HOW DARE HE? White supremacist murderer Person on trial for what may turn out to be self-defense displays emotion when testifying at his own trial. The left, predictably, loses its shit. And we all know had he testified impassively he’d have been branded a cold-blooded killer. “Anyone who runs is a VC, anyone who stands his ground is a well-disciplined VC.”
RELATED: The article on “White Girl Tears” from my new favorite resource Translations from the Wokish.
NICE CITY YOU GOT THERE: Peaceful racial justice protesters BLM threatens riots if NY mayor reinstates anti-crime police units. Yes, they actually used the word “riots.”
TEXAS SCHOOL MASK MANDATE BAN OVERTURNED: Federal judge overturns Texas Gov Abbott’s ban on schools requiring masks, cites ADA as justification. Commerce Clause, formerly the darling of federal overreach, pouts.
GREENWALD: Democrats Are Profoundly Committed to Criminal Justice Reform – For Everyone But Their Enemies
HOUSEKEEPING: Shout-out to R. J. and Nephilium for going above and beyond for the website this week. Nephilium for offering to fill-in for R. J. who submitted this weeks GlibFlick from his sickbed. Details in tonight’s GlibFlick. Let’s just say there will be a little something extra in the lads’ pay envelopes this week.
“Anyone who runs is a VC, anyone who stands his ground is a well-disciplined VC.”
You should do a story about me.
How can you shoot women and children?
Easy, you just don’t lead them as much.
Those damn venture capitalists.
We were always looking for this guy named Charlie….
I thought that was terroristic threats.
No, that’s parents who want to speak at school board meetings.
Thread winner.
It is a good thing I’m not a politician in charge of a city or a state like that. My response would be to call up the Guard, any and all police and post notices that rioters and looters would be shot on sight. No coddling these spoiled brats who want to tear down society.
But I’d also be clear *protest* your heart out, mind you. Just be aware of the line.
Rooftop Koreans, bro. Do you even Glib?
I would assume/hope they’ll do them regardless.
Rooftop Koreans is a card in the expansion pack for Problematic Card Pack for “Virtue Signal”.
[EF corrected link with correct name of game]
Friend of Bill
No love for recovering alcoholics?
OMG, OMG, OMG. That game sounds fantastic. I’m ordering it. Please note that DEG linked to an expansion pack, which requires the full game to play.
I have the game along with that expansion pack. I also have the Deplorables expansion.
I backed this project.
I played “Virtual Signal”. It’s a fun game. I haven’t used the Deplorables expansion.
Reminds me of Illuminati.
I played that game. It was fun.
This sounds like a good Christmas gift…
That rooftop Korean? Totally would.
You wouldn’t have to do all of that. Get four of the biggest cops you can find and show up at the DA’s office with a five gallon bucket and a sack of Quikrete.
Slam them down on his desk. “Is it going to be them, or you? Take your pick Cupcake.”
There would be no rioting.
Do any of them have lego set of any prominent locations?
I was thinking Insurrection. Insurrection is bad, right?
Well, it was better than Nemesis but nowhere near as good as First Contact.
Nemesis was a hot mess.
Next thing you know they will be meandering through the state house taking selfies.
The. Horror.
I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity.
Thanks, Tonio!
So I’m looking for a girl with a gun and a job? (And a house… with cable!)
That looks like two Jesuses.
Well, one Jesus and one Hay-soos.
Which one was the child molester? I can’t remember…
Rosenbaum
One on the left has a real “Buddy Christ” vibe, yeah.
If Rittenhouse is convicted, he will likely stop being a right-wing mascot and become a right-wing martyr. If he isn’t convicted, he will set a precedent for others like him to pick up guns they shouldn’t have and thrust themselves into the middle of unrest they should avoid — confident in knowing that prison won’t be in their future.
Isaac Bailey can go fuck himself. I even read the whole thing.
“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, after a heated meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall.
Can’t they all lose?
A federal judge in Texas ruled Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates in schools violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, setting the stage for school districts in the state to decide whether they want to impose mask rules.
Thank you George H. W. Bush for that piece of shit legislation. A part of me wants Texas to ignore the ruling.
I’d like to see Abbott use the National Guard to escort an unmasked child (preferably a black child) to a school with a mask mandate.
Great idea Ted!
Texas Rangers. Using the guard is bad for a number of reasons.
Texas Rangers have more class, anyway.
…but, yeah, that would be awesome. Leftist heads would asplode like the aliens in “Mars Attacks.”
No, they wouldn’t because they wouldn’t understand the symbolism. They would just scream that you are a racist, deplorable bully.
Chuck Norris is the perfect choice.
I was deliberately making a comparison to Little Rock, of course.
Yeah, interesting optics would be had.
Opera clap.
“Today, Abbott used armed goons to force young children of color to attend school in a dangerous manner. Notice how he’s not forcing white children to be exposed to deadly COVID-1865.”
I’m just not sold on the idea that when civil order breaks down, the government fails (again) at its most basic responsibility, and mobs are running rampant in the streets, we should all just hide in our homes and hope they go after our neighbors instead.
I’m generally of the “stay away from the shit” mentality. But the shit appears to be coming closer to me whether I want it to or not.
Roadblocks will be the norm. They are a great way to prevent trouble makers from traveling to new places to start trouble.
In the end times, All roads leading into my county would be roadblocked. I’d hope all roads into Georgia would also be roadblocked. After getting commies in Georgia to leave/surrender, we team up with other states to kick commies oit of the rest of america. War is hell!
I’ll take two things that are true, jammed together to imply something not so much with the truth:
“He cried. His defense team then made a motion for a mistrial with prejudice, which means Rittenhouse couldn’t be retried.”
The motion for a mistrial wasn’t because he cried, it’s because the prosecutor is a POS who kept violating the judge’s direct orders to not violate the defendant’s rights. Funny how they forgot to mention that.
Oh, and damning with false associations and not at all plausible denials of what they are pulling:
“not a white supremacist, like, say Dylann Roof. Not really. He wore no hoods and didn’t wrap himself in the Confederate flag.”
Never mind that the people killed by Roof actually were black and those killed by Rittenhouse were not.
He killed a white guy who was on camera that night saying the N-word (also a pedo).
Does that make Rosenbaum honorarily black? The using the N-word, not being a pedo.
BLM threatens riots if NY mayor reinstates anti-crime police units.
Fiery but mostly peaceful riots.
So if RH is convicted, will he be our Horst Wessel?
I love to see the State mad cause they didn’t get a cakewalk with this case.
For the state it would help if it even had a case.
