The Lie That Keeps Giving: Covid Can't Be Spread During BLM Riots Because of The Science

There are accusations that Fauci and the CDC have reduced quarantine periods from 10 days to 5 to accommodate industry and to keep entire companies from shutting down.

Almost as if what is claimed to be "The Science" is in fact a hodge-podge of political decisions being made by bureaucrats and their political counterparts, like Ron Klain.

But then, this has been going on since the start of the covid panic. Fauci lied about mask being ineffectual, because he didn't want lowly civilians buying them up and shorting them for medical professionals. (Surprise! He had it right the first time -- they are almost entirely ineffectual, but he didn't know that when he claimed it.)

Update: Commenters say he knew that masks were practically useless at all points during the pandemic:

34 >>Surprise! He had it right the first time -- they are almost entirely ineffectual, but he didn't know that when he claimed it.
Axshually, he did.
Fauci wrote and email to Sylvia Burwell, Obama's former head of HHS, in February 2020 and told her that store bought masks were basically useless against a coronavirus.
He's been on every side of every issue depending on the day and the political need.
Posted by: JackStraw

He then played game with what would constitute "herd immunity" -- 70%? 75%? 85% 90% -- and admitted he just made up numbers according to what he believed the public was "ready to hear" or what they would tolerate. When he felt they were "ready to hear" higher numbers, an would tolerate higher numbers, he shifted his target for herd immunity upward.

He admitted this -- he admitted that what he claimed to be "The Science" was in fact just a grab-bag of psychological gambits and tactical deceptions intended for maximum manipulative impact on the public.

And yet when you pointed this out, he contacted his palz at the social media companies to censor you.

"Experts" wonder why people don't believe a ***-damn word coming from their lying mouths, and want to know why.

Why? Why won't they believe us any longer?

Why do they believe that when we talk about "The Science," we're really just hustling them to get them to comply with our policy and political preferences by labeling it "The Science"?

Why do they not trust us about "The Science" any longer?

Well, maybe they should look at the huge repulsive mass of lies they've vomited at us for two years for a clue.

Starting with this one:

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More from John Sexton, including a great thread from about the Era of Healthy Covid-Safe Rioting from Drew Holden.

This "public health expert" wants you to know that Whiteness is a very serious public health issue and we need to take to the streets to fight it.

This isn't "The Science" -- this is rabidly leftwing partisans, drenched in self-interest, bending and mutilating science as needed to advance their preferred political agenda.

And they're not practicing public health -- they're firing off gunshots and throwing ropes and cracking whips to control the herd and get it moving in the direction they want.

We are not cattle, and you are not cowboys, assholes.

Your "expertise" is only as good as the used car dealer's -- he's an expert too, you know. In used cars.

And both of your expertises stop counting for shit the moment we realize you're using it to bluster and scam us, the minute we figure out that you're weaponizing your informational advantage to cheat us.

Reliable expertise requires two factors, not just one:

1, proven knowledge in a subject matter field

2, proven honesty and integrity in using that expertise fairly on behalf of his clients, without self-dealing

Our expert class continually fails the second factor. They continually dupe the people they're providing their "expert counsel" to, and engage in self-dealing and self (political) enrichment.

And when they get caught embezzling, they just keep saying, "But we're experts! We're really, really good at corruptly inducing you to sign over your property to us!"

And what's more -- Shiiiiit, 90% of the time they fail the first factor, too. 90% of the time they're incompetent and not even actually experts, either.

Posted by: Ace at 03:48 PM

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1 Centered!

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 03:48 PM (Ez6QX)

2 justified!

Posted by: ace at December 29, 2021 03:48 PM (0G13K)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

4 And don't get me started on how pissed I was that we couldn't have a funeral for my MIL but they could have like 8 for Saint Floyd.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 03:49 PM (Ez6QX)

5 justified!
Posted by: ace at December 29, 2021 03:48 PM (0G13K)

Ha! I love you, Ace.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 03:49 PM (Ez6QX)

6 All of this shit becomes a more blatant op than it was 12 months ago.

Also, I am surprised you have not dipped your toe in the Jack Murphy shit, ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:49 PM (dNqv+)

7 (Surprise! He had it right the first time -- they are almost entirely ineffectual, but he didn't know that when he claimed it.)
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I actually think he did know that. By the time he transitions into mask fascism, he does so for political reasons -- initially to give people a talisman to hold onto in the face of a disease they cannot control.

That quickly morphs into a way of enforcing loyalty to the COVID priests, as the response is further politicized.

Posted by: Revenant at December 29, 2021 03:50 PM (cOGHc)

8 But then, this has been going on since the start of the covid panic. Fauci lied about mask being ineffectual, because he didn't want lowly civilians buying them up and shorting them for medical professionals. (Surprise! He had it right the first time -- they are almost entirely ineffectual, but he didn't know that when he claimed it.)
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Yup. But you must apply the Iron Law of Contemporary Politics:
"Playing politics with ______ is unacceptable if I disagree with the politics. Playing politics with ______ is righteous and proper [and scientific] if I agree with the politics."

In this case, the blank is "public health" or "COVID response." But the rule is *always* the same.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:50 PM (DU+/6)

9 Glenn Greenwald was hopeless optimistic with that tweet about "destroyed trust."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:51 PM (DU+/6)

10 Medicine, epidemiology, virology and to large extent, Science itself no longer exists.

It's been replaced by pure will to power and a by any means necessary no matter that cost pose.

It's only going to get worse as total control slips through their fingers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2021 03:51 PM (iKhtQ)

11 8 Yup. But you must apply the Iron Law of Contemporary Politics:
"Playing politics with ______ is unacceptable if I disagree with the politics. Playing politics with ______ is righteous and proper [and scientific] if I agree with the politics."

In this case, the blank is "public health" or "COVID response." But the rule is *always* the same.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:50 PM (DU+/6)

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TJM's Rule of Politics:

If you want government involved, you want it to be political.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 03:51 PM (LvTSG)

12 For bloodborne diseases a mask or other ppe could be useful (if'n you are going to be around spurting blood.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (dNqv+)

13 Remember, Trump kept Fauci on.

As much as I hate Biden, I can't get passed Trump not flushing this turd down when he had the chance.

Here he was lying about masks not being effective and saying BLM burning the place down with dense crowds was scientifically a-okay.

Posted by: Cameroom at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (3dm+3)

14 For bloodborne diseases a mask or other ppe could be useful (if'n you are going to be around spurting blood.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (dNqv+)
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Who *doesn't* go around spurting blood?

Posted by: Pedestrian in Philadelphia at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (DU+/6)

15 George Floyd > MLK

Posted by: golfman at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (hOMhY)

16 Who *doesn't* go around spurting blood?
Posted by: Pedestrian in Philadelphia at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (DU+/6)

I'm sure I don't know.

Posted by: Megyn Kelly at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (dNqv+)

17 That picture of the woman with the fishbowl over her head on the airplane should accompany this thread.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

18 12 For bloodborne diseases a mask or other ppe could be useful (if'n you are going to be around spurting blood.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (dNqv+)

Thanks for the tip! I'll be sure to wear a mask when I go on that long-planned stabbing rampage.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (00IyZ)

19 Florida Man Grim Reaper on the beach. It doesn't get much better than that.

Posted by: observer at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (ISrcT)

20 The Power of Science compels you!

Posted by: Dr. Fauci and His Evil Minion at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (FVME7)

21 Fauci, like anyone else familiar with respiratory protection methods, knew all along that the masks people are wearing are ineffectual. He also knows that it takes an N95 or better to have some effectiveness.

There's not enough filtration in the masks people are wearing. They also don't wear them properly, fit them properly, and a lot of people have facial hair that confounds the seal.

It's all been a big lie.

Posted by: Mark at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (/IrDf)

22 Look at any twitter thread about this and the wokesters are all screaming at us that since it's outside it's OK.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (KiBMU)

23 >>>2 justified!

Ragged right, actually. Which is better.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (+R5dc)

24 It's always been about compliance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (BFigT)

25 George Floyd was a piece of shit human and this country embarrassed itself immensely on the world stage and it will take generations to recover.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

26 I haven't trusted public health since AIDS. then there was the fuckery in Dallas around Ebola. it's all been political for at least 40 years.

Posted by: x at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (oA+QO)

27 And don't get me started on how pissed I was that we couldn't have a funeral for my MIL but they could have like 8 for Saint Floyd.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 03:49 PM (Ez6QX)

I let it be known that my Dad's funeral would be going on, and if necessary I was going to ask people to bring axe handles to deal with anyone who objected or tried to shut us down.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (ZMraq)

28 Medicine, epidemiology, virology and to large extent, Science itself no longer exists.

It's been replaced by pure will to power and a by any means necessary no matter that cost pose.

It's only going to get worse as total control slips through their fingers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

It'll get real ugly toot sweet then next 1918 or smallpox.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (uXonU)

29 Everything is bullshit, all of the time!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (Mzdiz)

30 It was "Get Trump" all along.

Posted by: Don Corlecovid at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (OzNIz)

31 I'm guessing it's already been discussed somewhere here, but Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccine, has been permanently suspended from Twitter. He opposed the vaccine mandates, especially for children.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (0TVNF)

32 Thanks for the tip! I'll be sure to wear a mask when I go on that long-planned stabbing rampage.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 29, 2021 03:53 PM (00IyZ)

Go for a full face respirator and it might cut down on your peripheral vision.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (dNqv+)

33
Who's in the dock for the Nuremburg Health Crimes Trial? Suggestions welcome.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (iOx8N)

34 >>Surprise! He had it right the first time -- they are almost entirely ineffectual, but he didn't know that when he claimed it.

Axshually, he did.

Fauci wrote and email to Sylvia Burwell, Obama's former head of HHS, in February 2020 and told her that store bought masks were basically useless against a coronavirus.

He's been on every side of every issue depending on the day and the political need.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)

35 30 It was "Get Trump" all along.
Posted by: Don Corlecovid at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (OzNIz)

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And it didn't work, hence the months of cheating by mail and last second ballot box stuffing in six states in the middle of the night.

The ballot box stuffing worked. The covid didn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (LvTSG)

36 25 George Floyd was a piece of shit human and this country embarrassed itself immensely on the world stage and it will take generations to recover.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

And it continues to do so

Posted by: It's me donna at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (TdaKq)

37 This post offends me. I want to speak to your manager.

Posted by: Wine mom Karen, AWFL at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Ojki1)

38 This isn't "The Science" -- this is rabidly leftwing partisans, drenched in self-interest, bending and mutilating science as needed to advance their preferred political agenda.
==
Hey, the cultural revolution isn't going to start itself. We are the cultural revolution we have been waiting for...
-shitheel class commies

Posted by: sure, its a smartass comment, but I mean it at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (C8nXP)

39 I don't believe Falci's pronouncements are ever "mistakes." It doesn't ever turn out he didn't know something or make a mistake about anything.

I'm damn sure every word coming out of his mouth was put there by his masters. The Great Reset crowd doesn't make mistakes. They just repackage the narrative, when it suits them.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Eigqp)

40 I haven't trusted public health since AIDS. then there was the fuckery in Dallas around Ebola. it's all been political for at least 40 years.
Posted by: x at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (oA+QO)

And who was right in there with AIDS? Fauci, getting thrills watching homosexuals spread disease to each other in person.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (eoQWY)

41 Doctors and many in the public health field were some of the most trusted people before COVID. Now they've largely shown themselves to be nothing more then cowards, biased political partisans or idiots unable to digest basic material facts.

There is a blatant attempt to keep substantive information away from people. One might not only ask why they would do that, but also why would doctors willingly participate in it.

The coup de grace is that not a single person is interested in pursuing the real source of the virus and exposing all the actors who made it possible.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Rz7nO)

42 Ellsburg, Ellison, and Thomas Ellers all agree that Glenn Greenwald is doing great work here.

Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (7zo49)

43 31 I'm guessing it's already been discussed somewhere here, but Dr. Robert Malone, inventor of mRNA vaccine, has been permanently suspended from Twitter. He opposed the vaccine mandates, especially for children.
Posted by: IrishEi at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (0TVNF)

Twitter is a cesspool.

TIACP. Hmmm, needs a better acronym.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (dNqv+)

44 The tweet the stupid bint up there put up about cost/benefit analysis is actually correct. Her conclusion might not be, but the assessment is proper.

But the problem I have is that, like THE SCIENCE more generally, cost/benefit analysis is only allowed when it can be a perverted tool of the overall assault. Nobody did cost/benefit on COVID response, because to have done so would have made it clear that we were being destructive for no reason. And heaven help you if you try to do one in other domains. Bjorn Lomberg was canceled for daring to do a cost/benefit assessment of global warming responses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (DU+/6)

45 It'll get real ugly toot sweet then next 1918 or smallpox.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (uXonU)

It's already 1918 flu - almost everyone who died with Covid also had the flu. Marked by that cytokine storm, which was typical with the 1918 flu, which they reconstituted. On purpose. But SCIENCE!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Mzdiz)

46 I let it be known that my Dad's funeral would be going on, and if necessary I was going to ask people to bring axe handles to deal with anyone who objected or tried to shut us down.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (ZMraq)

Let's just say my husband's brothers are bitches and leave it at that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Ez6QX)

47 25 George Floyd was a piece of shit human and this country embarrassed itself immensely on the world stage and it will take generations to recover.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

And he died because he "ate too many drugs" when the police were walking to his car. But we put a man in prison for that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (Y5qcH)

48
Hokum-based society.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (hQ23g)

49 Anyone still believing in this absolute jackassery needs four shots, not three. Vax yourself to death.

The problem, particularly in the USA, is that those people weak enough to get the vax will suffer the long term consequences. The more shots, the more consequences. You know they're not doing this for your health. And when the flock of sheep is gone, likely wolves and sheepdogs will be left- to fight it out or make common cause, as they like.

Depopulation can't be successful, even on its own merits. But it will punish the fools who believed in "the science." Bring it on, I say.

Posted by: trev006 at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (RJToO)

50 He's been on every side of every issue depending on the day and the political need.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)

Keel hauling needs to be a thing again. Too bad most modern vessels are relatively barnacle free, but we need to work with what we've got.

Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (wAnMi)

51 And they're not practicing public health -- they're firing off gunshots and throwing ropes and cracking whips to control the herd and get it moving in the direction they want.

Don't try to understand 'em
Just rope and throw and brand 'em
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
My heart's calculatin'
The Science will be waitin'
Be waiting at the end of my ride.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (a3Q+t)

52 How to set up social credit score they should have called "The Science."

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (ySQBZ)

53 Twitter is a cesspool.

TIACP. Hmmm, needs a better acronym.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (dNqv+)
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A rhyme might work better.

Shitter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (DU+/6)

54 The CDC and NIH are political organizations. Remember that.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (Rz7nO)

55 TIACP. Hmmm, needs a better acronym.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (dNqv+)

TISH.

Posted by: trev006 at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (RJToO)

56 At first they came for hockey, but nobody could convince the Canadians that they weren't stupid. Then they came for basketball, but sneaker logistics matter. And then they came for football and the Chicoms said, 'get back to work or we'll put you back in chains!'

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (r0ADi)

57 This thing has balloxed "the data" so bad (and on purpose).

Periodically you see articles on all the "Covid excess deaths" measuring deaths "during Covid" to "normal" periods.

They use these numbers to justify the lockdowns in retrospect; but a yuge portion of the "excess deaths" were due to the Covid overreaction (delayed healthcare, physical inactivity, depression, family stress, substance abuse, etc etc)

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (OzNIz)

58 Good lord, Drew Barrymore has a teevee show, and she looks like a middle aged lady who left the Pentecostal church, but only recently, and not totally.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (Eigqp)

59 bolloxed.
But I tried.

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (OzNIz)

60 "We are not cattle, and you are not cowboys, assholes."

We wear our chaps, leather, hats and spurs to the bar every weekend, and Brokeback Mountain is our favorite movie, so I think you can call us cowboys. We aren't cattle (queers not steers, queens!), and as for assholes....girlfriend, the stories we could tell...

Posted by: Pete and Chasten Butigieg at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (I0I+D)

61 Looting creates 10x the number of antibodies as does a vax.

Science!!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 29, 2021 03:59 PM (cHKdz)

62 covid also can't spread when you are sitting down and eating.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 29, 2021 03:59 PM (bVYXr)

63 @21
>>It's all been a big lie.

As has been said, masks of any sort have a very specific use and utility of short duration and efficacy.

You could wear level 4 bio-safety garb and it would not stop the spread of a respiratory virus one iota in a population of 7 billion people.

The habitual wearing of masks is counterproductive and dangerous.

This was the actual science, you could get studies and white papers right from the CDC and WHOs very own websites before they were purged.

This has been one gigantic Op and Scam from jump street.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2021 03:59 PM (iKhtQ)

64 Good lord, Drew Barrymore has a teevee show, and she looks like a middle aged lady who left the Pentecostal church, but only recently, and not totally.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2021 03:58 PM (Eigqp)
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I have no idea how to visualize that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:59 PM (DU+/6)

65 The only possible justification for government involvement in most areas of human life is to prevent politicization in the first place. To act as a kind of impartial referee, as it were.

This is the problem.

Leftists reject this idea completely, and have no qualms about using government as a club to beat people they don't like over the head. And loot the public treasury.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2021 03:59 PM (ok8/5)

66 Who's in the dock for the Nuremburg Health Crimes Trial? Suggestions welcome.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM (iOx8N)

Something like Nuremberg needs a cadre of trusted professional judges. Which we don't have. Tribunals are the best the vax cabal can hope for, barring a miraculous and merciful Trump dictatorship. Otherwise we go with ropes, stakes, and knives.

Posted by: trev006 at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (RJToO)

67 I thought about this when in the city of Chicago this past fall, on a beautiful day, walking up Lincoln Ave, past the park. Two large groups of elementary-school kids there for supervised sports, everybody tightly masked.

Everyone I passed on the sidewalk was masked, black, brown, white, yellow. Everyone but me.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (KiBMU)

68 I think most of Fauci's "Oh, right ... back then I was just lying to protect you from yourselves" act is mostly about him post-hoc rationalizing why he was wrong or changed his mind rather than the actual reason behind his "lie"/change of policy.

He'd rather admit to deviousness than admit to just being plain wrong/dumb in the past.

Posted by: Match Checksout at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (dYe5S)

69 The Science: Sometimes correct but always certain.

Posted by: ... at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (mdJ2s)

70 BLM riots are safe, going to church? "What are you, insane?"

WalMart and Strip Clubs, essential to life itself. Small Business? ... "Die die DIE!!"

Healthy living is staying isolated indoors ... Jogging alone on the beach? ... "Get indoors with your sick family, you racist loon".

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (Cus5s)

71 I'm assuming that Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, who seems to have a Doctorate in Public Health and is a bureaucrat like Fauci doesn't actually see any patients, (?) because if she does the patients should stop seeing her with that nonsense. Leftism is a religion and they've applied a bit of Psalm 91 to their own needs-"You shall not fear the pestilence" because as long as you're protesting in a worthy cause the god of leftism will protect you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (k49Sx)

72 As much as I hate Biden, I can't get passed Trump not flushing this turd down when he had the chance.

Here he was lying about masks not being effective and saying BLM burning the place down with dense crowds was scientifically a-okay.
Posted by: Cameroom at December 29, 2021 03:52 PM (3dm+3)

VDH had the solution.

PDT press conference > We thank Dr Fauci for all of his years of service. We wish him well and we applaud him for the time he will be spending with his family...

Posted by: golfman at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (hOMhY)

73 Keel hauling needs to be a thing again. Too bad most modern vessels are relatively barnacle free, but we need to work with what we've got.
Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (wAnMi)

Seconded.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (Ez6QX)

74 "BLM riots are fine because they're outside."

"Okay. I'm going to a baseball game."

"Oh, no...that's dangerous."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (LvTSG)

75 If anything good manages to escape this shit vortex, it will indeed be the public's permanent distrust of the managerial class and the administrative state and the desire and political will to dismantle all of it, including the federal government. Covid already is the United State's Chernobyl. May it become its Gorbachev kidnapping.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (nMx88)

76 64-

Really? I thought it was a perfect description.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (Eigqp)

77 Nuremburg was just a show to pretend we were civilized. Everyone knew what was going to happen to those folks.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (Y5qcH)

78 Good lord, Drew Barrymore has a teevee show, and she looks like a middle aged lady who left the Pentecostal church, but only recently, and not totally.
Posted by: BurtTC

I have no idea how to visualize that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

MILFY.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (uXonU)

79 The funny part is they treat everyone as if they're stupid and unable to process basic intellectual facts to make cogent conclusions. Then when they realize you can, and not only that, you call them out, they go complete YOLO and ban, mandate, lie with the medias willing assistance and laugh in your face.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (Rz7nO)

80 >>>Why? Why won't they believe us any longer?

Well, and also they say and they keep saying: Some pigs are more equal than others.

Posted by: m at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (vF+oW)

81 Breaking -
The glorious Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for New Yorkers and Californians *voting rights with held and taxes levied when they move to another state.

Posted by: Braenyard - e0dough at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (7cJE3)

82 If I hear someone is an expert or works for the govt I know they are lying and/or full of shit.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (cHKdz)

83
MILFY.
Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (uXonU)

Pass

Posted by: golfman at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (hOMhY)

84 Be helpful if more scientists were outspoken.

But they are largely in consensus on it.

The consensus is "I want my government contract and if it means shitting on the entire history and fundamentals of my profession, then I will kill every last Jew for my contract."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (5We2S)

85 The funny part is they treat everyone as if they're stupid and unable to process basic intellectual facts to make cogent conclusions.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (Rz7nO)

To be fair, most people are.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (Ez6QX)

86 44 The tweet the stupid bint up there put up about cost/benefit analysis is actually correct. Her conclusion might not be, but the assessment is proper.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (DU+/6)

I'm sorry, Joe, but the assessment is full of horseshit. You do not make society changing edicts based upon your own personal whimsy. The facts do not change. Your interpretation might, but that is why you make suggestions about methods of behavior- not strap the rat cage on the world.

Hell, the Nazis would be arguing now that exterminating the Jews was just them making recommendations based on the best data they had at the fucking time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (dNqv+)

87
I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy.
You see by my outfit that you are one, too.
We see by our outfits that we are both cowboys,
if you get yourself an outfit, you can be one, too.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (a3Q+t)

88 78-

PILFY.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (Eigqp)

89 If anything good manages to escape this shit vortex, it will indeed be the public's permanent distrust of the managerial class and the administrative state and the desire and political will to dismantle all of it, including the federal government. Covid already is the United State's Chernobyl. May it become its Gorbachev kidnapping.
==
This is the time of division. Those who see it will never forget it. Those that don't, probably never will see it. They still get a little more time to wake up, but it seems there are going to be some dead enders.

Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (cBTnh)

90 I don't trust politically-motivated buffoons.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (sVtYq)

91 Do you think it would make them feel better if we tell them we didn't believe them from the start? Worth a shot.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (QYPq3)

92 The funny part is they treat everyone as if they're stupid and unable to process basic intellectual facts to make cogent conclusions. Then when they realize you can, and not only that, you call them out, they go complete YOLO and ban, mandate, lie with the medias willing assistance and laugh in your face.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM (Rz7nO)

Its projection, of course, since they can barely think themselves besides reading a position paper. And if you plebs ask something not covered, down comes the house of cards.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (eoQWY)

93
PDT press conference > We thank Dr Fauci for all of his years of service. We wish him well and we applaud him for the time he will be spending with his family...
Posted by: golfman at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (hOMhY)

Better presser:

"We are shocked and saddened to report that Dr. Fauci has been missing since last Saturday. We join his friends & family in the prayer that he will be found safe and well as soon as possible..."

Perhaps while he buffed his fingernails and checked his phone.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (hQ23g)

94 @64

>>I have no idea how to visualize that.

Imagine the worst SNL imitation of someone and then think of something worse.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (iKhtQ)

95 It's all been a big lie.

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You still don't see the humor in that?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 29, 2021 04:04 PM (FVME7)

96 these people are, as I'm learning more and more, illiterate demons who need to be exorcised from society by heavy mockery and ridicule.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:04 PM (ZZK0E)

97 Twitter is a shitter.

Hmmm. I like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:04 PM (dNqv+)

98 Hell, the Nazis would be arguing now that exterminating the Jews was just them making recommendations based on the best data they had at the fucking time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (dNqv+)

They did. They had volumes of "science" and "evidence" that they were doing a distasteful, yet noble thing for their country and the world.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:04 PM (Y5qcH)

99 "We are shocked and saddened to report that Dr. Fauci has been missing since last Saturday. We join his friends & family in the prayer that he will be found safe and well as soon as possible..."

Perhaps while he buffed his fingernails and checked his phone.
Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (hQ23g)

Heh.. I laughed.

Posted by: golfman at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (hOMhY)

100 Remember: Gleen is not your friend. He is not "red pilled"

He's just not crazy and that stands out in a world of lunatics

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (KZzsI)

101 They did. They had volumes of "science" and "evidence" that they were doing a distasteful, yet noble thing for their country and the world.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (KZzsI)

102 it's all been a lie

the data is all garbage

the vaccines are garbage

now what?

what's going to happen now? the vaccine-injured are in for .. what? we don't know, do we? longterm fertility or other chronic problems? eventual heart failure?

I can't even talk about this anymore. It's all upside-down.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (j9HX3)

103 I'm sorry, Joe, but the assessment is full of horseshit. You do not make society changing edicts based upon your own personal whimsy. The facts do not change. Your interpretation might, but that is why you make suggestions about methods of behavior- not strap the rat cage on the world.

Hell, the Nazis would be arguing now that exterminating the Jews was just them making recommendations based on the best data they had at the fucking time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (dNqv+)
++++
I meant in the very broad sense - as in "we should do a cost/benefit analysis on our response." This should always be done. Her assessment in this case - that rioting is worth suspending public health mandates because Social Justice - is insane and stupid. I did not mean to imply otherwise. It's lunatic nonsense. But she keyed in on it by framing it as a cost/benefit exercise, which is something you're *never* allowed to actually do when it comes to a government policy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (DU+/6)

104 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Mzdiz)

This is absolute, baying-at-the-moon lunacy.

Nothing you are saying makes any sense at all.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (EFVbm)

105 73 Keel hauling needs to be a thing again. Too bad most modern vessels are relatively barnacle free, but we need to work with what we've got.
Posted by: clutchx cargox - processed in a facility that may contain leadx at December 29, 2021 03:57 PM (wAnMi)

Seconded.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:00 PM (Ez6QX)
--------------

Modern ships are too big anyway.
They just cut down 1,000 trees in NYC
to keep it above sea level.
Use some of those trees to build a wooden craft appropriate for a proper keel hauling.

Posted by: Braenyard - e0dough at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (7cJE3)

106 I watched Tucker's Tucker-less show last night, about the thousands of beagle puppies being raised in a filthy facility in VA for the sole purpose of torturing them to death because Fauci's SCIENCE.

They use the beagles because they're sweet and docile and pose no threat to their torturers.

I've had it To Death with *&%% "science."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (ptqGC)

107 uh oh...

Posted by: golfman at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (hOMhY)

108 Fetchin' Gretchen Witmer roping off spring garden supplies to combat Covid!! Snort. Put.that one in a libfuqs ear and have them explain how it worked.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid Cooks what he catches. at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (n/szn)

109 They did. They had volumes of "science" and "evidence" that they were doing a distasteful, yet noble thing for their country and the world.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:04 PM (Y5qcH)

Kind of puts things in perspective, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (dNqv+)

110 For anyone interested Hans Mahncke and Jeff Carlson have been chronicling the involvement of Fauci, Baric, Anderson, Collins, Daszak and a host of others with the CCP Wuhan Institute for well over a year and reporting a lot of it in The Epoch Times. It's pretty amazing what they have uncovered.

It's really beyond debate what they did and the lies they told. It all happened. They've been doing shit like this for years and they are so corrupt and conflicted it made the Great Reset possible.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (ZLI7S)

111 sigh.

They did. They had volumes of "science" and "evidence" that they were doing a distasteful, yet noble thing for their country and the world.

