Exhausting day doing very little. I’ll get right to it…
This is the weekly reminder the El Presidente has still has not congratulated Biden…it appears English speaking media dropped it.
Brazilian politician currently comatose due to complications with COVID…manages to get elected mayor.
Please Mr. Dictator…let him go. Good luck.
An online pilgrimage seems to defeat the purpose of a pilgrimage.
Whats the over/under on Biden giving those retards more loans?
Cuban government agrees to hear out protestors. Then Cuban government says “nah!” Which can be seen as progress, since previous protestors were executed.
Here’s some real tunes, this time around,
“An online pilgrimage seems to defeat the purpose of a pilgrimage.”
OFFS!!
Peru never had this as their anthem
“Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador avoided commenting on the U.S. presidential election results, in which Democrat Joe Biden-Kamala Harris is the virtual winner.
“We are going to wait for all the legal issues to be resolved. We don’t want to be reckless, we don’t want to act lightly, and we want to be respectful of the self-determination of peoples and respectful of the rights of others,” he said from Villahermosa, Tabasco in line with what Donald Trump, who has challenged the results on several points, has said.
López Obrador justified his position with the argument of respect for peoples’ self-determination and prudence, for which – he reiterated – he will wait for the official end of the U.S. electoral process.”
Not to upset anyone’s tits, but it seems over:
“AG Bill Barr says there ISN’T enough evidence of voting fraud to change election result after probe into Dominion systems – but furious Rudy Giuliani claims ‘there hasn’t been any semblance of an investigation'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9006889/Barr-No-evidence-fraud-d-change-election-outcome.html
“Donald Trump demands Georgia call off Senate runoffs and give seats to Republicans because November results were ‘fraud’ as he launches ANOTHER lawsuit to invalidate 220,000 votes in Wisconsin”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9005831/Trump-tries-invalidate-220-000-absentee-votes-Wisconsin-recount-confirmed-Biden-win.html
If you don’t look for any evidence and purposely avoid noticing the obvious – then sure.
Trump has a had a really bad run with AGs.
“Trump has a had a really bad run with AGs.”
Well, when you pick the wrong AGs, that can happen, probably will happen.
the virtual winner
Amusing, since “virtual” means “not real”.
The Trump response.
Just being honest, but I’m kinda sick of their BS rhetoric. Put up or shut up, and the time to put up is quickly coming to a close. If “the Kraken” was just a bunch of affidavits from people claiming they saw silly business going on, this entire endeavor is over before it started. Getting at JI’s point, they better have a Trump card up their sleeve, because the “we have affidavits” schtick is wearing thin.
Yeah, yeah, let them have their day in court. Agreed, but they’re either playing it really tight to the vest or they got bupkus.
Haven’t watched closely enough to say for sure, but I suspect they have a gap between the big patterns their experts see and the on-the-ground affidavits. When you can say “We can prove activity X is going on, because we have eyewitnesses” and the experts can say “the statistical patterns we see are consistent with activity X on a broader scale” in a way that paints the picture from the micro to the macro levels, you’re doing well. Federal prosecutors feast on exactly that combination in medical billing cases. I suspect that case is in there somewhere, but Trump’s team has taken the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach. Unfortunately, that leaves them with a muddled case and way too much to prove.
And those cases are big cases that take time. I think this fraud was just too big to fail – it would take way too long to pull together the case.
Supposedly, the FBI requested the data from one of the speakers at the cringefest in Phoenix yesterday.
His was usual election fraud—dead votes, out of state votes and the like.
Agreed trash, all day i watch video after video of poll workers testifying, stories of missing USB drives, but are they getting anywhere with it? Im sure the media would ignore every bit of it anyway but i feel like its a lost cause.
Trump seems to have failed to notice (ha, big surprise) that only one Republican led a Georgia senate race. If you just want to hand those seats to the people that finished first in the election but didn’t cross the 50%+1 threshold, you get one R and one D.
Barr said the FBI/DOJ didn’t find evidence of voter fraud that would change the election.
He didnt say such fraud does not exist.
Then he complimented his team, who were all wearing dark sunglasses, carrying white canes, and holding tightly to the leashes of their guide dogs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBuvRk1thQ
Lol.
Was expecting this.
not this?
#MeToo
When the Government wants to investigate something, they sure seem to do so in a quick like fashion. One month (or less depending on when their investigation started) to wrap that up but how long have we been on other investigations? Years?
What Trump said was if they properly audit the ballots the recount won’t be needed. That is a far cry from demanding Georgia call off the runoff. It would be lovely if they would attack people for what they do and say without making things up.
America’s foremost busybody maiden aunt offers advice
The COVID-19 pandemic won’t end until the “overwhelming majority” of people in the U.S. get vaccinated, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Monday.
With a rollout of safe treatments for the respiratory illness forecast to begin by the end of this year, the U.S. needs between 75 and 85 percent of the population to take a vaccine for the protection to be truly effective, the country’s top infectious disease expert said in a video interview with billionaire Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.
“I would like to see the overwhelming majority of the country vaccinated before we get to the end of the second quarter [of 2021],” he told Zuckerberg.
“So when we get into the fall season the children can feel safe going back to school, teachers can feel safe they are not going to get infected, we get back to the economy being robust, restaurants can open… that’s what I would like to see.”
I would like to see that bastard’s decomposing body hanging from a lamppost, with ravens using it for a shitter.
Fauci just, let me carry the one and multiply it by 2020 and, just yesterday said kids are okay to go to school. So Mr. Fauci (I refuse to refer to you as doctor) which is it?
Mark Zuckerberg is a journalist now? (Not that he’s any less qualified than most other dolts with press passes)
Don’t really see why anyone who gets a vaccine should not be allowed to go maskless and do as they please. That should be enough. Forcing a certain number of people to get it seems irrelevant.
/German accent ON
So long as they have the papers showing they have the vaccine, yes?
/German accent OFF
That’s fine. I would of course prefer all those laws end. But I already have to do all this crap despite being vaccinated. Now let me carry around my proof to get out of them .
Oh it just occurs to me what a much better solution is.
When the vaccine comes out, just repeal all the laws.
If someone is worried about the virus, they can get the vaccine.
Well, there’s a problem, in most jurisdictions, no laws were passed, just illegal orders from on high.
“Juno actor Ellen Page publicly comes out as a transgender male named Elliot and tells fans in a statement: ‘My pronouns are he/they’ – as wife of two years says ‘I support you'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9006579/Ellen-Page-comes-trans-male-named-Elliot-says-statement-pronouns-they.html
much stunning so brave
much needy so pathetic
Wow. She’s not that old, but time has not been kind to her.
All I see is a picture of a pair of 12 year old boys.
Because you said that I decided “fine, Ill check out the link”. You are not wrong. Juno=Cute. That pictured there looks like too many Hollywood parties when she was cute.
I’ll always remember her for Hard Candy. Juno was forgettable.
The roller derby one was fun.
It was!
Hard Candy… the best horror movie for OMWC.
Hasn’t committed to a guy haircut, tho.
She wants to be a gay guy?
Apparently not, since she’s not splitting up from the missus.