Now they are quibbling over video that shows nothing but the prosecution insists it does. Why don’t they simply get the person that KR supposedly pointed his gun at to testify to that supposed fact? ///Rhetorical
Democrats Are Profoundly Committed to Criminal Justice Reform — For Everyone But Their Enemies
“But my enemies are subhuman.” – Prog
Female construction manager says male co-workers don’t take her seriously because of her looks
Yeah that’s the reason. It has nothing to do with your choice of outfit, makeup or hairstyle on the job site. I’m sure that all this attention was the last thing you wanted.
I hovered over that expecting a Bee link. I am disappoint.
As a fresh out of college kiddo they wouldn’t take me seriously on job sites either. This article is so much “look at me I’m so hot”.
WTF is a curve model?
Ask Count Potato.
I found this
The typical dress size of a “straight-size” model is a UK 8. This is the dress size typically sent out by brands as samples for photoshoots. A “plus-sized” model is usually considered size 12 and above and often wears Tall marketed clothing.
So what’s a Curve Model? Curve Model is a much more general term, it can refer to anyone from a size 8 to 24 of any height. Whether that’s someone slimmer with a larger bust or bigger with a smaller bust. Personally, I prefer the professional term Curve Model because I stand at 5ft 4 (4.5 on really good day…). Plus-size often indicates Tall labelled clothing whereas due to my vertically challenged disposition I often wear petite or short trousers. Either way though, I will be referred as a Plus-Size model or Curve Model interchangeably as my dress size is above a 12.
Huh… I assumed they only took pictures of her hips or bust or something. Like a “hand model”, just for the curvy parts. Not that I hugely cared, mind you…
“juggles” Someone had too much fun writing that.
Someone who models parabolas and hyperbolas.
Maybe if she didn’t take her Instagram photos at work they might take her more seriously.
I’ve got a tool she can use.
How did I know that was going to be the NY Post.
““And now you’re on your eighth ‘last week’ of the job and breaking your unintended fast with whiskey and Tylenol.” ”
So she’s an idiot.
So she’s an idiot.
Yes, an idiot who hates her liver. Alcohol and acetaminophen are a seriously bad combo.
Going have a twenty-something young lady start in my crew next Monday. The first female employed in our space in over 12 years. When I announced that she got the job, the first response was totally predictable. My response, “You’re old, any young woman not oozing pus is hot. Get it out of your system now.” Their response, “That’s what she said.”
I’m doing the sensible thing. I’m taking the day off.
Dangerzone!
Absolutely dangerzone. The truth is, we all realize she is just going to make us feel… old. Well everyone but the few millennials we have that is.
something something laying rebar
She can raise my joist.
Federal judge overturns Texas Gov Abbott’s ban on schools requiring masks, cites ADA as justification. Commerce Clause, formerly the darling of federal overreach, pouts.
Nice.
Here’s the thing:
If not mandating masks is a violation of the ADA (which is what the judge really concluded), then the ADA requires mask mandates. There’s no limiting principle on that decision. If some people are “disabled” because they are vulnerable to COVID, and everyone else being masked is a “reasonable accommodation” of their disability, bingo bango, nationwide mask mandate under the ADA.
Out of the blue last night, Mrs. Dean asked about moving to Uruguay for the first time in months. Her feel for the zeitgeist is uncanny.
Is there nothing the ADA can’t do?
How about vax mandates next? It’s only reasonable.
If it can save just one child’s life, aren’t we obligated to try?
I truly believe that Obama and his cadre are still calling the shots.
I think it’s even more sinister than him and those old hacks.
Yup… that logic pretty much says everyone has to live like Bubble Boys on the off chance someone around us is vulnerable. Insanity.
I was yelling at the TV last night “Harrison Bergeron was not meant to be a how to guide!” I think it was in response to a Rogan video talking about doing away with standards and gifted classes in schools.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-pharmacy-gave-wrong-covid-vaccine-dosage-to-children-5-11/2878517/
Oh, shit.
That’s really messed up.
Any dosage is the wrong dosage, but this is nuts.
Mistakes are going to happen.
What’s not clear is how it was detected. Patient or pharmacist? And the “trained healthcare professional” reaction was definitely inadequate.
The vials are color coded to avoid this.
Yeah, but humans will still screw these things up. Medical mistakes are a fact of life. We can minimize them, but never completely eliminate them.
The best you can do is have plans in place to minimize them and respond them when they are made.
Problem is that there are incentives to both hide and deny them from both an institutional and legal perspective. RC Dean can talk to this, but it’s only been fairly recently that the industry has come around on lots of these things. Naturally it took actual studies showing fewer lawsuits and smaller settlements when hospitals admit they fucked up to a patient and from that point on did their best to make it right.
Can confirm. I was a skeptic when this movement first started, but it actually works the way Sensei describes. We’re now advising patients at these “apology/early resolution meetings” to look into an hourly deal with their lawyer, since the usual 40% take by the plaintiffs lawyer is ridiculous when they are only going to put a handful of hours in.
Pharmacist because George Bailey wasn’t there to correct him? We *are* living in the darker timeline… someone find Zuzu’s petals already!
What the fuck is wrong with Loudoun County?
Proximity to DC?
I’m closer to DC than Loudoun, and I’ve managed to avoid being a complete muppet.
So… you know that you’re an evil man, not an evil muppet (look around 1:25 or later if you don’t get it…)
What do (((they))) know?
Israel on Thursday began a nationwide drill to test its readiness in the event of an outbreak of a new, more lethal Covid-19 variant.
The exercise, war-gamed over three sessions to simulate the passage of time after a potential flare-up, will test the resilience of systems that determine lockdown policies, monitor variants, offer economic support for citizens, enforce quarantines and watch border crossings.
“While the situation of coronavirus in the world is deteriorating, Israel is safe and protected,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement. “In order to maintain this, and to safeguard the continuity of normal life, we must continue to closely monitor the situation and prepare for any scenario.”
It will be ironic when the Jews start building covid camps.
Israel is safe and protected?
“Is it safe?”
Zombies?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU0DNCV22dU
Creepy book, creepy movie.
What does this nationwide drill look like? “Ok everyone, on Thursday from 12:00pm to 1:00pm, everyone go home and watch Netflix.”
I have to wonder if any of these so called experts ever took classes in Micro. I dont think they even know what a virus is.
Top turds: A. We have to ‘kill’ the virus. B. The newestest strain is more deadlierest than anything mankind has ever seen.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/new-zealand-man-who-died-of-gunshot-wound-to-be-recorded-as-covid-19-death-report
Testing someone who was shot dead for covid. Sounds legit.
NZ news sources always play up gunshot deaths but never discuss how this can possibly be happening after the most recent gun ban.
And they wonder why people stopped believing the stats they keep trotting out….
