Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what an amazing day it always is!
Biden’s disastrous press conference.
The Big Lie: Joe Biden Casts Doubt on Legitimacy of Midterm Elections
Biden’s FCC Commissioner Nominee Gigi Sohn Wants To Nuke Right-Leaning Broadcasters From Air
FBI seen taking evidence from Texas Democrat congressman’s home
Ashli Babbitt Chatted With Capitol Officers and Attempt to Calm Protesters Before Being Executed
Board suspends doctor, orders neuropsych eval for COVID claims echoed by mainstream scientists
CDC Says Natural Immunity Outperformed Vaccines Against Delta Strain
Unplanned Porn Derails Government Meeting For A Very Awkward 30 Seconds
Joss Whedon Helped Create the Woke Mob that Destroyed Him
Starbucks ditches Biden’s vaccine mandate after Supreme Court ruling
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song a move along with my day.
“Biden’s disastrous press conference.”
Papa Boosh did something just as dumb with Saddam in 1990 and then Saddam invaded Kuwait and we all know how that went…
I bet Biden thinks he can recreate that event to shore up his sagging ratings cause otherwise the dude is a senile madman..
Embrace the power of ‘and’.
‘I didn’t overpromise, but I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen,’ he said.
Lol.
On second thought…*rubs chin*
Maybe he’s right.
I guess outperforming means falling down less often than Gerald Ford.
I did place a high value on him not being able to finish one year. Good job Joe!
Much less speak for nearly two straight hours.
It’s funny how pop culture shapes you. After reading that I immediately thought of Chevy Chase.
Depends on what the goals were.
History will not be kind to el Presidente Biden. One of the worst Presidents in Banana Republic history.
I for one am laughing and crying as the Democrat Party self-destructs and they are trying to take America with it.
Historians will be kind and blame everything on kulaks and wreckers.
Biden’s FCC Commissioner Nominee Gigi Sohn Wants To Nuke Right-Leaning Broadcasters From Air
“Gigi is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable, and democratic communications networks,”
Democratic is like a magic word it c an make anything better . Except whisky
Democratic to these people means they are in charge and the laws don’t apply to them…
well it is the Democratic Party is it not? so democratic would mean by definition they are in charge, or?
Its the Democrat Party or the Party of slavery. Democrats have not idea what Democratic means.
It’s not censorship, it’s democratic censorship.
I’m really sorry, I just heard about your AIDS diagnosis.
Don’t worry brah, I’m fine, it’s Democratic AIDS.
Everyone had a hand in it?
…This hand is your hand
This hand is my hand
oh wait, that’s your hand
oh wait, thats my hand….
“Dems’ ‘nuclear option’ push fails, election bills dead, after Sinema and Manchin vote to keep filibuster”
Two great things that taste great together…
This was good for the American people because it now prevent another election from being
stolenfortified. And we all know that these fucks don’t win unless they fortify because the American people simply are not stupid/crazy enough that are actually legal to vote and willing to do that in enough numbers to allow them to win elections.And changing the Senate rules just cause you want to do a runaround the system to pass a law to allow you to cheat shows how fucking evil these cuntes are. Hopefully this thing to help them steal elections finally dying a well deserved death will allow the crime syndicate to finally drop the Kung Flu Kabuki theatre and we can get rid of all the comply or face the boot orders about masks or vaxxing.
allow the crime syndicate to finally drop the Kung Flu Kabuki theatre and we can get rid of all the comply or face the boot orders about masks or vaxxing.
Have you talked with anybody from their base? They’re all still rabid covidians who think that the restrictions are lightening up because of evil trumptards.
They are also stupid enough to do a 180 on the crazy shit they believe if the authorities and science tells them this is all fine suddenly. That’s because they are not reacting the way they do because of anything having to do with logic or thinking, but are completely emotional idiots.
“They’re all still rabid covidians who think that the restrictions are lightening up because of evil trumptards.”
Maybe we should set up special campgrounds for these people to live in complete safety.
Yeah, still clinging to the idea that restrictions and mandates are good because hospitals.
I think all the states that have vax mandates for health care workers are also the states that have Certificate of Need laws restricting the number of hospitals.
I think all states now have mandates for health care workers if they take medicare/medicaid after the Supreme Court decision. I know the local hospitals that didn’t have mandates before started putting mandates in place after the decision.
But they have to abide by religious exemptions. Once the federal govt can force medical facilities to mandate vaccines, the 1st Amendment religious exemptions applies to those hospitals.
This is the fucked up position we now sit. The courts should have said that there is no authority to mandate vaccines and companies cannot be sued for not forcing businesses to mandate vaccines for employees.
“This was good for the American people because it now prevent another election from being stolen-fortified.”
I wouldn’t go that far. Preventing elections from being stolen requires tightening up election laws at the state level.
Let me rephrase that comment of mine: Not getting their federal takeover of voting regulations that allow even more opportunity for massive cheating, makes it far less likely that they can fortify any forthcoming elections effectively. That doesn’t mean they wont try, but I am sure that they will fall short unless they are so desperate that they convince the people doing the cheating they need to do it and just accept the prison time after. Of course, that will work but once, and then they will have some real problems because people will finally admit our election system needs an overhaul, but one to make it easier to audit and harder to cheat in.
Commies in America will always try to steal elections. They count on Americans getting complacent by not standing by traditions that ensure fair courts, uncorrupt govt, and fair and transparent elections.
The Zuckerberg election fraud scheme was partly foreseen and it still worked. Hopefully, Republicans have rolled back enough unconstitutional COVID emergency election schemes that Republicans can beat the election fraud spread.
Has anything been done to keep them from doing the same fortifying that they did in the last election?
Are the elections more secure now or just not less secure?
NYS voters rejected three proposals intended to establish permanent Democrat rule. Hopefully there is similar action on the state level in other states.
Georgia Legislature rolled back many of the election fraud schemes Democrats used in 2020/2021.
We are about to get rid of current traitors Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger.
Brad Raffensperger Continues to Secure the Vote; Announces Partnership with Salesforce and MTX to Modernize Georgia’s Voter Registration System
Both Gov and SoS are trying to act like the election 2020/2021 had no problems yet they are frantically rolling back the schemes that led to massive election fraud 2020/2021.
This was good for the American people because it now prevent another election from being
stolenfortified.No it doesn’t. Most of the fortification takes place on the state/urban level where the democrats control the vote counting.
This law was supposed to allow them to make it legal for them to rig elections at a federal level… Not getting that is a win IMO.
I wouldn’t call it a win. It’s just not a loss.
“changing the Senate rules just cause you want to do a runaround the system to pass a law to allow you to cheat”
It really is that simple. It’s astounding that we have so many people willfully blind to this.
The Big Lie: Joe Biden Casts Doubt on Legitimacy of Midterm Elections – I mean it depends on who wins
from the dictionary
legitimate
See definitions in:
all
law
theatre
adjective
adjective: legitimate
/lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/
1.
conforming to the law or to rules as the left would want them to be.
“his claims to legitimate authority”
You will be banned for questioning clearly rigged elections that have democrats wining, but any election that doesn’t get won by democrats is absolutely illegitimate. I wonder if the ban hammer policies will be used on team blue when they start whining or if that whole policy simply stops then (and more likely only remains in place about the 2020 election results).
“It’s no longer about who gets to vote; it’s about making it harder to vote,” Biden said during an angry speech in Georgia. “It’s about who gets to count the vote and whether your vote counts at all. It’s not hyperbole; this is a fact.”
He’s in the same weird position as Trump was in 2017: not accepting that he himself was indeed elected by a process he decries. This after even Trump-appointed judges threw out essentially every lawsuit over 2020 because UFO anal probes were controlling their minds. No election is perfect, but it’s just childish to continue to assert that millions of votes can be stolen and nary a shred of evidence captured that will stand up in court.
What there are is millions of are voters who would love to vote for a mature, sane, principled candidate. Do it, GOP: get off your dead ass and deliver a functioning adult I can vote for. I fucking dare you.
Now who’s delusional?
Looks like the UFO anal probes got to you too.
Anyone denying that the vast majority of votes for Biden were legitimate. Some (maybe the entire margin, maybe not) were very suspicious. But I keep hearing around here that “no one *I* know voted for Nixon” (who was re-elected with a vastly greater popular vote percentage) with regard to Biden. That’s delusional.
Do you think there was no funny business?
All the places that “shut down” miraculously came back with Biden leads.
They blocked windows.
People were videoed bringing in boxes.
There were any affidavits presented attesting to shenanigans.
Not saying no one voted for him, but I would like to get an accounting.
