The Morning Report

The Morning Report - 5/27/21

Good morning kids. Thursday, so pick your poison from out of the turd-ducken of Jew-hate wrapped in America-hate, inside a flakey crust of soul-crushing totalitarianism, societal dissolution and non-stop agitprop, all slathered in a lugubrious, crawly cream sauce of foreign enemies hot and horny to pop us into the microwave. Literally (hell, this here is a food thread; what's CBD got that I don't? [don't answer that!]).

Yes, Anthony Fauci is an incompetent megalomaniacal bureaucrat who doesn't know his ass from his elbow and more than likely helped the Chi-Coms create and unleash a biological/psychological terror weapon on the world. Yes, every aspect of our society and government including our military and police are being "transitioned" into some hideous "woke" monster that will be totally useless except in their collective capacity to subjugate we the people of We The People. Yes, American Jews have to now hide any vestige or clue that might give them away to Democrat-Leftist protected goon squads now roving the streets with impunity and hopped up on a "lean/purple drank" cocktail of Critical Race Theory and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion ready for some mostly peaceful ass-kicking. And when I say Jews, you can throw in Asians, whites, Latinos and anyone deemed "an oppressor," meaning looking at them funny. Pro-tip: a MAGA hat is the new yarmulke.

Meh, while it all makes the blood boil, nothing in particular is really jumping out at me today, so let's just gaze at the whole stinking loaf of boiled shit en masse, through the eyes of Victor Davis Hanson:

...the American people are slowly regaining their senses after the epidemic of mass hysteria and insanity that gripped the nation in 2020. But Americans will wonder whether what Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and the hard Left wrought last year will last when the nation is no longer gripped by 2020 madness...
...Before 2020, the American people tired of the media farces surrounding such events as the Duke lacrosse team, the lies about the Covington kids, and Jussie Smollett's hoax about being attacked by white racists. Will they return to their earlier skepticism about media hype when it increasingly seems like the media and the government mostly lied when denying the possibility that the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab engaged in "gain-of-function" engineering of dangerous viruses?
Will people still believe that "armed insurrectionists" on January 6, 2021 planned a "coup" and killed officer Brian Sicknick? As the hysteria fades, we are learning there were no arms anywhere. No one has been charged with treason, conspiracy, or insurrection. There are no conspiracy kingpins in custody. And Sicknick tragically died a day later from natural causes...
From March 2020 to March 2021 the country went through a mass hysteria. Despite its ideological pretensions, the collective insanity was not unlike the Tulip mania in early 17th-century Holland, the 1950s hula-hoop craze, or the great June bug hysteria of 1962.
But as Americans sober up, will they institutionalize or reject the frenzy remaining from the destructive stampede that took the country over the cliff during the most unhinged year in American history?

I would urge Professor Hanson to read Julie Kelly's report (I mean, she does write for the same site as you!) from yesterday as dozens of truly innocent people are still being held as political prisoners by this illegitimate junta for an insurrection that he rightly states never happened - except the one which overthrew the winner of the 2020 election and installed the lump of gibbering flesh known as Biden. But that said, the madness continues. It has to continue lest the bastards at the controls be removed, via elections (very much in doubt given what we witnessed courtesy of Dao-Min Yen last November) or, G-d forbid, with pitchforks, rope and lampposts.

No, the mass-hysteria will remain until morale improves. So long as the enemy controls the schools as well as the means of information dissemination, then nothing is really going to change for the better. That said, there are positive signs here and there, where information does leak out. A school board here, a community board there. What we have is no longer a silent majority but a silenced majority. And we're not going to cotton to being silenced much longer.

All of this chaos and turmoil coupled with a disastrous policy regime locally, nationally and internationally is, as the saying goes, "unsustainable." The shit is going to hit the fan, somehow somewhere. A mask mandate gone too far? The goons picking on the wrong Jew to beat up? David Chipman going for our guns? A wild card we have yet to see?

Place your bets.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"People calling themselves 'Americans' continue to work to build their own empire through "our democracy" by drawing upon profits made in Communist China."
International Capitalists: Useful Idiots, Practical Communists, or Both?
Daniel Greenfield: "Why settle for helping Iran nuke America, when you can also help Al Qaeda nuke America?"
Biden Frees Al Qaeda Ally Who Plotted to Smuggle Nukes Into US

CIVIL WAR 2.0: LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

"Footage posted by journalist Andy Ngo shows a Black Lives Matter protester threatening to murder law enforcement in Kansas City."
BLM Activist Threatens Kansas City Police: "We Gonna Blow Your Motherfucking Head Off"
"Black Panthers accused of torture compared their movement to Black Lives Matter."
Dems Hosted Ex-Black Panther Implicated in Torture for Event Where Panelists Praised Cop Killers
"Portland Antifa chose to commemorate the anniversary of George Floyd's [death by misadventure] with vandalism, burning businesses, and attacking police officers."
Portland Antifa Riot, Tries to Burn Down Justice Center Again
"Former Seattle police chief Carmen Best said on a podcast this week that the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone was more violent than the media depicted."
Former Seattle Police Chief: Media Malfeasance Covering "CHOP" Made Violent Activists Look Peaceful
"The decent must transform their psyches and focus their wills if they are to become the dangerous folks that they need to become to neutralize the indecent and dangerous."
Individualism and the Protection of Innocents
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"'The Party of Science'(TM) ought to like empirical evidence, so here are two fun facts: Between 2012 and 2018, there have been 763 total incidents motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry, according to the one in-depth survey conducted by the liberal New America think tank. Over on the anti-Semitic side of the divide, according to the Anti-Defamation League, we've had some 2,000 incidents -- and that was last year alone."
Dems' Desperate Denial on Anti-Jewish Attacks: The "Islamophobia" Red Herring
"The Democrats explained, surge in the last few weeks all over the United States, 'including attacks on Jewish Americans in New York, California, and Florida." (they might want to look at their own piecce-of-shit colleagues in the (Death) Squad - jjs)
Jewish House Democrats Urge Biden to Appoint Ambassador to Combat Anti-Semitism, Condemn House Colleagues' Comments
Rep Mike Waltz: "As a Green Beret, I fought alongside our allies against terrorism. Never did I ever think I would serve in Congress with the Hamas Caucus who's defending terrorist attacks on our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel."
"The Hamas Caucus": Republicans Launch Explosive Term For Titty Caca Ocasio-Cortez "Squad"
With easily-identified Jews being targeted, Aaron Keyak, an official of the Biden 2020 [so-called quote-unquote 'presidential'] campaign, told Jews to hide items such as kippot or Stars of David if they are fearful of falling victim to such attacks."
No, American Jews Should Not Hide Their Stars of David
"There has been a second arrest, of Faisal Elezzi, 25, of Staten Island."
Waseem Awawdeh Charged In Antisemitic Assault, Vows He'd Do It Again, Gets Hero's Welcome After Release On Bail
"The party of "diversity" and "tolerance" is becoming almost as intolerant of Jews and of the Jewish state as the KKK." (it's funny because the Democrat Party created the KKK! - jjs)
Biden Shouts, "The Jews Are in the Attic"
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, AND OTHER CORRUPTION
"Hunter Biden invited guests to the dinner on April 16, 2015, held in the private 'Garden Room' at Cafe Milano, a Georgetown restaurant whose catchphrase is, 'Where the world's most powerful people go...' The next day, Vadym Pozharskyi, an executive at Burisma, emailed Hunter Biden to thank him for introducing his father.
Laptop BOMBSHELL: Hunter Biden Introduced His Dad to Business Cronies in 2015
"Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop continues to yield fascinating information about the incredibly corrupt man in the White House."
Joe Biden Lied About His Involvement in Hunter's Ukrainian Affairs
"The background check that Hunter Biden filled out in October 2018 to obtain a firearm is relevant because in order to obtain the firearm, Hunter Biden had to state that he was not addicted to any substances. However, in a recent book that he wrote, Hunter Biden admitted that at approximately the same time he obtained the firearm, he was addicted to drugs."
Biden ATF Nominee Promises To Give Hunter Biden Gun Background Check Form To Senate, Probe Any Crimes
ANGEL OF DEATH CUOMO NURSING HOME SCANDAL, SEXUAL ASSAULT & OTHER DEM GOV SCANDALS
"If the governor can violate her orders without any repercussions, then why should our business owners be fined?"
Veto-Proof Michigan House Majority Passes Bill Refunding Chinese Coronavirus Fines After Wretched Whitmer Hypocrisy
THE 2020 ELECTION HEIST AND AFTERMATH
"Sources tell Breitbart News that Republican state legislators in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, are considering similar calls for forensic audits of 2020 election results in their states."
Arizona's Democrat Secretary of State Says Other States Concerned 2020 Election Audits Coming
OTHER DEMOCRAT, LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS
Old and busted: "Do it for the children!" New hotness: "Do it TO the children!!"
BUSTED: Child Welfare Caught Stealing Social Security Checks From Disabled and Orphaned Foster Kids
POLITICS
"In recent weeks, Trump has sat down with Gingrich, Mark Meadows (his former chief of staff and a former Republican congressman), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at Mar-a-Lago to begin crafting a document to spearhead 2022 Republican victories just as the Contract with America helped propel Republicans to majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate."
For 2022, Trump Returns to the Secret Sauce That Gave the GOP Congress in a Historic Landslide
She'll either be blown out of the water or Dao-Min Yen will drag her over the finish line. Or more likely, drag the finish line over her.
Lizard Cheney: My Re-Election Will Be a Referendum on the Republican Party
"And with election data from 2020 suggesting the Republican Party ticket increased its margins with females and all races and demographics except white men, Democrats are presented with a tricky midterm election cycle in which independent swing voters are turning against Biden."
Poll: Joe Biden's $4 Trillion Spending Plan Unpopular with Swing Democrat District Voters
"The GOP must become the party of patriotic populism. Permanently."
Unsucking the Republican Party
Victor Davis Hanson: "As Americans sober up, will they reject the frenzy that took the country over the cliff during the most unhinged year in American history?"
Will the 2020 Madness Last?
CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED
Liar.
Fauci "Categorically" Denies NIH Funded "Gain-of-Function" Research at Wuhan Lab
"Fauci has changed his mind about almost everything else, from masks to herd immunity to opposing Trump's ban on flights from China in January 2020. But on this, potentially the most consequential of all of Facui's errors, he had to be dragged kicking and screaming by [Sen. Rand] Paul to a final acknowledgment of the obvious."
Enough of Fauci's Lies!
"Sadly, I don't see the FIRED Act getting much, if any, bipartisan support, and I don't see Biden firing Fauci as his medical advisor. But, who knows, maybe we'll get lucky."
GOP FIRED Act Demands Dr. Fauci's Early Dismissal. It's About Time!
"One would hope that, at a certain point, Democrats and the media would learn to think for themselves -- rather than just reflectively deciding that 'if Trump was for it, I'm against it.' But that's probably asking too much."
Biden Shut Down Wuhan Inquiry Out of Spite -- And is Now Forced to Reverse Course
"Apparently Speaker Fecteau only wants to 'follow the science' when it is politically expedient."
Maine Democrat House Speaker Strips Republicans of Committee Assignments Over Mask Rules
"DeSantis was giving a speech in Baker County to celebrate the district's embrace of in-person learning, which the governor has repeatedly advocated for. He has also called for school districts to stop forcing children to wear masks."
DeSantis Has Choice Words For Neurotic Chinese COVID Zealots "Still Wearing Six Masks" After Being Vaccinated

