of the ’80s as being all-AIDS-all-the-time, but we didn’t have cell phone push alerts to remind us when we were making out with Jennifer in the prop room.
The WW2 propaganda was a lot more intense and pervasive. If anything, it’s easier to ignore today than it was then.
Is it? I guess everyone in the 1940s had a radio, but they didn’t have TV. I have no idea what proportion of newspaper articles were dedicated to propaganda then v. now.
Besides radio and newspaper, there were comic books, short films, full-length movies, posters, and magazines. Disney was an early supporter of the war effort and made quite a few animated propaganda films.
Sure, but movies et. al. had to be actively sought out. They were opt-in exposures to the propaganda. And not as available because of transport, rural v. urban and the like.
My grandparents (who may not be representative of the greater population) preferred active recreation — cards, dominoes, dancing and the like. They didn’t engage in passive media consumption until the very end of their lifetimes.
Disconnecting is still a very viable option today, in very much the same style as before.
I think the main difference is not so much pervasiveness but the direction of the propaganda. In the world wars period, the propagnda built up the ingroup against the outgroup, so there was a greater proportion of the recipients who felt positively towards the message. These days, a lot of the propaganda actively attacks the recipient and the ingroup(s) they belong to, making it much more glaring.
I think that I’m more disconnected than the average American. I watch zero TV, cable or otherwise. On weekends, I get at most two hours of internet time. I don’t social media.
And yet, I feel vastly more plugged in than I was in the pre-broadband days.
I can’t even imagine what the high school experience is now.
*waves cane*
When I was in high school, I had over a hundred phone numbers memorized but phone calls cost money! Plans to meet people had to be made ahead of time! You had to know where locations were and how to physically get there!
“Bye bye, and buy (War) bonds!”
Victory Gardens.
Paper and scrap metal drives.
One more time of singing “Onward Christian Soldiers” at church and you’d puke…
“…making out with Jennifer in the prop room.”
Go on.
Theater chicks are easy.
Back in history class I never really understood the German reaction to the Weimar Republic. Now I do – seeing your country taken over people who hate you and want to systematically destroy it can elicit a strong reaction.
Essay on exactly that question.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2021/07/thanks-to-social-marketing-you-will-be-assimilated/
“For as far back as I can remember, I have never experienced such a relentless full-court press by all social and political institutions in pursuit of a single goal. Perhaps the war effort from 1939-1945 was like this, but I wasn’t alive then, so I don’t know.”
It’s like all of the moral panics (drugs, satanic child abuse, clowns in the woods, sex trafficking, etc.) rolled up into one.
Not in my lifetime. Maybe the Anti-German propaganda during the Great War. Or the press slobbering all over FDR during the great depression.
Or William Randolph Hearst more or less. getting us into the Spanish American War.
So who is excited for the NBA draft?
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Thanks, I needed a good laugh
This.
Funny how I can name the starting 5 for many teams in the 80s and couldn’t name 5 players now.
Meh.
STOP RESISTING
President Joe Biden, who for months used techniques like public service announcements and grassroots campaigns to persuade Americans to get vaccinated, is adopting a tougher approach as caseloads surge: vaccine requirements and blame.
The shift toward placing the onus for the current situation on those who have refused to get vaccinated reflects Biden’s growing impatience that still-hesitant Americans are prolonging a crisis he said earlier this month was no longer paralyzing the nation.
Instead of merely asking Americans to get vaccinated, the President on Thursday is set to take his first step toward requiring it. In afternoon remarks, Biden is planning to announce that all federal employees must attest to being vaccinated against Covid-19 or face strict protocols including regular testing, masking and other mitigation measures, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Poor Joe. He doesn’t want to beat you and push you down the stairs and lock you in the basement, but dammit! you’re such a disappointment to him.
Why don’t you listen? Why can’t you behave?
And this will get tied up instantly with the unions. I know ours won’t jump at it. They will buckle, but we are going to have at minimum a two month period while they negotiate how it is implemented and what exemptions and blah blah blah.
LOL come at me, bro.
If the President is directing it, it’s not “grassroots”.
Yeah, it’s a grassroots effort led by politicians, the tech giants, and various captains of industry.
These links are making me salty.
as long as you are not a snail that’s ok
Or a slug!
https://youtu.be/JQxUypXoslM
Good, you will not rot and can be stored without refrigeration.
New Predator Movie Will Be Prequel with Female Lead, Might Be PG-13
https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/new-predator-movie-will-be-prequel-with-female-lead-might-be-pg-13
PG13? Would that not defeat the purpose of the movie?
“You’re one Ugly Mister Falcon”
/PG-13
There’s hardly any R-rated movies any more, probably because China won’t show them.
Will she curb stomp the predators so badly that in the future they will only hunt males?
Woke Predator, I look forward to not seeing it.
Because we all know women are better suited to physical combat than any male.
I mean maybe there is no combat but a battle of wits
Of course a cavewoman is going to be able to figure out enough about multispecral imaging, plasma weapons, and reactive camouflage fast enough to not just die when dealing with the predator.
She can do everything Ahnnnald and Carl Weathers combined!!
But how can she get to da choppa without choppas?
A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away …
Mary Sue, Cavewomyn Champion Alien Defeater!
Oh come on, there’s a real easy strategy that a cavewoman can implement – get knocked up. The predator will spare her to avoid harming the fetus.