Does that mean the wife is no longer a lesbian, since she’s now married to a self-proclaimed dude? (happy now, Just Sayn? No “bloke” this time)
That’s what gender-fluid means.
But the wife isn’t genderfluid, is she?
Both of them are.
I’m just trying to find a little bit of logic in these terms but I don’t really care.
I am old enough to remember when gay people wanted to get rid of labels and just be considered people because outside their bedroom it was irrelevant who they slept with. I miss those days.
That was before the ista-fame afforded by the Internet came around.
So she/he/they will drink beer, eat nachos, and watch football now?
as wife of two years says ‘I support you’
Are lesbians forced into liking trans-men now?
Maybe as long as the trans-man is still an innie and not one of those icky outies?
She got tired of being “the OTHER lesbian Ellen.”
Umbrella Academy Season 3 should be interesting.
Vanya is now Van!
That doesn’t even make sense in woke terms.
Unless he is he on some days and they is they on other days.
No, it doesn’t. It should be either he/him or they/them or he/them or they/him, but he/they is the stupidest of the stupid bunch.
See how much attention you just paid to her/him? WINNING
“Online pilgrimage” due to disease fears. The irony, she burns (from an article about Virgen de Guadalupe):
Let’s make sure to prevent people from venerating a healer of disease because we’re afraid of…disease.
I thought that was one of the purposes of a pilgrimage. Sacrifice?
“Coronavirus was spreading in the US by December 17 – WEEKS before China admitted that people there were being infected by a new virus, antibody testing of donated blood finds
Blood collected by the Red Cross between December 13 and January 17 was later sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be tested for antibodies to coronavirus.
Testing revealed antibodies to the virus that causes COVID-19 in 39 samples from blood donated between December 13 and December 16. Those donations were made in California, Oregon, and Washington.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9006277/Coronavirus-spreading-December-17-study-finds.html
I’m in WA, and nearly 100% sure that I had it back in mid-January. About 3/4 of my office had a weird flu with fever, terrible aches, loss of smell, and cough (of course those symptoms were different for various people).
Said it then, even more sure now.
As a parent we know our kids ailing and illnesses generally, especially cold/flu. Both teens had flu like symptoms in Jan that were mild enough, but different coughs and they general appearance was “off”. I am sure our family went through it.
There was a “really bad cold” circulating last fall and winter in a lot of places. I talked to a number of people who had it.
Because I cultivate my immune system with poor personal hygiene, I didn’t catch it.
Anecdotally, our house had what was diagnosed as FTI (Flu Type Illness) towards the end of November ’19. Wifey never really felt anything, kids were fine after a few days, I was hit hard for a week and had lingering shortness of breath and dry cough into the 1st week of January 2020. We’ve all tested negative since that became a thing here last Summer, but I still blame those yellow devils who massacred our boys at the Yalu river.
Yup. I was really sick for a few days in late January. Thought it was probably the flu, but with no congestion, which struck me as weird at the time. Major fever (spiked to 103 a few times), chills, body felt like I was 2003 David Carr getting sacked 100 times. After 4 or 5 days, got over it. I hadn’t heard the bit about losing the sense of smell before, but I have. I literally can’t smell anything anymore. It’s bizarre, all the more so because my sense of taste is unchanged, but it doesn’t matter what I’m cooking, how many candles my wife lights, or anything else – nothing registers.
I got the fever and aches (for about 7 days) and that’s it.
Co-worker who never misses work was out almost a week with the same symptoms, but also with a dry cough.
Most of the rest of the office did the fever+cough+aches thing, with only 2 having smell (and kinda taste, which would be expected) affected at all.
Really? It still hasn’t come back after all these months?
A friend had it several months ago and says his smell and taste haven’t recovered yet. Some things he can’t smell at all, others he can smell but they don’t smell right.
Nope. I honestly didn’t even notice for a while. It’s kind of funny, but unless you’re like my wife and have to have scented everything, it’s not at the forefront of your mind. The way I noticed it was when our poor elderly dog started having accidents in the house – my wife would walk into a room and announce “It smells like poop/pee in here” and I could never tell. One time, she pissed all over my CPAP mask when I had left it lying on the floor next to the bed. I had to wash it off with bleach hurridly at 1 AM so I could get to sleep. Now, I have always hated the smell of bleach so I was really irritated about having to put it on that way, but when I put the mask on I couldn’t smell it at all. That was the moment I realized that it wasn’t just diminished, it was gone.
My buddy specifically mentioned bleach as something he could not smell at all.
He also said stuff that he knows is only a little sour tastes super sour now.
Wow. I hope it comes back.
Wife had a bad URI/Flu like symptoms in late Feb 20. She was sick for a good week with a hacking cough. I caught it about a week later, no cough, runny nose and a feeling of malaise/achy. Right as rains since then.
Same here. Entire family came down with an exact match to Covid symptoms in late December 2019. We went to the doc thinking it was influenza and was told definitely not the flu but is some sort of respiratory virus.
I knew it.
Man, can you imagine if the ChiComs managed to keep that under wraps?
“What an awful flu season.” -CDC, 2022
No shit, Sherlocks.
If the medical community – aka bureaucrats – discover a virus, in all likelihood said virus has been circulating for 12 months.
Not Gen X
See above, we just sang pissed of pithy songs about it.
I just want my 80’s movies back.
My wife and I watched Sixteen Candles over the weekend.
It’s still great. And couldn’t be made today.
Sixteen Candles Molly Ringwald didn’t really do it for me.
Breakfast Club Molly Ringwald, though…
I have never understood why anyone found Milly Ringwald attractive in any movie. I mean, just look at her.
Nice.
Currently movies, though? Ya, I’d have to agree.
She’s more attractive than Ally Sheedy. Putting that one in movies didn’t make any sense.
That’s crazy talk. She’s not just hot like fire, she’s a tracker, she speaks good Earther, AND she made it through The Maze. https://images.app.goo.gl/xwfiA7Ukm9Jyr1Yx5
Nonsense. War Games-era Ally Sheedy was mad cute.
And as anyone who watched The Breakfast Club can tell you, she cleaned up well.
Of course, my high school girlfriend was a dead ringer for her, so I’m a bit biased.
She’s more attractive than Ally Sheedy.
There’s no accounting for taste, I guess.
Lea Thompson was definitely the most attractive of the Brat Packers.
Howard the Duck agrees.
Not Molly.
The answer is Haviland Morris’ breasts.
Always.
(Ed McMahon drunkenly leers) You are correct sir!
Why ya gotta be so either/or, guy? Come on over to the both/and side!
Not to rain on anybody’s parade, but that was a body double. Stunt tits, so to speak.
John Hughes was pretty awesome. Left Hollywood behind.
I want my MTV (sung in a Stingesque falsetto).
A couple of months ago the owner of the local gun store predicted that he would soon have too many guns he can’t sell because there’s no ammo for them. Looking around today – he’s right. I bet gun prices will be dropping in a month or two and on sale by Presidents’ Day.
I just picked up a shotgun online.
Ooh, what kind?
CZ USA 720.
Hasn’t shipped yet.
I also found #3 Buck in 20 gauge which arrived yesterday.
