Damn, those Wops can play.
Italy are starting to look like Euro favorites. The Welsh are looking good to advance. The Clippers won because the league wants a team from LA to advance. and Montreal knotted their series with Vegas…because Montreal and Vegas are inexplicably playing each other in the postseason before the finals. And that’s sports.
Trippy
Sociopathic king Edward I was born on this day. He shares it with baseball pioneer Pete Browning, civil rights leader James Weldon Johnson, Canadian boxer Tommy Burns, composer Igor Stravinsky, pioneer in plastic surgery Harold Gillies, Nazi sociopath Martin Bormann, artist M.C. Escher, chocolate chip cookie inventor Ruth Wakefield, actor Ralph Bellamy, libertarian writer Harry Browne, adulterer and politician Newt Gingrich, musician Barry Manilow, cyclist Eddie Merckx, funk pioneer George Clinton, hockey player/coach Mike Milbury, actor Jason Patric, and tennis great Venus Williams.
That was a diverse list. Now on to…the links!
Let’s hope this starts a trend. Although I wouldn’t exactly call it a blue state.
An exhibitionist, a potato, and a grifter walk into a bar…
So does this end his presidential aspirations? I guess we’ll have to wait on the human potato Brian Stelter to weigh in before we’ll know.
Thanks a lot, Trump! I’m sure he’ll somehow be blamed. I just hope all the abuelas are ok.
This woman is a sociopath. LOL, I’m just kidding. She’s actually a psychopath.
Adios, lovelies!
Well, they got woke. But will they go broke? I’m sure if they do, it’ll be because of the patriarchy and discrimination.
That’ll fix it! Because it had to be the leader and not letter carriers who don’t give a shit and can’t be held accountable under employment guidelines, right? Yeah, sure.
I’m glad they’re putting away these arch-criminals. They face 25 years in prison…you know, because that makes sense.
Hooray!!!! Hopefully this will scare off potential new residents from shitholes where the right to self defense isn’t a thing.
I went deep in the vault for this one. Hope you enjoy it. (I know a couple of you will be happy as hell at least.)
Now get out there and have a great day, dear friends!
“So does this end his presidential aspirations? I guess we’ll have to wait on the human potato Brian Stelter to weigh in before we’ll know.”
So they no longer like this guy so now they are going to make him someone’s prison bitch? Sounds about right…
Based on the evidence I’ve seen, he deserves to be in prison regardless of the media no longer finding him useful.
Dude was always a massive piece of shit. He was just a useful one to Team Blue/CNN for a while.
I suspect he was useful to them precisely because he was such a massive piece of shit. Willing to lie, cheat & steal to hurt the Trumpster was the one and only requirement that made someone a press darling for 4 years plus. See Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Wray, and so on…
The truthiness of this makes me sad.
suh’ fam ?
The roof?
Is on fire?
The roof is too damn high!
Hard-ons and Helicopters.
Hello Clarice!
A preposition.
Last time I paid attention to Italy and soccer was 1982….
I saw them play Ireland to a 1-1 draw in the 94 WC in The Meadowlands. It was an amazingly fun experience.
Morning Glibs.
I’m somewhat miffed at Zoom, and it’s tendency to not let you change display name before a meeting starts if you use a direct weblink.
Fortunately, only the only guy who saw ‘UnCivilServant’ was the vendor who is in India and unlikely to tell my co-workers.
I’ve now told zoom to remember my name as ‘Rename’.
I blame Mr. Ilium.
I have two accounts to avoid that issue.
What’s a “zoom”?
I have no accounts.
Same here… although there was one Monday morning when I forgot to change accounts before joining.
It’s a Chicomm conspiracy, yo!
This is why I join by phone only. Work meetings happen on work computer. Glibs and other meetings happen on phone.
Almost had some awkwardness at my grandma’s 80th birthday party zoom, though.
Almost had some awkwardness at my grandma’s 80th birthday party zoom, though.
You weren’t Toobining, were you?
Toobining!
That song does nothing for me without the guitar-playing frankensteins’s hamburger.
TWO DOLLARS!
I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!!
A true free marketeer
Franch…. fries. And! Franch… dressing
DINNER MONDU!
I’m chuckling at this. One of my favorite movies ever. I wanted to pile on, but I’m just enjoying reading the submissions from others.
Gee, I’m really sorry your mom blew up, Ricky.
That’s some awesome liqueur there…
My life and online presence is so inconsequential that I give a farthing’s fart about being unmasked. Fuck it. Do your worst. When ya ain’t got nothing, ya have nothing to lose.
It’s amazing to me that TX is only now a constitutional carry state. We need a permit for CC in PA but could open carry pistols since I can remember.
Philly and Pit excluded of course.
They had pretty strict gun control until someone shot up a Luby’s.
You can open carry in Pittsburgh IIRC. It’s only Philadelphia that is considered a “city of the first class” in that inane law.
Correct.
I stand corrected. Thanks for that. no snark. Pitt is far enough away from me that I can travel to Boston in about the same time.
You can’t drive, because that counts as “concealed” IIRC
That always amused me.
You can’t have laws or carve-outs for a specific municipality, but you can create classes of municipalities, set up the class definitions so that you have classes with only one municipality, and have laws or carve-outs for municipalities in that class.
She may be a psychopath, but I can’t feel the slightest twinge of concern that civil serpents are being abused. They’re all psycho- or sociopaths on that bus.
🙁
*whisper*
not all
*/whisper*
But you’re uncivil, and not a serpent 😉
*As far as we know.
Perhaps he is a Wyrm in his human form.
*hisss*
What makes you so sure he has a human form?
Gloves. The answer is gloves.
Good morning! The weather was really quite splendid yesterday (mid 70s, breezy, abundant sunshine). Today, in a rare feat for eastern PA, we get a second perfect weather day in a row! I estimate that we probably get 5-8 days per year that are this good. I’m very happy I’m not Canadian today.
It was cool here yesterday. Barely got over 90 with 70% humidity. I needed a jacket.
It’s been getting chilly enough here at nights (down to the upper 40’s) I considered turning the heat back on. Thankfully haven’t needed to turn on the AC yet this year, though there were a couple of days it was close (high of 85). But next week, I’ll be off on vacation in the lake. I’m hoping the Thunderstorms predicted through the weekend blow through.
Wait, are you local to me?
Maybe, I live in Lehigh Valley. For now it seems as good as any place as I gave up my ski bum life aspirations. On days like today I’m even starting to like it here.
I’m in the Quakertown area, so yes. Howdy neighbor.
It’s amazing weather here right now. I’m 1 hour north of you and Sean.
I move that the next time I’m in the Philly area, we have a meet-up.
Or maybe for Timeloose’s concert event in August?
My great^7 grandfather settled in Lancaster county in 1737
“I’m very happy I’m not Canadian today.”
That’s an everyday thing for me.
The Clippers won because the league wants a team from LA to advance – the jazz sucked… It was not referees imo. Unless the league told jazz to suck
Although how soft fouls are called is ruining my enjoyment.
I don’t watch basketball, so I wouldn’t know. I just make up whatever I say about the NBA.
If the Suns make the finals I will laugh…
The framing of that constitutional carry headline is laughably TMITE. People can carry without a license or training!!! As if the training was worth half a shit.
TCMITE
Is it still illegal to tax newsprint and ink?
Yeah, especially since that training was a core component of the licensing scheme.
