Seth takes a closer look at the House GOP leader stonewalling a commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection and conservatives coming up with an insane new lie about Joe Biden.
The same people believe:
-COVID is a hoax.
-Obama wasn’t born in the United States.
-Trump won the election.
-Racism doesn’t exist. https://t.co/Ahb8O9Uh6k— Doug Gordon (@dgordon52) April 27, 2021
Adults with at least one vaccine dose via CDC:
Top 10:
NH 73%
MA 66%
CT 66%
VT 64%
NM 64%
ME 63%
NJ 63%
HI 63%
RI 62%
CA 60%
Bottom 10:
SC 45%
AR 45%
ID 45%
GA 44%
WV 44%
WY 43%
TN 43%
LA 41%
AL 40%
MS 39%— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) April 26, 2021
So @Twitter can ban your account, but all you have to do is start a podcast and you can get back on?
Why is Roger Stone allowed to evade his ban here, @jack? https://t.co/3ToqJnrHHy— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) April 26, 2021
The stupid fucking kills me.
Saw my hard guy neighbor in Lowes today.
No mask. Of course. We just look at one another…..and walk on by….
It was a shit show.
Limited staff with all the garden shit rolling in truck after truck. 2 registers open and Mr. and Mrs. Inbred corralling associates droning on and on with stupid fuckling gardening/BBQ/weather questions.
Half with no mask.
Of course.
The customer service booth was a shit show of returns with no receipt and who doesn’t know how to do THAT?
THEM…… as the girl who was on the phone trying to get someone realizes they are in the garden department being smothered by Mr. and Mrs. Stupid.
“DING” “Associate needed in the fucking store..”
What would my legal exposure be if I organized mass fraudulent 911 calls in a somewhat less public fashion? https://t.co/EY6UV9KL1t
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 27, 2021
This is happening everywhere.
Michigan restaurants struggle with staffing amid pandemic https://t.co/vYOvAZVAkd
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) April 27, 2021
re: #8 The Pie Overlord!
“They don’t even come in to ask how much I’m paying per hour, which we pay extremely well,” Maier said.
(Without actually defining the pay)
re: #2 Dread Pirate Ron
NH represent! I’m going for shot 2 tomorrow.
Long before this pandemic pediatric cancer patients and other kids with immune system problems wore masks to save them from people like Carlson’s audience.
They still need to - but now they will be assaulted.— Nathaniel Parkinson (@np1959) April 27, 2021
I’m saddened to tell you that legendary Dallas DJ Ron Chapman has passed away at 85. He was so popular in Dallas in the 70s, 80s and 90s that his station, KVIL, sold for more than the Dallas Cowboys. That was the power of Ron Chapman. RIP Ron pic.twitter.com/KZlTJNJAPI
— Hawkeye (@HawkeyeOnAir) April 26, 2021
re: #9 jaunte
(Without actually defining the pay)
“How much are you offering?”
“I can assure you it’s a very fair offer.”
“Then why do they laugh and leave?”
“Well, ummm, *I* think it’s a *very* fair offer.”
“Do you offer medical, vacation, and sick leave for full-time employees?”
“What the… Are you a Communist?”
I got carded at a liquor store, and my Blockbuster card accidentally fell out. The cashier said, “Never mind.”
— Bill Morris 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 (@Lcars24) April 25, 2021
:D
re: #13 austin_blue
Restaurants Paying Overdue Bill For Long-term Labor Abuses
So, the temperature tomorrow will be 35 degrees higher than it was today. My joints are screaming already.
As a warm front lifts over southeast Michigan on Tuesday, highs could top 80, the National Weather Service said, more than 15 degrees above average for the date. https://t.co/HJiZxP2nlz
— The Detroit News (@detroitnews) April 27, 2021
re: #16 The Pie Overlord!
It was mid-80s here today, and scheduled for that tomorrow. Then dropping back down to the 60s. The cats went outside and stretched out longer and l-o-n-g-e-r and… I’m not prepared.
There were people who wore masks for immune-compromise protection BEFORE covid, many of them children and elderly. @TuckerCarlson is endorsing street violence infinitely more direct and harmful than ANYTHING Maxine Waters or any “leftist” has ever been accused of. He needs to go. https://t.co/f8m6WHdRVA
— MovieBob Productions (@the_moviebob) April 27, 2021
Many of Tucker’s followers are the Kyle Rittenhouse/George Zimmerman type. There will be people killed.
re: #8 The Pie Overlord!
This is happening everywhere.
“There is kind of some perverse incentives going on with the federal unemployment benefits that seem to be keeping people in on the unemployment rolls and out of the workforce, so competition with these enhance unemployment benefits that is compounding this problem,” Bock said.
🙄
Wherever they can get state Republicans to hire them, they’re going to take their ridiculous “audit” show on the road. pic.twitter.com/pSTe95Eeoj
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 27, 2021
re: #8 The Pie Overlord!
This is happening everywhere.
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there aren’t dozens of real americans lined up to do this work that would otherwise fall to “immigrants”?
does every American who wants a job, have a job?
oh wait, it’s not a living wage?
maybe it’s your business model and margins that suck
Michigan restaurants struggle with staffing amid pandemic https://t.co/vYOvAZVAkd
— ClickOnDetroit (@clickondetroit) April 27, 2021
re: #20 jaunte
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it’s just a sub-grift
brilliant
Wherever they can get state Republicans to hire them, they’re going to take their ridiculous “audit” show on the road. pic.twitter.com/pSTe95Eeoj
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 27, 2021
re: #22 Dangerman
“Refute” is an odd way to say “forge fraud.”
re: #22 Dangerman
it’s just a sub-grift
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That GUARANTEES they will claim they found something.
re: #13 austin_blue
“How much are you offering?”
“I can assure you it’s a very fair offer.”
“Then why do they laugh and leave?”
“Well, ummm, *I* think it’s a *very* fair offer.”
“Do you offer medical, vacation, and sick leave for full-time employees?”
“What the… Are you a Communist?”
“Yes, we’re looking for X years of experience in [some technological framework].”
“But the [framework] is only (X/2) years old!”
“Yes.”
It’s hard to live in a live in a world where “pink moon” is trending and it’s all about K-pop and there’s not a single Nick Drake mention.
There has been a major coronavirus outbreak among US diplomatic staff in India with two locally employed staff dying and more than 100 people testing positive in recent weeks. @jmhansler @kylieatwood @NicoleCNN https://t.co/khm80i673d
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 27, 2021
From the Well, This Sucks file.
One of the girls i work with died on Sunday night. Blood clot. Too late by the time she got to the ER. 40s. Looking like it was from J&J.
That’s some lottery level losing.
I don’t even know the symptoms if you’re experiencing a blood clot. Goddammitall.
re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
How sad. That’s so awful. My sibling had a clot and said it was the worst pain ever.
re: #30 plansbandc
My FIL died of a blood clot to the lung in 1979. What made it so sad was that he had all the symptoms, but we didn’t recognize it. What was worse, he went to the hospital about it, and THEY treated him for pneumonia, then sent him home because he didn’t have the blood values they would have expected for a lung infection. So he had the pain in his calf, and then in his thigh, and then in his lower back, and kept exercising, trying to ease it, threw some more clots, and collapsed.
full Q https://t.co/9LbNVtc6T4
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) April 27, 2021
I know she’s an actress. I checked IMDB, she’s never made anything I’ve been interested in watching.
re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From what I’ve read, the specific type of blood clot that the handful of J&J vaccine recipients had was in a specific vein in the back of their skull. The main symptom of this is the worst headache you’ve ever had in your life.
There’s a Medcram video in their COVID series about this specifically on youtube that goes into it in more detail.
re: #8 The Pie Overlord!
This is happening everywhere.
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These stories are everywhere for one reason and one reason only: The media helping to perpetuate the Repub talking point that “EVERYBODY’S TOO LAZY TO WORK BECAUSE THEY GET PAID BETTER ON UNEMPLOYMENT!!!”
re: #33 Dread Pirate Ron
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I know she’s an actress. I checked IMDB, she’s never made anything I’ve been interested in watching.
And Laura Ingraham is yapping that Bakari Sellers’ accent is phony.