*many*
Do you have a reading comprehension problem?
maybe the entire margin, maybe not
Meaning, millions, anywhere from 2 or 3 to 10 or 12. We certainly do not know. Nor we will ever know. We can be quite reasonably certain that at least as many legit votes were cast for Biden as were for Trump. Anyone who can’t see that, is so up Trump’s ass as to be as blind as “no one I know…”.
Personally, I think it was the margin. If there were enough legit Biden votes, there wouldn’t have been a 1 am circus.
I think the fact we’re not sure and never will be is a bigger long term problem than anyone wants to admit.
“I think the fact we’re not sure and never will be is a bigger long term problem than anyone wants to admit.”
This is why they had to censor and punish people that questioned the election results. You only do that when you know you had to cheat so much that any serious look will fuck your pretense the thing was legit,
The thumb was on the scale – the question is how hard was it pushing?
Juris i- They have already found enough illegal ballots and violations of election laws to invalidate ballots to cover the margin of “victory” for el Presidente Biden in AZ, GA, MI, WI, and PA. I think election fraud happened in every state because there was unprecedented unconstitutional changes to election laws to get mail-in voting without approval of state Legislatures.
That means that Trump won or we dont know who won and Congress should have voted under the 12th Amendment. The majority of states would have chosen Trump and he would be president.
The Democrats didnt want either of those outcomes, so they shut down all discussion about election fraud.
The evidence of election fraud are clear.
In Georgia it illegal to count ballots without observers being able to be present. The video most have seen was the water pipe breakage and count stop lies, then they continued to count ballots.
Tens of thousands of ballots were counted from voters who voted in the county they DONT live in, which is also illegal in Georgia.
Tens of thousands of absentee ballots did not follow Georgia law on signatures and other accountability issues.
Most of those came from counties that went el Presidente Biden. One can assume that Trump won or we can never know and Georgia’s EC votes should never have been certified as correct.
Democrats knew they would lose a Presidential vote with the House because each state only got one vote.
The delusion referred to Don’s last paragraph. All political parties are clown shows. Trump got the nomination in 2016 despite the GOP doing what they could to get a candidate that would get beaten by Hilary.
The GOP succeeded in putting up a candidate that should have gotten beat by Hillary. She ran the worst campaign in all history.
All Democrats run horrible campaigns. They are pieces of shit. Their messages are garbage.
el Commendante Biden ran a campaign barely leaving his basement.
Democrats wouldnt be committing flagrant election fraud if they could beat people like Trump based on legal votes. Its not worth the risk. Democrats are so desperate to not lose power, they have to commit more crimes to defeat Republicans nationwide.
Do you really just not get that Trump is a piece of shit too? That millions of people are turned off by him. I personally can’t stand the asshole even as I can give credit to things he did, or said he would do (*cough* getting out of shitholes *cough*). The very best thing Trump did was delegate the selection of judges, because it is clear from who he surrounds himself with that he has absolutely no talent for picking people.
I can’t stand Trump as a person either that much either (though I enjoy him making certain people lose their fucking marbles), but the fact that he is willing to fight the fucking evil D.C. machine, and especially the evil leftist movement, makes him an ally to me. I find that machine to be far more of a threat to my liberties and wellbeing than Trump and his shenanigans ever will be.
JI, they are all pieces of shit. Every Last One Of Them.
But what isn’t a piece of shit is our laws. Which we saw obliterated in that election in the service of TDS.
Juris imprudent- I dont consider Trump a piece of shit. I also dont consider Rand Paul a piece of shit. Based on the fact that I dont know either one personally, so going by their public persona and what they have done and said.
The millions of people that are turned off by Trump have their reasons, I’m sure. I am also fairly confident that the reasons they have are exactly the reasons that I think he did well.
I would like to know specifically why people dont like Trump. I take it mean tweets are the #1 reason. People used to LOVE Trump and the media wanted to know everything about Trump. They even treated him like some royal family.
As for picking people, I have said before and some people forget that Trump didnt have a big staff when he won. The after he won, the Lefties harassed anyone that considered working for his Administration. Then you had the bureaucrats that refused to do their job or violated their oaths of office because Orange Man bad. I think Trump did extremely well for the circumstances.
I don’t like Trump because he failed to use his power effectively. He didn’t pardon three really important people and he left the 1/6 bobos in the lurch.
Bolton, Fauci, mandates and lockdowns.
He recruited poorly and badmouthed everyone who left. No one in their right mind would work for the guy anymore.
He was fun for awhile, but really just solidified why Top. Man. fantasies are just that.
Tundra- He asked for recommendations to pardon people. Did you submit 3 recommendations? As for Jan 6 protesters, not sure how he left them in the lurch. Maybe he should have pardoned everyone. That also requires paperwork. Who was going to do all that paperwork? Not the Commie bureaucrats for sure. Trump was clearly surprised multiple times at how corrupt our govt acted. He clearly wants to help America but had no idea how corrupt it was. Even after hanging with Democrats for decades and then being President for 4 years. I didnt think the DOJ would charge people who did vandalism with more than a misdemeanor. We were all wrong.
Bolton and Fauci are pieces of shit. You people complain that he needs people to do things. Bolton was experienced in govt. Who else will do the job? fauci has been in govt for 40 years. There are also federal rules on who a President can fire once they work for the federal govt.
Trump’s mean words to pieces of shit that got fired or left because they couldnt get away with being traitors anymore? McCabe? That guy should be in prison. Trump said mean things about him, oh no! I would absolutely work for Trump’s Administration. I was even going to volunteer to be Secretary of the VA but my wife said “no” once the Lefties went after nominees. She knew that defending myself in D.C. would be different than defending myself in Georgia.
There were no federal lockdowns. Just like Georgia didnt have a lockdown. There were no federal mandates under Trump.
He’s not a Top Man. He’s an America who tried to fix things and did well. America used him and he sacrificed a lot for something he didnt have to do. Top Men are like Hillary and Biden. They want to steal from people and destroy America in the name of Socialism/Communism/whatever.
For people who dont understand why Trump is so successful, its not really hard to see.
I also thought that Presidents are privvy to intel briefings that we are not.
Maybe Trump had been informed about the govt agents during Jan protests and those are the people he meant would be punished.
I also think Trump does not want Civil War 2.0 to be violent. He still thinks things can be resolved via govt process. I disagree with him there.
I think the lawsuits were thrown out in part because the judicial system is uniquely unsuited for resolving election disputes. It’s just too damn slow. Bush v Gore was a one-off, and the judges saw the blowback from that and don’t want to stick their dicks in the political hornets nest again. The prioritize the “legitimacy” of the courts above all else, and “picking winners” of elections is a good way to damage their legitimacy.
“I think the lawsuits were thrown out in part because the judicial system is uniquely unsuited for resolving election disputes.”
That’s by design. The system is unauditable and full of problematic pitfalls, by design, so the people that want to cheat can do so with less chance of actually getting punished (getting caught isn’t enough).
The courts would have never picked the winner. The courts could have quickly thrown out illegal ballots or determined that state certifications were not valid. Then Congress gets one vote per state to decide the Presidential winner, as the Constitution says.
People really think that fraudulent elections should be accepted because the alternative is too horrible. We are living the consequences of that garbage train of logic.
If we live in a nation with Rule of Law over Rule of Man, then elections are not certified until claims are quickly resolved on their merits. The Founders had to wait months until the elections were finalized. I would rather wait 5 months and have fair and transparent elections than expect results in 8 hours and get massive Democrat election fraud.
“nary a shred of evidence captured that will stand up in court”
The courts never even got to the evidence-gathering part of the lawsuits. As we saw from the audits, elections as they are currently run are essentially unauditable to any reasonable standard. In a normal audit, refusal to cooperate and results like we saw in AZ, at least, would mean people are fired in job lots and the result thrown out. But by the time you get there, the election is final, the “winner” has been seated, and the pubsecs are, of course, immune from consequence.
Did any court case get far enough along to present evidence? My understanding was that they were dismissed on various procedural grounds prior to discovery.
The system put the one entity that couldn’t really do anything about proving fraud, because its procedures prevent you from ever getting to that point for some reason, in charge of finding fraud….
What can I say?
I believe you have to have a plausible tort to proceed to discovery. If you fail at that hurdle (and it isn’t that high a one), isn’t that an indication that your case was frivilous?
There are many reasons for a case to be rejected at that stage, and a viable claim is only one. I thought most of them were rejected on “ripeness and mootness” grounds. Granted, I haven’t followed the drama in a long while, so my memory may not be correct.
“Standing” was a favorite too, as I recall.