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"[CDC Director Rochelle] Walensky just said out loud what many of us have been saying all along: Testing positive for [Chinese] COVID-19 in the hospital does not mean you have died from [Chinese] COVID-19, especially when there are perverse financial incentives (increased reimbursement from Medicare and full reimbursement from most major insurers) to include the diagnosis on a deceased patient's chart.
Here's the Most Interesting Thing in the CDC Data About Post-Vaccine Chinese COVID Breakthrough Infections
"With a potential booster shots on the horizon, the results of this research could indicate that some individuals won't need them."
Natural Immunity to Chinese COVID-19 May Last More Than a Year After Infection, New Studies Show
Go long on fake vaccination papers.
Oregon to Require Proof of Vaccination to Go Mask-less in Stores, Churches
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Do they not know that America is on the road to becoming just like the shit hole they left?
Border Crisis Continues: Large Group of Venezuelan Migrants Crosses Into Texas Illegally
"This seems organized and ominous. Such folks may be less migrants than cartel invaders."
Why Are These Border-Jumpers Wearing Camo?
"Customs and Border Protection recently arrested an individual convicted of child sexual abuse and seized over $1 million worth of counterfeit items, including [Chinese] Covid-19 test kits."
CBP Apprehends Child Sexual Abuser, Seizes Prohibited Chinese Covid-19 Test Kits
"There were also 13 who had been convicted of sex offenses and 18 who had been convicted of domestic violence crimes."
Arrested at Arizona Border in April: 2 Illegals With Homicide Convictions, 13 With Sex Crime Convictions
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"This sale should not go through. @amazon is already a monopoly platform that owns e-commerce, shipping, groceries & the cloud. They shouldn't be permitted to buy anything else. Period."
Josh Hawley: Amazon a "Monopoly Platform," Should Not Be Allowed to Buy MGM
"If a time when [leftist] bias wasn't awful existed, no one alive today is old enough to remember it."
Fawning NYT, WaPo Reports Portray Biden as a Child in Need of Guidance and "Treats"
"Florida's freedom-loving governor takes on Big Tech censorship."
Ron DeSantis Gets It; Big Tech Must Be Put on a Leash
"Google has failed to meet its burden to establish that the Northern District of California is a clearly more convenient venue for the... litigation than the Eastern District of Texas."
Judge in Texas Google Lawsuit Refuses to Transfer Case to California
"New York Times [Chinese] coronavirus reporter Apoorva Mandavilli fantasized on Twitter that the world would stop discussing the idea [Chinese] COVID-19 came from a Chinese lab.
New York Times Reporter Wants To Kill Plausible Chinese COVID Lab-Leak Theory Because Racism
"No kidding. Kudos to Charles Lane."
Shock: Washington Post Publishes Something Sensible on Israel
Raymond Ibrahim: "Ideologically driven hypocrisy."
Fake News Shills for Palestinians, Ignores Genocide of Christians
Whose ass is Gutfeld going to kick now?
Juan Williams Announces He Is Leaving The Five
"The real issue here however is the effort of the Biden [junta] to use its executive power to blackball a specific group of private companies, merely because the Biden [junta] doesn't like the business they are in. Should these tyrants succeed this time, they will next be able to do the same in all areas. Are you a Republican? Well, a Democrat administration will certainly want to use its power to pressure banks and other businesses to blacklist you. Maybe you run a webpage critical of politicians. Well, you really shouldn't be allowed to use a bank or get loans. At least, not without the permission of those politicians."
Today's Blacklisted Americans: Biden Junta Working to Blackball Fossil Fuel Companies From Obtaining Financial Services
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Day to day, ATF plays a significant role in the legal trade of firearms in this country," Grassley said during Wednesday's Senate Judiciary hearing.
Grassley Says Confirming Biden's ATF Pick Is Like "Putting Antifa In Charge of the Portland Police Department'
"Should Hunter Biden be prosecuted for breaking this law?," Cotton asked Chipman. Chipman responded by saying: "I will ensure that all violations of law are investigated and referred."
Tom Cotton Presses Biden's ATF Nominee Over Prosecuting Hunter For Lying On Background Check To Purchase Firearm
"This is a simple restoration of Texans' constitutional right under the Second Amendment, a right of the people to keep and bear arms."
Gov. Abbott to Sign Bill Allowing Texans to Carry Handguns Without a Permit
ABORTION
"[SCOTUS] announced in mid May that it had agreed to take up a major Mississippi abortion case that could directly challenge Roe v. Wade, sparking hope in pro-life advocates and fear among abortion proponents."
Texas Bill Banning Abortion if Roe v. Wade is Overturned Heads To Governor's Desk
"You cannot be Catholic and a Democrat, period."
Bishop Seeks to Remove Priest Who Blasted "Godless" Pro-Abortion Democrats and "Hypocrite" Clergy Who Enable Them
"Everett, Wash., officials end crackdown on pro-life demonstrations."
Seattle Suburb Backs Down From Ban on Abortion Clinic Protesters
ISRAEL POST-CEASEFIRE SITUATION, ANALYSIS
"In the meeting, which was with members of Palestinian civil society, Amro asked the Secretary of State to end unquestioned U.S. financial and diplomatic support for Israel."
PHOTO: Tony Blinken Meets with Radical Palestinian Activist Issa Amro in Ramallah
Mark Meadows, David Milstein: "It would also contradict Biden's campaign promise to keep the US Embassy in Jerusalem, recreate major inefficiencies having two conflicting US diplomatic missions in the same city and revive what was an ideologically pro-Palestinian office in the heart of Israel's capital. Then, too, the move would put the US on a diplomatic collision course with Israel, since the Jewish state's consent is required to reopen the diplomatic mission to the Palestinians."
Biden's Plan for a Diplomatic Mission to the Palestinians Blatantly Violates US Law
And the Biden [junta] and much of the West seems all too willing to play along.
Gaza Round 4: Hamas Follows the Classic Terror Playbook
"Matthias Schmale, head of UNRWA in Gaza, said Saturday that the IDF showed 'huge sophistication' in its counterattacks against Hamas during the Gaza crisis, countering criticisms that the IDF has carelessly endangered the lives of Palestinian civilians."
Gaza UN Director Retracts Praise for "Precision" of IDF Strikes After Criticism From Hamas
"Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar is shown in a video kissing a child and putting a gun in his hands days after the Israel-Hamas ceasefire." (send David Chipman to Gaza to confiscate their guns - jjs)
Hamas Leader Emerges After Mideast Ceasefire To Give Child a Gun and Wave Him Around For Photo Op
"Not only does Israel's history speak to the Jewish people's deep ties to the land, but it also reminds us what happens when a people do not or cannot mind their borders."
Israel: What Happens When a Sovereign Nation Doesn't Control Its Borders
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Biden waives Syria sanctions as part of bid to appease Iran, lawmakers say."
House Republicans Probe Biden Junta for Ignoring Syria Sanctions to Appease Iran
"Legislation presses Senate Dems on 'no-brainer' chance to cut taxpayer funding to China."
Kennedy Introduces Bill To Cut Off Dictators' Funds
"I'm not going to match the public tit-for-tat here in terms of communications. We desire to have a dialogue with our counterparts in Beijing, and we're still working our way through what that's going to look like and how that's going to transpire. And I think I'll just leave it there."
Chinese Military Ignoring Biden Pentagon's Requests for Talks
"The arrests took place just days before a week of prayer was scheduled to begin on May 23." (the sooner Almighty G-d sends the real Angel of Death to wipe out the heathen Mongoloids, the better - jjs)
China Ships Off Catholic Priests and Students for Reeducation
"Its greenhouse gases are swamping the world. But that can change."
What to Do About China's Emissions Problem
"Liberals don't want voters to know that U.S. conservatives aren't alone in their political views."
Who's the "Ugly American" Now?
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Congressional GOP urges Pentagon to ditch radical politics in training materials."
Vets Battle Critical Race Theory Invasion of Military
"Reports indicate the illness is caused by pulsed microwave energy, which may be the result of "targeted attacks" on U.S. embassies in hostile countries. The diplomats say they have been repeatedly denied a meeting with department leadership." (frankly, I find it difficult to have pity on anyone working for the Leviathan, especially the State Dept. I'm sure there are a few good people there, but still - jjs)
Biden Junta Denying Care to Diplomats Suffering from "Havana Syndrome," Staffers Say
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE
Typical. Accept the premise to prove your not meanies. How about chop government by $1 trillion and abolish the EPA and Dept of Ed for starters?! GOP = The Left's first line of defense.
Senate Republicans Prepare $1 Trillion Infrastructure Counteroffer to Biden
"Manhattan's central business district has been empty for a year -- can it bring people back?"
What's Next for Midtown? (roving bands of thugs beating up whites and Jews - jjs)
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The Supreme Court has an opportunity to constrain anti-federalist state courts."
Runaway Justice
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"An e-mail sent out to professional members of the APA encouraged psychiatrists to use "anti-racism" in their methods with patients." (will Trofim Lysenko pick up the white, er, black courtesy phone - jjs)
American Psychiatric Association Urges Psychiatrists To Focus On Skin Color, Race In Clinical Work
"CON laws create a conflict of interest that suppresses the health care marketplace."
Tennessee Reforms Burdensome Certificate of Need laws
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"...the Biden DOE is proving that it cares less about safeguarding the spirit or letter of the Civil Rights Act than about advancing the tenets of critical race theory."
Team Biden Wants White Teachers to Undergo Anti-Racist "Therapy"
"She said her son is a rule-follower, and he vomited into the mask, with the chunks ricocheting and covering his body. She said he had seen teachers threaten his classmates with detention for removing their masks from their mouths for any reason."
Teachers Union Honchos Go Maskless in Classroom as Kids Are Forced to Mask Even Outside in Extreme Heat
Let me guess; the curriculum will be written by Ibram X. Crement and Rustoleum Hannah Jones...
New Pilot Program to Educate Muslim Students on the Holocaust Set to Launch in NY
"A white dean at Brandeis University referred to herself as racist by slamming white people in a fiery Instagram post."
White Assistant Dean at Brandeis University Calls Herself Racist
"Why University of North Carolina trustees made the right decision."
University Denies 1619 Project Creator Hannah-Jones Immediate Tenure
"As part of the updated application process, job candidates will be docked points for failing to share personal experiences with diversity and inclusion, or 'not addressing their own positionality' as it relates to diversity and inclusion."
Ohio College Will Assign Diversity Scores to Faculty Applicants
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"We intend to put banks and financial institutions on notice of our position, as we urge them not to give in to pressure from the Biden [junta] to refuse to lend to or invest in coal, oil and natural gas companies." (see the related link from Bob Zimmerman in the First Amendment section - jjs)
15 States Threaten To Pull Assets From Big Banks That Cut Off Fossil Fuels
"Maybe the eco-warriors are instead ignorant of the consequences of the policies they demand. But that doesn't make them less culpable."
Those Dirty Electric Vehicles and a Bolt of Green Hypocrisy
"This poll shows once again that Americans are unwilling to pay for the left's anti-energy policies."
Poll: More than a Third of Voters Wouldn't Spend Even $1 of Their Own Money to Reduce Impact of Climate Change
"The worrying limitations of science - and how it can be politicized."
Prager U Video: Is "Follow the Science" Scientific?
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Thursday twofer from our intrepid science reporter. First, "Viasat, having discovered its market share is seriously threatened by a competitor, is trying to use the government to squelch that competition. Viasat doesn't really give a twit about the environmental issues. It is launching its own new three-satellite geosynchronous constellation next year to provide broadband services globally, and Starlink's success threatens to cut into its profits." Viasat Asks FCC to Block Further Launches of SpaceX's Starlink Satellites
Next, to Mars we go: "The image to the right... looks at what I think are the distant but steadily approaching big cliffs on the western wall of the canyon Gediz Vallis. Make sure you look close at the shadowed cliff-face, probably several hundred feet high. It is filled with huge rock faces reminiscent of the most stark rock cliffs on the mountains of Earth."
The Big Cliffs of Gediz Villas on a Mars ("there'll be blue birds over... - jjs)
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Lockheed, the nation's largest defense contractor, sends key executives on a mission to deconstruct their 'white male privilege.'"
The Woke-Industrial Complex
How do we know it's a majority of employees and not 10 dweebs in someone's basement?
Amazon Employees Pressure Company To Cut Ties With Israel
"Stanley Moore, Cook County Commissioner, stated that before any vote could take place on renaming the holiday, Native American tribes should acknowledge their history of owning slaves."
Descendants of Blacks Enslaved By Native Americans Push Back On Renaming Columbus Day
"The most fearless and relentless foes of cancel culture have been punk rockers."
Punk the Woke
"On Monday, [so-called quote-unquote 'president'] Joe Biden broke with a century of precedent by demanding the resignations of four members of the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts."
Why The Biden White House Declared War On Classical Beauty In Architecture
"Goal number 21 of the 1963 communist goals is, 'Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.' Well done, komrades. In the year since the death of George Floyd, Hollywood has churned out 127 episodes of various TV shows promoting either 'systemic racism,' BLM, or defunding the police."
"Systemic Racism" Smuggles Its Way Into 127 TV Episodes
"The agitprop pushed by Sacha Baron Cohen offers an ivory tower glimpse of how cultural elites view average Americans."
Amazon Agitprop and American Ambivalence
Christian Toto: "What does CBS think of the late night Leftist's latest cringe-worthy interview?"
Stephen Colbert's Late Show Celebrates Rocker Praising Political Violence
"Late-night's useful idiot."
John Oliver and Israel's "War Crimes"
HITHER & YON
"Americans increasingly avoid risk, which means avoiding living a meaningful life."
Memorial Day and a Nation of Narcissistic Ninnies
Lloyd Billingsley: "Richard Wright's 40s novel is back - and his brave anti-Communist stand deserves attention."
The Wright Stuff

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Comments

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1 Howdy JJ!

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:15 AM (mZUr4)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:16 AM (yrol0)

3 Damn Im Italianizationcized.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:16 AM (yrol0)

4 I have summoned the otters

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:16 AM (mZUr4)

5 "Purple drank" Can't say it without giggling

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:19 AM (mZUr4)

6 Have a great day all! Remember this weekend those who gave everything for our country and try to forget, if only for a day, those who have stolen it.

Posted by: Rosasharn at May 27, 2021 06:19 AM (yEBFM)

7
Good morning, Hordians.

Let's get out there and enrage the lunatics by living a good life today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2021 06:20 AM (mht8P)

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 27, 2021 06:21 AM (DUIap)

9 My text seems to be slanted to the right more than usual today. wuwt?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 27, 2021 06:21 AM (uxUoN)

10 Waseem Awawdeh....

That guy's mother really should not have named him with her mouth full.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:22 AM (6FeV1)

11 Of course.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at May 27, 2021 06:22 AM (uxUoN)

12 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2021 06:23 AM (U7wke)

13 Broke Ass Sexual Chocolate > Juan Williams

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 27, 2021 06:24 AM (ddM9D)

14 At $417000 a year ,Fauci is NOT incompetent. The guy makes more than anyone in the Federal government.

Now there are some California University football coaches who make over $2 million. I bow in their general direction.

But really making money is the only reason to work for that shitheel government so Fauci is a stellar success.

Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 06:25 AM (HnRaK)

15 I take heart from ONT reports that fireworks are selling out way early and in massive amounts. We visit a friend for the Fourth every year and he's very excited about his fireworks supply and the brand new (larger) flag he bought for his house.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 06:26 AM (ZoOKd)

16 Our poor, poor little dog.... he does not like fireworks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:27 AM (6FeV1)

17 "Stephen Colbert's Late Show Celebrates Rocker Praising Political Violence"

Appears as though the article is about Richard Marx.

Rocker??? "I do not think it means what you think it means!"

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:29 AM (mZUr4)

18 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at May 27, 2021 06:29 AM (u7pQw)

19 Dobroe ytro comrades and happy birthday JJ

4th of July pool party this year with lib joo relatives is gonna be LIT. Mrs. F my queen has been mixing it up on The Facebook

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 06:31 AM (EZebt)

20 Americans increasingly lack discernment. They cannot tell idiocy from intelligence, foolishness from wisdom. How could anyone think Fauci was anything but a political hack the first time he openly lied to the public?

Posted by: iandeal at May 27, 2021 06:33 AM (vFaTN)

21 Americans increasingly lack discernment. They cannot tell idiocy from intelligence, foolishness from wisdom. How could anyone think Fauci was anything but a political hack the first time he openly lied to the public?
Posted by: iandeal at May 27, 2021 06:33 AM (vFaTN)

Good from Evil....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:35 AM (6FeV1)

22 The State hates children:

Currently, kids who age out of foster care are being told that the money the state had provided for them was spent and they are left with nothing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:35 AM (yrol0)

23 If you think being competent at your Federal Job is important I give you Fauci Comey Wray Sessions Barr Lynch Holder Reno ...you get the drill.

Now Hoover...that was one competent son of a bitch. He had the goods on the politicians. Molesters drug addicts wife beaters whatever...he knew and could pull the rug on all of them. Hell if a President needed shot J. Edgar was the man to get 'er done.

Fauci? Good at getting paid. If dead American's were what he had been hired to do he would be God tier.
Water seeks its own level. Such is competency in Washington.

Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 06:35 AM (HnRaK)

24 Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being

he forgot worthless cvnt!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:36 AM (yrol0)

25 Good morning!

From Snerdley:

Michigan journalist claims Whitmer admin's nursing home death count could be '100% higher' than reported

https://tinyurl.com/289v46j5

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:36 AM (bDqIh)

26 Appears as though the article is about Richard Marx.

Rocker??? "I do not think it means what you think it means!"
Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:29 AM (mZUr4)

Dick Marx sounds like what old guys do in the Depends.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:37 AM (yrol0)

27
The corporate media do as the spreaders of lies for the Left seem to be pervasive but recently it also seems One American News has really been laying down strong, relentless return fire.

Watching OAN'S Natalie Harp AT 10 PM ET, among others at OAN, is like previewing elements the next day's day Morning Report .

IOW Harp, and OAN in general, does not mince words and brings it right at the Left ala JJ. It is a wonder OAN can stay on the air given the fierceness with which they are fighting back on the airwaves.

Posted by: Voter theater. at May 27, 2021 06:38 AM (xXx5y)

28 22 The State hates children:

Currently, kids who age out of foster care are being told that the money the state had provided for them was spent and they are left with nothing.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:35 AM (yrol0)

Isn't this really the story of Social Security?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 06:38 AM (s2VJv)

29 Morning peeps. The fog crept in last night. Very thick this morning. It was cool last night with the full moon tho'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 06:39 AM (3H9h1)

30 Fauxchi and Cuomo have a lot in common. Despite all the "investigations" and fake media outrage, neither one of them is going anywhere.

As Fox News Brett Baier asked regarding China virus origin investigation: "What changed?" , knowing full well that nothing has changed and that this is all fake.

Faux Fox, Fauxchi, Faux folie.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 06:39 AM (S1hrL)

31 Disappointing to read about Fr. Altman - the priest in WI that his bishop is trying to silence. Not surprised, disappointed.
With the Holy Mass being broadcast online, the faithful can now view Mass offered by priests whose homilies speak the truth. They aren't "stuck" with the priest assigned to their hometown.Would be interesting to see statistics on viewership. How did the "rad-trads" fare vs. the pastors who simply preach "don't be a jerk".

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 06:41 AM (D3cJf)

32 Biden canceled the Lab-leak investigation out of spite, and literal treason, but mostly treason.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at May 27, 2021 06:41 AM (/aiGx)

33 Currently, kids who age out of foster care are being told that the money the state had provided for them was spent and they are left with nothing.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:35 AM (yrol0)

Isn't this really the story of Social Security?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 06:38 AM (s2VJv)

LOCK BOX!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:41 AM (mZUr4)

34 From Snerdley:

Michigan journalist claims Whitmer admin's nursing home death count could be '100% higher' than reported

https://tinyurl.com/289v46j5

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:36 AM (bDqIh)
=============== I wonder what the collective death count of old people living in nursing homes will finally be, adding Michigan to Pa., NJ and NY.

Electing Democrats kills old people.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 06:42 AM (ZoOKd)

35 A German fella named Oswald Spengler after WW1 made the case that civilizations go through phases but all burn out. And he predicted in 1936 Germany had 10 years left and the West would follow by 2000.

911 was a harbinger of things to come. We let a 7th Century savage inside our gates to do us great harm and left the gates open after that.

Spengler doesn't have to be right but that bunch of people in Washington is no different than hiring arsonists to man a fire department.

Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 06:42 AM (HnRaK)

36 I get the weekly paper from my little hometown where I grew up. Reading that the Memorial Day Parade won't have the school band this year because the school says they don't want to have the band members get sick just before final tests? Makes no sense to me, but what do I know.

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 06:42 AM (bZLMu)

37 22 The State hates children:
...
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 06:35 AM (yrol0)

===
I have also believed this is true, I worked in three state child welfare systems. If you are dependent on the state to raise you you're outcome is not going to be good

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 06:42 AM (EZebt)

38 Morning peeps. The fog crept in last night. Very thick this morning. It was cool last night with the full moon tho'.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 06:39 AM (3H9h1)

Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:43 AM (mZUr4)

39 ...Before 2020, the American people tired of the media farces surrounding such events as the Duke lacrosse team, the lies about the Covington kids, and Jussie Smollett's hoax about being attacked by white racists. Will they return to their earlier skepticism about media hype when it increasingly seems like the media and the government mostly lied ...
++++
No. I think this is, with all respect to VDH, the wrong question and its answer is not relevant. We know - or we think we do, but it comes from survey data so all bets are off - that institutional trust is at the bottom of the barrel. We also know that society is heavily polarized. The polarized sides are disjoined around (among other things) how to address the underlying trust issue.

No one now seriously argues that the Press are honest or that the government works for the people. Where the conflict arises is around what to do about it. We have the power faction all-in on support. They support the Press and the state regardless of the truth because it serves their interests. The disempowered group wants it all burned down. The vast middle doesn't know what to do but will follow the strong as it always does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 06:43 AM (Jsjd7)

40 Anyone know how to get around the paywall for the linked article?

Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Weaponizing SARS Coronavirus 5 Years Before the Wuhan Virus Pandemic In A Document that Also Predicted A Third World War Would Be Fought With Biological Weapons .

https://tinyurl.com/3yvb453s

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:44 AM (bDqIh)

41 30 Fauxchi and Cuomo have a lot in common....
They both should swing from rope?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 06:46 AM (D3cJf)

42 We push grannies wheelchairs off cliffs and get paid to do it. There's always more grannies too!

Where's my Kente cloth?

