Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a beautiful morning it always is!
Pompeo: “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
In addition to being denied access to transition funds.
White House Budget Office preparing second term budget.
Cocaine Mitch re-elected Senate Republican Leader.
‘Member when Biden came up with the idea to investigate Flynn with the Logan Act? Oh, I remember.
Less than half in new poll believe Biden is legitimate winner of election. Or is it 80%? Who actually knows, the polling industry is dead. All polls coming from a mainstream pollster should be assumed to be propaganda.
They are not sending their best.
The retail apocalypse continues.
A good breakdown of Trump’s PA lawsuit if you have an hour to spare.
My favorite YouTube ranter, if you have 12 minutes to spare.
That is all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with the rest of my day.
Amen to that smooth transition!
Let the propaganda wars ramp up!
Don’t they have to get Billy Dee Williams to make it smooth?
Barry White…
Billy Dee Williams and Barry White walk into a Vitamix retailer…
Genuflecting to the hungry predator and hoping to feed him others to assuage his desire for destruction, backfires
And it still won’t act as a wakeup call for them.
Yeah, the problem with thinking they will learn anything is the failure of those that would do so in this sort of shitshow to inaccurately ascribe the ability to use facts, logic, and reasoning as a driver people solely motivated by emotional animus and cult-like group think would posses. Their responses, historically, whenever shit went bad for them, was to claim they had not done more/enough of the stupid shit to make it work. You know. Like the definition of insanity thing says…
Gosh, maybe people will wake up and realize what we’ve been seeing all along is Marxist rioting.
You mean, like Portland? [Nancy Rommelman at TOS has been giving a clear picture of that.]
They had a choice of mayor between appeaser (Wheeler) and an outright Antifa chick. They went with appeaser. *SMDH*
Miss Che didn’t win? I thought she was ahead. Sorry, Portland.
Polling, yo.
I am afraid that the vast majority those that have not come to this conclusion yet will never admit they already knew that was what it was or that they are too stupid to be allowed to participate in adult society.
Oh, cool website. They almost as snarky as we are…
Tonio is the mole!
Asking people to be peaceful is white-supremacy.
Congratulations, leftist. “White-supremacy” no longer has a meaning.
Then let me fight white supremacy by ceasing to be peaceful.
Pompeo: “There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
Confidence is key…
Not much difference between that and the dnc operatives with bylines that have been lying for so long, and went into overdrive after bad orange man won the election they had rigged for Crooked Hillary, telling everyone Biden won, the people claiming fraud are all making it up, the country must unite under them finally – after 4 years of resistance – because it will make the list of Trump supporters that need to be punished easier to compile and enforce, I guess, and that their rule is now permanent, and that was the end of that…
Director of National intelligence will NOT interface with Biden transition team until it’s clear who won election
There is no winner until December 14th. But that won’t stop media hacks from hyperventilating.
Even then, we don’t know the winner until they open the votes in January, right?
So… you’re saying Hillary still has a chance?
As far as I know, I still have a chance. Who knows what the electors will do.
I would like to see that happen some time. The electors just go completely off the board. 1/2 the Dems and 1/2 the GOP electors just get together and say, screw it, these guys suck, lets make Manchin* president or something. That would piss off the far end of both parties, but honestly, would the vast majority of Americans be upset by that?
That is the electors constitutional job, IMO, elect who would be best. It would unite the country…possibly in hate, but united all the same.
*thinking of a D the Rs might support.
If Joe gets in. Joe gets axed and Hillary get’s the VP spot. It’ll be historical, Brave and Stunning!
Odds on how fast Kommie-Lah ends up having a terminal “accident”???
According to Ben Rhodes, one of former President Barack Obama’s top foreign advisers and speechwriters, Biden has begun actively preparing his foreign policy agenda by talking to foreign leaders.
It’s ok when they do it.
And he has to establish lines of communication for graft while his son establishes lines of cocaine.
“It’s ok when they do it.”
It is far worse than that: The real message is that it will ONLY be OK when THEY get to do it (because they are in charge)….
They are the adults in the room.
So I guess the logan act is kind of a sham huh.
Only if you have a (D) next to your name…
Otherwise it is a blunt instrument to be used by the swamp to destroy their enemies or people that expose their malfeasance and corruption…
All polls coming from a mainstream pollster should be assumed to be propaganda.
Agreed.
Worse than that: they were specifically misconstrued as a means of psychological warfare.
Absolutely.
Honest? Honest as the day is long.
America’s crisis of political segregation – we increasingly don’t live alongside, associate with or even marry people who think differently from us – is increasingly leading conservatives to congregate together on social media outlets designed specifically for people who think like them.
The recent rise of Parler – as well as other social media alternatives that appeal primarily to conservatives and that got their start largely by attracting the far right – raises the specter of further political polarization through digital means. Parler and others, like MeWe and Gab, are gaining momentum with a promise not to censor their users for behavior that might violate the policies of their rivals.
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But, much like the social media site Gab, Parler has quickly attracted the extremist crowd in addition to self-proclaimed center-right conservatives like Read. Groups from the far-right Proud Boys, which includes large numbers of white supremacists, to heavily-armed anti-government militias have gathered on the site to spread conspiracy theories, racist memes and false claims of election fraud.
Yet for an electorate stricken with deep fissures on race, politics and class, the act of dividing social media loyalties into liberal and conservative camps could reflect a natural next step deeper into polarized terrain.
Those people we deplatformed, because we disagree with them- they went to another platform. This shows how polarized and degenerate our nation has become.
The whole thing is a gigantic steaming pile of loaded language and dealing from a stacked rhetorical deck.
How much more unselfaware can these people get.
TW: USA Toady
The act of division is bad because to the authoritarian mind, there can be no escape from their control.
Also it is funny that the way it’s framed is that conservatives want things catered to them and not the”true” social media. It’s not like those places have clearly become leftist spaces.
When you are outside the holy church, you are condemned to eternal suffering. You don’t get to just go off and form a new church and still have access to heaven. You are expected to repent and return to the one communion.
Anyone who doesn’t understand that the left is a religion (and govt is their god) doesn’t really understand anything about them.
I said this the other day but the media was furious that social media helped propel Trump into office. So they spent 4 years dressing down Zuckerberg abs making sure the place complied with curated media. Now they are pissed that people are deciding to leave. If you leave you’re a bag person who only wants confirmation bias.
I think a lot of people are past being harangued into watching traditional media.
I would think people would get sick of the constant handholding, the sentences larded with phrases telling you what you must think and the sense that you’re a stupid child who needs a twenty something journalist to explain the world for you.
The magic ingredient of any religion is that the practitioners must feel the need to whip themselves. All they need is some guidance on where to leave the scars this week.
This is actually something that I’ve been thinking about.
The explanation for the fact that the “blue shift” is totally a legitimate thing and not evidence of shennanigans is “Absentee voters are overwhelmingly/almost entirely democrats. ”
But that would mean that political affiliation isn’t an ideological difference, it would mean that Rs and Ds literally behave differently than each other.
In what posisble world does it make sense that people that different should have authority over each other?
Long-term? Not much. Just look at the disasters resulted from the seemingly arbitrary lines drawn out to form the post WWII middle east. People just mashed together under a nation with little regard to any volitale differences in culture, religious practices, old disputes, or the prospect of oppression being imposed by a powerful minority.
America has always had similar dynamics but what I and many here think held it all together was the common held “Idea” of America. Little to do with race, religion, geographical boundaries, ect, we felt kinship by way of holding on to a constitutional republic that valued rule of law, property rights and accountability from our officials.
…How much of that was a fiction we just told ourselves is open to debate but we at least put up the pretense of it.
Now, it seems the open, lawless lust for power and revenge is the norm. Not sure how much longer we can function like this.
One can make an argument that property rights and free exchange are the ethical touchstones that allow a cultural melting pot to exist. Without them, everything devolves down to the aforementioned struggle for power.
I mean, Republicans and Democrats *do* behave differently from each other. This seems so obvious that it’s almost idomatic.
In the progressive mindset, it is the differences in identity that determine who has the power. I don’t see it being very hard to fold behavior into identity – consider the idea of ‘cultural blackness’.
So, I guess it makes sense in the progressive world. This is why I see zero chance for a peaceful separation.
They behave differently in the sense that they push a different button on the voting machine.
But how they physically move through the world seems more significant. Almost to a sexual dimorphism level of difference. Buth Rs and Ds drive cars, take public transportation, go worship, eat at restaurants, pay for purchases etc.
This seems (to me) akin to discovering that Ds park on the east dside of parking lots, Rs, park on the south. Or that Rs choose a delivery option, while Ds pick it up and take it home.
