Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely morning it always is!
National debt tops $30 trillion
Lockdowns during the first COVID wave only reduced COVID-19 mortality by .2% in the U.S. and Europe
Facebook loses users for the first time EVER: Shares plummet 20%
Jeff Zucker resigns as CNN president after undisclosed relationship with senior executive
John Durham going deep into Russiagate
Kevin McCarthy Plots An Investigation Avalanche If GOP Retakes House
Biden in ‘worst president ever’ territory
Navy allegedly defying court order, punishing SEALs seeking religious exemptions to vax mandate
That’s all I got time for for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Private payrolls fell by 301,000 for January versus the estimate for a 200,000 gain, according to ADP”
Did they claim this was somehow Trumps fault yet? I know they tried to blame it on climate change in some article in that rag The Atlantic…
I like how the article talks about it being Omicron related — but no mention of the various corporate mandates and the federal healthcare mandate. Gee — can’t imagine *that* might have anything to do with things….
The virus didn’t do any of this shit other than kill the people most at risk. This is always and foremost a tragedy. But reality is that’s life, and eventually once the people with an agenda can’t hide it from us anymore, we will find out that with a few exceptions most of those that succumbed to the Kung Flu were people that were already on the fast track to the afterlife for some medical/age related reason or another.
The economic devastation we are experiencing was created, on purpose, by evil fucking idiots that tried to use the Kung Flu crisis to their advantage. It is not accidental that the connected class – top bureaucracy, political, and big Wall Street entities – has raked in what we will discover is not just in the hundreds of billions, but likely in the trillions, of cash (go look up how high the wealth of the usual Silicon Valley scumbag in the pocket of and working with the D.C communists has grown to) at a time where small businesses and people in the trades and jobs where you actually have to produce value have been devastated.
A year ago I would have struggled to say this was evil or intentional but I think you’re starting to convince me. We have had so much opportunity to stop killing ourselves but the move has been to double down on every destructive policy. It’s been a real doomer of a morning so far. I guess I need to look away.
It is instructive that Europe is tentatively pulling back from the most destructive policies while Blue America is doubling down on them.
It isn’t helpful that even as some places pull away from the most destructive policies they reserve the right to reinstate them at any moment.
Not everywhere in Europe. Austria is set to pass the general vaccine mandate today.
AYFKM? That’s like several lines past the red line.
It’s always weird to me that countries like Austria are comparable to states like New Jersey in terms of population.
You know what other Austrian went several lines past the red?
And politics, apparently.
AYFKM? That’s like several lines past the red line.
Yep.
Though unlike the USA, recovery from Covid counts. But only for six months after recovery.. My friend in Austria is exempt until May.
You know what other Austrian went several lines past the red?
Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf?
Hedy Lamarr?
Hedley! It’s Hedley!
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Red Heat?
Well I remember the videos of Chinese citizens collapsing in the streets.
Want more evil? I feel it was deliberately released. Way to many people have made power and money off of this.
“A year ago I would have struggled to say this was evil or intentional but I think you’re starting to convince me”
You can logically make the case that ineptitude was enough to explain the problems a year ago, but after watching these cuntes dictate the exact same solution that didn’t make a bit of difference the last few times it was used, again and again, while exaggerating the panic porn, eventually will make it impossible to keep thinking there isn’t an agenda, and thus, that the acts are malicious.
Malevolence almost always follows incompetence.
Accountability is poison to bureaucrats and politicians.
Just like the proggies use dystopian novels as how-to guides, they take sage criticisms as advice…
“How easy it is to see your brother’s faults,
How hard to face your own.
You winnow his in the wind like chaff,
But yours you hide,
Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw.”
–Buddha
It’s interesting that I thought that could have been a stoic or Jesus quote before I got to the end.
There’s more:
And the last stanza especially:
“We know the game and we’re gonna play it
And if you ask me how I’m feeling
Don’t tell me you’re too blind to see”
but likely in the trillions, of cash
I work in the cloud/networking space. Business has been uncharacteristically good in an uncharacteristically consistent way. We, alone, have made billions off the lockdowns.
It’s not quite pilfering. It’s the government stacking the deck in a way that has enabled a lot of cash flow from small and midsized businesses in flyover country to tech companies in California.
???
It would be one thing if it were an organic shift, but this has been imposed from above. The misallocation of capital continues apace.
This is the left’s new government model of fascism 3.x: Government picks the winners & losers, and the winners will always be the ones that help government wrap the noose tighter around the neck of the serf class, until they no longer are useful. Keep an eye on Musk, whom now that he has become rebellious, will find himself on the “he needs to lose” list..
So, it might not be a coincidence that EV subsidies are for union shops now?
Not a coincidence at all.
Musk may have taken advantage of government largesse, but he pales in comparison to the teat-sucking that the Big 3 are capable of. They’ve got it in for him and are certainly using their lobbying to achieve their goals.
and the winners will always be the ones that help government wrap the noose tighter around the neck of the serf class,
The government has an insatiable thirst for data. The winners for the next few years are going to be the companies that enable collection, analysis and intelligence around enormous datasets. Whether it’s the NSA or the IRS or the dept of Commerce or any other agency, they’re looking to automate a bunch of the crap that disinterested bureaucrats used to half-ass. Oh, and they won’t ever have any indication of your politics or worldview, nosiree.
Re to Scruffy: yep, the big 3 used to fight the gov’t regulations at every turn, then they realized how well a cozy relationship can work out and now they skip together to fuck over their customer base.
This is the biggest miss since the last biggest miss.
Morning, Banjos.
Mornin’
“National debt tops $30 trillion”
No biggy. The government types told us they still had checks in their checkbooks…
You forgot about the supply chain issues Alex.
The ink and paper that Treasury needs to print the Benjamins is all stuck on a cargo ship from China outside of Long Beach.
They will substitute crayons and toilet paper, which would make the new notes aptly envision what they are doing to us.
Oh, you guys.
“Deficits don’t matter”
/Cheney
I don’t need money, I have a credit card
It’s remarkable how in the era of out-of-control Democrats, the Cheneys still manage to be the most loathsome people in America.
I’m in Jacksonville for work. There are at least two areas off one of the bridges to unload cargo ships. Both were empty when I got here and on my way to the airport today. No ships loading, no ships unloading.
The supply chain is just people moving stuff from one location to another. The idea that it is some piece of bugged software or something seems damaging to any effort to fix it.
“Lockdowns during the first COVID wave only reduced COVID-19 mortality by .2% in the U.S. and Europe”
But they sure as hell helped the elite’s agenda of a global reset move by decades, which come to think of it, was actually the real reason for practically all the decision making after the first scare of how deadly this thing was passed and the top men decided there was a crisis to take advantage off.
It’s been a political scam from the beginning, not that covid didn’t exist but that it was serious. Looking a the mortality rates I was convinced that even the geezer crowd had little to worry about that the calendar hadn’t already included. I’m still pissed that I didn’t have a chance to say good bye to some long time friends. I felt doubly bad for those seeing Grandma through a window or not at all.
Fauci et al will never be forgiven.
I fervently believe the tide is turning, Dad (prayerfully fondles anal beads).
If it saves just
.2%one life…Exactly what my best childhood friend said, he was a retired math professor. Skipped HH 2020 because I had said we wouldn’t be wearing masks.
Oh yeah, “300,000 is a big number”
“Jeff Zucker resigns as CNN president after undisclosed relationship with senior executive”
I am gonna go out on a limb here and claim that off all the evil shit we have recently found out was going on with the CNN propagandists, we have only skimmed the surface of the depravity going on. These people that want to tell you what to believe – and that is always something that benefits the most disgusting agendas and power hungry fucks in our system – seem to not coincidentally be some of the most scummy examples of humanity for a reason…
He didn’t resign over that. Give me a break.
My guess is that Fredo has some real dirt and is pissed off.
I won’t be surprised to find out Fredo himself has some skeletons in the closet.. Like he likes to dress up like the Queen of England to feel important…
It could just be as simple as he resigned due to CNN being a sinking ship.
It’s been said that typically the people on moral crusades are immoral people trying to redirect attention away from their failings.
My rule of thumb is that whatever evil a politician is ranting about, is the exact evil that politician is guilty of.
Anyone going on about gays is spending a lot of money on rent boys.
Anyone going on about corrupt Big Business, is secretly taking money from all of them.
Anyone ranting about gun control has a basement armory that would make a Glib proud.
Funding terror
GoFundMe has paused donations to truck drivers protesting against vaccine mandates in Canada.
Donations to the page “Freedom Convoy 2022” had reached C$10m ($7.9m; £5.8m), by Wednesday afternoon with about C$1m released so far to organisers.
A number of officials have suggested legal action against the platform to prevent the release of more funds.
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“This fundraiser is currently paused and under review to ensure it complies with our terms of service and applicable laws and regulations,” said a notice that appeared on the Freedom Convoy donations page on Wednesday.
“Our team is working 24/7 and doing all we can to protect both organizers and donors. Thank you for your patience.”
The Canadian government should confiscate that money.
Damn. C$10m could sure buy a lot of swastika flags.
Made in China,
“Your flag will arrive in 45-60 days, due to shipping problems. Please be patient”
There is an illegal alien in DC who will draw them for you at a discount.