I’ll keep my LTC just for the reciprocity. But I’m glad this passed. We need more armed “civilians” in Texas.
I’m still contemplating getting a TX LTC if only to speed up the NICS check by a few minutes. That said, I haven’t bought a firearm in a few months.
I’ll keep my LTC just for the reciprocity.
NH no longer requires a permit, but does issue permits for reciprocity purposes. I still have mine for that reason.
Sometimes I think about getting a permit for that reason, but I haven’t convinced myself to ask permission yet.
If Virginia keeps going the way it is, OC might get outlawed and then it might be moving time.
“Of the dozens of gun safety bills lawmakers filed to codify state leaders’ 2019 calls for action, few have advanced.
“All [El Paso community members] wanted was something better. All they wanted was some accountability. Yet here we are,” state Rep. Joe Moody, an El Paso Democrat, told colleagues on the floor Sunday. “When the doors were closed, I heard lots of promises. I haven’t heard them since.””
Fair and balanced!
“Gun Safety”
There are now, what, 21? constitutional carry states. These states do not have any widespread “gun violence” nor was there an increase in shootings following the move to constitutional carry. Yet every lib on earth pretends that these states do not exist and do not have any bearing as an example of what constitutional carry will result in.
They are ignorant, mendacious pieces of fuck.
You can get away with shit like that when the entire media, academia, and Big Tech are on your side. It’s the same exact thing with COVID restrictions and the total lack of empirical evidence that they did anything positive.
Not only is there no empirical evidence it did any good, there’s a bunch of it that says COVID restrictions didn’t do anything except crush the economy and create massive socio-political issues.
It is raining again. While I understand June is historically the rainiest month in Romania I wish it would stop.
HAS ANYONE SEEN MY PARMESAN CHEESE???
/Hunter
Perspex screens that have sprung up in some offices and restaurants do not prevent the spread of Covid and could actually increase transmissibility, officials have told ministers.
Ministers have been told the screens should be scrapped, according to a Whitehall document setting out recommendations to ministers on how England can eventually “live with Covid”.
The draft document says the transparent plastic screens are often incorrectly positioned and could make matters worse by blocking airflow that helps disperse any virus droplets.
It also recommends a boost in financial support for self isolation and suggests the government needs to decide whether to encourage people back to the office after the July 19 final easing of restrictions, remain neutral, or to continue to recommend home working where possible.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavirus-perspex-screens-whitehall-document_uk_60c9f2efe4b01e41139357eb
Yes, because the boost in financial support for self-isolating won’t cause any perverse incentives.
Jesus, have these people not seen what’s happening to the job market when you pay people to sit on their ass all say rather than go to work?
It’s the UK. “Living on the dole” is a thing there.
Teetering on the edge of living in Oceania…
Never say anything on zoom you wouldn’t want shown on the evening news. Because it will be if it helps advance the narrative.
Interesting (okay, tediously predictable) how the Texas story is framed:
Proponents of what Republicans call “constitutional carry” argued that Texas should follow the lead of at least 20 other states with similar laws on the books.
Of the dozens of gun safety bills lawmakers filed to codify state leaders’ 2019 calls for action, few have advanced.
(emphasis mine)
Also…
Meanwhile, gun control advocates are disappointed the Legislature made it easier to carry firearms after repeated instances of gun violence — including the 2019 massacres in El Paso and Midland-Odessa that left 30 people dead.
Non sequitur.
A solid majority of Texas voters don’t think permitless carry should be allowed, according to an April University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Irrelevant.
Who wrote this dreck?
Sami Sparber is a reporting intern at the Houston Chronicle’s Austin Bureau. She is a junior at The University of Texas at Austin studying journalism and government. Sami is the news editor at The Daily Texan, and previously reported on politics for the student-run campus newspaper.
Well, she’s learning how to propagandize early — I’ll give her that much.
The way I feel about Bill Murray shall be summed up thusly – https://youtu.be/YKRFlNryaWw “His wee beady eyes and smug demeanor!”
Tastes just like strawberry ice cream when you lick the Presidential ass
The visuals, the body language and the setting all converged to help President Joe Biden achieve what he wanted — not only from his much-hyped summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — but from a week of pivotal meetings with US allies.
From the start of the Geneva summit, Biden looked confident and relaxed. In contrast, Putin, who has made an art of appearing smug and almost bored, looked tense and on his guard. Then Biden took the initiative, extending his hand first to Putin, who walked over to grasp it.
The summit mattered, of course, but it was in the dueling press conferences where Putin helped Biden achieve his objectives. That’s because Biden’s meeting with Putin had two goals. One was about managing US relations with Russia. The other was the overarching theme of his European trip and, in fact, of Biden’s presidency: strengthening democracy by drawing a sharp distinction between it and authoritarianism, all the while persuading the world that democracy is the superior model.
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Critics said Biden erred by raising Putin’s standing with a global summit. After all, Putin is the autocratic leader of a shrinking economy a little bigger than Spain’s and a per capita income smaller than Costa Rica’s. But Russia, a nuclear armed country, has become an active enemy of democracy in the West. It works to discredit the system and make it dysfunctional. And it has succeeded to such an extent that much of the Republican Party now propagates the kind of disinformation Russian hackers used to have to work hard to pump
By meeting with Putin, and letting him showcase his signature evasive style, Biden was able to use the Russian president as a prop — a show-and-tell for his campaign to demonstrate that authoritarianism is a malign force.
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Biden looked satisfied when it was all over, appearing convinced that he had drawn some clear red lines in the roughly 160 minutes of face-to-face meetings.
The visual contrast could not have been sharper from the last US-Russia summit, the Russian president so self-satisfied, the US president, looking cowed and making such counterproductive comments that Trump’s own adviser at the time, Fiona Hill, said she considered faking a medical emergency — “a loud blood-curdling scream” — to make it stop. Instead of the acquiescent, slumping former president, Biden looked invigorated against the bright outdoor backdrop. He explained why it’s important for the two countries to work together where possible and to try to manage their differences when they can’t.
What a man! So dreamy, so Presidential, so yummy.
Slurp slurp slurp.
“Doddering old man with health and cognitive issues steps upon multiple rakes on World stage”. You won’t be reading that headline anytime soon.
‘The other was the overarching theme of his European trip and, in fact, of Biden’s presidency: strengthening democracy by drawing a sharp distinction between it and authoritarianism,’
lol, wut?!
Biden is not Obama, eventually the slurping will stop. And it will turn ugly. All my homies hate Joseph Robinette Biden.
MORE FOREIGNERS DOING THE JOBS AMERICANS WON’T: Australian Media Mocks CNN’s Glowing Coverage of Bumbling Joe Biden.
Wow. That author went through the looking glass.
Fucking Lori Lightfoot. How did she ever get elected? Ugly inside and out, WTF Chicago?
It doesn’t matter who votes comrade, because all that matters is who counts the votes….
Her opponent was just as bad and just as butt-ugly. Being a lesbian helped Lightfoot as she didn’t have a son with a lengthy arrest record.
I have nothing to add. Sorry, Friend…
And I think the distant third candidate was the president of the teacher’s union. Or maybe that Taft-sized lunatix ran for governor. Hard to remember; the corruption all sort of blends in together like a giant melting pot…
I’m featuring Sugar-Free imagery.
“I did what I came to do,” he declared before heading back home.