I would not make too much of this. This year there is are obvious, and obviously politicized, reasons for Democrats to choose vote by mail and Republicans to choose vote in person. 1. Covid fear has been being pushed by left media and downplayed from the right and 2. Democrats pushed vote by mail nonstop for the past few months while Republicans argued against it.
The problem seems to be that, in most districts, mail-in ballots lean more Democratic compared to in-person results, whereas in certain districts, they don’t just lean that way, they are very lopsided for Democrats (or really, in some cases, exactly one Democrat: Biden). If your neighboring county goes 55% for Biden from in-person results and 65% for Biden from mail-in results but your county goes 55% for Biden from in-person results and 85% for Biden from mail-in results, that does look a bit suspicious (of course, one could also argue that the 65% is the suspicious case instead of the 85% in isolation like this, but there are a lot more counties like the former than the latter).
So, the narrative explanation covers the general country-wide trend, but doesn’t explain certain select cases. Outliers always exist, of course, but in a close election they get examined more closely.
the far-right Proud Boys, which includes large numbers of white supremacists
Assertions without evidence. It’s the leftist way.
At least they are moving away from characterizing them as a white supremacist organization. Kinda hard to do when the latino guy was outed as head of one of their state orgs. [Insert white latino joke here].
Surprised they don’t call him a Spaniard.
Meanwhile leftists and their enablers (Looking at you, Cavuto) cut away from the press secretary right as she is about to provide supporting evidence for an assertion.
The constant “no evidence” mantra really grinds my gears. There are literally dozens of sworn affidavits from participants and witnesses attesting to significant levels of vote fraud. That is the very definition of evidence.
You’d think Cavuto would know better, but you can’t be a gatekeeper like that in the Internet age. Even China’s great firewall is remarkably porous; the U.S. is nowhere near as restrictive as the PRC. Try to tell people what they are supposed to see, and most will go around you instead.
Most will not. When most of the mainstream media present the same narrative, most of the population goes along. Everyone in Russia has the means and ability to get information that’s not Putin’s propaganda. It’s easy. There’s no great firewall of any kind. But for most people, what they see on TV is their primary source of news. It’s the same in the US, just a bit more people distrust the media.
“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
George Orwell.
Parler has quickly attracted the extremist crowd
‘Extreme’ is a relative term. And you are a cunte.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Thinks ‘538’ Electoral College Number Is Named For Al Gore’s 2000 Loss
Remember that these people think they are better than you and think that they should decide how you live.
This is the one of the few groups of people (politicians and meteorologists, being two that rank lower because of the occasional repercussions) that can not only constantly be wrong but maliciously lie and still believe they should be treated as people of authority because they are not sent to the bread lines…
I hate to break it to you… But unless Trump can point to specific votes to disqualify, he ain’t going to get anywhere.
Well, there are always the Time travelling absentee ballots that got mailed back before they arrived.
Sourced from the Epoch Times – which is about as reliable as QAnon or the SPLC.
So, reliable enough to base policy on?
You don’t trust Larry Elder?
Alright, so let’s go to what the source article has to say…
And this ‘analysis’ was first submitted to The Epoch Times Chinese language edition. I don’t know, what might smell just a bit odd about that?
Also, note how much of the original article qualification was omitted by the American Thinker piece. The old game of telephone.
You’re really worked up over this, aren’t you?
The stuff that meets the standards of evidence for a court of law will be presented in court.
Online snark has no standards of evidence.
I’m annoyed by gullibility and weakness for confirmation bias – moreso in my own circle than in others.
I am also. It is important to call it out. It is also important to recognize that you yourself are subject to it and the moments when you are most certain are the moments that you are most vulnerable.
Meh, these sorts of things are irresoluble since people don’t consider and precommit as to what is adequate proof.
It’s even more fun if you start from the question “if there were to be X, how would it appear differently from the current situation?”
Because when you have someone saying “X doesn’t exist” and not being able to answer the question, then you know there’s no point other than the love of conflict in engaging with them.
They’ll point to every vote counted while observers were barred from witnessing. Ballots mailed and received the same day, ballots belonging to dead people, ballots counted multiple times… Also in Michigan if the total vote count doesn’t match the canvassing ballot count, the entire precinct is tossed out.
Both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania changed what counts as a legal vote without going through the proper legislative process.
The issue is whether the court will be willing to toss out those votes given the shitstorm that will erupt if they do.
Here is the problem as I see it. The court either chooses to take a hard but fair stance now in the face of threats of civil unrest, or the next time around the threats of civil unrest will be even greater, having appeased them.
The Democrats are literally banking on the institutional and societal fear they have been seeking to foster. Hence the Trump Accountability Project and letting looters and rioters run rampant in leftist cities.
The law is the law and they should adhere to that. But I am not confident they will.
That is actually what Florida in 2000 was about. The standards were changing as to what was a legal vote for a candidate — in a way that they hoped would help Gore).
This also might bear a little looking into – Votes Either Switched from President Trump to Biden or Were Lost due to software “bugs” (or features).
Manual recounts would quickly confirm.
Funny how the bugs and glitches only go one way.
^^^THIS^^^
If there were instances of this going the other way, I might be more willing to accept it was just random shit, but when ALL the problems, including things that completely violate the laws of statistics all come together to benefit the guy we were told won, I am gonna feel this is crap..
Well they could go both ways but that on net they really can only affect one candidate.
Another story says it’s closing all stores.
Motherfuck ?
There is one within walking distance and I shopped there all the time. I even went right after they re-opened in the summer.
You’re welcome, Amazon.
What realty company will they get to sell their properties?
Probably something local. I rarely see signs for that realty company around here.
McDonalds.
“I’ll take a two-story brownstone and a large fry.”
Redfin.
Trump International Realty?
1. get elected
2. cause TDS
3. TDS causes panicdemic
4. panicdemic causes realestate crash
5. trump cleans house on recovery
5D Chess Illustrated?
I also loved Century 21 when I lived in NYC, goddamnit.
Carrying over form the last thread, is the current Naked Cowboy the original, or did that one sell his brand to a new person?
On the renfair circuit there was a guy with a puppet act called the “Ded Bob Sho.” The pupetteer performed with a cloth over his head, so once the act became popular enough, he began licencing out the rights to perform it to other puppeteers. I have no idea if the original guy still performs or if he lives off his license fees now.
AFAIK that is the original. Haven’t seen a pic in a few years though and I don’t travel to Times Square so I can’t say for sure.
The original Ded Bob Sho is retired and living like a king in Patagonia.
I understood that reference!
“I think it’s inevitable that we’ll see the rise of conservative, separate or distinct, social media,” said Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow and U.S. political scholar at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. “It’s only a question of where and how fast it will form and how extreme and partisan it will become.”
OMG like why won’t those racists just shut up and be like us?
Once you get banned from one social media platform, you must never use any other social media platform ever again. That’s what “social justice” means.
Probably not as extreme and partisan as Facebook and Twitter have become.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid Thinks ‘538’ Electoral College Number Is Named For Al Gore’s 2000 Loss
Silly Joy. That’s how many transgenders POCs are lynched every hour.
I thought that was how many “genders” there are.
WRONG! It’s how many trans people Donald Trump murders in a day!
It’s how many types of deodorant WE DON’T NEED!
I thought it was how many college girls get raped per minute.
Not Adahn, I’m not sure if this is a case of Practiscore sucks, or that it was not enabled for sunday, but I can’t seem to find the option to pay the entry fee. Does this mean I’m going to have to find cash?
No, they’ve changed it so that you have to pay after you’ve been accepted. I think that he waits until Thursday. Apparently there were issues with people signing up, then withdrawing later in the week and wanting refunds and something with Stripe.
Oh, ok. I’ll wait and see what it is on friday before fretting then.
It’s good to hear that shooting clubs everywhere have the same problems…
Picked up my SCSA endorsment yesterday. I am amazed at how seriusly I’ve ben supposed to have been taking things, and there’s no way we’ll ever be able to run an official match at the club (getting the target height to match the shooting box height at 105′? Fuck that noise. Although I’ sure we have a couple of surveryors in the group that could confirm it.)
Also, the Techwear people are awesome. They are going to credit me for a discount that starts tomorrow on a purchase I made yesterday.
They are going to credit me for a discount that starts tomorrow on a purchase I made yesterday.
Do they sell hamburgers? Asking for a Whimpy.
A level and a laser? Or if you’ve got money lying around a laser level.
Right, but then we’d need to cut down each stick to measure, and each target for each stage would need to have it’s own dedicated stick/stand/hanger combos that we’d need to keep track of.
OMG a bunch of sticks, that’d costs upwards of whole dollars.
I get it, it’s not the cost, but the hassle. Umbrella stand, masking tape, sharpies. Do you want your shit level or not.
No?