I think we’re now firmly into the phase where all the vax pushers are getting scared that their asses are on the line and are doubling and tripling down in the hopes that they will destroy anyone who could hold them responsible.
The facade seems to be crumbling. Saskatchewan and Alberta are dropping mandates, Finland, Denmark and Britain have had enough. This is the crack in the dam that we’ve been waiting for. FWEEDOM!
Some government types are recognizing they have pushed their people to the limit, and if they keep pushing so they can keep doing the globalist bidding, there will be retribution when the truth comes out. These are the places where the government types have decided to end the charade. Unfortunately some government types have decided to double down, because they really, really want to fucking fast track the globalist agenda, and having to go back to slow roasting the dumb fucking serf class, irks them when they can so clearly see their new utopia (which is going to be worse than most dystopian societies we have read about).
Most folk didn’t understand the idea of negative vs. positive Rights. Many people are waking up.
there will be retribution when the truth comes out
remains to be seen. I don’t know what meaningful retribution will look like. I have never seen it.
Pie has…
Three times in his 19-page submission Mr. Durham tells the judge that his team is conducting an “active, ongoing criminal investigation” not limited to the defendant, former Hillary Clinton campaign legal adviser Michael A. Sussmann.
This is not good news for President Biden and his designee at Justice, Merrick Garland. They want a quick end to the narrative of Democratic Party dirty tricks and political pollution.
I’ll be over here holding my breath.
I’m convinced this is just a blackmail op – gathering info for leverage against various factions of the ruling class. There damn sure won’t be any criminal indictments of anybody who matters. They could have done that years ago, if they wanted to. They plainly don’t want to, so its not going to happen.
See, also, the contents of Epstein’s safe.
That’s where he kept his supply of Jolly Ranchers.
???
“What would the mafia do?” usually explains the situation well enough.
There damn sure won’t be any criminal indictments of anybody who matters.
No reasonable prosecutor …
Durham will be done about two weeks after the statute of limitations for any offense
Note the wording. They want to end the narrative not the pollution or dirty tricks.
My, that was a jaunty tune! Mornin’ Banjos.
Mornin’
Followup from yesterday morning. Larimer Co mask mandate ends Feb 12 and isnt going to be extended.
Good.
All these illegal orders should be trashed.
Is it true that Washington football fans will be encouraged to attend games sans underwear in support of the team?
They should go full “Donald Duck” if they really want to make a statement.
Commandos would have been a better choice, officers don’t get dirty, the EM do the dirty work
Full Donald Duck?
So get three “nephews” to run around your house with no pants on? Sounds like something the DC denizens would like.
Lol!
The commies memes are delicious.
commies is the short form for commanders
Durham is Lucy holding the football. He keeps pretending that he will put wrong doers in jail, but he won’t.
He’s figured out what a cushy gig he has. The GOP will keep insisting that he get a huge budget to get the bad guys because they think he will indict a bunch of people some day. The Dems don’t push back because they know he is a creature of the swamp and won’t actually ever indict anyone important.
So Durham gets to keep on rolling along.
The machine has no intention of punishing its own. I would not be surprised to find out plenty of republicans knew exactly how bad the Obama admin’s weaponized bureaucratic machine had become, and how much worse the plan once Hillary took over intended to make it, but liked the fact that bigger government was happening.
They dreamt of winning an election and getting a chance to use all those levers and buttons of the bureaucracy themselves.
“Manhattan public school principal CANCELS performance of Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice over anti-Semitic portrayal of money lender Shylock: Angry parents say she has missed a ‘teachable moment'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10470763/Manhattan-middle-school-CANCELS-Shakespeares-Merchant-Venice-play-amid-anti-Semitism-concerns.html
OFFS!!
What’s the big deal? It’s not racist.
/Whoopi
I guess Shylock doesn’t bleed now.
I was lucky to get that “teachable moment” 70 years ago. It was my first exposure to prejudice but I really didn’t understand it. I was (am) really a bumpkin.
It was really accentuated when I was a teen but we had a really good teacher that also taught our AP history class. She taught us about the details as she understood them from that time. She read some of the unexpurgated Beowulf to the class one day.
but we had a really good teacher that also taught our AP history class.
I think I mentioned him before, but I a marine vet (I think Korea) for AP US history. Really cool guy who just wanted to teach and didn’t care about all of the administration bs. Some ghetto pos pushed a girl in class and then stood up to the teacher daring him to do something. This guy in his 60s beat the shit out of the kid in front of the class. Wannabe thug never lived it down.
History teacher was let go from the high school but started teaching history as an adjunct at my college where I grabbed his Europe course as a gen-ed. He remembered me and just waived me through assignments.
A few good men.
“Clapt the shutters too” will be tatooed on my brain forever. That meme where the one guy owns the other and the dude goes running past pulling his face down? Like that. I was so so stoned… It was breathtaking.
All of the guys in Lit12 (all four of us) burst out laughing and every girl in the class save one or two let out a concentrated “Ewwwww”.
This morning on the news they had a little segment about the long term adverse “heart health” consequences of the plague lockdowns. People stay inside. They sit too much. They don’t exercise. And on and on.
What they did not mention, however, were the intentional government efforts to ban any sort of physical fitness activities by shutting down gyms and recreational facilities.
“Not essential”
Should be on signs hung around the necks of all of the politicians/apparatchiks hanging from lampposts.
Oh, this is a great idea. When I set up my roadside rope vending business, we will definitely have these.
We were watching Schindler’s List recently, and in the movie they use the term “essential worker” when someone tries to stay off the trains. That was jarring.
“Tucker Carlson lashes Baltimore schools for defending poor student test scores and the mayor for calling him RACIST after host said democracy is failing in the crime-riddled Democrat-run city”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10470855/Test-scores-dont-define-students-Baltimore-schools-fire-Tucker-Carlson.html
RACIST!!!
Clearly the schools are underfunded.
They finally ran low on other peoples’ money?
This is Maryland, it’s an other-people’s-money perpetual motion machine.
“‘BLM’s house of cards is starting to fall’: Indiana AG says ‘scam’ organization that has $60m is causing him ‘concern’ but declines to say if he’s launched an investigation after California DoJ went after the leaders
Insiders also allege BLM’s charity registration is out of compliance in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10470425/Indiana-attorney-general-says-BLMs-house-cards-starting-fall-amid-financial-questions.html
Also the whole not doing anything to help black people thing.
The new AG in Virginia is aggressive. He’s not going to miss an opportunity to go after them.
^This.
Thanks CP for the reminder that they also did business in VA.
AG Miyares is Cuban-American. He’s pretty solid.
So you are saying that he is a white-supreme out to get black people. //jk
I bet it will hurt when GoFundMe now freezes any campaigns related to BLM.
I mean, they have to do that if they are also shutting down contributions to the truckers, right?
Oh, they’ve helped a few black people.
I went to grade school and high school with that AG. I’ve been following his career. He’s been Indiana Secretary of State and and a congressman. He’s into aggressively suing and investigating things, for example he filed 3 lawsuits against the vax mandate. I wouldn’t doubt he’s looked into BLM.
Facebook loses users for the first time EVER: Shares plummet 20%
A lot of terrible people and some decent ones just saw a large chunk of their net worth decline by 20%
An old friend of mine had hundreds of thousands of dollars in FB (he got equity as an employee) as of a few years ago. I told him to GTFO of FB and to diversify when he got divorced. Hopefully he listened. Granted, I don’t think taking a 20% haircut would impact him much.
Well ain’t life grand? One of my sites is scheduled for asbestos removal over the weekend. I’ve already let management know that if there is even a patina of residue on any surface that I am noping the fuck out. It’s not that I fear the asbestos, (I’m a child of the 60’s and we used to sprinkle that shit on our corn flakes, with lead paint chips at snack time) it’s the idea of cleaning up after messy contractors. FYTW doesn’t come into my purview that often so advantage Festus!
*feral grin*
Go Festus!
Work to rule, good sir. Work to rule.
Thanks Boys! Fuck them and the otter they rode in on.
“Fuck them and the otter they rode in on.”
Stolen.
No shit. I dunno about north of the border, but around here, you touch it, you own it. And you can’t just throw it in the trash.
On the other hand, when there some asbestos abatement done in our house (insurance had it done for a fire damage work) a couple of years ago, the contractor was top notch, knew what they were doing, minimized dust, and was spotless afterwards.
And what a lovely morning it always is!
Meh.
Next stop, Brown Shirt dictatorship
A retired police chief and self-described Reagan Republican with decades of public service, Leonard Moty checked all the boxes to represent his community in one of California’s most conservative counties.
But on Tuesday, voters ousted Moty, handing control of the Shasta county board of supervisors to a group aligned with local militia members. The election followed nearly two years of threats and increasing hostility toward the longtime supervisor and his moderate colleagues in response to pandemic health restrictions.
While it’s not yet clear who will replace Moty, the two candidates in the lead attended a celebration Tuesday with members of an area militia group, the Sacramento Bee reported.
The recall is a win for the ultraconservative movement in Shasta county, which has fought against moderate Republican officials and sought to gain a foothold in local government in this rural part of northern California.
