Notable birthdays today are thick on the ground, and include the first Italian to be the Emperor of Japan; the true hero of Hamilton; a guy who bridged two eras; a guy famous for use and abuse; one of Wisconsin’s Kennedys; far and away the greatest baseball player; a shitty president with a shittier wife; one of the German Goo Girls; my hero for slapping a cop and living to tell the tale; one of my favorite actors and a genuinely interesting person; a vastly overrated auteur who still managed to make one of my favorite sci-fi movies; a woman who, if there were truly justice in the universe, would have been stabbed to death; a wonderful singer-songwriter; a shitty propagandist who wants poor people to starve; a Boggle player with big feet; a very short singer with whom I had a run-in some years ago; and a performer whose roll was well chosen.
On to serious news.
When I saw this headline, I figured it had to be a PR deal from vampire “environmental” lawyers. And… indeed it is. A money-grubbing NGO I am painfully familiar with. Complete bullshit.
“It’s totally different than my senility.”
Never change, NPR, never change.
Time to riot. This is just too much.
Under Biden’s FDA, an emergency fast-track approval means “give us three weeks. Or so. No promises.”
Old Guy Music is a serious tune by a serious band.
Re ‘greatest baseball player’ I think they spelled Ty Cobb wrong in the article.
Get back to me when Cobb wins 20 games as a pitcher.
One of my favorite Cobb legends. 5 home runs in 2 days at the age of 38 after telling reporter’s he was going to go for home runs.
https://www.vintagedetroit.com/blog/2014/07/17/ty-cobb-showed-he-could-hit-home-runs-well-anyone/
*sharpens cleats*
Hall of fame votes
Ty Cobb 222
Babe Ruth 215
Curt Schilling, 278.
Ruth and Cobb were on the same ballot in 1936 and voted in by the same writers as part of the first class of 5.
So you’re saying that there’s a long history of sports writers being stupid?
I can’t argue with that
Nolan Aranado…Dumbest management ever?…Rockies!
“No! Those are my tasty num-nums and he can’t have any!” said Joe in a quivering shriek.
In all of this stupid BS, not letting Trump have security briefings is the least of my worries. None of the ex-presidents should have them.
True but it is a petty, bitch move, just like everything the DNC has done since the *election.
they fly spirals over pumps and compressor stations that stretch to both horizons. With each tight corkscrew, the little airplane sniffs out and measures planet-cooking, climate-changing pollution as the region below braces for an energy revolution amid a cold civil war.
The Picarro spectrometer is so sensitive, it caught the number of carbon dioxide molecules in my breath as we walked around the hangar. In the sky, it counts the density of carbon dioxide molecules on their way to heating up the sea, land and sky for the next 300 to 1,000 years.
Can it detect the snifflecooties? That might actually be useful.
looks neat, but open path FTIR can do CH4/CO2 sub PPM analysis for these samples seems overkill.
LOLFFS
Science!
How much supertoxicdeadly CO2 are they emitting in their efforts and how much of that are they actually detecting since their Science! gizmo is so sensitive?
For the gun-glibs, Brownells is having a “Super Barrell Weekend” promotion.
The prize is a 14,000 round drum of 5.56×45.
Signed up. ?
Jumping on that one. That would keep me in 556 for like three years.
I also see that Brownells is releasing their own made-in-Japan 1-8x low-powered variable optic. Interesting, very interesting.
Shit, I need to change my address at Brownells. And Gunbroker. And… oh, hell, better make a list.
“Daigo had 21 empresses, imperial consorts, and concubines; he had 36 imperial sons and daughters.”
There’s a man who knows how to keep his line going!
Catholics, anyway!. I can’t use the ‘D’ word, I’d be unpersoned and deservedly so.
Yet he had fewer than 2 kids per woman, which is below population replacement rate and probably well below birth rates at the time. As a stud, he rates rather poorly.
That was a tasty music choice Old Man. I discovered about five different artists just by hearing a random tune the other night. Thanks for that and thanks for the wiki-hole that I’ll enjoy this afternoon when I awaken.
I do the same thing. “This is excellent, let’s check out stuff from the other players and people they played with.”
Sometimes I burn up my data at work and hit a mix from *shudders* Youtube. Every once in awhile I need to check the screen because who the fuck is this and why are they making such pleasant sounds enter my ear canals?
The stalker story line in the video didn’t end as “Subaru Horror Theater” as I thought it was going to. Also by his mannerism alone you’d think the banjo player was slapping bass in a 70’s funk band.
I love you, Hype! You never disappoint. Always the solid single at the right time.
Can’t comment on the former assertion but hell yeah I heartily agree with the latter.
Heh. That movie was so futuristic that it made the 1930’s seem like just yesterday! Not the themes, the execution. I wonder if the guys that made the original Dr. Who had a hand in making it.
Good morning, Old Man! My favorite song from the birthday girl. So delightfully problematic!
I suppose I could DDG it, but was she Mrs. Wainwright, or was that Anna?
Got to see them live at some very small venues. Terrific performers, great songwriters. I think I used “NaCl” as Old Guy Music before.
Loudon Wainwright married one of them and produced Rufus. They are like a hereditary line in East Coast music. It’s hard to keep up with Appalachia North…
And then there’s the Roche connection. Daddy tells the whole sordid story.
Outstanding! He was really good as the Dad character in “Uncommitted”.
Like Freaks and Geeks, it ended way too soon.
I’m sorry, I watched the show, I don’t get it’s cultish love. It was an ok coming of age story, but nothing great. And it introduced us to some of the worst actors on the planet.
*James Franco and Seth Rogan, I’m looking at you*
I never got the James Franco hate.
I find him to be a poor actor with squinty eyes I can’t look at. But to be honest, I could tolerate his acting, if he would quit starring in his own shitty movies.
I liked Donna.
The males were meh unless Franco was taking off his top or something.
Present for yas – https://youtu.be/upsZZ2s3xv8
Oh, how fun! Thank you! : )
My pleasure!
My red-headed Grandpa did that for a time. My other Grandpa fell the trees.
One of the great classics of Canadiana.
I just can’t wrap my head around that Time article. Usually something that seems “too perfect” is fake news. But that wasn’t reported by Fox or Zero Hedge. It was TIME. They’d have no reason to make up something like that. I can see it coming out a few years from now, but putting it out this week just seems like a big blunder. How did they even consider publishing that? Or am I missing something?