It’s been going on for close to two years all over the world now.
Honk honk!
Things I don’t understand
A. Kenosha shootout, white guy shoots 3 white guys, kills 2, goes on trial for murder
B. Any week end in Chicago, 8-10 murders, no suspects
I’m missing something.
Didn’t Rittenhouse turn himself in?
I doubt the shooters in Chicago are that polite.
He tried. The cops threatened to pepperspray him if he didn’t stop bothering them, so he went home.
Yes, in his district of residence. Plus there is plenty of video. Would have been arrested anyway.
You left out the part in B. where the vast majority of the murdered are described as “unknown” (14 out of first 20 below). As in, they didn’t even bother learning their name, which you’d think would be relevant if the murders were being seriously investigated.
https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/
Those are more recent. Once you go past the first week of Nov. the names have been released/found out.
If you go back and look at the details of the lead-up to the Bolshevik Revolution they engaged in the exact same Orwellian rhetoric, exact same violence and riots, exact same skinsuiting of institutions to destroy people’s trust in those institutions and in society generally.
You are not meant to understand. You are supposed to be dazed and confused exactly because none of it makes any sense. It is that way by design.
It doesnt make sense to non-psychopaths. i.e. average Americans.
The commies in America are operating from a playbook.
Destroy the family
Destroy traditions
Destroy religion
Destroy institutions
Destroy parental rights
Destroy education
Destroy constitution
Destroy America
Out of ashes, communism can be realized. Real communism this time.
Meanwhile in Austria.
Austria’s chancellor on Thursday stepped up threats of lockdown measures for unvaccinated people, as new coronavirus cases in the Alpine country are soaring.
Austria has taken a series of measures in recent weeks in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 and encourage more people to get vaccinated. On Monday, new rules took effect barring unvaccinated people who haven’t recovered from an infection from restaurants, hotels, hairdressing salons and large public events.
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said late last month that unvaccinated people in Austria could face new lockdown restrictions if infection numbers continue to rise — which they have. Figures released Wednesday showed 710.8 reported new cases per 100,000 residents over the previous seven days — a rate far higher than that of neighboring Germany, where record numbers also are causing alarm.
During a visit Thursday to Bregenz in western Austria, Schallenberg said that a lockdown for the unvaccinated is “probably unavoidable” and that the unvaccinated face an “uncomfortable” winter and Christmas, the Austria Press Agency reported.
I’m glad we defeated fascism.
I chatted today with a friend of mine in Vienna. She says things are getting worse.
Was it like this?
You did not disappoint. That was my first thought too!
I, too, would have been disappointed by any other link.
That’s a jam, BTW.
That’s more upbeat.
Case rate. And hospitalizations? Fatalities? Ratio of vax’d to unvax’d? Any useful data there? Because yes, as we head into winter you can expect a flu-like virus to go around again. If most people get over it, who should care?!? Need a cloud to yell at….
Nice op-ed by local wrong-thinker.
His last point of “what to do” is also interesting:
I’m more and more convinced that people painted themselves into a corner with the FOLLOW THE SCIENCE bullshit. They were convinced that vaccines or some other strategy would put an end to the Rona. Now that it is obvious to everyone that that won’t happen, they don’t know what to do. They can’t back down, they’d have to admit they were wrong and that is a non-starter.
Do you know what other Austrian lock up the unclean?
So. Fucking. Stupid.
Ordnung muss sein!
Remember last week when the guy was eaten by piranha? We often think or them as these little ferocious beasts.
Wrong! they get quite large, check this out,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XPgBCQvDxvget9DY7
Sheesh, well that’ll fuel my nightmares for a while!
The guy catches some true Monsters, this is in Guyana,
Here’s a weird Catfish, a redtail,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NzLUqY79s3Y4oAbZ8
“We call him Bitey!”
lol. There must be no beer in that cooler. If I had caught a piranha like that and my buddy literally showed me his ass, there is no way I’d be able to stop myself from throwing that set of chompers at his butt.
“I ain’t gonna remove the hook! You wanna remove the hook?”
Well, just stopped paying attention to my monthly office call when I heard what I was interested in.
HR acknowledged the stay on the 100 person mandate and addressed why they haven’t spread any information via email. “As a federal contractor, the stay does not apply to us, federal mandate supersedes. We’re a federal contractor and we intend to stay a federal contractor”.
So no matter what happens, I now get to choose in the next few days whether I risk my health and destroy my self-worth by getting the jab, or I lose my dream job that I spent 20 years working toward, as well as let down those people who depend on my being gainfully employed.
Listening to the other hundred people on the call enthusiastically overlaughing at all of managements’ jokes and talking about upcoming office improvements, makes me sick.
If it’s your dream job, I’d just get the vaccine.
Did you point out to them that at least the contractor deadline was moved to January 4 as well? Our HR couldn’t be arsed to email anyone about it, but they confirmed in a Q&A session today that they’ve shifted to match. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2021/11/04/background-press-call-on-osha-and-cms-rules-for-vaccination-in-the-workplace/ if they don’t believe you.
I know it isn’t much — but it at least buys us one more month to hope the various state suits against that mandate make some progress.
So a deadline for the last shot (or single J&J) of right before Christmas instead of right before Thanksgiving.
Right there with you… even though I don’t work on any federal contracts. Apparently there’s a chance I may be reassigned to one, and that’s why I would need to get the vaccination now…
Dreams can change. I’m a lot happier being self-employed than a corporate stooge.
YMMV.
I have to wonder how many additional people would eventually get the vaccine if they didn’t force it.
I’m sure many of us wish it could be that simplistic. Some corporate stooges are the sole bread winners with multiple young mouths to feed.
Yep – been there, done that. But hey, don’t be angry at the one bird who flew free.
Not angry at all. I’m very glad it all worked out for you. Hardly the same though with one mouth to feed and EF to rely on for income while you got your feet underneath you.
It was, to be honest, sheer luck and some long-term planning. But I’ve had that freedom for the past couple of years – thankfully – to walk away when I was ready to do so.
And it really did hurt my ego or sense of self-worth to knuckle under to some people who, to be honest, I never respected.
It’s not being angry at the bird who flew free.
It’s the undercurrent of contempt (here at Glibs) for those of us who need to get the jab to keep our jobs to survive.
It’s a decision that I’m glad I don’t have to make. But no contempt – I was the sole breadwinner for 20 plus years with an autistic child. halving our income so she could take care of him.
I had to pay EF’s student loan while she was unemployed and finding her feet, post-law school. We were broke; barely scratching by month-to-month. It was misery.
I wonder what I would do now.