It also highlights a phenomenon that extends far beyond the region, as experts warn the pandemic and eroding trust in US institutions has fueled extremism in local politics and hostility against officials that could reshape governments from school boards to county supervisors to Congress.
“I think it’s going to be a change in our politics. I think we’re going to shift more to the alt-right side of things,” Moty said on Wednesday. “I really thought my community would step up to the plate and they didn’t and that’s very discouraging.”
People are losing faith in government? Oh, horror.
What could have brought us to this sad state of affairs?
Will no one rid me of these meddlesome people?
How dare they presume to act as if they have the right to decide how they want to live?
Bwahahahaha
Sigh. That is my wife.
During a recent argument about the Rona she flat out said, “I trust the govt”. For a smart (marriage to me notwithstanding) woman, she has some real blind spots.
“Why do you trust them? Their decisions all involve more power, control and money to themselves and their friends. Also, have their efforts yielded any results?”
She just does! And don’t make her think those ungood thoughts.
I think a lot of it is growing up in Korea. They have a strong Confucian streak in them that believes that it is the proper way for everyone to accept their lot in life and listen to their superiors.
Japanese are the same way.
Even Okinawans, which given their history of being shit on from the mainland, you would think they would be more skeptical.
My wife has been in the US since 1999 and has turned mostly libertarian, but her family does not understand why anyone would disagree with the government.
They didn’t need mask and vaccine mandates, the government just made it known and people followed.
That’s how my daughter described it to me, she is anti COVID regime, but that confuses her Okinawan husband.
My bernista in-laws who live in Tokyo touted this willing, voluntary, unthinking deference to authority as one of the biggest reasons they love the place. I find the idea distasteful, at best.
Tell her the government has lost the Mandate of Heaven then.
It’s odd for a Korean to be so trustful of government, when half the peninsula is ruled by a mad tyrant and the other half has seen the collapse of a military dictatorship and a major (and bizarre) corruption scandal in the span of many people’s lifetimes.
That military dictatorship did drag them out of poverty and start them on the path to their economic boom.
Yeah, I wasn’t saying it was bad per se, only noting that the system of government changed dramatically.
Why do people believe in God – same reason. There must be a benevolent power looking out for me. The world is too scary for them otherwise.
And just like that, juris dropped a turd in the punchbowl.
WHYYYYYYY GOD!!!!!
“All progressives have done is transfer the belief in God to govt.”
Change my mind.
You can broaden it out to morality writ large. From an atheistic/agnostic viewpoint, “right” and “wrong” are mere social constructs used to suppress human impulses and actions that a majority feel are icky or scary. Morality is just gussied up emotivism, a hollow attempt at propping up aesthetic preferences for how others should behave on some nonexistent pedestal so that the strongest and the most cunning don’t get to hoard all the resources, women, etc.
One of the fundamental conflicts in human existence is between barbaric strength and civilized weakness. Morality is found in the struggle to keep the balance between the two. As Hannah Arendt said, “Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them ‘children’.” Morality is there to tame their barbarity long enough for them to not risk destroying everything before they’re old enough to understand what they’re tearing down.
Of course, morality itself has been skinsuited, so that’s more of an ideal purpose.
I don’t think you can separate aestheticism from morality. The exact choices of particular aesthetic ideals may be somewhat arbitrary but the notions of beauty and goodness are too closely intertwined (and thus probably reflect only different aspects of the same underlying facet of existence).
One of the fundamental conflicts in human existence is between barbaric strength and civilized weakness. Morality is found in the struggle to keep the balance between the two.
*nods in agreement*
At risk of plunging into the abyss, ill point out that “barbaric” and “civilized” are value bearing in common parlance, but carry no such value baggage in the “big picture”. A mechanistic, ex nihilo universe cannot express preference of civilization over barbarism over total extinction. Tomorrow may bring human flourishing based on a human definition of flourishing. Tomorrow may bring a planet shattering comet. Neither result is ultimately consequential, because the concept of ultimate consequence implies a non-existent observer.
It’s not the same reason, it’s a degenerate expression of the same instinct. God is supernatural and thus at least able to be truly benevolent. The government is not. It is plainly observable and entirely confined to the mortal world. Believing God is benevolent takes faith; believing government is benevolent takes delusion.
That’s a better statement of it.
The Aztec’s human sacrifices or the worshipers of Moloch would have a word with you.
“Why do people believe in God – same reason. There must be a benevolent power looking out for me. The world is too scary for them otherwise.”
That is not my reason for believing in God.
Your statement is overbroad and simplistic.
You said it better than I was going to.
I don’t expect benevolence (or anything, really) from God.
Not trusting them requires a lot more effort and complicates your life.
“Just do what the experts in government say. You don’t even have to think about it, dude.”
how to solve our trust crisis
1) stop lying
2) stop being manipulative
3) stop forcing your worldview on us by any means available
4) stop encroaching on every aspect of our lives
I’ll trust you when you’re honest, straightforward, restrained, and small enough to fit in a cigar box.
The only way to achieve items 1 through 4 is when those in authority are treated with the suspicion that they deserve.
There should be a lack of trust at all times.
Not because we have more old and fat people who would have already been dead from something else in other places, but because we don’t trust our government enough.
Get the fuck out of here with that claptrap.
And don’t forget the governments we’re supposed to “trust” were actively putting contagious patients into nursing homes and all.
Everyone knows that America was founded on blind deference and subordination to government authority.
Your community did step up to the plate, cunty.
Wanting any rights at all(outside of the right to free shit), now ‘ultra conservative.’
Uffda. The books on Minneapolis’ new light rail construction project must be really bad. At least that is the takeaway I have after reading Walz give that project a bigtime Olé.
Comparing anything to the MNLARS project is a kiss of death. (MNLARS is a project where they spent over $100M to build a system that didn’t work. Only to replace it with off the shelf software for less than half of that). King Walz saying that this project was before his time is funny. I’m sure it wouldn’t be hard for an intrepid reporter to find numerous quotes from Walz back in the day bragging about how he helped secure the Fed funds to make this project happen.
The GOP people are talking crazy. Pretending that they can stop (or even pause) the project. Everyone knows that there ain’t no stopping that train.
It’s a money train, even if it provides zero passenger-miles of service.
David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director, had this to say about Miami’s Metrorail in 1985 –
“We built a new mass transit system in Miami, and from all the reports I’ve received, it’s a lemon,” he said. “The calculation that we have made is that the ridership compared to what was originally proposed is so low it would be cheaper for the federal government to buy everybody who uses it a new car every five years for the next 50 years. So I think we should learn from our mistakes and shut if off right now. And that’s what we’re going to do with this plan.”
While Saint Ronnie himself said this about Amtrak service to Florida – “The figures have indicated that the government could buy every one of the passengers on that train a round-trip airline ticket and give them $100 of spending money and be money ahead, instead of taking them down the Amtrak.”
Here we are, 37 years later, and (largely due to the tireless efforts of Rep. Bill Lehman, D-North Miami, then chair of the House transportation subcommittee) Miami still has a money hemorrhaging Metrorail and Amtrak still runs to Florida at a loss.
David Stockman, Reagan’s budget director
is this the intellectually honest Stockman or the water-toting-i’ll-tell-the-truth-later Stockman
I’m a small government libertarian, but Stockman is a convicted hypocrite even if he’s right about something today
Ah, ad hominem defined? Tho’ you do say he might be right about something someday… Hmmm.
I would disagree that calling Stockman a weathervane is ad hom per se, it could equally be a just characterization of the man.
Oh, is this the same Walz (Retired NG Sgt Maj) that wouldn’t accompany his troops to the ME War? Not the carpet bagger from Nebraska?
Say it isn’t true, Joe.
I’m still on the fence regarding that incident.
Yes, he may be a craven asshole who abandoned the men under him when shit got real.
He might also be such an imbecile that his command preferred that he retired rather than accompany them to the ME where he might get people killed with his stupidity.
His performance as governor has not resolved my thoughts on this. He has been equally craven and imbecilic as our governor.
I also have it on good authority that King Walz was fired from is teaching job back in Illinois. Somehow all the records about why he was fired have been sealed and no one knows exactly what led to him losing his job.
Surprisingly the media in Minnesoda has shown 0 interest in that story. Not when he was running for Congress or for when he was running for Governor.
“Hey, Walz. You may not want to go downrange. Someone is going to frag your ass. You should retire.”
I would love to see federal judges use their contempt powers more widely against government officials. Also their ability to have the US Marshals haul these officials into court on show cause orders. But the only time I’ve ever seen them do that is when a judge was having facilities issues with his courthouse and hauled the GSA official in.
Private payrolls fell by 301,000 for January versus the estimate for a 200,000 gain, according to ADP
Best. Economic. Recovery. Evar.
Who makes these estimates?
Is it the same group that had no clue inflation was coming?
according to payrolls processing firm ADP.
It’s unclear from the snippet whether ADP made the estimate or merely reported the actual number.
Dow Jones for the estimate, FTA. ADP for the decline from their payroll figures.
I didn’t read it; I just knew it would be ADP and quit when I found the attribution figuring a lot of folks don’t know that ADP is the resource of record in this area because of their broad reach
I don’t think it matters much for the thoughtful citizen with any grasp of statistics: all we ever do is sample populations and make estimates about wider trends. And those estimates always move as we reconcile them with other notions. I know you don’t mean too much by actual number, but lots of people have these naive notions about absolutism; it’s a residue of Calvinism that just won’t die in America.
