Amazon’s Answer to Delivery Driver Shortage: Recruit Pot Smokers
Amazon.com Inc. has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers: Recruit pot smokers.
The company is advising its delivery partners — the mom and pops that operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon vans — to prominently advertise that they don’t screen applicants for marijuana use, according to correspondence reviewed by Bloomberg and interviews with four business owners.
Doing so can boost the number of job applicants by as much as 400%, Amazon says in one message, without explaining how it came up with the statistic. Conversely, the company says, screening for marijuana cuts the prospective worker pool by up to 30%.
One delivery partner, who stopped screening applicants at Amazon’s behest, says marijuana was the prevailing reason most people failed drug tests. Now that she’s only testing for drugs like opiates and amphetamines, more drivers pass.
Majority of Interpreters, Other U.S. Visa Applicants Were Left Behind in Afghanistan
The U.S. left behind the majority of Afghan interpreters and others who applied for visas to flee Afghanistan, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, despite frantic efforts to evacuate those at risk of Taliban retribution in the final weeks of the airlift.
In the early days of the evacuation effort, thousands of Afghans crowded Kabul’s airport seeking a way to flee the country. Some made it through without paperwork, while American citizens and visa applicants were unable to enter.
The U.S. still doesn’t have reliable data on who was evacuated, nor for what type of visas they may qualify, the official said, but initial assessments suggested most visa applicants didn’t make it through the crush at the airport.
“I would say it’s the majority of them,” the official said. “Just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.”
New York City apartment enforces “no pets” policy by evicting 80-pound cougar
Somehow, despite last year giving us an entire documentary series that clearly shows owning exotic animals never ends well, people are still out there trying to keep big cats as pets. And, even worse, some are even trying to pull this off while living in a New York City apartment.
NPR reports that an 80-pound, 11-month-old cougar named Sasha was “removed from a New York City apartment where she was being kept illegally as a pet” last Thursday after her owners realized that having an increasingly large, increasingly ferocious wild animal in their Bronx home probably isn’t a great idea.
A Humane Society Of The United States director described taking the cougar away and “the heartbreak of owners, like in this case, [surrendering a big cat] after being sold not just a wild animal, but a false dream that they could make a good ‘pet.’” (We must also assign some blame here to that peddler of cat-related fantasies, Bill Watterson.)
The Humane Society worked with the NYPD, New York’s Department Of Environmental Conservation, and the Bronx Zoo to remove the cougar from the apartment and bring her to the zoo’s veterinarians. After spending the weekend there, Sasha’s on to her next stop: Arkansas’ Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge.
A Fairy Tale That Hollywood Didn’t Need to Modernize
Despite the modern dialogue and contemporary soundtrack, Cinderella is set in some vaguely defined, medieval fantasy kingdom ruled by a surly king (played by Pierce Brosnan), his wise queen (Minnie Driver), and their ne’er-do-well son, Prince Robert (Nicholas Galitzine). The setting is little more than an opportunity for Cannon, who wrote the Pitch Perfect movies and directed the uproariously sweet Blockers, to dole out easy criticisms of feudalism in the name of female agency. Why is Robert in line to inherit the throne when his sister, Princess Gwen (Tallulah Greive), is the one pestering her dad about tax reform and public-works projects? Why should the grumpy king make all the decisions when his wife is far more levelheaded?
And then there’s Cinderella herself (Camila Cabello). No longer a mere prisoner of her nasty stepmother (Idina Menzel) awaiting salvation at the hands of her beloved prince, this Cinderella is a strong, business-minded dressmaker who wants to work in high fashion. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with giving her greater aspirations than marrying into royalty, but the movie forgets to add anything beyond these career goals. The character may embody a new value system—one that refutes the stuffy traditionalism of past adaptations—but she’s as one-dimensional as ever. What should be a triumphant piece of storytelling renovation instead comes across as deeply cynical, given the character’s lack of depth.
This is not to say that any other character is more fully developed. In case any ensemble member’s motivations aren’t readily apparent, each gets a pop song that lays out exactly what they’re thinking. Prince Robert sings “Somebody to Love,” by Queen, because he’s looking for somebody to love. The wicked stepmother belts out “Material Girl,” by Madonna, because she’s a bit of a material girl (living, of course, in a material world). The hardworking townspeople perform Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” because, well, they work in rhythm, I suppose. Nothing thematically links any of the songs that were chosen to knit this film into a musical; an Ed Sheeran number co-exists on the soundtrack with an Earth, Wind & Fire anthem. They’re all just loosely appropriate for the moment at hand.
This is not the First that will change the world. It is just a prelude. A shadow on the cave wall of what is to come.