I went gun shopping on Saturday. The place I went to was cleaned out. Very little inventory left. Nothing interesting to me, so I left empty handed. *sad trombone*
My local place and Bud’s has quite a few guns – zero ammo to run them with.
I’ve found 9mm here or there. 223 is harder to track down, even if you want to pay exorbitant prices and run steel cases.
I have a case of 62 gr 556 on backorder at .40/rd We’ll see what happens but the seller will have a customer for life if they actually come through on it.
I did fondle a CP-33. Meh, bulky and cheap feeling.
My locals have guns on the wall, but not like they did.
The ammo cases are almost completely empty. What they have are the oddball calibers.
Bought 2 cases of .380 in Lakeland, FL. 2 cases was the max. They had a lot of 9mm, but we didn’t need any. Store was busy, busy.
“Forced Transition: The Dark Truth About Famous Trans Kids”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1333833326457548803
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZmb__XA4w
I’m in me cups and Wilma knows the deal – https://youtu.be/iEmihpFo96k
It has been an Ong Bak day on the TV. I dismiss the subtitles and just watch.
I’ve only seen the first one.
comatose due to complications with COVID…manages to get elected mayor
Too few politicians in office are comatose.
Why we fight
Jessica Lusk and Dylan Garcia are under what they call “unbearable stress.”
Every second they worry that in trying to keep their youngest child safe from the pandemic, they might lose their home and hurt their other children. And it still might not be enough.
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Fear is nothing new for the young couple, as Brandi has an extremely rare metabolic disorder that requires round-the-clock care and makes her vulnerable to any kind of virus.
She’s already a walking miracle. Most children with her condition don’t live past the age of one.
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“Any acute illness could be deadly for her,” said Dr. Luis Umaña, a pediatric genetic and metabolic specialist at Children’s Health in Dallas and assistant professor at UT Southwestern.
“Covid is so contagious and so widespread, that is at the top of our list of things that she could easily contract,” said Umaña, who is Brandi’s doctor. “For other ones, I mean, she gets vaccines right now. We don’t have a vaccine for the coronavirus yet — at least available.”
Umaña said fewer than 1 in 250,000 babies are born with CACT deficiency and it requires an “overwhelming amount of effort” to treat, even during normal times. “She will never be really out of the woods,” he said. “Any time in her life something could go wrong, and that could be it for her.”
i see no reason why 330 million (mostly) healthy people should not be forced into slavery over this.
Modern America is all about making everyone else conform to your special needs.
… says every parent of a child with one of dozens of auto-immune disorders, cancers (treatment destroys the immune system), etc. While an incredibly difficult situation, it’s not actually unique. When a patient is in that situation – especially when a child – it’s tough, no question.
And the thought that a COVID vaccine will keep this child safe is likely not a wise move.
You callous, heartless, selfish INDIVIDUALIST! Why won’t you give up everything for this one little girl?
I already gave up everything for the last little girl. It’s your turn now.
You elected a comatose mayor?
Yep. Best mayor we ever had.
We just supposedly elected a comatose President.
I can think of some mayors even better than that.
I would live in a town with enough cynicism and scorn to elect a dog.
Karen: “Hey, Fluffy! There’s a pandemic going around and everyone should be locked up in their houses!”
Mayor Fluffy: stretchs, yawns, goes for a walk outside
*gives Mayor Fluffy a biscuit*
Tundra jailed for bribery, film at 11.
Fluffy accepted the bribe, but the DA refuses to prosecute.
I thought you were referring to the poster from TOS.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9006895/Demi-Rose-turns-heat-fluffy-pink-bikini-matching-shorts.html
Nope. Comfy and cute.
An update on the N.H. crash that killed 7 motorcyclists
The scary part about motorcycles isn’t the motorcycle. It’s the idiots with cars driving around the motorcycle.
That’s why I try to treat every other vehicle on the road as though they’re trying to kill me.
Yep, riding forces your to be a better driver – two wheels or four.
They are.
Nothing on the road pisses me off when I make the attempt to respect the person on the motorcycle and then they ride like a jackass.
You can insert cyclist into that statement as well.
Oof. Running over part of a motorcycle gang. That’ll keep your head on a swivel for the rest of your life.
And “Jarheads” – I’m assuming they’ve got some Marines in there somewhere.
“Volodymyr Zhukovskyy”
I found the problem.
Russian collision?
Ukrainian. It was reported that he would be deported to Ukraine after serving his sentence.
His case is a vivid example of the reach of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, which has the world’s worst COVID-19 death toll outside the United States. More than 6.3 million people have been infected and nearly 173,000 have died from the virus, according to Health Ministry data.
I thought Peru was worse? On a per capita basis, but not an absolute number. Absolute number doesn’t matter – places with higher populations will have more deaths. You don’t want to be called fake news, then don’t spread fake news.
Yeah, but if you do per capita then you can’t blame everything on the US, or its soon to be ex-President. Gotta support the narrative.
Followup on bottom of last thread. Marine has played 5 league games so far, some of their league have played as many as 9. I am sure there number is due to having played 7 rounds in the FA Cup so far. If they can beat Tottenham, they will tie the all time record of 9 rounds.
And I now see they havent played a match in league since October 27, so I guess the most recent strict lockdown is what was being referred to. Looks like their next match is scheduled for 12/12, so they are about to be allowed to play again.
Yeah, I should have been clearer on that.
If they can beat Tottenham
As a fan, I am well aware of Spursy. But come on, this would be bigger than Leicester winning the PL.
It wouldnt be the first tome a non league club beat a PL team.
But yeah, it would be on the order of UMBC beating UVA.
Los titties Mexicano
When it’s suppertime and you can’t wait to get the boss off your back.
BREAKING: ITALIANS ARE WHITE
“A student group at Brown is calling for the removal of statues of Marcus Aurelius and Augustus Ceaser. These emperors’ legacies represent some of civilization’s greatest virtues. I interviewed a student and a professor who want the statues to stay.”
https://twitter.com/alessabocchi/status/1333802521106681857
Huh.
That would have been pretty welcome news to my great-grandfather.
Eye-talians ain’t white.
We Micks have a better claim on it on account of all the anglo and scandinavian infusions.
And the pasty skin…
Marcus Aurelius was clearly a white supremacist battling to oppress the Marcomanni of color
wasn’t his son the Hunter Biden of our time?
/Hideous to think it…
Was Augustus Ceaser really that great, He strikes me as one of those “Great Men = Very bad Men”
You don’t run Rome, win a Roman Civil War, and establish an empire while being a paragon of virtue. I don’t doubt he had a whole crypt full of skeletons.
Back when to be a leader you better have skeletons in your closet otherwise you aint’ running anything.
I don’t doubt he had a whole crypt full of skeletons.
Literally.
Isn’t that most great men, at least in the political realm? Even the ones who have real, actual laudable accomplishments and prove themselves as the best choice of all the possible options are usually terrible people. It’s almost like politics is a game that rewards vice.
Romanes eunt domus!
Speak truth to power, get lynched
An unnamed person familiar with the Biden transition process told the Associated Press Sunday about the former vice president’s plan to pick Tanden, the Center for American Progress’ president and CEO, for the influential OMB role. Tanden is a divisive figure among some Democrats and an outspoken critic of both Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump.