Posted by: Sen. Schumer at May 27, 2021 06:46 AM (HnRaK)

43 Damn right the State hates children -- foster care funds dry up when needed the most; promotion of transgendering and a life of misery funded by taxpayers; school closures due to China virus; Teachers' Unions; helmets for every physical activity;
China virus vaccinations to get back to school; virtual classrooms; CRT in schools; Common Core while it lasted; equity in college entrance applications, etc. etc.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 06:47 AM (S1hrL)

44 Anyone know how to get around the paywall for the linked article?

Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Weaponizing SARS Coronavirus 5 Years Before the Wuhan Virus Pandemic In A Document that Also Predicted A Third World War Would Be Fought With Biological Weapons .

https://tinyurl.com/3yvb453s
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:44 AM (bDqIh)
+++++
Had to monkey with the URL a little bit, but it looks like we can fetch it from archive.is:
https://archive.is/Z9qr2

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 06:47 AM (Jsjd7)

45 Weird how Fr. Altman is only about 50 miles from me but I only started hearing about him this week. gotta look him up next time I'm in LaCrosse.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 27, 2021 06:48 AM (ErSvT)

46 Relax grammar nazis

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 06:49 AM (EZebt)

47 Damn right the State hates children -- foster care funds dry up when needed the most; promotion of transgendering and a life of misery funded by taxpayers; school closures due to China virus; Teachers' Unions; helmets for every physical activity;
China virus vaccinations to get back to school; virtual classrooms; CRT in schools; Common Core while it lasted; equity in college entrance applications, etc. etc.
Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 06:47 AM (S1hrL)
++++
I don't think they hate children exactly. They certainly don't love children, but they don't especially want children to die (though they will accept that outcome in a minority of cases).

They want children to be psychologically destroyed but physically strong. This serves two purposes. First, it makes children reflect they themselves - tortured, miserable automatons. Second, it makes it easier to cultivate them as slaves.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 06:49 AM (Jsjd7)

48 Fireworks are used at the nightly fireworks show in Portland. So a shortage can happen, plus China makes most of them.

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 06:49 AM (bZLMu)

49 oh, & g'mornin' everyone, thanks as always for all the news, JJ !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 27, 2021 06:49 AM (ErSvT)

50 I just realized how similar this virus "threat level" bullshit is to the Bush era headchopper color codes...

"I can't wait for it to go back down to orange so i can go to Costco again...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:50 AM (6FeV1)

51 Media spin in action: "U.S. President Joe Biden orders intelligence officials to redouble efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19 pandemic."

Actually, I think it's true because doubling zero still makes zero.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 06:50 AM (UHVv4)

52 Relax grammar nazis
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 06:49 AM (EZebt)
++++
This should have a comma...

Good morning!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 06:50 AM (Jsjd7)

53 "Juan Williams Announces He Is Leaving The Five"

Seems to me, more properly said, The Five left him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 06:51 AM (ZoOKd)

54 Juan Williams Announces He Is Leaving The Five"

Seems to me, more properly said, The Five left him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 06:51 AM (ZoOKd)

5 - 0 = 5

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:51 AM (6FeV1)

55 "Lizard Cheney: My Re-Election Will Be a Referendum on the Republican Party"

She should be worrying about her primary challengers first. I don't think she'll have to worry about whether or not she'll be reelected, unless she wants to run (and lose) as an independent. She's no Murkowski.

Posted by: Grimmy at May 27, 2021 06:51 AM (3MG/9)

56 >>Where the conflict arises is around what to do about it. We have the power faction all-in on support. They support the Press and the state regardless of the truth because it serves their interests.

This

Here's mtaibbi on Rising explaining one of the most radical and significant changes from the Trump era: how liberals started viewing the CIA, FBI & NSA not with skepticism but as their allies, as weapons to use against their domestic political enemies:

https://tinyurl.com/6xyxwwhw

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:52 AM (bDqIh)

57 Juan Williams Announces He Is Leaving The Five
++++
Interesting development. So I wonder what Williams is going to do. He either has enough money - and someone who is of at least normal intelligence to manage it for him - to be fine, or he is planning to retire to a brightly-painted room full of big cushions where he can play with bits of string under supervision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 06:53 AM (Jsjd7)

58 I have been trying to make "grammar commie" happen.

It's a grammar nazi, but they're always wrong about what they're correcting you on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:53 AM (6FeV1)

59 >>Had to monkey with the URL a little bit, but it looks like we can fetch it from archive.is:
https://archive.is/Z9qr2

THANKS!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:53 AM (bDqIh)

60 Relax grammar nazis
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 06:49 AM (EZebt)
++++
This should have a comma...
Good morning!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 06:50 AM (Jsjd7)

Maybe SF was calling for massages for grammar nazis. I'm an occasional grammar nazi -- and I wouldn't turn down a massage.

Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:54 AM (mZUr4)

61 40 Anyone know how to get around the paywall for the linked article?

Chinese Military Scientists Discussed Weaponizing SARS
Coronavirus 5 Years Before the Wuhan Virus Pandemic In A Document that
Also Predicted A Third World War Would Be Fought With Biological Weapons
.

https://tinyurl.com/3yvb453s
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 06:44 AM (bDqIh)
This link will walk you through a way to do it. Does require you have Google Chrome installed: https://tinyurl.com/hawrmx69

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 06:54 AM (D3cJf)

62 VDH article: I vote for the institutionalization of the frenzy happening. The federal and state bureaucracies are bloated and continue to swell; we are living in a managerial state controlled by bureaucrats. Unless gas goes over $5/gallon this summer, the citizens will probably do nothing to prevent being controlled by a fake frenzy again. Like the yard sign said: "Everyone sucks, we are screwed." (Must admit, I laughed when I saw it.)

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 06:55 AM (S1hrL)

63 so National Review has decided NOW is the time for donkey party to address its anti-semitism problem....

you know now as opposed to say last November when they were endorsing Biden?

Because after all donk anti-semitism is a brand new thing that sprung fully formed like Athena from Zeus' autumnal brow....

You cannot spell "retard" without National Review Online.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 06:55 AM (Lzpvj)

64 51 Media spin in action: "U.S. President Joe Biden orders intelligence officials to redouble efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19 pandemic."

Actually, I think it's true because doubling zero still makes zero.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 06:50 AM (UHVv4)

A strongly-worded letter to the CCP.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 27, 2021 06:55 AM (PiwSw)

65 Good morning hordelings. About the link to state agencies taking disability checks from handicapped minors:

"acquiring benefits from people with disabilities as "a major line of business" in company records.".....

My brother became a ward of the state in his teen years, and was placed in a group home. I believe they took his SS benefits as payment for their services. That seemed reasonable to me at the time. I wonder if this article is coming at it from a different angle. Hard to decipher since I have a raging headache.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 06:56 AM (45fpk)

66 A strongly-worded letter to the CCP.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 27, 2021 06:55 AM (PiwSw)

In mandarin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:56 AM (6FeV1)

67 54 Juan Williams Announces He Is Leaving The Five"

Seems to me, more properly said, The Five left him.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 06:51 AM (ZoOKd)

5 - 0 = 5
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:51 AM (6FeV1)

Heh. But woke math says you're wrong.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 06:57 AM (s2VJv)

68 Ha, ha!

Where did VDH get the silly notion that Americans were going to sober up any time soon? He cracks me up!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 06:57 AM (tVOev)

69 Heh. But woke math says you're wrong.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 06:57 AM (s2VJv)

Five minus Juan equals nuffin'.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 06:57 AM (6FeV1)

70 An Executive Order, right? LOL

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 06:58 AM (S1hrL)

71 Joe, ha!

Better?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 06:58 AM (EZebt)

72 64 Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 27, 2021 06:55 AM (PiwSw)

Oh Joey Plugz wants an apathetic "apolitical" investigation relying on the WHO....

that'll get to the bottom of things.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 06:58 AM (Lzpvj)

73 Re. fireworks, Monday was Canada's Victoria Day holiday (that we called 'Firecracker Day' as young children) and we had plenty of fireworks in the neighbourhood all weekend. As well, despite a b.s. lockdown, there were plenty of people at the beaches, especially as it was hot as a s.o.b. on the weekend, that gave our moral and intellectual betters the vapours.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 06:58 AM (UHVv4)

74 The guy that wrote the article on NYC is whistling past a graveyard. City centers that see even a 15 to 20% drop in return workers are in for a world of hurt.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 06:59 AM (xEIoY)

75 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:00 AM (Zz0t1)

76 "U.S. President Joe Biden orders intelligence officials to redouble efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19 pandemic."

They will tell us it came from Mar-a-Lago.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 07:00 AM (3H9h1)

77 I get the weekly paper from my little hometown where I grew up. Reading that the Memorial Day Parade won't have the school band this year because the school says they don't want to have the band members get sick just before final tests? Makes no sense to me, but what do I know.

Covid hides in the tuba!!! Stay safe.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at May 27, 2021 07:00 AM (W4eKo)

78 Ugh. Coffee gone. Guess i need to actually do something now.

Have a day, chochachos.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 27, 2021 07:00 AM (6FeV1)

79 Basically, the country is lost at every level of analysis.

And with 2 million plus illegals streaming over the border this year and probably every year for the next four years at least, it's all over except the shooting.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 27, 2021 07:00 AM (6xUtw)

80 it is hard to describe how much respect I have lost for VDH over the past few years. sad, really.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 27, 2021 07:00 AM (ErSvT)

81 Incorporation is the process by which the USSC has applied the Bill of Rights to the states...and not all 10 have been applied. But the real problem is the Founders would have done so had they wanted but they didn't. So now we have Texas operating as best they can to make the 2nd A work on a state level 235 years give or take after the A applied to the Federal government who has passed a boatload of law to infringe on a right that was specifically stated to be free of infringement.

Are you entertained?!

Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (HnRaK)

82 gave our moral and intellectual betters the vapours.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 06:58 AM (UHVv4)

That's always a good thing. All the time.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (45fpk)

83 74 Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 06:59 AM (xEIoY)

The crisis facing all those metros in 2019 was massive surpluses that they could not spend....

"seriously"

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (Lzpvj)

84 How could anyone think Fauci was anything but a political hack the first time he ~~openly lied~~spoke to the public?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (U7wke)

85 Not feeling very patriotic this year and I'm damn sure not spending any money on Chinese fireworks.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (Tnijr)

86 Of course the Jewish Blinken falls prey to the "apartheid"/racissy claim. It's tikkun olam writ large and pathetically, tragically, stupid.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (ONvIw)

87 Every sports franchise, car manufacturer, movie producer and any other conglomerate is ITCHING to get their grubs on some nasty, filthy commie blood money from China. They seem to have plenty. Why the FUCK are we sending them ANY cash to do ANYTHING?!??

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:02 AM (Zz0t1)

88 56% would not spend more than $20 to reduce the impact of climate change.

and half of those are lying muthafukrs!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:04 AM (yrol0)

89 #64 And the MFM is working for the CCP too as they're bothering to report using the limited number of chyrons the station shows in a day that, "China accused Biden administration of playing politics in calling for renewed investigation into origins of pandemic."

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:04 AM (UHVv4)

90 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?
Posted by: Doof at May 27, 2021 06:43 AM (mZUr4)

As thick as potato soup.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2021 07:05 AM (U7wke)

91 88 Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:04 AM (yrol0)

Well luckily they elected people who will "spend" EVERYTHING to fight it.

When you knowingly hamstring the ability to establish new economic solutions and gambits you are spending on the macro level.

The left wants an "Airstrip One" theme park on US soil, they will get it.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:05 AM (Lzpvj)

92 @87

The Chinese own us lock, stock and barrel.

We were sold down the river by greedy mercenaries and monsters a long time ago.

The Chinese are now just flexing on us.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 27, 2021 07:06 AM (6xUtw)

93 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Thicker than Kim Kardashian's ass.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 07:06 AM (3H9h1)

94 Haven't seen much about the perp in the San Jose shooting.

Posted by: Infidel at May 27, 2021 07:07 AM (E0OEG)

95 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?
As thick as a good new england clam chowder.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 07:08 AM (D3cJf)

96
As thick as potato soup.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 27, 2021 07:05 AM (U7wke)

I'm offended by that.

Posted by: The Irish at May 27, 2021 07:08 AM (Zz0t1)

97 >>>56% would not spend more than $20 to reduce the impact of climate change.<
>The only climate control I'm concerned about is inside my house and automobile.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 07:08 AM (tVOev)

98 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Thicker than TrigglyPuff's thighs.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (D3cJf)

99 I won't bother retyping the stories but there were several chyrons about people complaining about how the Japan Olympics going ahead is going to kill everyone with new variants.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (UHVv4)

100 I just heard on the radio that University of Louisville did a study showing that masks do nothing for preventing virus transmission.

It's weird how difficult it is to find with search engines.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (2CptV)

101 Every sports franchise, car manufacturer, movie producer and any other conglomerate is ITCHING to get their grubs on some nasty, filthy commie blood money from China. They seem to have plenty. Why the FUCK are we sending them ANY cash to do ANYTHING?!??
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:02 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Why did the vanquished send a cut - often the top cut - of their grain and other production to the empire that defeated them?

It was paid as tribute. As is this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (Jsjd7)

102 98 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Thicker than TrigglyPuff's thighs.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (D3cJf)

Thick as a Brick.

Posted by: Ian Anderson at May 27, 2021 07:10 AM (PiwSw)

103 Biden's fake investigation coverup attempt may well be thwarted by other countries' investigations if not independent investogative reporters. The article I linked is good, and it's based on info in a forthcoming book,"What Really Happened in Wuhan" by Sharri Markson.

The chairmen of the British and Australian foreign affairs and intelligence committees, Tom �Tugendhat and James Paterson, say the document raises major concerns about China's lack of transparency over the origins of COVID-19.

The Chinese-language paper, titled The Unnatural Origin of SARS and New Species of Man-Made Viruses as Genetic Bioweapons, outlines China's progress in the research field of biowarfare.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:10 AM (bDqIh)

104 "If the businesses, employers, or churches do not set up a
vaccination-check system, then they must require everyone to wear masks,
said the OHA."

Churches are not a business to be regulated. Churches and synagogues' rights cannot be infringed. You might pull this crap at the Dollar Tree, but you can't come into Light of Life Baptist Church and tell them to cover their face. You are not God.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:10 AM (45fpk)

105 Went to CVS yesterday, No masks required, even the people working there. Dollar Tree next door, mask required, we sure are f**ked up. You have to carry a mask when you go out, as you never know who wants them..

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 07:10 AM (bZLMu)

106 "This poll shows once again that Americans are unwilling to pay for the left's anti-energy policies."
Poll: More than a Third of Voters Wouldn't Spend Even $1 of Their Own Money to Reduce Impact of Climate Change

***

The problem being that the folks who say they really, truly believe in manmade effects on Global Warming won't sacrifice $1 of THEIR money.

Start acting like it's a problem and I'll consider listening to your anti-science religious bullsh*t.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (2CptV)

107 So, is Donna Brazile replacing Juan on The Five?

Good morning, horde!

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (OssQ4)

108 As thick as impissanted pea soup.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (Tnijr)

109 The article on midtown Manhattan is right on target. I recently walked from Penn Station to 53rd and Third, and it's amazingly empty. Store fronts on Madison are empty, some boarded.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (ZoOKd)

110 Looks to me that Hamas has that 2nd A thing down pat.
They get full auto and we don't.

Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (HnRaK)

111 @100

This has been known for decades.

Full fucking virology suits will not stop the spread of a virus in a general population of 7 billion people.

It's not how any of this fucking works and they know this, why they keep fucking this particular chicken is a mystery to me.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (6xUtw)

112 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Thicker n' shit.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (Zz0t1)

113 86 Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 07:01 AM (ONvIw)

Your comment is borderline. Thin ice alert.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (s2VJv)

114 Excuse me. You know nothing of fog

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (EZebt)

115 Likewise, when asked how much of their savings for retirement or higher education theyd be willing to "divert toward immediate climate change spending,"

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Holy crap.

Listen to what they're telling you. Believe them.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (2CptV)

116 90 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?
Posted by: Doof

NOAA named it.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (OssQ4)

117 Sorry "impissated"

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (Tnijr)

118 Morning all! Storms moving in. Very high winds. Glad I moved all the plants last night. Again.

Downtown Kansas City will die. All that money and those years spent trying to bring it back. Good job libs. Steller.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 27, 2021 07:12 AM (nxdel)

119 >> Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Thick as a 7-11 slurpee!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:13 AM (bDqIh)

120 "Szell Us Another One"

George Szell did nothing wrong!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 07:13 AM (ZoOKd)

121 94 Posted by: Infidel at May 27, 2021 07:07 AM (E0OEG)

Good union democrat with no social media footprint....

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:13 AM (Lzpvj)

122 Well luckily they elected people who will "spend" EVERYTHING to fight it.

When you knowingly hamstring the ability to establish new economic solutions and gambits you are spending on the macro level.

The left wants an "Airstrip One" theme park on US soil, they will get it.
Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:05 AM (Lzpvj)

Come se dice Airstrip One in spanglish?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:14 AM (yrol0)

123 The only way that WW3 is a biological war is if the US has a President who won't use the "football", which is unpossible, or unlikely, or never mind.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 07:14 AM (xEIoY)

124 A survey of 1,200 registered voters sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, conducted April 15-18, 2021, asked:
"How much of your own money would you be willing to personally spend each month to reduce the impact of climate change?"
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What a stupid question. My answer is "zero dollars," but that answer is predicated a lot of things. This kind of survey is not particularly valuable unless it tries to dig in to the *reasons* for the answers received. For example, I am unwilling to spend even one red cent because in my opinion the qualifying questions have not been answered. Has it been adequately demonstrated that man is the cause of it? No. Has it been adequately demonstrated that it is dangerous? No. Has it been adequately demonstrated that man can do anything about it? No.

The list goes on. Yet I suspect there are at least scores (if not thousands) of answers to they "why" - yet it does not appear that anyone asked "why?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:14 AM (Jsjd7)

125 What we have is no longer a silent majority but a silenced majority.

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That's pretty brilliant a statement, JJ. I only hope and pray that the word "majority" is really true. After 2020, I don't know what to think. So many clear thinking, reasonable, normal people lost their ever-loving minds over a virus that is 99.7+% survivable. That tells me the very sad truth that the media still holds major sway and influence, when most of those reasonable people should've known better.