And with that, Biden wrapped up his first international trip, having started the process of fortifying the alliances Trump had eroded, raising the world’s trust in US leadership and successfully drawing a contrast between an autocratic, repressive leader — in power because he has crushed his opponents — and a democratically elected one, battling the anti-democratic forces at home and abroad.
So statesmanship. We should just make him President for Life.
And then he piddled his pants (just a bit).
They love him because he gives them the pat on the head they so desperately crave.
See: https://twitter.com/jakesherman/status/1405230753257033741?s=21
We should just make him President for Life.
We haven’t had one of those since Kennedy. Maybe it’s time to try it again.
/jk, Preet & Mr Secret Service Man
I don’t want president Cackles.
Mumble incoherently, forget where he was (as when he panicked when he couldn’t find his wife’s table at lunch), and yell at a reporter for the one question he received that wasn’t fawningly adulatory?
At this point, he probably is — but not in the way he would have wanted.
fortifying the alliances Trump had eroded, raising the world’s trust in US leadership
Citations needed. I just love these ridiculous assertions without evidence.
“
drawing a contrast betweenwishing that he, too, could be an autocratic, repressive leader — in power because he has crushed his opponents”From the TX constitutional carry article:
If you believe that, you’ve never read the Texas Tribune. That place is about as nonpartisan as a government commission.
Tribune of the Plebes? I mock…
Have fun, kiddos. I’m off to work to spend a good chunk of the day on a roof in 100 plus degrees with high humidity. Today’s going to suck…see ya!
Remember, it’s not the fall that gets you!
In the strangest bit of good news coming out this year, the Cleveland Oktoberfest (which takes place in September), has added a second weekend.
Clearly they just want everyone to die in another super spreader event!
I approve.
I’m off to work to spend a good chunk of the day on a roof in 100 plus degrees with high humidity.
Yee haw.
A solid majority of Texas voters don’t think permitless carry should be allowed, according to an April University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
A solid majority of voters in every state probably believe they should have the power to decide what color you paint your house, too.
I am surprised it is a solid majority tbh
Well, they’re not liquid or gaseous.
Some are probably at least somewhat gaseous from one end or the other.
Perhaps a plasma?
If they believe in Democracy™ so much, why don’t they poll Texans on gay marriage or abortion and immediately impose whatever the majority votes for? If democracy is the be-all-end-all, then there’s really no objection they can raise.
I survived cancer but have some lasting effects from the treatment. To get this letter today telling me it will be SIX YEARS until I get an initial consultation is a disgrace. And I acknowledge there are people much more worse off than me on this list too.
https://twitter.com/LeesaHarker/status/1405120532111151104
I am torn between saying the NHS is the envy of the world or it is the Torrie’s fault for under funding healthcare
Coming to the US in the near future.
It’s stockholm syndrome. I once had a conversation with a brit who’d learned to stitch his own lacerations because he couldn’t get treatment, who honestly argued in the same conversation that $66 for a same-day xray was somehow wrong because “some people don’t have $66”.
Back in the day all people would stitch their own clothes and lacerations. We are getting soft.
I had a co-worker years ago who was from London. He told me all about how his father was suffering from heart problems and couldn’t get an appointment and how treatment was always delayed and all kinds of other problems. I said something derogatory about the NHS and he jumped on me, telling me how great it was. He had just spend five minutes running down the deplorable state of care the system was giving to his father, and then proceeded to defend it without qualification when I criticized it.
If Labour was permanently in power it would be the best in the world it would
???
They’re remarkably brainwashed when it comes to the NHS. They’re the dogs whose owner beats them regularly but keep coming back for more.
Update: HK police raid Apple Daily
5 executives were taken away, including Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and #NextDigital CEO Cheung Kim-hung.
Officers were seen accessing journalists’ computers, and all employees were barred from returning to their seats to work.
https://twitter.com/appledaily_hk/status/1405352505828012033
They’re not social distancing very well.
Good morning, Sloopy!
As always, thanks for the always entertaining lynx. And especially for a new wave gem I probably haven’t heard in 20 years. Well done!
VS is pretty much over anyway, isn’t it? I did like the picture of Heidi Klum in the article, though. She always seemed like a fun chick.
Well, it’s a beautiful sunny day again here in Minne. Hey! You know what would be cool? A second autonomous zone!
Hooray for justice! Or something.
Anyway, congrats to all of you Texans. You should really just get it over with and secede now while you can.
It’s amazing how little attention these ongoing protests and autonomous whatsits are getting now that trump is gone. I guess they never mattered. Well, except to the people who have to live there.
I’d be lying if I said someone else was my target audience for that song.
No homo.
Yer a good egg, Sloop!
But all of your music selections are homo. If I had to put together a soundtrack for a gay porno it would be with your music selections.
Burn!
Ouch. I’m hoping for sloopy’s sake that the weird shortages in today’s market don’t extend to burn cream.
Eh, consider the source. Her music is either:
A. Trash
B. Something good I told her to post
Easy there, young lady.
Besides, gay porno is more the Kraftwerk stuff.
?You spin me right round baby right round
Like a record baby?
Now, now. Pete Burns is not the stereotype of all new wave or punk musicians. Only about 1/3 of them.
Are you saying that he is all about the cock?
Do better, Tom Hanks
If he really wants to make a difference, Hanks and other stars need to talk specifically about how their work has contributed to these problems and how they will change. They need to make specific commitments to changing the conversation in story subjects, casting and execution. That is the truly hard work of building change.
Rather than talk about what “historically based fiction entertainment” must do, why not talk about what Tom Hanks, longtime scripted and documentary executive producer, will do? As a star who can get a movie made just by agreeing to appear in it, what will Tom Hanks, movie star, actually do?
People often say columns such as the one by Hanks are published to start a conversation. Well, here is my suggestion: Let’s make part of that conversation how baby boomer filmmakers have made fortunes amplifying ideas of white American exceptionalism and heroism.
And how their responsibility now lies with helping dismantle and broaden the ideas they helped cement in the American mind.
Tear down western culture. That will enrich us all, right Shirley?
Dear Tom Hanks,
Be less white.
Per the old Progressive Era eugenics rules, Tom isn’t white.
https://gematriaeffect.news/tom-hanks-a-relative-of-abraham-lincoln-and-a-melungeon/
Jews are the Shrodinger’s people to Progs, they are both oppressor and the oppressed depending on what is most advantageous to their narrative.
Melungeons! My people!
I… I really can’t do this anymore.
“Let’s make part of that conversation how baby boomer filmmakers have made fortunes amplifying ideas of white American exceptionalism and heroism.”
That’s one hell of a take on history you racist sack of shit.
It seems as though they really want a race war/civil war, never realizing it won’t go the way they seem to think it will.
Hey Eric Deggans, kiss my mostly white ass.
Wait, what?
You are not shaming right, yo…
I’ve never seen Demi Rose that covered up before.
*stifled laughter to avoid the people on zoom hearing*
Oh good, I’m on mute.
I (almost) made UCS LOL?? I can die happy now! (But I’ll try not to. Die, that is. At least not any time soon.)
*applause*
Potato hater…
Lol!
Fair point, Dave.
Welcome back the era of corsets, bustiers and hoop skirts.
heh
I have the strangest erection right now.
Ugh. Looks like a big load in her onesie.
Weatherpocalypse!
“Dangerous and record-breaking heat to continue across portions of the West and Central Plains,” the National Weather Service (NWS) said.
“A few monthly and even all-time records have already been tied/broken this week associated with the current stretch of heat,” the agency added.