Yes, they did. They had some of the best science at the time backing them, and academics around the world were on board cheering on their ideals and policies. Eugenics, we had to give evolution a helping hand to bring about a better tomorrow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (KZzsI)

112 They made a big deal about those "just following orders" but for the next few decades that was never a part of the UCMJ. Failure to obey orders would get any US military person courtmartialed and discharged other than honorable.

So don't tell me about how just following orders is not a defense for war crimes.

Not saying whether that's correct or not but it is a fact. Nuremberg was a show trial that they needed because Hitler offed himself and took that pleasure away from the Allies.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (6R0HD)

113 This is the time of division. Those who see it will never forget it. Those that don't, probably never will see it. They still get a little more time to wake up, but it seems there are going to be some dead enders.
Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (cBTnh)

That sorting is well underway, both with people's feet and with their hearts and minds.

The police state apparatus is particularly dangerous now because it knows any illusions have come to an end.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (nMx88)

114
To be fair, most people are.
Posted by: Jordan61
==
When you are on the right side of the bell curve this is true. When you are Tater, this is not true.

Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (iYIzc)

115 Centrally planned plans always goes according to plan. Until they don't. It would be a nice wake up call to those with their heads stuck up their phones, if we had an opposition party and media platform to counter the propaganda.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:07 PM (SH2Zi)

116 "We are shocked and saddened to report that Dr. Fauci has been missing since last Saturday. We join his friends & family in the prayer that he will be found safe and well as soon as possible..."

Perhaps while he buffed his fingernails and checked his phone.
Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:03 PM (hQ23g)

I prefer sending him to the front lines in fighting covid, in hospitals in the farthest backlands of Russia, Africa, Asia, where there is no reporters or twitter feed.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:07 PM (eoQWY)

117 90% of the time they're incompetent and not even actually experts, either.
---
This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Thom Experty McExpertface at December 29, 2021 04:07 PM (OaZlZ)

118 ABC news has a screaming headline out tonight:

Georgia deploys National Guard to hospitals, testing centers amid COVID surge! Reeeeeeee!

Welp, if you read the article here: https://tinyurl.com/3su2hzjz

It's not really a Covid surge - it's just a panic started by folks in the media (like the demented children at ABC) that everyone has to get TESTED. Like now dammit, now!

So everyone floods the hospitals to get a test that no one has enough of - causing more panic. What a bunch of idiots. From Governor Kemp on down, that state is run by sheer imbeciles.

Posted by: Boswell at December 29, 2021 04:07 PM (5iUNf)

119 I meant in the very broad sense - as in "we should do a cost/benefit analysis on our response." This should always be done. Her assessment in this case - that rioting is worth suspending public health mandates because Social Justice - is insane and stupid.

CBA for rioting and looting = you loot, we shoot.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 04:07 PM (uXonU)

120 97 Twitter is a shitter.

Hmmm. I like it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:04 PM (dNqv+)

There was a SP episode where Cartman and Alec Baldwin were using a device that transmitted their thoughts directly to the Internet - the device's name was Shitter.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2021 04:08 PM (9ewTg)

121 The police state apparatus is particularly dangerous now because it knows any illusions have come to an end.
==
Yup. They are in their end game. They have a schedule they are going to keep no matter what. After that program is complete, they think they will never be accountable.

Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:08 PM (FRov5)

122 Maybe some people only woke up when they said systemic racism is a bigger issue and I don't think that was a CDC official but I could be wrong.

For me it was the mask flip flop. "Don't bother with a mask, unless you've had some training to put it on without contaminating it, it won't do any good, just wash your hands and don't touch your face" to "wear an old t-shirt over your face when inside or can't social distance" If they had stuck with #1 and went "you are not being diligent enough people, you need to be like Monk" when cases were rising anyway they'd have retained some credibility until the BLM/antifa lying.

Posted by: PaleRider, unvaxxed and untested at December 29, 2021 04:09 PM (3cGpq)

123 Remember: Gleen is not your friend. He is not "red pilled"

He's just not crazy and that stands out in a world of lunatics
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (KZzsI)

He's an ally in this war, just like the Russians in WWII.

Next war, we will see.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

124 To be fair, most people are.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (Ez6QX)

Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:09 PM (SH2Zi)

125 ABC news has a screaming headline out tonight:

Georgia deploys National Guard to hospitals, testing centers amid COVID surge! Reeeeeeee!

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The whole country is on fire!

https://bit.ly/3pBNREo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (FVME7)

126 As I have noted today, my fully vaxxed and boosted brother in law is in the hospital with Covid-induced double pneumonia. Prayers for his recovery are solicited.

Sadly, I am starting to avoid the Vaxxed as they appear to be breeding grounds for virus variants. One of these mutations might get around my Covid recovery immunity which I have had great confidence in.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (yQpMk)

127 Centered!
Posted by: Jordan61

Is there a spider in your bra, or are you glad to see me ?

Posted by: JT at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (arJlL)

128 From Governor Kemp on down, that state is run by sheer imbeciles.
-- was stricken from the list of possible retirement states after election.

Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (Lapzy)

129 Inventor of PCR test, Kary Mullins, (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his invention of PCR test) says PCR can find anything in anybody ... this short clip of him (he died in 2019 at 74) is interesting.

https://is.gd/Ycvrwq

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (Cus5s)

130 "To be fair, most people are.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:02 PM (Ez6QX)"

Many people are. But as they know many people also respond to fear. The disinformation campaign works on those people. They've never really worried about their mortality. Most of them have never been shot at or have ever lived in any real danger. The they put this 24/7 psyop where they constantly tell everyone they're gonna die, their kids are gonna die, there's no escape, etc. it's classic and provokes panic, bad decisions and compliance. Before you know it, it becomes a psychosis with many people. So I cant really blame them. Other then they need to snap out of it.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (Rz7nO)

131 It's already 1918 flu - almost everyone who died with Covid also had the flu. Marked by that cytokine storm, which was typical with the 1918 flu, which they reconstituted. On purpose. But SCIENCE!
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 03:56 PM (Mzdiz)

Exactly the opposite. That the 1918 caused so many problems in healthy, young immune systems was it's trademark. It struck people in the prime of life because those are the ones whose immune systems overreacted and caused the 'cytokine storm'.

Covid affects older people or those with otherwise compromised immune systems worse. Also people not generally in good health.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (dNqv+)

132 One of the biggest problems with twitter, once you get past the pedo posts, the bots, the outsized influence, the manipulated promotions and "trending", the bans, the shadowbanning, collecting metadata to use for advertising on you, and so on...

is the fact that it doesn't do what it claims to or is promoted as doing. Its not social. It doesn't give you a voice. It doesn't let you connect to people. Its designed to KEEP you from having any of that, and instead direct you to things the commissars in charge want you to see and connect to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (KZzsI)

133
There was a SP episode where Cartman and Alec Baldwin were using a device that transmitted their thoughts directly to the Internet - the device's name was Shitter.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2021 04:08 PM (9ewTg)

https://youtu.be/rGq22PXWXgU

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

134 I used to believe there were some good people in government who tried to do their jobs in spite of the corruption all around them.

Yeah, I used to be a fucking idiot.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (sWM8x)

135 "White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they [the "experts"] wrote.

And, that "X is a public health issue!" garbage right there is yet another reason for me to #resist being injected. If I were to submit to this, then what *other* medical procedures will I allow the state and affiliated leftist scum to extort me into enduring under the guise of "public health?"

"Transphobia is a lethal public health issue. You will have your genitals chopped off or be fired/locked down/thrown into a concentration camp/murdered. We're all in this together."

Nope. Not one inch.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (DTX3h)

136 For anyone interested Hans Mahncke and Jeff Carlson have been chronicling the involvement of Fauci, Baric, Anderson, Collins, Daszak and a host of others with the CCP Wuhan Institute for well over a year and reporting a lot of it in The Epoch Times. It's pretty amazing what they have uncovered.

It's really beyond debate what they did and the lies they told. It all happened. They've been doing shit like this for years and they are so corrupt and conflicted it made the Great Reset possible.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM (ZLI7S)

----------------

All of this. In a just world, these bastards would be hanging from ropes. Those on the left don't believe or care, but if you shove enough pictures of tortured puppies in front of them.....REEEEEEE! That would be my lefty sister.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (ptqGC)

137 121 The police state apparatus is particularly dangerous now because it knows any illusions have come to an end.
==
Yup. They are in their end game. They have a schedule they are going to keep no matter what. After that program is complete, they think they will never be accountable.

Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:08 PM (FRov5)

They very well may win, but it will be at such an enormous cost it will be Pyrrhic if they do.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (nMx88)

138 Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (yQpMk)

Godspeed on a quick recovery.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:12 PM (SH2Zi)

139 The virus is not RACIST LIKE TRUMP!!! That is why you Nabobs !!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2021 04:12 PM (NM8ko)

140 We had that same screaming headling about the National Guard rescuing IU Medical two weeks ago.

The media is the enemy.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid Cooks what he catches. at December 29, 2021 04:12 PM (n/szn)

141 Socialism/Communism is a pernicious mental virus that has killed more than 100 million and warped into sociopaths probably millions more.

It is a Crime Against Humanity.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:12 PM (DONzN)

142 He's an ally in this war, just like the Russians in WWII.

Right. and whie he's helpful and useful in this fight, I'll stand shoulder to shoulder with him on the battlements. Just remember, he doesn't like you or agree with you on most stuff. He's like the nevertrumpers who were all on board with fighting Islamic terrorism but despised you and held everything else differently than you.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (KZzsI)

143 141 Socialism/Communism is a pernicious mental virus that has killed more than 100 million and warped into sociopaths probably millions more.

It is a Crime Against Humanity.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:12 PM (DONzN)

=========

"Yeah...well, capitalism has killed billions!"
-Lefty

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

144
Riots and confrontational actions are a healthy way to engage in vigorous activity while outdoors.

The COOF virus has a robust "don't take on vigorously exercising individuals" avoidance system that is far more advanced than stealth technology -- so much so that we could learn from it!

Have at it, socially aware leaders of this day!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (IRAJo)

145 PCR can find anything in anybody
==
If you take one when asymptomatic it is a waste of time, money and resources. If you have symptoms and its positive then you got it.

Posted by: simplified but accurate at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (Lapzy)

146 Georgia deploys National Guard to hospitals, testing centers amid COVID surge!

.....

What are they gonna do?

Shoot the virus? Carry busloads of bed pans in? Provide air support for helicopters? Man the cafeteria?

I'm reminded of the ancient Chinese curse: May you live in full-on fucking retarded times.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (5We2S)

147 Nabobs?

How about Naboo then?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (DONzN)

148 Pulling back, if someone wanted to date the moment the United States stopped even twitching, it would be the Summer of Floyd. That was straight up state-sponsored terror, the very same type Lenin and Trotsky unleashed to consolidate their power. When that happened there was no going back to a republic or any semblance of basic human rights.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (nMx88)

149 Shiiiiiiiiiiit...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (XvPQV)

150 I used to believe there were some good people in government who tried to do their jobs in spite of the corruption all around them.

I think that's true, to an extent. But if it comes down to the choice of blowing a whistle or stopping something awful... and keeping their jobs and pensions... they do not choose the higher, principled path.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (KZzsI)

151 76 64-

Really? I thought it was a perfect description.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 29, 2021 04:01 PM

If you Google "Drew Barrymore Show" and look at the images...I think the description is off. It's more like a quirky, Megan Kelly: formerly pretty blondes, rapidly decling looks that they aren't willing to accept, failing primary career paths, so they strike out in a talk-show format to try to stay relevant. Barrymore just has more colorful/whacky outfits. She's not a "1" anymore.

Posted by: Grimmy at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (I0I+D)

152 The Wire was damn good television.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (XvPQV)

153 Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.

It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.

Posted by: D. Eisenhower at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (oHd/0)

154 Vaccine mandate goes effective in Boston on 1/15. Because apparently Covid is on vacation until then.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (f8/Bk)

155 152 The Wire was damn good television.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (XvPQV)

==========

"Man...leftist governance is awful."
-The message

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

156 Garland, Texas
Police on Wednesday released the name and picture of the 14 yr old accused of opening fire Sunday into a convenience store, killing three and injuring a fourth.

The police fucked up by not listing how much $$$ for dead or alive.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (uXonU)

157 Joe Lockhart is asshoe.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (R/m4+)

158 When that happened there was no going back to a republic or any semblance of basic human rights.

Yeah. The republic died when Obama was re-elected, but it still twitched a few times and had a last few rattling breaths until then.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (KZzsI)

159 Over 280,000 cases in one day!! New Record!! When is President Fuck Stain going to resign???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (NM8ko)

160 Vaccine mandate goes effective in Boston on 1/15. Because apparently Covid is on vacation until then.
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (f8/Bk)

Well that is left wing science and ya can't argue with science

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (Irn0L)

161 146 Georgia deploys National Guard to hospitals, testing centers amid COVID surge!
.....
What are they gonna do?

No, you see if you're wearing a Camo uniform then you're magically immune to the Covid and you can do miraculous things that no ordinary person can do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (evAgx)

162 Covid science rules are written in sand, that slip into the sea
Eventually

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (2JoB8)

163 The funny part is they treat everyone as if they're stupid and unable to process basic intellectual facts to make cogent conclusions.
Posted by: Marcus T

To be fair, most people are.
Posted by: Jordan61

Case in point: This from the first line of a Christmas letter from one of my wife's peers when she was working -

"Hallelujah we had the opportunity to be vaccinated last spring and boosted this fall!! We have been healthy and even eat out occasionally!" (emphasis mine)

This woman is has her E.D. and spent her working career looking at data. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (mD/uy)

164 I agree with keeping normal people off the streets and allowing the elite and liberal hypocrites to wander freely. Makes it easier for the snipers.

Posted by: Roy at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (Ti+Tv)

165 Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (Rz7nO)

Yes, the fear campaign worked.

Case in point - I recently visited an elderly woman (nearly 100 years old) who knew me when I started going to her church in the early 90s. She hasn't been to church for over a year because there are people in her church who aren't vaccinated against COVID, even though she's been vaccinated and boosted.

That makes no sense, if you think the vaccines work. But how do you convince someone otherwise, especially when someone's that age?

Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (9ewTg)

166 Apparently a lot of the people lining up locally are vaccinated. Not sure what that says about people's mindset. But the line went close to 100 earlier today. To. Get. Tested.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (VpIIl)

167 Barrymore just has more colorful/whacky outfits. She's not a "1" anymore.

She was always contingent on her bubbly persona and approachability. She was fun and seemed like someone who'd go drink beers and shoot with you or play in a softball game with the guys. Her looks were okay, but quirky and odd.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (KZzsI)

168 Establishment corporate liberals lack the ability to "deal" with the situation with the ruthlessness that is necessary. That is why the AOC progressive wing is taking over the democrat party from the corporate establishment liberals.

Posted by: raimondo at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (pTa20)

169 Yup. They are in their end game. They have a schedule they are going to keep no matter what. After that program is complete, they think they will never be accountable.

Posted by: its not funny because its true at December 29, 2021 04:08 PM (FRov5)

They very well may win, but it will be at such an enormous cost it will be Pyrrhic if they do.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (nMx8

Add in Big Business not only siding with government, but actively working against Freedom? But they are now literally too big to fail.

Posted by: D. Eisenhower at December 29, 2021 04:17 PM (oHd/0)

170 Fauci will write a book after he retires.

It will be called "My Struggle"

About how he had to fight to control the direction the nation was taking during the fight for it's life against the Covid virus.

And his manipulation of the tyrannical egotist that was the President at the time.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 04:17 PM (6R0HD)

171 150 I used to believe there were some good people in government who tried to do their jobs in spite of the corruption all around them.

I think that's true, to an extent. But if it comes down to the choice of blowing a whistle or stopping something awful... and keeping their jobs and pensions... they do not choose the higher, principled path.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (KZzsI)

I put it this way - we're fortunate that most of the people in government are too lazy to steal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2021 04:17 PM (evAgx)

172 We have been healthy and even eat out occasionally!"

This woman has her E.D. and spent her working career looking at data. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (mD/uy)

I think I see the problem.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:17 PM (SH2Zi)

173 When that happened there was no going back to a republic or any semblance of basic human rights.

Yeah. The republic died when Obama was re-elected, but it still twitched a few times and had a last few rattling breaths until then.
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Much like Cleveland, been dead awhile. Some bug activity on the moldering corpse was the twitchin' you saw.

Posted by: hat's off *Taps on bugle * at December 29, 2021 04:17 PM (r3i9F)

174 "Man...leftist governance is awful."
-The message
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:15 PM (LvTSG)

Accidental honesty is the best kind of honesty

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (XvPQV)

175 105
They just cut down 1,000 trees in NYC
to keep it above sea level.

Posted by: Braenyard - e0dough at December 29, 2021 04:06 PM

I hope they took them off of Staton and Long Island...they're getting dangerously overloaded and top heavy.

Posted by: Rep Hank Johnson at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (JCZqz)

176 Tell me one thing a government program solved???

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (NM8ko)

177 yeah, replace white supremmecy with "the jewish threat" and you see who the real baddies are real quick. also, free Chauvin.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (ZZK0E)

178 The biggest problem with the "Wuhan Flu doesn't affect protesters" thing is pointed out by Gleen with that NPR piece: if you're a RIGHT WING protester, then its deadly and you must stop. If you're looting, burning, and raping for the latest thug du jour, then you're immune and it must continue.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (KZzsI)

179 It will be called "My Struggle"

About how he had to fight to control the direction the nation was taking during the fight for it's life against the Covid virus.

And his manipulation of the tyrannical egotist that was the President at the time.
Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 04:17 PM (6R0HD)

Oh oh please have Michelle do the audiobook "My Schtruggle."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (PiwSw)

180 176 Tell me one thing a government program solved???
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (NM8ko)

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Nazism?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

181 Retardo!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (1OMVO)

182 170 Fauci will write a book after he retires.

It will be called "My Struggle"

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hehehe

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (ZZK0E)

183
I used to believe there were some good people in government who tried to do their jobs in spite of the corruption all around them.
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I think that's true, to an extent. But if it comes down to the choice of blowing a whistle or stopping something awful... and keeping their jobs and pensions... they do not choose the higher, principled path.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:14 PM (KZzsI)
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Whether through greed, apathy, or convenience, any organization as corrupt as our government can only operate if the whole organization is rotted through, and totally accepts the corruption.

The good ham-and-egger has always been an obviously stupid myth for grown-up children. He's the Right's Santa Claus. The real ham-and-egger is beating the shit out of his wife after cuck orgies and shaking down women for cash payments.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (hQ23g)

184 The future is everyone living like "Bubble Boy", forever.

Posted by: Who starred in bubble boy, no google! at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (r3i9F)

185 Well I get to take another PCR test tomorrow.

Got aches and a slight headache. My sense of taste is muted and smells must be strong for me to smell them. Throat still a bit scratchy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (DONzN)

186 It will be called "My Struggle"

Sounds better in German.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (Y5qcH)

187 I have very lucid 80+ and 90 year olds that a I deal with locally who have told them to shove the vaccine. When they started the mandates, that made them even more determined not to get it.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (VpIIl)

188 Speaking of Glenn Greewald, I'm a bit surprised Tzar Vlad didn't invade on Christmas. I honestly thought he'd go in, then.

He can't keep troops staged as they are forever.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

189 185 Well I get to take another PCR test tomorrow.

Got aches and a slight headache. My sense of taste is muted and smells must be strong for me to smell them. Throat still a bit scratchy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (DONzN)

wait 12 more weeks.

Posted by: Roy at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (Ti+Tv)

190 This is absolute, baying-at-the-moon lunacy.

Nothing you are saying makes any sense at all.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2021 04:05 PM (EFVbm)

I'm so sorry that the only thing you read are government-approved peer reviews.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (Mzdiz)

191 They very well may win, but it will be at such an enormous cost it will be Pyrrhic if they do.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:11 PM (nMx8

They can't win. If they reduce everyone to serfs, well then they run into the fact that serfs can only feed about 10 percent extra people besides themselves. This means that about 90 percent of the people in the US will die, and the current elites won't be in the useful few who physically defend the serfs from bandits.

In a less extreme form, a huge amount of value is created by companies trying to provide luxuries for the large urban middle class doing jobs. You destroy that class, and suddenly that trade and all that depends on it is gone. Then all those things that were cheap and mass produced aren't, and are gone or very expensive. This bites into even your own luxuries, mister ruler.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (eoQWY)

192 and...lez not forget that white supremecy is:

having a family
going to work on time
going to church

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (ZZK0E)

193 188 Speaking of Glenn Greewald, I'm a bit surprised Tzar Vlad didn't invade on Christmas. I honestly thought he'd go in, then.

He can't keep troops staged as they are forever.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

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This is because Greenwald is a Russian stooge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

194 I think that's true, to an extent. But if it comes down to the choice of blowing a whistle or stopping something awful... and keeping their jobs and pensions... they do not choose the higher, principled path.

This is true of most people at most times - this is one of the reasons the founders were so unique.

And if we want to get back to a stable society we will need to get back to one that rewards good behavior and penalizes bad behavior...we are pretty much at the opposite of that now.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (ESjRY)

195 Tell me one thing a government program solved???/i]

How to get to the moon. How to build an Atomic Bomb. That's really all I can think of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (KZzsI)

196 This busty, bespectacled blonde performed a cost/benefit assessment of covering up her underwear when getting dressed, and decided accordingly:
https://is.gd/4FrFwO

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (DU+/6)

197 195 Tell me one thing a government program solved???/i]

How to get to the moon. How to build an Atomic Bomb. That's really all I can think of.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (KZzsI)

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Government is really good at destroying things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

198 "Got aches and a slight headache. My sense of taste is muted and smells must be strong for me to smell them. Throat still a bit scratchy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (DONzN) "

I still don't have my taste and smell 100%. Especially taste.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (VpIIl)

199 184 The future is everyone living like "Bubble Boy", forever.

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I like the original, a bunch of 45 year old virgins eating taco bell in their PJ's singing I'm an oscar meyer weiner post op bubble boy

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (ZZK0E)

200 He can't keep troops staged as they are forever.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

We have had Ukraine staging their forces in disputed areas since the spring, starting this kerfluffle. Putin doesn't even have to keep his sitting in the mud like they do.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (eoQWY)

201 Government only has two modes: Do Nothing and Overreact.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (yQpMk)

202 This busty, bespectacled blonde performed a cost/benefit assessment of covering up her underwear when getting dressed, and decided accordingly:
https://is.gd/4FrFwO
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (DU+/6)

Squishy and still slightly overdressed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (XvPQV)

203 Oh it's much worse than that. As I pointed out right here in the comments at the time, the CDC itself published a meta-study on mask efficacy against influenza (basically a review/analysis of the selected best randomized controlled trials, dating back to the beginning of such research in the *1940s*!) in *MAY 2020* - in other words just as the mask nonsense was being added to The Great Idiocy.

High-water mark claim was that N95s had some benefit, in a clinical setting - an assertion that itself is viewed skeptically by some.

Bottom line, the actual science, in March 2020 and now, shows no benefit from any of the sort of masks or mask practices that are recommended or actually occur.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (OTzUX)

204 This is because Greenwald is a Russian stooge.

True. But Russia isn't our biggest enemy right now. It is our own government.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (ESjRY)

205 I've never had any taste.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (4I/2K)

206 Did Miley and CBD have sex or something?

Posted by: observer at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (ISrcT)

207 Mr. Dildo, if you go to the CDC website, you will see that what I've said about the Covid-flu "twindemic" is absolutely true.

It will take some work, because they don't make it easy to find. Why would they? The flu that was killing 4000 people a day suddenly disappeared.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (Mzdiz)

208 81 Breaking -
The glorious Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for New Yorkers and Californians *voting rights with held and taxes levied when they move to another state.

Posted by: Braenyard

LOL! I can just here the pearl clutching among the GOPe.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (8Sqzu)

209 Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2021 04:16 PM (9ewTg)

I do not understand people like this, unless her children and grandchildren are telling her she must not go to church and she's doing it to please them and she's picking up on their fear I feel sorry for her She lived through the Depression and WWII. She's 100 years old. How much longer does she expect to live? Even if her church does live streaming, she would miss the face to face fellowship of people she may have known for 70 plus years. 2nd Timothy-God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (k49Sx)

210 196 This busty, bespectacled blonde performed a cost/benefit assessment of covering up her underwear when getting dressed, and decided accordingly:

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it's pretty great that all gals have to do to be special is wear stuff while I have to get a job and pay bills

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (ZZK0E)

211 hear=here

whatever

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 29, 2021 04:23 PM (8Sqzu)

212 185 Well I get to take another PCR test tomorrow.

Got aches and a slight headache. My sense of taste is muted and smells must be strong for me to smell them. Throat still a bit scratchy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM

My whole family's getting tested tomorrow...requirement to fly to Caribbean for vacation. Everything was advertised as "free testing". Reserving spot online, however, you had to enter all your insurance data. Ah, yes...the socialist dream; free at point of service, and unlimited backdoor accounting and charges on the back end.

Posted by: Anon Moron at December 29, 2021 04:23 PM (JCZqz)

213 Did Miley and CBD have sex or something?

Posted by: observer at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (ISrcT)

No, he just has a wicked hardon for me and publius and our information.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 04:23 PM (Mzdiz)

214 >> Tell me one thing a government program solved???/i]

Where can I get a job for my no-good idiot kid/nephew/family friend/donor's kid?!?

Posted by: Your Local Congressmen & Senators at December 29, 2021 04:23 PM (URNdm)

215 my household, such as it is, just got the flu. Beats the shit out of covid. holy fuck.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (ZZK0E)

216 And on that note, I gotta go to frost some belated Christmas cookies.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (Mzdiz)

217 197 195 Tell me one thing a government program solved???/i]

How to get to the moon. How to build an Atomic Bomb. That's really all I can think of.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (KZzsI)

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Government is really good at destroying things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit

Yep, we turned the moon into a used car parking lot.

'Buy here, pay here for low mileage one owner whips.'

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (qZdIZ)

218 214 >> Tell me one thing a government program solved???/i]

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no more wreckers in the Ukraine.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (ZZK0E)

219 They can't win. If they reduce everyone to serfs, well then they run into the fact that serfs can only feed about 10 percent extra people besides themselves. This means that about 90 percent of the people in the US will die, and the current elites won't be in the useful few who physically defend the serfs from bandits. ...
Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (eoQWY)
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They've convinced themselves that high tech factors - particularly automation and AI - make it different this time. The world they are trying to build is one with a hyper-rich and all-powerful elite class to whom most of the production accrues where everything is made with automated equipment that is kept running by the new merchant class of engineers who are comparatively well-paid. Everyone else will hang out in their efficiency apartment pods, rent everything from the elites, hang out in the metaverse to pretend to have lives and be fed and paid a pittance of the surplus that the elites accumulate.

This is batshit insane and can never possibly work and will result in collapse and unspeakable bloodshed, but that's the vision. It will be different this time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

220 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:21 PM (DU+/6)

Yes, it's much more profitable to get hits on Instagram and Vimeo and money from the rubes who think they have a girlfriend..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (k49Sx)

221 The China Flu Scam erased the benefit of the doubt I would give to people who I believed were dumb as a stump.

Now I proactively avoid the stump dumb.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2021 04:25 PM (R/m4+)

222 Fauci wrote and email to Sylvia Burwell, Obama's former head of HHS, in February 2020 and told her that store bought masks were basically useless against a coronavirus.

He's been on every side of every issue depending on the day and the political need.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 03:55 PM

Not to mention he published a research paper on the 1918 influenza pandemic where he determined that there were more deaths due to secondary bacterial pneumonia than the actual 1918 flu. The spread due to the mandatory universal wearing of masks.

https://bit.ly/3m6bgeh

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 29, 2021 04:25 PM (Do5/p)

223 And a massive well-designed RCT in Denmark in 2020 confirmed, for the Nth time, that mask-wearing has no measurable benefit in the reducing transmission or anything else in the general population.

One of the authors, when asked when the thing would finally be published - it had finished peer review, etc - said "when someone is brave enough to publish it".