So we are the silenced majority. The threat to politicians that there's some lurking, quiet monster out there able to throw them out of office doesn't apply anymore...because honest and fair elections don't exist. We're silenced at the ballot box. We're silenced on social media. We're silenced in education, pop culture, mass media. We're a lot less threatening to them than a silent majority.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:15 AM (O+I8R)

126 100 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (2CptV)

What is even more odd is you could map out the left's gambit on masking forever and get banned by "conservative" sites.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:15 AM (Lzpvj)

127 98 Without using the term "pea soup", how thick was the fog?

Thicker than TrigglyPuff's thighs.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 07:09 AM (D3cJf)

Thicker than TrigglyPuff's backfat

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:15 AM (yrol0)

128 #94 The last I saw the middle-aged, balding, white perp, Samuel Cassidy, killed eight coworkers at the train repair yard [not its official title that I've since forgotten] after having set fire to his house. Fenelon gave a precis of a link yesterday with the father saying he wasn't politically active. So it sounds like a guy just going nuts and 'workplace violence'.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:15 AM (UHVv4)

129 >>Likewise, when asked how much of their savings for retirement or higher education theyd be willing to "divert toward immediate climate change spending,"

Maybe the reluctance is due to familiarity with how thiese types of funds are actually spent?

If I give $10, bet $8 of it goes to administration costs and the remaining $2 to the next Solyndra grant.
No Thanks.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:15 AM (bDqIh)

130 #109 Same all over the country. Property and sales taxes HAVE to be sucking air.
We have huge malls that are nearly empty.
When do the wheels come off of that?

Police fire water and sewer are all funded by OCCUPIED buildings throwing off checks.

Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 07:16 AM (HnRaK)

131 122 Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:14 AM (yrol0)

droll IngSoc now with Latin flamboyance mi amigo!

//AOC

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:16 AM (Lzpvj)

132 That 100 illegals in matching camo gear? Fashion statement, nothing to see here, move along. Thank God Abbott is making the 2A legal again today.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 07:16 AM (xEIoY)

133 We bought some real estate in that area before the Fauci Virus hit. We tried to bring some people back a month or so ago. They were horrified at how bad it was. People didn't even want to leave the building and felt unsafe on the wall to Penn.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 27, 2021 07:14 AM (wHKGv)

And yet, NY'ers will vote for the next commie mayor and governor as if to say "THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:16 AM (Zz0t1)

134 A nice shinny new large gas station is being built just down the street. Don't they realize that in a few short years the pumps will have to replaced with charging stations for you new F150 electric truck. (Blessed by Uncle Joe's spirit)

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 07:17 AM (bZLMu)

135 128 Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:15 AM (UHVv4)

He is the prototype of the "union democrat" swing voter, I'd bet money on it.

Likely got tired of some totally foreseeable crap from the union.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:17 AM (Lzpvj)

136 Thicker 'n Meghan McCain's blubber layer.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:17 AM (Zz0t1)

137 "From March 2020 to March 2021 the country went through a mass hysteria. Despite its ideological pretensions, the collective insanity was not unlike the Tulip mania in early 17th-century Holland, the 1950s hula-hoop craze, or the great June bug hysteria of 1962."

Ridiculous trivialization of what we went through and which continues unabated at its central grinding engine.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (H8QX8)

138 Colbert acting like a tough guy is funnier than anything else he does. Anyone think that dork has ever been in a fight? Seen stars?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (y7DUB)

139 This has been known for decades.
Full fucking virology suits will not stop the spread of a virus in a general population of 7 billion people.
It's not how any of this fucking works and they know this, why they keep fucking this particular chicken is a mystery to me.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (6xUtw)

**

Yeah, I've said it before, but a big part of what has been so disturbing in this whole thing is that people with high school diplomas, bachelors, masters, and doctorates have demonstrated that they didn't learn anything in 7th grade.

This is literally some of the most basic science we know, and the credentialed class just hand-waved it away.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (2CptV)

140 Seriously, JJ, those first two paragraphs are works of art.

Food Thread? Art Thread?
Nah, the Morning Report!

Posted by: Flyover at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (Rbu5d)

141 138 Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (y7DUB)

Thinking anything but glowing thoughts about our media betters is a hate crime.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (Lzpvj)

142 Store fronts on Madison are empty, some boarded.

The new normal.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (nxdel)

143 Real important news:

Arrow Home Video has let it leak that they are releasing David Lynch's Dune on 4K in August.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (LvTSG)

144 142 Store fronts on Madison are empty, some boarded.

The new normal.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (nxdel)

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It's what they voted for.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (LvTSG)

145 Oregon to Require Proof of Vaccination to Go Mask-less in Stores, Churches
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What a bunch of fools. The preference cascade is past its inflection point. Masks are over. COVID is over. Oregon should have taken a page from the CDC playbook and pretended to lead on this topic.

Now, they are going to have to go to war with overall preference. That is expensive and brutal. They now have a no-win scenario. They either must become flatly oppressive and enforce this at the point of a gun in public places throughout the land, or they will have to backtrack and give up. Either way reduces their legitimacy among the "man on the street" crowd.

What pisses me off most about the legions of extremely powerful yet shitty wannabe tin-horn dictators is that they're all so fucking stupid. Being ruled by craven fools is far worse than being ruled by strong, intelligent monsters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (Jsjd7)

146 134 A nice shinny new large gas station is being built just down the street. Don't they realize that in a few short years the pumps will have to replaced with charging stations for you new F150 electric truck. (Blessed by Uncle Joe's spirit)
Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 07:17 AM (bZLMu)

Replacing the 133 MILLION gallons of gas sold everyday is easy. Replacing the 200,000 gas stations and truck/pipeline infrastructure that delivers that gas in unpossible in the 20 to 30 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:20 AM (yrol0)

147 Seriously, JJ, those first two paragraphs are works of art.

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Not to get JJ all big-headed, but I'm surprised he hasn't been snatched up by a paying gig. I'd miss him terribly for his link aggregation, but I wouldn't blame him one bit.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:20 AM (2CptV)

148 And yet, NY'ers will vote for the next commie mayor and governor as if to say "THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!!!"

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And then, when it gets so bad they can't take it anymore, they'll come to a clean, low crime, decent red state and vote the same. Thus spreading the misery everywhere they go. Never making the connection.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:21 AM (O+I8R)

149 >>>That 100 illegals in matching camo gear? Fashion statement, nothing to see here, move along.<
>This is a telltale sign of the Democrats attempting to control the drug trade. Like that endless war in Afghanistan.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 07:21 AM (tVOev)

150 Thinking anything but glowing thoughts about our media betters is a hate crime.
Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:19 AM (Lzpvj)

Thinking is a hate crime.

Posted by: F 451 at May 27, 2021 07:21 AM (yrol0)

151 George Szell did nothing wrong!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 07:13 AM (ZoOKd)

He made the Cleveland Orchestra great!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:21 AM (y7DUB)

152 Ridiculous trivialization of what we went through and which continues unabated at its central grinding engine.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (H8QX

Must disagree. It's not a ridiculous trivialization. Hysteria is hysteria no matter the cause. The country went through a mass hysteria that continues to linger -- look at people still wearing masks -- that's been institutionalized, like the arrows on supermarket stores and mask signs in stores. The grocery store manager controls what I do. That is ridiculous.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:22 AM (S1hrL)

153 Colbert acting like a tough guy is funnier than anything else he does. Anyone think that dork has ever been in a fight? Seen stars?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:18 AM (y7DUB)

A young Stephen Colbert prepping for battle.....

https://youtu.be/B4qFTvnBDJU

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (Zz0t1)

154 And then, when it gets so bad they can't take it anymore, they'll come to a clean, low crime, decent red state and vote the same. Thus spreading the misery everywhere they go. Never making the connection.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:21 AM (O+I8R)

See Austin Houston Dallas

Minimize ALL Contacts Unless Fully Vaccinated
Level 2 - Significant Threat

FUCK HILDAGO

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (yrol0)

155 Justin wants Canada to send a rover to the moon!

I wonder if we'll be using Canada's East Indian scientists for that??

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (UHVv4)

156 >>It's not how any of this fucking works and they know this, why they keep fucking this particular chicken is a mystery to me.

If you consider that the guy pushing a lot of this was behind the research that caused it, I would say: it's been used as a distraction. Further, by telling people they must mask up, handwash like a surgeon, isolate, socially distance, etc. you are instilling the belief that one's actions control whether one is infected. You get sick? Your fault -- not Fauci's. It was a psy op all the way down.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (bDqIh)

157 152 Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:22 AM (S1hrL)

"Hysteria" jedi handwaves away a lot of calculation involved.

This was a calculated move on the part of some very powerful people.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:24 AM (Lzpvj)

158 Biden back slapping commercial in heavy rotation right now:

"No angry tweets. Just Results"

I came very close to euthanizing my TV last night.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:24 AM (Tnijr)

159 156 Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (bDqIh)

China created the virus, and Fauci has the receipts.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:24 AM (Lzpvj)

160 #155 ... to the Moon within five years.

Forgot to add, someone must think he's JFK.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:24 AM (UHVv4)

161 And then, when it gets so bad they can't take it anymore, they'll come to a clean, low crime, decent red state and vote the same. Thus spreading the misery everywhere they go. Never making the connection.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:21 AM (O+I8R)

It's happening in Texas as we speak. Good thing we'll be a freer state after today.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:25 AM (Zz0t1)

162 Replacing the 133 MILLION gallons of gas sold everyday is easy. Replacing the 200,000 gas stations and truck/pipeline infrastructure that delivers that gas in unpossible in the 20 to 30 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:20 AM (yrol0)
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No it isn't. It could be done to 80% in five years, and gasoline reduced to a serious minority product in 10, with it becoming a collector-market niche product in 15.

All someone has to do is actually come up with something better. Wildly better and far cheaper. If that were to happen, few would buy a gasoline car if given the choice. A bulk of the aggregate fleet turns over every 5-7 years. Gasoline would be on its way out within a decade.

But that product doesn't exist, which is why coercion has to enter into the equation - and that coercion will have the effect of elongating the fleet turnover time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:25 AM (Jsjd7)

163 Oregon to Require Proof of Vaccination to Go Mask-less in Stores, Churches
So they are forcing people to reveal private medical information. Seems to me that for them to do that, they would need to be HIPAA compliant. And becoming HIPAA compliant isn't a trivial act.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 27, 2021 07:25 AM (D3cJf)

164 156 If you consider that the guy pushing a lot of this was behind the research that caused it, I would say: it's been used as a distraction. Further, by telling people they must mask up, ~~handwash like a surgeon~~, isolate, socially distance, etc. you are instilling the belief that one's actions control whether one is infected. You get sick? Your fault -- not Fauci's. It was a psy op all the way down.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (bDqIh)

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That one is probably a good idea all around. I don't think people wash their hands enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:25 AM (LvTSG)

165 Years ago when needed to go to Kansas City to visit customers, I rode with a fellow lady employee who is black. She kept telling me about how dangerous the city was. She would say 'lock your door' as we drove around the city with lots of water fountains. The rental car of course locked the doors for us, and our customers always seemed to be in some of the more questionable areas.

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 07:26 AM (bZLMu)

166 Biden back slapping commercial in heavy rotation right now:

"No angry tweets. Just Results"

I came very close to euthanizing my TV last night.
Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:24 AM (Tnijr)
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Seriously? Do you have a link to a copy I could watch online?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:26 AM (Jsjd7)

167 Good morning JJ.
I'd forgotten this time of the morning still existed on my clocks.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 27, 2021 07:26 AM (axyOa)

168 Justin wants Canada to send a rover to the moon!

I wonder if we'll be using Canada's East Indian scientists for that??
Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:23 AM (UHVv4)

I know what will unify the peasants!!!!

SPACE TRAVEL!!!!!! Allocate $240 Billion tax dollars IMMEDIATELY. Take it from the lower 3rd of payers.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:26 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Morning Horde, nothing like starting the day with back to back conference calls on my friday. but at least something got moving from it.

content was great as always JJ, working so hard for us on your birfday. we appreciate it.

coffee is ready, now to hit post and see if i'm 100 comments behind...

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 27, 2021 07:26 AM (8D42x)

170 We have (had) an unbranded gas station in town. The pumps had nothing on them to indicate an affiliation with any larger oil/gas company.

Within the last month it changed over to an Exxon.

I'm curious to see if the other, unbranded station puts up a Marathon sign as that's what's on their pumps if you can find the decal under all the soot and grime.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 07:27 AM (3H9h1)

171 "Seriously? Do you have a link to a copy I could watch online?"

I saw it again and again on MeTV.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:27 AM (Tnijr)

172 Whenever someon asks me about the required charging infrastructure for EVs, I always reply that we have had cell phones for twenty some odd years and the fastest charge is circa 30 minutes for 50%. Imagine that in your Buick land yacht. The EV "stations" will all be mega Buckees types. Come for the charge and stay for lunch or dinner and useless junk shopping.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 07:27 AM (xEIoY)

173 This was a calculated move on the part of some very powerful people.
Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:24 AM (Lzpvj)

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I didn't mention/deny it was calculated, did I? I said hysteria is hysteria, calculated or otherwise, I will add. There, fixed it. The hysteria/frenzy has become institutionalized in one year. That should make us hysterical.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:27 AM (S1hrL)

174 So, how do you think the government is going to REPLACE the tax 'revenue' LOST by eliminating all the gasoline used by consumers?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:28 AM (Zz0t1)

175 Whenever someon asks me about the required charging infrastructure for EVs, I always reply that we have had cell phones for twenty some odd years and the fastest charge is circa 30 minutes for 50%. Imagine that in your Buick land yacht. The EV "stations" will all be mega Buckees types. Come for the charge and stay for lunch or dinner and useless junk shopping.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 07:27 AM (xEIoY)
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Why do you assume that you'll be allowed to have a land yacht?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:28 AM (Jsjd7)

176 In recent weeks, Trump has sat down with Gingrich, Mark Meadows (his former chief of staff and a former Republican congressman), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at Mar-a-Lago to begin crafting a document to spearhead 2022 Republican victories just as the Contract with America helped propel Republicans to majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate
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THIS

PLEASE DEAR GOD THIS

The Trump agenda is much more important than Trump. It is the framework for electoral victory that can't lose with the voters (yes, I know, assumes voters have any say in the matter).

I was talking to my wife about this and there has been a sea change in the base of the republican party that can make it the majority party for generations, if the old guard can be gotten rid of.

1) Nationalism - America comes first in our national priorities
2) Middle/Working Class - Value hard work and encourage success in blue collar America
3) Anti Interventionism - US Military is for protection of US interests only, expect the rest of the world to clean up their own messes.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 27, 2021 07:28 AM (5p7BC)

177 Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:22 AM (S1hrL)

Drawing an analogy of our plight to the hula hoop craze is ridiculous. VDH can swing and miss badly. There is faddish hysteria (such as the above or Beatlemania) and there are pathological eruptions driven and sustained by deeper forces.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2021 07:28 AM (H8QX8)

178 Justin wants Canada to send a rover to the moon!

Fidel Castro's son wants to go to the moon?

Posted by: dantesed at May 27, 2021 07:29 AM (88xKn)

179 >>That one is probably a good idea all around. I don't think people wash their hands enough.

Oh, agreed, just that the constant reminding to "socially distance" and "wash your hands" for over a year has been over the top. They would have us all hermits w/OCD.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2021 07:29 AM (bDqIh)

180 Finally, a protest in my town. Over gas tax hike.
Whatever. I will be there.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:29 AM (S1hrL)

181 A ninth person has died in San Jose shooting.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:29 AM (UHVv4)

182
George Szell did nothing wrong!
Posted by: Huck Follywood

_________

Christoph von Dohnanyi complained that whrn he gave a great concert with the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell got all the credit.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 27, 2021 07:29 AM (mht8P)

183 "Here's the Most Interesting Thing in the CDC Data About Post-Vaccine Chinese COVID Breakthrough Infections."

Indeed. The CDC wants to hype the vaccines, and this is forcing them to revisit their methods of hyping SARS-2 "deaths." Hoist with their own petard.

What if the real number is around 50,000? Science is in tatters.

Posted by: Caliban at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (HgGBT)

184 Three cops shot and wounded in a Dallas suburb responding to a suicidal person call.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (UHVv4)

185
178 Justin wants Canada to send a rover to the moon!

Fidel Castro's son wants to go to the moon?
Posted by: dantesed at May 27, 2021 07:29 AM (88xKn)

Rover? Fido... Castro.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (s2VJv)

186 "No angry tweets. Just Results"

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Results? What results??? Soaring gas prices? Racial unrest? The beating of Jews in the streets? CRT being force fed to white kids, white employees? BLM flags flying at our embassies all over the world? Inflation on the precipice to destroy us all? The crush of humanity at the border as illegals stream in to live off the taxpayers?

Those results? Aces. Well done, Potato.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (O+I8R)

187 So, how do you think the government is going to REPLACE the tax 'revenue' LOST by eliminating all the gasoline used by consumers?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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Mileage tax. It's been floated for years because hybrids are very efficient and reduces the effective tax paid per mile. Fuel efficiency improvements have generalized the problem even among non-hybrids. EVs are even worse.

And their plans for a mileage tax are just wonderful, too. How would you do it? I suspect you might do it how I would: by reading the odometer at registration time and sending a bill after doing a bit of simple subtraction. Not them, though. They want GPS trackers in every call and a mobile data link that checks in with the state system to do mileage-based billing.