Salt Lake City tied its all-time high on Tuesday at 107 degrees, only the second time the city has hit that temperature in the last 147 years.
NWS Las Vegas is telling people to avoid the outdoors and drink plenty of water due to the extremely high temperatures.
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The governor of Utah asked residents of the state two weeks ago to join him in a weekend of prayer for rain during a statewide emergency drought.
Truly, the End Times are upon us.
Repent, sinners!
REPENT!
Prayers For Rain
Prayer for Good Weather
My rusty bucket o’ bolts Ford Escape might be ready to be condemned by the state for noise and crud emissions, but damn, it sure has a fine air conditioning system.
Isn’t that all that really matters?
Only 1 more week til my real car is back from the shop…
AC and the ability to reliably get from point A to point B without killing the occupants.
The best AC I’ve ever experienced was my 2003 Tahoe. You could hang meat in that truck.
Americans kind of suck at many aspects of car building, but AC is not one of them.
Sloopish morning links, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Thy birthdays, even on a star-deprived date such as this, do not require me to click each one individually.
Thy sports ? ⚽️ ? links are pithy and light, yet full of wisdom.
Thy news links fill my libertarian heart with rage, but the humor with which thou deliver them doth ease the pain.
I am beholden unto thee, sir Sloopy, e’en though thou dost mention the name of the vile Longshanks.
Serious question regarding “proof” of vaccination: How would one even do that?
Context: Haven’t gotten it. Healthy 50yo male. Have the .pdf and some heavy cardstock and an example, but haven’t bothered… Work isn’t supposed to ask or bother you about it, but is anyway.
So, for me, or really even for somebody legitimately “jabbed”, what would proof even look like? Just the card? Do vax-getters have to sign something at the Wal-Mart pharmacy or something? Or is there a registry? And if it’s something like that, did they even check ID? I’m in GA if it matters.
The vaccine clinic where I went told me multiple times to take a photo of the card, in case I lost it.
So I think that would be really simple to mock up.
The “lot code” for j & J is in the format number number number letter number number letter.
Have you seen the Glibs forum entry on this? If not, I will link it here.
I think I have, yeah. Isn’t that where the .pdf is/was?
Yes. And it suggests printing it on 80 weight card stock.
But if you print on plain paper, fill it in as if it were the single dose j and J, take a picture of it, no need for card stock or even for printing the back side.
Some places just require a photo of it so even card stock might not matter. Print, fill out, take photo.
I’ve read doctors saying exactly that: you can prove it through your medical records, but most people didn’t get this from their doctors. They went to some government department of health event, or just to their local pharmacy, and there’s no way to disprove it, so it’s functionally pointless.
I’m in the same boat with my son. His university is requiring all athletes to get vaccinated by Aug 1 to be eligible to play. After listening to Bret Weinstein, there is no way in hell either of my kids are getting the mrna vaccines. I’m to the point of submitting a card and letting the chips fall where they may.
Is he really good? Transfer to a different school.
I’m sure he would be fine getting the mrna vaccine though.
He’s a 6’3″ center defender that got an athletic ride despite tearing his ACL as a junior in high school. He could transfer, but it’s late in the process and he loves the school he going to because of it’s engineering program and sports. This is what really has me spooked – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2wm5nhTXY – coming from the guy that invented mrna vaccines no less.
Thank you for the link. That’s consistent with the Salk Institute findings on the S-protein.
And it’s absolutely horrifying.
Watching that video, my impression of Steve Kirsch formed after reading his article is largely confirmed. He is too worked up, keeps talking over the expert (Robert Malone), and it doesn’t surprise me that the guy talking in the video wrote the rambling, unfocused, alarmist article I read.
Now, I think the issues being brought up are very serious and concerning in the extreme. But I take issue with Steve Kirsch’s presentation of them and think that he’s too easily ignored or refuted because of his overly excited tone and mishmash of anecdotes and political recommendations.
As I’ve said before, he would have served his cause much better to present that 38,000-plus word article as a series of better argued pieces on the individual concerns.
I think it’s to Weinstein’s credit that he did his best to get Kirsch’s ramblings under control and let Malone talk. He himself even points out, obliquely, that Kirsch’s article can be a bit easy to discount.
^^ this
All that said, I want people to follow up on what Kirsch is reporting (agglomerating?). The points deserve to be researched, discussed, and, if merited, publicized.
I spent a lot of time with the document. I’m not sure who has the balls to really push back on this – Weinstein is likely to be kicked off YT and Twitter shortly.
Despite his shortcomings, I’ve seen enough from Steve to be convinced that things are far worse than we imagined.
My son’s at Infantry OSUT (Basic and Advanced together) at Benning. Graduation is in about 3 weeks. Apparently since it’s still experimental, even the Army can’t force Privates in training to get it. Considering that they can do virtually anything else to them, that’s pretty telling. They’ve almost all been tested positive already, since they live nut-to-butt in the barracks, and spent 10 days at Covid jail (a different barracks), but the Army’s still avoiding some swim-related things since they’d have to get in a chlorinated pool together…
About 40-50% of them refused the first time. So the Army said they couldn’t invite anybody to graduation, or participate in the family visit prior to it, unless they (the soldier) got the shot. He still refused on principle, but that pushed a bunch of them over.
Related brag: He got tagged for the Ranger track right out of OSUT, which is rare and evidently only applies to NG trainees, to get advanced training into Guard units better than had been done before. Still has to get through 2 prep phases (RTLI and RTAC) before getting into Ranger School, but still. So 15 min after graduation he’s supposed to get on a bus to move to a different barracks and start that.
So he’s already had covid and they want him to get a vaccine? So dumb.
Congratulations on your sapling’s success! We had one guy who wanted OCS. Kind of a dick, but he worked his butt off and got a slot out of OSUT.
Best way to do it was Ranger school first, then airborne school if not already qualified. Catch a little flak but a little easier, eliminate another avenue to injury, and jump school was like a vacation in comparison afterwards. But that was in the days of RIP and the non regiment weedout class whatever that was.
Thx. He’s about 1/3 through a Civil Engineering degree, and when last Fall ended up being remote/stupid, decided he’d sit out Spring. Had always been interested in a Ranger track (because of where we live he’s known several instructors there from church), so enlisted in the Guard to do OSUT in Spring/Summer, with the plan to go back in Fall’21 if RTLI didn’t happen. OCS option when he graduates from college.
So he enlisted for 6 years, aiming to be a 1%er coming out of OSUT and danged if he didn’t do it. Still several huge hurdles to get over, but he’s good at that. Just going to have to compete with a lot of guys with 2-3 years real experience.
Apparently since it’s still experimental, even the Army can’t force Privates in training to get it.
Paging Ozy!
Maybe it’s time to get some other people together and lawyer up.
I think I mentioned it the other day, but a buddy of mine works at big VC firm, specializing in medical companies. He was shocked (and happy) that not only was the company not requiring the shot, management was explicitly told to stay the fuck out of it.
Their counsel must have seen something that spooked them.
We were all explicitly told the same thing, but that won’t really stop a Covidian.
Corporate lawyers are looking at the FedGov and seeing they aren’t making it a requirement and that gives them enough pause to realize that if they can’t pull the trigger and make it mandatory, then how will they?
Every state has a vaccine registry. Details on the registry vary by state.