The only people for whom that will make a difference are the people who can shoot a stage literally blindfolded and are hoping to shave a hundredth of a second off of their personal best.
Since I still need to look at the target to shoot it, a 2″ difference in height at 35 yards will make no difference whatsoever.
I skipped over “I am amazed at how seriously I’ve been supposed to have been taking things”, whoops.
So I can just put these empties in the corner with the rest then?
And the more that I think about it, I’ll bet the height at each location (including the shooting box) is going to change based on the amount of precip and whether or not the ground is frozen. So we couldn’t even just keep the same 40 sticks.
Yeah, the entire point of SCSA is that the stages are all standardized.
A lot of clubs don’t want to deal with that, so they run ‘Outlaw Steel’ or something along those lines.
Latest attempt at getting booted from Twitter. Chicago Mayor.
Well at least the company made some profit this year
From the tweeters:
“In other words, Republican leaders are deliberately sowing *unjustified* mistrust in the electoral process and perpetuating perceptions of illegitimacy among their base in order to … win elections.
It’s hard to put into words just how offensive (and cowardly) this approach is.”
My… This is… Unprecedented. I’ve never seen a party do that. Ever.
If only there were an example of the exact opposite (a razor thin election) to see how they would’ve acted.
Are they really that un-self-aware, or are they just dishonest shits?
Yes.
Yes. In my experience with leftists, they ALWAYS assume the moral high-ground. Ergo you are a bitgot hater and anything they do/say is “justified”.
horrible european dishes by country:
https://twitter.com/acertainellen/status/1326214083520196609
Hey fuck you tripe soup is great
Menudo is European?
that does not look the right color
Mexicans are not the right color? I had no idea Romanians were so racist.
Since Mexico was a Spanish colony it might have roots in Spanish cuisine.
I like ‘herring in a coat’ , which is what I think they mean by dressed herring.
https://www.enjoyyourcooking.com/salads/herring-under-fur-coat-herring-salad.html
This was my favorite part at the bottom of the recipe:
“Bon Appetit!Lailonni Ballixxx getting pounded hard Mouth Fuck and Black Cock Inserted Deep Hot Naked Teen Chatting On Webcam Tattooed skinny teen gets screwed hard Veronica Rodriguez fucked after deep throat Hunk …”
Spicey!
Is that what happens when you stop paying your SEO consultant?
Lady Gaga was excited for a moment there.
Most of that crap is shit people ate back when they didn’t have anything better, but still hold on to it for some crazy reason.
You take that back you just lack a sophisticated palate. I bet is if was covered in sugar you would eat it.
except rotten shark and fermented herring,l that is not a food it is a test to exclude outsiders.
I had a friend who was an old Italian man; he was amused when polenta became trendy. He said “that stuff is what our Mom used to make when we had no money, now it’s gourmet food?”
in Romania we have a funeral cake that is becoming a trendy desertt
Mush is for poor hicks. Polenta is for rich sophisticates. Sausage and ham are for poor hicks. Charcuterie is for rich sophisticates. Hmm, I sense a pattern. Do you think I could get people to pay me gourmet prices for purè di patate e salsa?
“Hey fuck you tripe soup is great”
I prefer tripe stew (with tomatoes) like my Paisans do it…
I find horse steak weird as an inclusion, it is just steak.
I wouldn’t mind trying horse steak.
Pretty good if prepared properly (mid-rare). I liken it to moose. You can get it in many restaurants in France and Uruguay, strange enough.
Britain only gets one and it’s black pudding? Leaving aside the fact that black pudding is excellent and well known throughout Europe, we should get more horrible dishes than the other countries in the same way California should get more say in who should be president.
I like blood sausage, blood and tongue sausage, and blood pudding. It’s good stuff!
DEEP FRIED PIZZA!!?!!?!!
Actually, that sounds kinda good.
*gOOgles*
Jesus H. Christ. What a shitshow.
Off to the Y to get in one more exercise class, just in case OH gets shut down again.
Yeah. I’m not hopeful after seeing that that fuckwit governor of ours cancelled the briefing yesterday and announced one at 16:30 today.
I may be going off diet to hit up some local bars depending on the announcement.
So, I still can’t visit ohio?
Aren’t we on the New York quarantine list again anyways?
Based on Hyperbole, his area is pretty much back to normal. Up here, there’s still daily reports of bars violating the new last call and bar rules. Of course, they also say that they haven’t traced any large number of COVID outbreaks to bars/restaurants so…
Don’t know, don’t care, Andy can go fuck himself.
So Gauleiter DeWine will shut down bars and restaurants?
I’m waiting for the Clown Prince to do something. Case counts are going up in NH. Pay no attention to flat hospitalization and flat death rates.
Maybe this is one of those unjustified conspiracy theories that was put out on the darkweb by the Russian hacker 4chan, but…
Didn’t Obama/Biden use Trump’s transition as an opportunity to surveil/entrap?
Obama is immaculate so no
Ladies, it might be time to take a long, hard look in the mirror and ask, “What is that?”
An estimated ¼ of US women don’t know where their vagina is, according to a new poll conducted by OnePoll, which found that 46% of ladies couldn’t point out the cervix, and 59% suggested a different body part when asked to identify the uterus.
Only one in 10 women passed the anatomy quiz, asking them to name all the parts of a female reproductive diagram.
Intimina, the Swedish women’s health company that commissioned the study, included responses from 2,000 women. A spokesperson said the brand hoped to reveal a critical gap in American education.
https://nypost.com/2020/11/10/millions-of-women-dont-know-where-their-own-vagina-is-located
Men may not find the clit but women miss the whole thing
To be fair, that does reqire a bit of flexibility and being dressed correctly.
You need one of those expandable wands.
So here’s the thing, where did the identify? Is this a case of, you pointed to the vulva not the vagina? I have a hard time thinking 25% of women don’t know where the vagina is.
There’s been times when I didn’t know where my dick was. Then, I asked her for her name.
All those Women’s Studies programs are really paying off.
Funnily enough, you don’t actually study women in those classes.
Does this mean that %50 of all men get a pass on not knowing where the clitoris is?
I have a female friend who has a Ph.D. in a science who didn’t know until her 30s that there are only a few days a month that a woman can get pregnant. Isn’t that basic stuff they teach in sex ed or health classes?
The random shit people don’t know can be pretty funny.
As a man, I recall that. As a woman, I’d even remember which days.
Public school sex ed classes FTW!
klingon bird of prey tattoo
https://twitter.com/causticbob/status/1326494443877363713
Wouldn’t that be Romulan? I guess at a certain point Klingon’s had a cloaking device too, but that is identified with the Romulans.
warbirds are romulan.
kia of prey are klingon.
Both have cloaking devices.
I used to like the franchise, and I have a good memory for useless facts.
Live long and poop.
I wish I had some Photoshop skills.
Not my joke, I stole a running reference from a reviewer.
^lookit Mr. “I’ve never seen Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” over here.
I have seen it, but have to tried to repress it.
It was better in the original Klingon.
TOS: Balance of Terror is the first episode with a cloaking device. It was Romulan.
And the Romulan ship in it was a Bird-of-Prey.
Bird-of-prey = small (corvette? Frigate?). Both the Rs and Ks had them. Paramount didn’t have separate models for them originally.
Warbird = cruiser
Yeah, the Romulans invented it but they gave/sold it to the Klingons.
The Federation has their own based on different tech.
Stolen, I think.
You did watch the show
That old thing? Nah, the Federation had better
One could argue that it was further development of the stolen tech, as there were other mishaps (in the same series no less) of other species attempts at that same development.
Going meta for a moment — the reason being, the Romulans were originally supposed to be the villains in Star Trek III — hence the Bird of Prey and cloaking device. Apparently, freaking Edward James Olmos was originally cast! I don’t know if he would have had the same gravitas he later brought to Adama — but that would have been interesting.
But in any event – this was all swept under the rug with the whole “The Klingons and Romulans tech-traded” excuse they used in TOS when they lost( or trashed?) the original BoP model and pulled out the D7s instead.
But switching to Christopher Lloyd made it more believable in the next film that the ship could time travel.
Larf.
Here’s the deal, robc. The writing staff on Trek, well, they suck at continuity and originality. Especially with names. It only got worse as time went on.
As someone who saw all of TOS, TNG, and DS9 (and bits of others before abandoning it entirely), I am well aware.
Actually, there may be some DS9 episodes I never saw in the later seasons.
Nice… I think I’ll get one of the USS Defiant.
People will keep Mistaking it for the Enterprise.
Good Morning, Banjos.
“All polls coming from a mainstream pollster should be assumed to be propaganda.”
QFT
Rageholic is on point. His rants are Metal AF and I wonder if he has to get some pure oxygen after.