The real goal is, of course, expansion of the panopticon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (Jsjd7)

188 Looks to me that Hamas has that 2nd A thing down pat.
They get full auto and we don't.
Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2021 07:11 AM (HnRaK)

Sure you can! Plunk down about $30,000.00 on GunChoker and you too can have a full auto assault rifle!

Send me your from 4, photos and fingerprints in duplicate and after an FBI "criminal background" check (so funny!) you can have your weapon in about 12 months.

Unless I decide otherwise.....which I will....

Posted by: Dave Chipman, ATF Director and Wacko at May 27, 2021 07:31 AM (ddM9D)

189 We have (had) an unbranded gas station in town. The pumps had nothing
on them to indicate an affiliation with any larger oil/gas company.

We have a large family-owned gas station here in Kenosha that's like that. It's kind of a landmark. They were the target of mayhem during the riots last summer, but they were up and running again a few months ago. In fact, they've been so successful that they are opening a second location.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:31 AM (45fpk)

190 173 Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:27 AM (S1hrL)

Hysteria is ungovernable emotional excess, I'd argue that what we are enduring is more properly thought of as a frenzy.

The democrats went from "go to the Chinese Lunar New Year" to "all jobs but mine must cease" in record time.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:31 AM (Lzpvj)

191 The no angry tweets commercials are coming from here:

"A new group dedicated to promoting President Biden's ambitious agenda is beginning a multimillion-dollar ad campaign trumpeting his Covid recovery package and infrastructure proposal while contrasting Mr. Biden's low-key style with his bombastic predecessor's."

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:31 AM (Tnijr)

192 The key to the commercial is they modify tweets with the adjective mean. We are left to decide the modifier of results.

Posted by: Grammar isn't just for nerds at May 27, 2021 07:32 AM (xEIoY)

193 All someone has to do is actually come up with something better. Wildly better and far cheaper. If that were to happen, few would buy a gasoline car if given the choice. A bulk of the aggregate fleet turns over every 5-7 years. Gasoline would be on its way out within a decade.

But that product doesn't exist, which is why coercion has to enter into the equation - and that coercion will have the effect of elongating the fleet turnover time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:25 AM (Jsjd7)

***

The part that tells me it's a scheme - not a scam, but a scheme - is that we're skipping right over hybrids.

That's the best, most ideal, most viable technology to bridge the gap until the impossible batteries come along, and nah bruh, we good. We're just going to make everyone buy $45K subcompacts that go 180 miles. That makes zero sense, and it has nothing to do with fuel, energy, or Global Warming. It's something else.

WEF / Great Reset, I'm looking at you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:33 AM (2CptV)

194 China cannot win. With the right people in power, they will not.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 07:33 AM (IYHxL)

195 >>>The EV "stations" will all be mega Buckees types.<
>Nevermind the generators converted from diesel to natural gas out back.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 07:33 AM (tVOev)

196 Building Back Together, a progressive organization run by Biden allies, will air minute-long television commercials next week in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin that highlight the president's response to the coronavirus and his wide-ranging economic plans.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:34 AM (Tnijr)

197 That's the best, most ideal, most viable technology to bridge the gap until the impossible batteries come along, and nah bruh, we good. We're just going to make everyone buy $45K subcompacts that go 180 miles. That makes zero sense, and it has nothing to do with fuel, energy, or Global Warming. It's something else.

WEF / Great Reset, I'm looking at you.

But MUSK has a car that can go over 300 miles! WE'RE SAVED!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

198 while contrasting Mr. Biden's low-key style with his bombastic predecessor's

***

(pay $3+ for gas at stations that finally have it, look at food prices, look at lumber and supply prices, look at double digit inflation and war in the Middle East)

Hooray!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:34 AM (2CptV)

199 China cannot win. With the right people in power, they will not.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 07:33 AM (IYHxL)

The last election shows that there's a greater than zero chance the right people will never even SNIFF power again.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:34 AM (Zz0t1)

200 196 Building Back Together, a progressive organization run by Biden allies, will air minute-long television commercials next week in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin that highlight the president's response to the coronavirus and his wide-ranging economic plans.
Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 07:34 AM (Tnijr)

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I swear, I thought one of the supposed appeals of Biden was the return to normal where the president wasn't the center of controversy and news all the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

201 In recent weeks, Trump has sat down with Gingrich, Mark Meadows (his former chief of staff and a former Republican congressman), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at Mar-a-Lago to begin crafting a document to spearhead 2022 Republican victories just as the Contract with America helped propel Republicans to majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate

--

Lindsay Graham? I don't trust that light-loafered turd for any amount of money. Sorry for the pessimism. I'm done trusting anything he does, anything he says.

I truly appreciate Trump's efforts here, and we all know how crucial it is to do what's necessary to wrest control of the party from these GOP weasels. But, and sorry for the pessimism again, what good will it do when there are no election safeguards anymore? I just can't get over that stumbling block.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:35 AM (O+I8R)

202 198 while contrasting Mr. Biden's low-key style with his bombastic predecessor's

***

(pay $3+ for gas at stations that finally have it, look at food prices, look at lumber and supply prices, look at double digit inflation and war in the Middle East)

Hooray!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:34 AM (2CptV)

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Be happy that you are struggling in an unsafer world under a moral man rather than prospering in a more peaceful world under an immoral man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

203

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 27, 2021 07:35 AM (K2SnJ)

204 If you consider that the guy pushing a lot of this was behind the
research that caused it, I would say: it's been used as a distraction.
Right now, I'm at Fauci probably chose the Wuhan lab for GOF research on viruses in an effort to evade US law, after a conversation with Ron Klain in the WH Situation Room.

It isn't far from there to "Democrats launched a biological attack on the US economy in a complete panic over Trump economic and foreign policy success, even while fighting a constant war against both the embedded Deep State and his own oftentimes terrible personnel decisions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 27, 2021 07:36 AM (ZoOKd)

205 Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 07:26 AM (bZLMu)

I've lived here since the late 70's. It was dying then and the mob managed to decimate the River Market area. All through the 80's downtown was dead and not safe. By the mid 90's it was making a comeback and a few years ago you couldn't find a place to park it was so busy. The Crossroads district, Power and Light district. Full of people. That will all die. I see it coming.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 27, 2021 07:36 AM (nxdel)

206 (pay $3+ for gas at stations that finally have it, look at food prices,
look at lumber and supply prices)

My son-in-law was going to build an addition to their garage this summer. He is putting it off because of the triple costs of lumber right now.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:36 AM (45fpk)

207 What if the real number is around 50,000? Science is in tatters.
Posted by: Caliban at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (HgGBT)

***

The real number in the US is far less than that. The first year was under 10K, and the most susceptible were already taken from us.

I'd be shocked if the total true COVID deaths topped 25K.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (2CptV)

208 My son-in-law was going to build an addition to their garage this summer. He is putting it off because of the triple costs of lumber right now.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:36 AM (45fpk

Last quote I got for 90 ft. of wood fence was $2500.

Yeah, no.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (Zz0t1)

209 Charging stations will give people a chance to get to know one another. I was in Holbrook AZ, and having a coffee. There was a charging station, and two very well dressed elderly couples were charging matching Teslas (looked like the guys may have been brothers, maybe twins). The old ladies are bitching up a storm about the charging time, one guy is griping to the other about using a road map instead of the car or phone, the other guy loses the map in the wind, the ladies turn on him. Should have stuck with the Escalades, guys.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (I58tH)

210 Be happy that you are struggling in an unsafer world under a moral man rather than prospering in a more peaceful world under an immoral man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:35 AM (LvTSG)

**

I'm not joking when I say I absolutely love this type of post and it should be put in every thread where anything applicable is mentioned.

This might even go on the gas station post-it notes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:38 AM (2CptV)

211 "Sources tell Breitbart News that Republican state legislators in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, are considering similar calls for forensic audits of 2020 election results in their states."

Shame these faithless feckless spineless fuckweasels couldn't have done this prior to selecting their electors.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 27, 2021 07:38 AM (CcOog)

212 Just listened in to my Daughters virtual history class session on the Holocaust. He started out the session by talking about The St. Louis and how it was turned away from every port they visited but his consternation was aimed at America. Special scorn was poured on the southerners and how xenophobic they are. I shit you not. He wrapped the whole thing up by saying that Hitler took this as a lesson that NO ONE wanted the Jews so he was going to have to deal with them on his own. I feel like throwing up.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 27, 2021 07:39 AM (flINI)

213 Lindsay Graham? I don't trust that light-loafered turd for any amount of money. Sorry for the pessimism. I'm done trusting anything he does, anything he says.

I truly appreciate Trump's efforts here, and we all know how crucial it is to do what's necessary to wrest control of the party from these GOP weasels. But, and sorry for the pessimism again, what good will it do when there are no election safeguards anymore? I just can't get over that stumbling block.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:35 AM (O+I8R)

I saw L-loafered Turds open for KC and The Sunshine Band as the Texas State Fair in 1979.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:39 AM (yrol0)

214 Charging stations will give people a chance to get to know one another. I was in Holbrook AZ, and having a coffee. There was a charging station, and two very well dressed elderly couples were charging matching Teslas (looked like the guys may have been brothers, maybe twins). The old ladies are bitching up a storm about the charging time, one guy is griping to the other about using a road map instead of the car or phone, the other guy loses the map in the wind, the ladies turn on him. Should have stuck with the Escalades, guys.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (I58tH)

I'll race any Tesla from Dallas to Lubbock and back. I'll drive my F250 diesel. I'll even tow my 30' fifth wheel.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:39 AM (Zz0t1)

215 Drawing an analogy of our plight to the hula hoop craze is ridiculous. VDH can swing and miss badly. There is faddish hysteria (such as the above or Beatlemania) and there are pathological eruptions driven and sustained by deeper forces.
Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2021 07:28 AM (H8QX

Did VDH compare the virus lockdowns to hula hoops?
No he did not. He compared the hysteria, the mindlessness of the behavior, towards the event. Those in power instigated the virus hysteria we lived through. It was the fear that was instilled that brought on the hysteria. The hand sanitizer frenzy, the mask wearing frenzy, the social distancing frenzy -- all hysterical reactions, whether it's over a hula hoop, tulips, or a virus, it's a frenzy or hysteria if you will. Hysteria: unmanageable fear or emotional excess.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:39 AM (S1hrL)

216 My Bishop announced yesterday that the Diocese is opening up wide - no more restrictions.

Not that my pastor paid any real attention to the mask mandate but it will be nice not to have all those pews roped off anymore. And maybe the Host won't taste of Purell, either.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (dfRN6)

217 "a progressive organization run by Biden allies, will air minute-long television commercials next week in"

I really wonder if television commercials move the needle on anything anymore. Or is it just a way to distribute money among friends.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (4thlk)

218 208 My son-in-law was going to build an addition to their garage this summer. He is putting it off because of the triple costs of lumber right now.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:36 AM (45fpk

Last quote I got for 90 ft. of wood fence was $2500.

Yeah, no.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (Zz0t1)

We have dropped the idea of a big remodel for this year... material prices are absurd, and availability of contractors is nil.... this indicates to me that people are paying the ridiculous prices for construction work for whatever reasons in their mind...

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (6Je/Q)

219 Last quote I got for 90 ft. of wood fence was $2500.

Yeah, no.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
I am having some landscaping done (tomorrow or early next week, depending on weather). The people who owned this house before me did some beautiful work up front, but fouled up the drainage. I'm having some window wells installed and some ground contouring done so the front yard drains onto the driveway instead of against the house.

This work was scheduled for January, but it's been so wet in my region that they haven't been able to get fill dirt until recently. They came by earlier this week to walk through the work with me since it had been so long since it was scheduled. The foreman who went over it with me said, "windows wells, some dirt, some shaping. No problem. I'm just glad this job doesn't have any lumber. On a contract this old, we'd be losing money on this job if we had to use any lumber."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (Jsjd7)

220 I saw Spineless Fuckweasels open for Flay of Soul at Blind Lemon in '89.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (Zz0t1)

221 >>>pay $3+ for gas at stations that finally have it, look at food prices,
look at lumber and supply prices, look at double digit inflation and war
in the Middle East<
>Wait until you're paying $0.50 to $1.00 per kWh to charge your EV.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (tVOev)

222 "Senate Republicans ready to filibuster to block legislation establishing commission into deadly Capitol insurrection."

Not too much puke in that one.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:41 AM (UHVv4)

223 The foreman who went over it with me said, "windows wells, some dirt, some shaping. No problem. I'm just glad this job doesn't have any lumber. On a contract this old, we'd be losing money on this job if we had to use any lumber."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (Jsjd7)

On average, new home builds are up $30k due to the cost of lumber.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

224 That's some pretty good spin - somnolent doddering senility = "low-key style".

Posted by: spindrift at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (+qgty)

225 209 Charging stations will give people a chance to get to know one another. I was in Holbrook AZ, and having a coffee. There was a charging station, and two very well dressed elderly couples were charging matching Teslas (looked like the guys may have been brothers, maybe twins). The old ladies are bitching up a storm about the charging time, one guy is griping to the other about using a road map instead of the car or phone, the other guy loses the map in the wind, the ladies turn on him. Should have stuck with the Escalades, guys.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 07:37 AM (I58tH)

Holding a paper map while charging a Tesla may be dumber than Zhoa Bi Den!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (yrol0)

226 Results? What results??? Soaring gas prices? Racial unrest? The beating of Jews in the streets? CRT being force fed to white kids, white employees? BLM flags flying at our embassies all over the world? Inflation on the precipice to destroy us all? The crush of humanity at the border as illegals stream in to live off the taxpayers?

Those results? Aces. Well done, Potato.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (O+I8R)

You have to be as dumb as Psaki to believe any of that is good.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (y7DUB)

227 "Be happy that you are struggling in an unsafer world under a moral man rather than prospering in a more peaceful world under an immoral man. "

God and I approve of this message!

Posted by: Errorik Errorickson at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (Tnijr)

228 212 Just listened in to my Daughters virtual history class session on the Holocaust. He started out the session by talking about The St. Louis and how it was turned away from every port they visited but his consternation was aimed at America. Special scorn was poured on the southerners and how xenophobic they are. I shit you not. He wrapped the whole thing up by saying that Hitler took this as a lesson that NO ONE wanted the Jews so he was going to have to deal with them on his own. I feel like throwing up.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 27, 2021 07:39 AM (flINI)

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That feels like a less than accurate reading of history. Just a hunch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (LvTSG)

229 FOUND IT!

Department of Biology, University of Louisville
Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment
"Our findings do not support the
hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates decrease
with greater public mask use. "

https://tinyurl.com/ma3x6dnu

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (2CptV)

230 this indicates to me that people are paying the ridiculous prices for construction work for whatever reasons in their mind...
Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (6Je/Q)

They are all in on selling their house and will make that money back and then some.

The market is crazy currently.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

231 China cannot win. With the right people in power, they will not.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 07:33 AM (IYHxL)

Concur. Nuke the commies in China and no one would miss them.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 27, 2021 07:43 AM (ddM9D)

232
That one is probably a good idea all around. I don't think people wash their hands enough.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:25 AM (LvTSG)

That's for sure.
You read studies and - what's on gas pump handles?
Massive amounts of fecal bacteria.

Shopping carts?

Massive amounts of fecal bacteria.

Etc. It's like the Fecal Fairy flies around at night and craps on everyfuckingthing, or...you know, people aren't washing their hands.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 07:43 AM (dWwl8)

233 Results? What results??? Soaring gas prices? Racial unrest? The beating of Jews in the streets? CRT being force fed to white kids, white employees? BLM flags flying at our embassies all over the world? Inflation on the precipice to destroy us all? The crush of humanity at the border as illegals stream in to live off the taxpayers?

Those results? Aces. Well done, Potato.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (O+I8R)
++++
They are results. They aren't *good* results, but they're results. Hell, to the power class Leftists, they are good and desirable results. Because they're evel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:43 AM (Jsjd7)

234 216 My Bishop announced yesterday that the Diocese is opening up wide - no more restrictions.

Not that my pastor paid any real attention to the mask mandate but it will be nice not to have all those pews roped off anymore. And maybe the Host won't taste of Purell, either.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (dfRN6)

==========

Our bishop pulled all restrictions a few weeks ago. The Knights of Columbus had a dinner with a bunch of knights and our Monseigneur last week and not one person wore a mask at any time.

Charleston was slow to open up fully relative to the rest of the state, but it's open now. It's nice.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:44 AM (LvTSG)

235 Department of Biology, University of Louisville
Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment
"Our findings do not support the
hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates decrease
with greater public mask use. "

https://tinyurl.com/ma3x6dnu
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (2CptV)

Thafuq do they know?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:44 AM (Zz0t1)

236 GOPe pretending they hate Fauci...isn't that cute? Rand is the only one with integrity.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 07:44 AM (ONvIw)

237 On average, new home builds are up $30k due to the cost of lumber.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)

***

Some moron posted a graphic recently of the cost of lumber that would build ten houses in 2017 or so will now build three houses.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:45 AM (2CptV)

238 I've noticed a lot of storage sheds, greenhouses and the like on delivery trucks lately. I guess if you need one get it now as the price will probably double shortly.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 07:45 AM (I58tH)

239 230 this indicates to me that people are paying the ridiculous prices for construction work for whatever reasons in their mind...
Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:40 AM (6Je/Q)

They are all in on selling their house and will make that money back and then some.