You’re lucky I was on the wrong keyboard, Bro
You’re so cool. I wish I was cool like you.
He probably thinks this tread is about him.
What!?
“One delivery partner, who stopped screening applicants at Amazon’s behest, says marijuana was the prevailing reason most people failed drug tests. Now that she’s only testing for drugs like opiates and amphetamines, more drivers pass.”
In my experience, it would be better if they were on amphetamines.
I for one cant wait to get all my amazon purchases for free because everything delivered smells like weed.
“Amazon.com Inc. has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers: Recruit pot smokers.”
Note to self: do NOT order Cheez Doodles from Amazon.
I was thinking that Amazon may want to put measures in place to prevent them from delivering grocery orders. They might experience a little shrinkage.
Obligatory
Heh, maybe they’ll offer you a job.
Nah, sounds like they are recruiting CURRENT pot smokers. OTOH, I’d be a good diversity hire.
“a senior State Department official said on Tuesday”
Have you noticed that newspapers are the opposite of Cheers?
But is he familiar with Biden’s thinking?
Biden is not familiar with Biden’s thinking.
LOL
Youre giving el presidente biden too much credit
George Wendt walks through the door :
“Afternoon, everybody.”
*confused murmuring*
Somehow, despite last year giving us an entire documentary series that clearly shows owning exotic animals never ends well, people are still out there trying to keep big cats as pets
I figured this was going to be one of the gawker sites, the condescending millennial style fits them.
“Arkansas’ Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge”
Toluene Creek was already taken?
The cat will stay at Toluene Creek-ro, but only tri night-ro.
What you just did was noted in an ocular capacity.
Dimethyl ketone Run was too wordy on the map.
Yuck, yet another hackneyed live action remake of a classic, this time with a heaping helping of woke? Hard pass.
What? They didn’t make Cinderella trans? Someone should be cancelled for that.
[golf clap]
Looks like the fairy godmother is fulfilling the modern interpretation of the descriptor.
Billy Porter demonstrates if you stick to a schtick in Hollywood long enough, they’ll start catering to it soon enough.
Dom DeLuise and Harvey Fierstein heartily agree.
I was expecting the article to be from Jezebel. It looks like The Atlantic is on their tail.
“Cinderella is a strong, business-minded dressmaker who wants to work in high fashion”
So who cleans the fireplace?
Cinderconsuela.
Fookin’ perfect.
Emberella.
Obviously a bitter-clinging white supremacist good for nothing but manual labor. Is Dick VanDyke available?
What are you talking about? I just remember a guy from that movie with the most authentic Cockney accent imaginable.
Humanity now has access to the greatest works of art of all different kinds ever created literally in the palm of their hands. What do we use this power for? Watching cat videos.
That was a great cat video! Way better than the daily news feeds, for sure
Believe me, I say this as one of the hoi pilloi. I claim no moral high ground here. Just an observation.
Noted. Anyhow, looks like Amazon has laid claim to the moral high ground.
It is the only way to expose their evil plans of world domination though…so I call it balance.
Why I should never be in management, reason #4379:
One of my bosses is out this week, and I’m covering one teeny aspect of her job while she’s gone. The task I’m covering gives me an overview into what everyone is working on, and whether they’re working on it. I see all the work that’s not getting done and it drives me up a fucking wall.
It’s still not my place to get out the cattle prod on these people – that’s our Big Boss’s job, but fuckin-a. Dealing with the lazy & incompetent must be one of the worst parts of managing people.
(for example, I was instructed to send tickets for one of our web sites to a specific person, and I found out today, when the customer followed up, that he didn’t even look at the tickets that were assigned to him.)
I’m getting the hang of managing people, I think.
What model cattle prod do you use?
CorCraft.
They make a lot of stuff for the state.
Does managing orphans count?
Nah, the approach is entirely different.
It can suck, but if you make good hiring decisions in the first place, you have less BS to deal with later.
The person that failed to look at his tickets is someone I’ve worked with for about 18 years. I’m pretty shocked. No idea if he normally requires follow-up & hands-on management because I ain’t the boss of him. But damn, dude.
Could it be a case of “cat’s away, mouse will play?”
…in government?!
That is the benefit I have because not everyone knows radar or electronics so we usually have a stream of military trained technicians. Makes for hiring mostly quality techs that can work independantly. Of course, any of the new crop that will be getting out after their 4/6 year stint might be not so great at that.
It can suck, but if you make good hiring decisions in the first place, you have less BS to deal with later.
Yup. I’ve told my boss “I do 90% of my managing when I decide who to hire”.
It’s why I drink.
Well…partly.