And everyone must realize there are many ways to make money – you don’t have to work for the man, not if you adjust your standard of living and walk away from the Stockholm Syndrome of (in my case) a bad corporation that flailed from year-to-year without taking care of their employees. Of course I’m angry after all these years, feeling as if I wasted my “potential” – whatever that is. But… I would shovel manure if it meant feeding my family, and I may have knuckled under the pressure of a COVID vaxx. I dunno.
So fuck off you…. you don’t know the shoes I’ve walked in.
You telling me personally to fuck off? Because I don’t have a problem with what you’ve chosen to do. You don’t know my circumstance either.
Hear hear
To be honest I haven’t picked up any contempt vibe here. I am socially inept though. I hope I have not given off that vibe on any of my comments on the subject. If I did I apologize.
(Finger pointing up emoji). When I was starting out my career, I wasn’t the grizzled libertarian I am today. Had I known back then, I might have decided to do my own thing instead of going into corporate. I had no idea as a young ideologue one day I’d have to choose between my personal health decisions and the end-goal of that career arc (which I considered this job, by the way).
As a middle aged white male, my prospects are grim and I have no interest in starting over. I know it’s the libertarian way to say “Pull yourself up and provide for yourself. Self sufficiency!” But it does get tedious. Some of us chose not to go that way, and another libertarian way is to not have to submit to the state, for any purpose at all.
Anyway I’m pissed beyond all reason right now, just letting some of it off.
Like Gunslinger — maybe I’m just too socially inept to pick up on it, but I haven’t gotten that vibe. Some folks planning on sticking to their guns, others trying to fight it as long as we can, yeah — but I haven’t felt any blame for folks who have to take the jab and get on with their lives. I still may do that — I’m just dragging my feet in the hopes of a sane court striking it down before it becomes an issue.
But (and if you’ll forgive the term) — that’s my privilege since I’ve already been pushed to remote worker status, so as long as the *contractor* mandate crap falls through, I can almost certainly squeak by by virtue of already being in pseudo-lockdown. Folks who *have* to go in and *have* to keep their jobs, man — I’m in zero position to judge and I don’t think the rest of us here really are either.
So if anyone’s gotten that vibe from me, my apologies — very much not what I’m thinking. And I *do* think there’s more than a few of us here who feel much the same… do what you have to do to survive, tend to those you care about and look in the mirror as best you can.
And, because surprisingly no one has said it for a while (lost its luster?) — Let’s Go Brandon for putting all this on us in the first place.
SDF-7:
That isn’t the disdain we’re talking about. We’re talking about the disdain for people who face this and don’t immediately quit working for The Man, go live on our 100 acres out in the wilderness, raise our livestock and vegetable farm and hang a shingle out signifying we’re now in business for ourselves. Because, that’s how libertarians are.
We’re talking about the disdain for people who face this and don’t immediately quit working for The Man, go live on our 100 acres out in the wilderness, raise our livestock and vegetable farm and hang a shingle out signifying we’re now in business for ourselves.
Hey! Are you reading my planning documents?
To be completely transparent and honest, it’d be really freaking nice to have a solid backing of a bunch of people with the courage of their convictions. I’d be much happier standing up with 5 or 10% of my coworkers rather than 1.5-3.5%. It’d be nice to have a bunch of fellow travelers go all-in with me and stand up to the tyrants.
As it is, I understand why people are knuckling under. Believe me, I get it. I have a 1 year old and a 4 year old, and my wife makes $10k a year. If I lose my job, it’s a quick descent from upper middle class to poverty. However, I’m not going to pretend that getting the shot out of fear is some virtue. It’s an acceptable compromise, at best.
The virtue is to stand your ground and fight for what is right. Getting the shot to pay your bills while bitching online about being wronged is a distant second.
I know I’m somewhat pragmatic.
I think vaccine mandates are wrong. If you’re young and healthy, I would prefer not to get it.
But seriously 170 million Americans probably aren’t gonna drop dead of vaccination tomorrow. The risks look pretty low to me.
When you lose your job, no ones gonna give a shit. You’re not gonna get a libertarian parade.
I’d think about it.
Yes, I’ve seen that opinion on other threads and haven’t commented on it. And I respect it, I really do.
Pragmatic =/= compromise my principals. Even if I didn’t fear for my heart, which I do, I shouldn’t have to take a medical procedure I don’t want in order to keep my job. I don’t care how little it might or might not inconvenience me.
“170 million Americans probably aren’t gonna drop dead of vaccination tomorrow” is a shitty way to go through life, if you ask me.
I know. It sucks.
I’m just saying.
You’ll probably be ok. Maybe. You can trust me I’m a doctor.
Not really.
Except that (at least at my job), it also means boosters whenever the government changes the definition for “fully vaccinated”.
Look, Urthona’s right. Nobody’s going to clap you on the back and say, “Good on ya!” when you can’t pay your bills or feed your kids. They also aren’t going to offer to help you up.
Your dream job? Naw, man. Just do it and go on with your life.
Nobody’s going to clap you on the back and say, “Good on ya!” when you can’t pay your bills or feed your kids. They also aren’t going to offer to help you up.
Everybody holding out because they want kudos and think it’s gonna be anything but a rough ride need to get the shot tomorrow.
Yanno, Trashy, if you want to live your idea of virtue, you go right ahead.
Keep on telling people they’re less virtuous than you when they don’t do what you want them to. That’s the way to get people on your side, yessirreebob.
Agreed. And believe me when I say, I’m not holding out for some bad-ass bona-fides. It’s (almost) purely for my overdeveloped sense of pride. (Also a not insignificant concern about the side effects — I’m susceptible, but not to any degree that a doctor would support an exemption).
And also believe me, I know no one will remember x number of years from now whether I got the damn shot or not. But I always will, until my final day, and I’m having a hard time believing that I’ll ever be ok with it.
Anyway, though, I’ve bitched enough around here today about it, and subjected you all to enough. Anything further I’ll keep to the forum set aside for this purpose. Just had to let off some steam….
I’m not going to tell anyone what to do, nor shit on anyone for whatever they choose. I will say my wife and I have three school age kids, a mortgage that is a pretty high percentage of our current income, along with various other bills adding up to most of our income. My wife is likely going to lose her “stable” fedgov job because won’t get the jab. She’s not a libertarian and she didn’t want anything but the typical American lifestyle. She’s the major breadwinner. We do want or expect a parade, but fuck if either of us are going to compromise our principles. We’ll figure it out. I’m also nearly 50, but I can work. I’ll do what I need to do. And so will she. Shovel shit for all I care. These fuckers aren’t going to force us to do something we don’t want to do. Ever.
These fuckers aren’t going to force us to do something we don’t want to do. Ever
Do you pay taxes?