The market is crazy currently.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)

Our plan is to sit tight, and see what happens... some people will sell their places, and then be shocked when paying for their next place.

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:45 AM (6Je/Q)

240 WI, MI, PA auditing 2020 election results. What difference does it make at this point?, said the bint.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:45 AM (S1hrL)

241 If this were the Food Thread, that loaf would be Sous-Vided, not boiled.

Who would guess that the regional cuisine differences between New York and New Jersey would be so different, given their geographical proximity?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (2+un5)

242
Our plan is to sit tight, and see what happens... some people will sell their places, and then be shocked when paying for their next place.
Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:45 AM (6Je/Q)

I have a 2 to 4 year plan currently.

If we have to live in our camper for a spell, so be it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (Zz0t1)

243 240 WI, MI, PA auditing 2020 election results. What difference does it make at this point?, said the bint.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:45 AM (S1hrL)

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Maybe they'll regain their balls and prevent the re-implementation of some of the shit that allowed Democrats to cheat so fully in the future.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (LvTSG)

244 174 So, how do you think the government is going to REPLACE the tax 'revenue' LOST by eliminating all the gasoline used by consumers?
----------------
Mmm, tax electricity?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (/MaDp)

245 "Senate Republicans ready to filibuster to block legislation establishing commission into deadly Capitol insurrection."

In a sane world the commission would find that the incident was not deadly (except for Ashli Babbitt) nor could it properly be called an insurrection.

However, my faith in such a "sane world" has been irrevocably shattered. My faith in Republicans is unchanged (see comment 211).

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (CcOog)

246 That's for sure.
You read studies and - what's on gas pump handles?
Massive amounts of fecal bacteria.
Shopping carts?
Massive amounts of fecal bacteria.

***

(fistbump)

I'll be happy to eat all the crow about being wrong regarding fecal-oral being the main route of transmission.

I doubt I have to worry, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (2CptV)

247 @davidmweissman
Enlighten me, why do civilians need AR 15s?

2 dudes wiff Glock 19s pounding on the door looking for Vanessa.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (yrol0)

248 You would think the price of lumber would be a boom for the domestic steel industry and we would be helping in every way to ramp up production. Instead we get think pieces from conservatives and libertarians demanding an end to Orangemanbad tariffs and trade agreements so we can import more China steel.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (4thlk)

249 Mornin' all....

@nytimes 39m

Breaking News: President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget that would take the U.S. to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II.

Posted by: Tami at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (cF8AT)

250 China cannot win. With the right people in power, they will not.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 07:33 AM (IYHxL)

I hope you're right, but Biden/Kalorama and the ass-kissing oligarchs seed determined to make it happen.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (ONvIw)

251 What is the world's proper response to Covid-19 actually being caused by an engineered virus (Biological WMD)? I think a B-2 stealth bomber dropping an H-bomb on Beijing would be a good starting point.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (IEyz/)

252 American Psychiatric Association encouraging Psychiatrists to focus on race and skin color in their clinical work does not surprise me one bit.
The APA members seem to be one of the wokest groups and are always ready to adopt and push the latest fads on their patients. Just look at what they've done to people with body dysmorphic disorder.
When I was growing up there was always a psychiatrist in our neighborhood and all of them were weird and had the most dysfunctional families.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (NpAcC)

253 I'm curious how EV charging stations will support the vast number of expected customers. If it takes an hour or more to charge an empty battery and you've got 10 spaces, but 30 customers, who's going to lose their shit waiting?

As an example, when I last traveled by air the electrical outlets and USB charging stations at the airports were always crowded and in some cases, a line was there waiting for an open slot.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (3H9h1)

254 "Senate Republicans ready to filibuster to block legislation establishing commission into deadly Capitol insurrection."

**

Hey guys, why not one of you say something about the political prisoners that are being held indefinitely for trespassing, and who aren't entirely sure who their jailers are?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (2CptV)

255 249 Mornin' all....

@nytimes 39m

Breaking News: President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget that would take the U.S. to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II.
Posted by: Tami at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (cF8AT)

==========

1) This won't become law because Congress doesn't do budgets anymore.
2) Smell the moderation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:48 AM (LvTSG)

256 The market is crazy currently.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:42 AM (Zz0t1)
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I bought my house in December and it was a hard decision. Compared to 18 months earlier (when I was last looking), prices had gone up a lot. I felt like I was getting less value for money (and I was).

It's now been five months since I've owned this place. According to Redfin, the estimated price window is +4.4% from when I bought it - at the low end of the window (15.5% at the high). According to NAR (realtor.com), it is +1.5%.

In five months, and they don't know that I've done some improvements. It's unreal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:48 AM (Jsjd7)

257 244 174 So, how do you think the government is going to REPLACE the tax 'revenue' LOST by eliminating all the gasoline used by consumers?
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Mmm, tax electricity?
Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (/MaDp)

They tax taxes. Thats what they do with Social Security.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:48 AM (yrol0)

258 Fifteen people died in Congo on the weekend from a volcanic eruption and today tens of thousands are evacuating Goma in fear of another eruption of Mount Nyiragongo.

No word on whether natural CO2 is good or bad unlike that manmade stuff.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 07:48 AM (UHVv4)

259 Breaking News: President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget that would take the U.S. to its highest sustained levels of federal spending since World War II.
Posted by: Tami at May 27, 2021 07:47 AM (cF8AT)

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Fun fact:

Adjusted for inflation, the multi-generational spending of the New Deal was around $800B.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (2CptV)

260 @237
"On average, new home builds are up $30k due to the cost of lumber.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 07:41 AM (Zz0t1)"

Oh my God Oh my God won't this "disproportionately impact" POC as first time home buyers ! We must immediately relax logging regulations and lower energy costs by reopening pipelines!

And this will increase Global Enwarmening which will disproportionately impact POC Oh my God Oh My God so we mustn't do anything of the sort !!

Posted by: Zek at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (5RTdG)

261 Yakking with strangers at a charging station (for two hours no less) is not my idea of "socializing." Thanks anyway. I'd rather pump the stuff and be gone in minutes. Besides, most recharging stations are strategically located at malls to get people to go inside while charging the battery.

Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)

262 @davidmweissman
Enlighten me, why do civilians need AR 15s?

2 dudes wiff Glock 19s pounding on the door looking for Vanessa.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:46 AM (yrol0)

"Because" is a perfectly good reason.

"Because f*ck you, that's why" is an even better one.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at May 27, 2021 07:51 AM (CcOog)

263 261 Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)

I sledgehammer drive across the country as a hobby.

EVs move slower than the Pony Express....

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:51 AM (Lzpvj)

264 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas suggested he will further gut a law enforcement program that helps keep criminal illegal aliens from being released into American communities.

A few more daughters and wives will be raped and killed but we will have more (D) voters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:52 AM (yrol0)

265 Biden ready to name Eric Garcetti ambassador to India

He knows shitholes and will not need any additional training.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:53 AM (yrol0)

266 I was talking to guy that had a sport Tesla. The thing that stood out on the vehicle is if the battery goes sideways they will just give you another car instead of changing out the battery. The battery replacement off the shelf is $25K. The amount of really reliable beaters available around $3k is the way to go. Hell, dropping a new long block into an old car is $5k. Why would you spend $40k for a $25k battery?

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 07:53 AM (/MaDp)

267 television commercials next week in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia and Wisconsin
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Why these 4 states?

Do they see vulnerable senate seats in 2022 here?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 27, 2021 07:54 AM (5p7BC)

268 ha!

Investors betting against retail trader favorites GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. were dealt a serious blow on Wednesday to the tune of about $673 million

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:54 AM (yrol0)

269 Yakking with strangers at a charging station (for two hours no less) is not my idea of "socializing." Thanks anyway. I'd rather pump the stuff and be gone in minutes. Besides, most recharging stations are strategically located at malls to get people to go inside while charging the battery.
Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)

****

I GOT AN IDEA!!! Why can't we just liquify electricity and we can pump it into our batteries?

- Some engineer at GM ... probably

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 27, 2021 07:54 AM (flINI)

270 Yeah, if I were picking a leadership team that has its collective finger on the pulse of the American people in 2021 I would start with Newt Gingrich and Lindsey Graham!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 27, 2021 07:55 AM (m45I2)

271 Concentrations of people in urban areas as renters of apartment type complexes of various sorts creates a population far easier to control than a spread out population. Combine his with government controls and subsidies, you have docile people... well, violent and criminal sometimes, but hey, acceptable trade offs, right?

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:55 AM (6Je/Q)

272 266 Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 07:53 AM (/MaDp)

They HAVE to coerce the public into EVs because the EV market itself is idiotic.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 07:55 AM (Lzpvj)

273 268 ha!

Investors betting against retail trader favorites GameStop Corp. and AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. were dealt a serious blow on Wednesday to the tune of about $673 million
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Its been fun riding those bottle rockets. No matter if the charts say its time the sell off they just say 'fuck you' and climb higher. Loving this shit.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (/MaDp)

274 I GOT AN IDEA!!! Why can't we just liquify electricity and we can pump it into our batteries?

- Some engineer at GM ... probably
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at May 27, 2021 07:54 AM (flINI)

Hydrogen in a nutshell.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (2+un5)

275 Islamists Kill 22 With Knives, Machetes in Eastern Congo

Common Sense Machete Control!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (yrol0)

276 269 Why can't we just liquify electricity asks the big toothed congresswoman from NY.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 07:57 AM (I58tH)

277
The Chinese ackshewallee for once have the right idea WRT electric cars.

They're now incentivizing (not throwing into a gulag and selling their organs) their e-car manufacturers that have easily remove/replace batteries.

That would make a "recharge" visit about the same as a tank refill in terms of time.

Not sure the logistics of the thing would be doable though.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 07:57 AM (dWwl8)

278 261 Yakking with strangers at a charging station (for two hours no less) is not my idea of "socializing." Thanks anyway. I'd rather pump the stuff and be gone in minutes. Besides, most recharging stations are strategically located at malls to get people to go inside while charging the battery.
Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (S1hrL)
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Yep. Most people haven't thought this through and if they did they would never be pushing for electric cars. In Texas if I need to drive to Dallas it's like 5 hours from where I live. My time is precious so if I want to make it home the same day I don't want to be wasting my time looking for a charging station on my route and then cutting into my time charging my vehicle.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2021 07:57 AM (NpAcC)

279 Hydrogen in a nutshell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (2+un5)

oh THE HUMANITY

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:57 AM (yrol0)

280 So, if you're EVing down the road and you need a boost but the line is like 6 cars deep. You might be sitting there for a couple hours, sucking down the last juice in your battery trying to keep comfortable, playing music to keep the spouse or kids from driving you nuts. Instead of having lunch with grandma you'll be eating breakfast the following day with her.

I foresee lots of charging rage instead of road rage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 07:57 AM (3H9h1)

281 Our plan is to sit tight, and see what happens... some people will sell their places, and then be shocked when paying for their next place.

That's our plan as well.

Posted by: Jewells45 at May 27, 2021 07:58 AM (nxdel)

282 279 Hydrogen in a nutshell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (2+un5)

oh THE HUMANITY
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:57 AM (yrol0)

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"Don't blame this on me."
-Huge Manatee

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

283 Did VDH compare the virus lockdowns to hula hoops?
Posted by: Ziba at May 27, 2021 07:39 AM (S1hrL)

No, of course not, and I never asserted this. And there's no point in defining hysteria. We're not in disagreement.

VDH drew an analogy between various cultural fits of spontaneous and spastic emotional hysteria such as the "hula hoop craze" to the last year of profound cultural insensibility (rooted partly in a backbone problem with the people), and the dedicated, malign forces that fomented it (rooted in a corruption problem in our government) and which no doubt continue at this moment preparing for their second act. That is, I repeat, ridiculous. I got the feeling from VDH (as I sometimes do) that he doesn't get it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 27, 2021 07:58 AM (H8QX8)

284 Adjusted for inflation, the multi-generational spending of the New Deal was around $800B.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 07:49 AM (2CptV)
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That's not all that accurate a way to adjust it. New Deal spending (the Second New Deal) in 1935 was authorized at $4.8 billion for the new alphabet programs. GNP that year was about $74.2 billion. So the new round of New Deal spending was 6.5% output.

2020 estimated GDP is $22.11 trillion. 6.5% of that is $1.44 trillion - well less than what we already spent in 2020 under Trump. $6 trillion is about $1.6 trillion more than the pre-COVID federal budget of $4.4 trillion, so we can call that $1.6 trillion the "exceptional recovery funds" portion. That exceptional portion amounts to 7.23% of 2020's estimate product.

This nonsense is already far bigger than the New Deal in economic terms, and getting worse with every passing moment, and we're getting *nothing* for it. The New Deal was foolhardy, but at least we got rural electrification and agricultural improvements out of it, along with some nice roads.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:59 AM (Jsjd7)

285 Correction to my earlier post: B-2 stealth bomber dropping an H-bomb, with Dr. Fauci strapped to it...

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 27, 2021 07:59 AM (IEyz/)

286 I know nothing about electric cars.... what does it cost to recharge a car at a charging station? Doesn't the electricity come from the local power company, which is fossil fuel supplied?

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 07:59 AM (6Je/Q)

287 "Don't blame this on me."
-Huge Manatee
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 07:58 AM (LvTSG)

Triggly is that you??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 07:59 AM (yrol0)

288 272 266 Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 07:53 AM (/MaDp)

They HAVE to coerce the public into EVs because the EV market itself is idiotic.
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There is a niche for these things - drivers who put an average of 50-60 miles per day on a car. I'd estimate this is less than 20% of the market. Then there are plant vehicles that spend their lives onsite and can have dedicated charging stations while not in use. But for pickup trucks I think its a much smaller market. The Ford EV p/u has a range of 230 miles but when towing it drops to 100 miles. Guys that drive p/u go places where there are no fucking charging stations all the time.

Posted by: Puddin Head at May 27, 2021 08:00 AM (/MaDp)

289 Fifteen people died in Congo on the weekend from a volcanic eruption and today tens of thousands are evacuating Goma in fear of another eruption of Mount Nyiragongo.

Goma Pile ?

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2021 08:00 AM (arJlL)

290 285 Correction to my earlier post: B-2 stealth bomber dropping an H-bomb, with Dr. Fauci strapped to it...
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 27, 2021 07:59 AM (IEyz/)

Waste of a good H bomb

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:00 AM (yrol0)

291 Oh, goody. I read elsewhere that the "Trump investigation is ramping up." I'm so glad Vance and James have nothing to do about crime in NYC. It's so safe there. /s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 27, 2021 08:00 AM (k39e/)

292 Joe Biden met with Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates of his sons at a dinner in Washington, DC, while he was vice president, records on Hunter Bidens abandoned laptop show.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:02 AM (yrol0)

293 New Deal was foolhardy, but at least we got rural electrification and agricultural improvements out of it, along with some nice roads.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:59 AM (Jsjd7)

**

The thing that blows my mind is that we're spending all these trillions and not doing jack to get better than 1998 DSL speed internet service to rural consumers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:02 AM (2CptV)

294 Looks like home construction prices are driving a rise in existing home prices as well.

On Zillow (Always high, I know) ours jumped $1,250.00 on Tuesday, and then another $7,000.00 between Wednesday and this morning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:02 AM (snOKo)

295 "But Trump had all those mean tweets!" sez they.
"And if the fecal matter hits the spinning impeller," sez I, "your life is worth nothing. Oh, it won't be me 'storming the barricades', it'll be your own army of narcissists demanding what you promised. They'll be as bitterly cruel and ruthless as you trained them."

Posted by: setnaffa at May 27, 2021 08:02 AM (UtmPT)

296 Hydrogen in a nutshell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (2+un5)

Meh.

Electrolytic production of hydrogen is just more snake biting it's own tail crapola. You use electrical power generated by gas or coal to get your hydrogen.

I forget which Arab country is building a H factory right now but that's what they're doing. A stupid and inefficient way to use "polluting" energy sources to ride around feeling all virtuous in your H-car.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 08:03 AM (dWwl8)

297 293
The thing that blows my mind is that we're spending all these trillions and not doing jack to get better than 1998 DSL speed internet service to rural consumers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:02 AM (2CptV)

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Elon Musk is working on that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:03 AM (LvTSG)

298 They HAVE to coerce the public into EVs because the EV market itself is idiotic.
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There is a niche for these things - drivers who put an average of 50-60 miles per day on a car. I'd estimate this is less than 20% of the market.

**

There's probably a good reason electric vehicles are only 1.5% or so of all new car sales every year, and the majority of those are in California.

I can't put my finger on it, though. Physics, maybe.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:03 AM (2CptV)

299 "She said her son is a rule follower..."

Then she needs to feed him more meat and organ foods, and un-wussify him.

Poor kid.

Posted by: Flyover at May 27, 2021 08:05 AM (Rbu5d)

300 ha from urban dict

Juan is a sweet good looking guy with a nice personality, but can be a sarcastic prick sometimes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:05 AM (yrol0)

301 "and I don't see Biden firing Fauci as his medical advisor. But, who knows, maybe we'll get lucky."

If the junta got rid of Biden, or even turned on him and blamed him ... it would only be because he outlived his usefulness, imo. BUT because Fauci has been around for decades, in the corrupt machinery, he knows where too many bodies are buried. (he still has the shovels).

This is the evil glue that holds the corrupt machine together ... snitches get stitches, they are all "in on it".

Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2021 08:05 AM (Cus5s)

302 Waste of a good H bomb
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:00 AM (yrol0)

Not if it's over DC

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 27, 2021 08:05 AM (/6GbT)

303 American liberal Jews channel Groucho and don't want to be members of clubs that would have them. Today that means Conservatives and Conservative Christians. They want to join BLM and the antifa cool kids. They are too stupid to see that their hatreds are just as bad as anyone else's.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:05 AM (ONvIw)

304 Electric cars and lithium batteries require cobalt. 60% of the worlds cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A recent human rights organization estimated that as many as 40,000 children younger than 10 were employed in these mines.

It's basically modern day slavery. A Sky news reporter found a child that was 4 years old working in one of the mines. There's a few videos on YouTube about it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 27, 2021 08:06 AM (Y5qcH)

305 Is it safe?

Posted by: Unkaren at May 27, 2021 08:06 AM (vGJY7)

306 An EV with a 600 mile range at 75mph running lights, air, or heat and defrost. 15 minute top off time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:07 AM (I58tH)

307 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:02 AM (2CptV)

the line in your nic was always the case, the "novel" virus is not something that defies all the rules. That was another lie. The only science followed with wuflu was political science.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:07 AM (ONvIw)

308 LOL. Oppressed Atlanta "defund the police" backer, Antonio Brown, had his Mercedes coupe stolen by kids in broad daylight while he was attending a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2021 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

309 Folks! Drive the new 2025 Mercedes Hindenburg Hydrogen powered smugmobile.

Posted by: Archer at May 27, 2021 08:07 AM (gmo/4)

310 Elon Musk is working on that.

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Yeah, but it won't still won't be viable for half or more of users because the satellites are low on the horizon and *any* line of sight obstructions are a problem. I've still got my deposit in, but I'd prefer to not cut my trees.

Seems like it would cost a lot less than a trillion dollars to run fiber to houses that get electricity, especially after shutting schools down and requiring parents and kids to work online from homes where they don't have internet access. I'm guessing that's not infrastructure, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (2CptV)

311 308 Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2021 08:07 AM (NpAcC)

"let stupidity be its own reward"

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (Lzpvj)

312 Morning all. Home sick today with sick kids.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (IYHxL)

313 It's basically modern day slavery. A Sky news reporter found a child that was 4 years old working in one of the mines. There's a few videos on YouTube about it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 27, 2021 08:06 AM (Y5qcH)
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I enjoy my lifestyle and pleasant surroundings.

Pollution that happens overseas to produce the goods I buy isn't really pollution because it's overseas.

Slavery that happens overseas to produce the goods I buy isn't really slavery.

It's all very far away. I never have to see it and I never have to think about it. None of it matters. What matters is my neighborhood, and we have no pollution or slavery in my neighborhood. Out of sight, out of mind.

Posted by: NIMBY Karen at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (Jsjd7)

314 This is great...one you get past Threata....

@lonestarmango

Outstanding rebuttal to Greta and the rest of the snowflake generation by Aussie newscaster...

https://tinyurl.com/ygng2prf

Posted by: Tami at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (cF8AT)

315 Moving OUT of a city after selling a house, and into a rural area ( giving up the sweet sweet urban amenities that so many wax rhapsodic about ) ... well, one might actually net a profit on the sale...

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (6Je/Q)

316 It's basically modern day slavery. A Sky news reporter found a child that was 4 years old working in one of the mines. There's a few videos on YouTube about it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 27, 2021 08:06 AM (Y5qcH)

Takes a few broken eggs to get your virtue signal going

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (/6GbT)

317 206 (pay $3+ for gas at stations that finally have it, look at food prices,
look at lumber and supply prices)

My son-in-law was going to build an addition to their garage this summer. He is putting it off because of the triple costs of lumber right now.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 07:36 AM (45fpk)

Will the price of a wood-framed house go down after lumber prices go down? By how much?

If new house prices reduce significantly in the next 3-6 months, the people buying now are totally screwed if they try to resell in the next several years or more, right? Does Joe care? Nah.

Posted by: Gref at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (AMIL/)

318 313 It's all very far away. I never have to see it and I never have to think about it. None of it matters. What matters is my neighborhood, and we have no pollution or slavery in my neighborhood. Out of sight, out of mind.
Posted by: NIMBY Karen at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (Jsjd7)

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There are also no oceans rising in your neighborhood. Can you stop acting like there are?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

319 Thank you for your prayers.
It looks like we'll be homeless on or by June 28th.

Realtor made a crazy showing at 9:00pm last night because the wife of the couple couldn't make it until then. They put in an offer and we received the contract at 11:30 last night. We are accepting it. 6 days on the market, 6 showings.

We filed the title transfer on 12 acres yesterday from wife's parents to us. Once we finalize the sale, we then have to get with the bank, take out a loan on about $80k difference for house and 36 acres.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (OCTRt)

320 the line in your nic was always the case, the "novel" virus is not something that defies all the rules. That was another lie. The only science followed with wuflu was political science.
Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:07 AM (ONvIw)

***

Absolutely. 7th grade science.

But we have to provide people with Holy Documents From Credentialed Science People because that's what they require.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (2CptV)

321 Dick being a Dick

https://tinyurl.com/yrzbu4n7

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (yrol0)

322 312 Morning all. Home sick today with sick kids.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (IYHxL)

How old???? Just did a stint watching the grandkids or a while.... yep, we got sick.... efficient little Petri dishes, they are....

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:10 AM (6Je/Q)

323 There are also no oceans rising in your neighborhood. Can you stop acting like there are?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (LvTSG)
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How crass and crude you are. I suppose that is to be expected from a man who names himself after a dead old white oppressor.

What part of, "I go to the beach for vacation" don't you understand? Rising sea levels threaten that.

Posted by: NIMBY Karen at May 27, 2021 08:10 AM (Jsjd7)

324 A large condo construction project is being built (mostly finished) with at least 50 new homes. I bet the builder is glad he got most of it finished before prices went up. They are still building, but I wonder what the price of a new row condo house is now around here. I bet they aren't any low income housing in that lot that used to be an apple orchard. Upstate NY. 300 miles from NYC.

Posted by: Colin at May 27, 2021 08:10 AM (bZLMu)

325 323 How crass and crude you are. I suppose that is to be expected from a man who names himself after a dead old white oppressor.

What part of, "I go to the beach for vacation" don't you understand? Rising sea levels threaten that.
Posted by: NIMBY Karen at May 27, 2021 08:10 AM (Jsjd7)

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The seas will be closer, meaning you'll have to spend less on getting there.

People who want to stop global warming are just trying to make your life harder.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (LvTSG)

326 It's a good point from a logistical standpoint. Why have charging stations? Why not just have service stations where you get a quick-change battery swap and you're on your way, lickety-split? Each service station would have a massive inventory of fully charged batteries and a quick-change would be 10 minutes max. There would never be a Bhopal, India like incident because we would have safeguards.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (tVOev)

327 It's all very far away. I never have to see it and I never have to think about it. None of it matters. What matters is my neighborhood, and we have no pollution or slavery in my neighborhood. Out of sight, out of mind.

**

hahaha, yep, same as the US paying China to take all of our all-items recycling, ship it overseas in huge fuel-burning ocean vessels, and pile it into enormous mountains before burning it.

But it creates jobs here something something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (2CptV)

328 Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (OCTRt)
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Awesome news... Congratulations!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

329 319 Thank you for your prayers.
It looks like we'll be homeless on or by June 28th.

Realtor made a crazy showing at 9:00pm last night because the wife of the couple couldn't make it until then. They put in an offer and we received the contract at 11:30 last night. We are accepting it. 6 days on the market, 6 showings.

We filed the title transfer on 12 acres yesterday from wife's parents to us. Once we finalize the sale, we then have to get with the bank, take out a loan on about $80k difference for house and 36 acres.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (OCTRt)

Does that include the minefield, gun emplacements, snipers nests, and concertina wire?

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (6Je/Q)

330 323 Posted by: NIMBY Karen at May 27, 2021 08:10 AM (Jsjd7)

Rising sea levels threaten your beach vacation by making the drive to the sea "shorter?"

Oh Karen...

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (Lzpvj)

331 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (I58tH)

332 Kraken - 3 years old. Pretty sure it is strep. I was up all night with him and now I feel like shit plus my throat is sore and dry. Wife was up with the 4 month old.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (IYHxL)

333 Does that include the minefield, gun emplacements, snipers nests, and concertina wire?
Posted by: kraken

No. :-(

I have to put that in myself.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (OCTRt)

334 Posted by: NIMBY Karen at May 27, 2021 08:08 AM (Jsjd7)
==========
There are also no oceans rising in your neighborhood. Can you stop acting like there are?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (LvTSG)

yes they are! Just because you don't believe it doesn't make it true!

Posted by: NIMBY Karen's Next Door Dumbass Neighbor at May 27, 2021 08:13 AM (VcFUs)

335 331 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (I58tH)

When you shut down sectors of the economy as being "non-essential" and flood the economy with MAKE IT RAIN funny money what is the price pressure?

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 08:13 AM (Lzpvj)

336 rickb223

Prayers and best wishes !

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2021 08:13 AM (arJlL)

337 Lumber prices are determined by the market not the President you yokels. Kudos CNN!

Posted by: Errorik Errorickson at May 27, 2021 08:13 AM (Tnijr)

338 Geebus! My IQ dropped to room temperature on that sock

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 27, 2021 08:14 AM (VcFUs)

339 274 Hydrogen in a nutshell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 27, 2021 07:56 AM (2+un5)

Watts In a Tank

"Sausalito Summer Night" 1981 - (before you were born, remember kids)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

340 we then have to get with the bank, take out a loan on about $80k difference for house and 36 acres.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2021 08:09 AM (OCTRt)

That's a lot of lawn to mow.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 27, 2021 08:14 AM (45fpk)

341 337 Posted by: Errorik Errorickson at May 27, 2021 08:13 AM (Tnijr)

Double Wide Double E managing to ignore the smaller than he elephant in the room...

"the political class broke the economy"

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 08:14 AM (Lzpvj)

342 According to Zillow, our house is supposedly worth almost 250k...no way in hell. Stupid market

Posted by: A dude in MI at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (/6GbT)

343 The rising house prices in our area make selling very tempting, but then I'd have to move about 50 miles out of town to get a house I wouldn't have to spend more for, so-

not happening, at least as long as I'm working, and probably not even then.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (dWwl8)

344 332 Kraken - 3 years old. Pretty sure it is strep. I was up all night with him and now I feel like shit plus my throat is sore and dry. Wife was up with the 4 month old.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (IYHxL)

Chicken soup with some raw garlic steeped in it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

345 That's a lot of lawn to mow.

Posted by: grammie winger

We'll have cows for that.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (OCTRt)

346 Who's the present-day Sally Struthers to take up the mantle of foreign abused children and GAINZZZ?

Posted by: Unkaren at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (vGJY7)

347 e-cars suck but I'm interested in an e-bike. I live in a hilly area and while I like my regular bike for some rides, these legs aren't getting any younger.

Any 'rons have an electric bike? I'm curious how long the charge lasts. Any other advice/recommendations appreciated!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (Bmy3R)

348 Does that include the minefield, gun emplacements, snipers nests, and concertina wire?
Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (6Je/Q)

Tunnel complex, bunkers, blinds?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 27, 2021 08:16 AM (4I/2K)

349 Who's the present-day Sally Struthers to take up the mantle of foreign abused children and GAINZZZ?
Posted by: Unkaren at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (vGJY7)
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Why us, of course.

Posted by: Faceless, unaccountable government agency at May 27, 2021 08:16 AM (Jsjd7)

350 332 Kraken - 3 years old. Pretty sure it is strep. I was up all night with him and now I feel like shit plus my throat is sore and dry. Wife was up with the 4 month old.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (IYHxL)

Aww dude... been there... pediatrician on speed dial... antibiotics all round, doc!!!! He'll want Daddy all day....

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:16 AM (6Je/Q)

351 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (I58tH)

The trees are on strike.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 08:16 AM (dWwl8)

352 JJ - sounds interesting. If my youngest has an appetite I will have the wife make it. Thanks brother.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:17 AM (IYHxL)

353 California in a classic NIMBYmove approved windmills off the coast of the Morro Bay and Humboldt areas - reddish to red parts of the state. Santa Barbara didn't make the cut, strange that.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 08:17 AM (xEIoY)

354 "Republican state legislators in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, are considering similar calls for forensic audits ... "

There are smoking guns in many of these huge crimes, but since our enemy is able to run a coup from within, (and bury hard evidence ... Hillary servers, Weiner/Hunter laptops, Wuhan connections, ad infinitum) ... it is not a surprise the hard evidence we do have is lied about, and things like routers are still kept hidden.

imo we have a ton of smoking gun evidence, but FBI will do a dawn raid on Trump's own lawyers, and at gunpoint acquire whatever they want. FBI, in the face of evidence of fraud, still leaves it up to private groups to investigate the election, they only investigate (persecute/imprison) the real whistleblowers.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2021 08:17 AM (Cus5s)

355 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.

***

Some moron is in the field and posted about it. Something to do with Canada supply lines and COVID lockdowns/restrictions on workers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:17 AM (2CptV)

356 Meggie Mac could play Sally Struthers in a biopic.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (Bmy3R)

357 Chicken soup with some raw garlic steeped in it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (s2VJv)

Also cures:
HIV
AIDS
HERPES
Broken Heart
Home Sickness

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (yrol0)

358 Kraken - yeah amoxicillin is on order. Waiting to hear it is ready for pick up.

He is currently sitting in my lap right now ha.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (IYHxL)

359 "According to Zillow, our house is supposedly worth almost 250k...no way in hell. Stupid market"

Oddly enough, Zillow estimates and current selling prices around our area track fairly close to each other. And have been for quite some time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (snOKo)

360 351 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (I58tH)

The trees are on strike.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 08:16 AM (dWwl

Out in Colorado they still have mountains of lumber left over from the pine bark beetle infestations... sadly, lots of it just rotting..

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (6Je/Q)

361 Tunnel complex, bunkers, blinds?
Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 27, 2021 08:16 AM (4I/2K)

AKA Gaza

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (yrol0)

362 Any 'rons have an electric bike? I'm curious how long the charge lasts. Any other advice/recommendations appreciated!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:15 AM (Bmy3R)

Get a scooter, baby!

You ride a GS Electro Scooter with your hair cut neat.
Saving Mother Gaia when you're on the street!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 08:19 AM (dWwl8)

363 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (I58tH)
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I don't think there is an explanation yet, but there are a lot of guesses. One of those guesses that makes sense to me at first blush has to do with sawmills. Most-NAFTA, a huge amount of our wood comes from Canada. We in the US are opening up and things are starting to move. A lot of renovations, construction and other expansion that was delayed is now back in motion, and there's still an increase in home improvement with folks working from home.

Canada is a lot tighter than we are. The sawmills were out of production for a goodly while and aren't spun back up all the way yet. We're facing a supply crunch as a result.

Not sure if that's the answer, but it doesn't seem unreasonable on its face.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:19 AM (Jsjd7)

364 We'll have cows for that.
Posted by: rickb223

"Good cow like that, ya don't eat all at once"

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2021 08:19 AM (arJlL)

365 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.

Too many splinters.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at May 27, 2021 08:19 AM (4I/2K)

366 355 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.

***

Some moron is in the field and posted about it. Something to do with Canada supply lines and COVID lockdowns/restrictions on workers.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:17 AM (2CptV)

========

I wouldn't be surprised in a jump in demand for new homes starting from last year being a material part of the increase in prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (LvTSG)

367 358 Kraken - yeah amoxicillin is on order. Waiting to hear it is ready for pick up.

He is currently sitting in my lap right now ha.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (IYHxL)

359 "According to Zillow, our house is supposedly worth almost 25

Glad to hear about amoxicillin. Chicken soup, no matter how good, is not a substitute.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (ONvIw)

368 He is currently sitting in my lap right now ha.

**

Heck yeah, pops. Those are the kinds of things that tie those family/fatherhood knots between parents and children tight.

I still run in every time my little one wakes up upset after a nightmare. He's still young enough that I never want him to remember being a little scared kid who was alone in the dark.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (2CptV)

369 Colorado: come for the raging wildfires, stay for the pine bark beetle infestations!

Srsly, I hope to G-d we don't go through last summer again, with the seemingly endless wildfires. I had enough blood-red skies and all-day darkness and raining ash to last a while, thanks.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (Bmy3R)

370 359 Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (snOKo)

Not my experience with it in the Montana, Indiana, and Louisiana markets....

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (Lzpvj)

371 My guess on lumber prices would be Oregon being shut down. But it is only a guess.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (5p7BC)

372 326 It's a good point from a logistical standpoint. Why have charging stations? Why not just have service stations where you get a quick-change battery swap and you're on your way, lickety-split? Each service station would have a massive inventory of fully charged batteries and a quick-change would be 10 minutes max. There would never be a Bhopal, India like incident because we would have safeguards.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (tVOev)

More batteries will be needed nationwide in the summer, and demand at vacation spots will increase exponentially. Solution: Build enough batteries for summer need, storing them away in the winter,
and build and equip summer-load battery-swap stations in summer vacation areas as-needed to handle the summer demand. All perfectly feasible, technically. Financially? Yeah, on-paper after the Democrats nationalize the EV battery build and logistics industry.