If either of the two Republican incumbents—Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue—defeat their Democratic challengers in the upcoming Senate runoff elections, then the GOP will keep their majority and could determine Tanden’s confirmation fate.
A spokesperson for Senator John Cornyn on Sunday evening invoked her past criticisms of Republicans in the upper chamber to insist that she’ll have no chance of securing the position with a GOP-led Senate.
“Neera Tanden, who has an endless stream of disparaging comments about the Republican Senators’ whose votes she’ll need, stands zero chance of being confirmed,” tweeted Drew Brandewie, Cornyn’s communications director.
The only reason they object to her is because she told the truth about what a bunch of monsters they are.
They’ll also object because of misogyny.
OMB = Orange Man Bad
And the Bernie bros are all on about how she is Bernie’s personal anti-Christ, and the DNC once again flings boogers in Bernie’s face.
Latinas:
https://thechive.com/2016/11/06/lord-have-mercy-the-latinas-are-here-70-photos/
or
https://archive.is/HmSpa
Pretty good.
21…Latina and freckles….
Running over part of a motorcycle gang. That’ll keep your head on a swivel for the rest of your life.
Especially in jail.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
BREAKING: John Durham Appointed as Special Counsel to Keep Obamagate Investigation Active
He becomes an on-going headache to Biden – whether he accomplishes anything more than Mueller or not.
Won’t the new AG just shut it down?
Yes. Cuomo will shut it down, and get a Tony for it.
The AG isn’t the personal lawyer of the President. He should recuse himself from any inquiries into the President’s business or those of his friends. That is the standard of the Democrats. right, right. Is this thing on?
So back to defending the “serving at the pleasure of the president” line I see.
Along with new president can overturn any EO he wishes.
/HI federal judge
Nope – that’s the whole point of being a special counsel, they have to show cause to fire him, not just because they want to.
The cause will be that, they feel in the interests of unity it is important that they stop trumps “”””unprecedented “””attempt at delegitimizing the new president. And the media will agree. And any who criticize it will be banned off social media.
Let the unpersoning begin
While many health care workers have used social media to show Americans the harsh effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, one Oregon nurse is in trouble for doing the opposite.
An oncology nurse at Oregon’s Salem Health was put on administrative leave Saturday after she posted a TikTok video in which she bragged about flouting her state’s pandemic restrictions, the hospital told CNN.
The video, which has since been taken down, showed the nurse, wearing scrubs and a stethoscope around her neck, pretending to scream with a caption that read: “When my coworkers find out I still travel, don’t wear a mask when I am out, and let my kids have playdates.”
The video, posted Friday, went viral, and at least one other TikTok user posted a version of it to their account — which has received hundreds of thousands of views.
The video “displayed cavalier disregard for the seriousness of this pandemic and her indifference towards physical distancing and masking outside of work,” the hospital said in a statement posted to Facebook on Saturday.
The hospital went on to distance themselves from the nurse’s comments, saying “We also want to assure you that this one careless statement does not reflect the position of Salem Health or the hardworking and dedicated caregivers who work here.”
The hospital said the nurse will be on administrative leave until an investigation that “will thoroughly and accurately ascertain the facts in this case” is complete.
Burn her! Burn the heretic!
The 2020 hits keep on rolling: The Arecibo radio telescope finally collapsed today.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-arecibo-radio-telescopes-massive-platform-has-collapsed/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-arecibo-observatorys-telescope-has-collapsed/ar-BB1bxedw
it’s not a surprise, parts fell earlier this tear and it was decommissioned, going to scrap anyway, meh,
Yes it was completely predictable. But it seems like a symbol for our government agencies that spend big up front and then can’t even do basic maintenance. As I said below, I can understand obsolescence etc. But they just let it collapse rather than properly decommission it or attempt to keep it relevant to scientific inquiry.
It seems Father Time and Mother Gaia are reminding Humans just who is at the top of the food chain.
The National Science Foundation, the US Government agency that is responsible for overseeing the telescope operations, said:
Saddened. Saddened. The taxpayer funded agency responsible for the telescope’s upkeep is saddened to announce it has completely failed in its job to maintain a scientific instrument of historical significance in a condition that would allow its use for, you know, science.
It’s really sad that they neglected it for as long as they did, that’s what’s sad. Now, I understand that it might not have been the greatest radio telescope, and its scientific usefulness may have been reduced in favor of other instruments, but perhaps the NSF had options here. Maybe they could have made the decision to decommission it. Or to sell it to a private concern, if any existed that could have used and improved it. Maybe they could have improved it themselves to it would have retained scientific utility.
But no, they let it fall in on itself in a completely predictable collapse, and now they are Sad.
Seems their understanding of SCIENCE! didn’t help them keep it in good working order. I thought belief and good vibes were all the rage nowadays. I am sure there is some budget line item that Trump cut or something that led to the downfall.
I don’t think lack of maintenance was an issue at this point. From what I’ve read the problem may have the result of materials deficiencies during construction. They tested one of the broken cables and it was about 60% as strong as it should have been. And the strands of one of the remaining cables were breaking at a rate of one strand a day. So they were expecting it to collapse, just a couple of weeks from now.
This is after the US government admits to having “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.” The alien conspiracy continues apace.
Setec astronomy, on the other hand, is just flourishing.
Seatecs Astronomy = Too Many Seacrests
Dazed and Confused could be made today if you cut out all of the movie.
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/12/01/how-its-done-baltimores-kim-klacik-gives-a-how-to-handle-bigots-101-lesson-after-twitter-insult-n287655
Why she will never be voted for in Baltimore.
I’m surprised we didn’t hear about how he is planning to institute religious theocracy in the country.
Mi amiga más antigua y más querida acaba de enterarse que obtendrá una entrevista de segunda ronda en el Smithsonian.
I think the NMAI wants to expand south of the border – she specializes in pre-Inca cultures in South America.
You’re not gonna believe this
George Serafeim wants to revolutionize the way businesses calculate their success.
Profit and loss aren’t enough, says the Harvard Business School professor. Serafeim aims to do what no one has done before: Put a dollar value on the impact of products and operations on people and the planet, then add or subtract it from companies’ bottom lines.
Intel Corp. provides an example of both. Serafeim and his five-person team credited $6.9 billion to the chipmaker in 2018 for paying its employees well and for boosting local economies where it has offices. But they deducted $3.1 billion for what they said was a shortage of women employees, the difficulty of career advancement and not enough attention paid to workers’ health.
“Without monetizing impacts, we’re left with the illusion that businesses have no impact,” Serafeim said. Companies that show big profits can have enormous negative effects on society, he said. “They’re just cheating because they’re operating in a context that doesn’t price all those impacts.”
Serafeim’s research throws out the playbook of measuring business performance primarily by shareholder value, which was popularized last century by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman. Besides providing an antidote to “good washing” — corporate happy talk without follow-up — his work comes as companies increasingly search for ways to help boost a society that, despite its wealth, suffers from woes that include racism, a widening chasm between rich and poor, and deepening damage to nature. The coronavirus pandemic has made that quest more urgent.
