Well, Election Day is here. Everybody make their predictions in the comments. I’ll give mine now: the Republicans hang on by a thread to a majority in the House but we won’t know that for a few days as several elections end up being too close to call tonight. They also gain 3-4 seats in the Senate and solidify their majority there. Not sure how the statehouse races go, but it looks like Dems will gain a governorship or two.
Sports news: the Cowboys have no offense and their QB is not going to make it in the NFL. Your hockey winners were: Montreal, New Jersey, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia (with their idiotic mascot). UCL returns today , and matchday 4 promises to bring a lot more clarity to who will advance to the knockout rounds from several groups. Have fun watching if you’re lucky enough to get the chance.
Today is the birthday of: Ottoman Sultan Sueiman the Magnificent, composer John Philip Sousa, basketball inventor and Canadian-AMERICAN James Naismith, hurler Walter Johnson, actress (before she became an activist) Sally Field, singer Glenn Frey, actor Ethan Hawke, football player and Army Ranger Pat Tillman, the lovely Emma Stone, and tennis star Ana Ivanovic.
Its also the day on which the following is celebrated (or reviled) for happening: Canada celebrated their first Thanksgiving Day, the commies bombed the Winter Palace in Petrograd to start the October Revolution, the first electric razor was patented, the first carrier landing was made with a. jet airplane, “Meet The Press” made its debut, Ted Kennedy was first elected Senator (and he celebrated with a drink…or 12), the Ayatollah took control of the Iranian government, Fernando Valenzuela became the first rookie to win the Cy Young award, Boris Yeltsin outlawed the communist party in Russia, Holyfield defeated Bowe for the heavyweight title and Art Modell announced that the Cleveland Browns were officially moving to Baltimore.
OK, now on to…the links!
Hey dumbass, when your ilk say this every two years without fail, it kinda loses its luster. Also, if you really gave a shit, you’d be working all the time on issues, not just for a few weeks every couple of years in an attempt to keep your face in the spotlight. Also also: shut up and dance.
This is a very refreshing sight. I hope the trend continues.
If this surprises you at all, you’ve been living under a rock. In fact, I daresay everything before the ellipses should probably be considered a scientific law by now.
If you think for a second that you actually own your own property in San Francisco, then think again. Jesus, I could just imagine them coming to collect that fine in a city that hasn’t all but confiscated everyone’s guns. This is almost as outrageous a violation of their rights as I can imagine.
Just when you think a city government couldn’t get any more absurd with their priorities, Chicago says “hold my beer”. Not only are they stupid as shit-looking, they’re going to cause accidents, they’re going to become expensive to maintain (and yes, the city will ultimately pay for them), and they take away valuable spaces for…the cars people must drive to come into these areas and spend money.
OK, create a catchy headline I could have made up for this, because I’m drawing a blank. I suppose it could be something to do with “Hamburglar” but I can’t quite come up with it. Either way…what a dumbass.
You know, if he would have moved to do this a month ago, the election would be a lock. I’m still skeptical, but not because of Trump himself. Rather because of those he’s surrounded by (on both sides of the aisle) seeing the value in a perpetual police state.
Sometimes the birthdays are skimpy. Today is one of those days. But I’m gonna do my best. And yes, that will include The Eagles. And also a poorly-produced Miami Vice audition tape. Man, the 80’s was shit awesome.
Anyway, go vote. Or don’t. I don’t give a shit about that as much as I do your ability to bitch about all of the assholes in here.
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627 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
What’s more pernicious, the lack of electoral choice or the illusion of electoral choice?
The lack of illusory electoral choices
Vote early and vote often??
Double dipping greedy Je…Old Man!
Thanks for pimping my Twatter feed. And I’ll see your pimp and raise you one.
Ha! I didn’t know any of the county board candidates, they had no party affiliation listed on the ballot, and you were supposed to vote for 7 out of about 11 choices. So I wrote in STEVE SMITH.
AND BY WROTE IN, MEAN….
HEY! VOTING BOOTH SUPPOSED TO BE PRIVATE!
If I am pro electoral choice, does that mean the constituents can choose to abort their elected politician up to the point where said politician is sworn in?
Now this is a proposal that should be on the ballot…
I think even after swearing in, they aren’t a viable politician until they’ve actually made it into the office.
https://youtu.be/mv9cWgkpIZ4
Then fact that you have a choice between being hit with a bat made of either pine or fir does not mean you do not have a choice. The choice between having your left testicle (or boob for the womenfolk) or your right one chewed by a rabid weasel is still a choice.
Being forced to pay protection money is not made legitimate just because you are given the choice of paying either the Genovese family or the Gambino family.
No. But it is still a choice.
A rundown of forms of government, stripped of the attempt at legitimacy indoctrinated into citizens at government schools:
Democracy: the mob chooses between the functional equivalent of the Genovese family or the Gambino family ruling them.
Constitutional Republic: the mob chooses between the functional equivalent of the Genovese family or the Gambino family ruling them, but with representation from people chosen by the mob, with the representatives who win the elections publicly anointed as made men or women of the Genovese family or the Gambino family, so long as they swear to follow rules which they have no intention of following. Eventually becomes Democracy.
Monarchy: Either the Genovese family or the Gambino family rules via hereditary succession, with inbreeding amongst the rulers.
Socialism: Either the Genovese family or the Gambino family rules, but with an insane economic model that incentives people not to work, plus a police state to futilely try to stave off the inevitable collapse.
Fascism: Socialism with the pretense that people own stuff, even though effective control is with either the Genovese family or the Gambino family.
Communism: Socialism, good and hard.
National Socialism: the worst aspects of both socialism and fascism, plus racism. And concentration camps.
I like it – succinct.
Sicilian: Genovese, Gambino, and a bunch of other families rule, along with the Church, which incentivizes earning money and being charitable.
Anarchy: either Genovese or Gambino become government. See previous post
So, the difference between Heaven and Hell is that in Hell they have elections?
I was just hating everybody then I came here and saw this post and feel a little better.
Trust yourself: hate always pays off.
I can’t afford to get fired. I was thinking about putting a sign on my office door saying “politics free zone”, but that’s a pussy move like safe spaces. I’ll just have to nut up and nod along. There’s no point in engagement in NYC
How about a sign that just says “fuck off” ?
Tard Tuesday Electoral Edition: Voting is a Bitch
This is why I don’t click Twitter links
But you’ve gotta click this one just for the responses:
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1059553661586567168?s=21
Let’s just have everyone vote for the party of their choice and let the parties sort out the actual representation. That will be great.
WTF is a “House popular vote”?
It’s a new Democrat talking point which has no basis in reality but which they will use to try to illegitimize an unfavorable outcome in the House.
Wait, you mean if the Dems don’t win the House, they’re NOT just going to quietly accept it?
Heads will assplode.
It’s what you say when you’re so fucking retarded that you think seats in the house of representatives are picked by the electoral college just like the presidency.
Best Waffle.
Pumpkin. It’s savory enough that you can eat it with eggs and it still works.
“House popular vote”
Some new talking point. I suppose it means getting the most votes across all races combined. Democrats have renounced the concept of divided sovereignty and districted representation. It’s retarded.
this person is joking right?
“If you think for a second that you actually own your own property in San Francisco, then think again. Jesus, I could just imagine them coming to collect that fine in a city that hasn’t all but confiscated everyone’s guns. This is almost as outrageous a violation of their rights as I can imagine.”
I was out there just last month for a conference, and what a shit show. This whole thing is predicated on pissed off hotel owners sicking government against people that have hurt their monopoly and ability to charge insane rates for shitty services. This is what having government pick winners & losers looks like, but these idiot progs can’t even fire a couple of neurons to see that what happens when government has this power is that the unaccountable bureaucrats run a system where connected make good, the dependent barely get enough as long as they stay on the plantation, the middle class is destroyed, and the rest are just all serfs.
“There is no affordable housing! You, over there, your rents are low because you’re not providing adequate housing! I wouldn’t live there! So I’m going to shut down this slum!”
“WE will perpetuate the housing crisis, thank you very much.”
Classic Bootleggers and Baptists.
Tard Tuesday Electoral Edition: <a href="https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211370419" title="T(ards) E(lecting) A(nother) M(oron)” target=”_blank” >T(ards) E(lecting) A(nother) M(oron)
*EDIT FAIRY CAN NO HELP YE*
I tarded that one up
Yes, yes you did…
Yea, Quit monkeying around.
OK, create a catchy headline I could have made up for this, because I’m drawing a blank. I suppose it could be something to do with “Hamburglar” but I can’t quite come up with it. Either way…what a dumbass.”
PATRIARCHY!
I got nothing else either…
Maybe that joke about the universe being in competition with whatever where whatever is trying to create a better idiot proof system, but the univers keeps creating better and bigger idiots…
You should see what he did when Wendy turned him down.
*simultaneously narrows gaze and slow claps*
Dude threw his life away for beer money. Fuck that idiot.
What is worse Suthen? Telling people to hold your beer while you engage in some deadly stunt, or doing what this moron did? Inquiring minds want to know.
Tard Tuesday Electoral Edition: Extra Tardy Edition
Tard Tuesday Electoral Edition: Sciencing Our Way to a Better World
Excerpts from Scientific American’s Twitter Feed
It’s sad that all these once excellent publications have been overrun with politics.
The long, slow march through the institutions is nearly complete.
I dont think words mean what they think they mean.
The shitting on the credibility of science is, in my eyes, the greatest crime the left has committed. So far.
It is a shame that a publication I once revered and read when I was a young and aspiring STEM dude, has fallen this far. This shit is as far away from science and as close to cult/religion as you can get. I remember when the left told us the SoCons would ruing the world for the rest of us with their unscientific beliefs, and here we are 3 or 4 decades later, and it is all being done by marxist leftists.
The rise of scientism is something anyone with a bit of awareness should have predicted (and probably did). When something has a great reputation, by virtue of strings of successes, charlatans and power-seekers will seize on and avail themselves of that reputation.
And they’ll mostly get aware with it. “You’re not smart/educated enough to criticize these things.”
away with it**
Have you had your tonsils out? If you’re a millennial, the answer is probably no. Tonsillectomies, once all the rage in the mid-to-late 20th century, have fallen off sharply in recent decades.
They may not have fallen off far enough, though. A new study suggests that seven of every eight tonsillectomies in Britain weren’t actually necessary.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/11/05/tonsillectomy-tonsils-removed-unnecessary/#.W-GQguKxVaQ
You know who else did something that caused rage during the mid- to late-20th century?
The Umbrella Corporation?
-1 Raccoon City
Elderly drivers?
The original Sargon of Akkad?
Tom Morello?
Steroid-using weightlifters?
Still have mine. I’ll die with them unless they cause me some debilitation that’s riskier than surgery.
My first-ish memory was getting my tonsils removed. I was 4. I just kept getting strep throat. I wore a Ninja Turtle gown. The doc had the face mask on and donned one of those old-timey lights on his head. I drank the snot-colored and flavored sedative. He had a crazy look in his eye.
“You’re going to go to sleep! And I’m going to be inside your mouth!”
Those were the words I heard right before I lost consciousness.
Everyone tells you that you get all of the ice cream you want after getting your tonsils taken out. I didn’t get any. Weirdly, I was given copious amounts of chili and perhaps that’s the reason that it is still my favorite food. I have a pot on the stove all ready to go but the simmering.
*Stares coldly at wall, unblinking*
>>“You’re going to go to sleep! And I’m going to be inside your mouth!”
OMWC perks up.
50. Still got mine.
63 and still have mine.