Laura Ingraham says Bakari Sellers was “sporting an accent” she never heard him use on TV before pic.twitter.com/3yzDGWSryI
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 27, 2021
Laura, you gigantic piece of shit, I’ve been listening to Bakari talk, on TV and many, many times in person for many, many years, and his accent is the same as it’s always been.
You, Laura, on the other hand are the phoniest piece of guano I’ve ever seen or heard.
re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the Well, This Sucks file.
One of the girls i work with died on Sunday night. Blood clot. Too late by the time she got to the ER. 40s. Looking like it was from J&J.
That’s some lottery level losing.
I don’t even know the symptoms if you’re experiencing a blood clot. Goddammitall.
Absolutely sad. Based on the limited information we’ve been provided on J&J, it really seems that this vaccine should not be administered to women under the age of 50 until this has been investigated more thoroughly. Yesterday, Fareed had his normal opening statement when he repeated the common refrain about 6 out of 7 million (or maybe he referenced the 15 out of 8 million) inoculations having clots; but again this is the wrong comparison — you have to look at the demographic of these victims and how many of those being vaccinated were in this demographic. This type of outcome will discourage others from vaccination programs.
In between my first and second Moderna dose, we got a new pet to replace one which passed away from old age (he actually passed away on the day we got our first shots a few hours after we got home). I’m pretty much allergic to anything that has fur, feathers, or scales, so it takes awhile for my system to get used to it and not give me horrendous allergy symptoms. I have a policy with my gf that “as long as I don’t need an epi-pen for it, I’ll get used to it and won’t make you get rid of it.”
The allergy was particularly bad around the day of my second Moderna shot. A few hours after I got home I had basically full blown allergic conjunctivitis going on because of the new furry companion.
Shortly after that I started to get a headache behind that eye. Then it got worse, and worse. It finally surpassed the pain I had in previous migraines I had where I lost vision in one eye. Because I had just read about the J&J clots I started to get a little concerned. I thought about reporting it to the vaccine reaction site, but I talked myself off of that ledge though. Took a handful of Ibuprofen and a muscle relaxant and a 5 hour nap.
Woke up with a “post strain” kind of feeling around my eye that lasted until the next day but it’s been fine ever since.
Apparently my pet allergy is *really* bad with rabbits.
re: #38 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
I’m not sure whether to congratulate you on toughing it out, or bawling you out for not going to the ER!
re: #39 retired cynic
I’m not sure whether to congratulate you on toughing it out, or bawling you out for not going to the ER!
What stopped me from freaking out was I eventually recognized it as the same headache I had the couple of times I had actual bacterial conjunctivitis and figured it was just the allergies and me rubbing my eyes causing it. I checked on side effects to the Moderna vaccine and saw nothing like this listed.
re: #40 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Blood clots don’t seem to be a side effect of the RNA-type vaccines. Anyway, glad it was nothing worse, even if that sounds nasty.
re: #28 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the Well, This Sucks file.
One of the girls i work with died on Sunday night. Blood clot. Too late by the time she got to the ER. 40s. Looking like it was from J&J.
That’s some lottery level losing.
I don’t even know the symptoms if you’re experiencing a blood clot. Goddammitall.
If I recall correctly, it’s a specific combo of clotting as well as something involving low platelets ((immune) Thrombocytopenia). So, keeping an eye out for that then?
re: #18 DodgerFan1988
Many of Tucker’s followers are the Kyle Rittenhouse/George Zimmerman type. There will be people killed.
Harassing children with cancer to own the libs… 🙄
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 27, 2021
This is criminal solicitation, incitement and custodial interference. I think crazy @TuckerCarlson and his enabler @rupertmurdoch have finally jumped the shark and given every personal injury lawyer in America a free pass to sue them if anyone is harmed. https://t.co/kyyamUzneZ
— Tim Hogan (@TimInHonolulu) April 27, 2021
re: #22 Dangerman
it’s just a sub-grift
brilliant
This reminds me of Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” that claimed to have proven that Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery.
re: #43 Teukka
What about we make #HarassingImmunoSuppressedAndCancerKidsToOwnTheLibs trend? 🤔
— 😷 Teo 😷 (@Teukka72) April 27, 2021
re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter
Absolutely sad. Based on the limited information we’ve been provided on J&J, it really seems that this vaccine should not be administered to women under the age of 50 until this has been investigated more thoroughly. Yesterday, Fareed had his normal opening statement when he repeated the common refrain about 6 out of 7 million (or maybe he referenced the 15 out of 8 million) inoculations having clots; but again this is the wrong comparison — you have to look at the demographic of these victims and how many of those being vaccinated were in this demographic. This type of outcome will discourage others from vaccination programs.
We had a local case reported — a man, and the clot was in his leg (he’s “responding well to treatment”).
Carlson’s little rant really had more than just “harass people with masks,” such as starting off with declaring that anybody who describes themselves as “liberal” or “a Democrat” likely has mental illness, using the perceived “judginess” of people who wear their masks outdoors towards those who don’t as grounds for “confronting” them, and ends with declaring that children wearing masks outdoors are being subjected to “child abuse.”
The overall message? “These loony libs are trying to control us and we need to stop them!”
re: #46 Secret ANTIFA Operative
This reminds me of Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” that claimed to have proven that Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery.
Not that this matters but I will say it again. Even if Obama was born on the Moon he would still have had birthright citizenship because his mother was a US citizen at the time he was born.
They spent a whole lot of time and energy trying to prove something that wouldn’t even matter.
I’m sure telling them that will take care of all his legal problems.🙄
Is he trying for an insanity defense?
Seriously, no one’s that stupid…🤔— SoCo Watcher 🇺🇸🇺🇸END THE FILIBUSTER (@WatcherSoco) April 27, 2021
True leadership pic.twitter.com/bhc7JgGh1H
— Neil (@kndavidson) April 26, 2021
re: #48 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
We had a local case reported — a man, and the clot was in his leg (he’s “responding well to treatment.”)
But it is tough to know exactly if a vaccine caused a clot or not.
Somewhere around a half a million people in the US get blood clots in their legs every year.
With something this common, any single event can’t really be ascribed to a specific cause unless one can control the variables.
There is a reason they are squawking and allowing public access to the track.
— John Durkin (@John_P_Durkin) April 27, 2021
re: #53 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
But it is tough to know exactly if a vaccine caused a clot or not.
Somewhere around a half a million people in the US get blood clots in their legs every year.
With something this common, any single event can’t really be ascribed to a specific cause unless one can control the variables.
There’s a particular pathology associated with these blood clots (one of the reasons for the pause — they had to get the word out that the standard treatments actually make them worse), so I don’t think there’s any doubt. At least that’s the way it was reported.
re: #52 Dread Pirate Ron
He could use more delicate phraseology, but then he wouldn’t be Elon. Space is hard.
re: #56 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
There’s a particular pathology associated with these blood clots (one of the reasons for the pause — they had to get the word out that the standard treatments actually make them worse), so I don’t think there’s any doubt. At least that’s the way it was reported.
Lifetime use (between ages 18 and 48) of hormone-regulation oral contraceptives in women reportedly has a 1 in 1000 chance of causing a sinus blood clot. The J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines are thought to cause the same sort of blood clots in approximately 1 in a million vaccinations.
There are reported problems with the mRNA vaccines too but they seem to be either less severe or less common, possibly something like individual allergic reactions to the materials used to make the lipids and/or some of the adjuvants in the vaccine formulation.
re: #46 Secret ANTIFA Operative
This reminds me of Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” that claimed to have proven that Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery.
The one that got them lots of paid trips to Hawaii to “investigate”?
re: #58 Nojay UK
Lifetime use (between ages 18 and 48) of hormone-regulation oral contraceptives in women reportedly has a 1 in 1000 chance of causing a sinus blood clot. The J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines are thought to cause the same sort of blood clots in approximately 1 in a million vaccinations.
There are reported problems with the mRNA vaccines too but they seem to be either less severe or less common, possibly something like individual allergic reactions to the materials used to make the lipids and/or some of the adjuvants in the vaccine formulation.
There’s also been a case of a 70 year old woman in Sweden dying from the CoViD-19 type thrombocytopenia. Also, googling around a little, they are investigating a possible connection between thrombocytopenia cases as a side effect of Adenovirus based vaccines and H. pylori infection. On top of the birth control hypothesis. On top of the nicked-blood vessel during IM shot hypothesis.