Take that, Milton Friedman! They have a model which PROVES YOU WRONG.
Put a dollar value on the impact of products and operations on people and the planet, then add or subtract it from companies’ bottom lines.
Funny how this comes up mere weeks after the same exact, to the letter, rhetoric started coming out of the mouths of the execs at my company (which is not Intel).
Not that it’s a huge departure from what we were doing already, but the coordination of messaging is amazingly efficient.
NARRATOR:
That didn’t go over well at his later Fraudulent Accounting Trial.
Sure we were operating at an “Accounting loss”, but Economically speaking we are generating 100’s of Millions of dollars in revenue. I don’t see how that is fraudulent to claim as part of our bottom line?
Wokeness points 9000
Stock price $.005
Employees last year 100,347
Employees this year 0
Bankruptcy trustee fees earned $47,983,201.50
You do math Gud!
Couldn’t even get over nine thousand?
Sad.
It’s a quest?
I get to play the ranger, who wants to be the wizard?
Only if I can be a drow to be cancelled for wearing “blackskin”.
I am Brutalitops! The magician!
Serafeim is well-known in the world of environmental, social and corporate governance investing — in his words, he was “doing ESG before it was cool.” Growing up in Greece and observing problems in its government sparked his fascination with measuring performance.
His analysis goes beyond the established work on measuring greenhouse gases or using carbon pricing. Keeping in line with the adage, “what gets measured, gets managed,” Serafeim’s goal is to value intangible, non-financial factors. By tapping machine-learning technology, Serafeim and his team evaluate products and services on factors that include how accessible and affordable they are, their health and safety, and the ability to recycle them.
This means charging credit-card companies for the medical costs of depression connected to indebtedness, debiting airlines for the human toll of flight cancellations and making food producers accountable for health issues related to obesity. Their calculations also credit automakers for the safety of their vehicles and companies that hire in areas of high joblessness.
On employment, the team assesses issues such as the quality of wages paid, the number of Black women in high-salary positions and the impacts of sexual harassment.
Oh.
I guess this is how the left plans to shove a “social credit score” down our throats.
I have to admit, I am really beginning to wonder if I will leave this life before I end up killing someone.
“what gets measured, gets managed,”
And what seems to be going over his head is that “what gets mismeasured, gets mismanaged”. You can’t just conjure numbers out of thin air and pretend that somehow makes you a better manager or will lead to better success.
You can’t just conjure numbers out of thin air and pretend that somehow makes you a better manager or will lead to better success.
Can you tell that to my department head?
I finally got around to putting a hose clamp on my desk chair to prevent it from sinking. My rage meter has dropped significantly.
Huh. I took the more difficult route of replacing the piston.
I want it to stay at the highest position, so I don’t need it to go up and down. Of course it’s only been on for 30 minutes so I don’t know if this will work long term.
That’s how I fixed mine, it’s held for about 6 months now. just nowstarting to notice a minimal slip (1/2 inch) that seems to be in the piston below the one I clamped so I’m guessing a second clamp will fix that.
Drill straight through the the joining area, insert bolt and nut, done forever,
/Hose Clamps? HAHaHaHa!
I like the way you guys think. I may have to do that to the sinker I’ve been putting off replacing the piston.
Meh, I had a hose clamp and a screw driver on hand, had it fixed in less time than it would have taken to walk out to the van and get my drill. Also the hose clamp fix is much easier to adjust if for some reason I ever want to change the height.
I tried that when my chair started dropping but I couldn’t tighten the clamp enough to hold it. And I only weight about 180lb. So much better when I bought a replacement cylinder (the chair itself was still in great shape so I didn’t want to replace the whole thing).
Are we not doing phrasing?
Have we ever?
You’re saying you need a hose clamp around your rage meter.
My chair is already at its lowest height.
/short legs FTW
If Californians don’t just start ignoring their betters, they are a lost cause of people that will infect the nation even more.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/san-jose-mayor-ignored-health-protocols-in-joining-parents-others-for-holiday-celebration/2411207/
FTA:
“This is a private event – not public,” said Jim Reed, Liccardo’s Chief of Staff. “We are going to redraw the line between what is personal and what is public because that line has become blurred.”
Item 342 that has astounded me about the coronavirus epedimic: How blatant the politicians have been with the “Laws are for the Little People” attitude. Seriously, if it wasn’t happening you’d say it is the stuff of sophomoric distopian-fantasy.
Ever persons response to their next edict for Christmas should be his words. “This is a private event – not public” and tell them to fuck off.
It’s been that way for the start. No way should they personally be inconvenienced by any of their pronouncements.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/63bd85530cf173a0674988b59efbb115/tenor.gif?itemid=12540386
it’s not just hypocrisy.
we can all very clearly see that none of these people actually believe the rules work.
It’s like they’ve decided to act out Ayn Rand’s fantasies of petty tyrants.
This is why I could never be a reporter. I would probably get arrested for assault the first time I got an answer like that.
This is a prototypical CWAA.
“Lesbians will be extinct by 2024.”
https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1333833391846940674
Of course it’s only been on for 30 minutes so I don’t know if this will work long term.
If you have something around like heater hose for your car, slip a piece onto the piston and put the clamp on that for better grip than metal-to-metal contact.
Just do this, FFS!
Drill straight through the the joining area, insert bolt and nut, done forever,
/Hose Clamps? HAHaHaHa!
Look Yusef, I like the idea of a bolt, but I fail to see how masturbating after putting the bolt in will help. Do you have shoot your semen in a special spot to cement the bolt in place?
From Ownbestenemy’s article:
This “apology” actually has really struck me. I’ve been mulling about morality/virtue and the relation to being and doing (and knowing). Newsom here is saying “Look i made a mistake” except this wasn’t a “mistake”. A mistake (in leon’s book) is something where you intended to do the right thing but then messed up and failed. e.g. I intended to pour a little ketchup on your plate, but a whole lot came out. Mistakes are often simply forgiven by a me-culpa, because the person you are asking for forgiveness knows that you are a good person, who just failed to meet expectations.
What Newsom did was not a mistake. It reflects his underlying character. He knew he had ordered other people’s restraunts shut down and not to go to them, but then went himself. This is a character defect. And requires more than a “i’m sorry, now forgive me”. It requires actual personal change.
He made the mistake of getting caught, even the Wicked Witch isn’t that dumb, so far…
There’s almost no accountability for poor decision making in the public sphere today. Shame is gone.
And requires more than a “i’m sorry, now forgive me”.
A downside to the devaluation of religion in society is that there is no longer anyone with the authority to make kings do actual work for their absolution. In olden times people had to go on pilgrimages or wear sack-cloth and ashes or stand out in the cold for days to show that they were really sorry.
I think we should be looking to the east and not the west, Japan specifically, for how to deal with a great loss of honor.
The only fault I find with your estimable suggestion is that most politicians do not start with any honor, and so could never lose any.
But apology via tanto is a very good idea.
The undervalued part of the story in the Bible about the adultress is that after dismissing the stoning mob, Jesus says “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
As you’ve mentioned, apology without repentance only works when the offense was involuntary or accidental. Apology without repentance for a voluntary, intentional act is kicking sand in the eye of the person you’re apologizing to.