In NH, any vaccine “event” has to be reported to the registry. “Event” is, if I remember correctly, defined that if there is any talk of administering a vaccine while meeting with a health care provider, that is an event that has to go into the registry, along with whether or not that vaccine was administered. The registry in NH is opt-out, meaning if you jump through a set of ugly and difficult hoops, your information does not go into the state registry. The NH House attempted to change the registry to opt-in in an attempt to a) better protect patient privacy and b) better comply with the state Constitution’s privacy provisions, but the attempt failed. Two Fun Facts: NH was the last state to spin up its registry, only spinning it up when the Lil Rona Panic started, and during the State of Emergency the Governor issued an emergency order stating that no one could opt-out of the registry when the Lil Rona vaccines are involved.
So, you’d need to look up the details on your state’s vaccine registry. I’ll bet that if you receive the Lil Rona vaccine, or any vaccine after the registry spun up, there is an entry in it for that event.
At my Subaru dealership getting my A/C repaired. Waiting area has the chatty old guy who’ll talk to whoever is within earshot. Thank goodness for the barely functional earphones in my Everything Bag. Can’t figure out how to listen in one tab and read in another on my phone, but the ‘phones get the job done.
Want to see the best political ad ever?
Enjoy!
https://twitter.com/warpath2pt0/status/1405505413701853184?s=21
OK, that rocked..
I mean the best is a tall order but it is pretty good
Find a better one.
I have one but it only works in the original Koine Greek
“Euripides has shit on his dick”
યુરીપાઇડ્સ તેની ડિક પર છી
Ja! Ja! Ja!
Then again compared to many others this does have brevity
LOL
LOL
*points to avatar*
*applause*
Warms my heart.
I like it.
I liked this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TjU948M0ARw
That was great!
No one:
Igor Stravinski: You know what we need? A ballet using a whole bunch of weird meters
(The Firebird Suite is a great piece, but it was a disaster as a ballet. Asking someone to dance in 7/8 could not end any other way.)
Didn’t it cause a legit riot when it debuted?
Could be. Either that or “Bolero.”
I remembered something similar. After a bit of using the Googles, it turns out that it was his Rite of Spring premiere that resulted in a riot.
That was The Rite of Spring
/music major
Thanks.
(Backspaces over rest of comment)
No. Le Sacre du Primtemps did.
My HS marching band played it.
They put 15′ wings on the color guard. It won them all sorts of awards.
Every few years a Drum Corps puts on a show playing it.
The first couple of years I marched we were playing John Tesh so, yeah.
Bolshoit.
Most of Greek music is in odd meters including not just 3 but 7,9, and 11 and they dance just fine.
Wait, managers aren’t supposed to dress down a failing staffer hear and now?
Another topic – Biden and his apparent lashing-out at a reporter:
– I haven’t kept up with the details of this summit, but the high-level stuff I’ve seen all looked frankly stupid from a diplomatic standpoint. There’s things you say in certain contexts, and things you say in others, public, private, etc. And nothing looked anything remotely adult.
– But my main point about his “moment” is this, in all seriousness – lashing out at those who are actually trying to help you is just a thing dementia patients DO.
Now maybe she was dumb enough to think she’d get a serious, “good” response, or maybe they’ve turned against him, and certainly it was a dumb question from a diplomatic standpoint, but still. His rxn is one more signal that he ain’t there, and they let it happen right there in front of everybody. And it’s one thing for that to be obvious to all of us. But the other countries with folks there, and serious intel and diplomatic orgs, are staffed with very capable people who were tasked with watching for signs/confirmations regarding how bad Biden really is “out in the wild”, and trying to figure out who is really in charge. It is possible that there has (literally) never been a worse/weaker datapoint in US diplomatic history than this summit.
Everything you said is valid. And not said hatefully at all, yet no “pundits” in the US news would dare publish such questions.
He’d be much better off doing a Silent Cal impression, but you’re right; he’s off his nut and trying to prove he’s ok, hence the irritability.
How far the US is fallen.
In terms of our “leaders, “I don’t know that we have fallen. They are the same base power-hungry megalomaniacs they have always been. It is just that sometime in the last century (FDR, JFK, maybe?) we forgot that politicians were something to be derided and at best tolerated. Add in the fact that with social media and everyone carrying around a camera, it is far more difficult for them to hide their scumminess and you have the current political environment.
Well no argument there, but I’m not talking scumminess. I mean basic diplomatic capability. There is none, and there are also no adults in the room.
Even DJT’s basic wheeler-dealering was much better – say nice helpful things to Kim or someone when you’re there with them, be their best buddy in the summit, and then get hard when you’re back home. It’s a position of strength, and petulant childishness in the group setting isn’t.
The biggest commonality among progressives seems to be an inability to get along with people who are not just like them.
They seem to have forgot that part of politics is that you have to at least try to convince people that may disagree with you that your ideas are worthwhile and decide what positions you are willing to compromise on in order to get the things that you prioritize accomplished.
The current crop seems to be under the impression that they don’t have to do any of that and they can just pronounce themselves good and righteous and they should get everything they want.
If you have a near monopoly on force through control of the government, I guess you can just pronounce yourself good and righteous and get what you want.
In regards to VS going woke Q made a comment last nite that I just saw:
“ I’m going to start a fitness company and instead of using really in shape people for the promotional materials, I’m going to exclusively use morbidly obese people sitting on the couch eating chips.
For diversity.”
Funny enough I saw almost exactly that (without the chips) this past week. I buy Merrell hiking shoes for my everyday wear because they rock and got a targeted video ad that featured a morbidly obese black woman prancing around in her hiking shoes. I’m not exaggerating, she was pushing three bills, she was so portly that Tres might have second thoughts about being able to handle that much chub. Selling outdoors equipment.
On a related note, guess who is anorexic?
Words mean whatever I say they mean. It’s like the town drunk talking about his teatotalling problem he has for eight hours each night when he can’t drink a drop of booze.
LOOK AT MEEEEE!!!!
So the contractors are here to expand the driveway. Pretty soon I’ll be able to put six, maybe even seven, cars in it.
I’m so happy right now.
I don’t trust happy people. It is unnatural.
A Group of Parents Sent Their Kids’ Masks to a Lab. What They Discovered Will Horrify You
I’m not horrified. I’m not even surprised.
It was addressed yesterday afternoon.
By the way, how is your ass/drugs ratio ?
C. Anacreon on June 16, 2021 at 4:46 pm
Staph aureus is all over your skin, so that’s no surprise. But some of those others are pretty scary. Remind me again why we’re forcing children, who have close to zero risk from covid and don’t spread it either, are being forced to wear masks everywhere, including outside at summer camps.
Not even slightly surprised either. When my six year old is forced to wear a mask within fifteen minutes the thing is soaked through as he chews the inside of them. What is utterly galling is that despite their being decades of research on the effectiveness of masks for being useless in preventing spread of respiratory diseases there is almost a total blackout of this by healthcare, research scientists, and media. There are many many people that know better that have chosen to remain silent about it.
Never before in history has this day been Thot Thursday and never will it be again.
https://archive.li/YVSJ0
No face diapers. Good.
Sorry to drag the car buying shit into 3 threads in a row, but Don made an interesting point overnight.
It struck me that approximately 95% of my inquiries ended in me not buying a car from them. Yet I was a legitimate buyer. I pulled the trigger last night.
They’re driving off legitimate buyers by being assholes. I could’ve spent 40 or 50 something thousand dollars at any of their dealerships yesterday (and told them as much), but instead they decided to play games. I don’t think it’s much of an ask to get an all-in price, but it’s like pulling teeth to get them to provide that info
They like the comfortable business model they had, and don’t want to adapt to changes.