Tonsillectomies were basically a scam by the medical profession.
I never got strep again.
eh, two out of three of my kids had them removed. The first one had glue ear and the ENT said it was the worst case he had seen in a year, and the second was just constantly sick. Both improved immediately afterwards. The third didn’t need it done.
I should have said the near-mandatory tonsillectomies that were a rite of passage for kids whose parents could pay for it in the mid-twentieth century.
I had mine out and continued to have ENT problems.
Millennial lacking tonsils here, #feelsspecialsnowflakeman
Maybe prophylactic amputations aren’t such a good idea after all.
*Bombs a synagogue*
Dickpixfordems
I’m volunteering. Who’s with me?
If you own any Under Armour stock, sell it.
Since when did the entirety of female sexuality, both consensual and non, get lumped into the #metoo movement?
Feminism really is the ugly girls lashing out because they can’t get men to look at them adoringly.
You can say that last part again Trashy.
::checks to see how this might effect Tom Herman’s recruiting strategy::
Nevermind, they’re a Nike school. He’ll be fine.
TEXAS IS:
[ ] BACK
[X] NOT BACK
Tom Herman needs to stop being a whiny little bitch about our close losses. I blame coming up under Urban Meyer.
::shakes fist::
toldjaso:
Don Escaped Texas on October 30, 2018 at 8:11 pm
Don’s Most Over-rated (first Committee-style!)
1 Syracuse
2 Virginia
3 UCF
4 Kentucky
5 Washington State
5 Boston College
7 NC State
8 Notre Dame
9 Iowa State
10 LSU
11 Florida
12 Texas
12 WVa
TAMU has to be up there. I’m surprised ESPN couldn’t find a way to keep them in the top 25 with 4 losses.
I’ll have my update out after today’s Committee but will wait on Baked’s NFL notions before I post at Glib: I’m too random and OT to cram it in any other time on a respectable site that is dedicated to philosophy and breasteses.
My guess is that the Committee will get A&M about right. For what it’s worth, I hate all things A&M, but they’ve still had the second hardest season so far, so their terrible results aren’t surprising. My list isn’t about ability; it’s about confirmation bias and how gullible and obviously wrong people often are. Pointing out that others are wrong is pretty much the easiest way to be right just about all the time; where logic and data are at play, it’s shooting fish in a barrel.
But who’s going to protect this house?
Waters (L) for senate, McAdams (R) for house, abstained on attorney, and ‘no’ on two discriminatory property tax exception amendments. And keep your dammed “I Voted” sticker. I don’t need the gov’t treating me like a child leaving the doctors office.
I don’t need the gov’t treating me like a child leaving the doctors office.
Here in Northern Illinois, we don’t get that sort of condescension. At our polls, if you vote and don’t cry, you get a Tootsie Roll Pop.
I thought that was the incentive for climbing into your polling place.
*stands to begin thunderous ovation*
The old coots at my polling station get perturbed if you don’t take the sticker. I think Seinfeld stole the ribbon gag from them.
Hey if there was candy, I’d take that.
The hourly workers are required to bring in their sticker to get paid for voting time.
Then again, they get paid for voting time. And overtime.
#beingsalariedisascam
So in a hilarious turn of events, there was a measure on the ballot asking if the county should become a sanctuary county for gun owners should the state attempt to interfere with our Second Amendment rights. Hilarious, of course, for turning Democrats’ own tactics against them. I didn’t know in advance – I’ve been sick of politics lately and thus lazy in that regard- but I was pleased to vote “Yes”. 😉
“Sanctuary county for gun owners” is some epic trolling.
Welcome aboard. Now fuck off, Tulpa.
Jane Fonda: “Midterms Are the Most Important Elections of My Lifetime”
Until the next one.
Isn’t she like a 100? And I bet she voted for the assholes who got us into Vietnam and fucked it up by the numbers.
Actually Jane and I share the same birth year. I know exactly how old she is and you are pretty doggone close, Drake
Was it ever determined if she actually banged NVA while she was down there?
The NPC generator: Most important elections in history.
Remember Anna Merlan? The arrogant feminist chick who helped launch Robby Soave’s career during the UVA?
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One of the weirdest things about this era is that we have a president who openly lusts after his own daughter and it’s considered gauche to talk about it
3:44 PM – 5 Nov 2018”
Yup. Still a poor *investigative* journalist.
Wow.
I am not sure how she could get creepier.
Heh. I didn’t think about that. There’s perhaps some projection going on.
First rule of Progressive Club: ALWAYS PROJECT.
Oh yeah? Do you have a journalism degree from Columbia?!
No, but I play one on television
Hot damn. There’s some daddy issues projection if I’ve ever seen any.
Shorter Anna Merlan:
“Why doesn’t dad return my phone calls???”
Return phone calls? That shit was in the rear view mirror years and years ago.
Now it is “Why did my dad change his name and phone number? Where the hell did he go? The checks stopped showing up!”
Well, that seems fair. After all the Minnesoda media won’t even consider talking about our rising superstar brother fucker*. This article really does have some incriminating photos of Omar being in touch with the man she claims disappeared from her life in 2011.
*She really didn’t fuck her brother, but she did marry him to get some sweet financial aid from NDSU
We’ll have to judge her based on her cultural norms of getting anything you can for your family. In that light she is golden.
Checks Middle East porn
She really didn’t fuck her brother
And we know this how, exactly?
She was still living with her current (and former I guess) husband at the time?
If you look at their time at NDSU it becomes pretty clear that she “married” her brother so they could rack up student financial aid.
She was still living with her current (and former I guess) husband at the time?
And?
she “married” her brother so they could rack up student financial aid.
Could have been “double dipping”, IYKWIMAITYD.
After a week in Texas, I see the political ads there are just as retarded as in Penna. In Penna. however, they tie Republicans to a a wicked Trump whereas in Texas the Republican candidates are proud to be on Trump’s side. But both sides are trying to scare voters (even if msm commentators think only Trump is trying to scare voters) with “he’ll slash your social security” or “do you want illegal immigrant gang members invading your neighborhood.”
A former colleague in D/FW area (a delegate to a national GOP convention) supports Trump but had hoped his “diarrhea of the mouth” would have ended when he was inaugurated. He believes Trump rhetoric will cost the GOP at least two House seats in Texas alone. Nationally, I think the Dems pick up 30 seats and take the House but GOP will control Senate by 3 or 4 seats (another oppty for large gains goes away due to Trump hatred). Far from fulfilling their campaign promises to be independent, and “work across the aisle,” all the new Dem congresscritters will jump to support Pelosi and pile on the “Impeach Trump” bandwagon. I really expect to see lots of gleeful faces tomorrow on the non-Fox news and talk shows.
Our local Team Blue asshole has been stuffing our mailbox daily (and sometimes twice daily) with scary campaign ads prominently featuring his Team Red opponent’s picture next to the huge headline “CHILD MOLESTER.”
Of course, you know who we’re voting for.
My wife and I (north Jersey) both voted for the first time in about 10 years. Straight Republican because the Dems need to be punished for their behavior. Not that it will likely happen in NJ even with a corrupt cunt like Menendez, but still.
It’s like they want you to vote for the Team Red candidate
I generally don’t vote for Team Red candidates, but this will be an exception.
I have felt now for too long that I am forced to vote for team red to stop the idiocy and evil of team blue. After the Kavenaugh debacle I am now convinced that team blue people would rather destroy the country and its people than lose their grip on power, which forces me to keep doing this even though I had become tired of it.
Yeh well one could only hope enough people think like you to at least not give them the House.
If anything to SHUT OBAMA UP. Or at least, we can pile on him for being useless.
I would’ve liked to have been able to write in a candidate, but fuck Jennifer Wexton. She campaigned on getting rid of the tax cuts. The same ones that put hundreds of dollars into each of my paychecks this year.
The democrats want to get rid of the tax cuts because it basically got rid of the loophole that allowed blue states super rich democrats to deduct their state taxes from their fed taxes. Once that ability went away and blue state taxes became penalties for these team blue rich people that used to get away with pretending they liked high taxes because they had a loophole to avoid them anyway, it became a problem. But the democrats are totes against the tax cuts because they were favoring the 1%ers.. Yeah…
You want to send the competition to DC?
I am so happy to have gotten free Pandora Premium a while back. Between not turning on the TV and just streaming shows after the fact, I’ve heard none of the radio commercials, only a handful of video ads, and just tossed the piles of fliers that do their best to make me hate their candidate more (Fuck you DeWine, and Fuck you too Cordray).
This is a very refreshing sight.
Something similar happened for teh gays after the Pulse nightculb shooting. Self defense is a right and virtue.
I’ll go vote after work. My son just turned 18 and wants to go with me. Last night he said he was going to vote for any Libertarians he sees on the ballot, otherwise Republican.
Bob Menendez is supposed behind in the polls but I’ll still be surprised if his thoroughly corrupt, bribe-taking, under-age-whoring, worthless hide isn’t reelected.
Just remember how the Dems roll, if Hugin’s margin of victory is small, the Dems will manufacture enough fraudulent votes to put Menendez over the top.
Sure. It’s not as if winning a fraudulent election would tarnish Bob Menendez’s reputation.
Oh, My Beloved Country, You Let Us Down
When fascism actually comes, nobody will be able to recognize it.
I say we have already had fascism-light for more than a decade (if not more). The Obama years was all about government picking winners & losers, and that is the central tenet of fascism. With the left now unhinged that they no longer have power, I can see them dropping fascism-light for the real deal, be it full bore fascism or even all out marxism, camps an all.
We have had fascism light, since fdr, and the government has only grown over the years.
Dick Cheney under-appreciated again
Why blame Cheney? GWB was a socialist. WTF do you think that “Compassionate Conservatism” was all about huh?
“…This topic is one that has often confused many liberals. We research, fact check, and verify and then when we give the conservatives the information they simply reject it. You see, it doesn’t play into their small-minded idea of what is happening and therefore, doesn’t exist.”
https://democracyguardian.com/conservatives-just-arent-smart-enough-to-know-the-difference-e03b336324b5
The projection is powerful with this one.
Yeh. It’s the opposite honey. The progressive left are like that.
“…You see, conservatives simply can’t tell the difference between reality and their own version of what is going on. They don’t know credible versus outlandish, verifiable versus fiction.”
Novi is a loon pretending to be an intellectual. A true believer, if you will.
There’s no way these people read history. None.
Actually Rufus, I think they read books like “1984”, “Brave new World”, and a lot of the other dystopian work produced by people warning about the evils of a top down “supposedly benevolent” system, and figured these were instruction manuals.
I’m sure they read A People’s History of the United States.
(Hi, Rufus. No, I’m not working.)
The projection is powerful with this one.
So much so that she should have “Panasonic” tattooed to her forehead.
Projection, it’s what they do.
You may not be living well if you’re glad your parents are dead.
Various terms have been thrown around including the fact that American has finally succumbed to the greed of capitalism
Scratch away the surface and you get a commie 10/10 times.
And we are quite possibly LESS capitalistic than earlier in our history due to the vast number of regulations. Capitalism is being redefined before our very eyes.
As soon as government gets in the business of deciding who wins and who loses, we are not really doing capitalism. I am not even sure I would call it crony capitalism at that point.
Teddy Roosevelt held huge campaign rallies where he called (his former bosom chum) Taft “a Puzzlewhip” and said Taft “…has the brains of a retarded hamster”. The broadsheets published about Jefferson and his relations with Sally Hemings were quite detailed in their accusations. Hell, Jefferson’s own VPOTUS was a paid agent of the King of Spain who was working to subvert the Louisiana Purchase. Do they no longer get taught history in the schools?