BREAKING: PAUL KRUGMAN IS STILL AN ASSHOLE
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1333676520917790722
oops,
Those were individual politicians who identify as Democrats speaking, “Democrats” as a group never officially said that.
/fact check
My understanding is that Krugman doesn’t understand that the internet is forever.
What planet has Krugman been living on? This guy won a Nobel Prize.
Planet Lying Asshole I think
I would say Uranus, but I am pretty sure his head is shoved up his own butt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-is-an-illegitimate-president/2019/09/26/29195d5a-e099-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/28/politics/jimmy-carter-trump-russia-interference/index.html
I know I know…we could go on. What a cunte
Behold the hard hitting political journalism that will be the hallmark of the Biden administration
Yup, Minnesoda Public Radio found a farmer where a wild turkey had joined his flock of chickens and the spin was all about unity. I’m glad for the turkey’s sake Trump didn’t win. MPR would have run a story about how the big bully turkey was killed by the chicken resistance.
But the gud lawd hep ya if you don’t adhere to their version of unity.
OFFS.
I wonder what will be the lesson when a fox tries to join that farmer’s flock of chickens?
What Newsom did was not a mistake.
The only mistake he made was “getting caught”.
Like I said^
I canceled my ski trip for 2021 today. I have no idea how I’m going to ever mentally recharge, given ammo prices and no skiing. Maybe I should just go to the range and blow $300 in 40 minutes.
$300 in 40 minutes
so you are shooting a breechloader?
I treat my range time like a Japanese tea ceremony. I usually only shoot 5-10 rounds at a time. I can draw out a box of 9mm.
Make sure you stay hydrated.
Rich people,
/shakes head and walks away…..
What in the world are you shooting?
I mean, even in these trying times, $300 will get you around 500 rounds of 9mm, and blasting through 500 rounds of 9mm in 45 minutes? Unless you have a private Rogers range or a machine gun, that’s a load of shooting…
I’m only guessing $1/round for range prices, based on what I’ve paid online recently
You know what? My math is completely off. More like 150 rounds is what I normally shoot in 40 mins. So $150 in 40 mins. Still expensive for an hour drive and so little time.
(I kind of forgot there’s 50 rounds in a box. Leave me alone)
Nah. Some boxes do have 100 rounds. Some have more! I got a 250-round value pack of Aluminum-cased 9mm last year in a Secret Santa exchange. The past is truly another world.
These days I’m doing one live practice a week, 200-300 rounds. It seems like a lot, but I’m used to shooting around twice that, even more if a big match is coming up.
Fortunately, dry fire is free!
Bummer.
The resorts now have a reservation system to ski due to COVID. I understand it’s a pain in the ass. I have a friend who is obsessed and spends a lot of time on websites trying to reserve a skiing spot. Prediction: Folks will get boxed out of resort skiing and will flock to the backcountry in droves, and since a lot of them will be amateurs, avalanches and deaths will abound. Another unseen shutdown statistic.
Yeah, I imagine lift tickets will go for crazy prices on the black market as the resorts sell out.
Personally, I would have enjoyed the lack of crowds (I only ski non-holiday weekdays, so I wasn’t anticipating any problems getting tickets if I started reserving, like, right now. Bummer.)
Sorry to hear that KK.
I will say that I cannot fucking wait for the first punk show after all this bullshit is done. I may very well walk out of the pit a bruised and broken man, but I will feel so much better.
This bullshit will never be done.
It is here to stay.
Doesn’t mean there won’t be underground concerts. Fuck, I’d be surprised if they weren’t going on already.
Hello, 1920.
I’m nowhere near cool enough to get invited to shit like that. (not that I would go – my life is dedicated to crowd avoidance)
Punk is for the uncool kids, the outcasts, the rejects, the losers… why do you think I like it so much? 🙂
If I looked good in any of that rockabilly pinup wear, I’d think about it.
Rockabilly, where punks go to retire.
If you have Amazon Prime, the documentary about the pinup competition at Viva is currently available for free:
Bombshells and Dollies
It’s much easier for the guys… bowling shirt/work shirt, jeans, boots… done!
Oh, and unrelated to that, played the music you linked a while back and it reminded me of two bands:
Caro Emerald (Liquid Lunch)
Alien Fashion Show (Catwalk) – This one is much slower, and from back in the 90’s. Same band does a cover of Detroit Rock City called Detroit Swing City.
“A French chef has created a visionary pizza pie that contains 254 different varieties of cheese”
https://twitter.com/NYMag/status/1333878756541337601
“In Lyon, a French chef has spent the better part of this year making pizza history. Benoit Bruel, of Déliss’ Pizza, has officially set the Guinness World Record for “Most Varieties of Cheese on a Pizza” with a visionary pie that contains 254 different varieties of cheese.
According to a dispatch from UPI, the pie in question in fact featured 257 cheeses — Bruel had added three more at the last minute to “round out the flavor profile” — but these impromptu additions are not included in the final tally, perhaps due to lack of required evidence.”
https://www.grubstreet.com/2020/12/guinness-record-most-cheese-varieties-on-pizza.html
Full fat moz is all you need
Where’s Barfman when we need him most?
Other than as a stunt, this makes no sense, and is a waste of many, many good cheeses. I expect this chef to be executed by anti-aircraft cannon in the near future, if the République Française still cares about food.
In Bernie Sanders’s America, no one needs 254 different varieties of cheese.
” Bruel had added three more at the last minute to “round out the flavor profile”
Now there’s a true bullshit artist.
Put him in protective custody in the Presidential Suite at Gitmo
When David Priess was a CIA officer, he traveled to Houston, he recalls, to brief former President George H.W. Bush on classified developments in the Middle East.
It was part of a long tradition of former presidents being consulted about, and granted access to, some of the nation’s secrets.
Priess and other former intelligence officials say Joe Biden would be wise not to let that tradition continue in the case of Donald Trump.
They argue soon-to-be-former President Trump already poses a danger because of the secrets he currently possesses, and they say it would be foolish to trust him with more sensitive information. With Trump’s real estate empire under financial pressure and his brand suffering, they worry he will see American secrets as a profit center.
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The president also may be vulnerable to foreign influence. His tax records, as reported by The New York Times, reveal that Trump appears to face financial challenges, having personally guaranteed more than $400 million of his companies’ debt at a time when the pandemic has put pressure on the hotel industry, in which Trump is a major player.
“Is that a risk?” said Priess, who wrote “The President’s Book of Secrets,” about presidents and intelligence. “If it were someone applying for a security clearance, damn right it would be a risk.”
The White House did not respond to requests for comment. The Biden transition declined to comment.
These fucking people just cannot help themselves. President Cartoon Villain is the worst, man. The worst.
If they had the power they would etch his name out from history as president.
I’m giggling now thinking of the remake of The Mummy with Trump as the bad mummy and Biden as Brenden Fraser.
It would be funny (well not really) if Trump spent his last few months pardoning people, declassifying tons of stuff and bringing troops home.
Now do Joe Biden’s payoffs from the Ukrainians and others and Bill Clinton’s money.
The little kernel there is that former presidents shouldn’t continue to be briefed or treated as anything other than private citizens. And that includes retirement security.