It was a big scam by courts avoiding making any real decisions about verified claims of election fraud.
First the claims were not ripe because the evidence collection would take a few months, then moot because the results had been certified.
Then people wonder why America is in Civil War 2.0
The courts literally are there to resolve disputes. If they refuse to resolve a dispute one way or the other, we dont need them. Dismissing a claim because the claim is too politically charged is something we should not let judges get away with.
No. But the narrative is that the courts rejected all lawsuits on merit.
Millions of ballots were illegal around the USA in election 2020. Wisconsin had hundreds of thousands of voters vote illegally by mail when they were not allowed to under state law. Those claims were ignored by the courts because the judges of all stripes are pieces of shit who dont follow the Constitution or state constitutions.
It is funny when people dismiss real and legitimate claims of election fraud because Orange Man bad.
I for one cant wait for Trump to run and win a third time with a second term as President. It will be fun to watch the irrational trump haters speak their nonsense.
Board suspends doctor, orders neuropsych eval for COVID claims echoed by mainstream scientists – probably committed blasphemy against our lord and savior Science
Say three Hail Faucis and a Lets go Brandon, and you are back in the clear?
Biden is slammed after his ‘rambling’ first press conference in 78 days in which he claimed he had ‘over-performed’ during first year despite 7% inflation, tanking approval, COVID chaos and woeful Afghan withdrawal
C’mon, man. He totally overperformed and overdelivered. All that criticism is a bunch of malarkey.
“Can’t we all just get along”
CDC Says Natural Immunity Outperformed Vaccines Against Delta Strain – natural immunity is Russian disinformation it is not real get that 4th vax in March when it will be made special for the omicron, even though the omicron may be gone by then
Someone didn’t get the memo about letting the pharma companies clank in even more moolah with this racket…
President Joe Biden questioned the legitimacy of the 2022 midterm elections, after repeatedly lecturing former President Donald Trump and Republicans for casting doubts on the 2020 presidential election.
Democrats lose: illegitimate
Democrats win: Cleanest election in history.
Elections are only fair and accurate when a demcorat wins and holds power. Otherwise you are dealing with anti-democratic and totalitarian shit. Cause everyone knows that demcorats should hold perpetual power like they do in these democrats strongholds….
“FBI seen taking evidence from Texas Democrat congressman’s home”
Was this done to send a message to Sinema and Manchin? Cause you know the only time the crime syndicate goes after its own is when they are pissed that their own are not letting them commit enough criminal shit.
When I see “FBI takes evidence” now, I wonder what they are covering up.
That was my first though as well
They’re just holding on to it like in Raiders.
Biden acknowledged missteps since taking over from Trump, citing ‘a year of challenges.’
These included that he ‘didn’t anticipate’ the ferocity of Republican obstruction to his agenda in Congress.
They didn’t get the MANDATE memo.
god damn wreckers man always wrecking agendas
They didn’t get the MANDATE memo.
Yeah, a 48 seat minority in the Senate and a bare majority in the House. I think the voters sent a message – that the party keeps ignoring.
For all my concerns about #Facebook, I believe that Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy. It’s state-sponsored propaganda, with few if any opposing viewpoints. Where’s the hearing about that?
CNN, MSNBC, etc. could not be reached for comment.
So not forget good old NPR
So… bring back the Fairness Doctrine?
?? Dictionary definition of progjection.
Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sinema, D-Ariz., joined all Senate Republicans in opposing the attempt to alter the Senate filibuster on party lines, resulting in a 48-52 final tally. That vote followed a failed attempt by Democrats to advance the election bills over the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. All Republicans opposed it.
And just like that, democracy dies because of two people who represent a tiny minority of backwater hicks.
If the DNC had ran better candidates in other states they wouldn’t be having this problem. Tough titty.
CDC Says Natural Immunity Outperformed Vaccines Against Delta Strain
Oh I get it. We still have to pretend that natural immunity is this new strange thing that we don’t fully understand and expect to outperform artificial means of protection from viruses.
This, more than anything else, screams they’re nothing but a pack of liars.
Wait, you think that your body’s response to contact with an entire virus might be more varied and robust than its response to one isolated protein structure?
You probably believe in rebalancing the humors too.
From the Reuters article on this:
You see, you can never be too protected.
“iowest among those who had never been infected or vaccinated”
Wow, I’m glad they did a study to come up with that.
Unplanned Porn Derails Government Meeting For A Very Awkward 30 Seconds
They should have known better than to let Jeffery Toobin attend.
Italians would’ve known what was going on with him since he wasn’t talking with his hands.
Starbucks ditches Biden’s vaccine mandate after Supreme Court ruling.
That was fast. Some part of me thought corporate would go ahead and keep their mandates, but apparently not. I guess the vibe you get from listening to npr for 10 minutes every morning and evening will skew my sense of normal response to the vaccine mandates. They were such cheerleaders when starbucks announced this. The update was quiet.
Pravda all of it.
I will say Biden sounds much better on radio where the pauses and rambling seem far less out of place than when you actually look at the guy.
On the flip side, Columbia sportswear and Carhartt are both going ahead with the mandate. What world are we in where the coffee shop drops the mandate that their clientele (probably) wants, while the outdoors clothing companies push the mandate that their clientele (almost definitely) doesn’t want?
Columbia maybe, but Carhartt apparently thinks the ironic hipsters are their main clientele.
I like Columbia stuff. Sucks that they went this direction.
Though the cargo shorts I loved from them haven’t been in stock for more than a year or more.
I liked Columbia short sleeve button ups. This is sad. Carhartt is nuts to go on with this. Columbia can survive the bad press. Carhartt is the #1 supplier of field and ranchwear. Not a hipster brand. Here’s hoping Duluth Trading doesn’t make the same public announcement. I need pants from somewhere.
I wear Carhartt jeans.
I have enough to last another year or so.
Might have to go to something else.
Check out Duluth Trading.
Heh. I remember when the 2010 midterm results came in, and the next day the dipshit on NPR, their politics guy, was trying to make sense of them for the listeners. You could hear the sweat dripping from his face.
Aaron Babbitt said that his wife was in fear for her life, which is why she tried to climb through the window to escape the commotion. Babbitt was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd as she tried to climb through the broken window. At no point did she pose an active threat to any of the officers including Byrd, who recently admitted he could not see if she was armed, and had no cause to believe she was a threat to him.
Nothing to see here. Move along,
subjectcitizen.I wasn’t aware of that. I have been wondering why he hasn’t been unpersoned yet if he’s as horrible as every MSM has implied.
He always asked permission beforehand. Just like that comedian guy who always asked if he could whack off in front of women., And that definitively proved that it’s ok as long as you ask first.
Actually…. kinda yeah.
That depends, HR ‘sexual misconduct’ of having affairs with subordinates, he has admitted to.
Bill Clinton nods sagely.
People should only donate to groups we approve of
Experts see ‘red flags’ at nonprofit raising big money for Capitol riot defendants
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Because the Patriot Freedom Project says it is seeking tax-exempt status – which means it would not have to pay certain state and federal taxes, and donors could deduct their contributions at tax time – it has to comply with legal standards that for-profit organizations do not. And NPR’s examination of the organization’s public filings and court records uncovered what charity experts described as “red flags.”
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Regardless of the group’s politics, and its controversial approach to the Capitol riot, charity experts said the group should take concerns about transparency seriously.
“We know very little about this organization,” said Sean Delany, a former assistant attorney general in charge of the Charities Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. “However, what we do know presents some concerns.”
Blah blah blah. Get back to me when you’re prepared to give every political charity microscopic scrutiny.
These people are bilking Americans out of their hard earned money so they can use it to undermine DEMOCRACY!
As soon as I see “experts” I dismiss it as bullshit.
political charity microscopic scrutiny
Oo! oo! Start with the Center for Technology and Civic Life!
Southern Poverty Law Center?
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Experts see ‘red flags’ at nonprofit raising big money for Capitol riot defendants
As if those insurrectionists deserve legal representation.
‘Rosen continued: ‘Well, so, the question I have for you, sir, before — if you’d let me finish — is: Why do you suppose such large segments of the American electorate have come to harbor such profound concerns about your cognitive fitness? Thank you.’
Biden replied: ‘I have no idea.’
Without doing any research I seem to recall reading several articles prior to his tenure as VP stating the claim that one of the worst kept secrets within the Beltway was that Biden was possibly the dumbest Congress Critter of all. If so, I’m sure the subsequent years have been less than kind.
Biden replied: ‘I have no idea.’
Not a single one, it’s true.