*points at Sean’s avatar*
As long as the drivers aren’t high on the job, who cares at this point.
The sneaking suspicion that someone, somewhere may be having a good time?
/anecdotally, it’s not just Amazon fulfillment making this same change to testing policies.
I would have loved, loved, loved to not having my drivers worry about THC testing back when I was a Trans Super. But, if they have a CDL it has nothing to do with me, that is all DMV. I did have one driver, my star Jamaican known as the Predator, get pulled two weeks in a row. The shop steward flipped out, trying to make a racism case, but I could just point too fed and state regs and laugh. The Predator was cool with it, as he knew the score.
Might this explain why my Amazon order the other day was *a little* off?
Ordered: LED light strip
Received: 1 bag of twenty-five child’s size N95 masks.
Pretty sure the mix-up happened at the Amazon fulfilment center because the shipping label was from the right vendor, but still.
“child’s size N95 masks”
Because they can get into crawl spaces?
It just occurred to me that one of the orphans must have got hold of my cell phone and found the Amazon app. What do they need PPE for anyway, working in the laundry? They have literally several years left ahead of them before they’re sent to the mines.
“Psaki refuses to discuss leaked call with ex-Afghan president and REPEATS claim ‘no one anticipated’ rapid Taliban takeover: Republicans tear into Biden for ‘lying to the world’ after transcript release”
She psucks.
“Mitch McConnell says Biden WON’T be impeached over his disastrous Afghan exit and the bombshell Ghani call and believes the ‘ballot box’ is the best way to hold him accountable”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9948221/Mitch-McConnell-says-Biden-WONT-impeached-disastrous-Afghan-exit.html
They don’t have enough votes even if he tried.
” ‘ballot box’ is the best way to hold him accountable”
That depends on who is doing the stuffing and counting.
Oh, but just imagine the impact, the lulz, of having Joe testify.
I don’t think he would have to testify. I don’t think Trump did.
McConnell is right. A lie to the general public is not impeachable. Both sides need to stop gunning for impeachment just because it may be an option.
I think impeachment should happen a lot. Not for the stupid political reasons we had the last go-round, but the number of times any of the elected officials fuck off and go outside their lane ie constitutional violations should be punished. Judges especially.
Violation of their oath of office should be an impeachable offense and enforced.
Any judge that enforced ObamaCare should be impeached, for example. There is no constitutional authority to force Americans to buy health insurance. None.
Furthermore, as a tax, ObamaCare was not originated in the House as required in the US Constitution. Roberts and all majority justices should be impeached for that reason.
In govt, you can talk about unconstitutional things and try to get them into an amended constitution but if you violate the relatively few things the Constitution limits, you should be out of govt service.
#1 thing bureaucrats and politicians need to abide by is that unless there is an enumerated power to do something government cannot do it. PERIOD.
Mess with INTRASTATE commerce…NOPE. the federal government has zero authority.
el presidente Biden cant be impeached. Impeachment of a president of United States is spelled out in the US Constitution. Democrats are not following the US Constitution. Democrats are in charge of their banana republic, not the United States of America.
Its America vs Lefty banana republic
Civil War 2.0 is upon us and sooner Americans accept this fact, the quicker we can get this all over with.
“President Joe Biden has condemned a new Texas law banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected that went into effect on Wednesday -sparking women to scramble for 11th hour terminations before midnight.
The legislation, signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in May, would prohibit abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which is typically in the first six weeks and before most women even know they’re pregnant.
The law also allows private citizens, rather than government officials, to enforce the law by suing anyone involved in the procedure from an abortion clinic to someone driving a woman to a procedure appointment.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9947155/CDC-tells-unvaccinated-Americans-not-travel-Labor-Day-weekend.html
Funny, I just heard about this now.
11th hour terminations before midnight.
Wouldn’t those be 23rd hour terminations?
“USA gymnastics offers $425million settlement to 500 of pedophile doctor Larry Nassar’s victims – but doesn’t have enough money in the bank to pay”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9947799/USA-gymnastics-offers-425million-settlement-500-pedophile-doctor-Larry-Nassars-victims.html
Five Hundred?! Is he half sasquatch or something?
SURGEON SMITH?
Just what we need, another cryptid.
OK, an average of $850,000 each for touching private parts. How do gynecologists manage to survive without being suing into oblivion? Yeah, the patient knows what is coming and agrees to it, but still.
Yeah, the patient knows what is coming and agrees to it, but still.
But still what? One is doing a legitimate examination, the other was getting his jollies digitally penetrating 14-20 year old girls while acting as a general physician.
Sometimes this place gets a bit close to “teenage girls deserve to be molested” for my comfort.