Posted by: Gref at May 27, 2021 08:21 AM (AMIL/)

373 We have a local saw mill about 4 miles from the house.

All pine, with trucks rolling in with trees, and out with 2x4's damn near around the clock.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:21 AM (snOKo)

374 The line about lmber price spike I got is that it is a upply chain problem ( mumble, mumble corona virus mumble, lack of drivers mumble manufacturers sawmills shut down sick workers mumble)....

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:21 AM (6Je/Q)

375 Out in Colorado they still have mountains of lumber left over from the pine bark beetle infestations... sadly, lots of it just rotting..
Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (6Je/Q)

Yeah, something else is going on. Lumber is like the most renewable resource we have. You know, the type the Left is always gassing on about.

My guess is this is part and parcel with the forced urbanization of the population part of the Great Reset.

You will not own a home, deplorable!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 27, 2021 08:22 AM (dWwl8)

376 373 We have a local saw mill about 4 miles from the house.

All pine, with trucks rolling in with trees, and out with 2x4's damn near around the clock.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:21 AM (snOKo)

========

Capitalism in action.

The increased price creates extra incentive for producers to produce in order to take advantage of the price which will, in turn, increase the supply and depress the price in time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:22 AM (LvTSG)

377
About 20% of cobalt supplied from the DRC comes from artisanal mines where child labour and human rights abuses have been reported.

What a marketing coup!

Artisanal EV batteries made with artisanal cobalt!

Woke hipsters will lap up that shit!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 27, 2021 08:22 AM (pNxlR)

378 Back when I was young, I questioned how the Holocaust could have happened. All the Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda I could find was just of the big nosed diamond merchants violating young girls stuff, just normal, everyday stuff. I became convinced that there must be some powerful secret propaganda out there that made the Germans go crazy and could not be released for fear of starting it up again. But none of that was true. It was just the never-ending repetition of stupid stereotypes just like we're seeing today.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 27, 2021 08:23 AM (VVEnO)

379 We bought our place 8 years ago for $65K. Manufactured house, detached garage/shop and 5 acres.

Zillow has it at $190K this morning.

*taps forehead in deep thot*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 27, 2021 08:23 AM (3H9h1)

380 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin at May 27, 2021 08:12 AM (I58tH)

My lumber guy said it started with a glue shortage used for making plywood. Then it snowballed from there.
Add to it compounding logistics shortfalls due to stops and starts in construction.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 27, 2021 08:23 AM (axyOa)

381 Wow, an Dave in Fla sighting. Long time no see.

Posted by: dantesed at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (88xKn)

382 "I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices. Real, not imagined reason."

another thing I don't get, in a hurricane emergency, price gouging is illegal and immoral. But in a plandemic emergency, supply and demand is all that matters, so ammo prices triple, no big deal. Same with lumber (I guess).

My guess is this is all part of "The Plan" (not Q's Trust the Plan). "Electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket" was Obama's stated dream for reducing US evil energy consumption (while opening coal plants in China is hunky dory).

Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (Cus5s)

383 It's a good point from a logistical standpoint. Why have charging stations? Why not just have service stations where you get a quick-change battery swap and you're on your way, lickety-split? ...
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (tVOev)
++++
This does make some sense at first blush from a time standpoint. That said, the battery pack is a non-trivial portion of the total value of the car. As an owner of one of those cars, I would be very skittish about swapping out my known-good and terribly expensive powertrain components and swapping in some unknown part. One way to make seriously consider that (if I had an EV) would be if I don't pay for the battery. The cost to buy the car is reduced by the value of the power bank, and I pay some subscription that covers the cost and the swap-out when needed. Basically, own the car and lease the fuel - but the car gets a lot cheaper upfront as a result.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (Jsjd7)

384 All pine, with trucks rolling in with trees, and out with 2x4's damn near around the clock.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:21 AM (snOKo)

How long do you need them?

A long time we are building a garage!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (yrol0)

385 Tom Elliott
@tomsellliott
Former FBI agent Andrew McCabe endorses Biden's controversial nominee to head the ATF. "He's very clearly the right person to lead that agency that has struggled for leadership for so many years."

Posted by: redridinghood at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

386 "In recent weeks, Trump has sat down with Gingrich, Mark Meadows (his former chief of staff and a former Republican congressman), and Sen. Lindsey Graham"

What a fucking waste of time.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (Tnijr)

387 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

388 More batteries will be needed nationwide in the summer, and demand at vacation spots will increase exponentially. Solution: Build enough batteries for summer need, storing them away in the winter,

***

And we're already running into the "recycling" wall with electric vehicles only being 1% of the market.

Turns out physics gives zero damns about our feelings.

"...None of the lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles are recyclable in the same sense that paper, glass, and lead car batteries are. "

https://tinyurl.com/ps9a4kmw

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:25 AM (2CptV)

389 378 It was just the never-ending repetition of stupid stereotypes just like we're seeing today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 27, 2021 08:23 AM (VVEnO)

2,000 years of it, my friend.

If you can find it, watch the multi-part series "The Longest Hatred."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 08:25 AM (s2VJv)

390 Out in Colorado they still have mountains of lumber left over from the pine bark beetle infestations... sadly, lots of it just rotting..
Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:18 AM (6Je/Q)
++++
Which is really too bad, because beetle kill pine is *extremely* pretty wood. If you want cabinets made of the stuff, for example (and you do - it turns the room into a showpiece), it is tragically expensive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:25 AM (Jsjd7)

391 The only real independent sawmills around here are run by the Amish and Mennonites. They're creating massive piles of it right now. I'm not sure how long it takes dry out.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 27, 2021 08:25 AM (4thlk)

392 Back when I was young, I questioned how the Holocaust could have happened. All the Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda I could find was just of the big nosed diamond merchants violating young girls stuff, just normal, everyday stuff. I became convinced that there must be some powerful secret propaganda out there that made the Germans go crazy and could not be released for fear of starting it up again. But none of that was true. It was just the never-ending repetition of stupid stereotypes just like we're seeing today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler

Watch the movie Conspiracy......

Posted by: JT at May 27, 2021 08:25 AM (arJlL)

393 Government induced shortages... where have I read about that in the past?

Posted by: kraken at May 27, 2021 08:25 AM (6Je/Q)

394 I never did catch the reason for the spike in lumber prices.

-
Biden shut down the lumber pipeline to save the environment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (VVEnO)

395 WFT??

Christine Wormuth, the first woman confirmed by the US Senate as army Secretary, found herself in limbo on Wednesday night as the Senate reversed her confirmation

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (yrol0)

396 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:20 AM (2CptV)

I feel that and do it as well. Also want him to embrace the darkness and overcome it too. Gotta strike a right balance.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (IYHxL)

397 Been back for a couple weeks now

Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (5p7BC)

398 It was just the never-ending repetition of stupid stereotypes just like we're seeing today.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 27, 2021 08:23 AM (VVEnO)

Today is much worse than stereotypes. The "apartheid/racist" stuff is very damaging and ugly, and I expect it to get worse. We also have the disgrace of Jews buying into anti Israel sentiments and separating themselves into "good Jews" v Bad.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (ONvIw)

399 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Slept in because of a series of strong storms going past last night. Hard to sleep with all that racket.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (u82oZ)

400 382 My guess is this is all part of "The Plan" (not Q's Trust the Plan). "Electricity prices will necessarily skyrocket" was Obama's stated dream for reducing US evil energy consumption (while opening coal plants in China is hunky dory).
Posted by: illiniwek at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (Cus5s)

========

Speaking of price gouging, a movie example:

Kino Lorber released a 4K UHD of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly. A common collectible these days is a cardboard slipcover to slide over the actual case the discs are housed in. Kino ordered 5,000 of them, and pretty much instantly sold out (they were happy with this).

However, the slipcase instantly became a real collectible with panic buying from collectors who missed out on the original order. I saw one complete set sell for $300. It's insane and stupid. People are complaining about the gouging, but I keep asking them why those with the slipcases (a non-essential item for basic survival if I've ever seen one) should be selling at lower prices than the market will handle if there's someone out there willing to pay $300 for it? It's stupid, but just a lesson in not valuing stupid shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (LvTSG)

401 "Sausalito Summer Night" 1981 - (before you were born, remember kids)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2021 08:14 AM (s2VJv)

I liked that song. You asked for it......

https://youtu.be/dLFMyk4HvIU

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

402 Sigh. Cocksucker's back. Trolls and math on the blog. Great early Thursday

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (Jsjd7)

403 Good and fucked we are.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (xSsm7)

404 Dude the Butthurt is strong!!

Obama says he was blocked from speaking up for Black victims of injustice in the White House
Obama says he followed the basic notion that he could not steer the Justice Department

WTF The Beer Summit?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (yrol0)

405 Couple weeks ago, a deck construction crew working on the next building over left a pile of 2 x 4's out overnight. They concealed them but I kinda stumbled across them.

I thought bad thoughts, but did not act on them.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (Bmy3R)

406 >>>Yeah, something else is going on. Lumber is like the most renewable
resource we have. You know, the type the Left is always gassing on
about.<

>A shit-ton of timber is tied up in litigation by the eco-fucking-freak tree huggers. It can't be cut or hauled until the lawsuits are settled.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (tVOev)

407 Now this is a damn shame. It seems that someone should have seen it coming... /sarc/

https://tinyurl.com/3pwtvmnu

Posted by: 496 at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (U1eOr)

408 California in a classic NIMBYmove approved windmills off the coast of the Morro Bay and Humboldt areas - reddish to red parts of the state. Santa Barbara didn't make the cut, strange that.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 08:17 AM (xEIoY)

Where are all the nature lovers to speak up for the birds that get killed by those inefficient and ugly contraptions?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (y7DUB)

409 The Federal Reserve has assured me there is no inflation. It is all in my imagination. Phew. And here I was worried over nothing.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (xSsm7)

410 Remember when he was touting internal disinfectants like bleach ?

Remember when that never happened?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (Bmy3R)

411 G'morning, Salty.

Glad to hear all are safe.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice. Asymptomatic raycist at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (snOKo)

412
WTF The Beer Summit?
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 27, 2021 08:27 AM (yrol0)

And he had a "wingman", Trump did not.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:29 AM (ONvIw)

413 410 Remember when he was touting internal disinfectants like bleach ?

Remember when that never happened?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (Bmy3R)

========

It happened the same time as when Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 27, 2021 08:29 AM (LvTSG)

414 I feel that and do it as well. Also want him to embrace the darkness and overcome it too. Gotta strike a right balance.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:26 AM (IYHxL)

**

Yeah, you've got to take it kid by kid. Our oldest was mature enough to let her work it out herself by around 8 or 9. Our youngest is special needs and will probably be 10-12, maybe older. And that's fine, because that's how it works sometimes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:29 AM (2CptV)

415 https://tinyurl.com/3pwtvmnu
Posted by: 496 at May 27, 2021 08:28 AM (U1eOr)
++++
Man, even the Obama-era language is back.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:30 AM (Jsjd7)

416 OT but the neverTrumpers who gushed about Biden's decency, character and integrity need to be turning on a spit over a mesquite fire.

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at May 27, 2021 08:30 AM (cSyAR)

417 And when Romney said he would ban birth control.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 27, 2021 08:30 AM (xSsm7)

418 "In recent weeks, Trump has sat down with Gingrich, Mark Meadows (his former chief of staff and a former Republican congressman), and Sen. Lindsey Graham"

Proposed headline: Trump gets ass-kicked for four years, learns nothing.

GRAHAM? WTF, DONALD?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 27, 2021 08:30 AM (2JVJo)

419 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:29 AM (2CptV)

Oh yeah definitely. No one size fits all with kids.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:31 AM (IYHxL)

420 Stuff is up your proud ass you cocksucking worm.

Posted by: f'd at May 27, 2021 08:31 AM (Tnijr)

421 413
It happened the same time as when Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house.

Which was after the time Dubya bellowed "Mission Accomplished!" into that microphone

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 27, 2021 08:31 AM (Bmy3R)

422 I have a facebook posting publicly stating that Fauci should have no authority over any covid decisions.
Dated March 10, 2020.
Can anybody beat it?

Posted by: From that time at May 27, 2021 08:31 AM (4780s)

423 NOOD.

Snipers. Snipers everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

424 Research shows that one out of three urban neighborhoods is in a pharmacy desert.

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Gosh, what a mystery.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:32 AM (2CptV)

425 nood landscape

Posted by: andycanuck at May 27, 2021 08:32 AM (UHVv4)

426 Graham was the guy who saved the Kavanaugh nomination for Trump. And as we know Trump values loyalty above all else.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 27, 2021 08:32 AM (xSsm7)

427 I have a facebook posting publicly stating that Fauci should have no authority over any covid decisions.
Dated March 10, 2020.
Can anybody beat it?

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I'm still trying to figure out why the head of NIH is in charge and not the head of the CDC.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (2CptV)

428 Walmarts in Houston area no longer requiring masks. Went into one yesterday, the only other people not wearing one, were two ladies in their 80s. I gave them both a nice smile.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (IEyz/)

429 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 27, 2021 08:30 AM (2JVJo)

Could be like when he met with Romney

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (IYHxL)

430 187...The real goal is, of course, expansion of the panopticon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 07:30 AM (Jsjd7)

Ice Age Farmer:
https://youtu.be/_O3WAzJtZoo

Posted by: Flyover at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (Rbu5d)

431 This does make some sense at first blush from a time standpoint. That said, the battery pack is a non-trivial portion of the total value of the car. As an owner of one of those cars, I would be very skittish about swapping out my known-good and terribly expensive powertrain components and swapping in some unknown part. One way to make seriously consider that (if I had an EV) would be if I don't pay for the battery. The cost to buy the car is reduced by the value of the power bank, and I pay some subscription that covers the cost and the swap-out when needed. Basically, own the car and lease the fuel - but the car gets a lot cheaper upfront as a result.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (Jsjd7)

Why buy the vehicle? Lease it as you do the battery.

I wonder if one goal of the EV crap is to endthe near-universal private auto ownership in the US. One step on the road (pun intended) to forcing mass-transit on us. "See Yellowstone the easy way - Electric bus service from the Cheyenne Airport to a campground somewhere in the Park!"

Posted by: Gref at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (AMIL/)

432 Obama says he followed the basic notion that he could not steer the Justice Department

Putting his self described wingman in charge is completely a different thing. How fucking dumb was whoever he said that to not to point that out?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 27, 2021 08:34 AM (y7DUB)

433 Goober at the gas mart changing a battery that weighs what 500 pounds? Good times.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at May 27, 2021 08:35 AM (xEIoY)

434 I wonder if one goal of the EV crap is to endthe near-universal private auto ownership in the US. One step on the road (pun intended) to forcing mass-transit on us. "See Yellowstone the easy way - Electric bus service from the Cheyenne Airport to a campground somewhere in the Park!"
Posted by: Gref at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (AMIL/)
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Entirely possible. Or to permit private ownership, but limit distance and overall mobility. Easier pill to swallow, that one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:36 AM (Jsjd7)

435 hahaha, I just heard an ad for "healthguard", a browser extension that will tell you if the COVID info you're searching for online are FDA/CDC approved.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Medical school determined even mild COVID-19 induces lifetime of antibody protection at May 27, 2021 08:37 AM (2CptV)

436 Robbie - shit is creepy right

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:40 AM (IYHxL)

437 Could be like when he met with Romney
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 27, 2021 08:33 AM (IYHxL)

He should have made Romney Ambassador to France, more effective than humiliation therapy.

Posted by: CN at May 27, 2021 08:41 AM (ONvIw)

438 383 It's a good point from a logistical standpoint. Why have charging stations? Why not just ...
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 27, 2021 08:11 AM (tVOev)
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This does make some sense at first blush from a time standpoint. ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 27, 2021 08:24 AM (Jsjd7)

Batteries will have to be made heavier, as the will need to be better armored since they are being replaced very frequently. They are going to get dropped on concrete.

The EV F-150 has 1800 lbs of batteries. Tesla Model S is 1200 lbs. So, likely well north of moving 2 tons of batteries around to do a swap (1 ton removing, 1 ton installing). Need to at least double the number of batteries for a fleet. More power generating capacity. Battery stations likely need handling equipment to move all that weight around all day. Do the batteries get charged at the station? Are are charged batteries trucked in? More batteries and more power generating capacity.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 27, 2021 08:59 AM (8C7+r)

439 438 Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at May 27, 2021 08:59 AM (8C7+r)

also from a legal standpoint you have to factor in total failures and who will be legally culpable....

go long on lawyers

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 09:04 AM (Lzpvj)

440 I can only wish that the COVID stupidity was over. No county pools will be open this summer because "Covid". Local city pools will be open for 50 minute per family reservation only "free swim" and formal lessons. No open rec swim. Oh, and you need to wear a mask until you get in the pool. There goes half our summer fun because of the Karens. But these people still have a paycheck. I am livid.

Posted by: Inisfree at May 27, 2021 09:44 AM (JvFhS)

441 Hanson has been whiffing a lot lately; it wasn't a hysteria, it was deliberate, calculated marxist fuckery.

Never take the commies at face value in anything but declarations that they intend to fuck you; the only group that took most of the last year's nonsense seriously were those under 20 or so, simply because most of them don't know any better.

Posted by: somedood at May 27, 2021 09:56 AM (4ACl3)

442 441 Posted by: somedood at May 27, 2021 09:56 AM (4ACl3)

Hanson is largely immune to direct impact from these twits at this point.

That helps make the idiocy a subject of mirth rather than a subject of terror.

Posted by: sven at May 27, 2021 10:00 AM (Lzpvj)

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