Do I have choice?
Keep on telling people they’re less virtuous than you when they don’t do what you want them to.
I’m not saying “I’m better than you”. I’m not saying it because I’m not better. Both types are valuable, both unvaxxed and allies.
What I’m saying is that maybe, just maybe, the people feeling persecuted for taking the jab are feeling it less because people are treating them poorly and more because of defensiveness due to feeling shame at compromising their principles. It happens. It’s a thing. Not to say that compromising one’s principles is always the worst choice, but when you compromise your principles and go the pragmatic route on something that is clearly and obviously a major evil, perhaps that leads to some defensiveness and feelings of persecution from those who haven’t folded yet.
I hold nothing against those who get vaxxed, even those who cave to the pressure even though they fear the side effects from the jab. Everybody is in a pinch, and everybody is having to decide what they value most. That some value their lifestyles and income more than the risks from the shot is completely understandable. That some don’t have the same risk profile as myself is completely understandable. That some aren’t in a good position to stand up and say “no” is completely understandable.
However, I’m not going to pretend that me choosing to cave to the employer is somehow on equal footing with me standing up against the mandate. It’s simply not. All else being equal, standing up against the mandate is better than caving out of fear of losing one’s job. The person isn’t better, the choice is.
That’s the way to get people on your side, yessirreebob.
I have enough shit to worry about with my job potentially ending in a month and a half. Recruiting allies isn’t really on my radar.
And seriously equating paying taxes to being forced to take a medical injection is pretty fucking ridiculous.
These fuckers aren’t going to force us to do something we don’t want to do. Ever
It’s almost like we were having a discussion about a particular topic.
Everybody has to do what they have to do. It’s not for me to judge what you feel is necessary in order to get by.
I know that a lot of people are. I’m in a field where it’s possible to do that. It takes many many years of hard work and long hours. but you can be successful. I weighed the options early in my career, determined that wasn’t the route I wanted to go, and proceeded accordingly, up the corporate ladder.
I made my choice, and this other one is one I shouldn’t have to make.
I’m seriously thinking about consulting with a plaintiff’s employment law firm when I retire. I’m not aware of any immunity for employers if their employees are injured by the work requirement of getting vaxxed, for one thing. I am confident there will be mass violations of the law on religious exemptions, for another. This could be a nice little earner over the next several years.
Based.
Governor Ron Desantis proposes bussing illegal immigrants, brought to Florida, up to Delaware. “I will send them to Delaware and do that. If he’s (President Biden) not going to support the border being secured, then he should be able to have everyone there.”
Desantis is Trump on the next level. He seems to get it and backs up his talk.
Desantis is Trump with about 10 to 20 more IQ points. He’s exactly what people want trump to be but what trump isnt.
Trump is exactly what I want him to be. He challenges Lefties constantly and wants to put America first.
De santis might be as good as Trump fighting Lefties but that is unclear at this time. Desantis only deals with Lefties from a Florida perspective. Hes promising though.
Trump playing “n”th D chess has led to events where Republicans won back Virginia where it counts. Trump being president really caused Democrats to abandon any long term plan of incrementalized Communism. That was working for democrats.
Hell with that — ship them all to DC. That way even if they do illegally vote, it doesn’t screw the rest of the country. Park them on the White House lawn, no less.
I couldn’t find a photo of the army camped out in DC during the Civil War, but I envision something like that.
Probably closer to the Bonus Army, I expect. Only less hygiene.
Thot Thursday has a short skirt and a long jacket.
https://archive.md/WdeRq
There goes the neighborhood
President Joe Biden plans to visit New Hampshire next week to promote and celebrate the recently passed infrastructure bill.
Biden will sign the $1.2 trillion bipartisan package into law Monday, and the following day, he will travel to the Grafton County community of Woodstock, population about 1,500, for an event at the Woodstock Bridge, a 82-year-old structure over the Pemigewasset River that has been on the state’s “red list” since 2013.
Really angers me that nobody in the press brings up “So what the hell happened to all the money you people (state, local, Fed) have been taking from us for all these years to maintain all this crap that we have to shovel more Magical Mystery Money at it and drive up inflation?”. Only profession known where “I suck at my job” turns into “Give me MORE”.
I’m sure Winston’s Mom can speak to this. Once her mouth is empty at least.
Will anyone ask why someone in Hawaii has to pay for a bridge in a town of 1500 people halfway around the globe?
I’m sorry for the residents of Grafton County who are probably unused to having their freedom of movement fucked up by presidential motorcades, security and hoopla.
You know who else was put on the state’s red list…
Ann-Margaret?
Geronimo?
Link 1: Leftists, especially TMITE, remind me of convicted felons in prison. They twist meanings, outright lie, and point fingers at. you. How many felons in hardcore prison will tell y ou it is the cop’s fault or a witnesses fault that they are there? It is someone else’s fault because they caught the felon and convicted them. Congratulations NBC. If it were up to me you would spend the next ten years wearing orange, eating bologna sandwiches and sleeping with one eye open.
Link 2: The only people I know afraid to talk about racism, aside from accusing the non-woke of being racists, are the wokety woke wokesters. Of course that is because they are mostly raging racists themselves and afraid to be outed.
Link 3: So all of the BLM pieces of marxist shit will be in the same place at one time committing felonies? Interesting.
Link 4: Funny thing about security blankets – they dont actually provide any security.
Link 5: Banana Republic monkeys are gonna banana republic. Always and everywhere the same.
That’s such a great bass-line. And Chuck was great.
Getting old sucks, part one million and one.
Waaaay back in the 1990s, EF and I were friends with this crazy blonde punk rock chick named Kim. She helped us run live music shows, and just was a fun gal to hang out with. Very chaotic, always something interesting going on with a new boyfriend seemingly every two weeks. If I hadn’t been in a long term relationship with EF, I would have chased this girl Kim with abandon since she seemed so full of life and interesting. The sort of woman you expect – now – to have had a full and exciting time.
Anyways, after several years with minimal contact, we connect via FB. She 40-something now, kid, and a boring corporate job in a city an hour away.
Based on our minimal back ‘n’ forth messaging, she seems terribly square now. No interest in why I walked out of my job, no interest in my adventures in buying art… just sort of middle-class bland. Kid, house, long-term boyfriend who she apparently won’t marry.
::sigh;: I guess, to my own stupidity, I thought some people were frozen in amber. I’ve obviously changed a lot since then but this FUCK YOU attitude is still part of who I am.
Only thing that matters is, is she happy.
True that. Some of us were just born square and are happily square throughout our lives as well. My life is doubtless boring as hell to a lot of y’all, but I like it this way. (Well, usually boring setting aside the current drama…)
That.