Yeah I wasn’t sure what creech was getting at with that.
I’d interpret it as scorn for the unquestionable truth that “having your hooha touched is the worst thing that can ever happen to you and ruins your life forever and thus no monetary amount can ever be sufficient compensation.”
I’d be curious what the “right number” is for fingerbanging a 14 year old under the guise of a medical procedure. $20, same as downtown?
More or less than a random punch in the nose from a stranger?
More like “is the difference worth $850K” instead of a slap, a scream, and immediate repercussions for the asshole doctor.
slap, a scream, and immediate repercussions for the asshole doctor.
A slap for molesting a child? Seriously? An appropriate response for child molestation is a lethal dose of lead poisoning.
If we are going to let the justice system handle punishment for child molesters instead of the parents, then they should be utterly destroyed as well as any person or organization enabling them.
It’s beyond just garden variety molestation. He used his position of authority to convince the girls that his molestation was actually a legitimate and necessary medical procedure.
And to threaten their positions on teams if they complained – trouble makers, you know. Or paint them as emotionally disturbed.
Fuck off with your “it wasn’t that bad” bullshit Creech.
Sorry, I was under impression doc just touched the kids not penetrated. I knew a guy whose priest touched his crouch area when he was a kid. He told his parents, parents went in and had a come to Jesus with the priest. That was (apparent) end of that. The guy later found out the priest had touched one of his buddies the year before and the buddy told the priest to knock it off and he did. But a couple years ago the buddy had a lawyer file charges and got $135,000 from the diocese (Pittsburgh).
They didn’t call him Larry “Triple Twist” Nassar for nuthin’
Imagine being the man responsible for single-handedly destroying America’s gymnastics program for the next couple decades. Was it worth it, Larry?
Apparently the year it took for the incredibly efficient Department of Homeland Security to give me my “Trusted Traveler” status is about to pay off – TSA Pre Check, here I come!
Yay.
Before you know it, it’ll be time to apply for the renewal.
*polishes off DOT badge* Pre-check? What is that for?
/disclaimer I have never falsified my position within the DOT to gain anything. If someone wants to make assumptions, I just don’t correct them.
Congratulations! Just don’t get caught traveling on holidays – you know, when most people would actually want to travel.
I normally don’t, not even for Christmas, but my brother’s brother is visiting, so I thought I would bit the bullet. Plus I really need to GTFO.
We had a sales manager who needed to get one of those. Apparently he shared the name of an IRA financier and kept getting pulled aside by TSA.
Seamus O’Smugglerhan?
I didn’t want to dox the guy. But yes.
I like the CLEAR Pass. It isn’t in a lot of airports, but is in most of the airports I frequent. It’s also at many sports stadiums.
I had CLEAR for a year starting from December 2019. Well… But even during the first three months CLEAR never saved me any time because the TSA Pre Check lines were short or non-existent. Also CLEAR machines took forever to recognize my fingerprints, I had to wait until it would switch to iris scan. The last time I heard about CLEAR, it was going to be a partner of the NY vaccine passport program.
And then you learned about body thetans?
Sports stadiums? Of what use would it be there?
You just walk in without going through metal detectors
Oh, I haven’t been to a game or a concert in so long I forgot they did that.
“Patriots coach Bill Belichick DENIES Cam Newton’s surprise cut from team was because he’s not vaccinated – and scolds reporter for implying injection ‘solves every problem’ for players”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9947189/Patriots-coach-Bill-Belichick-DENIES-Cam-Newton-cut-hes-not-vaccinated.html
Was it because he’s gay?
He refused to cheat?
His balls were fully inflated?
Newton signed a reported one-year, $5 million contact with the team in March after going 7-8 as a starter in 2020 while throwing more interceptions (10) than touchdowns (eight).
It couldn’t have been for this.
Called some girl a “fat pig” back in grade school?
That was Alec Baldwin.
Cam and Alec went to school together?
Well, there’s a reason he’s not going to say the vaccination status was responsible.
Something tells me that when push comes to shove this does not apply to the biggest moneymakers.
“COVID infections driven by Delta appear to have peaked in US amid speculation that it has followed the same two month pattern as other variants which rise for eight weeks, then fall”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9947233/COVID-infections-driven-Delta-appear-peaked-analysis-two-month-pattern.html
I remember when this was a full article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farr's_laws Now it’s just a stub.
What’s next, the DeSantis Variant, the Texas variant, the Fauci variant? Some new “more contagious and deadly than Jan. 6th insurrection” variant will show up around Halloween and destroy civil society for the holidays.
The WHO just announced a Mu variant.
Just what we need. A mad cow disease/coronavirus hybrid.