Oh wait, that would offend the woke sensibilities by implying that the unborn is an innocent life that would be wrong to kill in the Predator’s honor code. (Despite that exact thing happening in Predator 2)
Bah. Some traps made out of logs and vines and she’ll be singing “Yub! Yub!” at her barbeque in no time!
Is that what they say when the wrist nuke goes off and fries them?
But the goal, according to aides, is to render being unvaccinated so burdensome that those who haven’t received shots will have little choice other than to get them.
Something something the goal, according to Resistance leaders, is to render collaboration with the Army of Occupation so burdensome…
It’s coming here too. The Twink in the North is going to call a snap election because his coffers are filled and his opponents are in disarray. He can’t wait. We’re fucked, same as you.
Good Heavens. I’ve been to Puerto and nobody ever mentioned giant reptiles. It was probably me.
From an article…
“face strict protocols including regular testing, masking and other mitigation measures, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.”
From a gov. drone POV, that might be fun. Time off for testing, isolation, making work for chain of command. 40% of drones doing that would drive them nuts.
Take the black pill
Surf the kali yuga brab
^^^ Plenty here at our facility are of that mindset, including me. I will make you make me do this. Need me to get tested to come in and fix that radar? Huh, can’t find a quick test…sorry.
Until they move over to making you pay for it which they will.
“Voluntary Testing”
Martial Law in Australia. Makes me unreasonably sad. Maybe because it always seemed like Aussies & &Americans shared some of the same culture & values. Then they just rolled over. Look at the horrific replies
https://twitter.com/9NewsSyd/status/1420621905120333827
Don’t judge true public sentiment from Twitter replies. It isn’t a reflection of the real world, it’s a reflection of people that use Twitter.
Both can be true
1) The Aussies as a population rolled over and allowed their guns to be taken and voted continually for more of the same, resulting in the ability of the govt to literally unleash its military against its own citizens
2) The Twitter replies are depressing as fuck
+a significant portion of those replies could be bots
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Screen-Shot-2021-07-28-at-8.33.57-AM-598×600.png
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. Intelligence agencies and advocacy groups trying to manufacture the illusion of policy acceptance along with the demoralization of naysayers.
people on twitter have outsized influence so, in a way, it is a reflection of the real world.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” — Patrick Henry
For too many people, it is…
There is a reason that the trend has been so many people agreeing to lose freedom after freedom for the illusion of government protecting them from their won inability to be responsible adults. Yeah, some complain and bitch about the fact they now have to jump through hoops to get free shit, but they would only resist and fight if someone stopped their free shit.
The fact remains, regardless of the replies to that Tweet, that Australia has implemented Martial Law.
I am actually hoping that this results in the death of some citizens. It’s horrible, but it may be the only way people wake up to this shit.
Ok, back to work and listening to podcasts about regenerative farming and planning my escape from society.
Thanks for the blood pressure rise, my heart is obviously in good health!
ohhhhhhhh.
Which ones are you listening to?
As look at my forest garden books, and wishing i had more time.
“We were winning the fight against Covid, but no one ever said it was over,” the top Biden adviser said, adding that blame should be placed on the unvaccinated, not those who were following the rules. “Now that’s more clear than ever. It’s not over.”
New indoor mask guidelines for vaccinated Americans that the CDC unveiled this week have only exacerbated the sense that inoculated people are still being asked to sacrifice because a sizable portion of eligible adults won’t get shots.
OBEY
This is not a country in which independence will be tolerated.
They really are a step away from making videos likening the unvaccinated to rats scurrying around in the darkness. What’s old is new again when it comes to propaganda.
“should be placed on the unvaccinated, not those who were following the rules.”
So punish the vaccinated with masks, then.
Good morning, Banjos!
The mandates are on the march again. Governor fuckwit wants masks in schools again. A friend shared some stuff from her kid’s college that flat-out creates a vax/non-vax caste system. The kids who refuse the shot will be forced to jump through all kinds of hoops, while the good little sheep will be eligible for drawings for all kinds of goodies: scholarships, electronics, etc.
It’s sickening.
I think it’s time to unleash the lawyers.
I’d start printing “My Body, My Choice” T-Shirts with each University hinted at (I am not paying royalties).
Silly Swiss! That only applies to abortion!
/DEA nods in agreement
I’m curious – you think there are any doctors out there who’d sign the vac card for a thousand bucks cash, no questions asked?
The alternative being that I forge their signature and, if caught, claim they got the money anyway. Carrots generally taste better when they’re backed up with a stick.
You don’t need a doctor’s signature. You just need the tech at CVS or Walgreens to shoot the injector into the trash instead of your arm. A signature alone won’t matter because you need the correct vial number to match the card.
I’m considering bringing some benjamins to a CVS and asking the tech if anyone’s offered her $400 to shoot it in the trash instead.
Pharmacy techs in general get paid shit for the massive amount of stressful work they’re expected to do. I don’t imagine it would be a very hard sell if a bad person wanted to bribe them to get a vaccine card for a vaccine that was never actually administered.
Nope. Pretending to comply has the same effect as complying for everyone except you. And eventually, it will blow back on you too. If we allow the government to forcibly inject untested drugs into us, we lose everything. Sneaking past it by lying does nothing to help end the idea that this is OK. I plan on loudly and proudly proclaiming my refusal to get the shot. I’d rather accept the consequences of that than accept the idea that they are in charge of my bloodstream on top of all the other tyranny they have forced on us. Just say NO!