The whole presidential pension started because one of the presidents ( i can’t remember which, early on in the republic) died almost penniless.
Truman
Truman’s modest financials were the catalyst for the pension act in 1958 but Eisenhower was the first ex to receive one. I guess Harry couldn’t command the six figure speaking honorarium that today’s exs get to show up and regurgitate some happy talk pablum.
He could have gone back to selling hats.
Such indignity to the former imperial presence is intolerable!
He also wasn’t very good at it.
Pension is one thing. By retirement security, I meant the whole secret service package. Fuck them.
Presidential pensions became law in the 1950s. More info here.
The little kernel there is that former presidents shouldn’t continue to be briefed or treated as anything other than private citizens. And that includes retirement security.
This. It goes against the spirit of republican government, which is supposedly constitutionally guaranteed.
If Trump is what kills the fawning of former presidents, then great. But we know that isn’t what this is. As noted by Gustave, they should get nothing from the Federal Government the minute they are out of office.
Just for Gustave Lytton.
https://youtu.be/xCytzVgPO7o
Asakusa. Too damn crowded for me, but quintessentially Japanese.
Nice! It’s that time of the year for Christmas lights too. Already starting to see them pop up in my subscriptions.
Unrelated, I’ve been enjoying this guy’s tour of divey lunch spots around Fukuoka. One such place:
https://youtu.be/IV_2I1GdOeI
For such an expensive place, good food can be really cheap in lots of the big cities.
Also I love tonkotsu ramen!
Yesterday King Walz had his usual press conference to chastise us all for not obeying his T-Giving edicts. He referred at least once to the “record” 101 deaths reported on Nov. 27th. Not one reporter challenged him on the spike.
Even a journalo should see the problem when looking at the deaths.
I can’t believe Walz is so negative. Why not focus on the positive news? That there were ZERO deaths on T-Giving!
* For some reason Minnesoda uses the day that a death is reported to the state as the date it gets plotted on. Not the day that the death actually happened on.
Yeah, Utah does the same thing, they said “we will not be releasing data on T-Giving data”. weird, as you’d think that it would be easy to do…
Almost the same here as well. Released partial counts and then record high on Friday, coupled with lesser numbers over the weekend. Gee…
“Minnesotans sure do hate Mondays!”
Looks like it’s that time in the transition when the people who ignored the Mark Rich Pardon are gonna be outraged about Trumps pardons, and the people that were outraged by the Mark Rich pardon will ignore Trumps lame duck pardons.
Yup.
And all the people who really deserve a pardon get fucked. I have 0 hope that Trump Pardons Snowden.
If he pardons Snowden, Assange and Flynn I don’t care what corruptocrats he pardons along with them.
I’d like to see Ulbricht on that list.
Forgot him. Yes, good addition.
Ayo.
Agreed on S and A, (Best I can tell F is a “live by the grift die by the grift situation”, I have very little sympathy there) , I’d add Ulbricht to the pardon list (or at least commute his lifex2 sentence).
Flynn is likely actually innocent, but even if he did commit the crime alleged it is a completely inexcusable law to begin with and was applied to him over an investigation into another completely bogus crime. Maybe he is a grifter. I do not know. But no one should be imprisoned for lying to investigators while not under oath, and an incoming cabinet member cannot violate the Logan Act, which should not be law anyway.
He may not deserve the fucking he’s getting (or that they tried to give him) but he also didn’t deserve hundreds of thousands of dollars for “consulting”, he was reaping the rewards of a corrupt bullshit system, he gets to take the lumps along with the cream.
I see. So if you’re a habitual speeder, it’s okay if you’re prosecuted for vehicular manslaughter instead.
No, but if you run with pigs and eat at their troth I have little sympathy for you when you get caught up in the slaughter.
Not even speeder. Speeding is against the law, consulting is not. It’s more like prosecuting guys with light bars and hydraulic suspensions for vehicular homicide.
Now do Hunter Biden.
Then maybe you should be more concerned about what the prosecution of Flynn means for the rest of us who don’t have any political clout whatsoever. If they’re willing to hang him out to dry, what do you think they would to any of us if they had half a mind to?
Now do Hunter Biden.
No thanks. I’m not 8.
Hunter wasn’t doing anything illegal, other than maybe a few lines of coke and some teenagers. Joe, on the other hand…
I’d have to go back and check what I said about Hunter Biden to be sure, because I do shit post from time to time, but I don’t think I ever called for Hunter to go to jail.
Flynn decided to play the game, I didn’t, sure they could drag me in and kick my ass, but that’s a bit different than a willing participant getting chewed up and spit out. He willingly took the risk, win and it pays off shitloads, but the losses can be a bitch.
“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
So is there anything that could be done to a ranking bureaucrat or politician that you would object to? Oh yeah you were quite protective of Joe Biden when he was accused of straight influence peddling. I hate to do this but let me throw your comment above back at you:
Now do Hunter and Joe Biden.
Fair enough, it’s a problem with the hypocrisy bit, if I point it out in others I’m at risk of exposing myself to the same. I’m willing to split the difference and admit that they (the entire political class, Trump, Biden, Flynn, hell even Rand) are all assholes.
Isn’t he no where near the magnitude of pardons other presidents have given? Fuck all of them.
Trump has eight more weeks left to run up the score.
Grrr… first big snowfall in several years. Girlfriend tells me in the morning not to worry about it, she requested a plow in an app.
/cut to 5 hours later
“Hon, it’s still snowing here, and getting pretty bad. Would you like me to shovel?”
“No, the plow guy is just running late.”
/cut to 3 hours later
“The plow guy isn’t coming, their plow broke down.”
/observe the girlfriend trying to shovel the driveway to get her car in… send her in, and dig out enough for her to get her car in the garage.
where is it snowing? we got some corn pop early today but no, storms, where is this winter you speak of?
We got hammered for the first time in a while. This was ~5 hours ago, and it hasn’t stopped snowing. That tree in the background? It’s not supposed to be bent that way.
And now there is supposed to be a plow coming.
I give up.
/goes and pours another beer.
We got a sprinkle of rain this morning. ?♂️
Aww, you’re a good boyfriend.
today in outrage porn
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sarah-silverman-says-lefty-comics-often-get-a-pass-on-offensive-jokes-were-liberal-so-we-can-say-anything
Sarah Silverman says lefty comics often get a pass on offensive jokes: ‘We’re liberal, so we can say anything’
***
Arnett agreed and essentially blamed “everyone who is not liberal” for ruining modern comedy.
“Everyone who is not liberal is so serious and so dark and so real about their negativity or hate or racism, whatever it is, that it’s taken all of that away,” Arnett said. “I don’t even want to joke about a lot of things that are rough or maybe pushing boundaries because you feel like, ‘I don’t want it to be taken the wrong way because there are so many people who mean it.’”
***
Ah, yes, of course – it’s those awful non-liberals who are overly serious.
[head desk]
By ‘everyone who is not liberal’ they specifically mean progressives and critical-social-justice scolds, right? Right?
No? Then what-?
Oh…
That is just a whole new level of tone-deaf right there.