Neil Ferguson salivates…
Watch the price of beef and milk shoot through the roof, like lumber did.
Meaty, beaty, big, and bouncy!
Omega Mu?
Yet Illinois is back to masks and a bunch of northeast states are obviously gearing up for more theater as soon as we get past Labor Day.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9947023/Demi-Rose-leaves-little-imagination-poses-barely-illusion-swimsuit-Capri.html
Nope. Cheeky!
LOL “protect her modesty.” Probably in Capri to meet up with the former president of Afghanistan.
I wish her no ill will. She need to start doing squats.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Alan_S_Hale/status/1433117525819203585
Sure….
Fuck you Doug. Wrong kid died…
Welp, I can work from anywhere. Which state should I move to, fellow Glibbies?
Dunno, but I’m headed for SD ASAP.
Summer in SD might be fine. But if imma get out of Ontario for the winter, I’d rather go somewhere warm.
Texas has hot and dry as well as hot and humid. Florida just has hot & humid. Southern Utah is nice, I hear.
? Won’t you be my neighbor ?
My neighbor
Ok. Sean wants to kill and eat me. Right.
CASCADIA. STEVE SMITH SAY HI.
Serious question?
Yes.
In the words of Lauren Chen: “Why am I funding my own oppression?”
Didn’t know you were entitled to US residency, but good to hear.
Easy question. Florida.
“Aurora´s highly critical review did not find any evidence to justify officers stopping McClain as he walked home from the store on Aug. 24, 2019, after a 911 caller had reported a man wearing a ski mask and waving his hands who seemed ‘sketchy.’ His family said McClain wore the mask because he had anemia that caused him to get cold easily.
Police body camera video shows an officer getting out of his car, approaching McClain on the sidewalk and saying, ‘Stop right there. Stop. Stop … I have a right to stop you because you´re being suspicious.’
In the video, the officer puts his hand on McClain´s shoulder and turns him around and repeats, ‘Stop tensing up.’ As McClain verbally protests, the officer says, ‘Relax, or I´m going to have to change this situation.’ As the other officers join in to restrain McClain, he asks them to let go and says, ‘You guys started to arrest me, and I was stopping my music to listen.’
What happened next isn´t clear because all of the officers’ body cameras come off as they move McClain to the grass, but the officers and McClain can still be heard. An officer says McClain grabbed one of their guns. McClain can be heard trying to explain himself and sometimes crying out or sobbing. He says he can´t breathe and was just on his way home.
‘I´m just different. I´m just different, that´s all. That´s all I was doing. I´m so sorry. I have no gun. I don´t do that stuff. I don´t do any fighting. Why were you attacking me? I don´t do guns. I don´t even kill flies. I don´t eat meat. … I am a vegetarian,’ he said.
One officer eventually retrieves his camera, which shows McClain handcuffed, laying on his side and periodically vomiting as another officer leans on him. An officer who arrived later threatened to get his police dog to bite McClain.
Paramedics arrived and injected the 140-pound McClain with 500 milligrams of ketamine – more than 1 1/2 times the dose for his weight.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9947827/Elijah-McClain-investigation-announcement-expected.html
WTF??
He said the word gun. Totality of circs yada yada yada.
Sorry for the wall of text, but three cops can’t subdue an unarmed 140lb. guy without killing him?
They wanted to kill him.
They want the escalation.
They get their rocks off better that way.
He was a yogi — he kept slipping out of their holds.
So, you are saying they made a Booboo?
Cases like this that actually call for protests are greeted with silence. Cause you know, Biden is president now and the top (white) men who really run BLM haven’t given the marching orders.
There was quite a bit of protesting over this one. And trashing of buildings, too.
But yeah, not nationally.
It’s a demoralization tactic. Kelly Thomas, McClain, and Tamir Rice where clear cut cases of police brutality towards innocent victims while Freddie Grey, Jacob Blake, and Michael Brown while probably didn’t deserve the harsh treatment that they received from the police, weren’t completely innocent.
If you protest something that everyone agrees is wrong, you can’t show how morally superior you are to those icky people.
By venerating a (possibly) icky person, you’re demonstrating your team loyalty.
And it causes division. The grifters like BLM worst nightmare is unity because without division, they can’t grift and justify their existence.
It’s the same with feminists and rape. They never pick clear cases.
Saw that earlier on the Facederps. Made my blood boil. It reminded me of Kelly Thomas.
I have not thought about that one for awhile. I don’t know what the final resolution was. It should be [redacted].
a 911 caller had reported a man wearing a ski mask
Wait, I thought we were snitching on the unmasked. No exit, masked or unmasked you will be reported. Sartre would be pleased.