I try to remain upbeat on this forum but I’ve seen nothing but ugly socially and politically for the last eight months. Will there be a glimmer of hope without shots fired in anger? It’s too late for us up here but for your own sake, save yourselves! Heh. I used to fear Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric… I wish I was 17 again.
Aren’t y’all’s prairie provinces a lot more conservative than the rest of the country? Maybe one of them would do you right.
Go watch some Townsends videos. He makes a conscious effort to keep politics out.
He’s a cool feller.
He’s excellent. He’s like the Bob Ross of history education.
Before I saw the comment you were responding to, my first thought was “And over here there were some happy little wars.”
The Democrats just want to be America’s PRI:
“founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000[…]Throughout the seven decades that the PRI governed Mexico, the party used a combination of corporatism, co-option and (at many times, violent) repression to hold power, while usually resorting to electoral fraud when these measures were not enough”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_Revolutionary_Party
A funny side note as to just how far gone Wikipedia is wrt to political topics: it labels the PRI as “center-right” while simultaneously stating that it has membership in Socialist International.
Democratic socialism is now center-right according to our elites’ Overton Window.
Further: I’m almost 100% convinced that the Kung Flu flip-flopping and MUH DELTUH VARYUNT serves not only as a distraction from the economy, but a permanent excuse to fuck up the voting system. They’re timing it so that the hysteria ramps up as we approach the 2021 election. It’s an off-year so it’s low risk for them to try it.
I wouldn’t be surprised that the whole BAD DELTA shitshow we are seeing is yet another attempt by the people that used the pandemic to rig and steal the 2020 election to replicate the conditions that would allow them to steal the coming midterms as well and avoid the ass kicking the numbers are showing them they are due for being evil fucking inept shits.
Why surprising? National socialism is far right.
Because it is a little to the right of marxism?
The Army Corps of Engineers never disappoints in their ability to fuck everything up.
Of course, a lot of times they are asked to do the impossible. Maybe people should accept that shorelines change and not build right on the edge of it. Or expect sand bars to exist for all eternity?
The Corps saving grace is that their opponents are just as tarded
Parts per trillion. Because bioaccumulation is so prevalent. Square that circle if you can.
I’m almost to the point where I’m taking the position “If it isn’t to LD50, it’s fine.” just from spite towards the watermelons.
We’re just a few more grants away from the top men’s Utopia!
Im certainly not an analytical chemist, but measuring things like mercury (EPA Method 101A FTW) in air kinda is my baliwick.
The idea that you can reliably and repeatedly measure 0.1 ppt seems a bit far reaching. I even question results when they part-per-billion (ppbV)
ppq is a thing (by ICP-MS), but of limited utility. It’s also only for certain analytes and matrices.
25 years ago, I saw some very impressive MDL’s for mercury with gold amalgam flroursence detectors….
I am seeing low PPQ MDL’s for PFAS.
Thot Thursday’s secondary sexual characteristics delight and hypnotize.
https://archive.li/qTMtt
Maybe if we tweak the model, those dopes will take us seriously
In recent years, the connection between a hotter planet and human death and disease has become clearer, thanks to a series of research papers. A study published in 2021 found that about a third of heat-related deaths worldwide can be directly attributed to human-caused climate change. A 2020 Lancet report warned that climate change is the biggest global public health threat of the century.
But those findings have not been factored into one of the three major computer models that scientists, economists and the federal government use to calculate the societal costs of carbon emissions. That means economists and policymakers may be underestimating the cost of climate change to human life.
“One key takeaway is that there are a significant number of lives that can be saved by reducing emissions,” says R. Daniel Bressler, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University who is the author of the new study, published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications.
When he factored in the latest mortality research, Bressler found that about 74 million lives could be saved this century if humans cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, compared with a scenario in which the Earth experiences a catastrophic 4 degrees Celsius (about 7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by the end of the century.
Obviously, our assumptions are insufficiently terrifying. More garbage!
a significant number of lives that can be saved by reducing emissions
I’ll need to stop clicking on Q’s links. If it saves one life…
Great song, Banjos. Go Betty Go is one of my faves.
If you like Go Betty Go, there’s also Tilt: Lips Tits Hips
Nice.
They’re out of business now, but The New York Rel-X were good.
*only half chix, if it matters
I don’t normally listen to punk, but when I do it’s usually girl punk. Punk girls are my weakness.
something something Daisy Tanks (usually not a SFW search)
She’s an “actress”.
They really are a step away from making videos likening the unvaccinated to rats scurrying around in the darkness. What’s old is new again when it comes to propaganda.
Traitors. Saboteurs.
THE ENEMY WITHIN.
A funny side note as to just how far gone Wikipedia is wrt to political topics: it labels the PRI as “center-right” while simultaneously stating that it has membership in Socialist International.
Good gravy.
Good Gravy is well made, not from some packet or jar! How dare you?
Anything bad is on the right. There are only good things on the left. MiniTru expects your agreement.
Ugh. Mask mandate back in full force at work regardless of vax status and regardless if the role is clinical or not. I’m in IT in a building that isn’t on any of our medical campuses and no medical services are provided….. yay. Thankfully we are still mostly work from home.
Parts per trillion. Because bioaccumulation is so prevalent. Square that circle if you can.
Why does this sound familiar?