History is still taught:
1) White Europeans came over and stole America from the native people
2) White Europeans used biological weapons against the native people
3) White Europeans caused World War 1
4) Capitalism caused the Great Depression, and we were only saved once the Great Society was formed
5) White Europeans were literally Nazis
6) Communism was tried by the wrong top men, it will still work with the right top men
7) America elected a literally Nazi to president
I think I got most of it there.
You forgot:
8) Democrats freed the slaves
9) Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act
10) Republicans founded the KKK
etc. etc.
You are correct, I missed those teachings of history.
So we are talking about marxist revisionist history…
I thought Harriet Tubman and MLK freed the slaves.
“Puzzlewit”
Not to be confused with a “pizzle whip.”
Bloody awesome. Thanks. Now i want a pizzle whip AND I learned honeyfuggler.
America to this loser: “Gargle with a bag of diseased dicks”
rude, crass, uneducated, creepy, prejudice, bigoted, hate, and violent behavior.
But enough about
AntiProfa.Um, the violent behavior is a big part of why we did so well. All the rude, crass, uneducated creepy bigots decided that their neighbors who were just as rude, crass, uneducated, creepy bigots would be best left alone because they might get violent if you hassled them.
So for the most part people were left alone to get their freak on. It is only recently as the threat of getting their ass beaten, that people are becoming more and more comfortable talking about their “right” to other peoples’ stuff.
Well said Jimbo.
“You have lost your moral compass of dignity and grace, replacing it with rude, crass, uneducated, creepy, prejudice, bigoted, hate, and violent behavior.”
Why this discussion of Lyndon Baines Johnson?
Who’s the singer giving the finger? I presuming, naturally, it’s directed at an image of Trump.
Cher.
Could just be debilitating arthritis.
I thought it was Kathy Griffin who was trying to be more civil than her usual severed head commentary.
#metoo
Looks like Cher
Cher or possible Edward Scissorhands. To be fair, they might be the same person
Never besmirch the good name of Edward Scissorhands by comparing him to Cher!
I belive the real Cher died in 1996. What you see is her many implants becoming sentient by feeding off her corpse.
Calm down there, sin azúcar. Election day holds enough horrors.
Paging Sug…
I totally thought that was Kathy Griffin.
Cher should get her money back.
If you think for a second that you actually own your own property
Not related to that story, but as long as property taxes exist you can’t own your own property.
What happens when the news media is exposed to have pushed some extremely flimsy gang rape allegations? Well, they just go on lying, pretending as if no one ever cared about such allegations.
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1058704277265440768
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1059655049712943104
Always double down, this is the Trump era after all.
Don’t forget to add blame Trump for the climate your constant lying and propagandizing have created…
Boofieleaks
@notwokieleaks
“Brett Kavanaugh, you stand accused of causing bee colonies to collapse. You have the power to destroy bees merely by touching them.”
*swarm of bees is released*
Kav: “Get these fucking bees off me!”
“Maybe you didn’t kill our bees, but this foul language is quite unbecoming.”
I don’t fault them. They thought they could get away with pushing stories that defied common sense or even rudimentary scrutiny, because they figured Republicans in the Senate would drop the issue once Kavanaugh was confirmed. They thought wrong.
I hope Republicans keep their majority in the Senate so these investigations continue.
My guess? Dems take the house but by only a few seats; Republicans pick up a couple of Senate seats.
My prediction: no matter the outcome, progressives will still complain
You don’t exactly need to be the Amazing Kreskin to get that one right.
Continuing investigations is the only reason I hope the R’s keep the house. Eventually it will come out how much the Obama administration was using the FBI during 2016 election. It is unprecedented corruption. I half think that is why Obama drug himself out on the campaign trail.
That and I want to see the D’s heads explode if they stay in the minority. It would be epic.
“Eventually it will come out how much the Obama administration was using the FBI during 2016 election.”
The desperation and complete abandonment of any kind of decorum or semblance of impartiality – by the insane left and their propagandists masquerading as a media or academia – is precisely driven by an abject fear that the American people might end up finding out how downright corrupt, dangerous, and evil the weaponized fed gov that the Obama years created and then unleashed on a political opponent in order to steal an election for that criminal Canckles was.
Someone should attach power cords to Nixon in his coffin. I bet he is spinning so hard in there after finding out Obama not only got away with what he had just hoped to do, but then had the media that crucified him for trying cover for him, that he is generating megawats of power. Calling Obama Chocolate Nixon is not very appropriate.
Nixon was a piker. He resigned over a half assed coverup of a two bit burglary. Erasing a section of a tape then sending it to the investigators? Amateur hour. He goes down in history as this horrific corrupt president for things that were utterly commonplace. Politicians are crooks, it is now as it always was. Corruption without end.
I won’t vote for libertarians anymore because the big L party is full of crypto proggies. Team D wants to take us full on DemSoc if not Commie/Fascist, and Team R thinks the loot barrel is still as full as it was under Ike so there is no need to cut spending. I can’t even look forward to tomorrow and the end of the political season because of course politics has become the NFL with a 365 day a year 10 year a decade always on season.
Eventually it will come out how much the Obama administration was using the FBI during 2016 election.
I wouldn’t bet on it, at least not until it is a purely academic/historical matter.
” I half think that is why Obama drugged himself, out on the campaign trail”.
FIFY
“They thought they could get away with pushing stories that defied common sense or even rudimentary scrutiny, because they figured Republicans in the Senate would drop the issue once Kavanaugh was confirmed.”
Actually what they though was that these accusations would simply be enough to derail the nomination, ending any chance of a Trump appointment before (or after) the midterms, by which time, the fact that they had all colluded to destroy a man simply to keep their hold on political power, would either not matter or be blocked by them if back in power. The left was allowed to get away with shit like this for too long as team red asshats kept fighting by Marquis of Wueensbury rules while the team blue douchbags fought prison rules (shanking them repeatedly, then selling the corpse for a candy bar and a pack of cigarettes to the guy that would make them their prison bitch next).
Did you expect them to be honourable and offer an apology?
/pulls JS’s cheeks.
So cute.
“The pro-Kavanaugh PR strategy was to conflate the serious allegations (Ford, Ramirez) with the ridiculous ones (rape on a boat, etc.) and portray the whole thing as a smear campaign.”
Not only did the media and Democratic senators conflate them, the Ford and Ramirez allegations weren’t “serious”. They were all bullshit. The whole thing was an 11th hour smear campaign.
Kapur. Wow. Just.
Wow.
We should start a page: Woodchippers Hall of Fame. Where everyone submits an asshole for consideration. I’d start with that cunt judge in the Silk Road case and media personalities.
I NEVER wish ill on people but I do with that judge. Beccaria asserted the law must be ‘fair and just’. She did the exact opposite.
Write that article, dude.
Why don’t you crank out the first ten, then we debate and nominate others, and then have some online vote to decide the first three in.
Annual votes are thereafter scheduled, eventually to be held by persons who present to vote in person at Glib Rendezvous.
Hm.
I’m so lazy. My lap top is a treasure box of ideas not furthered.
But it’s a thought.
“If this surprises you at all, you’ve been living under a rock.”
You probably think that article is about you, don’t you?
You’re so Vain…
Large hydropower dams ‘not sustainable’ in the developing world
So if we bury CO2 it’s good, but if we put it under water it’s bad? got it…
Take the dams off line in Afghanistan, and you will have no electricity and no water for Kabul.
save the pristine Wasteland?
That is precisely the goal. These are people that wish 2/3 of the world population (other than themselves) dying is good for Gaia.
Yemen, go fuck yourself, no dams for you!
Of course they’ve been “more expensive than anticipated.” Because it’s hard to budget for graft, corruption, shakedowns, deliberate overruns, etc.
Since when is “more expensive than anticipated” a bad thing to these people?
90% of all large construction projects are more expensive that anticipated. That’s not unique to dams.
if he would have moved to do this a month ago, the election would be a lock.
Idk. I think the average Republican is still against the debil weed. Democrats I am not sure about.
That is why this would be such a genius move by Trump.
He’d get the GOP to come out for ending the WOD and the Dems to begin writing fawning stories about the DEA.
Maybe getting rid of the Garden Gnome is step one?
Uffda. For a second I thought you were suggesting that the Old Piper Inn – Home of the Gnome (and a kick ass bloody mary bar) should be closed.
Just in case anyone forgot what was at stake today…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEA0EjMXsLc
>>If this surprises you at all, you’ve been living under a rock.
I have an old iPhone 6S – and have no urge to upgrade to anything “better”. I stick with Apple because I’m lazy and don’t want to learn a new OS, no matter how much better (or worse) Android is. I just don’t care.
Android owners, as far as I can tell, are either cheap bastards or rabid anti-Apple. But I don’t care. It’s like Chevy vs Ford or something like that.
Why own a piece of fruit when you can own a Robot?
Well, you can eat fruit, but you can fuck a robot. So it’s still a toss up.
Watermelon haz sad.
Comments like this are why I love this place. Thank you, CPRM.
What about all those jack-o-lanterns America is apparently fucking?
Jack-off-lanterns.
FTFY.
What the fuck? People are sticking their dicks in pumpkins? That’s sick.
Besides, everybody knows Jack-o-lanterns are for taking shits in.
Well said Sloop!
It basically comes down to the old Mac/PC divide. You either love Apple’s walled garden approach or you hate it, there’s not real inbetween.
Well, I prefer PC’s because I can upgrade parts of them relatively easy and use alternative operating systems if I want to. Is there really that much people do similar to that with phones?
I’ve had a Galaxy 7 and a Iphone X over the last few years. The Iphone just functions better.
Is there really that much people do similar to that with phones?
Not with hardware, but you can sideload apps much more easily in Android, and there’s root exploits and alternative ROMs for a lot of the more popular models.
That said, the Librem 5 and Pine64 phone will both run linux systems. That will be pretty cool.
I was really hoping for another SE chassis upgrade. I like my small phone, it makes my hands look big. Chicks dig dudes with big hands.
::palms a basketball::
say what now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1Y_09HHulI
I don’t know that most Apple users I know are more vain, but pretentious about their over-priced phone, yes.
I have the new XS Max in space gray w/256gb of memory and I don’t feel the need to bring it up all the time.
In other news, broads need to knock it off with the tattoos.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6358287/Love-Islands-Darylle-Sargeant-displays-svelte-figure-daring-leopard-print-bikini-Spain.html
That’s really ugly.
I remember the days when seeing a girl with tats was rare (and rather exotic). Now Grandma Jones and Aunt Louise have them.
I predict a booming market for tattoo removal in about ten years.
Heh. I told my wife that a few years ago.
I’m sure there’s a regret market out there.
Most of the women I know have tats. Most of the men I know do not. What a weird time we live in.
She should have skipped the tats and spent the money on some fat +2 bolt-ons. Those would have distracted nicely from that flat basic-bitch non-ass.
Ya I’m being caty
Nice. A chick that looks like she smells like an ashtray.
Well, yeah. And if you kiss her you know it would taste like semen.
Wait… did I say that out loud???
I’ll let you know which one I am after I think on it for a minute….. Why not both?
In other news, Apple is jacking their prices because unit sales are cratering.
Is this the death knell for ‘gratuitous’ on-screen sex and nudity?
Now I’m quite prudish on movie sex scenes, but Disclosure really isn’t a story that can be told if you don’t show some sex.
Prime Demi Moore, hubba hubba
It’s kind of funny watching movies from the late 70s and into the 80s. They were so psyched that they could finally do nudity with an R rating that it got worked into pretty much every flick no matter how absurd.