Biden was always dumb. Watch his questioning of Sowell regarding affirmative action.
Starts at around the 6 minute mark here.
He was too stupid to even grasp the arguments Sowell was making.
That being said, at least he could talk like he knew things back then.
I can only think of a handful of Congress-critters in my lifetime that were anywhere near Sowell’s level.
True, but most of them would at least grasp that they were getting their ass handed to them.
Biden had no clue how dumb he looked.
Yeah, I think good ol’ Joe was pretty representative of just how dumb most of them are – and too egocentric to realize it.
Mazie Hirono comes to mind…
Ack! No!!! Do not summon the beast!
Ouch.
“No, Joe. I’m not saying blacks are too dumb to be at MIT. I’m saying population demographics, opportunities and culture apathy may play a part in the amount of black people capable of succeeding at MIT. It might be within the best interest of highly intelligent black people to seek an education at other learning institutions.”
…”Uncle Tom.”
Check this shit out… Especially this quote:
“The shooting victim was identified as Satario Natividad, 51, by grieving relatives who demanded charges for the gunman, who was questioned by homicide detectives.
“He did not have to come out and shoot him,” one of Natividad’s lifelong friends, Tanya Dunn, told the paper.
“It was a car! All he had to do is call the police. … You don’t shoot someone out in the street over a car.””
Yeah, fuck you. Don’t steal the car and you are sure nobody will shoot at you.
And check this fucking tidbit out: “A firearm was found in the crashed car along with tools and catalytic converters, police said while walking back an earlier announcement that it had been a carjacking.
Natividad’s widow, Sherell, was angered at the suggestion, asking, “How could it be a carjacking when no one was in the car?””
These people now feel entitled to being able to commit crimes without consequences. Think that through. If you believe you should be able to commit crimes with no serious consequences, will you be less or more likely to feel you should commit crimes?
There ought to be a law!
No one thinks of the poor, poor cops who have their hands tied:
Old and busted: “Taser, Taser, Taser!”
Hawt: “Catalytic Converter, Catalytic Converter!”
Life is more important than property
So then don’t risk your life by stealing people’s property.
This seems to be what angers these people: that you feel you have a right to protect your property when they come to steal or destroy it….
Yeah, not sure I would pull the trigger on someone trying to steal my car. I might show a weapon, but it would be hard for me to take a life over a car.
YMMV
Fuck that. If you come on my property to steal or break my shit, and I do a use of force analysis and feel you outnumber me and that just trying to stop you could endanger me in this world today where the criminals are emboldened to harm you for preventing them from fucking you over, then I will shoot your ass and ask questions later.
You approach the criminal breaking into your car and when they dont run, you kill them. Then its self-defense. Its that easy.
Outnumbered 3 to one that is one heck of a risk you are taking…
And these criminals have no compunction ending your life or causing serious bodily harm because you interrupted them at their criminal endeavor…
And then you go to jail, with all the fun that entails. That’s easy, too.
OTOH, people breaking into cars generally have weapons (tools) in their hands. If you confront a thief with a crowbar, say, and he doesn’t run, well, whose to say he didn’t threaten you with it? Not the thief, he dead.
One of my instructors was pretty adamant about this subject. He gave numerous examples of people who went to jail for trying to protect property, including their homes (garage, actually).
Unless the thief has a weapon, I’m waving adios to the car.
1. If there 3 criminals messing with my truck or car, they are outnumbered. Have 14 bullets and an extra magazine.
2. In my part of Georgia, we dont lock people up for self-defense homicide. Especially when there are 3 dead criminals and one of you.
3. Dead men tell no tales, as RC Dean points out.
Tundra. you dont say that you were protecting the car. You were going to see what was happening. 3 criminals appeared and you were in fear for your life and protect yourself from serious bodily injury. You shot each one with 1 bullet to the skull.
Justifiable homicide.
“Life is more important than property”
Literally everything I own, was paid for with dollars that I traded hours/days/whatever of my life to acquire. You are literally stealing my life when you steal my property.
Good
You don’t shoot someone out in the street over a car.
I do if you are trying to steal mine. Don’t want to get ventilated? Don’t steal.
Jensen Ackles: Jessica Alba was ‘horrible’ to work with on ‘Dark Angel’ ]
https://pagesix.com/2022/01/19/jensen-ackles-jessica-alba-was-horrible-to-work-with-on-dark-angel/
Now there is no end of political derp round these parts, but this is one of the stupidest articles I read recently. It says nothing. And who the fuck cares. Dark Angel was ages ago, though Jessica Alba in that show caused funny feelings to young Pie
A cold breeze used to cause funny feelings to young Alex….
Don’t care. Would. Then and now. With the fury of a thousand Suns.
I was struck by Alba’s performance in Sin City. Such great acting chops.
I am impressed by her T&A.. Too impressed to pay attention to her acting…
Medical regulators in Maine have taken the nuclear option against a doctor for her COVID-19 views and treatment protocols, immediately suspending her license and ordering her to undergo a “neuropsychological evaluation.”
That’s not soviet at all…
I ‘member when doctors could have and express different opinions presumably derived from a medical perspective. There was even a term for it: “Getting a second opinion.”
That’s back when stupid people thought the scientific process was how you settled questions. How crazy is it to actually allow people to question things and demand replication and proof when someone makes some pronouncement, huh? That’s total chaos and a serious problem when you need to tell people to believe in science that is bullshit so you can achieve political ends. That scientific process shit ruined the whole marxist AGW movement!
Today we have a much better system where we do science by consensus and with a heavy dose of censoring to prevent misinformation…. That’s how you do REAL science….
Isn’t seeing a specialist like getting a second opinion?
“I don’t know, man, maybe you should see a doctor?”
Now even getting a second opinion is gamed. Insurance will only pay for the second opinion if it comes from a doc recommended by the first doc. Yeah, no chance of an echo chamber there, no siree.
If you want an independent second opinion, you have a much harder time getting one.
Biden suggests Trump is working to ‘intimidate’ the ‘entire’ Republican Party
1. Trump is not “intimidating” the GOP. He’s leading the Republican Party.
2. Democrats havent known leadership since Robert E. Lee and they took down all his statues.
Trump doesn’t lead the Republican party, he used it.
Lee didn’t fight for Democrats or the Confederacy; he fought for Virginia.
Trump is the Republican Party. For now anyways. Good thing too. Trump has led the Republican Party well.
Lee left the Union Army to join the Confederacy. His first assignments were to defend Savannah, Georgia. So, no he didnt “fight for Virginia”. He said lots of things about he joined the Confederacy. Lee was the highest ranking military officer in the Confederacy at one point. Virginia was the seat of the Confederacy at one time.
Some say Lee sought glory and knew he might get it in the Confederacy. He probably would have distinguished himself in the Union Army too but we will never know. Most of his family were pro-Union.
Why would you hope a 90s Democrat is now the Republican Party? Trump didn’t lead the Republicans to victory in ’20, they won despite him. I’m getting the sense here that you just love Trump and nothing will change that.
How is Trump a 90’s Democrat? He’s more Libertarian-ish than any Libertarian who has held federal office.
Trump won the majority of legal votes in 2020 and therefore EC votes. But for Democrat election fraud.
As for Republican taking back the House, not sure how that is solely Trump’s fault but I bet 2022 and 2024 lead to bigger gains for Republicans than they could have gotten in 2020. Republicans won the US Senate majority but for election fraud in Georgia. The same folks involved with Georgia election fraud in Nov 2020 were not magically gone for the special election 2021.
Im getting the sense you hate Trump no matter what. Nothing will change that, evidently. I didnt vote for Trump in 2016 but did in 2020. I will also defend Trump for what he did right and criticism him for what he did wrong.
“Did you ever think that one man out of office could intimidate an entire party?”
I know, it’s crazy to think that. Yet the entire Democrat party is terrified of him and willing to do anything, and I mean anything, to stop him.
Trump fought Commie policies in govt. Trump inspires Americans to dissent against tyranny. Trump inspires people to leave the Democrat party.
He is dangerous as fuck to Commie Democrats.
Trump showed everyone that acquiescing to the smear and lies attacks from the left or to try to engage them in a conversation using logic, facts, and reason was how you ended up curb stomped, but fighting them back with their own tactics took them down. THAT’S what the left fears/hates him for.
+10000000000000000000
Trump distracted them with tweets and rolled back govt where he could. He is a huge danger to Lefties. Its why they are lashing out like this.
Same reason Commies torture populous dissidents. make an example of them, so others might not try it.
Proofreader fail.