They must’ve thought they could get away with it?
There is no must…
They are already convinced they won it all, and they want to do their victory dance (they NEED you to know they put the unwashed fucking rubes in their place), have the morons that think these fascists are fighting fascism celebrate how smart their overlords are, while rubbing it into the faces of the unwashed masses.
It is downright gloating, albeit while also setting themselves as the heroes that “saved democracy”…
Funny how to save democracy you have to make sure you have nothing of the sort. The unwashed fucking masses need to be told anyone that stands up to the machine that has made themselves powerful and rich selling the country out (primarily to China) is anti-democratic, and they are not allowed to support that…
They did get away with it.
They already know that everyone knows, so this is a justification letter and sorta kinda limited hangouty. Here is all the good stuff that is mostly probably legal that we did to get orange hitler out.
I didn’t read most of it because I too find it suspicious.
I’m totally with you in this. They didn’t even wait for the goddamn impeachment trial at which Trump will be tried for claiming the election was rigged to come out with an article detailing how they
riggedfortified the election.I’m so fucking angry about this shit, and there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m not lightly taking the fact that the entire run up to the election was manipulated. Fuck all of them. May they get the woodchippering they deserve for it.
To which article are you referring?
This one…
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/?amp=true&__twitter_impression=true
Where it says:
I can see it coming out a few years from now, but putting it out this week just seems like a big blunder.
I mean, in a few years no one would care that much. Putting it out now, the principals get to bask in the adoration of their fellow travelers for saving the country. They couldn’t miss their opportunity for praise. It’s not like the results will be reversed, and it’s not like progressives (or political operatives in general) are long-term thinkers.
I’m with you. They simply don’t care because the results won’t change. Even were they to have written “We totally stole the election” it wouldn’t make a damn bit of difference. Biden is still the president, and there’s nothing the rubes can do except receive their punishment in the new War On Terror 2: Domestic Boogaloo.
The result of “Biden is president” won’t change, but I do think it has the potential to be a blunder to be so blunt about things. This has the potential, if it gets traction, to add fuel to populist fires and weaken the legitimacy of the Biden presidency, a presidency that started in a hole and has committed to keep on digging. Who knows what the results will be, but to me this seems like it’s one more straw on the camel, and if people in the establishment had any sense they would know better than to be heedlessly adding more.
I’m not at all convinced that pushing 1/2 the country over the edge isn’t part of the plan. It’ll make it much easier for them to execute their own version of Order 66.
^^^THIS^^^
They need more shit to go down so that their claim that their call for the domestic war on terror can get traction, because even amongst those that went along or supported the “fortification” of the election, there are those that see that as a bridge too far.
. . . it’s not like progressives (or political operatives in general) are long-term thinkers.
If the Time article is anywhere near accurate, it would appear that progressives are much longer-term thinkers than their political opponents, and more organized, too.
Oh yeah, we’re on lists.
You make a big mistake when you say it was the progressives. It was not. If we think this was just the progressives, we will keep getting outplayed.
This “fortification” thing was done by the overlords. The credentialed elite class. Those that form the alliance of government and the select few in industry that run the show, make all the decisions, get powerful & rich, and need to get rid of the meritocratic system because they want a hereditary oligarchy of the credentialed masters to be in charge. Yes, most of them are progressives, but they would not succeed without a huge number of people that are not progressives but benefit from fascist government picks the winners & losers fascism that the master class believes is the way to run the show.
The political class is, with a few exceptions, on both sides, populated by these credentialed oligarchs that run the mandarinate. Yes, the democratic party is now the party of the welfare class, the billionaires, and the supposedly educated (but really indoctrinated) upper middle class (and these people are the biggest of useful idiots), and they peddle progressive shit for the serfs that want that, but the agenda is power & wealth. They have it, want to expand and keep it, pass it down to their offspring, and they give a flying fuck about the unwashed/uneducated masses and what they want.
We are not heading for a dystopian world, we are already there…
Oh, I’m not making a mistake at all. The progressives are “progressives,” if that makes you feel any better — they’re just hiding behind a label. It’s misdirection, but whoever’s calling themselves a progressive these days is in it for the long game, and the rest of us are getting played.
Beautifully, too, if ever-increasing amounts of evidence can be believed. The Western world is probably done at this point. ”You will own nothing. And you’ll be happy.”
Or else.
I refuse to click on CNN due its loathsome practice of shoveling autoplay videos which I cannot block at me, but at least for once they were helpful enough to structure their headline such that I don’t have to read beyond the first two words to know the rest of the article is horseshit.
Pro tip: Look to the top of your browser, there’s a box where you can type a web address. If you see “CNN” in that box, the article is horseshit.
I just can’t wrap my head around that Time article.
Those people are HEROES. They banded together to what was necessary to save DEMOCRACY.
The enemy within must be stopped, no matter the cost, no matter the collateral damage.
I wonder how many will simply read this shit claim and not realized that supporters of democracy wouldn’t need to accuse the other side – absolutely falsely, too – of being fascists, racists, and all the other “isms” that demarcate the line between decent people and bloodsucking vampires, then control information to the people, rig the game by ignoring, changing, or downright abusing the rules, and then produce this idiotic piece claiming that the good guys won when this shit-piece is so fucking transparently a propaganda piece to convince others that these enemies of democracy and the people are the good guys.
So…no Intelligence briefings for me then. But anything emanating from DC is more like cow farts anyway. Besides who needs intelligence when one works for the government?
Well it does help if you want to do something useful.
Or, I guess, if you want to do something malicious.
Both assume competency.
/looks at managers studying numbers and coming to the completely wrong cause.
The “greenhouse effect” was discovered before women could vote (by a suffragist, in fact) but in 2021, the indoor gardening metaphor doesn’t match the emergency. Instead, imagine a baby in a hot car. Carbon dioxide is like the steel and glass holding in the sun’s rays as they bounce through the windshield. Methane provides the equivalent of cranking up the heater inside the car; it works much faster but is easier to control in the long term. Planet Earth, of course, is the baby.
Holy fucking SCIENCE, Batman!
It’s accurate, we are being treated like babies.
And my closest Walgreens is over 5 miles away, and they have zero vaccines. In fact, unless you’re in the very top tier (those over 80 and first responders), there are zero vaccines for anyone in my whiter than average county in my whiter than average state, where we have only 1 vaccination site.