I explain the general quest for knowledge like lane-changing. You’re in a lane, always weaving at least at some microscopic level, sometimes even bumping out of the lane; then you take a leap forward in knowledge, you change lanes from Newton to Einstein, and you’re still traveling in the direction of knowledge, but now you’re weaving around ten feet over. 500 miles later it barely matters how many millimeters of deviation you accrued: you’re at grandma’s house; from space, the trip still appears as an infinitely pure and accurate line on your googlemaps, but that was never really true.
Once you think like this, the details of how some things isn’t remotely as important as grasping the big picture, knowing the limits of the projection, and just getting on with one’s day.
At the risk of redundancy, I’m going to recommend The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow for those who don’t have deep math backgrounds. After decades of grad school and process and product design and design of experiments and mainframes full of data, I still struggle to find a shorthand that is technically fair at describing a technical situation but still widely accessible; Mlodinow achieves this book after book.
I know you don’t mean too much by actual number, but lots of people have these naive notions about absolutism
I work with a bunch of lawyers who fancy themselves demographic statisticians. I should know by now that precision is required when discussing these topics.
Another angle at which to approach this is the phrase I used the other day… simple mechanistic understanding of complex issues. Everybody is guilty of it. Only those who have humility are able to overcome it. It’s easy to assign purely political motivations to this half-million misalignment between prediction and (estimated) result. However, such an explanation is a caricature.
caricature
yup: I’ve written “cartoon” of an idea here many times
I have a buddy to calls such notions “directionally correct”
“the estimate for a 200,000 gain”
Despite poor journalisming headline writing, I think this means that ADP is bringing the figures of decline, and others had blown the smoke about “its gonna be upward”(FTA ” well below the Dow Jones estimate for growth of 200,000″)
Thanks Swiss! I was pessimistic on the answer being in the article, so I’m pleasantly surprised.
inflation is mild and transitory, it is a rich person’s problem
The tragedy of a delayed
rent paymentgrocery purchasetreadmill.What inflation? That transitory stuff? It’s all fine…
Critical drinker: It’ll be fine.
I’m quitting tomorrow. Smoking too.
Pitch Meeting: “Barely an inconvenience!”
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
**Washington Commies.
It’s too perfect.
Word. But you are still a smarmy, rino a-hole.
How the deep state operates, or as I would put it – bureaucracy in all of it’s glory.
A bunch of hoo-raw about Controlled Unclassified Information – which is nothing more than what we used to call For Official Use Only (which also was not disclosed publicly).
That would be everyone in Congress, elected and staffers. They have all the information they need to do their jobs, they just can’t make a stink about it in the press.
I hope you are not suggesting that we rethink how we classify govt information?
Stupid reformers like you would expose critical govt secrets and get people killed!
Imagine all the dead bodies that would have resulted if your crazy fetish for openness and transparency had forced all the emails from Dr. Fauci to be released to the public in an unredacted and searchable format.
I’m not sure if it is a problem with overly broad classification authorization or overclassifying against the rules. There has never been an authorization based on “may embarrass the government or officials”. How often are people punished if they overclassify in an attempt to hide information?
Yeah imagine that the National Security Act of 1947 might not be fully relevant 75 years later. And don’t even get me started on Goldwater-Nichols and the establishment of permanent overseas military presences (our very own version of Roman Pro-consuls), and the irony that the Cold War it was meant to confront ended 3 years after enactment.
Which is a pity. The DoD and Exec can just hand wave away failures to answer questions such as “Can our CVE’s still function?”
“Sorry, that is classified”
CUI really should be Unclassified But Embarrassing. That at least would be honest.
I am guilty of this near daily here….shrugs
National debt tops $30 trillion
So you are saying that we need to print and spend harder.
El Salvador needs to stop it with that bitcoin thing and use real money.
Hospital administrators are flirting with getting violently purged.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hospitals-germany-uk-israel-refuse-life-saving-transplant-3-year-old-because-parents-were
Facebook loses users for the first time EVER: Shares plummet 20%
Good.
Good
.
whelp, that went wrong.
Good start.
I blame Joe Rogan myself
Jeff Zucker resigns as CNN president after undisclosed relationship with senior executive
I’d wager that is a cover for something.
Abysmal ratings. The excuse they needed to shitcan him without having the media talk about their abysmal ratings.
Meh, I just file it under “Horrible people being horrible to each other.”
I do find the claim that she only started banging him after her C Suite promotion laughable, though.
Located more than two hours from California’s more densely populated state capital, Sacramento, Shasta county has long been a conservative bastion and home to a thriving State of Jefferson movement, which advocates for succession from California and the formation of a new state. But it was also the sort of place where people could work through their differences to achieve common goals, said Moty, who had served as a supervisor since 2009.
After the pandemic took hold in 2020 and the governor instituted lockdown measures, however, many residents were outraged by the restrictions and what they viewed as the failure of county officials to stand up to the state government. Shasta county was among the least restrictive in California, Moty said, but residents unhappy about state rules and mask requirements began showing up in meetings in large numbers.
To be sure, on the surface that may seem to be DEMOCRACY! in action, but…..
Those people are probably mad because their supervisor is such a n00b. Only been running the place for a mere 13 years? Pshaw! The Dingells from Michigan laugh at your baby supervisor.
“Russiagate” special counsel John H. Durham is signaling he’s not at the end of investigating the Democratic Party scandal of promoting fake allegations to ruin candidate and former President Donald Trump.
*yawn*
Kevin McCarthy Plots An Investigation Avalanche If GOP Retakes House
*stretches*
*yawn*
Replace McCarthy with Massie.
Then we’ll see some fireworks.
*farts*
*spits out phlegm*
Whatever RINO POS.
Fuck McCarthy and the fools that drool at the prospect of “investigations”. Show trials, that’s all it would be. Shut up, do the work, run the govt, make people accountable – all without the goddamn grandstanding. Then you have my vote and my respect.
Biden in ‘worst president ever’ territory
As if this is surprising.
Disruptions and threatening rhetoric have been seen in public meetings across the country in what experts view as an alarming development. In Oregon, a county commission moved to virtual meetings last month due to anti-mask protesters. A parent in Virginia was arrested after threatening to bring guns if officials didn’t make masks optional.
“Distrust in government has permeated the most local levels,” said Colin Clarke, a terrorism expert. “I’m familiar with the indicators of extremism and radicalization. I see them in places I never expected to see them. If you had told me as terrorism expert I’d be talking about school boards, I’d have said you’re crazy.”
Anti-government extremists have utilized fears around the pandemic as a recruiting tool, Clarke said. “The whole pandemic was really tailor made to far-right extremists and they’re getting a lot of mileage out of it.”
Through the looking glass, and down the rabbit hole. WHEEEEEEEE!
The willful blindness and projection here is quite remarkable.
It’s an Olympic level talent the left has.
The whole pandemic was really tailor made to far-right extremists and they’re getting a lot of mileage out of it.”
This is a pretty startling admission. They have admitted that the worst fears of the constitutionalists are coming true. Now, of course, you have to strip away the author’s cynicism and understand what those worst fears are. Final stage collapse of the rule of law, authoritarianism, medical tyranny, and the return of blatant discrimination in the public square. Unless you think that the “far-right” is a movement built from the ground up on bad faith assertions, claiming liberty but desiring political chess playing, there’s no escaping this guy’s implicit recognition that the pandemic response is profoundly authoritarian.
IT’S OUR AUTHORITARIAN VISION!!! THAT’S PERFECTLY FOR YOUR OWN GOOD!!!!
Disruptions and threatening rhetoric have been seen in public meetings across the country
Indeed they have. Citizens being arrested for speaking up, a blue wall of cops standing around the room, threats of investigation and arrest for sedition and terrorism, just to name a few.
Disruptions and threatening rhetoric have been seen in public meetings across the country in what experts view as an alarming development.
Indeed. Constant threats from the government is quite alarming.
The SEAL offered to pay for his own travel to treatment, but was denied after “multiple high-ranking Naval officers in SEAL 26’s command began calling the treatment center and asking if it would deny treatment to someone who is unvaccinated,” which delayed his request and caused his spot at the treatment center to be lost.
Top brass is apparently full of ignorant, evil cuntes. I’m sure that will bode well in future conflicts.
Remember how the draftees were prone to fragging officers in Vietnam?
Yeah, I think it will be much worse in our next big conflict. All the officers will be products of our woke college system and the enlisted pukes will be the deplorables. I don’t see it going well when the LT decides that only white guys will be point on patrols as part of reparations for slavery.
Fuck those cake eating assholes.
Heh: Ottawa Police Chief asks citizens to please stop calling 911 to ask where Justin Trudeau is
Maybe they are trying to report where Trudeau is?
“There is a black man hiding behind some bushes in my back yard. Ooops, it isn’t a black guy, just someone with shoe polish on his face. Wait, now he’s putting on a turban, so I guess you should be looking for a Sikh? Hold on, now he’s putting on a sari. “
Lucy Ricardo to Ethel: “You look like an ad for a trip around the world.”