Wonder if he wears the sunglasses so he can read off points and no one notices.
It’s to hide his coked up eyes.
I thought it was to get the spittle off his eyes.
In other words, Republican leaders are deliberately sowing *unjustified* mistrust in the electoral process and perpetuating perceptions of illegitimacy among their base in order to … win elections.
Unprecedented!
I know journalism has never been opinion-free, but imagine a sub-editor from forty years ago reading these pieces.
Still the only industry outside of porn that would have an auteur claim this character had to wear nothing in combat because she was part plant so her skin had to breath.
https://twitter.com/EddieHenryJames/status/1326470732365377541
I think there was a time the right complained about these things
even better was that to drink water, she had to flop around and jiggle like a fish
Time for some feel good news:
From Inwood to Saigon, from 1967 to 2020, the incredible tale of the greatest beer run ever is finally told
Who wants to volunteer to bring a beer to every Glib?
Travelling from gulag to gulag, sneaking beer in and sneaking back out?
Should we start stocking up on pruno recipes?
beard yeast.
Murica!
I remember reading about that run. John Donohue is a hero.
Alright, Team Blue, you get this election if you Team Red to write the software for ballot counting in the next one.
Trump’s culture of hate and intimidation
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told “The Howard Stern Show” on Tuesday that he “would’ve decked” President Trump if not for his leading role in state politics due to the president’s critical remarks toward him.
I’m sure the Secret Service will be around to interview Governor Grannykiller.
The Cuomos are scumbags.
God there’s nothing I hate more than fake tough guys like the Cuomos. Coming from the most privileged of upbringings and they like to pretend like they’re street thugs.
“My favorite YouTube ranter, if you have 12 minutes to spare.”
So serious he took off his sunglasses.
Oh Boy…
https://twitter.com/business/status/1326521277981536258
So we all expected riots after the election if Trump won. Now imagine the prog rage if states start recounting and flipping to Trump.
Keep those mags loaded.
Always.
America has always had similar dynamics but what I and many here think held it all together was the common held “Idea” of America. Little to do with race, religion, geographical boundaries, ect, we felt kinship by way of holding on to a constitutional republic that valued rule of law, property rights and accountability from our officials.
The “melting pot” which, however flawed it may have been, allowed all those disparate people to co-exist(!). Now, there is a widespread ongoing effort to set one group against another.
also the constitutional and rule of law parts are not what they once were I assume
I realize there’s probably precedent but the DNI action seems unwise. Surely they could give Biden some kind of briefing?
He is not at this point entitled to classified information.
Truman decided otherwise, and every major-party Presidential nominee since Eisenhower has gotten classified briefings to be better prepared to take office (or, at least, that was the original rationale).
So then you agree it’s up to the sitting president to make that determination.
I don’t think I said otherwise at any point. It’s not even law, just custom.
Well, if nothing else I would expect they could brief him about ex-government officials looking to get back into office that have been influence peddling and meddling in the affairs and law enforcement investigations of other countries on behalf of their family interests.
Yeah, seems horrendously petty. But you’re dealing with a very petty man who was personally screwed around with by Biden when he came into office.
To expect it to be above board is to Deny reality.
Biden has been getting briefings since August when he became the official Democratic nominee. It’s not clear if those have stopped, or if they’re just not yet treating him as the presumptive President-elect and giving him more in-depth briefings.
Yeah, this is just more propaganda. Biden is going to try and snivel his way into office, RIGHT FUCKING NOW, before anyone can figure out what really happened. He’s got his porpaganda machine fully warmed up and there’s not a minute to lose. Fuck him. Fuck the media and fuck the whole establishment apparatus. I hope they end up feeling one one hundreth of the pain they deserve.
* propaganda, dammit.
I like it the way you had it the first time.
Right? “The other white lies”
Leaping gracefully from the ocean surface with lies…
Yes, and they should have Ben Stein read it to him. He’ll be passed out within 4 minutes.
I’m sure Biden’s been receiving all sorts of classified information ever since he was VP. If they’re willing to leak to the media, why not him?
Some Germans are sick of this shit.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/german-doctors-write-letter-chancellor-merkel/5728843
Get a load of these right wing Mengele wannabes.
Attention FL Glibs. The season ain’t over.
Eta intensified into a hurricane in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning but is expected to be on a weakening trend as it approaches landfall on Florida’s western Gulf Coast on Thursday. A tropical storm warning and hurricane watch are now in effect for a portion of Florida’s western Gulf Coast.
Seriously this shit needs to stop. I was hoping to go for some Bull Reds in a couple of weeks!
The Orthodox Archbishop of Tomis held a religious service against covid. I will see if it works in the enxt week
In more local news in a poll 25% of ROmanians say they would use augmentation technology to increase their intelligence and mental capacities, and 52% would for their children
Do those increased mental capaicities involve mind control? Telepathy? Telekinesis?
Or will side effects include “Loss of free-will”?
Doesn’t mind control necessarily involve loss of free will?
Different people’s loss of free will.
In one situation you could be imposing your will on others instead of having it imposed on you.
As long as the tech is being sold to more than one person you would likely have cases of both.
Eugenics Wars a bit late?
Do not use derogatory terms, such as insane, crazy/crazed, nuts or deranged, unless they are part of a quotation that is essential to the story.
Avoid using mental health terms to describe unrelated issues. Don’t say that an awards show, for example, was schizophrenic.
https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1326172047194677251
The leftists are ignorant of reality? Does that work?
That’s crazy.
But be sure to run plenty of interviews with psychologists describing all of a republicans’ mental illnesses and personality disorders.
That style book is batshit crazy. It must have been written by a psychotic.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8935913/Demi-Rose-shows-curves-animal-print-thong-body-poses-pooch-Ibiza.html
“Moment Portland city commissioner, who demanded $18million police budget cuts and said most 911 calls are unnecessary, calls cops on her LYFT driver in argument about open windows
A Portland City Commissioner who is currently pushing to carry out a $18million cut to the city’s police department and said most 911 calls are unnecessary called the cops on her Lyft driver earlier this month following a dispute about an open window.
Jo Ann Hardesty was allegedly angered when the driver, Richmond Frost, refused to roll the windows up, despite it being recommended policy from the company to keep them down due to the coronavirus.
It followed annoyance over a mix-up about where she was being picked up, all culminating in the driver cancelling the ride and saying Hardesty could find another car.
He attempted to leave the commissioner at a Chevron gas station but she refused to leave the vehicle and placed the call to the cops.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8936655/Portland-commissioner-wants-18m-cut-police-department-called-911-Lyft-driver.html
CWAA
Reason mag is going all ‘la, la, la. There’s no fraud.’ It’s pathetic.
They’re nothing if not spineless in the face of liberal disapproval.
Honestly, I’m inclined to think that’s symptomatic of a wider phenomenon that’s going to hand the race to Biden. Off hand, I do believe that Trump was probably the legitimate winner in the election. I just don’t think it matters. There could well be a tape of Joe Biden, Gretchen Whitmer, Tom Wolfe, et al. twirling their mustaches and out and out saying they’re stealing the election and it wouldn’t matter. The media wouldn’t report it. They’re effectively in on it. They’re in the process of establishing the narrative that Biden won so broadly and repetitively that even if it was established that Trump did win, the cost of acknowledging it would be too great.
We’ve become a banana republic. The best honest people can do is acknowledge the fraudulency of the system.
For all I know he may well have lost, and there is absolutely no chance he wins now.
Nevertheless, keep fighting and investigating. Why wouldn’t we all want all this looked at?
Would it matter even if the media reported on it? A sizable percentage of dems wouldn’t care as they got the desired result.
yes. it would. i need to know.
I feel like much like the Russiagate this will end up going less than nowhere. they’ll be all kinds of smoking guns followed by explainer after explainer piece about how there is nothing to see here. It’s funny that the people who did the best coverage of Russiagate(the federalist) seem to be the one’s covering this beat.
Tell me this cartoon is wrong.
https://twitter.com/STattisconie/status/1326490558387396608
You’re on Glibs — the only answer can be “Don’t tell me what to do!” (or some variation thereof).
I’m afraid my rates are a bit high for you.
You’re wrong Tulpa.
“PICTURED: Superspreader wedding couple who flouted rules to have 113-guest service at Long Island country club that forced closure of schools, sent 159 people into quarantine and sparked 30 COVID cases”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8936673/Couple-wedding-Long-Island-country-club-turned-superspreader-event-revealed.html
OK, now do Biden celebrations…
Or Murphy’s daughter’s wedding.
Biden personally made the Pfizer vaccine. It’s true. I saw him in a white coat pensively looking at tubes.
Straitjacket?
He was trying to remember how to open his fly so he could give the urine sample.