NEW from Washington DC Metropolitan Police on possible #ransomware incident: “We are aware of unauthorized access on our server. While we determine the full impact and continue to review activity, we have engaged the FBI to fully investigate this matter”
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) April 27, 2021
re: #62 Teukka
that was me this morning. even without alarm clock
re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that was me this morning. even without alarm clock
re: #64 nowherenorth2
Every morning at 5 am
Me too.
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re: #65 Teukka
Me too.
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No known connection btw the Saudis blowing up a boat in the Red Sea and provocative behavior by IRGC boats vs US navy in the Persian Gulf, I think
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 27, 2021
Reminder that if you make minimum wage and work full-time, you qualify for food stamps.
Who pays for food stamps? You do.
Stop asking if the price of goods will go up if the minimum wage grows, and start asking why you’re subsidizing businesses to pay poverty wages.— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) April 26, 2021
re: #69 Dread Pirate Ron
I recall a statistic that every Wal Mart in America is “subsidized” by an average of some $900,000 annually in the form of benefits to its employees.
President Biden, in an effort to pay for his ambitious economic agenda, is expected to propose giving the Internal Revenue Service an extra $80 billion and more authority over the next 10 years to help crack down on tax evasion by high-earners and large corporations,” the New York Times reports.“The additional money and enforcement power will accompany new disclosure requirements for people who own businesses that are not organized as corporations and for other wealthy people who could be hiding income from the government.”
there’s a lot of money in enforcement of the rules
and it’s not unfair or targeting
it’s justice for all
your cheating affects me
re: #71 Dangerman
there’s a lot of money in enforcement of the rules
and it’s not unfair or targeting
it’s justice for all
your cheating affects me
“Economic profiling”
COMING TUESDAY: @CDCgov to update outdoor mask guidelines for vaccinated Americans - @saraecook & @Alexander_Tin report https://t.co/BmeQ4Gl5Ep
— Ed O’Keefe (@edokeefe) April 26, 2021
re: #26 Barefoot Grin
It’s hard to live in a live in a world where “pink moon” is trending and it’s all about K-pop and there’s not a single Nick Drake mention.
okay, that’s freaky. before I read your comment, I started listening to “Pink Moon” off the album because it was sitting a couple rows below the Nazareth album I’d been listening to out of Itunes.
re: #73 Dread Pirate Ron
I do not wear a mask outdoors unless I am in places where it is mandated, such as in the supermarket parking lot or in a downtown pedestrian precinct.
re: #51 Dread Pirate Ron
Trump’s CFO is essentially going with the “just following orders” routine? Yeah, that’s a good look. Prosecutors love that shit. Because that guarantees conspiracy, RICO (suave), accessory, and leads directly to Trump himself who ordered these kinds of financial moves, regardless of the legality of them.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because they’ve been paid substandard wages, Walmart employees end up having to get SNAP or other govt assistance, like Medicaid. They buy food at Walmart with SNAP too, which further benefits Walmart.
re: #80 Dangerman
Fox News host admits his show was wrong about Biden limiting red meat consumption
Oh dear
Uh huh.
Carly Shanahan of Fox’s media relations department declined to comment on Monday when asked whether these hosts would also acknowledge they were inaccurate.
Natch.
Morning.
Let’s talk about Tucker Carlson’s little rant about masks….https://t.co/8Ujlm4bQsO
— Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) April 27, 2021
Oh, this can only end well. James O’Queefe (term borrowed from Fark) has sued CNN.
OhgoodyjustwhatIwanted. https://t.co/DmdeDCEHPI
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 27, 2021
Second analysis shows that people in their late 60’s (on Medicare) actually have substantially *lower* health spending than people in their early 60’s (on employer coverage), despite the fact that health care use increases with age.
Why? It’s the prices. https://t.co/oUCw8b8y92— Cynthia Cox (@cynthiaccox) April 27, 2021
Psaki to conservative reporter invoking concern by “tens of millions” that Biden isn’t advancing unity for reasons including failure to meet w/House GOP leader McCarthy:
“do you think tens of millions of people are concerned about the president not meeting w/Kevin McCarthy?”— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) April 26, 2021
“The president’s view is that bringing the country together is bringing the American people together” https://t.co/aoeaJeUi7k
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 26, 2021
How it’s starting./How it’s going.
How it started: How it’s going: pic.twitter.com/y0hbIL7C99
— Paris Marx ☭ (@parismarx) April 26, 2021
re: #85 Belafon
The president is advancing policies that are supported by the majority of ALL AMERICANS, not just Democrats and not just Republicans. That is bipartisanship; that is encouraging unity. Who gives a flying fuck if he refuses to meet with some asshole who can’t even admit he won a free and fair election?
Ravaged by Covid, Brazil faces a hunger epidemic. Tens of millions of Brazilians are facing hunger or food insecurity as the country’s pandemic crisis drags on, killing thousands of people daily https://t.co/Xee6LJCFcV
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 26, 2021
Just in time for Fucker Carlson’s order:
As Michigan grapples with a surge of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations, state officials have expanded the mask mandate to include children as young as 2 https://t.co/E7KGoOEJGZ
— CNN (@CNN) April 26, 2021
re: #88 Belafon
I’m surprised none of our gliberterian Congresscritters has made one of these pictures up yet….
Vile and disgusting. https://t.co/l4x5PBc4eu
— Dr. Faris Durmo Biber MD., BSc. (@Dr_FarrisD) April 25, 2021
re: #86 Sherlock Hound
How it’s starting./How it’s going.
They were uber-optimistic.
Self-driving trucks will be a thing by the end of the decade, cars will follow, at which point two major employment categories will have been all but eliminated, currently around 4.5 million in total
re: #88 Belafon
Ravaged by Covid, Brazil faces a hunger epidemic. Tens of millions of Brazilians are facing hunger or food insecurity as the country’s pandemic crisis drags on, killing thousands of people daily
Remember those statements from GOP politicians about how “people die of Covid but they also die of poverty”?
Brazil is showing us the worst of both worlds…
re: #78 lawhawk
Trump’s CFO is essentially going with the “just following orders” routine? Yeah, that’s a good look. Prosecutors love that shit. Because that guarantees conspiracy, RICO (suave), accessory, and leads directly to Trump himself who ordered these kinds of financial moves, regardless of the legality of them.
Youre the cfo of a multi million million business and you dont know the applicable rules and regs?
and you signed stuff anyway?
Total bullshit
re: #51 Dread Pirate Ron
Trump Organization CFO Weisselberg Offers One of the Worst Excuses/Defenses Ever: “Legality is Not Really My Thing.”
Anyone who works for Trump knows that Following Orders takes precedent over Following the Law.
re: #94 Dangerman
Youre the cfo of a multi million million business and you dont know the applicable rules and regs?
and you signed stuff anyway?
Total bullshit
The entire concept of legal liability is intended for just such cases as these. Trump’s defense will be, “It’s not my job to know the financial regs, that’s why I hired him,” and he’d be right, and this guy will get completely demolished. And then someone else will hire him anyway.
re: #96 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The entire concept of legal liability is intended for just such cases as these. Trump’s defense will be, “It’s not my job to know the financial regs, that’s why I hired him,” and he’d be right, and this guy will get completely demolished. And then someone else will hire him anyway.
Because he has proven that he is loyal.
WV is now paying people to get vaccinated, which I suggested here before, because it’s so important to get to herd immunity.
Good idea, we need to get to herd immunity!
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) April 27, 2021
Just a thought- have you noticed that the “star journalists” of the Trump Era- Maggie, etc. - are pretty irrelevant now? Access is what made them then. Other journalistic tools aren’t in their tool box. So you have to ask about the price of access.
— Armando (@ArmandoNDK) April 27, 2021
re: #98 No Malarkey!
West Virginia will give a $100 savings bond to each resident age 16-35 who gets a COVID vaccine.
And this is why people aren’t applying for those open positions at McDonalds!!!
Shall we start a pool to guess what day Fucker Carlson will be sued for the nonsense coming out of his mouth?
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And this is why people aren’t applying for those open positions at McDonalds!!!