My neighborhood is lousy with both drugstores and the sorts of people of complexion that NPR looks down upon.
No idea where in line I might be, but from what I’ve heard, “the old” rank somewhere below “politicians”, “heroes”, and sundry other “connected” people.
I live in Cracker Central and as far as I know there is only one vaccination site within 50 miles of me.
^This! One of our MLAs asked why healthy indigenous kids were jumping the queue and getting vaccinated rather than 90 year-olds in his small town and the uproar was delicious. “Raaaaciiiiissssssst”, they rheeed!
I began by scrolling to the end where they have a paragraph explaining their methodology. It’s the best way to start. They really ought to begin the article by explaining that.
I heard on the radio that Biden is finally going to have the National Guard stand down from Washington DC…in 90 days.
And just in time for the Spring rallies, too. The NG will be needed to control those wild and crazy Cherry Blossoms ladies from the Midwest.
May Day?
Noice!
So the same time that the 100 day mask requirement?
Maybe this explains the timing of the time article
I’m sort of watching this movie called “Across 110th Street” right now. 1970s blacks vs Italian mobsters heist movie. Racist cops. Racist Italians. Racist black guys. Violence. Bad language.
It seems more honest than anything I have seen or heard in the last ten years.
Good movie and wonderful title track.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/politics/cudd-texas-florist-mexico.html
I wonder what they’re going to call the next non-left protest to get everyone arrested charged and formally unpersoned.
From TH in the overnight thread:
Should extra time and penalties be included if you hurt or kill someone while driving drunk over doing the same driving sober? I’m completely open to that.
I’m 100% on board with this. I’m probably one of the most “fuck drunk drivers” people here. I’ve dodged enough of them that I have zero sympathy for people who get busted, especially in the day of Uber and Lyft.
Although, I’ll take it half a step back from where you are. I think cops should be able to stop people who are a menace on the road before they hurt or kill somebody. Same as they can neutralize some schizophrenic who’s out at the local park waving a handgun around. The current system of traffic policing is not amenable to this (the incentives are wrong), but I’m fine with cops pulling Danny Drunkard off the road and charging him with reckless driving (plus a drunk modifier) when he can’t keep it on the right side of the double yellows. Checkstops are evil. Those traps they set up near bars are evil. Following somebody around until they make an insignificant mistake and then busting them is evil. But pulling menaces off the road before they hurt somebody is what traffic policing should be about.
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/537540-female-concentration-camp-secretary-charged-with-complicity-in-10000-murders
But… why?
They’ve ran out of real nazis to prosecute.
But I’ve been told we have at least 70M of them right here in the states.
Was her name Helga by chance?
Ilsa
Damn, you are correct, that was intended to be my allusion.
“She will reportedly face a juvenile court due to her minor status at the time of the alleged crimes.”
Yeah. And apparently a guy who was a 17 year old guard at the time was recently convicted in juvenile court and sentenced to a suspended sentence.
I’m not exactly sure of the point of going after people in their late 90s for crimes they allegedly abetted 80 years ago, except perhaps to simply have historical record name names. But even then, what good are they achieving at this point?
nOtZeE hUnTiNg Is MoRaLlY rIgHt No MaTtEr WhAt!!!
That’s wrong on multiple levels.
If my understand of history is correct-
loyalty tests for the military generally lead up to a purge of the military, followed shortly there after by a military dicatatorship.
Iffin’ my Historical reading is correct then I can feature such an outcome comin’ to be.
Stalin purged the officer class and nearly lost a war. I don’t think those asshoes know what sort of fire they’re playing with.
Don’t they? Or rather, don’t their Chinese (and Russian) masters know that?
“Sir, according to all of our results based on the criteria set forth by the Racism Committee, almost everyone in the military is a white supremacist. Even the guys who aren’t white. It appears we’ll no longer have an infantry or special forces, sir.
Soy Boy Battalion to the rescue!
Well you can pop about 70% of them right off the bat for voting for Trump. A pretty good chuck of what’s leftover you can get for toxic masculinity or excessive heteronormativity or something.
This is exactly my point.
Usually the purges that precede a consolidation of power are more serious, as in they punish the purged with jail, camp, or execution. Merely expelling people from a military is generally seen as a stupid move if you are going to go the dictator route, as most insurrections are led by former military men.
Just give them time…
A gun confiscation EO will be in between the purge and the dictatorship
Far and away?
Hmmm…he is 18 WAR above Walter Johnson, which is two full amazing seasons, so yeah, I will accept it.
Ruth is at 182.5. There are 3 players in the 160s: Johnson, Cy Young, and Bonds. The 150s is Mays and Cobb, the 140s is Aaron.
Babe Ruth was a fat white guy. I can’t even…
Chicks dig the longball
Bonds has more batting WAR than Ruth. But Ruth adds on another 20 pitching WAR.
That wrinkly old ass won’t lick itself
The first weeks of President Biden’s administration have been a striking contrast with the chaos and turmoil of the Trump administration, bringing a sense of normality back to the White House and government.
Biden, along with Vice President Harris, begins each day receiving the President’s Daily Brief, usually before 10 a.m. His administration has revived the White House daily briefings every weekday.
And when he has signed executive actions, they have usually been paired with events where the president delivers scripted remarks on policy, and he has rarely answered shouted questions from reporters.
The White House also routinely sends out press releases that seem familiar. In the early days of the presidency, it issued a statement recognizing National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month — a day that had been routinely marked by previous administrations but ignored under Trump.
The White House is returning to making visitor logs public on a quarterly basis, a practice that was held under the Obama administration but jettisoned under Trump. Former Obama officials have described Biden’s Cabinet as an extended family of sorts, filled with people whom he has worked with for years and trusts.
“I think one of the main objectives here was giving the presidency a sense of normalcy,” said one longtime Biden aide. “Enough of the crazy shit we experienced for four years.”
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Biden’s tweets, written in lowercase letters, are frequently mundane policy missives. It’s a striking contrast with Trump’s hourly 280-character megaphone, where he often picked fights or criticized and mocked opponents.
“It’s so funny – I hear from friends on both sides of the aisle how cleansing it is to wake up in the morning without feeling that the day will be inflamed by a crazy tweet,” said former Rep. Steve Israel, who served as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in the Obama era. “Even people who disagree with President Biden say that at least we’re back to normal.”