“The department’s enforcement policy does not consider a jurisdiction’s re-adoption of prior voting laws or procedures to be presumptively lawful; instead, the department will review a jurisdiction’s changes in voting laws or procedures for compliance with all federal laws regarding elections, as the facts and circumstances warrant,” reads a document released by DOJ.
Biden regime DOJ is assho.
Yet strangely there are no media stories about the Biden administrations politicization of the DOJ.
“Myself, like millions of Americans, sat there watching the testimony thinking, ‘Wait, where are the police officers who appeared – appeared – to let some of the protesters in?” she asked. “Where is the police officer who shot Ashli Babbitt? In fact, why aren’t we talking about Ashli Babbitt? I mean there’s so much more here.”
Because it is, how you say, a partisan political circus.
“like millions of Americans, sat there watching”
Citation required.
Disney World will require customers to wear masks indoors and on public transit starting Friday, after the CDC recommended indoor-mask mandates in areas experiencing spikes in COVID-19 cases.
I will not be patronizing any business that requires a shame muzzle.
That study, which claimed the Delta variant produced an unusually large viral load in more than 100 vaccinated healthcare workers with “breakthrough infections,” was listed as having failed peer review in the journal Nature when the CDC cited it.
The whole thing has been horseshit from the outset anyway.
NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics continued to spiral downward on Monday, averaging 14.7 million viewers for a 49% drop compared to the equivalent night from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Monday’s telecast also shed 53% of viewers from coverage of the first weeknight primetime during the 2012 London Olympics and declines were even larger among the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 18-49.
Get woke, go broke.
Consider that’s also with many other options, at least in big cities, still either closed or requiring some kind of restrictions. People are largely stuck at home with nothing else to do but watch TV and they’re *still* tuning it out.
Does this mean they’ll learn anything and un-wokify it? Absolutely not. They’d rather lose 95% of their viewers than betray their religion. Besides, they’ll just get subsides from the FedGov to keep it on the air anyway no matter how many viewers they lose.
Advertising fees are generally tied to a presumed level of viewership, missing the mark by nearly 50% usually means give-backs to advertisers due to reduced fees because of reduced viewership.
So, you’re probably right, FedGov subsidies.
Has there been one taking the knee yet or other display of non-affection for the U.S.? Yes, all the sob stories – and not just from Olympic coverage- are off-putting, so maybe there needs to be a “SobStory Network” where every” medical tragedy, single mother raising, he was such a good son” type story could be telecast?
Female soccer players have been regularly “taking the knee” (fuck, I hate that expression) before matches. Which means the commentators are yakking about it incessantly. (I would assume.)
Let’s just remember this:
Despite ‘Delta’ Alarmism, US COVID Deaths Are at Lowest Level Since March 2020, Harvard and Stanford Professors Explain
As mentioned, the restrictions are, and always have been, political. They’ve got jack shit to do with this minor disease.
^^^ This sums it up nicely.
Do you think your recently removed body part makes you more vulnerable?
Nope.
I had the disease back in early March 2020. Better than any vaccine.
In fact, when I’d mentioned that to the hospital staff after inquiry about vax status, they never brought up Wuhan Coronavirus again.
That graph should be trumpeted from the high heavens.
The panic is from the vaccine failing. They’re at risk of being exposed as wholly incompetent and corrupt.
It was Trump’s fault. Instant-absolution.
It is clear to me now that [Vendor] did not read what they sent to us. An entire (large) section of the document was the form their staff was supposed to use to create a section of the document that to date still does not exist. I should never have seen this form, just the end product of the work not done.
If you don’t want the contract, you don’t have to respond to the RFP.
I was just using an RFP our sales submitted a while back as a reference. The last page was cringy – typos and they recommended installation of a system that is universally loathed by everyone who uses it.
This one has several unfilled templates and references to products we don’t use but which were used by some previous client they’d previously prepared a similar response for.
I
hadgot to say it reflectly poorly on their attention to detail and quality assurance practices.You do if the number of contracts applied for is a performance metric.
Don’t overlook the fact that many RFPs you receive are just the potential buyer trying to demonstrate that “we gave five vendors a chance” when all along they knew who their preferred vendor would be.
You’re never going to get to be a preferred vendor if you don’t even go through the motions properly.
q-ette has started teething and is an absolute hellion. Is 8 am too early to start drinking?
For you or the baby?
Wasn’t brandy used to help numb the gums?
Mrs. Q frowns on that approach.
cocaine drops then?
Heroin.
“What happens in the nursery, stays in the nursery.”
When my youngest niece was a wee one, SIL had read somewhere that it was bad for babies to be fed meat, so thee kidling had only eaten vegetables. One day, when she was teething, mom forgot the ring, and as a last resort gave her a rib from the BBQ we were eating. The… expression on that little girl’s face as the epiphany of MEAT overwhelmed her was glorious to watch.
Whelp, still not inoculated. Still just another potato. Good day, my lovelies!
Ultra-lib Rapaport’s cognitive dissonance may be breaking
https://twitter.com/CryptoBull2020/status/1420715014323941387
That guy is a genuine dipshit, but at least he’s waking up.
He’s an angry little commie. Maybe he’ll become an angry little libertarian.
Under what fucking authority does a Federal department get to sue a sovereign state in order to stick its nose in their voting procedure.
I’m sure if I read the article it would tell me but I don’t have the energy today. Dammit man, how hard are they going to push? They can’t even see “overplayed their hand” in the rearview mirror, yet they continue to push and push and push, endlessly.