Looking forward to my 17 year old finally getting a job for the summer. Wouldn’t risk it last year, but she’s getting her second shot Thursday. She wants to work retail, not food, though.
re: #96 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The entire concept of legal liability is intended for just such cases as these. Trump’s defense will be, “It’s not my job to know the financial regs, that’s why I hired him,” and he’d be right, and this guy will get completely demolished. And then someone else will hire him anyway.
if trump signed any tax return or filing he did it under penalty of perjury, and the declarations are pretty straight forward. agree or don’t sign.
one example
Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return and accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, they are true, correct, and complete.
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And this is why people aren’t applying for those open positions at McDonalds!!!
Still costs $50 to buy a $100 bond…$50 doesn’t go very far even in West Virginia…
re: #101 🌹UOJB!
Shall we start a pool to guess what day Fucker Carlson will be sued for the nonsense coming out of his mouth?
I believe a court already held that no reasonable person would believe him.
Mood. https://t.co/33VJNMzON5
— Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter-Poza (they/she) (@rpbp) April 27, 2021
re: #101 🌹UOJB!
Shall we start a pool to guess what day Fucker Carlson will be sued for the nonsense coming out of his mouth?
“I was kidding. It was a joke. No sane person could take me seriously”
re: #107 Dangerman
“I was kidding. It was a joke. No sane person could take me seriously”
I was going to say, let’s not forget that Fox News represented, in court, that Fucker Carlson is not a factual news source and that no reasonable person can take what he says seriously.
re: #101 🌹UOJB!
Shall we start a pool to guess what day Fucker Carlson will be sued for the nonsense coming out of his mouth?
Is Tucker Carlson Losing His Mind?
Playbook: “OK, some of you will argue that he lost it long ago. But as careful students of his evening show, we’ve noticed that Carlson has gradually become more unhinged in recent weeks. He’s devoted enormous attention to apologias for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists. He seemed noticeably perturbed the night that Derek Chauvin was found guilty. And under the banner of just asking questions! he has given quarter to anti-vaxxers and Covid-19 conspiracists.”
“But on Monday night, during a rant where it was hard to tell whether Carlson was serious or not — his Trump-like way of distancing himself from the content of his monologues is to always keep you guessing as to whether he’s just putting you on — Carlson made a comment that was beyond the pale even for him, and especially strange for a self-styled anti-nanny state libertarian
re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They were uber-optimistic.
Self-driving trucks will be a thing by the end of the decade, cars will follow, at which point two major employment categories will have been all but eliminated, currently around 4.5 million in total
If that was so—10 years to deployment—we’d see self-driving in actual use somewhere, and it would be more advanced than what Tesla is doing in production cars. Elon would be chauffeured by a Level 5 Tesla. Even if it were just rumored, it would be an advance.
If fully autonomous vehicles are nearly here, why didn’t they drive the ISS astronauts to the launch pad last week? Elon makes a show of driving them in Tesla Roadsters, but they used human drivers. For that matter, why not try the technology in the new tunnel system now under Las Vegas? Even the rumors of such would say something.
re: #110 Sherlock Hound
If that was so—10 years to deployment—we’d see self-driving in actual use somewhere
Not sure why you think that would be true. We’re already seeing various levels of self-driving in personal vehicles, and the technology is moving pretty quickly. And it’s being tested in smaller ways. My son’s college has a fleet of delivery robots from its store and cafeteria throughout the campus.
Just confirmed with @California_ISO that CA set an “instantaneous” clean energy record on Saturday. Just after 2:28pm, 94.5% of electricity on the state’s main power grid came from solar, wind & other renewables.
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NY is shutting down Indian Point nuclear power plant in coming months, which means we’ll be seeing more natgas usage in the interim as wind/renewables will need to take up the slack as they’re rolled out. NY is planning on the nation’s largest offshore wind power projects (9,000MW combined), but it’ll be into the 2030s before it’s fully deployed. It shouldn’t take that long but we’ve got to develop the infrastructure to make that happen (Albany and Brooklyn are going to be maritime hubs for the gear before it gets deployed).
A major offshore wind farm is supposed to be coming to New Jersey in next few years, but that’ll power Southern NJ with 1100 MW (enough for 500,000 homes).
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is emerging as the chief obstacle to quick passage of President Biden’s $2.25 trillion infrastructure package that Democrats want to move through Congress sooner rather than later,” The Hill reports.“Manchin is ramping up discussions with Republicans about what a scaled-down infrastructure package should look like, and some GOP senators are even optimistic that the moderate Democrat can be persuaded to block efforts to raise the corporate tax rate.”
Everyone needs to calm down.
10 rs will never agree to anything
Less than 10 and ” bipartisan ” is not worth the cost.
Hes giving the rs rope to hang themselves. If they can get a bipartisan plan out Manchin will emerge as..well somethimg.
If they can’t he just falls back on Biden’s extremely popular plan.
“It’s all theater. He wants to appear to be at loggerheads with Dems, who will ultimately offer Manchin something nice for WV and he’ll relent. When the bill does come to a vote, then he can say to his constituents in West Virginia (who voted for trump by a whopping 39% !!!), “Well, I tried to be more fiscally conservative by offering X, Y, and Z alternatives. While I would have wanted a scaled-back bill, this bill does A, B, and C for West Virginia, which is far better than no bill at all. I vote Aye.”
re: #111 Belafon
Not sure why you think that would be true. We’re already seeing various levels of self-driving in personal vehicles, and the technology is moving pretty quickly. And it’s being tested in smaller ways. My son’s college has a fleet of delivery robots from its store and cafeteria throughout the campus.
“Various levels” is doing a lot of work. Either the capabilities are controlled, or the environment is.
re: #98 No Malarkey!
I’ve suggested that needs to be the approach Czech Republic should pursue; well, that and actually having the vaccines to begin with.
My idea - pay everyone 5,000 Kč to get vaccinated (about $200 USD). Cold, hard cash, tax-free. 2,000 the first dose, the remaining balance of 3,000 when they get the second dose.
The country would be vaccinated in no time at all.
Some fucking idiot replied to my comment about restaurant industry not being able to find workers:
Pie: Food service workers have been overworked and underpaid more than most other industries. Pay employees more and improve their work environment is a better way to attract quality talent than waiting for starving, desperate people to crawl begging. I don’t even know why this is an issue.
Some Fucking Idiot: It is an issue because people have been living more than comfortably off the government for more than a year now. Most people have no desire to work if all their bills are paid even if they can earn more money in workforce. How can the unemployment rate be so high simultaneously with a record amount of job openings?
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
Some fucking idiot replied to my comment about restaurant industry not being able to find workers:
Some Fucking Idiot: It is an issue because people have been living more than comfortably off the government for more than a year now. Most people have no desire to work if all their bills are paid even if they can earn more money in workforce. How can the unemployment rate be so high simultaneously with a record amount of job openings?
$2,000 barely covers one month rent here in Los Angeles.
Tents have sprung up all over the city. Lots of sidewalks are completely blocked by them and people are forced to walk in the roadway.
re: #115 Sherlock Hound
“Various levels” is doing a lot of work. Either the capabilities are controlled, or the environment is.
I suspect it will be a combination of both. And then I expect some places to advertise it. “Would you like to be able to see the sights when driving to your destination? Our roads are properly maintained - smooth and properly striped - so that you can let your car do the driving so that you can enjoy the view.”
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
Some fucking idiot replied to my comment about restaurant industry not being able to find workers:
Pie: Food service workers have been overworked and underpaid more than most other industries. Pay employees more and improve their work environment is a better way to attract quality talent than waiting for starving, desperate people to crawl begging. I don’t even know why this is an issue.
Some Fucking Idiot: It is an issue because people have been living more than comfortably off the government for more than a year now. Most people have no desire to work if all their bills are paid even if they can earn more money in workforce. How can the unemployment rate be so high simultaneously with a record amount of job openings?
They are not living wage jobs so only jobs “technically”
People want to save money for their future
No one wants to live paycheck to paycheck even if their income comes as ui benefits
re: #118 🌹UOJB!
$2,000 barely covers one month rent here in Los Angeles.
Tents have sprung up all over the city. Lots of sidewalks are completely blocked by them and people are forced to walk in the roadway.