Biden’s life outside of the bubble also echoes a time before the Trump era.
He went to church on his first Sunday in office — a routine White House aides expect to continue — at Holy Trinity in Georgetown and made a run for bagels afterward, with Secret Service agents placing the order at the window of the popular “Call Your Mother” deli.
Let’s get back to the serious business of looting the treasury and destroying freedom.
And we can finally get back to recognizing National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
That was my thought. God forbid the president doesn’t address a made up grievance day that he can’t affect in the slightest way.
Nothing says “relief from chaos and turmoil” like a dizzying stream of unconstitutional edicts pouring out every day that nobody can fucking keep up with.
I’m just glad they put up a wall around the capitol to protect our betters from us… you know, normalcy?
Woah! Early riser!
“Usually” also means sometimes it’s after that. What’s the latest he receives these daily briefs? Shouldn’t those be at the start of the workday? He’s been in office less than a month, supposedly working up a flurry, when was he sleeping in?
Of course the likely answer is Biden is more senile than Reagan was in 1987.
He’s part of “the greatest generation.” So great in fact, they they just won’t fucking go away.
We’ve been keeping them alive in flasks for just this very moment in history.
Jesus that is pathetic. Can you imagine having the balls to write something like that then turn around, look in the mirror and call yourself a journalist? Might as well be Tiger Beat writing about the newest heartthrob.
Not only a journalist, but they see themselves as something higher. As arbiters of truth who are infallible.
This “journalist” is not just reporting the news. He’s a light in a world of darkness. A brave warrior for righteousness, resisting the tyranny of white supremacy in the fight for good.
The first weeks of President Biden’s administration have been a striking contrast with the chaos and turmoil of the Trump administration, bringing a sense of normality back to the White House and government.
I had to stop right there.
I’m not in to donkey shows either.
bringing a sense of normality back to the White House and government.
Normalcy such as grift, erosion of civil liberties and sticking our collective dicks into every single foreign quagmire at the cost of countless lives?
Yes.
Next question.
usually before 10 a.m.
Usually old people are up early AF. Wtf is he doing sleeping in?
Whatever, I’m calling a lid on presidential activities for the day.
There has to be some way to bleed the EDF through the same litigation tactic they take on others. I despise those fuckers.
I’m so fucking angry about this shit, and there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m not lightly taking the fact that the entire run up to the election was manipulated. Fuck all of them. May they get the woodchippering they deserve for it.
#METOO
They spent at least a year telling us they were going to do everything they could to
rig the electionstamp out voter suppression and give Bad Orange Man’s victims a voice.What did the republicans do? Not a goddam thing.
They stood around with their dicks in their hands, too afraid to shake it lest the Dems accuse them of playing with it. Fuck them.
There has to be some way to bleed the EDF through the same litigation tactic they take on others. I despise those fuckers.
That would require a fair and impartial judiciary.
And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.
What’s the point of doing HERO stuff if nobody knows about it?
They want ribbons and medals to wear on the reviewing stand when the May Day military parade goes by.
They forget the ‘gratitude’ shown to the Brown Shirts who did the early dirty work.
The only way to save democracy is to destroy it.
“New Orleans closing bars and banning to-go drinks during Mardi Gras”
In case you all haven’t been paying attention, none of this is remotely related to public health; it’s all about the sadistic pleasure they get from torturing the peasants. Foot stomping on face forever, etc. etc.
This is no accident. Not giving out ANY of the pertinent details at all allows the INSURRECTION to be a blank canvas on to which any number of
factstruths can be painted on. The media can continue with the narrative because there’s nothing at all with which to contradict them or call their conclusions in to question.About three hundred yards away from one of my sites there lives a wood pellet plant. The sound that I hear when a forty foot log is fed into the chipper is a sort of balm to my soul.
Brvvvvvvvvvvvvvoooooooooot! Takes about a second.
That slight dip in RPM as it really starts to RIP into it.
I can’t even find out how many people were there. I’ve found answers from 100K to 500K.
No shit. I could have told you that when she was still bleeding out.
Well, this caps off a shitty week. My job just created a new position out of thin air that reduces my autonomy and responsibility by about 75%, effectively demoting me. Mrs. Q is as big as a house, utterly miserable, whiny and just the suggestion of nookie risks death or dismemberment. An asshole deer violently raped one of my trees whilst removing its velvet and I’m pretty sure it’s going to die. Finally, gas is already more expensive than it’s been since 2016 and I can only see it (and the rest of my utility bills) going up, up, up indefinitely.
At least we have Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.li/4DjMg
…and my cat just puked.
A euphemism.
Are you implying he risked death and/or dismemberment?
A song for you, Q.
It’s one I’ve played before but apropos – https://youtu.be/tOCCvN8YDuc
Damn man. There are plenty of tropical beaches that don’t cost much to live on.
Does a deer making a rub on the tree really rank up there with being sexless and a job demotion?
I really like that tree.
Yeah, but if it was a deer removing its velvet, it happened several months ago, at the latest, so getting upset about it now doesn’t make much sense.
I noticed it back in November, but the tree is now almost certainly going to die. At that time, I thought it might pull through.
Well what if you got your buck for the season, got laid by the wife and got promoted in the same day?
That lottery ticket paid off!
Country song played backwards?
Sorry about all that.
Mask mandates can work, according to research released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday.
One new study showed that, in places where state and local governments required mask use, fewer people ended up in the hospital with coronavirus. A second showed college students, at least, will overwhelmingly wear masks if there’s a mandate in place.
Study shows college students OBEY. Public education works.
Isn’t that special.
The population least at risk is most fanatical about protective measures that are inconclusive at best.
I’d say you’re right that public education works exactly as designed; destroy any capacity for critical thought and turn them into sheep with a heaping dose of moral condescension to boot.
Education is definitely working.
Youngest Chipper is sick. Yesterday, his doctor told me that she recently saw a young girl who tested positive, and she was a wreck because she was convinced of her imminent death.
This young girl really thought that because she caught the coof, she was going to die.
The constantly being reminded to socially distance, 100% masks at all times, plexiglass everywhere, ultra-sanitized classrooms, reminders to be vigilant because “you’re saving lives” in schools is beyond absurd, and creating the absolutely false impression that they are in imminent danger should be grounds for abuse. Instead it’s passed as wisdom.
Fuck all of these people.