Absent ridiculous government restrictions and fearmongering, that article reads “30 people caught a cold at a wedding”
How many dead?
I do not see the evidence of fraud being enough for courts to overturn much. My understanding is that the best argument they might have is that the PA SC ran roughshod over the legislature and just threw out parts of a law that they didn’t like. If SCOTUS reverses that, regardless if it helps Trump or Biden it would be a good thing.
The only benefit is that increased scrutiny may lead to some reform of election process in GA and PA.
The latter is my hope. And MI and WI. And everywhere else. We need some strict investigations and prosecutions to put dampers on this happening in the future.
We need some strict investigations and prosecutions to put dampers on this happening in the future.
If Trump doesn’t stay in office, that will never happen.
And without a complete decapitation of the FBI and DOJ, it won’t happen even if he stays in office.
Once they stop trying to run out the clocks counting newly found votes, the rules for ballot scrutiny and recount will get very granular by state and the rules will vary. If Michigan has a real recount, it should easily flip to Trump. PA is a such a chaotic mess, who knows what a court will do to straighten it out.
Except for maybe GA, why would you think it would possibly lead to election reform? It worked exactly the way the people in charge in those states wanted it to work. The only “reform” I could see coming out of all this a federalization with pretty much these guys in charge of it everywhere.
Most of the states with election shenanigans have Republican legislatures. They can fix it.
After some real election messes in FL and OH, they got their acts together and tightened things up. Both of them were able to count all their votes on election night without controversy – and not coincidentally, Trump won both comfortably.
Even if a Republican legislature has enough of a majority to override their governor’s veto, who do you think winds up staffing the reformed function? I’d like to believe you’re right. But, I’m not hopeful.
It is a Constitutional question right now whether the Governors can veto that kind of legislation. It will be back in front of the Supreme Court again.
PA does not have a veto-proof majority.
Really? There’s a fucking laundry list of shocking never before happenings. Cali kicked out the last few republicans using the same tactics in ’18. This time the prize was ousting OMB, so they let the rest of it slide, and look what happened. You could run an old school filibuster, just by recounting all the red flags in this election. The arbiters, at least three of them have suffered by the public lies and excoriations of the cheating party. There’s a way more than none chance that something drastic happens here. It’s 2020, the year of massive lies, and Trump is president. Anything’s possible.
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Steak Night with a Chip Stack by Kerrie B
https://twitter.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1326223516698611712
under-cooked or not?
I’m not even sure that qualifies as a “blue” steak. It appears someone wiped that cow’s nose, slapped its ass, and sent it out to be eaten.
Looks rare to me, but who knows with all the different computer shit.
It looks like someone applied brown paint to the outside of an uncooked piece of meat. It’s not even close to done.
Uncooked meat is a different color.
Cooked meat is a different color.
You are being silly.
I’ve seen cattle hurt worse than that get well.
Fucking raw.
Put it in the oven
Looks good to me.
This guy gets it.
I cook to temperature. Remove steak at ~125-130 F in the center.
I start removing at 120. By the time I get the probe out and get it off the grill its heated up a bit more. Waiting until 125 or 130 and I end up with a medium steak.
With proper resting afterwards, they cook a bit more.
My current method is top rack of Traeger until 100F, move down to sear, flip at 110F, remove at 120F.
Can’t really tell from a photograph, but it looks fine.
Being of a scientific bent, I use an in-oven remote thermometer to bring my steak guts up to 100 degF. I don’t like relying on anything so unreliable as ‘feelings’, not when it comes to important things like steak.
How rare do you want your steak?
A good veterinarian should still be able to save it.
+1
+2
Perfect.
That is perfect.
Heavyweight
Last week, establishment Democrats singled out heavyweight progressives like Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the so-called Squad for costing important seats with “defund the police” messaging and policies like the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
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But Ocasio-Cortez has emphasized that sidelining the goals she’s advocated for would mean putting on the back burner the communities of color that helped elect Joe Biden president.
“[Biden] acknowledged the role that communities of color—Black communities, Latino communities, the trans community, etc.—played in his victory,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “We also know that majorities of these communities are progressive.”
She knows things. Intellectual stuff, and suchlike.
Ironically some of the most religious groups in this country are the Catholic Mexicans and Baptist Blacks.
I think there is cause to be optimistic. Trump got more votes from minorities than any Republican in 60 years. If the Dems don’t deliver, there’s a real danger they’ll lose more.
“If the Dems don’t deliver, there’s a real danger they’ll lose more.”
They’re going to vote for Mike Pence in 2024? Hmmm. I think the Trump Effect would be hard to imprint on someone else.
[Biden] acknowledged the role that communities of color—Black communities, Latino communities, the trans community, etc.—played in his victory,
But has she spoken out about the interests of the deceased community, yet? They seem to be the ones who played the biggest role in his victory.
Is this a unity Campaign or give special handouts to the demographics that elected you?
JK I know the answer
They want unity. A unity of everyone who disagrees shuts the hell up and gets with their program. And anyone who dares dissent is outside the “united voice of acceptable opinion”.
Screw that. If the Republicans don’t muster up a son of a bitch who makes Donald Trump look like a sweetie-pie pushover, they’re dead to me.
21 Dem candidates on the debate stage raised their hand for support of the GND. Fuck off.
The government is preparing to spend £40 billion to help deliver on Boris Johnson’s “moonshot” pledge for mass coronavirus testing and to expand the UK’s laboratory capacity.
Public Health England has issued a £22 billion contract for the manufacture and development of tests and the supply of clinical laboratory testing services over the next four years.
The NHS has issued another tender of £20 billion that includes on-the-spot tests and diagnostics equipment
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prime-minister-s-moonshot-coronavirus-testing-scheme-to-cost-43-billion-mkj8rqwj2
that a lot of billions
Pretty soon they’ll be talking real money.
I’ve read this a hundred times, and I still don’t get it.
Is the game pay-for-play?
Correctomundo!
Damn.
*stands and applauds*
We’re going to get involved in wars that are none of our business.
There bush obama foreign policy game.
Our long descent into isolationism is finally over. ?
He’s already announced he is going to reinstate the Iran deal.
Any bets on whether that will involve more pallets of cash?
The country isn’t the only thing split down the middle on Ass Wednesday.
https://archive.li/tXR3n
Thank you. How is the spawning going?
Movin’ along. Various things growing and developing in various other things. My part in the process is pretty much over.
might as well drink a scotch and head to the brothel for some r&r
^^^This guy gets it.
31, I larfed.
In news that no one is paying attention to because the state isnt close — what is up with NY state? They are at 80% counted in the uncalled house races.
Counting is hard work. Union mandated breaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPvIQ82rd1g
what is up with NY state? They are at 80% counted in the uncalled house races.
Slow play until too late for recounts. Announce the Dem pulled it out at the last minute.
Nah, it really is just incompetence. It’s the same every time since I’ve been ehre.
“For the conservatives who are mad about this: yes, it is possible for a story to be factually accurate *and* for it to be part of a misinformation campaign aimed at undermining confidence in an election.”
https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1326189888648093702
Factually accurate misinformation.
Media is factual but dishonest? Color me Malice.
Stop interfering with my narratives by providing inconvenient facts, peasant.
^this^
Just like the DNC email dump. The veracity was never disputed. They were simply mad that the depths of their mendacity had been exposed.
Yes, yes technically it is true that the Emperor has no clothes, but anyone who says so out loud is a Russian stooge.
When I’m speaking to foreign leaders, I’m telling them: America is going to be back. We’re going to be back in the game.— Joe Biden
Gettin’ the warboner up.
This is completely shocking and unexpected.
Discouraging signs about the Biden team and press access so far: no regular transition briefings, no readouts of calls with foreign leaders (as noted by
@AlxThomp in pool report today), no open press access to the candidate and his people. This is a break with tradition.
I don’t know. Sounds like the most transparent administration ever. And how he ran his campaign.
“Defend your democracy:
1. Created a LinkedIn account.
2. Message someone who works at @JonesDay
or @PorterWright
.
3. Ask them how they can work for an organization trying to overturn the will of the American people.”
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1326213514495741958
Putting aside Jones Day isn’t even representing Trump, how is this not a violation of Twitter rules?
I don’t know anyone who would even notice the harassment until 6 months after the fact.
lol exactly
I’m actually tempted to get a Twitter account just to report stuff like this
Rules don’t apply to progressives. Rules exist for progressives to use.
They are one of my law firms.
I’m debating whether to call the senior partner I work with and ask him if they have run down the leak yet, because I have concerns about hiring a law firm that leaks to the press. Unfortunately, I’m a very minor client of theirs, but still.
Please, please, please do that
https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/1326324160465874944
It still amazes me how many people feel so open to displace their cowardice. This pandemic has really exposed that we are a nation of soft pussies.