She went through a narrow opening in a barrier. The very definition of diffusion!
the first thing inn google:
Tip
Similar-sounding words
diffuse is sometimes confused with defuse
I blame a lack of transparency,
Criminal Gangs Are Making Billions Selling Illegal Tobacco From Derelict Shops
Middle Eastern gangs are using rundown shops in the UK as a front to sell illegal tobacco. The immigrants working for them are victims of modern slavery, investigators tell VICE World News.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdgnx/criminal-gangs-are-making-billions-selling-illegal-tobacco-from-derelict-shops
“Between 2019 and 2020, the UK’s tax authority HMRC estimated as much as a third of the 12,000 tonnes of rolling tobacco smoked in the UK was bought and sold illegally. Around 2.5 billion illegal cigarettes, 12 percent of the total market, were smoked. Overall, £2.3 billion in lost tax revenue went up in smoke. ” – there is the real issue
But one has to feel for the UK government. They are trying their best to improve people’s health and than all these unforeseeable things happen.
There. Are. No. Middle. Eastern. Gangs. You. Bigot!
groups of british chaps of the Mahomedan persuasion then
It was absurd we accepted lockdown
It isn’t just the parties that should make us so angry, but the draconian restrictions themselves
https://thecritic.co.uk/it-was-absurd-we-accepted-lockdown/
Here. With all the shit in the world, have some cuteness:
Akron Zoo animals playing in the snow
SQUEEE!!
Super cute. I liked that the ring tailed lemur was given a bowl of snow to play with, since he is not adapted for hanging out and wallowing in the snow.
I really needed that today. Thank you Neph.
Unprecedented!
Youngkin names Angela Sailor to be Virginia’s Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Sailor previously said critical race theory was “the complete rejection of the best ideas of the American founding” warning it was “a dangerous philosophical poisoning in the blood stream.” …
Glenn Youngkin has asked all of the state’s DEI employees to resign and tapped anti-critical race theory leader Angela Sailor to lead the department. In her first move, Sailor eliminated the word “equity” and replaced it with “opportunity.”
How about eliminating the position?
Probably needs the legislature to do that.
What’s wrong with a reverse skin-suiting?
It leaves the position to be filled by a zealot on the other side, next time the elections swing that way.
Fair point, I was thinking short-term.
Too bad he couldn’t appoint Jim Jones as head of DEI.
Anyone who doesn’t fire all the DEI staff, all of them, is doomed to failure. They are committed ideologues. The only way to stop CRT is to fire them all. As long as they are ensconced in the state bureaucracy, they will continue to do what they do.
I wonder if her “request” to resign is going to be backed up with terminations. And I wonder if it includes the state universities.
“Did you ever think that one man out of office could intimidate an entire party?” Biden asked, seemingly pointing to Trump, but without ever invoking his name.
Somebody’s deeply envious.
Maybe he meant George Soros.
The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Entire Medical Establishment Threatened By Comedian Who Gets High And Talks About MMA And Aliens
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1483916761833648137
The leftist reaction to Rogan simply having doctors on to give their opinions is something to behold.
These people are either true believers or disgruntled SCIENCE! expats that don’t want to believe their government and vaunted medical industry snookered them.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/01/19/shot-2022-hesco-unveils-new-body-armor-line/
Wow.
we do not need body armor in civilized Europe
It helps when you’re already immune to bullets.
That’s seriously impressive.
And I was just talking with a buddy about how boring the SHOT Show haul was this year…
Glenn Youngkin has asked all of the state’s DEI employees to resign
Eeeeeeexcellllent.
Kill that grift right in the crib.
Asking is a long way from firing.
Is it an executive level office? Dissolve it or reporpose if they don’t resign. You have new duties.
Commensurate with your education and training – this is your mop.
The global war on religion
The death of religious freedom heralds a dark new chapter in world history
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-global-war-on-religion/
“Nothing has done more to both epitomise and intensify the collapse of human rights than the calamitous US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan. Undoing twenty years of diplomatic, financial, educational and military investment, it demonstrated to the world a lack of will by western governments, and especially the USA, to promote and defend principles which transcend mere national interests”
“Today, while self-designated victim groups in the West continue to devalue rights discourse in the oppression Olympics, in the Peoples Republic of China the real Olympics are going ahead against a backdrop of real victims of injustice, persecution and according to parliament — genocide. ”
“To put it into context, in the top 50 countries alone, 312 million Christians face very high or extreme levels of persecution. Across the almost 100 countries researched, more than 360 million suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith — an increase of 20 million since last year. Globally, that’s one in every seven Christians.
Why does any of this matter? Two reasons. First, (and you would expect me to say this) it matters because, despite the secular protestations to the contrary, Christianity is good thing for any free and diverse society. Indeed, as the historian Tom Holland has observed in his book Dominion, above all other factors, it is Christianity which makes possible secular protestations.”
“Nothing has done more to both epitomise and intensify the collapse of human rights than the calamitous US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan. Undoing twenty years of diplomatic, financial, educational and military investment, it demonstrated to the world a lack of will by western governments, and especially the USA, to promote and defend principles which transcend mere national interests”
Let us all shed a tear for the MIC.
Afghanistan does not appear to be interested in religious freedom.
Religious “freedom” allows the harm of Society by false religions. Enforcing the worship of the true Technotheocracy (hail Fauci full of grace, Obama is with thee) is the only thing that can enable true freedom.
Fweedom.
Religious liberty has been a minority position within all of Christendom. It took hold in this country only because so many different sects had established themselves (well apart from others) that it was necessary in order to create a union of all.
Speaking of the mandate- GE and Boeing dropped their “vaxx or GTFO” policies after the SC ruling.
Clicked too soon. It’s almost as if they realized there are people they don’t want to lose over it.
Israel’s Finance Minister calls for the ending of the Green Pass
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/1642529195-israel-s-finance-minister-calls-for-the-ending-of-the-green-pass
I hope Spain gets rid of it before my flight in late February
It all seems to be collapsing rather quickly.
I was speaking with an old friend who stated that she was following the Israeli protocols for COVID.
I wanted to say “So you’re trying to kill yourself?”
“Nothing has done more to both epitomise and intensify the collapse of human rights than the calamitous US-led withdrawal from Afghanistan. Undoing twenty years of diplomatic, financial, educational and military investment, it demonstrated to the world a lack of will by western governments, and especially the USA, to promote and defend principles which transcend mere national interests”
Whatever.
OFFS
The USA is not the guarantor of your rights. We can’t even guarantee our own anymore.
That Mitchell and Webb Look – Carnivore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JpRmmMyNYo
Good morning, my peeps! Thanks for the well-wishes and home remedy advice. Thank goodness the Covid booster hasn’t completely destroyed my ability to use my immune system; with zinc, chicken broth, multivites, tonic water, tons of sleep, Gatorade, and access to my nebulizer, I have managed to recover enough to breathe easy this morning.
I’m still not going in to work today, but feel decent enough to work from home.
Not today, Death. Not today.
Awesome.
Get well!
Good news!
glad to hear
Yay!
Great news
Winning!
Great news!
USA Toady: “Biden Just Threw Out His Bipartisan Playbook”
The Uniter-and-Healer-in-Chief is fed up. No more Mister Nice Guy.
He threw it out a year ago, and they’re just catching up?
I think he pretended to have one. From the getgo the plan was to punish Trump and those that supported him, and they were just going to be able to do it without attracting too much attention.
He didn’t throw it out. He kept it in the Oval Office bathroom. He would tear out pages to wipe his ass for the last year.
All he threw out now was just the empty cover.
SF knows — it was always only an empty cover.
So, the Irish Joy of Sex?
Their sliver majority in the House and 52/48 split in the Senate with their own party members bailing on signature issues really militates against bipartisanship, doesn’t it
USA Toady. I like it.
Biden is never about unity. Anyone who disagrees with him is a domestic terrorist.
Isn’t it funny that the rejection of Build Back Better is never described as Bipartisan? Because it was a bipartisan rejection for sure.
But if all the Dems had voted Yea and even one Republican had voted yea, it would be a Bipartisan win.
Not today, Death. Not today.
Bueno.
Probably not racist though.
Was this the Holocaust museum?
Good response.
As soon as I see “experts” I dismiss it as bullshit.
Expert, oracle, seer, high priest, wizard, conjurer, they’re all interchangeable at this point.
Too many people hear the word expert and thing they are dealing with someone that actually knows shit. There are many studies people that claim to be “experts” while the only expertise they have is in bullshit and evil.
Being an “expert,” at least as far as the media is concerned, means not admitting to any uncertainty which almost immediately disqualifies you as knowledgeable in my book.