And razors didn’t exist then so it’s exotic to look at now
I mean, in 1975 you had a major movie with a big star, Night Moves with Gene Beckman, that had many nude scenes with a 17 year old Melanie Griffith. Can you imagine a movie doing that today?
BTW, she looked fantastic in them.
Great movie.
Gene Beckman? Fuck you autocorrect!
I bet I’m not the only one who remembers what “full frontal” means.
The hard diametric variation in sexual mores over and between mere generations is the best example of the metaphorical pendulum swinging.
(And by metaphorical pendulum I mean…)
Of course, since it happens so hard and fast, previous mores don’t quickly dissipate entirely, and thus we’re stuck (for the moment) with a weird deep-puritanism-cum-firm-promiscuity.
STEVE SMITH NOT METAPHORICAL ABOUT PENDULUM SWINGING. OR THRUSTING.
Nudity is its own plot
Standing by my prediction from yesterday. Dems 230 in the House and Republicans gain 1 in the Senate.
Republicans gain two in the Senate, at least. You’re ignoring that Republican turnout has increased too, which will benefit them in the Senate races, particularly in Republican-leaning states.
Do you want to take the Gillespie bet? If Republicans pick up two or more seats, you change your avatar to Nick Gillespie and change your name to Gillespie for a month. And if Republicans pick up less than two seats, I change my avatar to Nick Gillespie and change my name to Gillespie for a month.
>>Gillespie
now that’s just cruel
No. Not interested in betting. It should be recognized that I’m a moron.
I’m a bigger moron than you. Want to make a Gillespie bet on who is the bigger moron?
I’ll take that bet, Just Say’n. I’m a gambling man, and I love fun games.
Who gets to be The Jacket™?
Senate +6
House -4
wanna bet?
Sounds a bit optimistic but not far off. Only possible if Menendez really does lose.
Dems take both and trump is impeached by christmas
Thereby ushering in the reign of Pence de Torquemada?
Is that what Shilalry is calling herself now?
This. Before leaving on a helicopter, Trump calls a presser where he announces a new cologne with the aroma of burnt crosses and oven residue.
And gives his daughter a sloppy french kiss in front of the cameras?
Can I sign up for this? I mean, it’s stupid, but the tweets would be legendary. If it happens right around Christmas I can sit on my in-laws front porch in rural NC and watch the world burn.
I’m torn between the entertainment value of a Trump impeachment and my physical revulsion at the prospect of the progs winning.
I actually was ambivalent to team blue taking the house in the election until Kavanaugh happened. Before Kavanaugh I figured it would be a shitshow and nothing bad would happen as both sides played against each other. Pass the popcorn and watch sort of thing. After Kavanaugh I now see team blue would prefer to burn down the country in order to get power back than let anyone else have it, and that can’t be allowed to stand. At least if they lose some of them will just break down and end up in fetal positions providing both laughs and less asshats to go out and do damage.
The funniest part of that would be Trump easily winning the nomination and election in 2020.
which would mean that half my family succumb to terminal TDS by early 2020.
Even in a unionized environment, where work tasks are similar, hourly wages are identical, and tenure dictates promotions, female workers earn $0.89 on the male-worker dollar (weekly earnings). We use confidential administrative data on bus and train operators from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) to show that the weekly earnings gap can be explained entirely by the workplace choices that women and men make. Women value time and flexibility more than men. Women take more unpaid time off using the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and work fewer overtime hours than men. Men and women plan to work similar overtime hours when they are scheduled three months in advance, but men actually work nearly 50% more overtime hours than women.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/bolotnyy/publications/why-do-women-earn-less-men-evidence-bus-and-train-operators-job-market-paper
Voted straight LP (so like three elections). It’s liberating to live in Illinois on election day, because it doesn’t matter how you vote- you’re state’s still screwed.
There are no team L on the ballot in AZ. Even Nick Sarawak ran for mayor of Phoenix as an Indy. I blame Trump.
I think it’s a positive that Nick Sarwark didn’t run under the LP banner.
Holy shit, he’s turning that party into even more of joke than it was.
Yeah I am starting to hate capital L libertarians as much as I hate team D. What kind of strategy is it to throw all your principles out the window to get from 1.5 to 1.7%? You aren’t going to win assholes. Your whole job is to be a public voice for our principles in the hope that maybe they will resonate with enough people to move the Rs our way, or possibly even the Ds. If you run on a platform of social ‘justice’ plus pot you aren’t doing your damn job!
If the fucking L party would ever get a goddamn salesman out in front of voters it would be a great start.
You know, someone who could communicate and persuade. Who could show voters that it’s not all blue guys, diaper wearing freaks, establishment failures and Gary.
What’s left then? Certainly not women.
The Illinois Governor race was full of such complete and utter stupidity my MIL cast her first vote for a non-duopoly candidate ever.
I’d cast my vote for whoever the LP candidate is under normal circumstances, but as a property owner I am absolutely terrified by what a Pritzker governorship will look like.
what a Pritzker governorship will look like
Pretty much what a Rauner governorship looks like. With Team Blue in total control of the Assembly, having a Team Red governor is futile, and a Team Red governor who is happy to play along even more futile.
I’d still rather vote for the dumb fuck that at least pays lip service to the principles of smaller government instead of the fat fuck that will invariably increase the size of said government.
Yup. knowing that I have absolutely zero chance of influencing the outcome allows me to vote straight L (as far a the L’s put candidates on the ballot) and pretend to have won the purity test.
*finishes jauntily tying extra-smug ascot*
Senate Judiciary Committee Report: 45 Interviews, Zero Evidence To Corroborate Claims Against Kavanaugh
“The revelation of last minute allegations tested the committee in many ways,” said Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in a statement Friday. “But these investigative efforts rose to the occasion and were critical to helping us obtain the truth. This was a serious and thorough investigation that left no stone unturned in our pursuit of the facts. In the end, there was no credible evidence to support the allegations against the nominee.”
In its announcement of the report, the committee notes that its investigators “spoke with 45 individuals and took 25 written statements relating to the various allegations made in the course of the Supreme Court confirmation process.” Citing the supplementary FBI investigation ordered by the committee, the committee states that neither found “any evidence to substantiate or corroborate any of the allegations.”
The committee also notes that it has submitted multiple people to the Justice Department for review for “potential violations of Senate rules, potential witness tampering, and potential false statements made to the Committee in violation of federal law,” including Kavanaugh-accuser Julie Swetnick, lawyer Michael Avenatti, and Judy Munro-Leighton.
Way to open the floodgates for rape to occur on every street corner. ///believewomen ///DrumpfsAmerica
He was accused. What more evidence do you need?
Done with voting. I was #292. Decent looking turn out for mid terms.
Yeah, I got to the polling place about 10 minutes before they opened at 6:00, and there was already a pretty decent crowd waiting.
Android owners, as far as I can tell, are either cheap bastards or rabid anti-Apple.
Cheap bastard, former Apple user (but not rabidly anti-).
As I have said before, Android is starting to really really piss me off with all the useless google bloatware. I picked up my phone the other day, and it told me it was downloading a google street view update. Fuck off, google. If I wanted street view, or plus (whatever on god’s little green earth that is/was), or whatever else, I’d download it on my own.
I never let my phone do automatic updates.
I have auto update turned off and yet it still updates shit I never use, like Instagram and Messenger. Samsung is the worst when it comes to bloatware – there are at least 15 apps I have no desire for that I cannot delete from my phone.
Still would never buy an IPhone though. Fuck Apple forever and ever.
I’m still predicting Republicans gain a few in the Senate and hang on to the House with fewer losses than projected. Just based on the similarities to the wishful thinking polls we saw 2 years ago.
It will be interesting to see how thoroughly they Gerrymandered the NJ 5th District. In the past, the Republican would cruise to a wide victory in the mid-terms. This will be a good stress-test to find out if they mixed in enough Bergen County liberals to make it a safe D seat.
I don’t know, the odds are pretty heavily in the Dems favor in the House, so I think they get the House by a few seats. I agree the Republicans probably pick up a couple seats in the Senate.
Get ready for Finance Committee Chair Maxine Waters!
*grabs popcorn*
Indeed. As a Committee Chair I think she will be able to unilaterally issue subpoenas! Yay!
I suppose I will have to drag myself to the polls to vote against all the incumbent judges, if naught else… Illinois’ death knell should be sounding by 10pm.
Bob Dole wants you to vote.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EEA0EjMXsLc
it’s dead already, you’re kicking a corpse
/same for Cali
Illinois’ death knell sounded long, long ago.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office doesn’t just ignore threats of violence. They also ignore evidence of child abuse.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article221036105.html
I’m really pissed that this is an off year for the sheriff election.
That’s just horrible 🙁
How the hell does anyone beat a baby? Christ, there are some absolute pieces of shit in this world. Here’s to hoping the sonofabitch gets shanked in prison.
I’m very sure, as soon as the other prisoners find out what this guy did, he dies. The violent three strikes guys have nothing to lose anyways, and even criminals have better morals than that.
When I got up, I started thinking, “How can I avoid ten thousand election day ads? Maybe I’ll watch some old racing stuff on youtube. Silly me. Right out of the gate, it’s Kathleen Williams for Congress: “A vote for me is not a vote for Nancy Pelosi. Whe4n we take over the Congress, we’re going to get rid of her, and put somebody better in charge.”
Yeah, great, somebody even dumber, and crazier, and more socialist. That sounds like a plan we can all get behind.
Yes, Youtube is covered with them, too. I’ll be so glad when today is over.
From TOS: https://www.kansas.com/news/state/article220536520.html
If you cut my kids’ hair for random drug testing, at a minimum we’re going to have some words.
Without probable cause, I’m sure. How the fuck is this constitutional (I mean, how WOULD it be without using the FYTW clause?)
That would be the special Scalia/Thomas edition of the FYTW clause.
I think school drug testing is an abomination.
I can’t believe parents put up with that. What the fuck is wrong with them?
My prediction?
Pain
https://youtu.be/lSPNQ82Sq4E
I never let my phone do automatic updates.
I don’t seem to be able to stop mine from doing it.
The patriarchy strikes again
I’m out of memory? how? ohhh Google wants to stylize my pictures? ohh go right ahead.
How do you turn off updates so they don’t restart?
It’s down in the settings somewhere. I can fumble my to it eventually, damned if I can talk somebody else through it.
I did that, but it keeps resetting to auto updates, funny how that works….
Try hitting it with a hammer.
I did that too, cost me 30 bucks to replace it……
Did you check the thermostat?
The hair follicle drug test is a monthly occurrence at the middle and high schools in Phillipsburg, USD 325 Superintendent Mike Gower told McClatchy. Each month, two students at the middle school are tested, six students at the high school.
Are you fucking shitting me?
No piss tests come after hair. You get to shit in colege
I would pull my kid if they tried that, I’ve done it before, got an advocate and reamed the School board when they tried to fuck with my Wife and I.
I’m rather confused by the Democrats thinking here. Do they think if they win the house, which is a historical likely given, it’s a repudiation of Trump?
I mean when the Reps took the house in 2010 it – thank god – it stopped all the crazy things being passed in the house/senate. But it didn’t stop Obama from winning re-election in 2012. And Mr. Pen and Phone went on a regulation spree. Trump, given the history of his predecessor, will do the same.
Why? he hasn’t so far, even though he has threatened to use the P and P
Reps only took the house in 2010 because their murder squads scared away all the right thinkers, duh.