Look for a push by dealers for more regs.
I pulled the trigger last night. – this kind of idiom involves gun violence and should be avoided
Here you use an online configuration, go to the dealer usually you get a small standard discount so you feel good and that is it. If you are good at negotiating you can get a bit further if the car you want is not to in demand. But in the US things are different I suppose.
Never pay asking price. Even at “one price” places.
They’ll always negotiate something. You just have to make them.
I suck at negotiating. I didn’t even like haggling in the Bazaar in Istanbul and there you probably annoy the seller if you don’t at least try.
I remind myself of the scene in Life of Brian
Annoy the seller? What about annoying the customer?
goddamnit I was sure I linked the scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwEIze5MA7A
Yep, I went to a place where they told me they wouldn’t negotiate on the price when I bought my car in 2016… The price was reasonable enough that I was not really going to haggle, but then they went and totally lowballed my trade in.. I took one look at the fact they were offering me less than 1/3 of the value I could get selling it online sight unseen, and then told them I would go without the trade in and sell the car on my own rather than letting them take me to the cleaners on that. Especially since I was already aware what they were going to sell the trade in for based on the prices for another car in their used car lot that matched my trade in. They were surprised I knew they were lowballing me that bad..
Eventually they gave me 150% of their original offer for the trade in… there is a huge market for used cars, and they are ripping people off doing trade ins if you just take their first offer. People need to inform themselves before they buy a car on more than just what the real cost of the vehicle is, and know they will get ripped off if they just accept the trade in value offered when doing that. You are almost guaranteed to do better selling on your own. Lazy people that don’t want to deal with that need to know to fight for the trade in value to get something close to what it actually is worth.
*Checks e-mails*
My last go around with car sales people in 2018:
The VW guy took $4,187 off sticker and threw in a free service.
The Audi guy swung for the fences and took $6,800 off sticker.
Dealer websites are horrible. The constant popup chat boxes drive me away. They just keep appearing no matter how many times you close them.
Whoever thought that shit up should be taken out and hung.
“Bart! They said you was hung !”
“And they were right.
In 2018, I was sitting outside on my patio contemplating the fact that it took $100 each week to fuel up my 2000 Ford Expedition.
“Gotta buy a new car. What makes sense for my commute in SoCal?”
My eyes then lit upon the solar panels on my roof.
I went to the computer, Tesla.com, configured the car, and pulled the trigger. I’d never even seen one up close.
If I’d had to slog through a dealer, no way would I have done it.
Off topic, your remark about solar panels reminded me of something I’d spotted on my walks.
Outwardly it was just a house with solar panels on the roof. But something just didn’t seem right. After a while I figured out what was wrong – the solar panels were on the slope of the roof facing North.
Lol. You can’t fix stupid.
BikiniTeam 100th Model of the Month Milestone [HD]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlzPS6q1cFE
They’re driving off legitimate buyers by being assholes. I could’ve spent 40 or 50 something thousand dollars at any of their dealerships yesterday (and told them as much), but instead they decided to play games. I don’t think it’s much of an ask to get an all-in price, but it’s like pulling teeth to get them to provide that info
My dad bought a couple of cars from Carmax. He was definitely a fan of the no-bullshit business model.
In business, the finance guys are often mocked as bean counters who’ll destroy a business to pull out the next extra penny. But, when I look, I think it’s the marketing people who’re more often the problem. A lot of finance guys can still explain to you the concept of a value proposition. I’m not so sure the marketing people can. Victoria’s Secret’s value proposition is relatively simple and straightforward – affordable, respectable lingerie that will make the woman look sexy. And that sexy part was always the key element of that value proposition.
But, going woke, deciding to reject the “male gaze”, essentially destroys the sexy part of that value proposition. “Body positivity”, the celebration of the obese, essentially tells their female customers that they have no reason to bother aspiring to having a look that will invite desire. But, if that’s the case, what the hell does Victoria’s Secret bring to the table of value? If women want schlubwear, they can order something off of Amazon or pick something up at Wally World for half the price and still get better quality. If sexy doesn’t matter, Victoria’s Secret has no reason for being.
And you can bet this initiative came out of the marketing department. They’re the ones sniffing around woke pop culture. Sure, this move will make the marketing people look all stunning and brave for their woke friends. At the cost of destroying any reason for most for most of their customer base to continue to shop there.
At least when the bean counters destroy a company, it’s to make a buck for the shareholders. The marketing people do it to enhance their personal social lives.
Yep
It’s pretty simple, really: are you serving your customers? It doesn’t matter if it’s beancounters or marketers, if you don’t deliver what the customers want you are fucked.
Exactly. And they aren’t even doing anything new at all. They are just pushing it to the point of ridiculousness. Remember about fifteen or twenty years back when Dove came out with their marketing campaign featuring “real women”. The thing was, those women were on the thicc side, but they were highly attractive. Doing something like that actually makes a great deal of sense marketing wise, but it doesn’t quite get you the woke social credit scores that is apparently their primary focus.
And going the Dove route probably would have been a savvy move. Bring in some attractive thicc models and revamp the product mix to add some lines more flattering for fuller figured women. You’ve just expanded your market easy peasy. But, switching to producing an essentially commodity product (functional women’s underwear) to satisfy the woke brigades is an idiot move.
Yup, mix it up a bit to expand market share, but never forget the primary want that you are fulfilling; in this case you are selling sexy. Sexy is most certainly hot toned 20 somethings, but that doesn’t mean in can’t be other things. Once you go down the “we can’t stand the male gaze” route you have totally lost the plot.
Just wait until they become Victor/Victoria’s Secret.
Fuck it. I need to see a doctor about this shit. Eight beers and my balance is like I had 24. Stairs are iffy and step-ladders are no beuno. My right leg seems to have a mind of his own between the gas and brake pedals. Wanted to switch docs but I’ll just go see the one that I’ve been assigned. He has my records maybe and we are already acquainted. Should be a month or two. I’m kinda skeert. Sorry for the bring-down. You guys have a grand day!
☹️ Please do see a doctor ASAP. Maybe head south, cross the border, and go to a Doc in the Box?
Sorry dude.
Maybe you should go to an ER and complain of dizziness?
If balance is off and you are lopsided, could be a brain bleed or mini stroke. Either way, don’t wait 2 months for heavens sake.
I think you’re in Canada. Go to the ER and say you have a sudden onset of dizziness and confusion. They’ll probably CT scan you right away to make sure you’re not in imminent danger.
(If you do choose to go south of the border, go to Minnesota. Minnesota has more MRI machines than all of Canada—true fact!!)
I hope you are ok though I don’t buy the 24 beers thing if they are not something like 2% alcohol.
I can only drink 12 beers at 5% in one day so I do not believe anyone can drink more than that
You don’t know me, Vlad.
Sorry Festus. Please see a doc.
Remind me again why we’re forcing children, who have close to zero risk from covid and don’t spread it either, are being forced to wear masks everywhere, including outside at summer camps.
We’re training them to OBEY without questioning.
Because mommy and daddy are shit-eating poltroons.
Nice!
Citing workforce shortages, the Republican governors say the expanded benefits are keeping the unemployed from accepting job offers.
Who could possibly have foreseen that centrally planning the economy with lockdowns, essential businesses, non-essential businesses, and increased unemployment benefits would have caused problems?