Despite poor journalisming headline writing, I think this means that ADP is bringing the figures of decline, and others had blown the smoke about “its gonna be upward”(FTA ” well below the Dow Jones estimate for growth of 200,000″)
I believe the ADP provides hard numbers, based on their real world payroll processing services.
If those reports are anything like my pay stub, I’m sure there’s errors.
/looks at pay stub that under the deductions section double and triple counts things.
“Companies unexpectedly cut 301,000 jobs in January as omicron slams labor market”
Oh it’s all the virus’ fault, that’s a relief. For a second I thought it was the FedGov’s outrageously atrocious policies but Brandon sure dodged that bullet!
there are some companies that would do this anyways given the HR departments of the world are populated by morons
Between the government mandates to terminate the Unclean (wherever they can get those mandates to stick), the ruling class extending those mandates beyond the government’s remit, and skyrocketing labor costs, what moron thought we’d add jobs?
Grab your pitchforks.
This is audio from the Assistant Principal of a Loudoun County elementary school informing parents that children who come back to school maskless will be charged with “trespassing”
In Virginia, trespassing is a Class I felony that holds a 12-month jail sentence or $2,500 fine
I would just want my school money back, I do not even own a pitchfork
I am so glad my kids are done with school.
I had enough run ins with teachers when things were normal.
My kids had enough “vacations” they could have qualified as home schooled.
It is a Class I misdemeanor not a felony.
What a difference between No(t)VA and here where masking is a personal choice. My kids have enjoyed being able to breathe normally.
These guys really do seem bound and determined to set up a confrontation with Governor Rugby Dad.
I don’t think this is going to work out quite the way they have in mind.
This is a bunch of JV League political hacks. Youngkin is a career private equity exec. The kind of guy whose very career is centered around fu**ing people to get a few extra basis points. He’s been playing nice. That’s true to type. My guess is that there’s a non-trivial chance they might get to see what not-nice looks like.
Convicted rapist – allowed in school.
Unmasked honor studetn – barred from school.
In the same school district.
Thot Thursday don’t need no stinkin’ underwear.
https://archive.md/HnYgb
stress is fucking up my teeth. Apparently the … gah I don;t know the English word… the outer layer of a couple of my teeth enamel maybe just cracked for no apparent reason… mechanical stress.
Night grinding?
I don’t know. My dentist is making me this thing I don’t know how to call in english like a soft silicone thing that I can wear in my mouth during sleep to see if it wears out in a pattern consistent with grinding. Google translates gutiera as mouth guard or bite guard
Bruxism. It’s a bitch.
Mouth guard or bite guard are both acceptable.
Bruxism!
I gather you made it to the dentist.
yes. he suspect bruxism …
It’s all the frustration from your brain processing all those skank links you watch all day and not getting some-some man.. You need more visits to ladies of the night.
I will set up a go fund me
Just put that it is for BLM related work. You should do real well and never have to worry about being canceled…
Ugh. I should reload pages first.
I shattered a molar grinding my teeth at night last year.
You’re grinding your teeth at night.
But where, oh where, could the kind of stress that makes you grind your teeth be coming from? ‘Tis a mystery.
Your not blaming Glibs for that right? Shitposting is a way to let off steam, not get all bent out of shape…
Get a nightguard.
I’ve been using one for years now.
As an added bonus, it’s totes sexy.
Dude, she’s like 60.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17522843/i-fancy-fiona-phillips/
Maybe the dude is 80?
Can’t a guy get a break around here, damn
He’s 27.
Mommy issues?
*sensible chuckle*
Education: Longer school day trial begins in Wales
Education: Longer school day trial begins in Wales
A trial to extend the school day in Wales has started.
Education Minister Jeremy Miles said 13 primary and secondary schools and one college would take part in a pilot scheme – adding an extra five hours a week for groups of pupils.
Josh, a pupil at Abertillery Learning Community in Blaenau Gwent, said: “I think I’ll cope quite well. I might just have to go to bed a bit earlier.”
A total of 1,800 children will have a longer day for 10 weeks and take part in sessions such as art, music and sport, as well as academic lessons.
But trade union NAHT Cymru said it had not been provided with any evidence to support extending the school day and raised concerns about the potential extra workload on staff.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-wales-60219133
that is the entire text of the article weirdly short
They do that when they decide they have to publish something but haven’t decided how to spin it yet.
Narrator: It won’t work.
Increase 5 hours a week?
Asian parents laugh at your puny efforts.
Real inches or “girl inches”?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/mum-gets-ruler-tattooed-arm-26125479
Also useful for seeing how far her arm goes up someone’s arse.
inches in a metric world?
My type of mom…
There was a girl I met in college who had a ruler on her inner thigh with the word “don’t lie” or something like that. She used to show it off at parties. I’m guessing she turned out well.
“You must be this tall to ride this attraction”
With regard to the SEAL COVID story,
Navy SEAL 26 continues to be denied permission to travel to a treatment program for traumatic brain injuries,…
Gee, I wonder where he suffered those traumatic brain injuries. Probably one of, if not the, most demanding assignments in the military. And this is how they treat the guy. I can only guess what that is going to wind up meaning for morale or recruitment. I could ask what are they thinking, but I think we all know it amounts to nothing more than “Derrrr….make them do what we want because we is smart and they is a bunch of dummies!”
BEST OF BIKINI Compilation / 4K / Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbci_pSOFRU
POPSUGAR UK
@POPSUGARUK
Playing peek-a-boo underneath the crisscrossed pink blazer was a silver corset-style minidress embellished with crystals and covered in — you guessed it — even more cutouts.
https://twitter.com/POPSUGARUK/status/1486648364234158081
If this was teen vogue the next tweet would be Lenin is bae
Lol.
🙂
Honk honk!
FAA management is buying some but can’t make people wear them because they are considered respirator and employees would need a fit test. However an employee can voluntarily wear it after signing away they understand it won’t fit properly and if you get sick it ain’t the FAAs fault.
Operating our covid policies in 2020 terms in 2022 show how we are the tip of the spear
I hear ya, Tom.
I went to CVS to get some Dayquil for my wife last week.
The door said “Masks Are recommended”, so I didn’t wear one, not that I would have if it said mandatory, but at least I knew no one would hassle me.
Sign under that :
Free Government N95 Masks Coming Soon
What the hell?
Boosters are “free” too – at least here. My TV informs me of this every ten minutes or so.
What a racket.
No, no, it’s OK. The people picking up masks used hand sanitizer before they took their shopping cart.
Holy shit, I just noticed they aren’t packaged, just laying there.
What the hell?!?
OFFS.
We are so far down the rabbit hole you can’t see the sky any more.
*takes unopened box for drywall and wood shop use*
Precisely. I told my wife if she is out shopping to take them for the same reasons.
Too bad they aren’t the vented ones. Much prefer those, at least the 3m masks.
Proposed: Matt Damon’s career peaked with Eurotrip.
Scotty doesn’t know!
The actor who played Scotty did a great job in that scene. Most actors would have overdone it. He was subtly brilliant.
are we talking Matthew Paige Damon? Ocean’s twelve was not that bad
I thought it peaked with Team America.
That was my counter-proposal, but that is mean. He was excellent in Eurotrip.
“ᴋɪʟʟ ᴍᴇ, ʙᴜʀɴ ᴍᴇ,” whispered the carrot in a dreadful voice. “ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴀ ᴀʙᴏᴍɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ɢᴏᴅ. ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʟᴇᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ʜᴏʀʀᴏʀ ɢᴏ ᴀɴʏ ꜰᴀʀᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴍᴇ.”
https://twitter.com/Thinkwert/status/1489054265901568005
Now someone will show up at a hospital with that thing lodged in their crack…
“I can’t hear you, I have carrots in my ears”
I see we raided some house in Syria. Objective was completed at the cost of women and children and a multimillion dollar SOF Blackhawk. #Winning
Adults! America’s back!!!
Why was that done? Is ISIS still considered and active threat? Are we still at war with them? I withdrew from foreign affairs after the disaster in Afghanistan and need to understand why this action had to be done.
We are in Syria because there was another hornet’s nest we just didn’t have our dick in far enough for the full effect.
https://twitter.com/WilhelmDerErste/status/1485731997142163457/photo/1
I know its Russian based meme…but you get the point.
The U.S. national debt has surpassed $30 trillion according to the latest data released by the Treasury Department, marking a new milestone as government spending and borrowing continues to surge.
Man, they’re talking real money now.
The social media giant’s devastating earnings report on Wednesday sent Facebook shares plunging more than 20 percent, wiping more than $200 billion off the company’s market cap and erasing $29 billion from Zuckerberg’s net worth.
🙂
I’d like to think the former Sun Menlo Park campus that facebook bought is cursed.
“Russiagate” special counsel John H. Durham is signaling he’s not at the end of investigating the Democratic Party scandal of promoting fake allegations to ruin candidate and former President Donald Trump.
The tease is boring.
Biden’s DOJ, Department of Education and COVID policies are prime targets for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy should Republicans retake the House in the midterms this November, according to a sprawling list of priorities his office sent exclusively to the Daily Caller.
I skimmed the article. I suspect McCarthy is controlled opposition.
LOL
I do find Silicon Valley history to be interesting.