Under what fucking authority
The authority of a bought and paid for judiciary, executive branch, and legislature. Who’s gonna stop them? The emasculated states? The John Roberts of the world? Joe Biden? A curious media? The checks and balances that would theoretically prevent this shit are all cooped.
co-opted*
“The emasculated states?”
TBF, there do appear to be at least a handful of states who actually will fight back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_v._Katzenbach
Doesn’t apply here. Not even in the same zip code.
Doesn’t matter that the specifics aren’t the same (although DOJ would argue that it is to give further cover). The precedent was set long ago that FedGov can oversee local elections and SCOTUS already backed it up.
So is the reason we don’t hear about South Africa falling apart because it also harshes the narrative?
ISTR that the ANC was a politcial party based around a minority ethnic group.
¡Me duele el pene porque la vagina tiene dientes! ¡AY AY AY AY!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/15718551/my-vagina-has-closed-up/
Chupa cabra pussy?
Not Googling that.
Scranton Joe is every man’s every man.
Joe Biden, a career politician who has been in politics for 48 years, claims he “used to drive an 18 wheeler.”
Tbf he may have said “I’d like to…”. The audio is obscure bc someone interrupts.
LOL!!!!!!
Cmon. man! Joe was driving this truck. Right into Scranton!
Mar Ardiente Swimwear – Miami Swim Week Runway Show 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7y9GoER8HQ
Have I mentioned how fond I am of you Pie?
sure but I still expect a glass of the finest rye on the house if I ever end up in your area of the States. Although travel is never coming back.
this one is of the thicc variety
Thicc thighs save lives.
Ask me how I know.
is it because you’re alive?
It’s nice living in a city in which the local media will actually report this:
https://krdo.com/health/coronavirus/2021/06/01/colorado-springs-woman-who-nearly-died-after-johnson-johnson-vaccine-pushing-for-change/
Too bad Bouldver is fucking up the state writ large.
Sorta related.
Sometimes you just gotta change the expiration dates on the dairy products.
Local radio station had a call-in from a 66 year old woman who claimed that she went to the hospital for a surgical procedure and was asked if she had received a vaccine. She said “yes, four months ago.” Which one? “The J&J.” We’re sorry that doesn’t count, you’ll have to be screened for COVID.
Yes, it’s weird.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/i-love-watch-partner-having-24644766
But so are everyone else’s fetishes so go nuts.
STEVE SMITH HAVE HIKER FETISH.
Why Is the FDA Attacking a Safe, Effective Drug?
Ivermectin is a promising Covid treatment and prophylaxis, but the agency is denigrating it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-ivermectin-covid-19-coronavirus-masks-anti-science-11627482393
I’m very surprised the WSJ ran this as an op-ed. Their editorial board has come down hard on mandating the vax for everyone.
Because the pharma companies have completely captured the regulatory process.
^This, any vax alternatives must be crushed.
I find it odd that a rushed experimental drug, by three different companies, magically has the least side-effects. I think tylenol has more side effects listed on it. I wouldn’t be surprised to find a similar story with the FDA and a pharma company on this like it has in the past with Vioxx
To be fair, you only have to list the known side effects. If you don’t know what the experimental drug is going to do and put your head in the sand as reports roll in, the label can be clear!
Sounds like an episode of Better Off Ted.
One need look no further than remdesivir to see that the FDA and NIH are wholly broken in this regard. Remdesivir had no evidence going for it other than a hypothesis that it might work, yet the on-patent, highly expensive drug that requires a hospital stay because it is so dangerous got an immediate approval for COVID therapeutic treatment.
Meanwhile, the evidence for ivermectin, an off-patent and inexpensive drug, continues to stack up and the FDA et al are insisting that full-scale, double-blind randomized trial be conducted before they will even consider it, and in the meantime, this exceedingly safe drug with billions of doses administered MIGHT KILL YOU.
As tarran would say, these people deserve the boats.
The irony is the vacks are not FDA-approved
I’ve always said (since becoming a libertarian anyway) that people should be allowed to take experimental drugs without waiting 5 years for some regulatory body to say it’s OK. Not that everyone should rush out and get them, but rather that if the seller is not misleading you about what testing has been done and what we do/don’t know about side effects, and if you’re OK with the risk, it’s your right to take that untested drug.
I was usually told that this cannot be allowed because Big Pharma is sociopathically greedy and would gladly sell us pure poison if it would put a quick buck in their pockets. They told me that without the normal 10 years that it takes to bring a new drug to market, we would constantly be repeating things like the thalidomide fiasco.
It’s weird how these same people have done a total 180. Now I’m being called crazy for saying that I’m not personally comfortable with the risk of these barely-tested vaccines. These same people now tell me that I’m indulging in “conspiracy theories” and bemoan that the government has not yet forced everyone to get the vaccine.
The Parties Switched! has been applied to everything now.
Because effective treatments kill the EUA. Too many have too much invested, politically, emotionally, and monetarily, to the vax to allow the EUA to be challenged.