Savor the "science" in an environment in which that kind of remark could be made.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:25 PM (OTzUX)

224 >>Government only has two modes: Do Nothing and Overreact.

or. . .Break Stuff and Implement Their Special Graft-Inducing Fix

Posted by: Your Local Congressmen & Senators at December 29, 2021 04:25 PM (URNdm)

225 Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (ZZK0E)

Don't take it to heart. The majority of girls are actually working at real jobs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:25 PM (k49Sx)

226 The future is everyone living like "Bubble Boy", forever.
Posted by: Who starred in bubble boy, no google! at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (r3i9F)
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There is no indication that Bubble Boy ate bugs

Posted by: Axeman at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (OaZlZ)

227 @MAE, TJM. Russia announced that exercises were over and they were starting troop redeployment to home stations. Consider the source, but it looks like the invasion isn't going to happen as promised.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (ZtIV1)

228 Who exactly do you blow a whistle to when nobody is listening?

Fauci's involvement with the Wuhan lab has been know since the summer of 2020. Lots of medical professionals were pointing out the truth about the virus and the non-scientific practices government was forcing on us from the beginning and they were ignored or silenced. Trump had Dr Atlas on his team and he was ridiculed as a flat earther for pointing out the truth.

Once this got taken over by the media and the left all common sense was abandoned and nobody was listening to anything but fear porn and anyone who dissented was ignored or destroyed.

We live in a time of mob justice not facts.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (ZLI7S)

229 Tell me one thing a government program solved???

Got our incandescent competition eliminated.

Posted by: LED lightbulbs at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (4I/2K)

230 This is because Greenwald is a Russian stooge.

True. But Russia isn't our biggest enemy right now. It is our own government.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (ESjRY)

Both are true. I was just going a bit off topic because I AM surprised the Ukraine war didn't go hot(ter) last weekend.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (XvPQV)

231 OT: I'm sorry to have missed the Morning Rant this am. Congrats to Zube for getting the Mystery Guests right, Bruce Lee and Wende Wagner of The Green Hornet TV series of the mid-'60s. I've gotten to watch a bunch of those episodes, and they are far superior to the Adam West Batman as crime stories; the scripts play it straight instead of campy. The theme song, revived by Tarantino years later for Kill Bill, is fantastic too. The only thing that spoils GH is having the same narrator as for Batman, producer William Dozier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (c6xtn)

232 This is batshit insane and can never possibly work and will result in collapse and unspeakable bloodshed, but that's the vision. It will be different this time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

Sounds like they thought "Brave New World" was a How-To manual.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (evAgx)

233 Racism is not a health problem, but if we are going to go with that, I say that feminism is a health problem.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (coYBh)

234 Right. and whie he's helpful and useful in this fight, I'll stand shoulder to shoulder with him on the battlements. Just remember, he doesn't like you or agree with you on most stuff. He's like the nevertrumpers who were all on board with fighting Islamic terrorism but despised you and held everything else differently than you.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 29, 2021 04:13 PM (KZzsI)

I knew the NR types weren't on my side in the 70s, much less this last decade. At least Buckley had a thesaurus to beat you to death with, but his successors have been nothings.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (eoQWY)

235 Tell me one thing a government program solved???

Keeping our dishes and clothing from getting clean quickly.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (mD/uy)

236 Russia announced that exercises were over and they were starting troop redeployment to home stations. Consider the source, but it looks like the invasion isn't going to happen as promised.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (ZtIV1)

*fingers crossed*

Good news, if so.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (XvPQV)

237 I saw Squishy and Still Slightly Overdressed open for Wicked Hardon at the Cow Palace in '79.

Posted by: Musicologist at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (QU5/8)

238 Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (Mzdiz)

Ah yes...the classic accusation that I am a government stooge.

What you wrote has no basis in fact and the obvious data all around us make that obvious. Spanish flu was a young person killer. Covid isn't.

You have been refuted with a simple bit of analysis.

Watch your step with this nonsense. You cannot use AoSHQ as a forum for your personal and ascientific lunacy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (EFVbm)

239 186 It will be called "My Struggle"

Sounds better in German.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HITLER WROTE A BOOK CALLED "MY STRUGGLE". IN GERMAN.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (JCZqz)

240 201 Government only has two modes: Do Nothing and Overreact.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (yQpMk)

the only solution that Government can come up with for a failure of Government, is MORE Government.

Posted by: D. Eisenhower at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (oHd/0)

241 COVID doesn't affect ANTIFA, BLM or Elites' parties.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (ynpvh)

242 The glorious Marjorie Taylor Greene is calling for New Yorkers and Californians *voting rights with held and taxes levied when they move to another state.

Posted by: Braenyard

The people who fight her on this will sail right over the point that these states are ~~hemmoroiding~~ hemorrhaging their tax base.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (44ww/)

243 This mess if Trump's fault and be calls on Presdent Obama to do something about this now. Poor Presdent Biden is overwhelmed by the Trump virus and he be needs Presdent Obana to solve this problem.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (otFiP)

244 Considering the number of fires associated with those BLM riots, perhaps the virus couldn't take the heat?

Purified in fire, as it were.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (WmGrA)

245 Gaia would never punish persons like me at a BLM protest!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 29, 2021 04:28 PM (UHVv4)

246 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (k49Sx)

....

Reading a book you might find interesting.

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl Trueman.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (5We2S)

247
This is batshit insane and can never possibly work and will result in collapse and unspeakable bloodshed, but that's the vision. It will be different this time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

The Commune, the Bolsheviks, hell, even Pol Pot and Lil' Kim were nowhere near this degree of madness. I really hope private pilots who are not fragile somehow can escape the screening and start bringing the WEF psychopaths to the ground along with their whores in the corporate and political world. Those pilots will be heroes, as will others who can get close enough to do the same in other ways.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (nMx88)

248 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:22 PM (k49Sx)

You nailed at least part of it - I forgot to mention her children are COVID fanatics too.

Posted by: Thrawn at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (9ewTg)

249
Just announced. Westminster, which was to be held in late January, is postponed to a later date in 2022.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (iOx8N)

250 Responding to Greenwald on Twitter some people pointed out that the protests were safe. They were outdoors and people generally spread out a bit. And we're constantly told that there were no covid outbreaks associated with them.

And this is presented as a refutation of Greenwald? It's proof that he's right. And that proof, that going to a beach or hiking or riding your bike or outdoor church services or having a BBQ with your extended family, that all of it was always SAFE. Always.

Posted by: Synova at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (BD/yx)

251 I saw Squishy and Still Slightly Overdressed open for Wicked Hardon at the Cow Palace in '79.
Posted by: Musicologist at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (QU5/

Damn my lack of a time machine!
I'd watch that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (XvPQV)

252 Norman Reedus might play Ghost Rider in the MCU.

Posted by: rickb223 Pureblood - non-GMO at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (uXonU)

253 This is batshit insane and can never possibly work and will result in collapse and unspeakable bloodshed, but that's the vision. It will be different this time.
==
x4.

I mean basically its always this same shit. You can psychologize it, or say its genetic, but its so utterly lock step consistent and repeating that it seems like it follows a roadmap. Since it has happened throughout history and outlives generations/nations, let alone an individual you need a longitudinal cause. Genetics, evolutionary biology or demonic influence.

Posted by: its not a coincidence so there are only a few other choices at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (3Msql)

254 Got our incandescent competition eliminated.
Posted by: LED lightbulbs at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (4I/2K)
++++
Actually, this was a devastating failure of government interference. They banned most incandescent bulbs in favor of the environmentally ruinous, expensive and generally very poor quality Compact Fluorescent (CFL) bulbs. This was a big boon to the manufacturers of those, with Philips and GE likely being the primary desired beneficiaries of the policy.

But the problem is that CFLs suck and everyone hates them. It is very likely that the "no more incandescent bulbs" regulations put in place here and other places - combined with the fact that the alternative technology was shit - were a major driver in getting cheap LED area lighting off the ground and onto shelves in quantity. It was a policy backfire, not goal. LEDs likely would have made old-type bulbs more or less a speciality product all on their own, but the technology wasn't all that close to ready until there was a sudden unexpected demand to make it so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (DU+/6)

255 You all are forgetting one factor that hasn't been very visible lately.

Automation. I'm afraid that they can remove a large part of the population without affecting their standard of living very much due to automation. It's ready right now and the corporations are only holding back because there are too many people who would protest and riot if their jobs were lost.

Get the picture? We're in the way now. Before we were a means to an end thus justifiable and patience could be expended. Now? There's little need for a large excess to them of the numbers of people and to many of them have become a costly burden. then why the open borders you ask? Well the open borders is for a more compliant source of manual labor and it acts as a threat against those already a burden to keep them either in control or otherwise occupied. They can be sorted out later.
First the elderly and disabled along with the chronically ill need to be removed. Then the removal of the excess health care workers who are really more nannies for the elderly than nurses.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (6R0HD)

256 I can't breathe.

- RONA

Posted by: Marooned at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (w6hJ9)

257 236 Russia announced that exercises were over and they were starting troop redeployment to home stations. Consider the source, but it looks like the invasion isn't going to happen as promised.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (ZtIV1)

*fingers crossed*

Good news, if so.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:27 PM (XvPQV)

Yeah, Russia had 100K Troops in the area.

Ukraine alone, not counting US, or EU, or Allies, has an army of 255,000. This was all just the typical (channels Jan Bradey) Russia Russia Russia spin of the news cycle.

Posted by: D. Eisenhower at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (oHd/0)

258 The argument for the BLM riots was nitvthat it could not spread (well okay they did say that too) but that it was more important to riot than protect from COVID.

Which is an admission that there are trade offs. But in every other facet of life it cannot be traded off. Well except Democrat fundraising.

Posted by: blaster at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (YCpVK)

259 BLDM (Black Lives Don't Matter) in Liberal run cities until election time.

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (NM8ko)

260 Both are true. I was just going a bit off topic because I AM surprised the Ukraine war didn't go hot(ter) last weekend.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (XvPQV)

This isn't the first time Putin has gotten the chickenhawks in DC squawking about war. Remember when he punked Obama and Kerry in Syria? Since our news media is shit, we may never know what the real reasons for these things are or what agreements or concessions are gained from them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (Y5qcH)

261 They've convinced themselves that high tech factors - particularly automation and AI - make it different this time. The world they are trying to build is one with a hyper-rich and all-powerful elite class to whom most of the production accrues where everything is made with automated equipment that is kept running by the new merchant class of engineers who are comparatively well-paid. Everyone else will hang out in their efficiency apartment pods, rent everything from the elites, hang out in the metaverse to pretend to have lives and be fed and paid a pittance of the surplus that the elites accumulate.

This is batshit insane and can never possibly work and will result in collapse and unspeakable bloodshed, but that's the vision. It will be different this time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:24 PM (DU+/6)

The problem with this scenario is simple. The engineer class doesn't need the elite class. And like the Mamelukes who overthrew the leader class in Egypt, in the end they will be the leaders. This has happened many times in history.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (eoQWY)

262 Go for a full face respirator and it might cut down on your peripheral vision.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2021

***
I think the regular paper face diapers ruin people's vision too. I can't tell you how many times I've almost been run over by a cart in the grocery store piloted by some Covidian with her face draped in a muzzle.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (c6xtn)

263 Since we're past 200 comments...

...everything that's old is new again.

China to send troops and equipment to the Solomon Islands.

https://youtu.be/UrUmohcuDwU

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (W+kMI)

264
We live in a time of mob justice not facts.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (ZLI7S)

The "mob justice" is state-sanctioned terror. The United States lost all legitimacy when it engaged in this evil during the summer of 2020. Even mass purgings and killings of those involved, which would be fully justified, cannot erase that permanent stain. I hope it happens, mind you, but it will be bandage on a gaping wound.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:32 PM (nMx88)

265 250 Responding to Greenwald on Twitter some people pointed out that the protests were safe. They were outdoors and people generally spread out a bit. And we're constantly told that there were no covid outbreaks associated with them.

And this is presented as a refutation of Greenwald? It's proof that he's right. And that proof, that going to a beach or hiking or riding your bike or outdoor church services or having a BBQ with your extended family, that all of it was always SAFE. Always.
Posted by: Synova

The Branch Covidians were orgasming over the COVID OUTBREAK EVENT after one of the Sturgis Biker Rallys. It was a lie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 29, 2021 04:32 PM (8Sqzu)

266 You cannot use AoSHQ as a forum for your personal and ascientific lunacy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
==
* Chin on hands*

Tell us more, is that something only you can do?

Posted by: what's with this watch your step bullshit? at December 29, 2021 04:32 PM (r3i9F)

267
China to send troops and equipment to the Solomon Islands.

_________

Third Savo!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 04:32 PM (iOx8N)

268 Yeah, Russia had 100K Troops in the area.

Ukraine alone, not counting US, or EU, or Allies, has an army of 255,000. This was all just the typical (channels Jan Bradey) Russia Russia Russia spin of the news cycle.
Posted by: D. Eisenhower at December 29, 2021 04:30 PM (oHd/0)

Not all numbers are equal...not a math reference, honest...IF the Russians went in, their air power and armor numbers would have been nasty. Not to mention how many fronts the Ukranians would be fighing on.

But if Tzar Vlad got what he wanted without killing more people...good?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (XvPQV)

269 Someone here said Buckley went volcanic on Gore Vidal because he was jealous of his writing ability.

"And you'll stay plastered." Though in truth the only correct response to unearned contempt, is contempt and opprobrium in return. The first republican to figure that out would be Trump, 50 years later.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (44ww/)

270 https://is.gd/yYVJFw

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

271 265 The Branch Covidians were orgasming over the COVID OUTBREAK EVENT after one of the Sturgis Biker Rallys. It was a lie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 29, 2021 04:32 PM (8Sqzu)

=========

I was waiting with bated breath the news of the mass deaths from that outbreak event.

I guess I missed the story.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

272 The theme song, revived by Tarantino years later for Kill Bill, is fantastic too.
---
Al Hirt wasn't just a corny pop guy, he actually was a very good, classically-trained musician. Cleveland Conservatory of Music.

http://bitly.ws/myFI

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (sWM8x)

273 After my civid I can still only taste Wild Turkey and smell bananas. My husband was going through the kitchen trying to find something that I could taste. The bourbon was the only thing. I can smell the banana but can't taste it at all. Over 2 months now.