Texans can carry handguns without a license or training starting Sept. 1, after Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed the permitless carry bill into law.
House Bill 1927 eliminates the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun. The signing of the bill seals a win to conservative activists who have long sought the measure without success.
Good.
Later in the article:
Before approving the bill, the Senate tacked on several amendments to address concerns by law enforcement groups that opposed permitless carry, worried it would endanger officers and make it easier for criminals to get guns.
Fuck the Texas Senate.
Also, fuck the law enforcement groups.
If women want schlubwear, they can order something off of Amazon or pick something up at Wally World for half the price and still get better quality. If sexy doesn’t matter, Victoria’s Secret has no reason for being.
Exactly. What the hell is wrong with being a niche marketer?
When I was in business school (for all the good THAT did me) I always looked at the marketing majors as people too dumb to be education majors.
My only problem with VS is their poor quality (and stores don’t carry larger than D cup).
Who the fuck do they think their audience is? It ain’t lesbian feminists, and it ain’t fat chicks.
Their wokeness will be their death knell. It’s like McDonalds switching to an all-salad menu.
I buy DDD bras from VS all the time. It’s my go to as other stores just try to convince me I am actually a D or a C just in a lot larger band. Assholes.
::ponders C cups in dresser drawer, kicks pebbles:: ?
Are you trolling the Q-meister?
He’s stroking out as we type.
Are we not doing “phrasing” anymore?
Note to self: Jugsy gets home tomorrow.
What the hell is wrong with being a niche marketer?
But, they’re hardly even niche. At $7.5bn in sales (2019), they pretty much own the category. Going woke leaves them in the position of trying to compete with, effectively, a commodity product. Pretty much anyone can pump out granny panties. And most of them can do that without the very high overhead that Victoria’s Secret has.
I’m guessing the products don’t change. They already have more ‘modest’ underwear types along with the skimpy stuff.
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Fair enough. But, what portion of their profits come from the modest underwear? Maybe I’m missing something, but, like I said, women can get that pretty much anywhere. If VS puts their eggs in that basket, I don’t see what they’re selling beats Wal-Mart or Amazon. It’s effectively the same thing. The only difference is price. And that’s a big difference in Wal-Mart or Amazon’s favor. Even if they’re “affordable”, they’re still commanding a significant premium. And that premium is due to the product differentiation that Victoria’s Secret’s lingerie is sexy. I don’t see how they continue to justify the premium.
My wife worked for VS until a few years ago. Their historical bread and butter, the sexy stuff, had been trending down for a while. The line that was growing by leaps and bounds was Pink, which is a sporty, youthful brand. As I said, she left a few years ago, but it seems that the trend has continued.
More Too Local News Lazy Edition: NH House Freedom Caucus says budget is DOA
You can’t say you weren’t warned.
That was the message from members of the New Hampshire House Freedom Caucus who tell NHJournal they are prepared to vote against the state budget proposal being pushed by their fellow Republicans. And despite reports that the sticking point is the Sununu-backed family medical leave proposal, the HFC says it’s all about limiting the governor’s unilateral emergency order powers.
“I worked very hard to make sure everybody knew this was our line in the sand,” Rep. Andrew Prout (R-Hudson) told NHJournal Wednesday. “We didn’t want anyone to be surprised.”
The budget process, which appeared to have handled high-profile issues like the 24-week abortion ban and the “divisive language” issue, has slowed dramatically in the past few days. A scheduled joint appearance by Speaker Sherman Packard (R-Londonderry) and Senate President Chuck Morse (R-Salem) was suddenly called off without explanation.
“Things are very volatile right now,” a source close to the negotiations told NHJournal. And with the NHGOP’s majority down to a 212 – 186 margin, a dozen GOP votes could kill the budget.
Late Wednesday night, House Majority Leader Jason Osborne (R-Auburn) told NHJournal he believes a deal is possible. “As of this moment, we still have more than fifteen hours before the reporting deadline. It is way too early for anyone to be making statements about this budget. As always, I remain confident that we will deliver a product for Granite Staters to be proud of.”
When they fired the head of the Chicago TSA a few years back because of the huge lines at Midway (that got on TV because they were so bad), the new guy did get things moving again.
I’m sure it was mostly because he liked being the new guy in charge and didn’t want to get the boot. Also because he started pulling regular dupes out of the line and shunting them into the PreCheck line. Which completely sucked for us seasoned travelers. The rubes didn’t know the first thing about the PreCheck line and would be trying to take their shoes and belts off, slowing up the line. Regulars got pretty harsh yelling at them (not the rubes fault, but the beauty of the PreCheck line is getting through quickly).
Maybe the new Chicago Postmaster will squeeze the mailmen because he wants to keep being King Rat.
Democrats pounce
Republicans often blast Democrats for wanting to defund the police. But Democrats have a new rebuttal: The GOP won’t defend the police.
In the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol attack, the GOP’s love for law enforcement — a longtime hallmark of the party — is being called into question as some members on the right continue to whitewash the insurrection and even foist blame on the police officers who protected lawmakers that day.
Democrats are ramping up attacks on Republicans who refused to investigate the riots or formally honor the cops who responded, some of whom were tasered, maced and beaten with flag poles by supporters of former President Donald Trump. Members of President Joe Biden’s party are not only painting their colleagues across the aisle as disrespectful of law enforcement, but also arguing that the GOP’s unflinching loyalty to Trump has compromised its core values.
That dynamic was on full display in the Capitol Wednesday as D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a concussion and heart attack while fending off the Jan. 6 mob, visited the Hill seeking meetings with the 21 House Republicans who voted against a bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to police officers for their service during the attack. Fanone says freshman Rep. Andrew Clyde — the Georgia Republican who recently downplayed the insurrection by comparing it to a ”normal tourist visit” — refused to shake his hand after the officer introduced himself in an elevator.
Tut tut, Republicans. Tut tut!
Did that really happen? I admit I don’t read much national news in depth any more, but… really?
It was a complete clown show all-around, something like that could’ve happened. The bit about the Capital Cop dying is an out and out lie. He died of a stroke or cardiac condition some days later.
I guess it “could’ve happened”, but so far there has been no evidence of it.
No, it did not happen. Everything that happened that day is on video. Everything.
If it happened let’s see the video.
Conveniently the video is being withheld and probably under the shroud of ‘national security.
Making it clear that defending the police means defending the trampling of civil rights.
Yes, I wish the GOP, writ large, could separate valuing the rule of law from the agents that are appointed to maintain it.
refused to shake his hand after the officer introduced himself in an elevator
“He was merely practicing social distancing and following the guidance of the CDC.”
/media narrative if there was a D behind his name
Am I the only one who finds it unnerving that an armed police officer would confront and attempt to intimidate his elected overseers (whether he’s a Capitol officer or a DC cop, both ultimately answer to and are funded by Congress) for their votes? This is Latin America level crap. Both Fanone and Call Me Colonel should be fired on the spot for their misjudgement.
“D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a concussion and heart attack while fending off the Jan. 6 mob”
Never happened.
One of the main reasons I could never be a Republican.
But what about the Female Gaze? That’s like totally cool and liberating, right?
U still contend that nearly all advertisers target women and same goes with VS. Those ads are not for the guy sitting at home. They are for the women.
It isnt about male gaze. They want to tap into the transgender market and to do so you have to go to the Alter of Woke.
Besides, my wife says their product has been shit for a number of years and like Hayek said above, cant deliver bra sizes she needs anyway.