Speaking of: Someone in my office tested positive (OH NOES!!) and they felt the need to send EVERYONE home and order tests for EVERYONE even those (like myself) who sit on a different floor on the complete other side of the building. It’s a fucking joke.
That is a joke. I’ve learned a lot about this in the last week. Last Monday we saw my MIL, the next day she got sick and then Friday she got results of her COVID test, and it was positive. The rest of the family had planned on getting a rapid test just to make sure we’re clear, but then we found out that you can test positive for up to 14 days after the last contact. Which means you might get a negative test Saturday, then test positive on Monday or Tuesday. So testing is completely useless unless you have symptoms and you want to use those results to guide your treatment.
Thus the whole “we need widespread testing” won’t help at all. It might if we had a way to test in our own homes every day or every few days. Outside of that, testing asymptomatic people doesn’t make any sense.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with the concept of the “secret shitter” at work. You probably sat on the same toilet seat.
Our cultural gatekeepers have been telling us how cowardice is a virtue, and competence is a vice, for two generations. I’m disgusted by it, but not surprised.
how is this not a violation of Twitter rules?
No justice, no rules!
FATTY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/13128813/boyfriend-says-i-am-too-overweight-to-have-sex/
You know there is a problem when the guy says he will pass on sex….
It is driving a wedge between us and I do not know what to do.
Lose weight.
I can’t tell you how many epidurals I’ve put in fatties. Her boy friend probably has a tiny penis.
euphemisms?
“look fat”
So easy to fix this. Whenever you feel the urge to put something on your mouth call your boyfriend…
Hard to tell when we don’t know how many stone she weighs.
Sgammo has 5.56 in stock in case anybody is still looking.
Fair warning that it’s up to .78/rd.
Swamp creatures.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/creepy-snake-sized-invasive-worm-spotted-in-virginia
“The first table they show is what @kevinroose
’s @FacebooksTop10
tracks.
The second table is Facebook trying to argue it’s not a right wing echo chamber.
As you can see, the second graph is also dominated by conservatives.”
https://twitter.com/donie/status/1326508430295769089
“CNN reporter leaves out the chart showing how mainstream media organizations are the ones that have by far the most reach on the platform
CNN was ranked #1
There’s not a single conservative publication on that list”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1326537532247429122
This is what I think a lot don’t realize or aren’t willing to accept. You can’t force somebody to adopt your point of view just by shoving it in their face. Puncturing an echo chamber does not make its members consider the alternative point of view. If anything, it radicalizes them more. And this goes both ways: the occasional intrusion of right media into the left’s echo chambers pushes them farther left, and the occasional intrusion of left media into the right’s echo chamber pushes them farther right. For lack of a better metaphor, winning “hearts and minds” requires thoughtful and empathetic engagement (and still often fails), while carpet bombing and no-fly zones are only useful to kill off an enemy (and, again, still often fails).
CNN reporter leaves out the chart showing how mainstream media organizations are the ones that have by far the most reach on the platform
CNN was ranked #1
This is why their ratings don’t matter. CNN, MSNBC, etc. exist as content providers, whose main distribution channels are online – Twitter, Facebook, Youtube.
Uffda. I started a bit of a family kerfuffle today.
An aunt I like a lot but who has a mild case of TDS sent out an email to this story about a Trump supporter attacking some people with a golf club.
I replied that it was a horrible story and he should do some jail time. But…. wouldn’t it be nice if people felt the same way when Trump supporters were attacked for wearing MAGA hats.
MAGA hats are a sign of aggression.
“THAT’S DIFFERENT” seems to be the general reply from the Dem side of the family.
MAGA hats are basically swastikas. It is known.
Ravelry.com agrees.
Mild TDS?
Is that a thing?
She was really mad when he won in 2016. Then she cooled off by 2017. Still no fan, but treated him like I treated Obama. A doofus I didn’t like but I wasn’t going to lose sleep over it.
NPR ran a minute-long story about how a trumpalo lost his shit online and got arrested by the FBI.
Of course they are going to figure out a way to fuck over, I mean tax those working from home now…..
It is always about controlling behavior and ripping off the productive with these fucks..
That’s retarded.
Which is why they will do it..
But wait… There’s more!
Responsibility to means being subordinate to. Responsibility for is the formulation for a duty down the hierarchy. I question the idea that I am subordinate to roads.
This has to be trolling right?
Nah. Its very typical of a large group of people who believe the only economic metric or output that matters is how much tax the government can collect.
yes, but all the carbon I’m not emitting into Mother Gaia by commuting more than offsets these losses.
because climate change is the biggest threat facing us, of course.
“That means remote workers are contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still receiving its benefits.”
Meaning roads, I take it? If I am not driving on the roads to travel to an office on a daily basis then I am not contributing to wear and tear.
You’re using fewer resources, therefore you should be taxed because you’re not using them. But if you used more resources you should be taxed for that too. /logic
+ 1 Morton’s Fork
We are rationalizing creatures not reasoning ones.
Would there not be an uptick in road traffic from different categories than work-a-day commuter? Increased shipping and delivery traffic perhaps? Are those drivers not paying more gas tax as they drive more miles? Perhaps those gas taxes might be used for roadway repair and maintenance, rather than Rails-To-Trails projects or propping up the pension plans of muni bus/train systems?
Just because we aren’t wearing out the roads doesn’t mean the states should cut the road repair budgets!
I will say that, from what I have gathered, trucks are undertaxed relative to cars (or if you prefer, cars are overtaxed relative to trucks; though really, the underlying problem is that road construction and maintenance is way more expensive than it really needs to be). Road wear from vehicles (vs. other sources, like time and weather) is proportional to the third power of weight (this article says fourth power). If vehicles were taxed according to the effect their weight has on the roads, then a 40-ton truck on 4 axles would pay 8,000 times the tax of a 1-ton car on 2 axles. Of course, truck loads are much more variable than car loads, but if it really is the fourth power then a factor of 8,000 is a severe underestimate anyway (at fourth power, it’s 160,000 times instead of 8,000). Ultimately, taxing them this disparately would kill of trucking overnight; but they are still probably undercharged. Of course, if we evil libertarians had our way, there would be
no roads at alltoll roads everywhere and it would be up to the road’s owner to set and enforce the rate.My plan: all roads are toll roads. All streets are owned and maintained by the local *OA (or taxing district(.
*Home, Business, or preferrable Mixed Use, as zoning** is also eliminated.
**And deed restrictions are limited*** to 25 years.
***We can argue whether that latter point is libertarian or not, but if you sell property with a deed restriction, you still own part of the property and should be paying the property** tax on that portion.
****Not that property***** tax should exist.
*****But deed restrictions reduce the value of unimproved land also, so would still apply in case of a SLT******.
******Look, I worked it in. Plus this footnoting is fun.
should be four stars after property, not two. Not sure why they got eaten.
Must. resist. temptation. to. criticize. land. tax.
I thought the deed restriction bit is the most controversial. I have considered writing an article on it, see if it can be more hated than my SLT article.
I generally agree that no provision of any contract, or similar instrument, should be perpetually binding. People die, the world changes, seemingly good ideas are proven wrong or at least contextually wrong, etc. At the very least, like our Constitution, there should be a mechanism to change it. Of course, I also see a category difference between time-limited indentured servitude and perpetual, multi-generational slavery.
At the very least, like our Constitution, there should be a mechanism to change it.
There is. You have to (a) be the owner and (b) get consent from anyone with standing to enforce it. Step (b) can get complicated, depending on the restriction and state law.
The problem is, the “owner” of the deed restriction isn’t paying taxes on the part they own, and might be dead.
My sister, for example, has a 3 acre minimum lot size deed restriction. The owner sold off a huge amount of land and put that in, because they didnt want to live in a neighborhood. This was 30-40 years ago. I am pretty sure they have been dead for over 20 years now (actually, I have no freakin idea, but I got the idea that they were old at the time). I don’t know the applicable state law, but how do you go about getting rid of that and splitting your land if you so chose?
If it just expired after 25 years, the process is easy. IIRC, that used to be the law in Florida, but I think it was 20 years.
the “owner” of the deed restriction isn’t paying taxes on the part they own, and might be dead
Then they can’t enforce it, and their consent isn’t necessary. Note: state law varies.
I don’t know the applicable state law, but how do you go about getting rid of that and splitting your land if you so chose?
Figure out who can enforce it. Sometimes, its only neighboring parcels (depending on the restriction), sometimes its anyone who “benefits” from it in some sense. There is an element of reliance, at least theoretically, by anyone who can enforce it – among the rights they acquired when they bought their property is the right to enforce a restriction they benefit from.