I was working for a company and our main competitor got bought up by Sun. Funny how all that went. As it was my employer had a dim future itself.
*squints suspiciously*
LOL, that one was subconscious!
That campus is an amusement park, not a place of business. It doesn’t have to be cursed, the place itself is self-defeating.
Another Canadian Freedom Convoy spin-off
This Monday, around 100 freedom-loving citizens, inspired by the Trucker Freedom Convoy, gathered in the Safeway parking lot in Port Coquitlam, B.C. to protest COVID-19 mandates and call on local businesses to stop complying with them.
Good!
This is worse than when Liz Warren sent in her Indian recipe!
YOU DON’T FUCK WITH TATER TOT HOTDISH!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I know politicians are complete whores who will do anything to get their name out there, but why do “authors” humor them? How hard would it have been for Patrice Johnson to tell whatever staffer tried to get McCollum’s or Omar’s recipes in the book/competition to go pound sand?
“Sure, I’ll put it in the second Betty/Ilhan show up and cook me their hotdish themselves”.
And the pandering of “making hotdish more inclusive”?! I tell you I am losing my Minnesoda Nice for the day.
Kiwis suing over not being able to return to New Zealand
A group of New Zealanders locked out of their own country for two years because of impossible hotel quarantine rules is suing Jacinda Ardern’s government – claiming their human rights have been breached by refusing to let them come home.
Kiwis who want to return home after the country’s border was slammed shut to keep out Covid back in March 2020 have to apply for a place in Managed Isolation and Quarantine – with the small amount of places allocated through a lottery system.
If you don’t secure a place through the randomised lottery, you cannot fly to New Zealand.
Despite New Zealanders being 90 per cent double-vaccinated and having just eight Covid cases in hospital, the MIQ system has been tightened even further – with available spots in quarantine reduced to zero amid the Omicron wave.
Lawyer and Grounded Kiwis founder Alexandra Birt said the system needs to be tested and the group have raised more than $180,000 in legal costs to sue the government.
How can a small flightless bird afford an attorney?
DUH!
They shit golden eggs…
Acern seems to be under the impression that they can continue to stave off the virus indefinitely.
It’s psychopathic behavior.
Have you seen her giggling when talking about the rise in suicides?
She’s psychopathic alright.
I was going to link it, but can’t find it.
It’s not on a Kamala level of a cackle, but it’s pretty bad.
Yeah, I saw that. It was an unconscious smile while discussing horrendous events.
She was just happy to be getting attention and forgot to pretend in the moment.
Nurse Ratched as PM.
Fuck. All the pretty sheep will be taken by the time they get back home.
Enough horsing around: Frosty the Horse Helps Cat Take Unwanted Bath
As if things weren’t bad enough…
The World’s Best Guitar Hero Player Was A Cheat
Brilliantly spoofed in one of my top 10 South Park episodes.
Guitar Queer-O
I’m fretting that many of those gamers will want to string him up.
At a minimum, he’s not going to get any positive feedback over it.
Let’s not distort things.
Those guitar hero gamers are so picky
Wah-wah-wah
I’m pedaling away from this sub-thread.
Pope, you’re saying they want to stretch his neck?
He is not of the body.
Better hope Swissy doesn’t pickup on this thread.
I think he’s avoiding the dischordance.
Oh, don’t fret about it.
Ricky Gervais has claimed he is going to ‘try and get cancelled’ with his next stand-up show.
https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1488488554724536321
Now that will be worth watching.
From Juris’ “trust in government” link:
(Lest anyone argue that high trust merely masks what is really fear of an autocratic government, the study estimates that if people around the world displayed the same level of high trust that Danes do in their government and each other, 40 percent fewer people might’ve been infected with the virus globally.)
Hahaha right.
Fuck you and the broom you rode in on.
According to their model, this model is correct.
Sure, 40% would have been infected back then. But the Rona would still be endemic and those people would get infected at some point.
So locking down and wrecking everything would only time shift those infections. Yeah that seems totes worth it.
The same thing will happen to New Zealand and Australia. At some point they will open up and the Rona will rip through their populations.
So locking down and wrecking everything would only time shift those infections.
Which might have some benefit if we had developed more effective treatments. But we didn’t. We put everything on a vaccine that was doomed to fail, and was predicted to fail.
The vaccine might have “worked” if it had been administered to everyone at the same time. Instead, it was pushed through an intentionally phased rollout to the most politically connected first.
This is somehow the fault of the people who weren’t even eligible to receive it until 3 months after it first came out, thus ensuring the disease had plenty of time to form new, vaccine-resistant variants.
Even if we had vaccinated every person on the planet at the same instant, the virus would have mutated around it. It was doomed to fail.
That may be so, but I enjoy blaming the public health goblins to the maximum extent possible.
They believe they develop some effective treatments to handle the people that will resist their reset efforts…
The token prog on “The Five” yesterday was saying that 1,800 lives were saved even if you accept the new study about the monumentally worthlessness of “lockdowns.” None of the others had any stats about lives lost because of lockdowns, so this kind of nonsense is very convincing to those who believe “every life matters.” Given the risk adversity now rampant, I’m shocked Pete Buttlickaka isn’t recommending that the nation’s maximum speed limit be lowered to 25 mph in light of the rising traffic death totals.
Just kill everyone below the bottom 80th percentile of Americans (by whatever “socially useful” metric you want) then kill the remaining top 90% and you too can build a Denmark.
Latest update from Rebel News on Aussie Freedom Convoy
What was a peaceful camp for freedom quickly turned violent when police came to issue infringement tickets for “illegally parked” vehicles.
Tension escalated when police entered the camp to record car registration details.
Officers had largely remained cooperative with the growing gathering of protesters, and with too many people to arrest and too many cars to tow away the police presence focused their attention on the “illegally parked cars” being the issue and informed campers that they would be recording the details of all vehicles on the grounds under the direction of the National Capital Authority (NCA).
Let’s not kid ourselves.
“Go ahead. And we will be recording badge numbers.”
Trump Impersonator Groundhog Day special
Christina Valentasty
@ChristinaTasty
Every time I see people getting mad at Joe Rogan as if he’s an authority on anything, I’m reminded of this and I laugh.
https://twitter.com/ChristinaTasty/status/1488827498376925197
That’s pretty funny.
That is a pretty accurate take on Rogan.
I never liked Joe Rogan’s comedy, I hated his UFC commentary, and a don’t care much for his podcast, but he appeared on a couple episodes of Rinella’s MeatEater humble and willing to learn.
His comedy is terrible. Wife saw him 20 years ago? It was trash.
He was neck and neck with Andy Dick for my least favorite New Radio actor/character.
If this is an accurate transcript may have to start listening.
Pie is gonna get some roomies!
U.S. to Deploy 3,000 Troops to Romania, Poland, Germany
man they will raise the hooker prices
Pie understands the real issues.
That GI’s will pay big $$ to get laid?
What they really need are UN peace keepers. Those guys just rape the little girls. Sounds bad, but hooker prices remain reasonable.
Your holiness, again you prove your grasp of global politics and economics far exceeds that of the morons running things these days…
The Russians will tremble in fear at our fully staffed on-base dining facilities and dentists’ offices.
Seriously, what are 3000 people supposed to do? Fart in Russia’s general direction?
Die and trigger an escalation towards nuclear war, because that’s the only tool left in our arsenal with all the rot.
I’m not sure either the U.S. or the Russians could pop off nukes anymore. They’ve sat unused and untested for 30 years.
Is that what you think Fat!? Nuke-ups at Dawn! No Malarkey!
“BREAKING: Two judges storm off the set of Fox’s hit TV show “The Masked Singer” in protest after the mystery singer unmasks and reveals himself to be Rudy Giuliani. RT TO THANK THE JUDGES FOR TAKING A STAND AGAINST MAGA ELECTION LIES!”
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1489044870584930305
Completely sane and focused on the kitchen table issues of the working class.
Well, how was his singing?
In Rushun, duh.
genuine lol.
Stupid people that are easily manipulated into believing bullshit are gonna stupid.
Occupy Democrats is a one-man self-parody machine.
one-man
Did you just assume their gender? Xey will be pissed!
I like to think of the author as a retarded Nicolas Bourbaki.
I guess they hate Rudy Giuliani more than Sarah Palin
Everything is politics I guess.
Tbf his outfit was awful.
Dropped the car off at the body shop. They gave me a Mini Clubman as the loaner. “You’ll like it, it’s fun!” they said. I do not like it. It’s a zero-visibility mushbag. I don’t think I’ve driven a vehicle this underpowered since my 1991 Geo Prizm.
They gave you a golf cart?
The only car worse than the Geo Prizm was the Preo Gizm.
The Geo Metro got 50mpg!
But you fill the tank and almost double the curb weight.
You also double the resale value when you fill the tank.
The visibility issue seems to be the deal with most new cars.
Even for those that aren’t going for style, the new crush and rollover regulations make for thick A pillars and high belt lines.
And the passenger seat headrests go almost all the way to the ceiling.
With limited adjustability because “neck injury”.
The first thing I generally do with a new car is yank the headrests. I have a pile of unused FJ Cruiser headrests in my garage.
Many people pull the headrest and put it in vice to bend it to reduce the angle.