In case you wondered what Michael Bloomberg, that hard-core Constitutionalist and recent Democrat, has been up to recently…
Bloomberg on Trump a few days ago:
Bloomberg on the Vice-president of China, an unelected official of the Chinese Communist Party and Xi Jinping’s close ally, in the last 24 hours:
Bloomberg 2020, amirite?
I don’t understand how anyone, who isn’t just angling for some of his money, could stand that guy. He really is a cunt of the first order.
as China’s banking system falls apart, good job eh Bloomy?
The Dems won’t nominate a Jew
Da fuh.
He really is a weasel. That guy would sell the poor the second he had the chance as he claims to help.
And can we knock it off with the ‘healing’ shit? They’re fucken politicians.
Dems take both and trump is impeached by christmas
Woohoo!
Anyway, go vote. Or don’t. I don’t give a shit about that
Honestly, I didn’t even bother. Do I still get to bitch?
Do you still get ballots?
Are you a Japanese citizen?
No. Permanent resident. Suppose I could’ve voted somewhere.
So you are saying you have a gleen card?
LACIST!
Special Election Day asses for Glibs of the posterior persuasion.
http://archive.is/Ocpk7
A few titties here like 2 to keep me happy.
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1059484451321925632?s=21
.@svdate went to a Trump rally and asked his supporters if they care whether he lies all the time. One woman’s response: “I don’t care if he sprouts a third dick up there.”
Meaning he already has two?
“You know what having ten grand in your pocket feels like? It feels like having a third cock!”
“Jesus. How many cocks you got, champ?”
“You lampooning me, Meatdrapes?”
::pours out beer for Micheal Clarke Duncan::
Are they still surprised by the seriously/literally dichotomy?
Wait till these rubes find out WWE is faaaaaaaaaaaake.
Facebook blocks 115 fake accounts ahead of midterm elections
“Inauthentic” behavior. How very unmutual. Fucking commies.
Jesus, who fucking cares?
It’s not like the US hasn’t meddled in foreign elections for decades.
Chinese level censorship.
On this election day, it’s important to remember the words fo a great man, George Carlin, on why voting is bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
The Governor of Maine has the right idea – move the hell out to a warm, low-tax state.
Not if that donkey commie guy wins. I predict FLA will have one of the highest state income taxes in the union under 12 months.
And the great Florida diaspora will begin.
I hear Alabama is great
* furiously gestures away from Tennessee *
The way this plays out is that the prog asshats that showed up and ruined the place by voting for the people that then implement the proggie shit that ruins places, will suddenly find they can’t afford to live there anymore, move elsewhere, then vote for the proggie shit that ruins places. The problem always is the fucking proggies…
Don’t worry, Ontario drivers will probably kill most of them. In the last week, I’ve nearly been killed by idiots with Canadian plates at least three times.
Would the FL legislature actually pass income taxes?
As someone that saw such a shitshow play out back in the day before we became “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”. I warn you never to assume it won’t. Our asshat governor at the time Wicker promised a “temporary” state income tax to “fix” the over spending that came with the hard left swing the state took, and even told us as a reward they would remove the toll booths that robbed everybody moving around, amongst many concessions. We are now more than 2 1/2 decades later being told we should vote for a governor that wants to jack up that state income tax, yet again, AND bring back tolls and a slew of other confiscatory and punitive taxes. Because the other guy – whom I think is also an asshat – is saying that he might cut taxes (especially on business to grow jobs) and that sort of move will force the municipalities then to make cuts to education.
That we have one of the costliest education systems that by en large returns one of the lowest values on that investment (unless you admit the goal of that system is to create low information proggie npcs) is not allowed to be mentioned. And the crazy fucks demand more free shit.
Sounds a lot like how New Jersey went from a no-income-tax haven to the worst taxes in the country in the 70’s.
Voted against 3 people:
1. The guy who texted me yesterday. You did it! You made me vote for a Democrat!
2. The grown man who goes by the nickname Peanuts. Not Peanut, but the plural.
3. Kelsey Grammar. My Mom says always vote NO on ballot questions. I listened to my Mom.
I didn’t listen to my Mom on the 2nd question…I voted YES for Warren County going wet.
Marsy’s law is fucking awful and it’s going to pass everywhere because people are fucking awful.
I did vote “yes” on about half of Florida’s ballot questions. Two reduce property taxes, one requires a supermajority vote in the state legislature to raise taxes, one restores voting rights to felons once they’ve completed their sentence, and one allows the state to reduce penalties of people in prison for bullshit crimes when we realize they’re bullshit and eliminate them/reduce the sentence level.
What about banning vaping and oil rigs, because they’re SO related?
I voted no on the property taxes, because I’m tired of the carveouts. Lower the fucking millage. Yes on the voting rights, the supermajority, and gambling referendum. I was a unable to make heads or tails of the one about the sentencing because of all the shit about “victims rights”, which don’t seem to be particularly trampled today.
…one requires a supermajority vote in the state legislature to raise taxes…
A good call given who your next governor is probably going to be.
I explained to my wife that voting “yes” on ballot questions usually means you are voting to raise your taxes or restrict your freedom. Or both.
Damn straight. My default position on all initiatives/referenda is always “no” unless there’s a compelling reason to vote yes. For instance, I voted yes on two things this time around:
1) Restrict civil asset forfeiture
2) Create a non-partisan commission for redistricting
#2 may sound like a scam, but since the state legislature is trending Blue for the foreseeable future, my guess is that it can’t be any worse than letting the legislature do it and there is a small chance it might be better. The last time the lines were redrawn, there was total Dem control and we ended up with what the CFAP rated as the second most friendly map for Dems in the country. Fuck that noise, at least the non-partisan commission has a few Pachyderms on it.
Those are the two I voted yes on as well. The district map is fucked right now.
I’ll vote yes on that – my district (NJ 5th) is a blatant Gerrymander.
The KY supreme court requires districts to split the minimum number of counties possible (with some margin of error for population).
It still leads to gerrymandered districts, but there is a lot less horrible stuff than there used to be.
In NYC the propositions are put in place by the mayor to grab more power. Even innocuous ones are often bait-and-switch. To wit:
3. Term limits for community board members.
The fine-print on that one basically installs a quota system to ensure that only the correct mixture of races and sexes get in.
In Iowa it a non-partisan process.
4 people appointed to a board – two people by R leader, two by D leader, and those 4 elect a fifth person to the board (the 5th can’t be a party official, hold office, work for an office holder, etc)
There’s a whole laundry list of gerrymander enabling things that are prohibited (prior election results, demographic data, and a few other things)
Counties generally can’t be split between districts
They aren’t really given much leeway to enable shenanigans.
I was only interested in voting on some constitutional amendments. I knew I should yes on some of them bc all the progtards in hipsterville had signs everywhere saying to vote no on all amendments
That was my Mom’s logic, this is the actual quote from 30 or so years ago, “A YES vote costs you money.”
I had no idea there were dry towns in Warren County. Better not screw up all those BYOB restaurants. I much prefer bringing my own wine or beer instead of buying it from the restaurant for 3 times the price.
Warren County is dry.
BG is wet, the rest of the county will be tomorrow (or Jan 1 or something).
Warren County New Jersey? Dry?
Warren County Kentucky.
Ah!
I got you and WTF mixed up.
3. Kelsey Grammar. My Mom says always vote NO on ballot questions. I listened to my Mom.
I got a bunch of mailers with Kelsey Grammar on them as well. It’s for a constitutional amendment enshrining a bunch of new “victims’ rights” here. Sounds absolutely fucking disastrous. I voted no.
Good morning Sloop and thanks for the meaty lynx!
Man, the 80’s was
shitawesome.Yes, it was quite a time. Fun movies, tv shows, music, cars and the girls were still girls.
I wish I would have appreciated it more at the time.
Big hair and tiny Bikinis, good times!
There is nothing more 80’s than this.
Is it Kung Fury? It better be Kung Fury (yes I know it’s modern, but it hits all of the 80’s tropes so hard, including tracking errors in the movie).
My two favorite things. Sometimes putting two of your favorite things together doesn’t work out so well.
I tried putting port in coffee. I do not recommend.
LOL
STEVE SMITH PUT TWO OF HIS FAVORITE THINGS TOGETHER: HIKERS AND RAPE!
ammonia and bleach, I assume?
Love it.
https://youtu.be/dGF5Pte3TKs
Honestly, I didn’t even bother. Do I still get to bitch?
Goddam right you do. The way I look at it, we (nonvoters, principled or otherwise) are the only ones who aren’t actively making the problem worse.
You can’t pin this shit on me.
Hey, I’m mostly there to vote no on tax increases and against more laws.
Exactly!
I am sure Chicago is doing it wrong, but what is wrong with sidewalk seating?
Because it looks like they are actually putting it in the road.
If the business owner in front of it agrees to it, who cares?
So? Narrow streets are good for business. And as Luther said, if the business is okay with it, who cares?
And it somehow costs $30K to block off two parking spots and throw in two cheap picnic tables and chairs?
“This is a very refreshing sight. I hope the trend continues.”
It’d look even better if foreground dude’s trigger finger was straighter and higher. Pet peeves.
Bonus for Election Day as a reminder that this country is still great in spite of our dysfunctional politics.
http://archive.is/CaGBs
Let’s make it Erection Day instead!
My wife says our 6-month old puppy humped the hell out of a stuffed animal then ran around the house with a raging boner this morning. So he’s with you.
60 for good parenting.
2, 25, 43, both girls in 44. Man, I LOVE AMERICA. Thanks once again, Q.
I voted this morning it was way busier than the mid terms. I’m in Virginia’s 3rd district where Bobby Scott is running unopposed he has won 9 out of 11 terms with 75% or higher of the vote. I like most here expect Dems to get the house, Reps to gain in Senate and the useful idiots will lose their shit no matter what.
I read that as “bustier.”
I have no regrets.
Election Day prediction:
Dems take the House and immediately begin impeachment proceedings, guaranteeing Trump a win in 2020.
Pachyderms keep the Senate and gain one or two seats. Since about the only thing Trump is good for is appointing Constitutionalist judges, I’ll be satisfied with this outcome as they can fill open slots for at least two more years.
Erection Day prediction:
34F is out of commission (concussion from a car crash 🙁 ) so we’ll see about alternatives.
A nuthouse, with typewriters
Whatever happens in the midterms, the aftermath will be ugly. But the elections are nonetheless a fork in the road. If we take one path, it will offer at least a chance for political redemption, for recovering America’s democratic values. If we take the other, we’ll be on the road to autocracy, with no obvious way to get off.
It’s a near-certainty that Democrats will receive more votes than Republicans, with polling suggesting a margin in votes cast for the House of Representatives of seven or more percentage points — which would make it the biggest landslide of modern times. However, gerrymandering and other factors have severely tilted the playing field, so that even this might not be enough to bring control of the chamber.
And even if Democrats do climb that tilted slope, anyone expecting Republicans to accept the result with good grace hasn’t been paying attention. Remember, Donald Trump claimed — falsely, of course — that millions of immigrants voted illegally in an election he won. Imagine what he’ll say if he loses, and what his supporters will do in response. And if and when a Democratic House tries to exercise its powers, you can be sure it will be met with defiance, never mind what the Constitution says.
But ugly as the scene will be if Democrats win, it will be far worse if they lose. In fact, it’s not hyperbole to say that if the G.O.P. holds the line on Tuesday, it may be the last even halfway fair elections we’ll ever have.