I think this is true. Fauchi is a ringleader in the group of senior bureaucrats and academics that all have a financial stake the in the success of a COVID vaccine, either through direct investment in pharma or through licensing from patents. And if you look at how Fauchi handled AIDS, I don’t think it’s too tin-foil-hatty to suggest he’s had this in mind for a while, the idea that he can direct health policy to promote a vaccine that will benefit him financially. He insisted that a vaccine for AIDS was the only acceptable line of research, and then tried (and failed) to patent a vaccine (that didn’t work anyway). Meanwhile ignoring everyone around him that was pushing to develop effective treatments. Last night, we saw a commercial for a drug that claims to suppress HIV to the extent that you’re effectively not infected. My wife says, “How come we don’t hear anything about AIDS anymore?” Because we have really effective treatments, it’s just not as big a deal now.
Because effective treatments kill the EUA.
We have a winner. The EUA rules say you can’t get one if there is already an effective treatment. Admit there are treatments for COVID, and the EUA is illegal. That doesn’t mean the FDA will follow its own rules, of course, but it sure opens up an uncomfortable line of inquiry.
Tucker goes nuclear on Republican Party
I’m tiring of the biblical end-times comments from the nitwits in internet comments. They’re not helping.
the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance have said ivermectin is “one of the safest, low-cost, and widely available drugs in the history of medicine.”
Hence the FDA’s opposition to it.
Every pill of ivermectin takes away dollars and the prospect of annual boosters from the pharmas.
These are the people teaching your kids
Lunatics
Hot? Yes. World’s Hottest? Negative.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/alica-schmidt-hottest-athlete-olympics-24640726
I certainly would, but I’d jump Paige Spiranac way before this girl.
That graph should be trumpeted from the high heavens.
Why do you think some states are dropping their reports on numbers? Some enterprising person might use them to fact check the hysterical “per cent rises” claims.
What’s funny is I have seen a few news reports treating the dropped reports as some sort of “coverup”. Maybe they just think their audiences are so dumb they can play both sides of the story simultaneously.
Shaun Frederickson kicks ass at San Diego Supervisor meeting
Damn, someone call a burn unit.
The only things disturbing are the gov’t response to a mild/small riot and the serious lack of due process taking place.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried on Tuesday suspended concealed carry weapons permits for Floridians arrested for involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. …
“The deeply disturbing events that occurred at our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6 were sedition, treason and domestic terrorism — and those individuals involved in the insurrection must be held accountable for attempting to subvert our democratic process,” Fried said.
“Since charges began being filed, we are using our lawful authority to immediately suspend the licenses of 22 individuals involved in the storming of the U.S. Capitol. This is an ongoing effort, and as charges and sentences continue in the wake of this attack, we will further suspend and revoke any additional licenses granted to insurrectionists.”
Why does the Agriculture Commissioner have that power?
Oh…The Division of Licensing falls under the jurisdiction of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Man have legislatures wholly fucked up everything.
Just another reminder that constitutional rights should never require permission from petty tyrants.
Just another reminder that constitutional rights should never require permission from petty tyrants.
Why the fuck is the Agriculture Commissioner involved with CCW permits?
Because politicians have made the leviathan impossible to track or kill when they tuck licensing under some weird, unrelated department. It gives the governor/legislature space to campaign “wasn’t me!” and probably makes it impossible for the people to fight it.
Geldingadalir went quiet again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWXWqbEmWXE
Drugs fell out…
Something fell out of Biden while he was boarding Air Force One today
Churn, baby, churn
The U.S. economy rose at a disappointing rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday in a sign that the U.S. has escaped the shackles of the Covid-19 pandemic but still has more work to do.
Gross domestic product, a measure of all goods and services produced during the April-to-June period, accelerated 6.5% on an annualized basis. That was slightly better than the 6.3% gain in the first quarter, which was revised down narrowly.
While that would have been strong prior to the pandemic, the gain was considerably less than the 8.4% Dow Jones estimate.
Gross private domestic investment fell 3.5% as declines in private inventory and residential investment held back gains. Rising imports and a 5% decline in the rate of federal government spending, despite the ballooning budget deficit, also were factors, the Bureau of Economic Analysis report said.
Declining govt spending? WTF?
Despite the ballooning deficit. They figured out how to make money evaporate without even allowing the crumbs to reach the people they have authorized to engage in grifting. There’s nothing they can’t do.
Fixed that for them.
The effects of the actual virus on the economy (deaths, absenteeism for people who are actually sick, etc) would have been statistically insignificant.
The personal savings rate dropped sharply, tumbling to $1.97 trillion from $4.1 trillion in the previous period.
The headline gain was a yardstick for how far the economy has come from the shutdowns imposed during the early days of the pandemic, when governments across the country halted large swaths of economic activity to combat Covid.
How did that get past the editors at the MSNBC business channel?
81 million totally legitimate votes…
Trump Supporters wave middle finger as President Biden leaves Mack Truck in Macungie Township #HappeningNow
Biden Supporters are welcoming the president across the street
It is always nice to receive a warm reception.
God Bless (some) Americans
This genuinely lifted my spirit.
Now that the mask retardation is coming back in style, here is a product recommendation
https://www.minimallycompliantmasks.com/product-page/colored-cotton-gauze-size-small
Ah man..I was hoping it was a cotton ball with a head strap
They have comically non-compliant ones that look like fishnet, too.
I have the gauze one. It’s not as “breathable” as I would like but it’s better than the usual alternatives.
it’s the best option if you’re looking for camouflage.
The getunmask.com products are actually comfortable (for a mask at least)
No more Kodak for me.
They deleted the work of a photographer on their sharing site. The photos were of the Uighur region in China and its decades long metamorphosis.