Why do they obey mask rules, but not drinking ages? Seriously.
I’m sure they obey as equally well. “Of course i always wear a mask!” “Of course I always use a condom!” “Of course I never do drugs!”
It’s easy to respond to a survey question one way. I sincerely doubt they’re as diligent as the survey talliers would like to imply.
Which means that towing the Lion is now viewed by FUCKING COLLEGE KIDS as the socially acceptable thing to do. They will encounter the least resistance amongst their peers by appearing to be strict rule followers.
This is both extremely sad and terrifying.
Not that college students don’t tend towards cowardice and hysterical hypochondria, but you think that maybe they might be wearing masks because they get expelled from college otherwise?
We stopped in the Willow Post Office this morning, had to go to the counter. They had all the usual U.S. Gubmint signs mandating masks.
We got to the counter. The Postmistress wasn’t wearing a mask. We asked. She said “Oh, for heaven’s sake, I don’t care if anyone wears one or not.” Then while we were doing our business she was telling us about some relative of hers who had lost a good-paying pipeline job, and how pissed she was about it.
It’s only because of those kinds of things that I haven’t completely lost hope yet.
You think that’s bad, they are playing BoysIIMen on Soultown, and the Scrabble Go app wont let me exchange tiles. I’d say you got off comparatively easy.
Dammit, meant for Q.
But how is your inventory of Deli-Style Hearty Garlic Slices ?
2 jars , but they were out last Sunday, so I’ll be getting into the reserves this week if they aren’t restocked tomorrow.
It’s the little things in life that count.
You’re that a-hole that buys ’em all up, so when I get there the shelf is empty.
Meijer needs to carry the Claussen Burger Slices, dammit!
This is the most true comment I have ever read on the internet.
But has Snopes or CNN fact-checked it?
We brine our own pickles. *Sticks tongue and other appendages out*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTIcYOX3dYA
“Mask study” link
The team noted that the study did not control for other factors that could have impacted hospitalization rates.
But they said their findings support community masking to reduce Covid-19 transmission and hospitalization, noting that the practice likely has a direct effect on coronavirus related illness and death.
We think it might have some sort of an effect, but we can’t say for sure, and we suspect digging too deeply into the data will completely falsify our claim. Just trust us.
We’re SCIENCE-tists.
While I did not control for any other variables, my study’s findings support drinking Orange Crush as a protective measure against tiger attacks.
It’s also a birth control
Does Sunkist work? I need the caffeine.
So it was as scientific as that fake-umentary “Supersize Me”. Change a dozen variables and see what happens.
“Researchers from the CDC and University of Nevada, Las Vegas examined 10 sites in states that implemented mask mandates between March and October. They found the hospitalization rates fell in places where local leaders requires mask use.”
Didn’t hospitalization rates drop pretty much everywhere between March and October? What about from October to December?
I’ve always been a bit skeptical about the whole “buy precious metals to save urself from the GREAT DEVALUASHUN!” branch of prepperism. However, given the continued treatment of the dollar like a truck stop whore, along with Bidens’ handlers’ ongoing bukkake of the economy, I’ve decided to diversify a bit in that area.
My question: is it better to buy actual, physical metals or are ETFs acceptable? Physical metals are kinda fun to look at and hold but are very illiquid.
I’d recommend land instead. Find a decent school district on the edge of a city and look for a large plot with easy road access, preferably highway frontage.
I’d rather be a little more remote. Also should have a water source.
That’s a suggestions for a purely inflation fighting investments. I would not recommend for a personal home site.
Land is easier to confiscate because it is harder to hide…
The only property you will be able to keep is what you can hide. Once the shitshow comes apart the top men will order confiscation.
If you think that ‘the worst’ is going to be something like the last 100 years, I’d buy the land as a hedge. If you think we’re going to go full hot war revolution, just buy commonly used brass and lead. I personally don’t think we’re going to get any worse than the last 100 years.
I’d argue cryptocurrency is probably better than buying physical at this point.
How far do you think the system will collapse?
Can you defend your holdings? Can somebody steal your back-up plan with a “flick of a pen”? Does prepping matter when the whole world has gone nut-sack crazy? Answer me these questions three…
I prefer to have ’em in my hot little mitts. Mix of 1 oz. coins/bars and pre-’64 dead president discs for greater liquidity.
ETFs are leveraged, if you don’t hold it, you don’t own it is what a prepper will tell you. That said, I don’t own much physical, but have small ETF positions. I’ve been bigger on buying stocks of companies that have industrial metals such as iron (CLF) and aluminum (AA and ARNC) I’ve been buying oil and gas stocks such as VLO and CVX as well, as $120 a barrel seems to do wonders for an oil company’s bottom line and I think we’re headed back there in a hurry.
My question: is it better to buy actual, physical metals or are ETFs acceptable?
I’ve done both, but I settled on physical because 1) it diversifies away from all my holdings being managed by an investment broker, and 2) in a situation where I need the metals, I want to be able to open a safe and grab them.
That said, I own very little. Maybe a few hundred in silver, and a gem or two that I inherited from family.
If we’re about to see the level of inflation I fear we are, it’s much better to spend the money now on the supplies you’ll need in the future. Precious metals don’t magically smooth out the economic tsunamis that will be generated by the dollar going soft. Maybe products will hold their value. Maybe they’ll get really expensive, even when priced in gold and silver.
It’s a bit late.
The reddit mob has driven the price of silver coins up about 40% in the last week.
I have no idea how long it will take for silver to return to ‘normal’.
In case you all haven’t been paying attention, none of this is remotely related to public health; it’s all about the sadistic pleasure they get from torturing the peasants. Foot stomping on face forever, etc. etc.</em
“The nagging fear that someone, somewhere, is having fun.”
My question: is it better to buy actual, physical metals or are ETFs acceptable? Physical metals are kinda fun to look at and hold but are very illiquid.
I’d say physical gold. That paper ETF is liable to go poof as soon as you actually need it.
Global warming is getting serious. I’m glad I don’t live in North Dakota.
You’ll never get “Noemed” with that attitude, Soldier!
CNN- serious news, for serious people
Transgender Navy SEAL: Biden order ‘going to give a lot of other individuals that chance to finally be themselves’
You don’t join the Navy to “be yourself” you fucking mental case.
“Transgender Navy Seal” my ass.