This happened in the Before Times.
I believe it was 1 BC
Holy crap.
Kudos to CO for not only going after the cops but the paramedics too. A cop telling or asking you to inject a drug into a suspect doesn’t relieve you of liability. I’ll bet this prosecution makes every EMT in the state think twice about doing something like this in the future.
That’s not how it works. The paramedics carry Ketamine for just this purpose. They didn’t know what went on before they arrived, other than what the cops told them. No, they need to have the book thrown at them for giving him 1 1/2 times the dose for his size. Sure looks like negligent homicide to me.
Maybe I’m going to sound cynical, but I doubt much will come of this. At least so far, this looks like too straightforward a case of abuse for the BLM crowd to take much interest. I’ve come to the conclusion that, ultimately, they only really want cases where the guy might actually be someone you want police protection from. I know that sounds horrible. But, it really does seem to be the case. They want the controversy. They want to scream that people shouldn’t want protection from bad black people. An actually sympathetic victim has no particular appeal to them.
If they wanted to protest & bring attention to real victims, they would have done that for Aiyana Stanley Jones
all of the officers’ body cameras come off
Stop right there. They all just simultaneously fell on the ground, totally by accident?
C’mon, man.
I’m trying to figure out why a paramedic would think it appropriate to hit someone with Ketamine, or indeed why they would have Ketamine available in the first place…
Human dosage. It’s used to treat Excited Delirium.
War on drugs baby. I shit you not. CO authorizes ketamine because of cops complaining that cocaine suspects had “excited delirium”.
Democrats love them some junk science.
Democrats run colorado and have for years.
https://www.aier.org/article/liberalisms-enemies/
I find this interesting. Up until very recently the notion that American liberal culture could very undermined and this would be bad was considered a literal impossibility.
I like the cat video.
“He was arguing, like most Democratic contenders for the presidency in 2008, that Afghanistan was the good and winnable war, before he turned on it, too, as Obama’s vice president. This clearly made him some enemies in the Obama administration, many of whom are still sniping at him today. Some never forgave his early naivete. “I wish I could say Biden was a student of history and understood how problematic nation-building would be in Afghanistan,” an unidentified former top Obama Pentagon official told the Washington Post earlier this year. “That’s not Biden. He has gut instincts.” Others, such as the late Richard Holbrooke, were dismayed by Biden’s apparent callousness — especially when contrasted with his interventionist instincts in Bosnia. There’s a gripping exchange recorded in Holbrooke’s diaries that’s worth quoting at length:
When I mentioned the women’s issue, Biden erupted. Almost rising from his chair, he said, “I am not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women’s rights, it just won’t work, that’s not what they’re there for.” [. . .] He said it ain’t going to happen, he said I don’t understand politics, he said we’re facing a debacle politically, he said we’re going to lose the presidency in 2012 if unemployment remains high, and Afghanistan was the other issue that could pull us down and we have to be on our way out, that we had to do what we did in Vietnam. This shocked me and I commented immediately that I thought we had a certain obligation to the people who had trusted us. He said, “Fuck that, we don’t have to worry about that. We did it in Vietnam, Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.””
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/joe-bidens-world
Of course. Commie Democrats hate America so siphoning off vast national treasure, wasting brave soldiers, and demoralizing Americans is a perfect strategy to destroy America.
The commies in the USA will never forgive America for undermining USSR communism by supporting the afghanis against the commie russians.
I don’t even know what to say about these people
https://twitter.com/mitchellreports/status/1433101871388971012
So nobody could predict the Taliban would take over so quickly, but we’re supposed to believe they can predict the Taliban will need our help.
They will need our help because we need a fresh grift for the CIA et al.
LOL. Mitchell is paid to signal the Deep State’s intentions. She’s floating the idea because she was told to.
Maybe that is where FEMA will set up the camps.
Jeebus. The guy who has a cartoon avatar of himself wearing a black cloth mask that reads “VOTE” and names himself “Joe Camel is Sick of Anti Vax Idiots”…
The lady who says something about wise allies putting down their swords…
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-why-the-canadian-left-cant-help-but-believe-kooky-theories-about-coded-messages-to-nazis/wcm/48bfa3d7-1c37-4ae0-8d8d-2bda47816b35/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
It is interesting how wokeness rejects the nation state but exalts the state over everything else. Very similar to globalists. This was a bit of a oversight that the “cosmopolitans internationalist liberals” overlooked…
I know that the Yay It’s Sugar Free lady isn’t exactly part of the Women with Knives Series, but she looks like she could be.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1433133717694918662
No.1 on the Freedom Index!
*Kim Jong Un orders Winston’s death*
Is that OUR scruffy on the thread?