As my father taught me long, long ago – an ex is a has-been and a spurt is a drip.
I just envisioned a scene where someone has collapsed and a crowd is forming. A guy asks “I don’t feel a pulse and he’s not breathing! Does anyone here know CPR??!!”
Expert: Yes, I’m an expert. (Keeps standing there with hands on hips).
Layperson with CPR/AED training: Get out of the way; we have work to do.
To be fair, the question was “Does anyone here know CPR??!!”, not will someone do CPR.
Happened to me at a restaurant with some friends. Buddy was choking and another buddy did the Heimlich on hm and saved him. Then two guys at the next table said “We’re firemen and you did an excellent job.” Yeah, thanks for sitting there and watching and not helping, professional assholes.
Indeed. All I hear is “Read to him the 29th Scroll, 6th verse…“
but Astrologers are legit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_6dkzL4VS4
Afghanistan does not appear to be interested in religious freedom.
They don’t show much interest in any of that other stuff (aside from the pallets of cash), either.
Not even a H/T for the Zoom Bomb FF Porn that I shared two days ago? One of these days.
https://imgur.com/MnvWh2I
Can anyone spot what has changed?
The little blue lines?
More contagious strain is outcompeting more deadly strain. Cases went up; deaths did not.
But even the “death count” seems to be dropping sharply at the very end.
Yep. This is the first wave without an accompanying death wave. Deaths are flat or maybe falling.
As I have said before, Omicron is a highly contagious flu strain. It is getting to being a moderately weak one too.
Even Gates has said that “After Omicron is passed, this is just another flu strain” or something to that effect. I think he is at least one strain late.
Even the prior death waves are now being re-examined.
Well yeah. I am sure they existed, if overstated.
Re-examined indeed, if they truly want to gather meaningful data for the future.
The incentives were high to count “deaths with” as “deaths from” but once the money is paid, maybe they can be honest.
There is a small up tick in deaths after the cases begin to rise in Nov->Dec, but it looks to be due to a bunch of after the holidays back log being cleared out. Then there is a whipsaw back and forth from likely the same reason in Dec and Jan.
An uptick in deaths during the winter. My gosh, that only happens every fucking winter..
So… go global warming?
It’s called Quietus Change now.
Noted authority
Attorney George Conway is criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) plans to establish a police agency to oversee elections in the state.
“It’s all play-acting, it’s performance art,” Conway, who made a name for himself as a high-profile critic of the Trump White House, said during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday.
Next, we interview a random drunken asshole on the latest Supreme Court voting rights decision.
Tried to listen to a bit of to some of Sleepy Joe’s press conference. I am way too ADD to listen to him speak.
Nice to see the little guys also profit from the Rona Panic
I wonder what regulation would have gone into effect at 200 nurses? I bet it is some union rule.
Also wonder how many local RN’s were fired because they wouldn’t get the jab?
It’s mostly from hospital admin incompetence, the rona only spotlights it.
My brother in law rents out his 400 sq. ft. condo near Harvard Med – for over 10 years – to nurses who have houses in the suburbs but need a place close to work to sleep because of all the overtime they put in. He makes at least $2500 a month on the rent and it’s less than a day’s pay for the nurses so they consider it a bargain compared to hotel rates. The nurses pull double shifts for a few months, then they burn out and let their friends pulling double shifts know of a place to stay nearby. Like I said, this has been going on for years, it’s not a covid phenomenon.
I know of no employed nurses who are getting $2500 for double shifts. Rates have definitely gone up, but I would guess our outlay for a double shift today is closer to $1800 for an ICU nurse, and that includes the incentives we now pay that we didn’t used to. Five years ago, we would have paid no more than $1,000 for a double shift.
I assume east coast cost of living means their wages are higher. You can’t find a 2-bedroom condo within a mile of the place for under a million. It is insane how many rich foreigners BUY 2-bedroom condos in the neighborhood because they are getting a special procedure done and need to be nearby for 6 months. And Harvard is a strange med school as they don’t have their own hospital, they have partnerships with other hospitals. So that may skew the wages a bit depending on how the employment is handled. I suspect there is some stipend Harvard pays directly on top of the wages that get paid by the hospital.
Traveling nurses can get at least $200/hr. 8hr, 12hr, 24hr shifts will add up quickly.
Are these the nurses they fired for being unvaxxed?
I’d like to thank this same nonsense for filling the hotels and jacking rates where I travel to regularly.
Wrong. They will pay the agency $275/hour. The nurses will get less than that, probably more than half, but less than two-thirds.
The going rate for agency nurses peaked at around $225, and as far as I know has been going down. Count on a government to overpay. The stipend for living expenses is also absurdly outsized. They will eat at least one, and sometimes two, meals a day at the hospital, for around $10 per meal.
Enjoy mammalian lordosis on Thot Thursday.
https://archive.md/lhHAn
The slow-motion insurrection continues.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Kari Lake announced plans to finish President Trump’s wall as Governor of Arizona.
In her official policy release, Kari established, “Any budget that fails to fully fund the border wall’s completion will be vetoed.”
On day one, Lake promises to issue a declaration of invasion to prevent the millions of illegal immigrants, cartel members, and trafficking victims, as well as the drugs that kill our communities, from pouring across our border.
Worse. Than. Hitler.
The entire state of Indiana is now under condition red. We finally ran the table! Hoosiers FTW!
I need more coffee, I read hooters for the win…..
Condition Red = winter.
Take that spread to Vegas and see what happens
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March.
The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has been trending upward since mid-November, reaching nearly 1,700 on Jan. 17 – still below the peak of 3,300 in January 2021. COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents started rising slightly two weeks ago, although still at a rate 10 times less than last year before most residents were vaccinated.
Despite signs that omicron causes milder disease on average, the unprecedented level of infection spreading through the country, with cases still soaring in many states, means many vulnerable people will become severely sick. If the higher end of projections comes to pass, that would push total U.S. deaths from COVID-19 over 1 million by early spring.
You’d have to be crazy to question the legitimacy of their projections.
“Could” is functionally the same as “could or could not”.
The 7 day average has been flat since December 1. There was a jump in late Nov, but there has been no upward “trend”.
Cherries were picked. Models were run. Press releases were released.
How many people die in an average winter month?
That is the beauty of it all…they still to get to tie death, which we never really reported daily, to this.
Are you saying that King Walz’s <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-gov-walz-issues-stay-000000091.html"predictions of 70K deaths in Minnesoda from the Rona without a lockdown were flawed?
Uffda. I’m still glad we locked down so we only had the predicted 50K deaths!
*narrator Minnesoda has had 11K deaths*
He is gonna claim without what he did the number would have been higher than 70K despite nothing pointing to that result.
Maybe that person saying Fox is state-sponsored propaganda wasn’t all wrong?
Not a recipe, but a historical beer article that I thought some of you would enjoy.
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2022/01/london-x-ales-1880-1899.html
Mmmm…. Fuller’s!
Minnesota will pay registered nurses $275 per hour, or more, through a temporary staffing agency, to work in hospitals struggling to care for COVID-19 patients during the omicron surge.
Those are terms of a $40 million contract with Texas-based SLS Health Services that state officials agreed to last week. The agreement also allows added pay for medical workers who work as supervisors as well as overtime and holiday pay when applicable.
An additional $345 per day, per person for food, lodging and other living expenses is also included.
Those poor nurses. Offering them all that money is worse than putting a gun to their heads. It’s a damn shame, it is.
My nephews wife is a traveling nurse. I could see her working in MN instead of Louisville for that kind of money. Although she is already making big bucks.
Bravo to FIRE for being true to their principles, even when the principals might inspire a Nelson laugh:
https://www.thefire.org/syracuse-punishes-student-for-asking-man-at-party-if-hes-a-canadian-sex-offender/
I hate everyone involved, but her eyebrows are making a good point..
TIL: You should never accuse someone of being a Canadian.
Don’t say “snowbacks,” instead say “heads of flappyness.”
Even if he got the exemption this poor fuck still must wear an N95 and test twice a week.
Science cannot be doubted.
That’s another one – contracted it twice? Was he actually sick/symptomatic twice, or just two positive tests?
It’s possible that the vaccines screwed up his natural immunity by overriding it with the more narrow immunity (antibodies) to the spike protein. This has been a point of speculation by several prominent immunologists.
Regardless, Hopkins is so far outside the established science here that it’s making a complete mockery of their status as a top institution for medical research.
El Gato Malo has been all over this. The most recent.
Given it is a coronavirus, isn’t it plausible to catch it twice?
especially if it was something like alpha and omicron.