Is that the guy who grabbed Shapiro and physically threatened him in the middle of a panel on national television and no one said a damn thing?
May we please bring R. Lee Ermey back from the grave?
Good lord, he must be spinning in it.
I was under the impression that joining up was a conscious choice to let your individual self be subsumed by the “Greater”. Am I missing something here or are the Armed Forces now allowed to take stress leave? I mean, if the rules were that lax I would have signed up in a heartbeat.
Take a stress leave. Wear makeup and heels. Bedazzle your M-4. Have your junk cut off at taxpayer expense. You know, military shit.
It’s about forcing tax payers to pay for crazy shit people with mental disorders want to do. And if you tell them that you respect their right to do whatever crazy shit they want to themselves as long as they don’t demand you pay for it, you are the damned bad guy….
Are they just letting anybody be a Navy SEAL these days? Or just the elite group of people who choose to identify as a Navy SEAL?
I identify as OAF.
Answer me these questions three…
What’s your favorite color?
Rooster Dink Pink! (old joke, don’t ask)
Not “red on the noodle like the dick on a poodle” ?
“Transgender Navy Seal”
“I’ve been to one World’s Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a pair of earphones.”
Across The South COVID-19 Vaccine Sites Missing From Black And Hispanic Neighborhoods
You mean cities where I am pretty sure most vaccination sites are?
This!
All of these places mentioned are CITIES run 100% by Democrats, and have been continuously run by Democrats for DECADES.
But remember, it’s those rural redneck white supremacists who are to blame.
I’m sure there are white soaked rural areas where some people have to drive 50-100 miles for a vaccine. Maybe more in places out west. But they wanna bitch about someone who has to figure out how to go more than a mile in a metro area with a virtually unlimited forms of transportation that’s is cheap or free.
It’s projection of the worst sort.
“You fucking racists out there in the hinterlands are totally fucking things up for minorities in cities run by us enlightened people!”
In California the news keeps mentioning how lower percentages of minorities have gotten vaccinations, which of course can only be due to racism. Never a mention of how many, in the black community especially (such as many black nurses in our hospital), say they don’t want to be guinea pigs and refuse the shot. Nope, racism in distribution is the only possible reason.
“Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid under investigation for car crash that ‘left two children, aged 4 and 5, with life-threatening injuries’ after he ‘drank and took Adderall'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9230969/Kansas-City-Chiefs-coach-Britt-Reid-involved-multi-car-crash-ahead-Super-Bowl-LV.html
Sad.
Deep in the heart of Texas, above an oil patch about the size of Kansas, a little team in a small plane is trying to reveal a big problem.
The problem is anti-human cuntes like you.
+1 MANPADS
I tupe goodlie.
Detective Andrew Cuomo Investigates NY Senior Deaths
“Evan Rachel Wood claims Marilyn Manson hurled anti-Semitic abuse at her, has three Nazi tattoos and drew swastikas on her bedside table – as she denies they were just having ‘kinky sex'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9230547/Evan-Rachel-Wood-claims-Marilyn-Manson-hurled-anti-Semitic-abuse-drew-swastikas.html
Is there such a thing as a non-nazi tattoo at this point?
If the one good thing to come out of the insanity of the last year is an end to the tattoo craze, I’ll count that as a win.
One can only hope. I fear we’ve gone beyond the tipping point.
If it hasn’t, tattoo removal and long sleeve shirts are going to be hot items.
These perpetual victims are such bullshit. They knew what they were signing up for and now they want more.
“MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Friday released his two-hour film ‘Absolute Proof’ which pushes his voter fraud conspiracy theories and falsely claims a Chinese cyberattack ‘flipped’ the 2020 election.
The Donald Trump supporter released the movie, which he described as a documentary despite the lack of proof of any voter fraud, after describing the Republican’s presidential defeat as a ‘communist coup’.
It was scheduled to air on One America News (OAN) four times throughout the day and several other times through the weekend – on 13 occassions in total – after being paid for by Lindell.
However, the network inserted an epic disclaimer before each viewing in which they attempted to distance themselves from the content.
Lindell, 59, was also forced to make several attempts to make the film available to the public through his website, as hosting services such YouTube and Vimeo pulled it from their platforms due to policies regarding the sharing of election misinformation.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9230407/YouTube-Vimeo-pull-MyPillow-Mike-Lindells-election-fraud-documentary.html
Now do RUSSIA in 2016.
All they’re accomplishing is making 70 million people more certain than ever that the election was stolen.
^^^This, this, this, this.
Yup. Right now, the left is telling their wife, “Calm down…”
The larger the pool, the more likely there’s someone who will snap and do something really stupid. Which will provide just the excuse they need.
Yup. Almost like they planned it out.
election misinformation
I.e. anything that disrupts the narrative.
Who knows what actually happened on election night. The publicly available records are (intentionally) sparse (and getting sparser), the media and activists got their marching orders, and there was enough (partially manufactured) chaos and drama in the months leading up to it that nobody was really paying attention to the right things. The evidence for the “massive fraud” case is thin on the ground, but at the same time the speed and ferocity with which tech and media silence or “fact check” it implies weakness. People in a strong position don’t act like that. The Amistad Project allegations and the Time article doing battlespace prep imply that there really was something going on and one suspects the Wood/Giuliana clown show was intentionally boosted to weakman the opposing arguments. This has all played out very contrary to the notion that nothing bad happened and nobody has anything to hide, which doesn’t prove anything but certainly leaves one with more doubt than certainty.
BBQ Nacho Burger
I was interested in having a heart-attack on a bun but I’ll probably just do a roast tomorrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9231181/Two-Texas-realtors-flew-DC-private-jet-stormed-Capitol-charged.html
More purging of the unclean. They desecrated the temple!
CLOWNWORLD PERSONIFIED ///honkhonk
“It was only last month that citizens gathered in the Capitol to fortify the Republic. It didn’t go well.”
https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1358067510726172674
LOL
Nice.
So, it turns out that this was false…
It was fake but accurate.
Yeah, sure….
Time has an article to correct how you should think about this hot on the presses…
That Time article is shocking, not because of the content but because they actually published it.
Funny how the AFL-CIO was in on this considering the economic ass raping Joe is going to undertake will put a lot of their members in the bread line.
Hah hah. Unions don’t represent the well being of their rank and file. Besides, those are declining industries. Their futures and their (dues) revenue growth is from government employees and new unionizing industries. But mostly government.