Is he a kiwi who supports lockdowns?
That’s my twin brother. He’s a bit of an asshole.
“… 80 pound cougar…”
That is odd, most of the cougars I have met are pushing two bills, easy.
You need to find better bars.
Or do I…?
One can always use a good mauling with someone above their weight class.
Curious as to why the NYPD needed to be involved.
They’ve gotten tired of shooting dogs?
You must be hanging out with Tres Cool.
Hi there !
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/9/1/chinas-pupils-get-schooled-in-xi-jinping-thought
Free Trade will liberate China. And what sort of liberal values were supposed to be rubbed off from Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg and Robert Reich?
CCP: Bans video games, requires kids to be lectured about how great Xi is.
China is over by 2035.
Interesting to see if this plays out. The Chicoms don’t give a shit unlike our elites but China is a lot more fragile than the West…
I agree that commie control of china is fragile but be wary of desperate commies trying to maintain power.
They sometimes lash out and attack other nations.
“A Chrome browser extension called “Is This Racist?” makes it easy to see whether progressive rhetoric is actually illiberal, based on a simple, empathy-based premise: Consider how it would sound if the races were swapped”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/is-that-progressive-idea-actually-racist-browser-extension-find-out
This thing is hilarious!
LOL
If it worked it would be hilarious. On Brave, it changes white to black. As in, it makes the background black. With black text. Actually, that is pretty funny.
Why is it that physical and mental health concerns are what is destroying freedom? It was assumed that this couldn’t happen since prosperity would lead to better mental and physical health and people would be more prosperous if happy and healthy and better mental and physical health would reduce oppression.
Decadence
Got to sting considering how long the reactionaries have been attacking Western Decadence.
And fear.
What about surprise and ruthless efficiency?
Humans require some level of fear. We really don’t know how to function without it.
Unfortunately, politicians and governments understand this quite well.
“On Consent:
4300+ x men gave me $ for sex.
Not a single one asked “do you consent/want to have sex with me?” BEFORE the “session”.
Those men didn’t ask us about our autonomy level.
Consent is ASSUMED because of our being found in a brothel/hotel & is a piss poor indicator.”
https://twitter.com/heinzsight2020/status/1431673324921245696
“Former Brothel Owner/Escort/Domme – 7 years in the Sex Trade. Feminist, Writer, Speaker, Abolitionist. ”
I can’t even.
Mentally ill. “Take my money or I’ll fuck you any way!”
Much better.
$$$ for cooch, it’s a time honored tradition and, yes, acceptance of payment is implied consent. That bitch is just another con artist and pimp only this time she’s pimping supposed victimhood.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1432471333712105480
Climate lockdowns are coming…
This was already known, they’ve been pleasuring themselves to the prospect of climate lockdowns ever since this started. He really is a unique sack of dog shit and I feel sorry for Canadians.
So, communism. Daddy would be so proud.
Elections are in three weeks. We’ll see what Canadians think of that.
Obnoxious storm warnings hitting our cellphones every 10 minutes.
?
Is an obnoxious storm, like, thousands of Fran Dreschers & Bobcat Goldthwaites falling from the sky?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkYQDzYZ_I
Stay dry. Or, play the round of your life
We throw plastic and we bail for Lightning,
I find that annoying too. It makes an announcement without even answering it.
After edging around NYC all day it’s finally hit us.
Kinky
Locast Suspends Donation Requirement to Stream Local Streaming Service
I’m giving them $5 a month now, I will continue to do so to support them. Hopefully they get enough in donations to keep going.
“PORN SICKO Fury as Pornhub ambassador says she would rape 13-year-old boy and blasts ‘f**k the law’ in sickening unearthed video
A SICK interview has emerged of a Pornhub host claiming that sex with a 13-year-old boy wouldn’t be considered rape as he’d be lucky to sleep with her.
Adult actress Asa Akira made the comments during an interview on a podcast in 2012 hosted by the controversial artist David Choe.
In the shocking excerpt from the interview, Akira and Choe are explaining the moment they invite a young boy to join them in a jacuzzi while at a beach house.
“So we have this great house with this great Jacuzzi where we’re sitting from and we get a great view of these giant waves,” Choe says.
“He’s 13-years-old. He’s psyched because he gets free Pepsi’s. His parents aren’t here.”
Then Akira, a Pornhub ambassador, sickeningly states that she would have raped the boy.
“This 13-year-old I think I would,” she said.
“He wasn’t necessarily an old-looking 13-year-old. You look at him and he’s definitely a child.””
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/16013669/pornhub-host-sex-13-year-old-boy/
Since Rahm Emanual is the amassador to Japan, seems like a fair trade.