Not likely unless there is a confounding issue with his immune system.
The CDC has openly admitted that they cannot point to a single confirmed case of double infection to someone who is naturally immune. Which is what leads me to suspect that the vaccines are causing a problem for him or he may have an immune deficiency.
Regardless, if he did catch it twice he is pretty good at surviving it. Is the next time when he dies and spreads it to 1,000s of people?
What do you mean? You can’t get it a third time?
I know at least 6 people personally who have gotten it twice. With symptoms. It appears that the original immunity did not protect you from the omicron strain. Although the latter is more mild, it specially contagious.
However, several reports suggest getting omicron protects you from delta or earlier strains.
Yog appear pretty well off getting omicron right now.
Enes Kanter FREEDOM
@EnesFreedom
When @NBA
says we stand for justice, don’t forget there are those who sell their soul for money & business like @chamath
the owner of @warriors
,
who says “Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs”
When genocides happen, it is people
like this that let it happen
Shame!
https://twitter.com/EnesFreedom/status/1483125462880694273
Appeasement
Face masks will no longer be mandatory in public places and COVID-19 passports will be dropped for large events as infections level off in most parts of the country, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Wednesday.
Johnson told lawmakers that the restrictions were being eased because government scientists think it is likely that the surge of infections prompted by the highly contagious omicron variant “has now peaked nationally.”
While hospitals in northern England still are getting pressed by high caseloads and infections were still rising in schools, Johnson said hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units elsewhere in England were stabilizing or falling.
The government is no longer advising people to work from home, and compulsory face masks will be scrapped in secondary school classrooms starting Thursday.
Mandatory COVID-19 passes will not be needed to gain entry to large-scale events beginning Jan. 27. Face masks will no longer be legally required anywhere in England as of that day.
“We will trust the judgment of the British people and no longer criminalize anyone who chooses not to wear one,” Johnson said.
Trust the judgement of the people? That’s crazy talk.
OMG he wants everyone to die.
See when the people and media hold his hypocrisy to the fire, it moved the needle.
Public revolts and demands more authoritarianism not less in 3, 2, 1, ….
Anya Parampil
@anyaparampil
Impossible to look at this data produced by @frrodriguezc
& deny sanctions are the driving force behind a drop in Venezuelan oil production
Since 2016 oil crash, each drop in production corresponds with a new sanction levied by US
This is a statistical “smoking gun”
https://twitter.com/anyaparampil/status/1483496518585827329
I like how her own graph shows the fall started before any US sanctions and it kept going but it was caused by the sanctions which were mild and the first ones should not have affected oil production
And the thing is, I do not think these sanctions are necessary or should have happened. Which is why it is silly for the US to do them. Because suddenly now it all becomes the sanction fault.
Sanctions give them a scapegoat.
See also, Cuba.
/decides to get Colombian and Venezuelan food Saturday
Some big tech companies shunning vaccine requirements really helps ease my mind that of FedGov fires me, I have more options.
I am sure Boeing loves poaching FAA employees
I wonder if SpaceX needs radar folks.
Telemetry for sure. I would DM Elon directly…”FedGov fired a 20 year veteran of the military and FAA….want a smart hard worker?”
He might do it just to stick it to the FAA for messing around with him.
I dunno the one’s I’ve met have been tough old birds. I think braising might be a better technique.
Maybe a marinade?
Fuck the Australian Open.
I’ve never seen a worse return of Serb in my life.
You aced that one.
Swiss is gonna give us no love for what you started
It wasn’t his fault!
These jokes are making a racquet.
You are the one stringing it along
*narrows gaze*
DOUBLE FAULT!
Swiss, you do a great job of keeping us in line, judging by your responses.
Obligatory.
A chalking video!
*eyes widen*
He really knows how to serve up that narrow gaze
Swiss has found the Pope to be in contempt of court.
I am sure Boeing loves poaching FAA employees
I’ll bet they do.
With regard to 5G/FAA stand-off…
Honestly, it’s a “could interfere” situation not a “will interfere” situation
Yes it is, but this should’ve been tested/resolved long before 5G towers were going up. I’m sure it didn’t because it is really a bunch of bureaucratic in-fighting.
As noted by others, it really appears airlines dragged their feat (similar to the ADS-B rollout) in hopes FedGov would foot the bill.
I think another aspect behind Russia’s sharp anti-western turn is the oil boom windfall money. Even if they wanted to before they couldn’t afford the confrontation, but after the oil money they felt they can.
https://twitter.com/ajaraisk1/status/1484098847005712386
First, his private army. Now this attack on democracy.
DeSantis is openly signaling that he is unhappy with the congressional map being proposed by the Senate. The Florida House has been taking a slower approach and has several draft maps still in play, including one that largely aligns with the Senate plan and another that much closely mirrors what DeSantis is proposing.
Newman, the DeSantis administration’s top attorney, issued a statement through the governor’s office shortly after releasing his maps that indicated they had “legal concerns” about in-play congressional maps, which DeSantis has the authority to veto. It’s a message largely being interpreted by legislative leaders as a threat to veto the congressional map if it reaches his desk.
“We have submitted an alternative proposal, which we can support, that adhere to federal and state requirements and addresses our legal concerns, while working to increase district compactness, minimize county splits where feasible, and protect minority voting populations,” Newman wrote in a statement that Florida House and Senate map drawers viewed as a veiled veto threat.
I would find it insulting if I was being told that they’re doing what they can to ensure that “my people” can elect someone who “looks like us” but maybe that’s just me.
Switched from machetes to needles.
A male resident of southern Rwanda’s Muhanga district told DW in a report published January 18 he was forcibly seized from his home at 4:00 a.m. on a recent morning by local administrative officials. The group allegedly dragged the man to a secondary locale where he was handcuffed and vaccinated against his will.
“Around 4 a.m. our local cell leader kicked in my door,” he told the broadcaster. A “cell” is the Rwandan government’s term for an administrative sector within a village or district.
“I thought they were thieves because I was still asleep. There were three people standing at my door, they ordered me to go to the sector offices, and I was handed over to security personnel and I was told that I was going to be vaccinated against my will,” he recounted.
Democrats swoon with jealousy.
I bet there are a lot of Hutu public health administrators who are extra frustrated. You know how hard it is to get Tutsi arms jabbed? Most of them are super rotten by now and smell horrible.
Daniel Tenreiro
@TenreiroDaniel
One of my biggest fears is a Russian invasion of Ukraine sets off a ground war that becomes a major vector of transmission for the novel coronavirus
https://twitter.com/TenreiroDaniel/status/1483672788359598089
lol
It’s getting harder and harder to separate satire from a real opinion.
I heard some clip from Victoria Nuland where she said the Russian people should be upset that Putin is thinking of invading Ukraine rather than focusing on Coronavirus and Build Back Better.
Another case of bad voters not bad leaders.
Tee hee
My expectation is that the merely “wealthy” residents there figured that this significantly reduced the number of flights there and said “hell yeah”.
They didn’t care how they got that result. Unintended consequences be damned, naturally.
I’m catching up on last night’s thread:
Gender Traitor – Sorry about what’s going on at work. I like Don’s advice to keep your eye on the prize, Athena’s advice to look at minimally compliant masks. Definitely talk with your boss, especially if you think he is sympathetic. I know you don’t want to look for work again, but I think employees have leverage in this market.
slumbrew – About your anniversary trip – I’ve been to Bermuda twice. I liked it, though it is expensive. I have no idea what is going on there about Covid restrictions. It also an easy trip from Boston: Direct flights are about an hour-and-a-half one way, and there used to be cruises from Boston to Bermuda. It’s a shame about Australia and Hawaii. I’ve been to Australia twice and enjoyed it. I’ve wanted to go to Hawaii, but I doubt I ever will. The suggestion of looking to Florida for coastal adventures is a good one. There is still a bit too much insanity going on about Covid.
Thanks, DEG – the easy access to Bermuda from here is part of the attraction.
The Margarittaville hotel in Pensacola was fun during Talk like a Pirate Day. Also many houses to rent along the Gulf coast.
I feel like I’m in paradise
https://twitter.com/cleflore23/status/1483995983356825600
No one needs how fucking many that is guns
That’s clearly not enough guns.
No need to be triggered by such a display.
It’s a decent collection stored in a cheap ass safe.
That’s the weirdest part.
Meh. “Safes” are for fire protection and preventing shoplifting.
Stopping anyone with power tools requires something waaaaaaay outside my budget.
Why would anyone put all their “eggs” in one basket?
Sprinkle those Arms all over the home.