Boring is underrated and she sowed her oats. I’d be tired of oats, too.
Yeah, I’ve done the wild and crazy. It gets exhausting.
Who knows? She just sounded frustrated.
Now that’s sad.
OTOH, there are a lot of things I wish I’d done (or not done) when I was younger, mostly professionally and/or financially.
Drive a train. That’s the one big regret I have, that I didn’t jump on that when I had the chance.
Theranos tests detected prostate-cancer marker in prostateless women
I’m sorry, but in this day of women with penises isn’t that totally possible?
Prostates are just a social construct.
Kimberly-Clark Corp. says, “Hello, nice to meet you.” to your prostate.
Inflation is the tits.
“Is inflation running rampant? No,” says Rakeen Mabud, identified chief economist of an outfit called the Groundwork Collective that is sponsored by a dark money leftwing funding group, in a video posted to Twitter by a different leftist group called Invest in America. “So these one-time price increases are the result of returning consumer demand and a sign of economic recovery.”
She goes on to say that inflation is a “really good sign.”
Anne Price, a colleague at yet another leftwing pressure group called the Insight Center, appears in the video to say that the “reality is that mildly elevated inflation is actually a signal that things are going well.”
Your real income declining by .5% since last year is actually a good thing.
I’m sorry but inflation sucks. It stops even seeming middle-class people from purchasing more expensive items. It’s a drag to spend more on food, gas, trips, etc etc and limits savings for older people.
For this I’m going to revise “piss on your leg and tell you it’s raining” to “dunk you in a tub of piss and tell you it’s a bubble bath.”
Are the bubbles being caused by them farting in the tub of piss?
Is that the California “the” again?
Where I’m from, it would be “inflation is tits”.
Getting close to the end of the trial. I found this on Fox: “The prosecution has said they plan to call at least one rebuttal witness. They had planned for only one, but announced just moments ago that they hope to call two more witnesses in an apparent attempt to discredit the defendant.”
WTF is there to discredit? It doesn’t matter if he’s the biggest liar since Jon Lovitz. There are multiple videos showing him being pursued and attacked and firing back. There are multiple videos showing the people shot threatening people and being violent. That’s all there is to it.
If he lied about college then he could have lied that he didn’t go there looking to play Call of Duty: Kenosha Dawn
The Kenosha Kidd.
Also doesn’t matter. If Rittenhouse wanted to kill people he would have kept firing shots into Grosskreutz instead of shooting him once in the arm and letting him retreat.
Interesting. It sounded like things were going to wrap up today, with closing arguments plus jury instructions coming next.
Taiwan blocks second Pfizer doses for teens
How rare is it? It’s way les than 1% right?
Question for you, and maybe it will sound snarky, but I’m genuinely curious. How many cases of permanent, avoidable damage done to otherwise healthy young people, by an illegal government mandate, is too many in your mind? Do you work for Pfizer maybe?
Are you arguing that even if the risks are very low and it overall saves lives it shouldn’t be taken?
Objection! “Shouldn’t be taken” != “illegal government mandate”
10 yard penalty, repeat of down…
However, if you scroll up you’ll find his mention of the government mandate was the original nonsequitor.
I never argued for one
Fair point. On video review, the penalty is reversed. Play will resume on the 30 yard line. No loss of down.
I think what happened is that I was
asking how bad the risks were and he made a comment as if to say anything above zero was too much, which sounded silly to me.
But maybe it was in the context of forced vaccination that he meant it and I jumped the gun.
Hey, remember when vaccine mandates were theoretical? According to Biden and Psaki herself? That the idea was preposterous?
Well I was asking a hypothetical. Hypothetically,
whenif the government mandates it for kids, what number of them dying or having lifelong problems over an elective procedure their parents didn’t want them to have, is an acceptable number? In your mind?He made a comment as if to say anything above zero was too much
I would say any risk above zero is way too much for children. Since there is essentially no risk of death or long-term injury from Covid for children, even a fraction of a percent of severe adverse events would result in exponentially worse harm to this age group. Even if we only saw severe reactions in just one tenth of one percent of children… that would kill or cause long term injury to 75k children in the United States.
Fractions of a percent matter when we’re talking about populations. And I’m not sure the damage is limited to fractions of a percent.
Yeah sure but thats got nothing to do with anything.
No one is arguing for vaccine mandates.
I’m trying to get data on myocarditis risk for a discussion I’m having elsewhere.
We’re gonna find out over the next couple weeks. Maybe, unless the media squashes the stories.
Yeah. Ugh.
The reason I’m asking is in a discussion not about children. It was presented to me that covid itself had a higher risk of myocarditis than the vaccine.
Which I believe looks correct.
But I can’t argue against it without an age breakdown. I strongly suspect this argument fails against younger recipients but can’t prove it.
Urthona:
Can’t reply to your message below because the thread has gotten too long. I’m about done because I’m mainly venting my spleen, but I did want to say one more thing:
Putting children aside. I think you and I will both agree, it’s less than zero. For a vaccine that is being mandated, illegally, by governments the world over, I believe a reasonable person will also agree, that’s too high.
Actually I think if the risk were zero children still shouldn’t get it.
Because the gain is basically zero for them too and no one could know longer term effects.
Doesn’t matter. The risk from COVID for kids is effectively nil.
Therefore treating with a medication that has any appreciable risk is unwarranted.
But Steve Kirsch has run his calculations and is claiming the vaccines are killing 117 kids for every one saved. That may be a bit extravagant but it’s worth reviewing how he got to those numbers.
I’m aware that the covid risk for kids is basically zero.
I’m asking whether there’s actually evidence that myocarditis is not rare. Because it would useful to have in my argument toolchest if this claim were true.
I’d just point to the multiple pro soccer players with sudden cardiac issues lately.
But this is probably the most complete study on it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002100161X
I mean it makes an excellent case for the cost/benefit of not vaccinating children.
What I was wondering, though, is if there really is evidence pertaining to the claim above in the risk of myocarditis.
I know but pretty much every athlete on planet Earth not named Aaron Rodgers has taken it. I’m not even saying it’s overall worth it.
I’m just assuming it can’t be that common.
Unfortunately, we don’t really know because we don’t have long term data, but the mechanism exists and we do have cases of it occurring. That by itself should be enough to halt vaccination of adults, let alone children. But we’re seeing some heart issues in boys and a lot of menstrual symptoms in girls.
It would be different if the major risk was limited to anaphylactic shock as that is a transient symptom.
Heart damage does not improve with time, it is permanent. And we really don’t know what is going on with the ovaries other than the spike proteins are found in high concentrations in them after vaccination. It’s entirely possible that there will be fertility issues down the road. Again, we don’t know because we don’t have that long term data.