I was going to say, $2000 won’t get you very far up here in the wild north country. You can probably find a way to live in one of the cheaper suburbs for that price, or in a low-income part of downtown, but it’s going to be poverty-level life and you’ll be lucky if you can make it more than a month.
re: #112 lawhawk
NY is shutting down Indian Point nuclear power plant in coming months, which means we’ll be seeing more natgas usage in the interim as wind/renewables will need to take up the slack as they’re rolled out. NY is planning on the nation’s largest offshore wind power projects (9,000MW combined), but it’ll be into the 2030s before it’s fully deployed. It shouldn’t take that long but we’ve got to develop the infrastructure to make that happen (Albany and Brooklyn are going to be maritime hubs for the gear before it gets deployed).
A major offshore wind farm is supposed to be coming to New Jersey in next few years, but that’ll power Southern NJ with 1100 MW (enough for 500,000 homes).
Cancer rates will skyrocket! ////
re: #119 Belafon
I suspect it will be a combination of both. And then I expect some places to advertise it. “Would you like to be able to see the sights when driving to your destination? Our roads are properly maintained - smooth and properly striped - so that you can let your car do the driving so that you can enjoy the view.”
“No pedestrians allowed!”
re: #121 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I was going to say, $2000 won’t get you very far up here in the wild north country. You can probably find a way to live in one of the cheaper suburbs for that price, or in a low-income part of downtown, but it’s going to be poverty-level life and you’ll be lucky if you can make it more than a month.
Sfi’s argument is asinine
“comfortably”
Eta: oh wait more than “comfortably”
re: #118 🌹UOJB!
$2,000 barely covers one month rent here in Los Angeles.
Tents have sprung up all over the city. Lots of sidewalks are completely blocked by them and people are forced to walk in the roadway.
I live on slightly more than $2,000 a month. That said, it’s a lot cheaper to live here than Los Angeles or Chicago or New York. (I would really like to get my mother to abandon Chicago, it is a drain on our budget to support her there. When the house across the street came up for sale, my wife and I were ready to write a cheque for it to buy for her to live in, but she refused … she doesn’t want to live in a small town.)
re: #123 Sherlock Hound
“No pedestrians allowed!”
“Jaywalking will get you killed.” Which is already a thing.
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
Some fucking idiot replied to my comment about restaurant industry not being able to find workers:
Pie: Food service workers have been overworked and underpaid more than most other industries. Pay employees more and improve their work environment is a better way to attract quality talent than waiting for starving, desperate people to crawl begging. I don’t even know why this is an issue.
Some Fucking Idiot: It is an issue because people have been living more than comfortably off the government for more than a year now. Most people have no desire to work if all their bills are paid even if they can earn more money in workforce. How can the unemployment rate be so high simultaneously with a record amount of job openings?
They’re making the same complaint here in Nebraska (blaming unemployment). Nebraska has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation.
As the newspaper article I posted yesterday noted, one restaurant owner was complaining that his entire staff quit when a new factory owner hired them all away from him with hiring bonuses and promise of much larger pay.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I live on slightly more than $2,000 a month. That said, it’s a lot cheaper to live here than Los Angeles or Chicago or New York. (I would really like to get my mother to abandon Chicago, it is a drain on our budget to support her there. When the house across the street came up for sale, my wife and I were ready to write a cheque for it to buy for her to live in, but she refused … she doesn’t want to live in a small town.)
Pay for your town to get high speed internet and that might finally get her to move. That’s what it would take to get me to live in a small town.
re: #94 Dangerman
Youre the cfo of a multi million million business and you dont know the applicable rules and regs?
and you signed stuff anyway?
Total bullshit
The exact stuff that McCain-Feingold was enacted about. You sign off on accuracy and legality of financials as an executive.
My wife works for a medical billing company from home. She interacts with a lot of automated systems over the phone. I am really impressed with how advanced they are now. They are able to recognize her saying a long string of numbers better than I can. Not just the memory part, but she said a few numbers really close together and I would have needed her to clarify them, but the phone system got it right the first time.
re: #128 Belafon
Pay for your town to get high speed internet and that might finally get her to move. That’s what it would take to get me to live in a small town.
She doesn’t use the Internet.
The real issue is she doesn’t want to leave her friends there. She will offer excuses (Chicago has lots of museums - you don’t go to museums; Chicago has public transportation - so do we; &c).
re: #62 Teukka
me this morning for damn sure. The yard guys are now here making a racket, so staying in bed was not an option.
Good Mornin’ everyone…except Spicer. Fuck that guy.
Shut up and eat your 4lb Biden beef allotment, you lying sack of shit.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 27, 2021
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She doesn’t use the Internet.
The real issue is she doesn’t want to leave her friends there. She will offer excuses (Chicago has lots of museums - you don’t go to museums; Chicago has public transportation - so do we; &c).
“OK, mom, how many friends do we need to move?” :)
re: #133 darthstar
Oh Spicy we know every word out of your mouth is a lie.
Even when you fart and belch you lie.— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 27, 2021
re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
She doesn’t use the Internet.
The real issue is she doesn’t want to leave her friends there. She will offer excuses (Chicago has lots of museums - you don’t go to museums; Chicago has public transportation - so do we; &c).
I had enough of the winter of 78/79 in Chicago and the humidity in the summer. It was so bad that’s why I transferred out of there as soon as I could!
Love to see people smack down Spicy!
fact check:
- DHS is not handing out Harris books
- beer is plant-based
- Biden is not coming for your meat
- Biden is not coming for your guns
- masks work
- Q isn’t real
- Trump lost the election
- Trump’s inaugural crowd was minuscule
- Republicans are whiny grievance-babies— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) April 27, 2021
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I live on slightly more than $2,000 a month. That said, it’s a lot cheaper to live here than Los Angeles or Chicago or New York. (I would really like to get my mother to abandon Chicago, it is a drain on our budget to support her there. When the house across the street came up for sale, my wife and I were ready to write a cheque for it to buy for her to live in, but she refused … she doesn’t want to live in a small town.)
you sure that’s the reason? ;-)
re: #136 🌹UOJB!
I had enough of the winter of 78/79 in Chicago and the humidity in the summer. It was so bad that’s why I transferred out of there as soon as I could!
That must’ve been one hell of a winter, because it was a plot point in an episode of Good Times - I still remember that all these decades later.
re: #139 Dr Lizardo
That must’ve been one hell of a winter, because it was a plot point in an episode of Good Times - I still remember that all these decades later.
That is the reason I relocated to Arizona
re: #117 The Pie Overlord!
Some fucking idiot replied to my comment about restaurant industry not being able to find workers:
Pie: Food service workers have been overworked and underpaid more than most other industries. Pay employees more and improve their work environment is a better way to attract quality talent than waiting for starving, desperate people to crawl begging. I don’t even know why this is an issue.
Some Fucking Idiot: It is an issue because people have been living more than comfortably off the government for more than a year now. Most people have no desire to work if all their bills are paid even if they can earn more money in workforce. How can the unemployment rate be so high simultaneously with a record amount of job openings?
Dunno about Michigan, but here’s the calculus for Arizona: The minimum wage is $12.15/hour. *If* (and that’s a big IF) you’re on unemployment, you’re picking up the measly $240/week provided by the state plus the $300/week provided by the federal government. That’s $540/week or $13.50/hour.
Now the calculus: you can’t rent an apartment ANYWHERE in the state of Arizona on $13.50 an hour, and I am sure this is the case pretty much anywhere. Oh, and on top of that, the unemployment money runs out.
There was a woman who runs one of those home healthcare outfits down in Tucson bitching to a TV stationthat she couldn’t compete with the state “paying” a dollar more (actually $1.35) in unemployment and she couldn’t find enough people to employ. My response: AIN’T NOBODY GETTING RICH ON $13.50/hour, THAT SHIT ENDS and YOU’RE NOT PAYING ENOUGH.
re: #139 Dr Lizardo
That must’ve been one hell of a winter, because it was a plot point in an episode of Good Times - I still remember that all these decades later.
Lived on Harrison St. in Oak Park, one block west of Chicago.
Streets unplowed for 3 weeks.
Could not get to the L station which was 2 blocks away.
Could not get out of the building on the 1st floor.
Couldn’t get to work or class.
Did stock up on Bisquick, Log Cabin Syrup, Powdered Milk, Oleo & Sanka and that’s what I ate for a whole week.