I’m fortunate that the stock headrest on most cars works for me. The only exception was my Jeep Wrangler JK. Wow was that thing awful. I still kept it stock as I figured I didn’t need to reduce the safety on what was already a questionable vehicle,..
you can feel like a sophisticated European for a while
Admit it, tiny eurocars suck.
Small cars can be quite fun. Also very useful on tight roads.
However in the US surrounded by SUVs and 12 lane highways, I’ll pass.
Meh, my Z3 on the Houston freeway system was awesome. With that many lanes, there was always some path through.
Fucking frogger.
People might think riding on a moped is fun, but like sex with fat chicks, they don’t want their buddies to see them doing it.. Same applies to small cars..
Remembering the late movies as a teenager
Yeah. I like my Cooper, but the Clubman and other models are really meh.
Unity, healing, etc.
“We know there are 30% of the population that doesn’t care. They don’t care what the facts are. They just want Donald Trump in office. At this point, I don’t care if he’s found guilty of treason if he’s found guilty for violating records. I don’t care if they find he has a Blockbuster VHS tape from 1998 that he never returned and owes $100 million and has to go to jail. I don’t care. The fact of the matter is the guy has been so obvious about being a direct danger to American democracy that he has to be jailed. He has to be punished.”
I’m sure this rhetoric will help with cynicism regarding the msm.
Related.
“He has now conditions his base to not believe in elections. Elections now do not matter. That’s where Liz Cheney seems to be drawing the line and bringing out an equally large arsenal by being the first person to say he’s going to get away with nothing, not potential violations of the Presidential Records Act, not potential witness tampering, not potential efforts to overthrow an election. She’s going for the whole package of sins which no one has ever done. People have said, ‘Oh, he’s obstructed justice, but we have got laws on the books at DOJ that says we can’t indict.’ Liz Cheney is saying F the laws we are going to hold this buffoon, this dangerous buffoon accountable once and for all.”
Something something institutional norms something something rule of law.
That woman just said there is a fear of sounding hyperbolic on the left, but the right has no fear of sounding hyperbolic.
She said that with a straight face.
Clown world.
It’s a bit meta but I think that was hyperbole.
Progjection.. It’s what’s for dinner.
You know, I really find it amazing when people are that self-unaware. He’s basically saying that he wants somebody jailed regardless of the legitimacy of jailing him, but the problem is the target’s supporters who are blind to the facts.
And these guys are talking about Donald Trump as a autocrat. The same people who cheered when the government they support initiated a team to root out “anti-authority” groups.
It’s remarkable. I thought during the time of Donald Trump that these sorts were just deranged by him. I don’t think that anymore. I think these sorts were always insane and stupid wannabe tyrants and Donald Trump just got them to drop the mask.
The go-to talking point is that Trump is a danger to democracy because he’s a wannabe dictator. Sure. I’d imagine most who aspire to the highest office would like to have some dictatorial powers. The thing is, none of the deep staters would lift a finger for Trump.
Oh, the deep staters lifted a finger, alright.
Why You’re Not Homesteading
https://exitgroup.substack.com/p/10-why-youre-not-homesteading
It is the official opinion of EXIT that we probably shouldn’t all run off into the woods and start Instagrammable cottagecore family farms — mostly because it’s not that remunerative, and it’s a lot of work, and people don’t want to do it.
Still, it’s worth exploring wild ideas seriously. So I read this thread, and it got me thinking.
I call BS on his statement that raising 35 chickens is easy and no big deal.
Young Jimbo had the task of tending 50 chickens every summer. We’d get the chicks in April and butcher them on Labor Day. In between they consumed huge amounts of my summer vacation.
To be fair, the amount of summer vacation could have been reduced considerably if I hadn’t spent hours whining and malingering and just fed and watered the chickens.
On the plus side, more people raising chickens means more people who learn that Disney films are not all that accurate. Nature and animals are not pure and good. Nope, you can watch your flock of chickens slowly peck one to death.
Sometimes life actually IS a Disney film:
https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1488646338124431364
more butterflies
Perfect!
I have 150+ chickens.
30 + growing in wifes craft room.
Its not exactly easy, they die for no reason, get colds. get eaten by predators.
You almost have to have roosters to keep your flock growing.
Feed is going for $20 a bag.
It should be pointed out that more than 90% of the population in America was involved with agriculture. Those people who knew all the facts about how “easy” it was to be self sufficient flocked to cities and dirty, dangerous jobs in factories the second they heard about those jobs.
Thomas Jefferson thought that farmer/citizens were the ideal, but he never did any of the work himself did he? He just banged the pretty help and made the uggos do the heavy lifting.
???
Farming is hard and unforgiving.
^ those are clearly farmer hands with all fingers fully extended.
Gentleman farmers are a far cry from yeoman farmers.
This is why I can’t stand Thoreau’s Zennic bloviating.
He had his mommy cooking his food and doing his laundry, and his daddy paid for the cabin.
Same here. Many people work all year to save enough money to have a few weeks of that kind of living. They call it a “vacation.” Nice that it worked out for him, but come on.
I believe Tom and Sally were undoubtedly in love and he would have married her if socially and politically acceptable. During a visit to Monticello, one guide (probably since terminated) mentioned that Tom and Sally’s kids were 7/8 Caucasian and, if they chose to “pass,” their descendants today would have as little African dna as 95% of the rest of the Caucasian population.
I am 100% in agreement with this. ^^^^ I started an article about it, but it withered. (Actually, I ran out of free time).
It was so widely known at the time that he was “with” her that it appeared in a local paper during an election, mentioned by his opponent – and not flatteringly. (I’m going to guess that in private a word that rhymes with “trigger-glover” was used to describe Jefferson).
Additionally, it would be kinda hard to hide who da baby daddy was when a redhead like Jefferson had kids with a black woman. I’ve also seen something (I gotta run it down but don’t have time right now) that Sally told/wrote to her children to carry themselves upright and proudly. She didn’t act at all – nor did she convey to her kids – that they were some kind of hated byproduct of rape or whatever other bullshit has been proposed by the historical revisionists.
The more research I did, the more convinced I became that Jefferson was in love with her. Beyond a reasonable doubt in my mind, FWIW.
In 2013, a team led by Steven Newmaster, a botanist at the University of Guelph (UG), took a hard look at popular herbal products such as echinacea, ginkgo biloba, and St. John’s wort. The team published a study that used DNA barcoding—a system to identify species using small, unique snippets of genetic material—to test whether the bottles really contained what was printed on the label.
The results were troubling. Most of the tested products contained different plants, were larded with inert fillers, or were tainted with contaminants that could cause liver and colon damage, skin tumors, and other serious health problems. The paper, published in BMC Medicine, received prominent attention from The New York Times, CBC, and many other media outlets.
…
But in an ironic twist, eight experts in DNA barcoding and related fields now charge that the 2013 paper that indicted an entire industry and launched a new phase in Newmaster’s career is itself a fraud. In a 43-page allegation letter, sent to UG in June 2021 and obtained by Science, the researchers—from UG, the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, and Stanford University—cited major problems in the study and two others by Newmaster and collaborators. “The data which underpin [the papers] are missing, fraudulent, or plagiarized,” the letter flatly stated.
https://www.science.org/content/article/this-scientist-accused-supplement-industry-of-fraud-now-his-own-work-is-under-fire
Some asshole tried to sell my ex wife some cream claiming that it would grow her boobs two cup sizes. She came to me because the guy wanted a lot of money. I told her to tell that snake oil salesman to go fuck his dog and that all she needed was toilet paper rubbed on her boobs…
She asked me how toilet paper would make boobs grow and I pointed out that she used that stuff regularly and her ass had gotten as big as a house…
ROFL! Guessing you’re single.
Didn’t we just go through this with nutrition?
This is shocking that the 2013 scientific study was even questioned. You can’t question Science, right?
Good day, good folk! Much as I’d like to stick around, duty and Judi calls. Good morrow to my friends and the rest of the world can fuck right off! Chin up! The tide is turning.
We know there are 30% of the population that doesn’t care. They don’t care what the facts are. They just want
Donald TrumpJoe Biden in office.Believers gonna believe.
Also- “Improving trust in government” is code for massive vote-buying schemes, and doing everything possible to make people so dependent on the government that they will be incapable of resisting any coercive government program, no m,atter how egregious or flawed.
Did you hear a high-pitched whistling sound?
So, if any of y’all know… is the DOD approving ANYBODY’s religious exemption requests?
Or are they just pretending? Slow-rolling and saying no to all of them? Or what?
My oldest is in the National Guard and went all the way through his first year (all training) without being actually ordered to take it. For part of his time it was optional, and then he was in training commands that never told him to. So when he got adminned into his real Infantry unit, he filed the exemption request and now it’s “pending”.
I think I saw somewhere that the Marines (?) approved a very small handful out of thousands, and denied the rest.
Joe Rogan should promise to shut his podcast down forever, in exchange for the following:
1. Free Julian Assange
2. Pardon Snowden
3. End DST
4. End Federal prohibition on marijuana
5. End the Fed
#5 might be pushing it, but the other 4 are hardly controversial to most normies.
Free Ross Ulbricht
shouldn’t something pineapple-related be on there?
Joe would say elk meat on pizza.
Get rid of the Designated Hitter.