Posted by: Megthered at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (sfWd9)

274 The problem with this scenario is simple. The engineer class doesn't need the elite class. And like the Mamelukes who overthrew the leader class in Egypt, in the end they will be the leaders. This has happened many times in history.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (eoQWY)
++++
Essentially, the march count problem. Possible. But I don't think it gets that far. Their brave new world will erupt in flames and violence before it stabilizes enough to realize that potential outcome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (DU+/6)

275 The Great Sin by C.S. Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PvcynQD-ag

Posted by: SMH at the wonder of His mercy at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (JjzI1)

276 Russia announced that exercises were over and they were starting troop redeployment to home stations. Consider the source, but it looks like the invasion isn't going to happen as promised.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 29, 2021 04:26 PM (ZtIV1)

*fingers crossed*

Good news, if so.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect

Joe told Vlad the Corn Pop story.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (FVME7)

277 I think the regular paper face diapers ruin people's vision too. I can't tell you how many times I've almost been run over by a cart in the grocery store piloted by some Covidian with her face draped in a muzzle.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (c6xtn)

I know it's psychological but I don't look at people when I can't see faces. Even when I'm talking to them I'll look at their elbow or something. It's like I've got a spectrum disorder that I never really thought about before and suddenly I have to force myself to meet people's eyes.

This is also why babies are dumber this year.

Posted by: Synova at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (BD/yx)

278 Uh, Miley? This:"most everyone who died with Covid also had the flu. " is simply unadulterated shit. Stop it.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (mZOHK)

279 And we're constantly told that there were no covid outbreaks associated with them.

And this is presented as a refutation of Greenwald? It's proof that he's right. And that proof, that going to a beach or hiking or riding your bike or outdoor church services or having a BBQ with your extended family, that all of it was always SAFE. Always.
Posted by: Synova at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (BD/yx)
---
Sure. That's why they took a bunch of case numbers from early June and dumped them into late July.

Posted by: Axeman at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (OaZlZ)

280 Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (W+kMI)

Saw an article they are reinforcing the Himalayas with robotic gun platforms, because their line troops are not doing well with the altitude.

India vs China could get very scary.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (oHd/0)

281 Incompetent, not experts but ALWAYS assholes.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (KATBx)

282 People really thought there'd be festivities in Ukraine? What - anything beyond Lugansk/Donbass? Hmmm.

Well I don't care what happens in eastern Ukraine, there being no reason to do so.

Putin struck a put-upon, tough, kinda sorta truculent pose at his annual press conference last week. Haven't been able to find the entire thing to watch in one piece, but key snippets, and an interesting discussion of the furrin policy stuff on a Russian TV show that's kind of like Washington Week in Review, but a bit less retarded than that became in its older days.

Much discussion of some draft mutual security assurance thing the Russki foreign affairs ministry has advanced, interesting to see how ingrained the Russian paranoia is, especially comical WRT "NATO", whatever that's supposed to still be.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (OTzUX)

283 The Commune, the Bolsheviks, hell, even Pol Pot and Lil' Kim were nowhere near this degree of madness. I really hope private pilots who are not fragile somehow can escape the screening and start bringing the WEF psychopaths to the ground along with their whores in the corporate and political world. Those pilots will be heroes, as will others who can get close enough to do the same in other ways.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:29 PM (nMx8

Pol Pot was pretty close when he frogmarched the population of the cities out to the countryside to become pure-lifesytle farmers. The lucky ones died on the march, the unlucky ones starved in the fields.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (eoQWY)

284 PUSSY WAGON SHIT MY PANTS!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (1OMVO)

285 >>>The Branch Covidians were orgasming over the COVID OUTBREAK EVENT after one of the Sturgis Biker Rallys. It was a lie.

>Did somebody mention superspreader?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (r0ADi)

286
Al Hirt wasn't just a corny pop guy, he actually was a very good, classically-trained musician. Cleveland Conservatory of Music.

________

Mitch Miller was the soloist in the premiere of the Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (iOx8N)

287 This isn't the first time Putin has gotten the chickenhawks in DC squawking about war. Remember when he punked Obama and Kerry in Syria? Since our news media is shit, we may never know what the real reasons for these things are or what agreements or concessions are gained from them.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (Y5qcH)

This is also true.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (XvPQV)

288 So.. thoughts on if Biteme will actually mandate vaccine proof to travel domestically. This is a huge burden for me if he goes through with it. I will have to drive to Albuquerque next year and that's a very long drive even with my youngest helping. I personally think it's a trial balloon and he won't go through with it. I'm sure every CEO of every airline is burning up the phone right now.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 29, 2021 04:36 PM (nxdel)

289 FFS
Everyone calm the fuck down.

Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:36 PM (W2Pud)

290 Criminal Lives Don't Matter

AoS is a reverse asylum, it keeps the crazies out.
Also, the people inside are a different kind of crazy.
Also, the kitchen is on fire.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2021 04:36 PM (44ww/)

291 The Economist
@TheEconomist
The pandemic is like a doorway. Once you pass through, there is no going back

-
Mental note: Don't go over to the Economist's house.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (FVME7)

292 Everyone calm the fuck down.

Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:36 PM (W2Pud)

Mmmmmm.......hair Pie.......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (Zz0t1)

293 Our nation has stopped using God-given common sense and allowed itself to be bullied by so-called "experts". Makes me never want to see that word again.

Posted by: Mookie at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (u+Y3T)

294 Over 2 months now.

Posted by: Megthered at December 29, 2021 04:33 PM (sfWd9)

I remember it took my husband's taste/smell quite a while to come back, and it was gradual.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (Ez6QX)

295 Much discussion of some draft mutual security assurance thing the Russki foreign affairs ministry has advanced, interesting to see how ingrained the Russian paranoia is, especially comical WRT "NATO", whatever that's supposed to still be.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (OTzUX)

Is it really paranoia when the westerners replace the Ukranian puppet government with a pro-western one?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (z5Vrg)

296 Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (eoQWY)

In case you haven't noticed, it's the technicians and engineers who are the elite class NOW. There's some older money hanging around on the edges but all the new money and power and monopoly is new money.

A couple of them are even preparing to leave this planet for either a trojan point orbital and/or the terraforming of Mars. Where the entrance requirements of immigrate will be very high and will not be lessened for any reason. The UN can go take a flying leap at a rolling donut.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (6R0HD)

297 @TheEconomist
The pandemic is like a doorway. Once you pass through, there is no going back
-
Mental note: Don't go over to the Economist's house.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (FVME7)
++++
Yeah, anyone who can fuck up an analogy that badly isn't someone you want to hang out with.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (DU+/6)

298 Oh Miley, you have been slapped by the "watch your step" . Are you shaking?

Posted by: Megthered at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (sfWd9)

299 The reaction of the "experts" when you propose a science-based alternative to their prescribed mandates reminds me of Sal Tessio's response when he's told that Michael Corleone is taking a separate car to the meeting with Don Barzini: "Hell, he can't do that! It screws up all my arrangements!" -- the "arrangements" being the ambush and assassination of Michael.

Posted by: Michael Bates at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (BkOTh)

300 Best comment on experts came from my dad:

I went to school with these so called experts and many of them cheated their way to a degree while strung out on something.

Posted by: thekatzemeow at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (kbzch)

301 280 Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (W+kMI)

Saw an article they are reinforcing the Himalayas with robotic gun platforms, because their line troops are not doing well with the altitude.

India vs China could get very scary.
Posted by: Romeo13

Good thing Himalayan weather is perfect for electronics.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 29, 2021 04:38 PM (8Sqzu)

302 I don't like it when Mom and Dad fight.

*reaches for vodka and Dr. Pepper*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at December 29, 2021 04:38 PM (x8Wzq)

303 "Public health" is to health as "social justice" is to justice.
[mic drop]

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2021 04:38 PM (OzNIz)

304 Are the Chineee building a seaplane base on Gavutu-Tanambogo or Tulagi?

Then things get real.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:38 PM (OTzUX)

305 Here he was lying about masks not being effective

That wasn't a lie. Masks provide no significant medical benefit in the spread of the coronavirus.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 29, 2021 04:38 PM (+LCoQ)

306 Joe told Vlad the Corn Pop story.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2022 at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (FVME7)

LOL

Hey, remember when Joe went face to face with Vlad back when he was VP? What was it he said to him, something about knowing he was evil? I can't recall the exact quote.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (XvPQV)

307 "Public health" is to health as "social justice" is to justice.
[mic drop]

[feedback]

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (ZSK0i)

308 And notice how "systemic racism", which cannot be defined, is a health crisis. Since it cannot be defined, the "crisis" will perpetuate forever, much like the war on terror that can never end because terror is a tactic, not a sovereign enemy.

Posted by: Mookie at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (u+Y3T)

309 289 FFS
Everyone calm the fuck down.

Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched

You, madam, are a breath of fresh air on this thread.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (9hXN1)

310 The theme song, revived by Tarantino years later for Kill Bill, is fantastic too.
---
Al Hirt wasn't just a corny pop guy, he actually was a very good, classically-trained musician. Cleveland Conservatory of Music.

http://bitly.ws/myFI
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021

***
I know! I was looking for the tune, the album The Horn Meets the Hornet, or anything like it in the spring of '97. Nobody had ever heard of it. QT uses it, and suddenly the song is everywhere.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (c6xtn)

311 280 Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (W+kMI)

Saw an article they are reinforcing the Himalayas with robotic gun platforms, because their line troops are not doing well with the altitude.

India vs China could get very scary.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (oHd/0)

For every innovation, there's a price. The price of robotic gun platforms is that, once their location is identified they can be taken out with standoff weapons, with no fear of casualties by the aggressor. It's just equipment. Nations hesitate to cause bloodshed during a border skirmish, but no need to hesitate for these.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (evAgx)

312 Just got an email saying Covid is ravaging the department again, so we all have to mask up, which as many have said here, is useless.

It's almost like people get sick in the winter.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (XSRBF)

313 [Puts on "Thug Life" glasses]

Posted by: Zek at December 29, 2021 04:40 PM (OzNIz)

314
Hey, remember when Joe went face to face with Vlad back when he was VP? What was it he said to him, something about knowing he was evil? I can't recall the exact quote.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (XvPQV)

To paraphrase, "the Big Guy gets ten percent."

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:40 PM (nMx88)

315 You can't argue with the Bloodletters. They know what is and isn't settled science.

Posted by: jwest at December 29, 2021 04:40 PM (/BlEx)

316 Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched

You know, a milkshake with a piece of apple or blueberry pie just blended in until it's chunky is terrific.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (mD/uy)

317 This:"most everyone who died with Covid also had the flu. " is simply unadulterated shit.
==
To be fair, which you are possibly not aware you are not being.

They basically stopped testing for flu. Nationally. That does not mean there was no flu. Early on, first week of march. Flu tests came back both A and B. It should only be one or the other. In retrospect, seems that that the vid was popping both flu tests. Its shouldn't have. So, its something of a semantic argument either way.

Posted by: your expertise varies at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (FRov5)

318
Just got an email saying Covid is ravaging the department again, so we all have to mask up, which as many have said here, is useless.

__________

Ravishing >>> Ravaging

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (iOx8N)

319 267 China to send troops and equipment to the Solomon Islands.
---
Interesting. The US and Japan just announced this week that they'd be stationing troops on the Seiki islands. The announcement didn't say where or how many.

This may be Xi's response.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (sWM8x)

320
Essentially, the march count problem.

-------

Low in rank, but frequently supremely powerful. Good analogy.

But, not quite apt... they were still hereditary nobility, though often a mortal threat to the rest of them.

I think court eunuchs in Peking or Istanbul, or boyars in Russia are a bit closer.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (hQ23g)

321 Presdent Biden's pictures of his new puppy really cheered everyone up in Brattleboro today....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (otFiP)

322 It's almost like people get sick in the winter.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (XSRBF)

ding, ding, ding!

I made the same comment at my company when this started, back in 2019...I asked if we were going to shut down for every cold and flu season.

Turns out....yeah, we were. And did. Ah well...I'm lucky to be able to work from home.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (XvPQV)

323 The problem with this scenario is simple. The engineer class doesn't need the elite class. And like the Mamelukes who overthrew the leader class in Egypt, in the end they will be the leaders. This has happened many times in history.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:31 PM (eoQWY)
++++
Essentially, the march count problem. Possible. But I don't think it gets that far. Their brave new world will erupt in flames and violence before it stabilizes enough to realize that potential outcome.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:34 PM (DU+/6)

Sure, the cracks will show soon with such idiots trying to achieve grand things with no sense - witness the disaster in Afghanistan and the to and fro lockdown stupidity. But these are idiots playing with a complex system they have no comprehension of and I grew up reading SF stories about what can happen then.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (eoQWY)

324 Is there a spider in your bra, or are you glad to see me ?
Posted by: JT at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (arJlL)

Nice try, JT. I'm not taking off my shirt!

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (Ez6QX)

325 My gf liked banana oil during 'playtime'. Wild Turkey may have been involved.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid Cooks what he catches. at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (n/szn)

326 Red Turban, yes, it's absolutely laughable paranoia. Who cares which incompetent and/or corrupt leader runs Ukraine this week?

You have to see what they're talking about. The draft mutual security assurance thing reads like a deformed SALT or INF treaty, lots of talk about short- and medium-range missile systems and their basing. As if "the west"* or the US are still poised for, interested in, or preparing for some kind of WWIII with the Russian Federation. Which is idiotic and takes no note of reality going on 3 decades.

* a term long since rather outdated

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (OTzUX)

327 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (evAgx)

they are actually small tracked vehicles... remote control with some automated functions. Kinda cool technology.

Don't seem the really working well in bad terrain, but could be force multipliers for base security and such.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (oHd/0)

328 I went to school with these so called experts and many of them cheated their way to a degree while strung out on something.

your dad and I had the same experience in college (and grad school)

can confirm

wyatt there's a hella flu going around right now. everyone is testing negative for coof and positive for influenza so apparently THAT is actually working fine test-wise. but a lot of people hit hard by the flu right now

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (j9HX3)

329 He's been on every side of every issue depending on the day and the political need.
Posted by: JackStraw

As I've said countless times before:

The left and the far left always take both sides of an argument, even simultaneously, and trots them out depending on the political usefulness. This is why talking points like "leftists used to be against big corporations" are completely useless.