They replace the photos with “No political content allowed.”
But on their Chinese social media sites, Kodak put this message out.
For a long time, Kodak has maintained a good relationship with the Chinese government and has been in close cooperation with various government departments. We will continue to respect the Chinese government and the Chinese law.
We will keep ourselves in check and correct ourselves, taking this as an example of the need for caution.
Today I Learned … Kodak is still in business.
Totes legit
A federal grand jury charged Nikola founder Trevor Milton with three counts of criminal fraud for lying about “nearly all aspects of the business” to bolster stock sales of the electric vehicle start-up, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan accused the 39-year-old billionaire, who resigned as chairman in September, with two counts of securities fraud, including making false statements about the company, and wire fraud.
They just don’t understand the business model.
I thought lying about “nearly all aspects of the business” was the business model.
Turns out that taking money from dumb govt bureaucrats is also against the law even if it was comically easy.
This may be why Tundra is leaving Maple Grove. Trying to stay a step ahead of the law.
My guess is that this guy must not have donated enough of that money to the right people for them to ignore the theft…
And Tundra? What’cha talking about Your Holiness?
He’s moving to Colorado. Couldn’t take being the second best looking Glib in Maple Grove
Ugh. I have an interview for a position next week, for an agency that wants to make my life a living hell because I am hesitant as a 40-year-old, generally healthy human being from being poked with a EUA experimental drug. Life choices and all.
He is kinda correct but not how he means.
Chuck Todd: “We should have fought back better in the mainstream media. We shouldn’t [have] accepted the premise that there was liberal bias… We bought into the idea that, oh my God, we’re perceived as having a liberal bias.”
Your bias is actually “leftist”, not “liberal”.
“Bias” is the wrong word. “Bias” implies good faith. A better word is “agenda”.
^^^HE GETS IT^^^
/did I get the pronoun right your squatyness?
CANCEL THIS MAN
Not satire
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberal-feels-sad-for-man-dying-of-covid-then-happy-after-hearing-he-wasnt-vaccinated-then-sad-again-because-he-was-an-illegal-immigrant
The happy again because he was a Cuban Republican. Then sad again because he was black. Then happy again because he was a gun owner. Then sad again because he was gay. Then happy again because he was…
Another mind-numbing show we are watching: Z Nation. Actually having fun with it be here are some things I noticed, and are…eerie given it ran from 2014-2018
“New Normal” was strewn throughout the show regarding the awaiting for a zombie vaccine. Another is in the area where the rich and powerful have disappeared to there are signs everywhere that say “The Reset is Coming”
Either the writers have their ear to the ground or SyFy channel is a propaganda tool for the global elites. Also lots of easter eggs and homages to a slew of pop culture.
“Milton’s scheme targeted individual, non-professional investors — so-called retail investors — by making false and misleading statements directly to the investing public through social media, and television, print and podcast interviews,” according to the 49-page indictment.
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“We remain committed to our previously announced milestones and timelines and are focused on delivering Nikola Tre battery-electric trucks later this year from the company’s manufacturing facilities,” the company said.
Many of the allegations regarding false and misleading statements were uncovered by short-seller Hindenburg Research.
In a report in September, Hindenburg accused Milton of making false statements about Nikola’s technology in order to grow the company and partner with auto companies. The report, titled “Nikola: How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in America,” was released two days after the company announced a deal with General Motors that sent both companies’ shares soaring. The short-seller characterized Nikola as an “intricate fraud built on dozens of lies” by Milton.
Following an internal investigation, Nikola said in February that it found Milton made several inaccurate statements from 2016 through the company’s IPO that misled investors.
Short sellers, man.
We need to sic the shorts on Foochy and friends. The analytical model is exactly what is needed here.
Vaccines now! Vaccines FOREVER!
“The big concern is the next variant that might emerge,” Walensky said.
@CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky said her biggest concern is that the #CCPVirus may be “just a few mutations” away from being able to evade #Vaccines.
It is almost like respiratory illnesses (cold/flu) mutate constantly and this has been a known quantity in the study of such illnesses for quite a long time. ///NoCureForTheCommonCold
We apparently have forgotten that a vaccine for a human coronavirus has never been successfully done for a reason.
Ah, see you included that at the end 😉
Liez! There is a cure for the common cold – CYBERLUNGS!
You can’t infect the respiratory tract if it’s not organic.
*taps temple*
Oh, I should keep that around as an advert in one of the stories I’m working on. It totally fits the aesthetic.
Exactly. I must have have every cold bug around when I was a little kid. And when I worked in a support role with shared telephones.
Amazingly I only get a cold once or rarely twice a year. (And I haven’t had an honest dizzy/throw up flu since 1996!)
Mutations are part of _science_ I mean nature.
*I now only get a cold
We bought into the idea that, oh my God, we’re perceived as having a liberal bias.
Perceived. How do we educate the rubes into perceiving our bias as the true center-moderate truth?
@CDCDirector Dr. Rochelle Walensky said her biggest concern is that the #CCPVirus may be “just a few mutations” away from being able to evade #Vaccines.
I am far from knowledgeable, but isn’t that an obvious and inevitable risk with a narrowly tailored vaccine?
Here’s a random question from left field. Is there such a thing as a cigarette lighter power cord for laptops?
Would a usb power adapter work?
Worth a try.