Summer—humidity far worse than anything I ever experienced in Pittsburgh.
Glad I got out!
re: #142 🌹UOJB!
Lived on Harrison St. in Oak Park, one block west of Chicago.
Streets unplowed for 3 weeks.
Could not get to the L station which was 2 blocks away.
Could not get out of the building on the 1st floor.
Couldn’t get to work or class.
Did stock up on Bisquick, Log Cabin Syrup, Powdered Milk, Oleo & Sanka and that’s what I ate for a whole week.
Summer—humidity far worse than anything I ever experienced in Pittsburgh.
Glad I got out!
Indiana university ran out of coal and had to shut down for Spring Break three weeks early. We then had to make up the missing classes by attending on Saturdays.
@FoxNews has a bullshit problem. https://t.co/rC4LiRICyN
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 27, 2021
re: #136 🌹UOJB!
I had enough of the winter of 78/79 in Chicago and the humidity in the summer. It was so bad that’s why I transferred out of there as soon as I could!
It’s both colder in the winter and hotter in the summer here. Plus the occasional tornado and softball-size hailstorm.
Rioter Who Posed in Pelosi’s Office Argues for Release: I Called Her a ‘Biatch,’ Not ‘Bitch’
Nice try cracker ass.
Have fun in jail!
re: #146 🌹UOJB!
Rioter Who Posed in Pelosi’s Office Argues for Release: I Called Her a ‘Biatch,’ Not ‘Bitch’
Nice try cracker ass.
Have fun in jail!
And the difference between the two is… oh, right, one of them will get you around a bunch of content filters on the Internet. That means it’s totally not the same thing, nothing to see here, move along.
It’s nice to see the world returning to normal, in which Erick, son of Erick, posts a spectacularly idiotic take.
Hey, Google? Show me a catastrophic failure of self-awareness. https://t.co/INxUUjT30x
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) April 27, 2021
thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210425 edition ———————->
“Ta-da”
Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion
re: #148 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s nice to see the world returning to normal, in which Erick, son of Erick, posts a spectacularly idiotic take.
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Yeah, let’s discuss the various trans bills Republicans are trying to pass, Erick.
Construction Workers Accidentally Discovered a Pair of Priceless Lost Renaissance Frescoes
The pieces were found at the Uffizi Gallery, which is in the midst of an extensive restoration project
architecturaldigest.com
While working on an extensive restoration project at the world-renowned Uffizi Gallery in Florence, a couple of construction workers happened upon two Renaissance-era treasures: a pair of frescoes depicting none other than Duke Ferdinando I de Medici and his son Duke Cosimo II de Medici, both of whom ruled over Florence in the 16th and 17th centuries, respectively. The two long-lost portraits had been covered up by plaster sometime during the 18th century, which was not unusual during that period of time.
No illustrations of the frescoes, unfortunately.
re: #148 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Really?
That’s all you and especially your Pulpit Pimping Bible Beating Preachers and Priests do!
Example #1 James Dobson and his Beat Your Kids book!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) April 27, 2021
re: #149 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
The Iris are blooming here and they are gorgeous. Really a nice blooming year.
My favorite flower.
In 1983 the Oscars went w/4 hosts- Walter Matthau, Liza Minnelli, Dudley Moore & Richard Pryor.
They decided it’d be a good idea have them open w/a song: “It All Comes Down To This.”
Friends, I give you the Star Wars Holiday Special of opening numbers:https://t.co/3Tt8gxzCrD— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 27, 2021
re: #148 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s nice to see the world returning to normal, in which Erick, son of Erick, posts a spectacularly idiotic take.
‘It’s not safe’: Parents of transgender kids plan to flee their states as GOP bills loom (NBC News)
George and Emily Spurrier are leaving their home of 16 years in central Arkansas due to a new law that will ban the health care that they say their 17-year-old transgender son needs.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, vetoed the measure earlier this month, calling it “a vast government overreach.” But the Arkansas General Assembly overrode the veto, and the bill will become law this summer.
Emily Spurrier said when her son heard the news, he sat in her car and cried for an hour.
“It was just kind of a wave of emotions, thinking about moving and then him worrying about some friends that he has here in the Little Rock area,” she said. “And then just the thought that this is really the only place he ever remembers living.”
(more)
re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
‘It’s not safe’: Parents of transgender kids plan to flee their states as GOP bills loom (NBC News)
(more)
GOP: WE DEMAND THAT DEMOCRATS NOT ABUSE THEIR KIDS BY FORCING THEM TO WEAR MASKS AGAINST THEIR WILL!!!
Also GOP: WE DEMAND THAT YOU LET US MOLEST AND SEXUALLY ABUSE YOUR CHILDREN JUST IN CASE THEY MIGHT BE THE WRONG GENDER!!!!
re: #157 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
‘It’s not safe’: Parents of transgender kids plan to flee their states as GOP bills loom (NBC News)
(more)
The cruelty is exactly the point.
re: #110 Sherlock Hound
If that was so—10 years to deployment—we’d see self-driving in actual use somewhere, and it would be more advanced than what Tesla is doing in production cars. Elon would be chauffeured by a Level 5 Tesla. Even if it were just rumored, it would be an advance.
If fully autonomous vehicles are nearly here, why didn’t they drive the ISS astronauts to the launch pad last week? Elon makes a show of driving them in Tesla Roadsters, but they used human drivers. For that matter, why not try the technology in the new tunnel system now under Las Vegas? Even the rumors of such would say something.
We do see self-driving cars in use. Waymo is live.
Why 2021 Will Be The Year Self-Driving Cars Go Mainstream (Forbes)
Well, let’s see… I currently have ~$900 in bills a month (rent & utilities) and at my usual 32 hours a week schedule I have a gross income of $1600 so $2000 a month would be a “raise” for me. That said, working at the hotel is better than most jobs up here so I stick with it.
re: #152 retired cynic
Construction Workers Accidentally Discovered a Pair of Priceless Lost Renaissance Frescoes
The pieces were found at the Uffizi Gallery, which is in the midst of an extensive restoration project.
architecturaldigest.comNo illustrations of the frescoes, unfortunately.
Here we go: here’s an article with an illustration of the Cosimo II fresco.
And scroll down here for a portrait of old Coz and his dad, Ferdinando
Shitfire.
A uniquely anti-democratic effort is brewing in Michigan, where Republicans back a remarkably restrictive package of voting bills w/ @PomTerkins https://t.co/F1FODvV3ZB
— Sam Levine (@srl) April 26, 2021
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Indiana university ran out of coal and had to shut down for Spring Break three weeks early. We then had to make up the missing classes by attending on Saturdays.
They still had a huge pile of coal at all times just off of 10th st. behind the Geology building when I was there in the ’90s. I’m sure it’s gone now though.
re: #160 Punish Domestic Terrorists
We do see self-driving cars in use. Waymo is live.
Why 2021 Will Be The Year Self-Driving Cars Go Mainstream (Forbes)
I normally don’t have anything good to say about contrarian luddites, but this story from 2018 struck me as perversely amusing, if not exactly admirable:
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
The natives appear to have been badly triggered by the machines. I think that something beyond the expressed safety concerns is driving this.
re: #165 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I normally don’t have anything good to say about contrarian luddites, but this story from 2018 struck me as perversely amusing, if not exactly admirable:
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
The natives appear to have been badly triggered by the machines. I think that something beyond the expressed safety concerns is driving this.
I’m surprised more guns weren’t involved considering the location.
This guy is a multi-millionaire agribusiness owner. He announced yesterday he is running for Governor in the GOP Primary. (The GOP side has several candidates, including the former governor.)
Herbster: I said listen, if it’s the difference between disloyal to President Donald J. Trump or becoming the governor of Nebraska, I will not be disloyal to the 45th President of the United States.
— Aaron Sanderford (@asanderford) April 26, 2021
Spreading the same lie.
Herbster: If I have to spend every dime I have I will fight the overreach of the federal government. Governors are going to have two jobs. 1, to lead the state. And governors are the last line of defense between freedom and lack of freedom coming out of Washington, D.C.