At first glance I thought you said designated Hitler.
Well, they are doing their damnedest to get rid of Trump.
Get rid of the Republican candidates for office?
What normies do think are on board with any of that?
That’s his part of the bargain, theirs is getting rid of him.
I think CPA is doing the “no one I know voted for Nixon”.
Ignore the normie part then, what are 5 innocuous demands?
I agree that the demands are innocuous, I just disagree that we represent an opinion prevalent in the country.
OK, I missed the last bit after “#5 may be pushing it”.
Good morning Banjos & everyone.
Good morning, Banjos!
I don’t think Sunset Joe is even the top ten worst of all time. But it’s early yet.
I did enjoy the Facebook news.
Yes Mark, it was fucking Tik Tok. It had nothing to do with your obscene censorship.
I find Twitter censorship to be worse. How are they doing?
Down 50% over 6 months.
good
Oh goodness, I’m eagerly awaiting to see who wins the battle between FB and TikTok! ?
Go, Mutually Assured Destruction!
Yeah, otherwise we all lose.
Shit’s about to pop off.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/6500-evacuated-as-fears-grow-blazing-fertilizer-plant-may-explode-in-north-carolina_4251828.html
Please, please, please tell me that the fertilizer plant is right next to a windmill farm.
Powerline, Mid week edition!
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/02/mid-week-in-pictures-convoy-edition.php
Excellent:
https://i2.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2022/02/image008-2.png?w=449&ssl=1
I didn’t know Trudeau’s dog was called Bandit..
As has been discussed earlier.
I Swapped My Reading Glasses for Magical Eyedrops
1. $102
2. Works for something like 4 hours and can only be used once per day.
3. Requires the hassle of a prescription – naturally…
I’ll pass and deal with my magnifiers. Fortunately I can can function without them, although not 100% comfortably.
Welcome to NJ.
Murphy says he may have briefly interacted with Caddle during 2017 campaign
I was once in the same building with LBJ. Blame me for the Vietnam War.
I once crop dusted the mma fighter War Machine on an airplane ride to Hawaii. I am the cause of violence against women.
In early 2020, before this nonsense, when I was looking into the possibility of a hunting trip to Pennsylvania, I bought a hunting knife from Buck. Just now, while waiting for meeting attendees to arrive, I noticed something odd. Wherever the leather of the sheath was in contact with the brass of the guard, there was green corrosion. I cleaned it off and saw that there was some sort of lacquer or other sealant on the guard and handle, but where the corrosion was, this layer was clearly now gone.
I don’t want verdegris. I don’t want it to keep corroding. I’d rather not get rid of the sheath. What are my options?
Whip it out and beat it furiously…
I don’t see any options other than:
(1) Strip the lacquer, polish, and reapply a proctectant layer.
(2) Get a new sheath. I’m guessing the leather sheath may be reacting poorly with the lacquer, so maybe kydex.
Oh, and if you are planning on making your own knives, you’ll be doing this on each of them anyway.
I haven’t even got a spot to set up shop, or the basics like an anvil and a firebox to burn something in.
It doesn’t help that for some reason I don’t have any spare money. I’ve stopped buying plastic crack (despite how difficult that has been), I’ve been shifting to a more economical grocery strategm, and… well, paying for those classes did take a chunk out of the discretionary income.
You’re right in what you’re seeing, and this has always been a problem with all metal tools in leather holsters.
My view is that there is a manageable difference between discoloration and corrosion: if you’re not losing mass and you don’t have any scabs of oxide on the surface, it’s just cosmetic. If we were talking about a blued pistol, I’d worry even about a little discoloration. If you insist, I’m sure there are replacement holsters in nylon by Uncle Mike or somebody.
But brass doesn’t care, and you shouldn’t, either. I prefer a subdued pose in the woods and otherwise, so the last thing I’d do is worry about sealing a finish or polishing it back to a factory shine with Brasso every month. For me the ritual of oiling and sharpening (I tend to the overkill, helicopter parenting, razor-sharp end of the knifedaddy end of the spectrum) is more than enough. And if you’re whipping the knife out two or three times a day, it tends to polish itself anyway.
If you are a seasonal user, I’d just oil the hell out of it and not worry about the patina.
Or, this. A hunting knife is a tool. I wouldn’t worry if it looks like one, rather than a showpiece.
Even a tool shouldn’t look like shit. Especially one that I haven’t gotten to use yet.
A tool should look like a well-maintained tool. With that in mind, you might just strip the rest of the lacquer off and give it a periodic polishing if you don’t like the patina. Toothpaste works a charm, if memory serves.
If you want it to look “like-new”, then I think my first suggestion is probably unavoidable.
I’ve had mine for 60 years, a little green doesn’t hurt. I wipe it off on my pant’s leg once a season. I do scrub my knife thoroughly with soap and hot water after use on a deer, including using a finger nail brush to remove any taint of flesh. Cosmetics are for the ladies to look nice.
I’ve never used it, but perhaps Renaissance wax would meet your needs.
I might pick some up for unrelated tasks.
Someone just pointed out to me that the people that hate Trudeau are all racists cause he is black..
I guess they have a point there about the dislike of Canookistan’s blackface boss…
It should be pointed out that more than 90% of the population in America was involved with agriculture. Those people who knew all the facts about how “easy” it was to be self sufficient flocked to cities and dirty, dangerous jobs in factories the second they heard about those jobs.
Thomas Jefferson thought that farmer/citizens were the ideal, but he never did any of the work himself did he? He just banged the pretty help and made the uggos do the heavy lifting.
Winston comes around and bleats about some urban-vs-rural “debate” in libertarianism, as acted out by the voices in his head.
If that were to be reframed as an economic efficiency argument, it might actually have some sort of relevance to something.
To be fair, I am “involved” with agriculture. Like every day I consume an agricultural product.
So in Canadian politics the US plays the role of the Russians.
‘Significant element’ from U.S. involved in self-described ‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada, official says
My bad. Sometimes my extreme freedom likes into neighboring countries.
*leaks
Flip a coin each morning.
If heads, today borders are irrelevant lines on a map created by racists to oppress the BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women, and refugees.
If tails, today borders are extremely important boundaries that separate good people from bad people and are essential to the definition of the most important crimes against democracy.
I’d rather not get rid of the sheath. What are my options?
Is there something you can treat the sheath with?
I would need recommendations. My expertise with leatherwork is minimal.
Neet’s feet oil.
There was some vandalism on the wiki page (gone now) that the DDG summary had cached. Someone had made it so it was talking about NEET’s feet oil (Not in Employment, Education, or Training, a type of shut-in)
I don’t really understand what you just said, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neatsfoot_oil is what they use on baseball gloves (or used to anyway, I have no idea now).
Wiki vandalism is when someone edits a page maliciously or for the purposes of being funny. In this case, I suspect the latter. It got cleaned up on wikipedia proper, but while the page was changed, DuckDuckGo came by and made a little excerpt for display on search results that contained the joke.
I know what wiki vandalism is. I didn’t know what your initial comment had to do with a leather conditioning oil. I was trying to make a helpful suggestion. Additionally, I have found DDG to be unhelpful most of the time, so I took your comment as being unwilling to look farther than a DDG fail.
No, I went further, I even ordered a bottle. I was just trying to share my amusement.
My humor picker-upper-onner is sometimes faulty.
I should have also acknowledged the suggestion before going off on a tangent.
BWAHAHAHAHA
Donald grabbed him by the pussy?
Someone on the twitterverse mentioned that Zucker was the executive that snagged both Joe Rogan’s show “Fear Factor” and Trump’s “Apprentice” I didn’t fact check cause I liked it.
Hyundai Just Issued A Recall For A Hilariously Unexpected Dashboard Issue
Some people online just suggested the car may have been an Australian market model
That’s actually clever.
Get rid of screens. Analog dials and Nixie Tubes!
I’d probably just leave it, for the lulz. It still gives you the info, after all.
I wouldn’t risk it. It sounds like an intermittant issue, which means you’ll be hunting for the info when it does happen, and that means eyes off the road longer.
Can’t you solve that by wearing driving gloves?
If it doesn’t turn on an annoying dashboard light, no need to pay to get it fixed. I drove a minivan where the fuel gage didn’t work for a year.
My aunt (now in her 80s) has a 2003 Buick LeSabre. She was worried that her speedometer wasn’t working right (mechanical) about 10 years ago. Turns out they had accidently set it to the KMH option.
Wait, the spedometer on the 2003 LeSabre is mechanical but doesn’t just have miles on the outside and kph on the inside?
It has MPH and KPH on the dial, but they don’t equate; you have to switch between how you want it to read out in the menu. It’s weird.
It’s digital. I remember.
Our 2009 Honda Fit (that’s right, ladies) got hit with this bug:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/8/22873403/honda-acuras-y2k22-bug-clocks-reset-2002
Just gotta wait until August and it’ll fix itself.
National Guard activated to Substitute Teach in New Mexico. Video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df_KHMPf8Lc
Yeah that was floated a few weeks ago. Parents should equate that their hero teachers can be replaced by random military members. Such a tough field it must be.
I can hardly wait to hear how many nurses they are pulling out of hospitals to redeploy for this.
Not random. They will send 79Ts.