Now, an overall rule that restrictions expire after X years takes care of the reliance problem for restrictions that went into effect after the rule was adopted. For pre-existing restrictions, you may have a takings problem of some kind.
These things, if allowed up front, would hurt the developers selling priceThese things, if allowed up front, would hurt the developers selling price
Well, as I understand it, you aren’t proposing to allow a sunset on deed restrictions (since that can be done now). You’re proposing to mandate it; adopt a rule that impairs the value of property to its owner.
I’m partly just devil’s advocating you. The “dead hand” of deed restrictions has been long known as an issue with property rights in English common law. I wish I could recall more of how it was dealt with in Merry Olde England and in the US common law, but that class is over 30 years in my rearview mirror.
But deed restrictions reduce the value of unimproved land also
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t.
Just to take everybody’s favorite bugaboo, HOAs. They basically rest on a foundation of deed restrictions imposed by the developer. I don’t think developers do that to reduce their selling price.
And you are probably right, for THE DEVELOPERS. But a generation down the line (which is why I put in 25 year caveat and not an outright ban) the owners of the land might have a higher use. Building an auxiliary unit. Turning it into office space. Tearing down and building condos.
These things, if allowed up front, would hurt the developers selling price, but I don’t think it will matter much in the long run. And nothing would prevent the owner from voluntarily extending their deed restriction (back up to 25 years).
The general trend, in a healthy city, is that land values increase and building value decrease. When the building:land ratio gets low enough, it is prime for gentrification. And that may involve changing use. Permanent deed restrictions will create a collection of little San Franciscos all over our suburbs, where the land value exceeds the building value, but it is locked into Single Family Home usage.
I think developers often do this because it’s required by the city even if it hurts the bottom line.
This is where I split on HOAs. HOAs freely entered into are fine (stupid but fine). HOAs that exist because of a governmental mandate are wrong.
If the taxes collected are actually used for maintenance of the roads, and only for that purpose, AND weight/usage degradation is the primary cause of degradation, AND the funds are roughly used in some proportional relation to the usage of various roads and road types by the two classes of vehicles, then truck taxes should go up and car taxes down. But I suspect that those caveats are so big as to swallow the argument.
You’re from Cali, aren’t you?
Nope, Ohio. I don’t even voluntarily go to Cali because being stopped at the border and asked if I had any produce or livestock in my car rubbed me about as wrong as mask mandates rub Grizzly. I may reconsider that since I have never seen Yosemite and want to very much, but since the State is usually on fire when I consider reconsidering I haven’t.
I asked because this state doesn’t spend a penny on roads, despite taxing us triple every other state. When you drive across the border, the roads magically turn to glass as you enter bordering states.
But, for reals, this is a beautiful place to visit. There so much incredible scenery here that must be seen at least once. Our big problem is the pussy R’s capitulated early and often. There has to be opposing forces in order for some sanity to prevail. As goes CA, goes the nation, and here we are.
Weather is a big, and quite variable, source of road degradation. Not getting snow, lots of rain, or even frost leads to much longer-lasting roads. If you could somehow get no snow, no rain, no frost, and no sun the road might last damn near forever, but it’d also be located somewhere useless for commerce. So yeah, you’d have to balance the contribution of vehicle weight against the other factors which have less to do with the vehicles themselves.
My understanding is that there are materials used in other places that would vastly increase the durability and lifespan of our roads, but that a combination of gamesmanship (politicians can claim to have reduced costs up front and then when they want to raise money down the road point to the ‘crumbling infrastructure’) and corruption (big money in road repairs, lot of nice union jobs) leads to us using the wrong structural and surfacing materials. I freely admit my understanding is based on reading a couple articles years back and being generally suspicious of gubmint.
The only big thing I can think is to pave with concrete instead of asphalt. Much of I-97 near me is paved with concrete and has held up well for decades, vs. asphalt roads which seem to need repaving every 5-10 years (not that they always get it that often).
As I recall the gist of the article was that we use the wrong concretes, but as I said it was a while back and far from a deep dive into the world of civil engineering.
your car never is, realistically, it’s only high GVW vehicles that really contribute any wear or tear to them.
The work from homers are going to cause most of my vendors to give me less work so fuck them on the other hand whoever wrote that is a pernicious asshole who shouldn’t be in charge of anything ever.
It’s not about tax revenues, but if you change your behavior in a way that decreases tax revenues, we’ll have to tax you for that.
pretty much. This is just the beginning of them coming to terms with the fact the commercial real estate municipal taxation model is probably not going to be in good shape for the immediate and intermediate future.
god that article is hilarious.
And he looks like you’d kind of expect.
https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/Publications_reportsanalysis_and_studies_by_Luke_Templeman_for_download/LUKE_TEMPLEMAN.alias
How difficult is it to understand that people don’t exist as chess pieces for your grandiose little schemes? I mean, usually, it’s something you pick up when you hit your late twenties.
Deutsche Bank? Why should I listen to someone who gave money to Hitler?
Good morning Banjoes. And a good morning to everyone else as well. I’m trying to ignore politics and fight my crippling depression/ennui by enjoying my stupid forced vacation; I made a giant meatloaf last night and have a rack of ribs slowly cooking right now. For OMWC and SP, I stumbled across this fascinating tale of Andy Griffith’s audition for Elia Kazan’s A Face In The Crowd and thought you might enjoy it.
Whoops… sorry, Banjos.
meatloaf sound fantastic as do the ribs. How you cooking the ribs?
Nothing fancy. Just low and slow in the oven (we’re going to get some heavy rain today), 275° for several hours w/constant basting.
The meatloaf was fantastic; I modified an older ATK recipe by adding orange and yellow bell peppers and reducing the amount of onion to compensate. Paired it with baby red and golden potatoes boiled in extremely salty water and a green salad. I’m very much looking forward to a meatloaf sammich on some nice sourdough bread for lunch.
do you put gravy on it or do you go the glazed route?
I’m partial to glazing; my main objective was a week of meatloaf sammiches for lunch so gravy gets too messy. A quick mix of catsup, brown sugar, apple cider vinegar, and a splash of dark rum does the trick.
Sounds wonderful
next do some tripe soup and blood sausage
As for the amount, Templeman writes, “If we assume the average salary of a person who chooses to work from home in the US is $55,000, a tax of five per cent works out to just over $10 per working day. That is roughly the amount an office worker might spend on commuting, lunch, and laundry etc. A tax at this rate, then, will leave them no worse off than if they had chosen to go into the office.”
It’s like a mileage tax for people who don’t drive.
Also in my area while their is substantially less traffic in the morning during rush hour between the hours of 10-5 traffic is like rush hour.
This sounds like those ludicrous convenience fees they charge for buying tickets online…. Something which costs them less.
“That is roughly the amount an office worker might spend on commuting, lunch, and laundry etc. ”
Will the money be directly transferred to the restaurants and laundromat?
If someone stops drinking beer because they have a problem, should we tax them the value they would have spent on alcohol and medical? Because otherwise they are not contributing to the system.
no you misunderstand this is just to make up for the tax revenue lost by the closure of those places in the new normal.
“It’s like a mileage tax for people who don’t drive.”
This is how I know these people are proposing such idiocy as the new green deal only to rob the productive and to increase government power. If what you wanted was less CO2 generation you would want people not to need to drive to work (or massive office complexes to waste energy to hold people).
Just think about all those assholes who don’t even own a car. They contribute nothing at all and should be taxed at 20%.
Without evidence
Dr. Scott Atlas, one of President Donald Trump’s chief coronavirus advisers, publicly attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday — accusing the nation’s top infectious disease expert of being a “political animal” who adjusted his dire assessments of the pandemic after Election Day.
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Atlas’ remarks represent a continuation of the criticism the president has leveled at Fauci that escalated in the run-up to last week’s election. Last month, Trump described Fauci as a “disaster” in a call with campaign staff, and he hinted at a rally last week that he would fire Fauci after Election Day.
The sniping between Atlas and Fauci, however, has been less visible — although the two doctors have traded barbs in the press over the other’s credentials and counsel to the president. Atlas has emerged in recent months as a leading adviser to the White House’s coronavirus response because of his rosier pandemic outlook and aversion to Covid-19 restrictions.
Atlas is a physician with no expertise in infectious diseases or epidemiology. Fauci, an immunologist, has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more than three decades.
More evenhanded reporting.
Foochy isn’t political. He works for the government. And- he has credentials!
Fauci deserves the public stockade. I’d wait in line for hours to give him a peace of my mind.
I’m just going to start calling it the Fauxchi Flu.
Ok, I have hesitated to comment on this because despite my push back against the Trump will overturn this in court narrative I still would prefer that outcome, and I do not want to fuel anti-Trump conspiracies, but am I the only person here who finds the reshuffling at the top of the Defense Department a tad ominous?