Now that I think about it, it probably depends on whether the power cord has the big black converter box on it or if it takes power through a USB port without the converter box. If it has the box, I think it probably will need to be plugged into a 120 outlet.
You will probably have to get a DC to AC converter and then you should be able to.
an inverter that is.
There should be. Granted this was over 10 years ago, but I used to have a Lenovo laptop that came with a “normal” power supply and also a car one with the adapter you are looking for.
I use an inverter
I use a flux capacitor.
Back in 2015, Ford was selling them for 1.21 gigadollars.
Are you looking to power the laptop from a cigarette lighter, or to provide an outlet to plug in a cigarette lighter cable into? I know for desktops there used to be bay inserts you could hook up that provided a cigarette lighter outlet and a drink holder (since it had the extra space).
Wouldn’t it be nice if manufacturers provided a 120 VAC outlet instead of cigarette lighter ports?
I’ve got one in my FJ Cruiser. Standard equipment.
Maybe they’ll be standard by the time I replace the car. They clearly saw the need. They put in a second port for the back seats.
I have both.
Update from the front lines:
During the winter spike, we had over 180 COVID patients in the house. We got down to one or two in May, then started seeing a bump in early June to 12 or thereabouts. It declined again, and bumped again in July to 20. Its back down to 15 now. The bumps track fairly well with Memorial Day and Independence Day. Since we seem to have rolled over again, I’m thinking we are already on the downside of the Delta (Delta is for D, D is for DEATH) variant as a serious health problem. Not sure how many deaths we have had, but I suspect its no more than a handful.
I was informed by the TEEVEE that this was the deadliest thing ever. Yet, it is all on the word that the CDC and WH said that.
apropos of nothing I really think if someone quickly deletes a tweet, it shouldn’t be screenshotted and shared like… just let it die, you know? no? no one else agree?
https://twitter.com/FloraEGill/status/1420753165008334864
Favorite reply:
“OK, groomer.”
A random not-anger-inducing vignette:
The other day, I saw what appeared to be a Ducati supermoto bike parked at the curb.
It was the first time in years I have seen a motorcycle which actually made me say to myself (however fleetingly) “I want one of those.”
eytalians cant make bikes good.
Va a fare un culo!
My now departed-from-this-world friend bought a Moto Guzzi race bike, with race tires. And proceeded to drive it all the way back from the Detroit dealership in the pouring rain. Billie always a bit uhm suicidal (which was the ultimate rifle inflicted method of his death).
Reasonably foreseen criminal activity?
I’m sure the same legal firm would have gladly taken Aranda’s case of racial discrimination and profiling by the MOA security officers if they had followed him closely everywhere he went.
Damned if you do….
Also: You sue the people with money..
Depending on just what his history of violent conduct at the mall was, I can see some merit. At some point, you just trespass someone and tell them they aren’t allowed on your property. Hell, I work in frickin’ hospital, and we do it routinely. We’ve never had any legal pushback.
Now, the mall can’t be expected to know his criminal history – they don’t run background checks on every person who comes through the doors.
LOL ‘duty to protect.’
They aren’t suing the cops/city/county, who the courts have released from any such duty. They are suing the mall and its employed/contracted security. Not sure if the courts have ruled on this issue or not.
The actual innards of the laptop are like 5V DC, right? There were guys in the pit lane who ran their laptops off batteries, but I don’t remember if they had to do something radical.
*looks at power supply*
The power supply box says 19v; I thought it was 12, so maybe the 12v car battery won’t work.
You’re probably going to need an inverter if it’s 19v. My buddy charges his on his motorcycle, but it’s a 13.5v laptop.
You’re probably going to need an inverter if it’s 19v. My buddy charges his on his motorcycle, but it’s a 13.5v laptop.
Are you looking to power the laptop from a cigarette lighter
Yes. The battery in my laptop lasts just about long enough to power it up without needing to be plugged into the wall.
You’ll need an inverter and to use your 19v power supply. Beyond that you’d need to get experimental and dangerous.
+ 1 grenaded laptop
As far as the usb power adapter, I don’t know if the laptop will accept power IN via usb, or only send power out.
No, laptops will not accept power in via USB. They only send it out.
Some newer laptops will draw power from a USB 3.2 connector.
I’m going to have to see some documentation on that.
You’ll need an inverter and to use your 19v power supply. Beyond that you’d need to get experimental and dangerous.
In that case… wish me luck.
12 VDC inverter available at any truckstop. This produces 110 AC. Plug your standard PC power cord into the inverter. Wasteful, but it will work.
I do this all the time when camping.
Gracias, UCS.
That’s what I figured.
Just read the DOJ memo clearing the way for employers to mandate an EUA vaccine. In a nutshell, the FDA statute requires that there be “an option to accept or refuse” an EUA drug, which has always seemed a very poor fit with an employer mandate.
The DOJ proclaims that the option to accept or refuse doesn’t apply to individual patients at all, but to the organizations administering EUA treatments. If that seems like total gibberish to you, that’s because it is.
I figured it would be tortured logic, but wow….
Your employer has signed you up for a kidney donation.
The DOJ proclaims that the option to accept or refuse doesn’t apply to individual patients at all, but to the organizations administering EUA treatments. If that seems like total gibberish to you, that’s because it is.
The organization is free to decide whether or not to force you.
Sound about right.
Thank [insert deity/demon of choice] we no longer have to worry about the politicization of the DOJ.
SCIENCE be praised.