I believe Myocarditis can actually resolve without permanent heart damage but it depends on the severity.
We’re going to find out. Of that I’m certain.
I just intend to keep myself and my family in the control group.
If you are talking about the number of adverse effects from vaccines the VAERS system catches, you are correct.
“The richest Americans may get a tax cut 10 times BIGGER than the middle class under Biden’s spending plans, new study finds”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10191309/Richest-Americans-tax-cut-10-times-BIGGER-middle-class-Bidens-spending-plans.html
Typical, just typical.
Without even clicking I’m going to guess they seamlessly go back and forth between total percentages, percentage change and absolute numbers.
A family living in D.C. and taking in $1 million would save $129,500 on their taxes over five years while a family making $50,000 to $100,000 would only save $2,600, under current plans.
Say, how much is each of those families going to pay in taxes over that period? I would that that’s relevant.
It’s from a “non-partisan” think tank.
And the president was “born in Washington, D.C. to D. Biard MacGuineas and Carol Kalish.[1] She graduated from Northwestern University, where she majored in economics and psychology, and she received a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government”
The SALT tax deduction.
Trump screwed a lot of rich people in blue states by limiting that deduction. It made living in high tax states extra terrible when people had to pay full freight.
HA HA!
“A new version of a lawsuit accusing Subway of deceiving the public about its ‘100 percent tuna’ products said lab testing proves the sandwich maker is duping customers about its fish sandwiches – which it claims contain animal proteins such as chicken, pork and cattle.
Karen Dhanowa and Nilima Amin filed a third version of their proposed class action this week in the federal court in San Francisco, near their homes in Alameda County.
The November 8 lawsuit relies on testing by a marine biologist of 20 tuna samples taken from 20 Subway restaurants in southern California. It said 19 samples had ‘no detectable tuna DNA sequences,’ while all 20 contained detectable chicken, 11 contained pork and 7 contained cattle DNA.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10191133/New-lawsuit-Subway-tuna-says-chicken-pork-cattle-DNA-detected.html
WTF?
Were they using a Theranos brand test?
It’s Subway. You should count your blessings that you’re getting any form of “meat”.
I heard someone tested the bread and discovered it was actually cardboard.
I ran that test myself. It is true.
My antique booth:
At least this week it seems like people in here in this city have stopped dying, at least for a spell long enough where there are no estate sales to go to.
It’s maddening to me , given the prime time of year for retail.
btw, this is the website to check out if you’re interested in pawing through people’s junk: https://www.estatesales.net/
What? You thought you’d escape without a nut-punch? There is always a nut-punch when Tonio does your links.
But I thought you liked nuts? I feel betrayed.
I so wish I could share my company’s “return to the office” video without doxxing myself a bit more.
It’s insane:
– “don’t take ride shares”
– “wait for subway trains that aren’t too crowded”
– “put on a mask when you arrive – never remove this mask”
– “grab a bunch of hand sanitizer”
– “grab a stylus – use this to touch buttons, touch screens etc.”
– “wait to take the elevator with just 1 other person and stay apart”
– “wash your hands every 2 hours” (!)
– “wipe down your desk when you leave”
and on and on.
On the plus side, they’re attempting to avoid a blanket vax mandate – we have fat Fed contracts, so they’re trying to limit the vax to just people who work on those. I appreciate that much.
They’re also offering work-from-home in perpetuity for just about everyone, unless your job can’t be done from home (e.g., you need to use the SCIF).
Sounds like I’m never going back to the office.
(TBF – I only went one day a week for the last decade or so)
So… arrive late every day, be miserable, waste your time on pointless theater.
Where do I sign up?!
Part of me wonders if this is a not-so-subtle push for people to just WFH full-time – our productivity went up during the pandemic and they’re already making plans to sublet space (brand new 19 story headquarters opened in November of 2019).
XX got to drive the forklift last night for the first time ever!
Sweet! A dangerous (to others) and lucrative job. Good for her.
I am proud as punch.
As you should be.
I knew she could, the cert isn’t relevant, driving is, Great Job XX!
Excellent! I worked in a grocery distribution center for 12 years, never got to do that (I was the geeky clerk turned computer nerd). Those things are amazing. I was a clerk in the personnel office when a forklift operator came in shaking like a leaf. He had been loading a pallet onto a trailer, but unfortunately for him the yardbird operator pulled the trailer just as he was about to enter it. Into the pit he and the forklift went, about 8 feet down. Not a scratch due to the roll cage, but he was really shook up. Personnel manager pulled out a bottle of bourbon and said, “here, you need this!” They make those things pretty damn safe (at least they did in 1978…).
The ones that can move sideways are cool AF
Damn! They didn’t make ’em like that back in the stone ages.
Excellent.
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One of my favorite temp jobs was working at https://www.hyster.com/en-us/north-america/
Test driving an electric three wheel and a reach truck on their in house obstacle courses and taking test measurements.
I hope she’s proud of herself, depriving some young man of a good job, weren’t there any openings in the secretarial pool?
Very proud! ?
What an Ass!
That’s an Hyena.
AND two Giraffes!
depriving some young man of a good job
What? I’ve known several ladies of my mother’s age who drove forklifts daily. In fact, until the greedy fucks (inheritors) from my MIL’s company ruined their parent’s business, my MIL drove a forklift. There are plenty of XX types driving forklifts where I work.
*taps Sarcometer 3G* Is this thing on?
That’s Hype being “funny”.
? I LOLed
I’m slow. I almost bought it.
#metoo
Your daughter isn’t named Klaus is she?
That’s the most amazing video (I’ve seen it before). I so, so hope XX had to watch it as part of her training.
You got to it before me.
I snort-laughed.
Love the Turkish subtitles
Does she get to take it home like a company car?
Great. One of my favorite jobs was driving a fork lift.
One place was a Monkey Wards carpet warehouse. The lift had a 16’ pole for carrying rolls of carpet. It wasn’t easy to get the pole into the hole in the center of the roll. A job rich in euphemisms.
The worst part of cooking for one is portions, I can’t just buy a few chicken parts or a little bit of ham or steak, so I must portion and freeze things. Recipes can get hard, I have to bake 6 cornbread muffins, and store at least 3 for later use, forget Cookies or a cake, no one to eat it, another First World problem I suppose, but I hate wasting food.
Yeah, that’s a legit PITA.
Due to work schedules, We are doing Thanksgiving this Saturday, so I get to make a pie and a cheescake, knowing they will be eaten and enjoyed, then Life is good, Yusef smiles,
Why do you have to make 6 muffins? I often make one biscuit or two tortillas, division isn’t rocket science, well it’s probably part of rocket science but you know what I mean.