13-year-old me would not have had a problem with this.
A friend of mine who’s been to Pornhub before says he’s never heard of her.
I wonder how pornhub’s ambassador program works. It can’t be as whore-ish as how the executive branch of the U.S. government doles out ambassadorships.
Who loves Cat Stevens? I love Cat Stevens! https://youtu.be/YnTDSztjhd0
Heh. Teaser and the Firecat was blaring from every dorm room in 1973. Good times.
Everyone except Salman Rushdie.
So have lockdowns also undermined the theory that corruption is good? Corruption was supposed to free us from government impositions but is instead it is causing more imposition. Corruption was supposed to be within normal parameters.
Also these was the theory that our corrupt hypocritical lying politicians is good since that meant they would not impose liberty killing policies. Whoops. Normal parameters.
What in the hell are you talking about?
Jeff Tucker praising Marion Barry’s corruption?
OMWC defending the Daley machine?
https://www.aier.org/article/a-case-for-corruption/
The idea was that corruption was supposed to save us from the system and allow things to work.
You bit.
The failure of free trade to fix all the problems in the world?
I promised to sell you a widget, not fix your marriage. You need to see the dildo maker for that.
Um plenty of libertarians stated that free trade would liberate China. This was a specific claim that has been proven wrong. Bill Clinton specifically invoked Martin Lee who is in prison right now.
I love the discussions about free trade.
The key is that all trading partners need to play by the same basic rules.
Communist china has literally said they want to spread international communism. That means they want to use free trade against itself and then control all trade.
China is not negotiating trade in good faith.
Using free trade as a weapon turns trade into a zero sum war rather than a transactional tool where the parties get wealthier.
Any interest in a Zoom? I’ll start the Wednesday Glib Zoom at 8pm for those interested.
Yay! Thank you.
P. J. O’Rourke statement about “normal parameters” is the perfect example of why we are in such shit. Yes, our elites are terrible but they won’t do anything that bad because, well they won’t. They are sensible people, because….because….
Things have been good so far and everything will be fine because….
https://www.nj.com/news/2021/08/antivaxmomma-from-nj-accused-of-selling-250-fake-covid-vaccine-cards-prosecutors-say.html
I hate that she called herself an “antivaxxer”. Maybe she is in general, but being against this specific vax and all vaxes is a huge difference. The media is intentionally conflating the two. It’s BS.
Why do you hate the dialectic?
Ya, that one pisses me off too. It is not only the media who pushes that line of thinking unfortunately.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/weather/stories-weather/idas-remnants-flooding-storms-philadelphia/2944797/
Tornados touch down.
We ran out for wings. Roads majorly flooded in spots.
Take care, Ida’s a bitch.
Hoping to fly above the storm?
Please be safe!
We’re pretty much out of harms way at this point.
The drainage basin has turned into a lake though. I hope it doesn’t overflow.
Careful, that sounds rather dangerous.
? Ugh I didn’t know that might be in the cards.
Well, we just got the flash flood warning. Tornado warning in central NJ, where my brother and sister live. Fun night,.
Hope they’re hunkered down in a secure spot! ?
Thanks. Me too.
Yikes!
The rain is here in southern NH.
A flash flood watch is in effect for my area. I doubt I’ll be bothered by it as my house on the high ground in the area.
I read that as tournedos.
I blame you, and your meaty pics for my malapropisms.
My Brother sent me this, Employee of the Month,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5HjQa4pNrioEmUpAA
A little old, but this is confusing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1432868583248379904
Volcano enthusiasts – the fog has cleared for now, and the faf is on the rise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wR6prS9ovY
It’s blank for me but there is audio.
Yeah, the fog came back
A little orange peeking now
Sounds like my redhead ex-wife getting dressed…
Never heard this on ? before. Much better.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_qHU_6Ofc0
That bass caused my left ear canal to shoot it’s load.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/01/chinas-super-rich-the-billionaires-in-communist-partys-sights
Looks like the Chicoms are going after their tech elites. Wonder if Bezos, Bloomberg, Gates and Zuckerberg will start getting cold feet about Chinese-style technocracy?
Only a matter of time before the Chicoms start going after Western businesses in China. That ought to take the bloom off the rose…
Another enlightened technocrat dream destroyed…
I’ve a notion that they fancy themselves untouchable. Maybe.
https://www.aier.org/article/the-woke-business-complex/
Pretty obvious that a key reason for the Sinophilia among our elites is that they allow Western businesses to make tons of money there. That was the problem with Stalin and Mao. Batista and the Shah were good but they got overthrown and were corrupt and incompetent. And Hitler ended up declaring war and banning them…