Made her bones being edgy and now condemns others for doing similar…she’s the worst. Well, not Sacha Cohen the worst but you know.
Bitch made me beat her. It is her fault, if bitches would shut up we wouldn’t have all these rules against wife beating.
Like this?
I can only wish I could slam my head into my desk – but my damn head just exploded.
Too bad Will Arnett is an asshole.
That is surprisingly believable without knowing anything about him off set
Classic progjection.
“I don’t even want to joke about a lot of things that are rough or maybe pushing boundaries because you feel like, ‘I don’t want it to be taken the wrong way because there are so many people who mean it.’”
Que?
Translation: Comedy should be geared towards stupid people who can’t tell a joke from a statement of conviction.
[Sarah Silverman furiously scribbles notes]
WEAR YOUR MASK, RACIST!!
I bet a hood would be even more effective than a mask.
White to prove its purity.
great moments in toxic masculinity
A guy joins the army at 42 and stays E4 for 8 years, even though he was a highly-skilled engineer making 6 figures. Never said a word about why he joined until he gets discharged. Then he explains he was going through a divorce wanted the ex to get as little as possible.
Toxic masculinity or toxic feminism/divorce laws?
Now that’s commitment. I’m impressed. A little disgusted, but impressed.
That’s dedication to a cause I’d say.
I mean im 40 and I thought about it…
Never too late!
https://youtu.be/sMxCaZsSmbM
https://youtu.be/dSpehYYloFs
Don’t fuck with a sham shield.
Why not, rules are there for a reason, be as petty as possible.
Why do you speak about yourself in the third person?
Prediction: Folks will get boxed out of resort skiing and will flock to the backcountry in droves, and since a lot of them will be amateurs, avalanches and deaths will abound. Another unseen shutdown statistic.
There was a thing in the Bozeman paper about that, not long ago.
Why can’t people just do as they are told by the Ministry of Public Health and Safety?
And- “Going skiing in the back country? Wear your mask!”
Man, according to the intertubes, Bozeman has increased in population by 40% since the 2010 census.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been there, and only the once, as I’ve spent most of my time in MT in the Bitterroot valley south of Hamilton, or above Missoula on the Blackfoot River. Need to get back there, although it seems the state’s COVID-panic is almost as bad as WA.
Hi guys, sorry I’ve been away awhile. I’d like to invite you to a short Zoom meetup if you’re into it.
Jeebus dammit: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77441003756?pwd=WUFGSGI0b013YzNqY0V6R2RQcGNsZz09
Hey Bakey, glad to see you, the link doesn’t seem to work, or you can’t access it from an ipad.
See, this is the point where I wish I had tech skills.
No worries, honestly I seem to find every bug that can exist with tech.
Glad to see you back! I have parenting duties that prevent the Zoom, but hope you’re doing well.
LG, I think on another you thread you mentioned playing Fallout 3 with your husband. How do you play co-op? I’d like to play with the wife but I couldn’t find any campaign mods in a search.
We take turns. We’ll set up rules like, “you get three deaths, then I do” and then we make various decisions mutually. Which quest next? Which response should we choose? It ends up being a pretty fun mix, since without him, I’d *always* just play vanilla hero, and without me, he’d *always* go for maximum destruction.
Ahh okay, thanks. I was hoping you had discovered some new mod that morphed it into Borderlands. That sounds like a fun way to play though.
Unfortunately, nothing that cool.
Can’t tonight, Bakey. Have my evening gig and have to start early.
Was gonna pop by and say hi on my way to work. Hope your doing ok BP.
Looks like Project Veritas got several months of recordings of CNN’s morning conference call strategy meetings between Zucker and other CNN movers and shakers:
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=391513
We’re cynical bastards so there probably won’t be anything unexpected but it should be interesting regardless.
Oh this should be good…
Listened to a clip O’Keefe posted. It sounds like CNN received the same marching orders from both Dem and GOP shotcallers on to present the post-election fallout… 2 parties but 1 swamp.
…on how to present…
That’s interesting, if that’s the case it might damage the Reps more than the Dems and deservedly so.
Rob Schneider on the Tom Woods show:
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1787-actor-rob-schneider-on-free-speech-politics-and-comedy/
A surprisingly well spoken and earnest guy.
The kid from Silver Spoons?
I didn’t know he was half Flip. Looking back, it makes sense.
I figured he was a little Jew or maybe Italian.
Half Jew, right?
Yep, Wikipedia says you are correct.
Real lockdowns have never been tried.
Some Twitter rando, but I expect that’ll be the argument moving forward. There are still employed people around! We didn’t lock down hard enough!
The Chinese arguably did it and they, combined with basically stopping testing, did manage to kill the virus. It’s amazing what you can manage to not find when you refuse to look for it.
The Chinese model goes far beyond merely refusing to look for it.
In the U.S., most any death might be attributed to COVID.
In China, any death that could remotely be attributed to COVID becomes an acute case of lead poisoning, including anyone who doesn’t go along with the “zero COVID cases since March” narrative.
No evidence of voter fraud!
All I know is that your racism and sexism is preventing you from empathizing.
Huh. Never thought of it that way.
I’m feeling powerless to do anything about the lockdown insanity here in Michigan. I’m still working and doing fine financially. But here’s my macro take on what’s really happening.
We have millions of kids at home staring at chromebooks not really learning a damn thing. And why? To give a few hundred 80-90 yo grandmas and grandpas a few extra months on this side of the soil. It’s the damn baby boomers. The teenagers and young people are having their growth stunted by a group of elders that have already enjoyed 60,70,80 tears.
Rant over.
P.S. I don’t want anyone’s grandma to die. Life is hard.
Everything is the damn baby boomers lately. Have you noticed that every TV commercial is aimed at them now?
PSA: Everyone’s Grandma is going to die. Granted if it happens now it will be attributed to Covid, but in the before times regardless of what a wonderful woman she was bitch had it coming.
I’m ready to push grandma of the cliff, Paul Ryan style.
I’m callous enough to admit I honestly don’t give a shit about anyone else’s grandma if ‘caring’ means I have to stay home, keep my kids home from school, bow to the idiotic and hypocritical whims of a pretend-dictator and don a face panty. My kids’ grandma is an untreated diabetic in her late 70s with asthma, and she’s desperate for us to go visit her over Christmas. And we’re going to do it, because another year means very little to her if she’s not allowed to spend her remaining time doing the things she wants to do.
I’m fed up enough with the lockdown nonsense that we’re working on voting with our feet. Northam has done it once, he’ll do it again whenever he wants, I’m getting the hell out of here as quick as we can manage (which isn’t fast enough for my tastes.)
You and me both, sister.
I can’t speak to other cultures, but death has been removed from being a part of “life” in the US. In earlier times people saw death with a frequency. Siblings, parents, farm animals, critters.
People cling to life here. There is a fantastical belief in the curative properties of medical care. You would not belief the number of 80+ year old full code patients I see. DNAR is the exception not the rule
I visited my parents over the Thanksgiving holiday. Mom and Dad are both nearing 80.
I’m not particularly worried about the Covid. I am worried about not being able to spend more time with my folks, who in the best possible case aren’t getting too many more trips around the sun.