My recipe calls for 6 and I don’t bother, I just bag em up and eat them with Chili later, Tonight is Vidalia onion BBQ chicken with Cornbread muffins and Garlic Tatoes, not bad for a Widower.
Get some food containers and use the fridge instead.
Me, it’s vegetables that vex me. Unless I’m making a stew.
I have, and I do, right now my fridge is pretty packed, I’ll have make room,
First World problems
I put up a religious exemption doc update in the forum. Nothing major, just some new sources and a few paragraphs addressing some of the issues I felt weren’t addressed effectively enough (or at all) in the prior version.
“” It’s the undercurrent of contempt (here at Glibs) for those of us who need to get the jab to keep our jobs to survive.” (from upthread)
When I got the shot to play hockey I was a bit nervous about posting here. But I didn’t get a single negative or judgmental response. Unfortunately almost all of us are being forced into these decisions.
I remember the first video I saw of The Jacket. He described libertarianism as choice vs control. That’s more true now as it’s ever been.
I got the jab voluntarily long before it was a political issue.
I think if I had known there was gonna be this shit I would have angrily refused to take it. Funny enough.
My company is small and wouldn’t care.
Same here…I took it because otherwise I couldn’t see my elderly parents. I felt like they shouldn’t be punished…now I am just really angry.
Perhaps I misunderstood Mojeaux’s original point. What I was referring to is the feeling I get when I say dammit my firm is requiring the jab to keep my job. And someone will invariably pipe up with “Stop working for the man! Corporate slave! Happiness lies in self-sufficiency!”
It isn’t that easy for the majority of people. And even if it was possible, the idea of starting over after plugging away for 20 years isn’t desirable.
That’s what I was referring to. If I misunderstood Moj, apologies.
And also, I have no judgment for anyone who has or will get the jab. If I didn’t have legitimate concerns for my health, and a burning, primal hatred for the biden regime, I probably would get it too and make this a moot point.
No, you read me right. That is exactly what I meant.
Elon’s people have the ISS route running full bore now. Already another docking about to happen just after they splashed down a crew yesterday.
SpaceX will show the NASA boys how it’s done,
And they believe they have crapper fixed on this one!
Beautiful day today
https://pasteboard.co/SgUtNnA6nwnq.jpg
New wallpaper! Thanks, KK.
if they post my latest, you might find more Wallpaper, still waiting………
😀
Oooooh, I love the mist, pretty shot KK,
If you have 2 3/4 hours to spare. Lex Fridman interview of Neal Stephenson. (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon)
Here is the link. https://lexfridman.com/neal-stephenson/
Thanks. I downloaded it but haven’t had a chance to listen.
What did you think? Each of those dudes has the ability to keep me enthralled and irritated at the same time.
Veterans Day comment.
I respect and honor those who serve to protect U.S.A. from aggression. It takes courage, self-sacrifice, and integrity.
I reached the point in ROTC where I had to make the decision to move ahead to be commissioned a 2nd Lt. or leave the program. This was Vietnam era and I could not face the possibility that I would be the officer telling some grunt that he had point that morning on patrol. I didn’t see myself being able to command men who could die because my order was stupid, ill-conceived, or just untimely. I couldn’t see myself following a superior’s order that was just as foolish and dangerous for my men. So I got out.
For those who can command men who might die for their country, I’m glad you are there when the shit hits the fan. {Salute}
It never leaves you. The worst part of command.
I’m generally of the “stay away from the shit” mentality. But the shit appears to be coming closer to me whether I want it to or not.
I’m of the same mentality. However, taking good advice to the level of law is repulsive. Maybe he should have stayed away. But, he had every right to be there. It’s called living in a free society. To walk down a street, you don’t need the permission of rioting, looting thugs. If “he shouldn’t have been there” is a legitimate grounds for prosecution, then there’s no reason for thuggish white people from declaring certain areas “white streets” that non-whites have no business walking down. The only thing is that’s obscene. Just like this crap is.
What are they going to try to argue next, that if he didn’t want to get assaulted “he shouldn’t have been dressed like that”?
While I might argue that his presence was a poor life choice, it certainly was a legal one and I can see the morality of it. He put himself in a bad situation for the right reasons but then handled it well.
What I wonder about more is whether this will lead to more organization and training amongst those who would resist the rioters. Eventually, when the government doesn’t step in, others step up, and we all know the government doesn’t like competition.
Will the lesson be:
1. You have the right to defend yourself and your property from a mob.
Or…
2. Wear a mask, stay off camera, use a brass catcher, shotguns (ballistically untraceable)…
It’s probably going to be #2 because the government is going to come down hard on #1.
I’ve been saying for a while that the reactionary wave will involve people suddenly disappearing or dropping dead. This rumble in the street crap can only go on for so long before the more practical and effective techniques start to be employed by those who have a distaste for violence but will use it if necessary.
From the NYC riot link:
“Chivona Newsome pressed on, telling Adams she believes public safety will improve if as mayor he creates better jobs and education.
“That’s a government issue,” she said.”
I think I may have spotted the root of the problem.
Ding ding ding
That line knocked me down too.
Though she might have had a point if she said something like “Fuck you, cut spending.”
“Our sex life is functional.”
Definitely what you want from your marriage.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/16699103/go-to-swingers-club-to-bedd-italian-man/
“I’m now considering going to a swingers party where apparently there are plenty of “big European men”.”
On Topic for a Tonio post (and a bonus for KK).
I used to work with a Russian woman who said “Every woman should have an Italian lover”. To which I said, “Bongiorno, baby”. Unfortunately it didn’t work.
She also liked to say, “When I go out at night I like to start with slippery nipple, followed by sex on beach, hopefully orgasm, and if necessary, abortion.”
*winces*
/former bartender
I will be watching Jeopardy! in a little while. Last night’s winner banked $52,001, a nice haul. I hope this individual goes on a long run; there is a segment of the show in which the host elicits random anecdotes from the contestants, and when someone goes on a long winning streak they can run out of things to talk about. The current champion is named Andrew He, and I am hoping that at some point the host asks Andrew about preferred pronouns.
” preferred pronouns.” I identify as a CCP member,,,,,,,,,,,
What I wonder about more is whether this will lead to more organization and training amongst those who would resist the rioters. Eventually, when the government doesn’t step in, others step up, and we all know the government doesn’t like competition.
So what you’re saying is you want top form a private militia of insurrectionists.
Will there be bacon and bourbon?
Joe Manchin is a poisonous presence in the Senate, standing in the way of the glorious new era of prosperity. No wonder they named this tree after him.
Manchineel
Florida… of course.
The Australia of America.