————
Meanwhile, the reality is that ordinary voters are more easily moved by issues that have a direct impact on their well-being than by more abstract concerns about democracy and rule of law. And until very recently, mainstream news media berated Democrats for running on nothing but opposition to Trump (which was never true, but the media said it anyway), while tending to dismiss talk about Republican abuse of power as hysterical.
But with the crucial moment here, everyone should bear in mind what’s at stake. It’s not just tax cuts or health coverage, and anyone who votes based simply on those issues is missing the bigger story. For the survival of American democracy is on the ballot.
Yes, it’s Krugabe. You have been warned.
This has been said before, but that guy is truly living in his own version of reality.
It’s a near-certainty that Democrats will receive more votes than Republicans
Irrelevant. And everything else is just. awful. Christ, what a tiresome, dishonest asshole.
What I think of when I read this is “religious fervor”. It’s about choosing between good and evil, redemption or perdition. He (and many others, not just limited to Dems mind you) are whipping themselves up like Whirling Dervishes praying to their false idols.
It’s sickening.
And there it is; the official Party Organ has published the “House vote” talking point that they’re going to run with if they don’t “win”.
House *Majority* Vote, which is as irrelevant (and telling…) as “
majoritypopular vote” for president.The way the Dems are already whining is starting to convince me that they are gonna flop today. They don’t sound anything like a group of people confident of victory.
I know that’s a very facile, superficial way to look at it, but I’m guessing their internal polls are not positive.
That was my thought, their internal polls must not be good news, so they are ramping up the talking point excuses.
I predict that a Marlin 60 will become an “assault weapon” in WA
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1059715717224747008
Fuck Google.
RE: JOOZ with TEH GUNZ.
Back during Obama (2015 or thereabouts) when we were cuddling up big time to Iran and hanging Israel out to dry, it seemed that anti-Semitic attacks were spiking in Europe and getting set to ramp up here, I found myself shooting next to a Hasidic Rabbi shooting for the first time ever. Right after some attack (I don’t remember which one) he went out, got his CCW and bought a Glock 43. I ended up helping him out and showed him a few things. It was rather amusing to watch him draw from underneath his tzitzit.
G43 is my son’s EDC; it’s a great choice for a lot of folks.
I am getting ready to head out and vote for someone I don’t like, Dave brat, so someone I like even less, prog spook (ex-CIA) bitch Abagail Spanberger, goes the fuck away.
Better than Eric Cantor.
I am required by familial bonds to hate Dave Brat. My sister worked for Cantor for years.
Actually, I’m not sure why she still cares – she ended up getting a better paying job anyway.
My dad (diehard Republican) hated Cantor. It may have been mostly because Cantor snubbed him over some work done to his car when my dad was a service manager back in the day. Brat seems ok to me. He’s been in ‘The Swamp’ on Youtube. Speaking of, I got ad after ad for both Brat and Scamburger even though I am not in their district.
“Voting for Democrats Isn’t Going to Curb Anti-Semitism
Trump is not the source of the true threats to Jews — anti-Semites are more prominent on the left than the right.
Over the weekend, Bari Weiss, a friend who writes for the New York Times, appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show. Bari was bat mitzvahed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh; she knew many of those who were shot and killed by a white supremacist two weeks ago. Her writing on the subject has been beautiful; she’s obviously both raw and real about the situation.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/voting-for-democrats-wont-curb-anti-semitism-bari-weiss/
Pulse happened under the Obama administration. I am uncomfortable voting for those homophobes.
Btw, the Blackhawks have fired Joel Quenneville.
That’ll fix the problems of aging players and bad contracts.
Brandon Saad for Artemi Panarin is going to haunt them for a long time
Worked for the Rang– Oh.
*quietly sobs*
We had better get Jack Hughes out of this mess or else I’m gonna be pissed
That does seem to be the plan. ??
Red Wings want you to hold their beer.
Which is more virtue signalingish. Announcing you voted on derp book or pointing out people who announce they voted are virtue signaling? It’s a never ending loop!
It’s signaling all the way down.
https://twitter.com/jkusunoki/status/1059223762434973697
Who needs an SUV?
In the last ~24 hours the (actual Vegas) odds on the Dems taking the House have gone from about -280 to -400, which means Vegas is giving an 80% chance on them taking the House.
(FWIW, the final odds on Hillary winning in 2016 were around -275, which gave Trump much more of a chance than the NYT/polls did)
Silver has a model that says 88%
I think 5/6 is probably about right. The problem with predictions is that he would be right five time out six, but could be wrong here. Who would have given the Titans 13.5 against the Cowboys last night? Probably not even most homers betting on a straight win. Its one of the problems with predicting elections. They only run every two years and they aren’t similar enough to each other to necessarily prove or disprove your models in a 2-4 year time span.
of course
As an engineer, I love modeling systems. Like an economist, when it doesn’t turn out as predictive as I’d like, that means it’s time to crank on the the old coefficients and exponents some more. I’m fascinated by the difficulty of pegging people and their trends to locations without land lines: what a nightmare; I simply admire the effort.
Agree, Don. I know some people like to run Silver down, but I don’t think his model is crazy.
The interesting question to me, buried in all of this discussion is: are these things alike enough in their properties to model statistically? Sabermetrics, yes. One play in baseball is enough like another and you get enough of them to form statistical models that have some application. Elections — one of the underlying assumptions seems to be that people are enough like themselves in the last election that you can infer a trend from similar surveys. “If people gave X dollars to Y candidates, then Z should have a strong chance of happening.” Its probably not wrong, but its complex enough that even refitting your model to the last election is not strongly predictive. Its more like a stock picker than figuring out whether this shortstop is better for your team than the one you have.
How degenerate a gambler do you have to be to bet on elections?
Yes.
Dunno. Pretty degenerate, I imagine. Wanna bet on it?
It will be interesting to see if the polls were more accurate or still full of wishful thinking.
I vote it was a lot of the later…
Seems a little out of date, fantasy football and paleodieters have quieted down.
I was confused about #1.
Does he mean people who are evangelical about voting who Christian evangelists who vote?
I read it as the latter, but I think he meant the former.
I vote the former.
#IVoted
It took me a couple tries before I understood he meant the former.
Also, replace paleo with keto
*hides from all the rotten produce thrown in his direction*
He definitely means the “GO VOTE” people. It’s a good #1, and vegans at #2.
CPA’s top 5:
3. Greens
4. Anyone in MLM
5. People who watch The Good Place
Season one was moderately amusing, but season 2 sucks.
Yes, I liked the first season, but after the big reveal at the end of it, they obviously had no idea where they wanted to go with it.
I’m looking forward to the moratorium between midterm ads and 2020 campaign ads. Almost fifteen minutes of quiet.
A man comes home with a bouquet of flowers for his wife. “What? Do you expect me to spread my legs for you now?” says the wife. The husband replies, “Honey, I’m glad you like the flowers so much, but i think a vase will work just fine.”
A religious couple is saving themselves for marriage and the day before the big day the husband-to-be goes to his fiancée and tells her “I’ve got a confession. Due to a hormonal problem when I was young, I have a baby dick; I hope you still want me.” His fiancée says “I love you so much, I still want to marry you, I don’t care about the size of your penis.”
So after the wedding, the happy couple whisks away to a fancy hotel for their big moment. Things are getting hot and heavy and the wife finally reaches down her new husband’s pants to feel him for the first time, then recoils in horror. The husband exclaims “I warned you I had a baby dick! It’s 8 pounds 6 ounces and 19 inches long!”
So a cowboy says to his friend “My favorite sex position is the rodeo.”
“I haven’t heard of that one.” says the other cowboy, “What is it?”
“Get your girlfriend down on all fours and mount her from behind. Then reach around, grab her tits and whisper ‘these feel just like your sister’s’ and try and hold on for 8 seconds.”
You hear the one about the Chinaman Godfather? He made them an offer they couldn’t understand.
A guy walks into a pub and sees a sign hanging over the bar that reads:
CHEESEBURGER: $1.50
CHICKEN SANDWICH: $2.50
HAND JOB: $10.00
He walks up to the bar and beckons one of the three exceptionally attractive blondes serving drinks.
“Can I help you?” she asks.
“I was wondering,” whispers the man. “Are you the one who gives the hand jobs?”
“Yes,” she purrs. “I am.”
The man replies, “Well, wash your hands. I want a cheeseburger.”
A penis has a sad life.
His hair’s a mess, his family is nuts, his neighbor’s an asshole, his best friend’s a pussy, and his owner beats him.
Guy: Wanna suck my dick?
Girl: No.
Guy: Probably for the best. I mean, it has a warning label. Beware, choking hazard!
Girl: Isn’t that the warning they put on tiny objects?
Winner.
you’re on, lady: paint my house
Gilbert Gottfried’s variation for the Joan Rivers roast is gold.
Isn’t that one from The Sopranos? I think it was one of Uncle Jun’s
It probably is. I try to collect stupid jokes wherever I can find ’em. The Sopranos had some funny ones.
Yeah, it did. Another of Junior’s jokes was the Chinese guy who goes to the eye doctor. The doctor examines him and says “I’m sorry, you have cataracts.” The guy says “No, I not drive Cadirrac, drive Rincoln Continental”
A recently wed couple are about to do the deed on their wedding night when the husband stops before taking off his pants and tells his bride that he has kneezels. She looks at him confused for a few seconds, then says you mean measles? He sighs and tells her no, kneezels. It is a condition where you knee looks all deformed and nasty because of some genetic malfunction. He then drops his pants and she sees his knees are all fooked up and nasty looking. She smiles at him and tells him that she is fine with that and still loves him.
As he gets ready to take off his socks he stops again, and tells her in a low voice: “I also had tolio”. She pauses and then asks, do you mean polio? He shakes his head and explains that tolio is a genetic disorder that really messes up the way your toes look. As he slips of his socks she sees how his toes all are mangled and nasty from this condition. She is perturbed for a few seconds but quickly recovers and tells him that she loves him no matter what.
With a big smile he then drops his drawers, at which point she says “Let me guess: you also had small cox?”….
Tard Tuesday – Southern Illinois University ‘s DSA chapter is petitioning for “free” tuition, claiming it will stimulate the local economy.
That’s a level of stupidity on par with the claim that a business owner will prosper by paying his or her employees more because said employees will then have more money to buy the company’s product.
Works for the bouncers at the strip club….
Nuthouse with typewriters, pt 2
For decades, Silicon Valley has been ground zero for a vaguely utopian form of individualism — the idea that a single engineer with a laptop and an internet connection could change the world, or at least a long-established industry. Class-consciousness was passé. Unions were the enemy of innovation, an anchor to the status quo.
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“The myth of Silicon Valley is that all the power you need is embodied in you as an individual — if you want more money, go somewhere else,” said Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California, Berkeley. “What they were saying here was that all the economic power they had as individuals wasn’t enough.”
And the consequences of that dawning realization, Mr. Shaiken and other labor experts said, could reverberate across the entire tech sector.
Tech executives have long maintained that unions are inefficient — the Intel co-founder Robert Noyce once described unions as an existential threat — and that skilled tech workers don’t need formal protections because employers can’t afford to alienate them. Many tech companies also promote themselves as inherently pro-worker because they are less hierarchical, and more democratically run, than old-economy businesses.
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Some observers agree. Michelle Miller, co-founder of CoWorker.org, which educates workers in tech and other industries on how to assert their labor rights, said that employees at Google “had to start thinking of themselves as some kind of collective” with the internal release last year of a memo by an employee alleging that women tended to be innately less capable of certain technical work.
She said that workers who criticized the memo and defended diversity efforts on internal forums were threatened by people sympathetic to the memo’s author, James Damore, and had to band together to defend one another.