They play off of each other, and especially use them to barrage normal people. It suffocates the political discourse and leaves normal people with no options to speak out, because leftists are constantly massaging the message so that any action leads to their pre-ordained conclusion.

When the narrative shifts against their dominance, the "reasonable" side of the left gets the front page, right until the Overton Window shifts again, where the crazies immediately burst onto the scene. It's not flip-flopping, just constantly ensuring that eyeballs are on them, and not anyone who actually opposes them.

Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (BCSAN)

330 I find it very hard to take Science� advice from people who take to the streets to protest America waterboarding terrorists for information but insist on people wearing a face mask when they go surfing.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (W3VUu)

331 I whinge about this on the newest podcast GO LISTEN NOW AHEM. And by this, I mean how I can no longer care about COVID because it is impossible to get actual information.

The wave is Omicron, Robot In Disguise! Okay, how do we know this, are the samples being genotyped or is this based on types of symptoms? *entire press corp giant shrug*

Okay, now a positive test may persist for 12 weeks? How long have we known this? Who knows! Not anyone reporting on it!

Do the vaccines actually work for more than six months? What a funny thing to worry about!

*throws things*

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (GbPPJ)

332 To paraphrase, "the Big Guy gets ten percent."
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:40 PM (nMx8

lol

You might be literally correct, considering the bribery shenanigans in that part of the world.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (XvPQV)

333 @rhomboid, is this the part where Amelia Earhart gets lost?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (ZtIV1)

334 Who owns the Solomon Islands?

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (2JoB8)

335 The Branch Covidians were orgasming over the COVID OUTBREAK EVENT after one of the Sturgis Biker Rallys. It was a lie.
Posted by: Puddleglum

I was waiting with bated breath the news of the mass deaths from that outbreak event.

I guess I missed the story.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

The 2500 of us at the superspreader event I attended two months ago, with lots of hugs and handshakes and damn few masks, well, we all died.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (mD/uy)

336 FFS
Everyone calm the fuck down.
Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Like this: https://youtu.be/MEBK3ZUn0c4

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (4I/2K)

337 332 To paraphrase, "the Big Guy gets ten percent."
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 29, 2021 04:40 PM (nMx8

lol

You might be literally correct, considering the bribery shenanigans in that part of the world.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Theory: The Big Guy is Biden's ironic name for his dick. Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

338 321 Presdent Biden's pictures of his new puppy really cheered everyone up in Brattleboro today....
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (otFiP)

Biden got a new Puppy? And I didn't get invited to Lunch?

Posted by: B. Obama. at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (oHd/0)

339 it just occurred to be last week: why is it necessary for us to be regularly reminded that Fauci is "the country's leading authority on infectious diseases"? Because he keeps changing his mind about one thing after another but because he is THE expert, we need to keep doing what he says we must do. Phooey on him.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (Ynyl9)

340 Please let this madness be over.

Posted by: m at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (vF+oW)

341 I made the same comment at my company when this started, back in 2019...I asked if we were going to shut down for every cold and flu season.

Turns out....yeah, we were.

mark I'm worried that this is exactly what is going to happen for the next decade or so at the behest of the Silent/Boomer gen - no malign reason just because there are a lot of them and they have "pull" due to numbers - and will demand it.

Posted by: Black Orchid at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (j9HX3)

342 Posted by: nurse ratched

I feel pretty calm, actually, and for lunch I had a piece of delicious apple pie and some Kahlua in a cup of coffee topped with some whipped cream! I enjoyed it. Happy News Years and Epiphany to you, Nurse!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (k49Sx)

343 Here's the best part of this dumb shit -

It is now a full 18 months since George Floyd died. For all the dire need for protesting systemic racism, can anyone name a single thing actually done that can be shown to have had the slightest effect on reducting "sYsTeMiC rAciSm"

You can't, because they've done NOTHING.

Posted by: deadrody at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (SnywI)

344 >>>And what's more -- Shiiiiit, 90% of the time they fail the first factor, too. 90% of the time they're incompetent and not even actually experts, either.

Tom whatshisname hardest hit.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (SH2Zi)

345
Who owns the Solomon Islands?

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (2JoB8 )

________

Israel

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (iOx8N)

346 Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Yes to the first no to the second.

A nice San Cristobal Revelation will do just fine.

(lights cigar)

Thanks Nurse R!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (R/m4+)

347 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Center today announced all New Years Day events are CNX and will be replaced by a Gay Pride Day Parade for Valentines Day. We are doing something to end the Trump crisis. What has yoor city done to stop this crisis ???

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (otFiP)

348 >>>I made the same comment at my company when this started, back in 2019...I asked if we were going to shut down for every cold and flu season.

Turns out....yeah, we were. And did. Ah well...I'm lucky to be able to work from home.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

We all have to go to work, but unlike leftist doctors, we don't get credit for working during Covid. Actually, no other professions get that adulation. Not even a TikTok dance.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (XSRBF)

349 mark I'm worried that this is exactly what is going to happen for the next decade or so at the behest of the Silent/Boomer gen - no malign reason just because there are a lot of them and they have "pull" due to numbers - and will demand it.
Posted by: Black Orchid at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (j9HX3)

:sad fist bump:
I hear ya. I worry about that, too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (XvPQV)

350 Cocktails and pie. Have always preferred coffee and pie. Maybe spike the coffee?

Anyway lately no cocktails, much prefer just sipping straight bourbon or (more) rum. Edging into cognac/brandy for variety. Don't like the hassle, volume, maybe even calories of cocktails. But I'm talking alone, without food, in a "sipping", not social, setting.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (OTzUX)

351 TJM's Rule of Politics:

If you want government involved, you want it to be political.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 03:51 PM (LvTSG)
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By definition.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (q4ZRu)

352 326 Red Turban, yes, it's absolutely laughable paranoia. Who cares which incompetent and/or corrupt leader runs Ukraine this week?

You have to see what they're talking about. The draft mutual security assurance thing reads like a deformed SALT or INF treaty, lots of talk about short- and medium-range missile systems and their basing. As if "the west"* or the US are still poised for, interested in, or preparing for some kind of WWIII with the Russian Federation. Which is idiotic and takes no note of reality going on 3 decades.

* a term long since rather outdated
Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (OTzUX)

Well from Russia and much of Eastern Europe's perspective they're just waiting for the US to collapse before they can get back to Europe's continual wars. Ukraine had one of Russia's few warm water ports and acts as a buffer state, of course they care.

Harder to say what the Germans think, other than their scheme to integrate most of the rest of Europe.

Will Europe go back to pre-US intervention conflict some day? Probably.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (z5Vrg)

353 Nice try, JT. I'm not taking off my shirt!
Posted by: Jordan61

Shoot!

*kicks dirt*

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (mD/uy)

354 =========

Theory: The Big Guy is Biden's ironic name for his dick. Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

It is the only part with any semblance of a brain remaining, I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

355 274 The problem with this scenario is simple. The engineer class doesn't need the elite class. And like the Mamelukes who overthrew the leader class in Egypt, in the end they will be the leaders. This has happened many times in history.
Posted by: Oldcat

At the end of the day, even the engineers, let alone philosopher kings, are incompetent to rule because most of them simply do not understand other humans well enough to manipulate them.

If a society keeps devolving, you get people willing to kill others in mass quantities that will rule. Sociopaths with some psychopaths among them. The engineers and philosopher kings will work for them.

Theodore Veblen imagined such a society run by engineers in Engineers and the Price System. Read it if you want. Heinlein poked some fun at it in the short story, The Roads Must Roll but apparently was a true believer in it at some point previously.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (9hXN1)

356 We all have to go to work, but unlike leftist doctors, we don't get credit for working during Covid. Actually, no other professions get that adulation. Not even a TikTok dance.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (XSRBF)

You need a better Union

You headed back into the office next week?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (XvPQV)

357 Best comment on experts came from my dad:

I went to school with these so called experts and many of them cheated their way to a degree while strung out on something.
Posted by: thekatzemeow at December 29, 2021 04:37 PM (kbzch)

There's also the Peter Principle at work here. Pick a field like chemistry. Bob is a chemistry expert. He's on the board at his university, he goes to conferences around the world, he's on television 3 times a week, and he is on calls with government officials daily, many times.

What is one thing he ISNT doing anymore? Chemistry.

Thus experts tend to be the ones that would rather be in meetings and hobnob rather than do what they are experts at.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (eoQWY)

358 Please let this madness be over.
==
Well, there's a line in the Bible where it is mentioned that the time was shortened because if it were not, even the elect would not be able to withstand it.

Posted by: cheerful thought of the day at December 29, 2021 04:47 PM (C8nXP)

359 Remember, Trump kept Fauci on.

As much as I hate Biden, I can't get past Trump not flushing this turd down when he had the chance.
------------

Realistically, he couldn't. It would have been political suicide.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2021 04:47 PM (q4ZRu)

360 >>>The Branch Covidians were orgasming over the COVID OUTBREAK EVENT after one of the Sturgis Biker Rallys. It was a lie.

>Did somebody mention superspreader?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 29, 2021 04:35 PM (r0ADi)

This, too, is the story of obama.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:47 PM (SH2Zi)

361 And when they get caught embezzling, they just keep saying, "But we're experts! We're really, really good at corruptly inducing you to sign over your property to us!"

--------------------

Sign over your property? How quaint? The EU grandees are working on a law that will allow them to take all of your property by just declaring an emergency.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at December 29, 2021 04:47 PM (u54I1)

362 Like this: https://youtu.be/MEBK3ZUn0c4
Posted by: Count de Monet

Omg. I love that movie!

*ducks*
Hi alexthechick!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:47 PM (W2Pud)

363 Nice try, JT. I'm not taking off my shirt!
Posted by: Jordan61

Party pooper......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

364 No basement janitor is going to cut 6' off his tow chain and give it to Joe so he can whip Corn Pop dude with it.

So maybe Joe wanted to put Corn Pop in chains?
Maybe Corn Pop is still in his basement?

Posted by: torabora at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (0XdS+)

365 Harder to say what the Germans think, other than their scheme to integrate most of the rest of Europe.
===
Cooler. Three weeks!

Posted by: Da Chermans at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (iYIzc)

366 'The Roads Must Roll' is a fun short story. Batshit crazy engineering idea, but fun. Back when RAH used to write sci fi instead of porn fanfics of his own characters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (XvPQV)

367 You can't, because they've done NOTHING.

They've done nothing because there is nothing to do. We are not a rayciss society. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing....

Posted by: Mookie at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (u+Y3T)

368 56 We all have to go to work, but unlike leftist doctors, we don't get credit for working during Covid. Actually, no other professions get that adulation. Not even a TikTok dance.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (XSRBF)

If it makes you feel any better, I'll dance for you!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (W2Pud)

369 368 56 We all have to go to work, but unlike leftist doctors, we don't get credit for working during Covid. Actually, no other professions get that adulation. Not even a TikTok dance.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (XSRBF)

If it makes you feel any better, I'll dance for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (W2Pud)

=========

"That's hot."
-Sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

370 >>>You need a better Union

You headed back into the office next week?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

January 3rd. I'm almost hoping I get it again because I want my immunity back.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (XSRBF)

371 Hairyback - San Cristobal Revelation was one of my already-sampled items. Liked it. Seem to be moving more towards milder maduros as my exploratory sampling project moves along. Perla del Mar maduro (box pressed) one of the best (for me) so far.

Gonna burn on in an hour or so while chatting with my buddy in TX - may finally go with the La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor I've had for a while.

Among the things I'm looking for are sticks that go with rum, probably Spanish-style, DR or similar.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (OTzUX)

372

Omg. I love that movie!

*ducks*
Hi alexthechick!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:47 PM (W2Pud)

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ATC IS SHORT SO NURSE WOULD HAVE TO DUCK TO WAVE TO HER.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

373 And by this, I mean how I can no longer care about COVID because it is impossible to get actual information.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (GbPPJ)

Feature, not a bug.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (SH2Zi)

374 >>>If it makes you feel any better, I'll dance for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched

YES PLEASE!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (XSRBF)

375 What is one thing he ISNT doing anymore? Chemistry.

Thus experts tend to be the ones that would rather be in meetings and hobnob rather than do what they are experts at.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (eoQWY)
---------------
Britain recognizes scientists by conferring on them the title of "Fellow of the Royal Society." (This is automatic for anyone selected to be head of department.)

The joke in the UK is that "FRS" (the letters they can place after their names, the sort of thing that Brits love to do) stands for "Further Research Stops."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (q4ZRu)

376 *throws things*
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (GbPPJ)

Ace addressed this in a post earlier - everything - every rule, every protocol, every bit of information released to the public about Covid by the CDC or the NIH is only for the political benefit of the Punchy admin.

Nothing bad, nothing important to help you and your family, nothing encouraging, nothing you can use....in short, nothing real. They are all quickly becoming detested and only followed religiously by 12% of the population - Karenford Wives, if you will - and its all crumbling now under the weight of incoherence and petulant pouting over poll numbers.

Posted by: Boswell at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (5iUNf)

377 Theodore Veblen imagined such a society run by engineers in Engineers and the Price System.
Posted by: whig

"Thorsten" not Theodore.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (KAi1n)

378 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ATC IS SHORT SO NURSE WOULD HAVE TO DUCK TO WAVE TO HER.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

Low blow, Ben.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder at December 29, 2021 04:50 PM (SH2Zi)

379 280 - Romeo13

Yeah...the ChiComs plan to recruit Tibetans as PLA auxiliary's didn't pan out so well.

And, as for the Solomon Islands, I'm betting that the USMC still have their old maps somewhere.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 29, 2021 04:50 PM (W+kMI)

380 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ATC IS SHORT SO NURSE WOULD HAVE TO DUCK TO WAVE TO HER.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
*snort*

Hilarious. Also, I'd run away if I were you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:50 PM (DU+/6)

381 Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:45 PM (XSRBF)

If it makes you feel any better, I'll dance for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (W2Pud)

*hands Nurse goatskin pants*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:50 PM (XvPQV)

382 I feel pretty calm, actually, and for lunch I had a piece of delicious apple pie and some Kahlua in a cup of coffee topped with some whipped cream! I enjoyed it. Happy News Years and Epiphany to you, Nurse!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December

You too, Fen!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (W2Pud)

383 Well from Russia and much of Eastern Europe's perspective they're just waiting for the US to collapse before they can get back to Europe's continual wars. Ukraine had one of Russia's few warm water ports and acts as a buffer state, of course they care.