But, it’s on tape SOMEWHERE, right?
https://nypost.com/2022/01/20/lady-gaga-teases-house-of-gucci-deleted-sex-scene-with-salma-hayek/
I can give you a copy for 1000 US
Oh my! Reddit users, roll out!
4chan Aspies….attack!
I’m conflicted.
Indeed. On the one hand, Selma Hayek. But on the other hand, Lady Gaga…
Precisely.
Now, Salma and Liz Hurley…
I need to go change my pants…thanks for that mental thought
If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion
Yowza.
This place rarely disappoints. I just forget that TresCool is here
Shit, is that Harvey Weinstein behind them? I choose to believe that his polluted touch came nowhere near them.
(who am I kidding?)
Well back to the drawing board I suppose
https://twitter.com/LilySimpson1312/status/1484152904378630152
Funny how we only ever seem to see this in retrospect.
Hubris is never in short supply at State.
Completely unanticipated results of telling your customers you don’t give a shit about them
United Airlines said the surge in Covid-19 infections has hurt bookings in recent weeks and will further delay its recovery from the pandemic.
The Chicago-based airline said it expects first-quarter revenue to be 20% to 25% below the same period in 2019 when it generated $9.59 billion.
United lowered its 2022 growth forecast, saying it would fly less this year than it did three years ago, scrapping its plan to increase capacity by 5% from pre-pandemic levels. Costs for the first quarter would be up by as much as 15%, excluding fuel, and capacity down by 16% to 18% from three years earlier.
Our policy of using the federal government as both an excuse and a cudgel to make flying as miserable as possible has had the completely baffling result of a decline in business.
Please, Massa, more bailouts?
Back from Covid purgatory. It punched hard but was over in about two days. Still feel like shit today but fever free and on the upswing. Kids all had fevers but are fine now.
My unvaxed wife had a fever for a few hours and then felt fine. My vaxxed ass was much sicker.
Good news
Good deal.
Did you treat it?
Yeah, followed the FLCCC protocol of zinc, quercetin, and ivermectin.
Wife took her dose of each as soon as symptoms started, took a nap, and felt fine afterwards. Took me a few days. We’re still taking daily zinc and quercetin but stopped ivermectin once fevers broke.
No treatments for the kids. Even with fevers they shrugged it off well.
Nice.
The ivermectin you set me up with?
Yep, exact same.
what form was that?
He embraced it!
I had a fever for a few hours too at the beginning, then felt like shit for four days. I didn’t test but I will assume it was the ‘cron.
That is what ran through our house….didn’t test, didn’t care too. Wife never had temp, I had a 99.7 temp for a day. Treated with grandma’s remedies…chicken soup and hot toddies
didn’t test, didn’t care
Ding ding. The vitamin, zinc, quercetin (plus ivermectin, if you are so inclined) combo is pretty much a general immune support/antiviral protocol, is my understanding. Should work against many(?) viruses (not sure about the flu).
Meant to add – there is no reason to run a test if the results won’t change what you do.
Right I posted on the assumption everyone is running D3, B12, Zinc and Quiene
Good morning, Banjos and Banjos-adjacent people.
Question:
Some of you have talked about a non-insurance medical option. I should have taken notes, but I didn’t.
Plane ticket to Ecuador
Medishare and Crowdhealth are two options
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1484154680082980866
*facepalm*
Oh god more co-worker chatter at a meeting this morning. One guy said “nobody wears a mask around here” so he “walks around wearing a respirator”. Thank God I was on mute.
I am part of the laptop class and these folks are peak representatives of the mold. I don’t think they can be helped.
Tree of Liberty has been dry for some time with assholes like that person walking around it with dull axe.
Gotta respect the grift though
https://newsnationusa.com/news/usanews/volcano-explosion-near-tonga-left-many-deaf-during-evacuation-witness-says/
Wow.
Here is a good article on how Japan is addressing the 5G airport issue. The comments are also usually more technical than most.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/19/5g_airliners_solved_by_japan/
Yesterday I saw an article (Daily Beast, maybe) about how Crazy Ron DeSantis is literally killing people while flushing monoclonal antibody treatments down the toilet.
Based purely on assertion, they claim
a) monoclonal antibody treatments are 100% ineffectual against the omnicron
b) every single case in the state of Florida is, without question, omnicron
That was about as far as I got.
Once again: Is there an effective and widely used means of verifying which variant any given patient has?
Forgive me if I seem ignorant, but I find it difficult to blindly follow what is obviously supposition-based SCIENCE!
Generally speaking, if it presents as an upper respiratory infection, it’s probably Omicron
If it presents as a lower lung infection, it’s probably Delta.
Is there an effective and widely used means of verifying which variant any given patient has?
Identifying a variant requires an expensive and relatively slow genetic analysis (not sure how long it takes to result). It is not done routinely, but is done on a sample (not sure how big) to try and track the spread of variants. IOW, there is an effective means, but it is not widely used.
Sounds like “close enough for government work.” Which makes one wonder why any potential patient would ever think socialized medicine is a good idea.
It’s not science. It’s scientism. Now wear your face yamaka and bow to Father Fauci or be deemed a blasphemer.
Thanks Scruffy.
I need a couple of prescription eye drops for glaucoma. Every ophthalmologist I have seen has said, “There is nothing we can/will do to fix this, except prescribe drops to relieve the pressure in your eye.” But that doesn’t stop them from holding the fucking rx for ransom by refusing to renew it without “regular checkups”.
Timolol? I am in the same boat, Absolutely have to go to the opthamalogist every 3 months just to get the drops.
Massie with a second case of the coof.
I bet the death wish comments are a bit lame.
For an off-grid, ultra-green MIT nerd, he sure gets peoples’ britches in a bunch.
He doesn’t belong to their church. Fucking people.
IOW, there is an effective means, but it is not widely used.
But that does not stop CDC from making wild “projections” which have had to be walked back.
Something something democratic norms.
Speaking to Politico, Cheney sought to indict Wyoming GOP Party Chair W. Frank Eathorne as guilty by association for his alleged enrollment in the grassroots group Oath Keepers, some of whose members have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot. Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted the group’s founder and 10 other individuals for “seditious conspiracy.”
“If you look at the fact that you’ve had a number of Oath Keepers indicted by the Department of Justice for a range of charges, including seditious conspiracy… it’s very clearly an organization that ought to be renounced,” Cheney said. “I think it is concerning that the head of the state Republican Party in Wyoming is apparently, reportedly a member of that organization.”
Nancy Pelosi very clearly should be renounced. Let’s hear it.
Oath Breakers Unite!
Free association attack
Because we can totally assume that the Department of Justice isn’t politically-motivated or anything.
I for one am glad that the Cheney name is dogshit politically. After she is gone from WY, I dont think we’ll see a Cheney near politics against in my lifetime.
Extreme incident
An American Airlines London bound flight from Miami was forced to turn around Wednesday night after a passenger refused to wear a mask.
Flight 38 was about an hour and a half into its flight to Heathrow Airport when it circled back and returned to Miami International Airport.
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Police dispatch called for officers to meet the plane at Gate D14 because at least one passenger was not respecting the mask mandate. Once it landed, more than 100 passengers were informed they had to get off the plane.
Many on the plane had no idea why it returned to Miami.
“Disappointed. They wouldn’t really say anything and I don’t think they told the flight attendants anything because all they would say is there was an extreme incident and they had to turn around,” said one passenger.
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American Airlines issued a statement apologizing for the inconvenience.
“American Airlines flight 38 with service from Miami (MIA) to London (LHR) returned to MIA due to disruptive customer refusing to comply with the federal mask requirement. The flight landed at MIA where local law enforcement met the aircraft. We thank our crew for their professionalism and apologize to our customers for the inconvenience.”
The flight was canceled as a result of the incident, leaving these flyers to seek alternate arrangements.
It’s surprising the plane was able to return safely before everyone on board succumbed.
I wonder if AA will take the plane out of service and quarantine it for 2 weeks? To be sure, it probably should be scrapped by a team of guys wearing hazmat suits and then the pieces put on a barge to circle the world’s oceans never to reach port until 10 years have elapsed from the date of the incident (assuming, of course, than no new variant is sweeping the globe in ten years.)
JFC this is madness.
Well, huh.
I just poked my nose out the door. Weather report: freezing rain and a layer of ice all over everything.
I don’t REALLY need to go anywhere, o I won’t.
That was yesterday here. I almost killed myself out walking the dogs.
Happily, today the sun is out and temp is climbing.
Alec Baldwin Sued for Defamation by Family of Marine Killed in Afghanistan
Instagram posts have consequences.