— Aaron Sanderford (@asanderford) April 26, 2021
re: #76 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
It all seems so pretty… until they have to go to sleep at night:
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We had a large flock of starlings overwinter in one of our horse barns one year. It was absolutely ghastly, and filthier than you can imagine, although the images of those cars come close. We tried owl statues, but that did not seem to bother them. Thank gracious, it was just the one winter, although we did have resident pigeons to keep our supply of bird poop “healthy”.
Herbster: Joni Ernst (of Iowa) isn’t the only person who knows how to castrate a pig.
— Aaron Sanderford (@asanderford) April 26, 2021
re: #146 🌹UOJB!
Rioter Who Posed in Pelosi’s Office Argues for Release: I Called Her a ‘Biatch,’ Not ‘Bitch’
Nice try cracker ass.
Have fun in jail!
using the british spelling won’t help //
re: #146 🌹UOJB!
Rioter Who Posed in Pelosi’s Office Argues for Release: I Called Her a ‘Biatch,’ Not ‘Bitch’
Nice try cracker ass.
Have fun in jail!
Why would it matter what he called her anyway? Speech is still free, I am pretty sure that isn’t what he was arrested for.
re: #173 danarchy
Why would it matter what he called her anyway? Speech is still free, I am pretty sure that isn’t what he was arrested for.
Also, bitch vs. biatch, it kinda sorta sounds like a tactic that a SovZit would try in court…
re: #37 Hecuba’s daughter
Absolutely sad. Based on the limited information we’ve been provided on J&J, it really seems that this vaccine should not be administered to women under the age of 50 until this has been investigated more thoroughly. Yesterday, Fareed had his normal opening statement when he repeated the common refrain about 6 out of 7 million (or maybe he referenced the 15 out of 8 million) inoculations having clots; but again this is the wrong comparison — you have to look at the demographic of these victims and how many of those being vaccinated were in this demographic. This type of outcome will discourage others from vaccination programs.
From a CNN article:
This is not a run-of-the mill blood clot. The clotting disorder, TTS, that’s believed to be associated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, is a combination of blood clots and thrombocytopenia, or low platelets. This combination is extremely rare, and it’s very serious. Out of the 15 women who developed TTS, three have died. Seven are still in the hospital, and four are in critical condition. It’s not accurate to compare TTS with the normal kind of blood clot, or deep vein thrombosis.
In addition, the risk of TTS may be 15 out of 8 million when we look at the population, but the CDC projected that there would be 13 cases of TTS in a million if we’re looking at the very specific population of women less than 50 years old. That’s 1 in 80,000.
It really seems to me that this vaccine should not be administered to women younger than 50, given there are alternatives available.
re: #165 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I normally don’t have anything good to say about contrarian luddites, but this story from 2018 struck me as perversely amusing, if not exactly admirable:
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
The natives appear to have been badly triggered by the machines. I think that something beyond the expressed safety concerns is driving this.
That came after a pedestrian was killed by a driverless car.
Ah, I see the PA GOP is already saying they will get rid of Democrat Conor Lamb’s district when they draw the lines for 2022…
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That came after a pedestrian was killed by a driverless car.
Which shows how irrational these people are. We don’t see them attacking cars with human drivers, which kill pedestrians all the time.
And in the latest episode of STUPID TREK, Jerkoff John Kennedy makes an ass of himself on Twitter again.
You know more about being stupid than anyone. You demonstrated that when you asked @staceyabrams a woman that knows more about voting restrictions than anyone in this country the question that she used to wipe away that stupid smug look of yours….stupid is as Kennedy does
— JRstone324 (@rstone324) April 27, 2021
re: #179 🌹UOJB!
Cops are necessary. As is my hammer. But I don’t use my hammer to brush my teeth. It’s time to make it so that cops have a correctly scoped job to do and hold them accountable for doing it.
re: #178 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Which shows how irrational these people are. We don’t see them attacking cars with human drivers, which kill pedestrians all the time.
rage against a different machine
re: #146 🌹UOJB!
Rioter Who Posed in Pelosi’s Office Argues for Release: I Called Her a ‘Biatch,’ Not ‘Bitch’
Nice try cracker ass.
Have fun in jail!
Judge should have said you’re going to “jaial”
re: #180 Belafon
Cops are necessary. As is my hammer. But I don’t use my hammer to brush my teeth. It’s time to make it so that cops have a correctly scoped job to do and hold them accountable for doing it.
re: #175 Hecuba’s daughter
From a CNN article:
It really seems to me that this vaccine should not be administered to women younger than 50, given there are alternatives available.
Nebraska has reauthorised using the Johnson + Johnson vaccine.
Restart of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine: A doctor explains why benefits far outweigh risks (Omaha World-Herald, yesterday)
First, the side effect is rare. According to the agencies, it has occurred at most in one in 100,000 young women receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. No men nor women over 50 are thought to have had this side effect. Second, the J&J vaccine is highly effective at preventing COVID-19, which is a common and severe infection that has killed 1 in 500 Americans.
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If @GovRicketts wants to waste his obscene amount of inherited wealth on a failed run for President in 2024, that is probably one of the least harmful uses of his time. https://t.co/tAl9VePfPr
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) April 26, 2021
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
That came after a pedestrian was killed by a driverless car.
I’m still much more afraid of goober-driven vehicles than I am of self-driven ones.
Instead of giving the correction the same front page treatment for being completely and utterly bulkshit, they just disappear the story and right wingers will repeat the lie anyways.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 27, 2021
Proof these fuckers don’t care about facts or reality:
After four years of nonstop gaslighting, you’ll lie and spread nonsense about the lies spewed by Fox without any actual evidence or proof.
Go crawl back into the hole you came from.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 27, 2021
Milo Spitz pic.twitter.com/pX2rIYWWLh
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 27, 2021
re: #139 Dr Lizardo
That must’ve been one hell of a winter, because it was a plot point in an episode of Good Times - I still remember that all these decades later.
That winter caused my parents to flee Cleveland for California after I was almost born in the back of the van due to the snow.
re: #186 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’m still much more afraid of goober-driven vehicles than I am of self-driven ones.
Only goober driven cars will deliberately mow down lawful protestors.
re: #152 retired cynic
Construction Workers Accidentally Discovered a Pair of Priceless Lost Renaissance Frescoes
The pieces were found at the Uffizi Gallery, which is in the midst of an extensive restoration project
architecturaldigest.comNo illustrations of the frescoes, unfortunately.
When I was at the Uffizi, they were relocating huge sculptures, by Michelangelo, I think. It was fun to watch.
re: #155 plansbandc
The Iris are blooming here and they are gorgeous. Really a nice blooming year.
My favorite flower.
Me too.
re: #186 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’m still much more afraid of goober-driven vehicles than I am of self-driven ones.
Me too.
re: #190 DesertDenizen
Only goober driven cars will deliberately mow down lawful protestors.
Oh just wait for a hacker to gain control of driverless vehicles…
re: #187 lawhawk
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Instead of giving the correction the same front page treatment for being completely and utterly bulkshit, they just disappear the story and right wingers will repeat the lie anyways.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) April 27, 2021
absence of malice
paul newman - wrongly accused in a newspaper article.
sally field - the reporter
SF: Look, if they clear you, I’ll write about that too.
PN: What page?
SF: ….
PN: You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say he’s innocent, nobody cares.
SF: That’s not the paper’s fault, it’s people. People believe whatever they want.
PN: Who puts out the paper? Nobody?
re: #189 DesertDenizen
That winter caused my parents to flee Cleveland for California after I was almost born in the back of the van due to the snow.
Wow. Sounds like that winter must’ve been one for the history books.
re: #189 DesertDenizen
That winter caused my parents to flee Cleveland for California after I was almost born in the back of the van due to the snow.
Wow. Sounds like that winter must’ve been one for the history books.
re: #194 🌹UOJB!