Yep. The AFL-CIO was perfectly happy when the Obama administration put many of its members on permanent disability. They want to accelerate the shift in their ranks from blue-collar prole workers to white-collar outer party members.
That might be another silver lining. Maybe the members will realize that rain in their leg is suspiciously warm.
So many of these useful idiots think they are part of the inner circle, when all they are seen as by the masters is expendable morons…
But how do you want to bet that if they are again put in a situation just like this, they will again help these fuckers get what they want and be totally surprised when they are then butt fucked again…
Further, I’d say that being so blatant about it is by design. If you can demoralize people enough, they’ll stop voting altogether and make it that much easier to play kingmaker.
Demoralization may be the goal but they’re currently at about 3/10 for level of effort. Solidarity won Poland and the Velvet Revolution happened in Czechoslovakia despite the Communists holding almost all the cards and putting in a much stronger effort. Being demoralized is a choice, especially at the current stage.
How many innocents died or had their lives destroyed while the people took their time to finally get to the point that they were angry enough to make that happen?
If you go back far enough, a lot. But the same could be said of our current system. They want to rule us, we want to govern ourselves. They want war and power, we want peace and self-government. Nobody has to die, but if you are afraid of death you cannot win.
Good morning, Old Man!
Or is it?
My phone tells me the current temp is -5, feels like -23. The smartass app has a little igloo as the current weather icon.
Still, freezing to death is almost preferable to the DC drama. I can’t remember where I read it, but a lady was giving a wholehearted defense of MMT. Whistling past the graveyeard?
So print that money, Fed! Let’s see if we can tax and price control our way past inflation! Prosperity for all!
Great tune. Never listened to them before. Will dig in a little.
Have a warmer day than I will!
Hah hah. Unions don’t represent the well being of their rank and file. Besides, those are declining industries. Their futures and their (dues) revenue growth is from government employees and new unionizing industries. But mostly government.
Exactly. They’re out in Vegas organizing hotel maids and busboys. The service sector is where it’s at, outside of government parasites.
How the hell are Vegas hotels surviving the panic-demic?
Mob money.
They aren’t. And it would be more Mormon money than mob money nowadays.
So “fortify” is the next overly used word?
Builds strong parties twelve ways?
Nice Beatle’s reference to my “holes” comment, homie
Thanks! I was rather proud of that one myself. ::breathes on, then buffs nails on shirt::
So print that money, Fed! Let’s see if we can tax and price control our way past inflation! Prosperity for all!
NIXON’S THE ONE!
WHIP INFLATION NOW!
The pandemic could continue for seven years under current vaccination rate Get ready for 7 MORE YEARS!!!!!!!
I could barely take 1 year of this pandemic shit and now they are talking about years more of this shit.
“Amazing how many people have gone from “allowing internet providers to transmit video content at higher speed than other kind of content would be the end of the internet” to “just let the tech companies de-platform whatever they happen to dislike lol” in less than five years.”
https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1357766639702409221
Donald J Trump, mass murderer
As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19. Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution team had the virus. So did media witnesses, who may have unknowingly infected others when they returned home because they were never told about the spreading cases.
Records obtained by The Associated Press show employees at the Indiana prison complex where the 13 executions were carried out over six months had contact with inmates and other people infected with the coronavirus, but were able to refuse testing and declined to participate in contact tracing efforts and were still permitted to return to their work assignments.
Other staff members, including those brought in to help with executions, also spread tips to their colleagues about how they could avoid quarantines and skirt public health guidance from the federal government and Indiana health officials.
The executions at the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, completed in a short window over a few weeks, likely acted as a superspreader event, according to the records reviewed by AP. It was something health experts warned could happen when the Justice Department insisted on resuming executions during a pandemic.
Follow the trail of corpses. There are hundreds of them. It leads right to Trump’s door.
I strongly recommend that you all stay away.
Iowa just became the most dangerous state in the country.
Gov. Reynolds lifting all COVID-19 restrictions on Iowa businesses
Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a new public health proclamation on Friday rolling back all COVID restrictions on Iowa businesses.
Effective at 12:01 A.M. on Sunday, the proclamation removes mask requirements, gathering limits, and restrictions on businesses.
Nice! Congrats, kinnath!
Good luck making your way around the piles of Grandma corpses.
It is hard to hold the line when they are telling people that life after the vaccine is going to be the same.
It makes me think one or all of these isn’t true: The vaccine is effective, masks work, COVID is death upon Man.
Right on, there needs to be more of that. I was fucking done with masks last April (when they started mandating them here). Yesterday I actually saw people in the outdoor dining spots having after work drinks where they would keep their masks on between sips. Yes, they were following our governor’s recommendation to pull masks up if not actively eating or drinking. My head cannot pound a desk that hard. There is no peak derp.
I’m seeing more and more obviously out-of-business restaurants just walking about my neighborhood. It’s the dead of winter, indoor dining is banned again, and few owners can afford to build the outdoor shelters up to the ridiculous specs that Andrew has mandated (some of them look like new buildings plopped in the parking lane). Lots and lots of abandoned, falling-down outdoor dining “facilities”.
Advocates and lawyers for the inmates, a Zen Buddhist priest who was a spiritual adviser for one prisoner, and even the families of some of the victims fought to delay the executions until after the pandemic. Their requests were rebuffed repeatedly and their litigation failed. And some got sick.
“You can’t kill those guys. It might make them sick.”
Define “got sick”.
“Amistad Project: Time To Fully Unmask Mark Zuckerberg’s $350 Million Funnelled For Election Administration And The Motivation Behind It
October 28, 2020”
https://apnews.com/press-release/pr-newswire/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-municipal-elections-philadelphia-philanthropy-4f53d395e1f9e883fae266098ec0f777
Torches and pitchforks.
Lone wolf ninjassassin
The U.S. Air Force has tightened security at Joint Base Andrews after an intruder breached security and made his way into one of the aircraft reserved for top officials and commanders, the Pentagon said Friday.
The base is home to the unit responsible for Air Force One and other aircraft reserved for the country’s elected leaders and top military brass. After gaining access to the airfield, the unarmed intruder then entered a C-40 aircraft from the 89th Airlift Wing, known as the “presidential wing,” officials said.
“I think everybody’s taking this very seriously, and the acting secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force chief of staff are going to order the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate this issue,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Friday.