Individualism and freedom of thought and expression are fine, in theory, but what happens when somebody gets a little too far outside the box?
Throw off your chains. Collectivise. Embrace the communitarian hive mind.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
An interesting political conversation popped up around my cube today. The Team Blue types were talking about how uncomfortable they were with the direction of their team and the Team Red types have a pile of fuck running for Senate (Corey Stewart). Several people from both camps noted that they looked at the Libertarian platform and thought ‘that’s not too bad compared to this shit’. Might this be the long awaited Libertarian Moment (TM)?
Maybe if the libertarians are willing to drop all the silly nonsense like welfare reform or legalizing heroin… the stuff about freedom of association, that’s got to go… as well as repealing civil asset forfeiture… and refusing to commit troops to every flare-up in the developing world, what, are you a bunch of peacenik commies? That’s gotta change… the minimum wage opposition has to go… let’s see… you guys don’t seem to like public sector unions much, and I think we can all agree police and teachers unions are the heartbeat of America. So you need to drop that noise.
Jettison all that baggage and you’re ready to appeal to the American mainstream!
You forgot, “we can’t reduce spending without killing old people and children. Reducing spending is also when you don’t keep the same rate of increase in spending up. “
There, now you are ready to go mainstream.
Might this be the long awaited Libertarian Moment
No. The libertarian moment was somewhere between 1776 and 1789.
It’s a psyche ops… They are hoping to convince others not to vote for team red so the team blue asshats win… Don’t fall for this shit.
how many Americans still work in cubes? never seen one in Romania
Sitting in a cube now.
#metoo
Where do you put worker bees?
open space everywhere
They took our cubes away and gave us desks in an open area.
(not my office, but similar to mine)
that is everyone in Bucharest. We do have some dividers here and there. I am lucky to have a sort of window seat in a corner so no one can see my screen and there is no one sitting behind me. I always hated as a kid when having a test and the teacher was looking over my shoulder and I do not want that feeling at work
That is definitely an issue in my office, but the bigger issue is that we work with confidential information all the time. Sometimes that info is confidential even with respect to our aisle mates. The result is that the office is usually 40% full with the rest either working in conference rooms all day or working from home (like I am today).
That is such a stupid, stupid trend. You could hardly implement a policy that kills productivity more thoroughly.
I work from home when I need to get something done. My 18 month old is less of a productivity killer than the open office.
I had to build a wall and put in a door to keep my family from bugging me while I work, as if I’m actually available mentally, and the door still doesn’t work.
That said, an open office would be absolute and utter hell to me. I don’t think I’d take a job that was open office.
I couldn’t do that. That would drive me crazy.
Plus I like to keep my office messy. It makes it look like I’m really busy.
I don’t care to have an office – I just don’t want to be distracted every five minutes nor do I want to listen in on my five nearest neighbor’s conversations. It’s madness.
Jesus. When I interviewed one of my requirements was no work places with an open area desks like that. Bare minimum was a full size cube. One of the reasons I’m enjoying the current gig is that I have my own, no shit office. It’s basically a jail cell sized office. But it has a window to the courtyard and my own door that locks and everything, and I even got a small budget to decorate.
Buy yourself some drapes… The same ones the UN offices use…
We desperately need the Monty Brewster rule; if “none of the above” wins another election is held and any of the previous candidates can’t run in it.
Just leave the seat vacant for the term and and don’t amend the quorum rules.
Yes, at least until the next November it should be empty. If I win the super lotto I will try and make this happen.
No, it should be empty for its full term. If None of the Above wins, it wins for the full term of office.
THIS
no give it to the oldest person in the district
A couple $1.99 Kindle deals that I thought some here may be interested in:
The Tunnels: Escapes Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill
Christ, what an asshole.
I was just on a Sammy Davis Jr. kick and reading about his life and watching videos of him perform. One story that stuck out that has parallels to today was his support of Nixon. He got a ton of shit for that from blacks, even getting roundly booed a few times because he was considered a race traitor. He had previously supported JFK, but when the inauguration happened, supposedly JFK said that he did not want him invited to the party because he was black and might be seen cavorting with white women.
The optics, man, the optics!
NBC and CBS funded two separate tunnels in return for the right to film the escapes,
Two thoughts:
(1) Wow. Talk about “it was a different time”.
(2) Capitalism FTW.
The other one:
Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived
Thanks, looks neat, bought it and I might read it next November at the rate I’m going.
Damn you Amazon for giving me so many cheap kindle books that I can’t keep up!
This morning I woke too early, thanks time change, and perused the twitter. Gillespie said it was worth a read, and linked to Shikha’s latest so I read it. I learned a new term, and it is what most of you are. Y’all are Trump denialists. In what is an excerpt from her article at The Week, she raged on Trump and his evils for numerous paragraphs and the only thing I could take from her article is she thinks to stop Trump’s evil we should all vote team blue. (Which after further reading, is exactly what she says in her The Week article) I don’t get this. I get not voting, or voting L but to vote for any candidate who runs on single payer, ending the tax cuts, and more regulation especially in the financial world seems the antithesis of what a libertarian publication or writer should be advocating. I don’t get it. It did remind me why I quite reading Reason though.
Shikha should find a pine cone and fuck her ass with it.
the antithesis of what a libertarian publication or writer should be advocating. I don’t get it.
I think you get it just fine.
I noticed your tweet when I got up at 5:30 central and wondered: does he do this every day ?
Naaa, but I am not working right now so I don’t have to get ready for work in the am so I just fuck off. I might get a month of it in before I am back to the grind.
Reading the Reason website and commentariate changed me from a conservative to a libertarian in the early to mid 2000s. Reading the Reason website and commentariate in the last 3 years is changing me from a libertarian to a conservative.
lol
#metoo
I’m still a libertarian, I’m apparently just not a Libertarian anymore.
I thought of myself and described myself as a libertarian from the early 2000s on, and found Reason some time in 2010s. Same thing happened to me during the tail end of Obama and into Trump. I’ve since stopped calling myself a libertarian in favor of “classical liberal”, and I find myself in closer agreement with The Federalist than Reason most of the time. Reason really has become the stereotypical cosmotarian outlet, it seems.
NAZI DOG WHISTLE
I venture back on occasion. PB is as dishonest as ever. Tony is more unhinged and detached from reality than ever. He may actually have real issues. Trump has broken many a persons brain.
Yep. I’m not a Trump supporter (although I have to say I don’t have too many problems with him thus far) but voting for the Dems as a protest is a case of the cure being much worse than the disease.
If I say I voted, am I virtue signalling?
If I say I didn’t vote, am I sticking it to the man?
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Damn.. those are some hard questions young lady..
At least write me in. There are plenty of glibs writing in ZARDOZ but what about the humble Pie?
I did vote for the D for state auditor because she’s done a verifiably good job. People who do a good job should not lose their jobs.
Humble Pie
Wish I’d thought to get one of these for today.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61%2BqmHe-8bL._SX522_.jpg
https://www.zazzle.com/i_farted_sticker-217408319019564268
LOL
It is pitch dark out and pouring rain. Can I just say I threw a few votes at losing candidates and not go outside?
About time?
Shocking revelation
After conducting a yearlong search for a second home, Amazon has switched gears and is now finalizing plans to have a total of 50,000 employees in two locations, according to people familiar with the decision-making process.
The company is nearing a deal to move to the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, according to two of the people briefed on the discussions. Amazon is also close to a deal to move to the Crystal City area of Arlington, Va., a Washington suburb, one of the people said. Amazon already has more employees in those two areas than anywhere else outside of Seattle, its home base, and the Bay Area.
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Picking multiple sites would allow it to tap into two pools of talented labor and perhaps avoid being blamed for all of the housing and traffic woes of dominating a single area. It could also give the company greater leverage in negotiating tax incentives, experts said.
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Seattle has been one of the fastest growing cities in the country, in part because of Amazon’s growth. The company has about 45,000 employees in the city, and the company said it needed to hire more employees than the city could attract or absorb.
“Not everybody wants to live in the Northwest,” Jeff Wilke, the head of Amazon’s retail division, said at a conference last year. “It’s been terrific for me and my family, but I think we may find another location allows us to recruit a different collection of employees.”
Air-dropping an operation of that size into a large metropolitan area might be complicated and disruptive? You don’t say.
And we certainly wouldn’t want to discount the benefit (to Amazon) of splitting the operation and the associated cumulative emoluments.
“We cannot allow an economic incentive gap!”
The company is nearing a deal to move to the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, according to two of the people briefed on the discussions. Amazon is also close to a deal to move to the Crystal City area of Arlington, Va., a Washington suburb,
Who the fuck would move a major business operation to NYC?
just move it all to Bucharest
Do you even crony, bruh?
As many hubs as Amazon can have, the better for them. Diversification is pretty basic when it comes to risk management. And a headquarters in Seattle is just teeming with political risk.
If I’m trying to hedge against political risk, I sure as hell don’t do it in NYC.
Arlington, Va., a Washington suburb, – that is just for lobby
Someone at work just said that they voted absentee…on Saturday. Reason? Work today. Though most people here work plenty of ot, we are only expected to be here 8-5 and the company has no problem letting people take the time to vote as it advocates civic and community engagement. In fact, on election days we usually get a nice email about the importance of voting from the cfo. My point: absentee voting is out of hand and needs severe reform (as do other aspects).
I got up at 5 and got my ass to the polls at 6 and still waited 45 min to vote. It ain’t that difficult.
I’m convinced that the entire point of trying to get massive voter participation is to leverage ignorance. Lots of voters have, at best a rudimentary understanding of the issues (I’m not being a snob here. For most people the issues in most elections are academic. The issues have little direct consequence on their lives). As a result, they go along with the loudest voices in the popular culture. Unsurprisingly, the party with the most influence in the popular culture is the party that pushes for greater voter participation.
Maybe. I just think they want to do away with actual democratic choice without all the dirty work. Control the narrative, silence the opposition*, and shame people into doing what you want.
* = This doesn’t mean Republicans per se, but rather any voices they deem to be outside the acceptable bounds of discourse. The Overton Window has been reified.
“Lots of voters have, at best a rudimentary understanding of the issues (I’m not being a snob here”
No, you are being way too nice about how fucking stupid and indoctrinated these people can be.
Case in point
I got up at 5 and got my ass to the polls at 6 and still waited 45 min to vote. It ain’t that difficult.
Yeesh. I waltzed in at 9:30 and was home by 9:40.
/benefits of living in the “rural crescent”
I don’t think I’ve ever waited more than five minutes to vote. I switched my party from Lib to independent this year because of the shitshow of 16 and also switched over to mail in to make it easier. A 45 minute wait is insane.
Yesterday’s prediction, reposted:
Still OK with it. And here’s the thing: With Romney in the Senate, that’s another Dem-Lite Rino essentially taking over Flake’s role as “Clueless Dumbass from a Western State”, so they’ll still need at least a four-vote cushion. what with Murkowski and Snow still stinking up the joint.
My hope is that they pick up enough seats in the Senate to totally remove the need to suck up to the squishes like Murkowski and Snow. How satisfying would it be to tell them “sure go vote with the Dems, we don’t need you. In fact we dare you to vote against the party. See how that works out for you in the next election.”
R’s pick up a few Senate seats; D’s take house.
Dream scenario is that R’s hold house by 1. That would be hilarious.
That would be hilarious.
Seconded.
If the House is as close as I think it will be, we probably won’t know for at least a couple of days. Of course, if its within the margin of lawyer, I expect the Dems to eke out a few miraculous victories as provisional ballots are
counteddiscoveredmanufactured.margin of lawyer
That’s a term I never heard before. Was that supposed to be “error,” or are you expected a bunch of lawsuits?