Nah I actually think it signals they actually intend to try get the troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas.
You know if he does that, and has actually lost the election by then, I’m going to be impressed that he did the right thing simply because it was the right thing.
I am too, but I also think it would serve his purpose of absolutely trolling the shit out of all the people he hates the most and it would be fascinating to see a Biden admin quietly sending troops back their.
Not really. I read it as Trump being spiteful to someone he doesn’t like. The odds of the new SecDef attempting to order the military to force Trump into office is less likely than the various election fraudsters calling a joint press conference and explaining how they did it.
It is unusually timed, but the DoD is about as likely to leap at Trump’s command to some nefarious purpose as they are to all quit their cushy jobs over guilt for being tax leeches. I don’t know why he fired Esper, or what he expects to get out of Miller, but the latter is the “acting” SecDef which means he’s a senior bureaucrat not an outsider or Trump loyalist. I doubt there will be enough time to get a new appointee in before January, and if he does lose the EC, it won’t matter anyway.
After what happened with the head of Election Fraud, I’d be pretty pissed and taking a look around too.
am I the only person here who finds the reshuffling at the top of the Defense Department a tad ominous?
I think its just one of those things that is long overdue but postponed until after the election for political reasons.
The likelihood that Trump is installing a cabal of senior officers in order to conduct a military coup if he loses in court strikes me as very farfetched. But hey, its 2020.
I think it was a little ominous, but have nothing else to go on.
Scott Adams is optimistic.
I can’t decide if Scott Adams is completely full of shit 100% of the time or if it’s just 70%. No doubt he’s interesting sometimes but his whole thing is how successful he is at scamming people to believe what he wants them to believe.
Eh. Scott Adams’s predictions were based on his expertise about Persuasion Master Wizards due to his hypnotist training.
Why should his opinion about legal challenges have any kind of weight?
Because the success of legal challenges depends to some degree on how persuasive they are?
(Asserting this without bothering to look up evidence…) He also likes taking very-contrarian positions so that in the cases that “come true”, he looks all genius-y. It’s part of the hypnotism thing – make a bunch of them, and people will forget the ones that didn’t happen, but remember the ones that did, so you look smart. Most people just don’t deliberately do it.
am I the only person here who finds the reshuffling at the top of the Defense Department a tad ominous?
I don’t know enough about it. Could it have something to do with an over-eager desire on Esper’s part to work with Ballgag’s transition team?
https://news.google.com/topstories?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
These headlines are ridiculous. I don’t know if it’s that I’m more irritated or that the left has some how become MORE emboldened.
They have confused what reassures them with what convinces others.
The headlines are all carefully crafted, along with polling results and ballot security relaxing, to bolster the goals of the democrats. Everything this whole year has a been a huge lie. None of it is accidental.
‘Mornin Banjos.
The Washington Post cites “multiple administration officials” speaking anonymously, noting that the budget office instructed agencies to produce a 2022 fiscal year budget, which “rankled and surprised” career government officials.
I like “rankling” career government officials. Unfortunately, the budget will go nowhere despite it spending too much money.
“Let’s not have any lectures, no lectures, about how the president should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election and who insinuated that this one would be illegitimate too if they lost again — only if they lost,” the Kentucky Republican said.
I feel weird. I kinda like McConnell.
States have allowed malls and retailers to reopen, but the situation remains precarious as COVID-19 infections are now back on the rise. Consequently, it’s reasonable to expect malls and stores are shutdown — or shopping times restricted —again before year end. That will raise the prospect of a fresh wave of bankruptcies in early 2021 after what could be a lackluster holiday shopping season.
Who knew that centrally planning the economy would lead to problems?
After I left for the night, I see some folks on last night’s thread were talking about Caput’s girlfriend. I’ve met her. She is as he describes.
🙁
I had a blue screen because of a CPU temperature warning. Turns out I accidentally blocked the air intakes with a wall. I’ve shifted the computer setup around, we’ll see if it goes all right. Does anyone know of a good way to monitor the CPU temp natively, or do I need to download a utility?
How often is your fan on? If it is on all the time, I recommend you find a way to help circulate the air rather than just look for a software solution.
I have a fan that circulates the air in the cabinet my PC is in, and I have completely reduced/removed the old “temp warning” issues…
The fans are silent, I have no idea when they’re running.
This is the only time I’ve ever had a temperature issue, because I only just rearranged the computer setup this week.
Also, it’s not a ‘software solution’, I want to see if the changes I made are doing what I want without waiting for another crash.
I have a fan that circulates the air in the cabinet my PC is in
Have you considered, you know, just not keeping your PC inside another box?
Those walls can be sneaky.
There is very little standardization of temperature sensors in the PC world, you’ll almost certainly need a third-party utility.
My BIOS displays the temps from all of the sensors on the MB but, one has to exit the OS and enter the BIOS. I’ve been using one of the Corsair all-in-one water cooling kits for about 7 years now; it takes control of all the case fans and temp sensors. I’ve been VERY happy with it.
This is true. The BIOS/UEFI vendor knows exactly which kind of CPU and which kind of motherboard sensors are in use and generally does include this information, with the better vendors making it easily accessible.
Within the OS, on the other hand, even when you can get the sensor data, you may not know what it means. “Thermal Indicator #7” and “Voltage Regulator #4” aren’t as helpful as one might hope.
HOLY MACKEREL!!! That was probably the hardest part of the whole build – the MB clearly marks all of the headers but even their (ASUS) own software labels them differently.
Mr UCS tear down this wall
***WILD APPLAUSE!!!***
Hey! I need that wall. It keeps the outside out.
I figured Pie only wanted the wall down so he could squat inside UCS’s PC where it’s nice and warm.
Turns out I accidentally blocked the air intakes with a wall.
Then proceeded to turn on the sink with his hand over the faucet.
Does anyone know of a good way to monitor the CPU temp natively, or do I need to download a utility?
I use a utility called Core Temp (up to version1.16 right now). Like Colt 45, it gets the job done. Warned me of a near-catastrophic rise in Tj Max on my old four-core CPU a couple of years ago due to a badly-behaved app running in the background.
Epic Freudian slip….
Just don’t call it a lockdown
Following weeks of rapid climbs in Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations, more state leaders have begun asking residents to stay at home in hopes of helping curb an already rampant spread of the virus. The announcements also come as Texas became the first US state to surpass a million cases.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak is asking people to commit to a voluntary plan he calls “Stay at Home 2.0” in the next two weeks in efforts to push a “significant reversal of the current trends” in the state.
“We have to go back to the basics,” the governor said, encouraging businesses to return to telecommuting as much as possible and asking residents to avoid hosting groups of people over for dinners, parties and other gatherings.
Wisconsin’s governor announced Tuesday he’s signed a new order advising people to “stay home to save lives.”
“It’s not safe to go out, it’s not safe to have others over,” he said. “Please, cancel the happy hours, dinner parties, sleepovers, and playdates at your home. And if a friend or family member invites you over, offer to hang out virtually instead.”
Nobody’s calling for a lockdown, you deplorable haterz. We just don’t want you out of your house.
Does that clown realize his entire state’s economy is based on tourism that he’s trying his hardest to snuff out?
Nobody’s calling for a lockdown? What about all those voters who gave Biden a majority in Nevada? Why fly to Vegas when a gambler can easily drive to a local casino.
I’m assuming the media declared Joe the winner to keep me down. I’m certain that I’m the true winner of the presidency. Fucking Fraud cost me the election.
TIL – A wee bit of wasabi makes boiled potatoes extra super delicious.
sounds decadent
Our best. Our brightest.
Weston Kerekes plans to eat his Thanksgiving dinner alone in his childhood bedroom in Santa Monica, California.
If all goes as planned, the Yale University freshman’s quarantine will have followed a tightly choreographed trip from his New Haven, Connecticut, campus to ensure he doesn’t expose his parents to Covid-19.
“He’ll take a Covid-19 test 72 hours before he leaves campus and then he will wear an N95 (mask) and goggles from the moment he steps into the airport,” said Erika Kerekes, his mother, who has asthma, high blood pressure and diabetes. “On the plane he won’t eat or drink anything or use the bathroom.”
Once he tests negative, after several days of quarantining, the Kerekes family will be able to live together without wearing masks or social distancing.
WHEEEEEE!
The road to Hell is as smooth as a billiard table.
I will never live for the sake of another man or ask him to live for mine.
That’s nice. What does he want, a ‘Worlds Biggest Dork’ award?
To return to last night’s topic. I’ve found the vacuum sealer to be a wonderful aid for storing foods I only use occasionally (there’s a vac bag of flaxseed flour in the freezer right now).
Ok, one post about my family’s germ plasm was enough. Y’all can stop discussing our seed any time now!