U = I, me, myself
U make an interesting trio
We keep ourself amused sometimes.
It’s no surprise to me, I am my own best enemy…
It isnt about male gaze.
I would guess yes and no. The women buying their products are doing so because they want to invite the male gaze. Like KSuellington said, they’re selling sexy. So, in that sense, their business is to persuade women that if they buy their product, they’ll be sexy. And there’s nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
My guess is that the transgender market is infinitesimally small. And I’d be surprised if a significant part of that market also wasn’t looking for the male gaze.
Given that the number of dysmorphics is infinitesimally small, so is the market. It’s one or two* orders of magnitude smaller than the number of gay people, and that’s only about 3%.
*I forget if it was 0.3% or 0.03%
Women who dress for someone else don’t dress for men. They dress for other women.
I was waiting for a mythical Glib to say that. I’ve been told that many times. And also that they just want to feel pretty; male gaze unnecessary.
In my case, yes, that too. I saw a thing that’s true for me: “When women say they don’t have anything to wear, they’re really saying they don’t have anything for who they want to be that day.”
For instance, when I was DIYing, I felt cute in jeans, boots, gloves, and a red pinup bandana. The bandana put an extra little spring in my step.
+ 1 Rosie the Riveter
Sure, but the reason they want to feel pretty is because they are embedded in a male dominated cis-white-hetero culture that imposes that through language and dominance of the cultural narratives. It is not possible to step outside of the western dominated male cultural and experience freedom as a non-white-non-male-non-cisgendered-non-hetero-non-capitalist. The oppression is built in and that’s why they pursue ‘feeling pretty’. The only way to liberate them is to completely destroy that culture.
Insert sarc tag if necessary. Though I don’t think it’s necessarily sarcasm if that’s what they actually believe, no matter what its absurdity.
Van knew that. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VX2_HahKoe4
“tap into the transgender market”
Does no one at the company do cost/benefit ratios? Risking the greater market for an insanely smaller slice is business insanity.
At this point, it’s like tapping into the goth market. There are companies that made their bread and butter with goths, and I see being trans at this point is a fashion statement.
But in this case we have a large company trying to court a smaller market than it had.
I would agree with this. As UCS said above, there are like 0.3 or 0.03% of the population who are actually dysmorphic. But one of my daughters and all her friends in high school called themselves “transgender”. For a lot of people, it is a fashion statement.
Maybe small market, but look at the press they are getting, even if it isn’t to make inroads. VS has been downsizing its brick and mortar shops around here.
“Transgender ally market” aka progs.
They did. When an “influencer” that has 100,000 followers can bully you online, and then in turn a fearful media runs the narrative and then politicians get in the game…they ran the cost/benefit
And it’s not just Democrats who have called out Republicans for how they’ve treated the police since Jan. 6.
“On January 6, as the violent mob advanced on the House chamber, I was standing near @RepGosar and helped him open his gas mask. The Capitol Police led us to safety,” tweeted Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. “It is disgusting and despicable to see Gosar lie about that day and smear the men and women who defended us.”
Two of Gosar’s brothers appeared on CNN Thursday morning to disavow the Republican lawmaker’s dismissive response to the insurrection and his vote against the proposal to honor law enforcement.
“First off, I’d like to thank Officer Fanone for his and the other Capitol Hill police officers for their bravery and heroism on that day,” David Gosar said. “And on behalf of the actual sane members of our family, which is everyone but Paul, we apologize on behalf of our family to him for his despicable comments and disgraceful conduct through this whole incident.”
Yeah, okay. whatever.
I am guessing focus groups are showing that everyday Americans don’t hold the view it was an: attack, insurrection, etc. So they need to double down and hammer that propaganda out to make sure they don’t lose those that already see it as such. How to do that? Equate it to some of the most deadly military plans: Iwo Jima, Normandy, the civil war battles, etc.
It isn’t about convincing those everyday Americans, its to make sure they keep the rabid, rabid.
“Two of Gosar’s brothers appeared on CNN Thursday morning”
Who? Were they there?
At least with fairy tales there is some kernel of historical truth to be found somewhere as the basis for them. This nonsense is being invented out of thin air with no relationship to reality at all. Is this ‘the big lie’ that they are going to base their revolution on?
Smaller lies have been used before.
I know. It is just amazing to me that so many people think that if someone on their team is shoveling it they are obligated to gobble it up. I am guessing…the public school system.
Bias reinforcement is a powerful drug. I feel the siren song myself from time to time.
The silence over the deaths of Ashlee Babbit and Justine Damond continue to show how phony the “outrage” against “police brutality and misconduct” is. Same with the chick who got PITed, other than the immediate sensationalism.
This
Initially, I was in the “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” crowd, but as time has passed I see it more and more for what it is, the government thumbing its nose at the plebes.
Police brutality against wypipo don’t count.
https://2awarehouse.com/brands/igman
These folks seem to have decent prices on 9mm and .223Rem. For these days, anyway…
I haven’t shopped in a long time. I see poor selection and ridiculous prices. I cant buy a lawnmower because there are none. Factories are all shut down. Car prices, lumber prices, fuel prices are through the roof. I see bread lines in our future.
A year after OBM was in office we had the lowest unemployment in history, prices were falling and companies were coming back home. Here we are less than a year after the commie shitweasels have their hands on power and everything is taking a 180. I spent decades hearing people say “That cant happen here”. They severely underestimated the destructive power of useful idiots. Guess what…it’s happening.
Recently someone here said…paraphrased….”I used to try and check my cynicism because I thought the people saying I was too cynical might be right. Then it would turn out I was right. Now I think I am not cynical enough.”
I just crank mine up to 11 and I am rarely, if ever, wrong.
This time it seems like there’s no real reason or even good intentions to it. They are just looting. At least when Obama took office we could give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they wanted to improve things for people. Now, no way. I never got my pony.
I want a pony
Browning was an alcoholic and mostly deaf. He lived with his Mother most of his life. He was nicknamed The Gladiator because of his battles with fly balls.
But he could rake.
Now wait just a cotton-pickin’ minute…
Oh, wait, you mean that Browning.
Not the Browning that matters.
Carry on.
Yeah, that gave me pause for a few seconds.
I could believe the ‘mostly deaf’ part…
Speaking of which, I should go by his grave since I am in town.
Am I the only one who finds it unnerving that an armed police officer would confront and attempt to intimidate his elected overseers (whether he’s a Capitol officer or a DC cop, both ultimately answer to and are funded by Congress) for their votes? This is Latin America level crap. Both Fanone and Call Me Colonel should be fired on the spot for their misjudgement.
Why the fuck do those morons think they get a fat paycheck from the government every week or two? Because they make the place look spiffy?
A hero is some guy who jumps in a river to save a drowning person to whom he is not related and owes nothing. You’re just the hired help, Officer Donutface. STFU and do your goddam job.
DeWine calls a lid. https://www.whio.com/news/local/fourth-winners-ohios-vax-a-million-drawing-be-announced-today/7TVX423UUFAVFBOU7O37AZP7DM/
Back to Victoria’s Secret and gender stereotyping-
I used to know a girl who wore boy’s Jockey Shorts underwear all the time. She said they were more comfortable than any women’s panties she had ever found.
The entirety of women’s wardrobes and cosmetic habits look like a gigantic pain in the ass. I never blame women who walk out in T-shirts and sweatpants with their hair in a quick bun.