“Margin of lawyer” is a term used to describe election results so close that there will be a recount, with lawyers arguing over ballots. Oddly, the Dems win a disproportionate number of these because (I am speculating) they do a better job of stuffing ballot boxes.
Thirded.
Just returned from the polls.
If Dean Heller loses my mom is blaming me personally.
you two filmed a sex tape?
Well, he has fucked me as a Nevada voter.
He’s in Nevada, not Alabama.
Where does Winston’s mom fit in all of this?
Inquiring minds want to know…
Who the fuck would move a major business operation to NYC?
Somebody for whom the rules do not apply.
Exemptions today, exemptions tomorrow, exemptions forever!
“I am altering the deal. Pray that I don’t alter it any further.”
so when do the results of this election thing come in?
They are in. The lying assholes won and the asshole liars lost.
Polls usually close around 19:30 local time. Then results start trickling out. But with this shitshow of an election, I’m expecting at least 10 recounts, which could delay the final results for several weeks.
six time zones each with tons of their own jurisdictions and rules
since every House seat is in play, we won’t officially know who took the majority until CA closes, but some time after MO and IA close we’ll be fairly sure
Short answer: tomorrow.
Long answer: 538 has a breakdown of when each set of polls close and what to watch for, hour by hour this evening.
Amazon executives met two weeks ago with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in the governor’s Manhattan office, said one of the people briefed on the process, adding that the state had offered potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies. Executives met separately with Mayor Bill de Blasio, a person briefed on that discussion said. Long Island City is a short subway ride across the East River from Midtown Manhattan.
“I am doing everything I can,” Governor Cuomo told reporters when asked Monday about the state’s efforts to lure the company. “We have a great incentive package,” he said.
Everything he can.
I think they should put HQ2 in Fort Edward.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that this was kept hush-hush during election season.
The story that Juvenile Bluster posted yesterday about the guy getting killed because he refused to give up his guns (at least, that’s my read on it) has been “updated” but it doesn’t really add anything (except more words) beyond the dead man’s name (none of the officers are named, of course). They don’t explain why the “protective order” (= confiscation order) was issued nor do they explain whether that was the matter over which he became “irate”.
I am very curious why he was red flagged. This is something that should be public information but I doubt it is. These red flag laws are very dangerous/slippery slope imho.
Disabled Houston veteran: MSNBC crew blocked handicapped spots at polling place
Old story, but I remember that these reporters were on social media complaining someone had the temerity to call them out for being asshats.
Remember, don’t call the cops unless you want someone to get shot. That being said, shoulda called the cops.
It is pitch dark out and pouring rain. Can I just say I threw a few votes at losing candidates and not go outside?
~4″ of snow and no sign of letting up. I’m seriously thinking about jumping back into bed and finding a movie to watch.
If you don’t vote, just know you are responsible for whatever horrible things that happen over the next two years. It’s up to you.
Good guy with a gun.
“Armed assailant holds up couple and children during family outing.”
“Police grateful someone else did their job for them.”
I like the grudging nongratulation given at the end of the article. “Don’t risk your hide, call the police! And while you’re waiting half an hour till they roll up, take some photos, I guess. But don’t touch that icky gun, those are for police.”
In that neighborhood, it would’ve been a lot longer than 30 minutes. It’s not a neighborhood to live in without a gun at the ready.
My election night plans:
1. Turn on XBox One
2. Play Red Dead Redemption 2
I can’t drink alcohol, but prescription benzos may be used in case people try and intrude on my life with election results.
prescription benzos
9mm, or .45 ACP?
2 mg Klonopin, because I’m just that crazy.
My last appointment with my psych, she had to go onto her computer and type my name into a database before she’d write the prescription. She apologized and rolled her eyes at it, told me the state is now forcing them to do that before prescribing scheduled medications. I guess they’re looking for people who are doctor shopping or whatever? Or maybe they’re trying to discourage people from writing the prescriptions.
2 mg Klonopin, because I’m just that crazy.
At that dosage for an extended period of time, I think it’s more of a feedback loop than a one-way causality arrow.
I would consider they are adding people to the “these people have no second amendment” list.
Judging by Twitter, I’d say Democrats are going to kill it in Brooklyn. White liberal gentrifiers for the win!
Minus 5 social credit score points for repeating something you saw on Neontaster’s twitter feed.
Damn it, you caught me.
I’m not clever enough to come up with zingers like that.
Shit, I need to buy RDR2.
Benzos to live with the disgrace of console peasantry?
(In fairness, I’m not buying any current-year games till I upgrade my video card.)
These guys sure were woke….
“WTF- We love Nazis Now: How Intersectionality Doesn’t Make a Lick of Sense”
– Teen Vogue
Les boys got leather straps
Les boys got SS caps
Looks more like hazing to me.
That is some seriously nasty hazing.. they took pics so they could blackmail the asshats with it..
Germans….
Never change
Sweet Meteor O’Death
“Have a fun Election Day and stay relaxed!
Also, if your side loses, just remember one thing: you and your children will die in concentration camps built by the winners of tonight’s contest.”
If only…
“you and your children will die in concentration camps built by the winners of tonight’s contest.”
Or my people, so no sense in sweating it either way
You’re people are already in charge. You’re not fooling anyone
That reminds me. (((We))) are still waiting for our gold delivery for the month. You know, the one you give us for being the world’s scapegoats and hiding who really controls everything.
I don’t think the Netanyahu made its rendezvous at Perseus 6.
For you Glen Danzig fans
I can’t respect a man who doesn’t follow his ambitions.
https://i.imgflip.com/1hnygk.jpg
All this virtue signalling about voting is really getting to me.
People are so invested in voting because they see government as a way to force their view of the world on others. Fuck them all and fuck their stickers.
The Faith of Wokeness views the state as both God and the Devil, depending on the principal at the helm. It’s secular Manichaeism
They have this contradictory obsession with the democratic process. If they win, it’s because the “will” of the people have spoken but if the GOP wins, it’s because of Russians/dark money, voter suppression. Fuck them.
Only a man of faith could accept such duplicity and not find any inconsistency. That’s one of many reasons why progressivism should be viewed more as a religious faith than a political disposition. If we’re being honest, though, progressivism was always heavily intertwined with esoteric concepts and secular religious piety. Even it’s name furthers the false Hegelian idea of humanity forever marching toward “progress”.
I’m torn between whether not voting or voting against the Democrats (which isn’t always the same as voting for Republicans) is the greater protest choice. Given all the “go vote” bullshit, I’m leaning towards the former.
I’m voting all R this time. I’ll hate myself for it but the way the Left’s been acting for the past couple of years, a turd sandwich is better than a turd ice cream with shards of class as its topping.
Me too, right down the line. Not because I’m particularly enamored of the R candidates, but just because the D’s have had a lock on my area for as long as I can remember. Maryland’s blueness has made it progressively shittier (see what I did there?) for as long as I can remember, and the TDS has made it even worse. At this point, I’m voting against a one-party state as much as I’m voting to say, “Look, you crazy fucks, as God is my witness I will vote for Donald Trump’s reelection if you don’t cut it out! I swear to God I will!”
It’s the same thing in my state. The Democrats have had an iron grip on Illinois for as long as I can remember and they fucked things up really badly here. But when some Republican Governor, especially a noodle dick like Rauner tries to change stuff, they throw a hissy fit and refuse to take any responsibility for their shittiness. And the worst thing about the elections in Illinois is that they tried to pair every GOP candidate with Trump even though Trump had nothing to do with how shitty our state is.
I’m on the border of the DC and Baltimore media markets, so I see a lot of political ads for northern VA. Apparently there’s a guy running for the House as a Dem (I think for a northern VA district) who’s major platform is that he won’t vote with Nancy Pelosi, which I find absolutely hilarious.
Or, “You fuckers wanted me to vote, so I did. Happy now?”
I just got back from doing the latter. Even those sneaky judges who got themselves on both the D and R lines got nothing from me.
Although, getting an eyeful of the daytime voter pool kind of convinces me that we’re doomed no matter what.
Bad Weather = Global Warming = Trump = Voter Suppression. Prepping for another excuse / talking point for losing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOV8Qt3M4I0
And here we go… “The conventional wisdom is that inclement weather helps Republicans because it discourages people from making the trip to vote.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/election-day-live-updates-midterms-voting-campaigning-weather-news.html
Does the author think if nobody votes, the Republicans win by default?
Bad Weather = Global Warming = Trump = Voter Suppression. Is the logic not clear?
No Dems are poor, don’t have private vehicles, and are just to fucking lazy to go out in bad weather.
This gives the deplorables in monster trucks a competitive advantage.
Lower voter turnout always benefits Republicans. That’s why Chicago holds its local races in February in an off year.
Only Republican voters can handle some rain.
The Democrats really like to infantilize their supporters.
PolitiFact has investigated itself and finds that it isn’t politically biased
That answers that!
LOL
Isn’t this the same place that rated “if you like your health insurance, you can keep your health insurance” as “mostly true” and then two years later rated the exact same statement as its lie of the year?
It’s just coincidence that they stall on weighing in on BS from Democrats until they absolutely can’t ignore it anymore
Methinks they doth protest too much.
On the plus side, Mrs. Dean made <a href="https://simplydesigning.porch.com/sous-vide-dark-chocolate-pots-de-creme/" title="chocolate pot de creme” target=”_blank” >chocolate pot de creme* with the sous vide for watching results tonight. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t bother, but she wants to, so . . . .
Holy crap, that stuff is delish. And stupid easy to make with the sous vide.
*Different recipe, but that one’s close.
Well, that’s fucked up. Try again.
I have never heard of such a thing. I will give this a try, thanks.
Here is proggie economic knowledge on display
I’m not sure who’s dumber — the candidate or someone who votes for her.
Why can’t we get both?
Anxious about the elections? Call an emergency hotline!
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/colorado-crisis-lines-say-anxious-callers-blame-midterm-election/73-611573522
New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a quick answer when asked how Americans would pay for the ‘Medicare for all’ plan she and other socialist-leaning Democrats favor: “Just pay for it.”
“We’re not broke. We’ve still got checks!”
It’s inequality, all the way down
This isn’t a story about American childhood; it’s about American inequality.
“Kids’ sports has seen an explosion of travel-team culture, where rich parents are writing a $3,000 check to get their kids on super teams from two counties, or two states, away,” said Tom Farrey, the executive director of Aspen’s Sports & Society program. Expensive travel leagues siphon off talented young athletes from well-off families, leaving behind desiccated local leagues with fewer players, fewer involved parents, and fewer resources. “When these kids move to the travel team, you pull bodies out of the local town’s recreation league, and it sends a message [to those] who didn’t get onto that track that they don’t really have a future in the sport.” The result is a classist system: the travel-team talents and the local leftovers.
Unsurprisingly, the leftovers often lose interest. As Chris Moore, the executive officer of the U.S. Youth Soccer Association, told The New York Times, “If you can’t make a travel team, some kids may say, ‘What’s the point?’ and quit playing altogether.”
In short, the American system of youth sports—serving the talented, and often rich, individual at the expense of the collective—has taken a metal bat to the values of participation and universal development. Youth sports has become a pay-to-play machine.
Boo hoo hoo. Oh, no, not the collective, George.
What I noticed about kids’ sports these days, while watching the ex-girlfriends kids’ soccer games: none of those kids… NOT ONE! looked like they were having fun. Why the fuck bother?
Really? I remember it being a blast.