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The intruder was eventually detained by base security forces, booked by Air Force Office of Special Investigations and given a federal summons for trespassing, Joint Base Andrews said earlier in a statement. He was turned over to local law enforcement in Maryland because he had two outstanding warrants, the statement said.
There was no indication the suspect had links to extremist groups, base officials said.
That guy could have planted a suitcase nuke on the plane. He could have killed the pilot and flown the plane into the Statue of Liberty.
He could have whacked off in the bathroom.
That’s nothing. What about the time a couple of high school kids managed to get a pair of jets fully loaded, fueled, and take off without anyone knowing it was unauthorized?
This happens a lot more than the public is made aware.
When at Holloman, an immigrant family made there way to the flightline where all the F117s were at.
I miss the days when the streaker on the football field wasn’t treated like a threat to world order.
We’ve lost our fucking minds.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1357732626338037761
The domestic war on terror is coming. Any of you creeps who think the election was fraudulent or that covid restrictions are unnecessary deserve to get alawakied.
They’re fucking deranged.
Uruguay is looking better all the time.
I call them evil. Because they are.
Sanctimonious twat is sanctimonious
Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg on Friday urged Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to issue an apology directly to the families who lost loved ones and who now have a “permanently empty bedroom” following reports of past comments Greene has made about mass shootings.
When will you apologize for clambering atop the dead bodies of their children to promote yourself and your political ambitions, you loathsome little douchebag?
Do not apologize to people who hate you and cherish seeing you weak.
I have been taking this time stuck in hotel room to rewatch Babylon 5. I forgot how good the show was.
I got a few more episodes in but I’m still in a holding pattern about 1/3 of the way in to season 1.
The problem is I don’t like watch watching TV (as opposed to using it for background noise like I usually do) until late at nite and lately I crap out around midnight.
I get that and I am that way at home.
I like how it didnt go the route of we are enlightened beings because we travel the stars. We are still humans that have all our human faults, needs and wants.
The domestic war on terror is coming. Any of you creeps who think the election was fraudulent or that covid restrictions are unnecessary deserve to get alawakied.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Due Process is for chumps. They’re defending DEMOCRACY.
rewatch Babylon 5. I forgot how good the show was.
I don’t know about that, but I have been watching Star Trek Next Gen during my middle of the night sleep mode malfunctions.
I never really paid attention to what a steaming pile of pontificating preachy dogshit that show was.
Heh there IS a lot of that. I enjoy a lot of the episodes but I catch myself rolling my eyes a lot.
Jesus… I need to proofread more.
Define “got sick”.
1 case = 24 cans
So two mornings ago I was about to get the kids out the house for our walk to school and I hear screaming outside our house. I go out and middle aged guy is pushing an old guy around and yelling obscenities at him. I look around my truck and see there is a woman crumpled up below his bumper that is not moving. Cops and ambulance arrive and I take the kids to school reminding them that people get hit by cars all the time crossing the street, even in crosswalks.
I get back home and they have already taken the woman off and the old guy is pacing back and forth looking obviously shaken up. I offer him a coffee or a water and my sympathy (even though I knew he was at fault it still sucks to be him). Eventually the police finished questioning him and let him go. I went to the store across the street and asked my friend who owns it if his video camera caught the accident. Did it ever. Man, she got absolutely smacked by the truck, 15-20 miles an hour and he was still accelerating as he hit her (her father jumped out the way just in time). We were sure the woman was killed by that force of impact. It was brutal.
Last evening as I was getting off work I noticed the guy and his son were at the intersection and trying to replay how it may have happened. They saw me and the father mentioned to his son that I had offered him a drink and they thanked me. I didn’t want to say that I had seen the tape, but then they were wildly off in what they thought happened so I told them what really happened. The songbook me aside and asked if I could get him a copy of the video and I went and filmed it for him with my phone and sent it to him telling him he wasn’t going to like what he saw. She actually survived it we found out later last nite, don’t know how and in what shape she will be in for the rest of her life. Sorry for the long post, but just wanted to write it out as my mind keeps going back to that impact. The old man is going to be lucky if he just gets sued to oblivion and avoids jail.
That’s rough. Every time my kids are in a parking lot or near a road I find myself being hyper-alert. I often wonder if I was as care-free and completely not aware of my surroundings at that
How old was the woman that she was walking with her father?
That should’ve been “son took me aside…”
She looked late 20’s-early30’s. Yeah I constantly try and get it into their little heads that cars often don’t stop at stop signs.
Yep. Do not trust traffic controls and humans.
I have hammered into their heads that constantly…also to not meander when crossing the street..get across it damn it.
Indeed. The pedestrians were in no way at fault, but they just took it for granted that the guy would see them, they never broke stride as they approached the crosswalk and they didn’t look in that direction until he was almost upon them.
I blamed years of pedestrians always have the right of way propaganda, along with excessive crosswalks and those stupid pedestrian only quasi traffic lights.
Look both ways and only cross when it’s clear is what I got as a kid. Not cars will always yield to you.
Yup, I agree wholeheartedly with that G.
Don’t apologize for stuff like that, here. This is why Glibs happened. Sorry that you had to witness such a thing K.
Thanks Festus, just wanted to get that off my chest as it keeps replaying in my head.
Damn
Sparky text just sent to supervisor, basically told him to go fuck himself with Winston’s Mom’s dick. Oops. I’m sure there are plenty of jobs out there for late middle-aged men that have no appreciable skills, right?
You’re not white I hope.
COINTELPRO 2!!! What could go wrong?
The hippies have become the oppressors.
The hippies have always been the oppressors! (child of the 60’s)
The hippies have become the oppressors.
* Professor Milgram waves*
The hippies were mostly the disfavored sons and daughters of the social climbers and upper crust. They talked like they were anti-establishment but really they were just upset that they weren’t immediately granted their proper role in the establishment. The ones who didn’t die off often ended up getting jobs in government, nonprofits, and major corporations (“selling out to the man”). They then grew up and raised families at least as dysfunctional as the ones they came from. Entitled through it all and still feeling unfulfilled, they imparted their shitty worldview upon everything they did, and their children too, who in turn became the disfavored sons and daughters for another generation. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Aristocracy may not be legally hereditary in this country but as they say “politics is downstream of culture”.
The UK coming to a town near you.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tsa-mask-fine-violation/2021/02/05/id/1008880/