Oh just wait for a hacker to gain control of driverless vehicles…
At the local U, they have delivery drones on wheels, on sidewalks. They behave pretty well, seem to see pedestrians well, and defer to them. They are about the size of an ice chest. I found it difficult not to place my empty, disposable coffee cup on one. Fortunately, a trash can appeared.
re: #198 Dr Lizardo
Wow. Sounds like that winter must’ve been one for the history books.
thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210425.2 edition ———————->
“Ta-da 2”
Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion
ok, so i had a little fun for an hour
Good idea, if we see parents letting their child watch @TuckerCarlson we must call the police and child protective services. https://t.co/6IrujI5U33
— chris marshall (@dbcdthumper5) April 27, 2021
re: #202 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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I’d call Adult Protective Services on anyone watching Tucker Carlson, as they clearly lack the judgment and skills to care for themselves.
re: #199 wrenchwench
Also at the local U, F. King Alexander is out, they had an acting president for a few weeks, now they have an interim president. F. King apparently did not president well at his previous job, and the local search committee somehow failed to notice. The Board at the local U decided to keep him, then the faculty senate voted to fire him and everyone on the Board. F. King was gone a couple days after that.
The search continues.
The problem here is that mask-holes will see this as a license to not mask up.
CDC says fully vaccinated Americans can go without masks outdoors except in crowded settings - The Washington Post https://t.co/L3nlhBpn3M
— Joseph Lewczak (@Truth_Seeker59) April 27, 2021
If I raised my hand any higher, I’d dislocate my shoulder. pic.twitter.com/ebAEEHpNtB
— Arch (Jewish Space Laser Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) April 27, 2021
re: #194 🌹UOJB!
Oh just wait for a hacker to gain control of driverless vehicles…
If the RWNJs get the civil war they lust for, robots will be major weapons for both regular and irregular anti-insurgent forces. The right wing side will, of course, continue to put total faith in their commercial small arms. Even their Russian allies will be little help.
re: #195 Dangerman
The next to last scene in the courthouse with all of the relevant parties and they meet with the character Wilford Brimley (where he steals the entire damn movie) illustrates the recklessness in how the media can wield its power. I gotta believe Rupert watched that movie and instead of learning the cautionary message, applied it as a primer for how to operate.
It’s easy to be cynical, and also usually accurate.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 26, 2021
re: #210 Dangerman
I used to feel that way. //
The next time you hear Republicans rail against Biden’s capital gains tax, remember that it would affect only the richest 0.32% of Americans.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 26, 2021
Good on ya, Liz…
Yeah @RepLizCheney said it and she’s right #Disqualified https://t.co/4S1MUwNF6A
— Michael Steele (@MichaelSteele) April 27, 2021
from 2 years ago
America is a country where billionaires find it cheaper to finance elections to get people in who will cut their taxes than to just pay the taxes. This is called democracy, apparently.
— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) February 9, 2019
re: #211 retired cynic
I used to feel that way. //
That’s why my sweetie goes by the name Head Cynic.
wapo
Catherine Rampell: “See, the White House proposal had been framed as new infrastructure money, on top of whatever the government was already expected to spend on roads, bridges, airports, broadband, etc., if existing laws and programs continue without changes.”
“The Republican plan, by contrast, takes credit for all this already scheduled spending when calculating its total.”
“That’s significant because the ‘baseline’ spending (roughly $379 billion over the next five years) represents almost all of what Republicans have offered up. Once you strip out this already expected spending, the entire GOP plan is a mere $189 billion of new money.”
re: #165 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I normally don’t have anything good to say about contrarian luddites, but this story from 2018 struck me as perversely amusing, if not exactly admirable:
Wielding Rocks and Knives, Arizonans Attack Self-Driving Cars
We don’t have an answer for those displaced. There aren’t enough “green” jobs for everyone. The techbros are saying, “The future doesn’t need you. Go die already.”
We use the term “luddites” to mean the green crunchiest who want to abolish technology. But the man for whom the term was coined, Ned Ludd, was just a regular artisan whose livelihood was endangered.
I’d fight, too.
The natives appear to have been badly triggered by the machines. I think that something beyond the expressed safety concerns is driving this.
re: #212 Dangerman
Biden’s tax plan wouldn’t affect the middle class or the poor, except that they’ll benefit from the infrastructure investments. GOPers will claim that this damages the economy and that the poor and middle class will somehow feel all the negative effects of the tax hikes on the richest 1% of the nation while getting no benefit.
SS/DD.
It’s why the GOP fixates on the marginal rate and that the Biden tax hike is huge, when it’s a reversion back to the pre-TCJA rate for corporations or millionaires.
It wasn’t so long ago when the top tax rate was 50% but that hit only the richest of rich (and the effective rate is so much lower than that - the top rate only hits income over the top bracket threshold). If you never make that much money, you never see that rate.
Oh, and the longstanding claims that high taxes are causing people to flee states like NY? It’s bullshit. Even with a pandemic and tax hikes, NY came within 89 people of retaining its congressional delegation. How’d that happen? Immigration and people wanting to come to NY for opportunities that they can’t get elsewhere.
Here are the CDC’s new recommendations for when to wear a mask and when not to. pic.twitter.com/NfcOz0tLh9
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) April 27, 2021
Weaponizing child protective services against parents whose children follow CDC guidelines for mask wearing is vicious and cruel. As a former child abuse prosecutor, I can tell @TuckerCarlson that masking a child and beating a child are NOT remotely the same. #FireTuckerCarlson
— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) April 27, 2021
re: #186 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I’m still much more afraid of goober-driven vehicles than I am of self-driven ones.
I really wonder what the expected number of people killed by rolling coal per passenger mile is compared to the number of people killed by bugs in self-driven cars.
Between car accidents caused by lack of visibility, and to a lesser extent increased pollutants in the air, I suspect that rolling coal causes more deaths per mile.
I just want to say this: If I ever have the opportunity to start a new thread I will say t-FTC (Fuck Tucker Carlson). I know that Fuck Tucker sounds better, but FT could be Fuck trump. I want to be clear about who I think needs to get fucked. Tucker has earned my scorn. I have spoken.
re: #223 I Would Prefer Not To
I just want to say this: If I ever have the opportunity to start a new thread I will say t-FTC (Fuck Tucker Carlson). I know that Fuck Tucker sounds better, but FT could be Fuck trump. I want to be clear about who I think needs to get fucked. Tucker has earned my scorn. I have spoken.
This grandson of a slave owning, Confederate blockade runner, Tucker Carlson, actually said seeing a kid wearing a mask is “the same as seeing a kid getting beat at Walmart” and you should call child protective services.
He said that.
On air.
With a straight face.
He’s crazy. pic.twitter.com/EKyhfS2mo7— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) April 27, 2021
re: #223 I Would Prefer Not To
I just want to say this: If I ever have the opportunity to start a new thread I will say t-FTC (Fuck Tucker Carlson). I know that Fuck Tucker sounds better, but FT could be Fuck trump. I want to be clear about who I think needs to get fucked. Tucker has earned my scorn. I have spoken.
So it
re: #217 Sherlock Hound
I know about the real Ned Ludd. He was a victim of abusive labor practices rather than of technology. After 200+ years of common use, the term has little if anything to do with him and his actual complaints. It is a common, and very useful, designator for an eternally present class of resisters. Sometimes this is not a bad thing. It is easy to think of examples where someone should have said “Hey, let’s think this through a little more.” It is also a reflex of the conservative and fearful, one that is easily exploited by vested interest (Big Oil and alternate energy, for example).
re: #223 I Would Prefer Not To
I just want to say this: If I ever have the opportunity to start a new thread I will say t-FTC (Fuck Tucker Carlson). I know that Fuck Tucker sounds better, but FT could be Fuck trump. I want to be clear about who I think needs to get fucked. Tucker has earned my scorn. I have spoken.
I just prefer to call it Fucker Carlson. Fits that pompous ass to a…”T”…
re: #227 🌹UOJB!
I just prefer to call it Fucker Carlson. Fits that pompous ass to a…”T”…
FCT
F—- Cucker Tarlson !
re: #226 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I know about the real Ned Ludd. He was a victim of abusive labor practices rather than of technology. After 200+ years of common use, the term has little if anything to do with him and his actual complaints. It is a common, and very useful, designator for an eternally present class of resisters. Sometimes this is not a bad thing. It is easy to think of examples where someone should have said “Hey, let’s think this through a little more.” It is also a reflex of the conservative and fearful, one that is easily exploited by vested interest (Big Oil and alternate energy, for example).
They’ll be replaced by Big Tech. They already are. This technology is not neutral. It never was.. I don’t want to hear people push this as the future, but at the same time, lecture us on wealth inequity. I can easily see Bernie Sanders bought off by Google, just as the arms companies did.
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