Harder to say what the Germans think, other than their scheme to integrate most of the rest of Europe.

Will Europe go back to pre-US intervention conflict some day? Probably.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 29, 2021 04:46 PM (z5Vrg)

They already have that port in the Crimea, Sevestapol. At this point the status quo is fine for them, and they were looking forward to selling lots of gas to the Germans or anyone else.

The problem is the Neocons, EU and various Eu state leaders keep thinking they can build an empire in East Europe. Ask Charles XII of Sweden how that turned out, and he actually had an army.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

384 334 Who owns the Solomon Islands?
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They're an independent country now. They were a British protectorate until the 1970's, I believe.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (sWM8x)

385
"Thorsten" not Theodore.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (KAi1n)

Thorstein.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (hQ23g)

386 What will the COVID Karens do about their fashion accessories (cloth masks) noow that you don't need to wear them?

I foresee much gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes.

Posted by: Archer at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (gmo/4)

387
If it makes you feel any better, I'll dance for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 04:48 PM (W2Pud)

=========

"That's hot."
-Sponge
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

I resemble that remark.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

388 384 334 Who owns the Solomon Islands?
---
They're an independent country now. They were a British protectorate until the 1970's, I believe.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (sWM8x)

==========

Ah...but who runs Solomon Islands?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (LvTSG)

389 343 First you need to find systematic racism to do anything about it.

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (2JoB8)

390 If it makes you feel any better, I'll dance for you!
Posted by: nurse ratched
----
She is a real nurse so there is that.

Posted by: lin-duh at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (UUBmN)

391 Theodore Veblen imagined such a society run by engineers in Engineers and the Price System.
Posted by: whig
---------------------
Edward Bellamy, in his late 19th century book entitled "Looking Back," envisioned a socialist future in 2000 where everything was run by experts and was perfect.

Sorry, Ed, you missed the boat. Badly.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (q4ZRu)

392 366 'The Roads Must Roll' is a fun short story. Batshit crazy engineering idea, but fun. Back when RAH used to write sci fi instead of porn fanfics of his own characters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Later Heinlein is disposable especially after the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (9hXN1)

393 "Realistically, he couldn't. It would have been political suicide."

Impossible to say for sure, but that certainly is/was a reasonable take. But not sure Trump, or other top WH people, actually had enough substantive grasp, early on, to even question the trainwreck quacks (and their cohorts around the globe, who with a few exceptions were a unanimous chorus of stupid policy recommendations unsupported by any history or science).

But as in most cases, I focus on what that political quandary noted above says about the electorate, and the society in general. Very grim.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (OTzUX)

394
You can't, because they've done NOTHING.
Posted by: deadrody at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (SnywI)

well, they've beaten the coondog shit out of some wipepo in the riots. so they've done something, even if it's in their own imagination, and not real at all.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (IJES/)

395 Among the things I'm looking for are sticks that go with rum, probably Spanish-style, DR or similar.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:49 PM (OTzUX)

Excellent! I usually only buy Arturo Fuente due to their quality and that the old man was a staunch anti-commie.

I was gifted by a few of my wimmens this year with cigars and the San Cristobal is not bad. Not bad at all.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (R/m4+)

396 They're an independent country now. They were a British protectorate until the 1970's, I believe.
==
That's my hunny . . .

Posted by: Xinnie the Pooh at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (cBTnh)

397 Nothing from nothing leaves nothing....

You gotta have something if you wanna be with me.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (nxdel)

398 Look, I don't agree with Biden's vaccine passports, but if they let me wear a leather trench coat and carry a submachine gun checking people's papers on train platforms, I'm in.

Posted by: jwest at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (/BlEx)

399 Later Heinlein is disposable especially after the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (9hXN1)

It is known.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (XvPQV)

400 >>>You gotta have something if you wanna be with me.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB

Arrgh, you beat me to it!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (XSRBF)

401 Posted by: deadrody at December 29, 2021 04:44 PM (SnywI)

Well to be fair there isn't any systemic racism to fight against. And they know it. It's why they picked that for their straw man.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (6R0HD)

402 Got aches and a slight headache. My sense of taste is muted and smells must be strong for me to smell them. Throat still a bit scratchy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 29, 2021 04:19 PM (DONzN)

I got a cold, too. I'm just going to lay here miserably with a Kleenex shoved in my nose while pounding back bottles of water and popping cold pills.

Say, you want a 30 free trial of Hidive?

Posted by: Robert, dying a slow and snotty death at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (1Yy3c)

403 >>>Look, I don't agree with Biden's vaccine passports, but if they let me wear a leather trench coat and carry a submachine gun checking people's papers on train platforms, I'm in.

Posted by: jwest

Hugo Boss!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (XSRBF)

404 SfGoth,
Been years since I read Veblen so I would say sue me about getting his first name wrong. But since you are lawyer, perhaps not--it is probably actionable in California.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (9hXN1)

405 And, as for the Solomon Islands, I'm betting that the USMC still have their old maps somewhere.
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I think we have major installations there now. Isn't Kwajalein atoll Solomon Islands?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (sWM8x)

406 Australia is the dominant external presence/influence in the Solomons.

Though I doubt they've got the islanders "locked down", Aussie-North Korean-style. Don't think that would work too well there.

Missed a good opportunity to visit Guadalcanal a few years back, damn shame.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (OTzUX)

407 Ah...but who runs Solomon Islands?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (LvTSG)

M...Master Blaster?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

408 This news is yet another reminder that:

All. The. Things. Are. Stupid.

Posted by: Hands at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (786Ro)

409 Kwajalein is quite different, central Pacific.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (OTzUX)

410 Who owns the Solomon Islands?
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They're an independent country now. They were a British protectorate until the 1970's, I believe.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (sWM8x)

Australian not English. New Zealand had some of the islands around there too

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

411 407 Ah...but who runs Solomon Islands?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (LvTSG)

M...Master Blaster?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

=========

Life embargo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

412 ++++
*snort*

Hilarious. Also, I'd run away if I were you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 29, 2021 04:50 PM (DU+/6)

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS I CAN'T RUN.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

413 Lift*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

414 The Leisure of the Theory Class (my favorite sarcastic title-flip).

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (OTzUX)

415 Fauci just likes to be on TV. As an Attention Whore, he makes Madonna look like a virgin. I'm not even convinced he isn't just shooting from the hip half the time. In reality, "the science" of anything having to do with viruses is so goddam complicated that government spokesmartians should generally be humbled into silence. Doesn't work that way with our little motor-mouth.

Posted by: Caliban at December 29, 2021 04:54 PM (HgGBT)

416 Hugo Boss!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (XSRBF)

If you're going to convince a certain portion of the population to do the dirty work, you at least have to let them be stylish.

Posted by: jwest at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (/BlEx)

417
M...Master Blaster?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

"Hey good lookin'!! I'll be back to pick ya up later!"

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

418 lol Wyatt! I'm usually not that fast!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (nxdel)

419 To be fair, which you are possibly not aware you are not being.

They basically stopped testing for flu. Nationally. That does not mean there was no flu. Early on, first week of march. Flu tests came back both A and B. It should only be one or the other. In retrospect, seems that that the vid was popping both flu tests. Its shouldn't have. So, its something of a semantic argument either way.

Posted by: your expertise varies at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (FRov5)

No, it really isn't a semantic argument at all. A semantic argument is an argument that hangs on a word or term having differing meanings or implications depending on the context or origin of the argument. "having the flu" and "having Covid" are two distinct, objectively different ideas. Nor is it a trivial thing that one can actually tell that a false (+) PCR is a false (+) if one is interested in looking, and I gotta tell you, the College of American Pathologists was all over this issue.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (mZOHK)

420 And, as for the Solomon Islands, I'm betting that the USMC still have their old maps somewhere.
---
I think we have major installations there now. Isn't Kwajalein atoll Solomon Islands?
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (sWM8x)

Kwajalein is in the Marshalls, which Japan picked up from Germany as a prize in WWI.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (eoQWY)

421 Who knew 70 odd years ago that Lysenkoism will eventually be the dominant philosophy of the western world?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (u54I1)

422 Reminds me, gotta get some books on the coast watchers. Of all the amazing stories out of WWII, one of the most amazing.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (OTzUX)

423 "Remember, Trump kept Fauci on.

As much as I hate Biden, I can't get passed Trump not flushing this turd down when he had the chance.

Posted by: Cameroom"

Trump didn't have the ability to fire Fauci. Fauci isn't a political appointee, but rather an employee of the FedGov, with specific protections against being fired for political reasons. In order to fire him, he would need to go through the FedGov employment system, and fire him for cause (like dereliction of duty, theft, etc. You know, non-political reasons to fire someone), and that would have been insanely difficult to establish cause. Like, prohibitively difficult.

Firing a FedGov employee is stupidly difficult and Byzantine, and that's when clear cause is established.

Fauci, for all his faults, never established clear cause to fire him. Disagreement with POTUS? That's political, and protected. You'd have to establish that he misused his power in some way, or stole something, or was grossly derelict in duty (and no, a list, even a littany of mistakes doesn't count, because they could be argued to have been made in "good faith" and therefore weren't dereliction).

Posted by: Goober at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (Hgvgt)

424 Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

Russia already engineered two little Buffer States in the breakaway Ukrainian provinces... if they stay pro Russia this gives him his needed land corridor to Crimea...

An Isolated port in Crimea, cut off by Ukraine, would be worthless for Winter shipping, thus the breakaway Provinces they are trying to stabilize.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (oHd/0)

425 Who owns the Solomon Islands?

What a silly question!

Posted by: BLACKROCK at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (786Ro)

426 speaking of this, A doctor Robert Malone got kicked off of twitter for something something science. Kind of a big deal since he's the inventor of Mrna vaccines.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (ZZK0E)

427 M...Master Blaster?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

"Hey good lookin'!! I'll be back to pick ya up later!"
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

No that's Mister Microphone..

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (XvPQV)

428 Fauci and thousands of others should be tried and hanged for going all-in on vaccines as THE solution, and staying with that plan up to now. They believed they had what was first required: Safe and effective vaccines. They bet that when safe and effective vaccines were widely available, at no charge, everyone would DEMAND to get jabbed, to save their lives. The failure of the first part of the bet torpedoed the high vaccination rate part of the bet.

I believe Fauci saw what was coming - where we are now - 9 or 10 months ago. Remember how he and CDC changed the long-standing medical definition of
herd immunity, and kept increasing the percentage of the population needing to be vaxxed to attain herd immunity? I believe his ego and fear of being publicly blamed for the vaxx mess made him and CDC double-down on the vaccine-only plan. They figured that if everyone got vaccinated with a semi-effective vaccine, very, very few people would suffer breakthrough infections, and fewer still would die. Then, Presto! No need for treatments and therapeutics. They convinced Joe that practically everyone needed to be vaxxed for Joe to defeat the virus. Presto! Vaxx mandates by Joe.

Posted by: Gref at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (AMIL/)

429 >>>414 The Leisure of the Theory Class (my favorite sarcastic title-flip).

haha

Posted by: ace at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (0G13K)

430 366 'The Roads Must Roll' is a fun short story. Batshit crazy engineering idea, but fun. Back when RAH used to write sci fi instead of porn fanfics of his own characters.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Very good X minus One (old time radio show) adaptation here: https://archive.org/details/xminusoneotr#

Dimension-X did one first which you can find on the same site.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (00IyZ)

431 >>>If you're going to convince a certain portion of the population to do the dirty work, you at least have to let them be stylish.

Posted by: jwest

Absolutely. If you look classy, you'll be classy. - Crash Davis

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (XSRBF)

432 Who knew 70 odd years ago that Lysenkoism will eventually be the dominant philosophy of the western world?
Posted by: President Select Decaf at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (u54I1)

Excellent point.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (R/m4+)

433 Very good X minus One (old time radio show) adaptation here: https://archive.org/details/xminusoneotr#

Dimension-X did one first which you can find on the same site.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (00IyZ)

Thankee

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (XvPQV)

434 *waves at nurse ratched*

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (GbPPJ)

435 Herr Doktor Fucky might be the most evil living being on Earth. Says a lot, when you also have that goblin Soros tottering around.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (x8Wzq)

436 It is known.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Yes, but unfortunate for his readers.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (9hXN1)

437
No that's Mister Microphone..
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:56 PM (XvPQV)

Shit......

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

438 Very good X minus One (old time radio show) adaptation here: https://archive.org/details/xminusoneotr#

Dimension-X did one first which you can find on the same site.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts

Thanks.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (9hXN1)

439 Posted by: Goober at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (Hgvgt)

Fauci has flat out lied to both Congress and the American People... he has ADMITTED it.

He also bypassed US Policy about Gain of Function research (which we had prohibited) by outsourcing Genetic Engineering to COMMUNIST China... who is a military threat, thus potentially helping their Bio Warfare Expertise.

Fired? He should be in JAIL.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (oHd/0)

440 Junior and Dolley are playing Mario Kart right in this room, and it's very loud.

Very. Loud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (LvTSG)

441 409 Kwajalein is quite different, central Pacific.
---
You're right--that's the Marshall Islands.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (sWM8x)

442 Later Heinlein is disposable especially after the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (9hXN1)

It is known.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:52 PM (XvPQV)

I liked the novelette/short story "The Menace from Earth" and "By His Bootstraps" is a good story but I was never on the Heinlein train and there were some icky hints in some stories that turned me off.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (eoQWY)

443 Veblen's idea was a sort of modified socialism where there is a dictatorship of technocrats rather than labor.

This is a fairly typical mental malady of the American authoritarian, and in his case, was born of almost the same thing as our modern asswipes. A childlike wonderment at the technical advances of a recent industrial revolution, and the moral certitude that the guys who developed it should rule society.

Posted by: Yudhishtira's Dice at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (hQ23g)

444 Had to correct a museum display once that had an invoice to a rice farmer on Saipan from the Imperial Japanese Army. Text on the item said "occupied" Saipan. Nope. Part of the trust territories Japan got from the League of Nations, per what Oldcat said above. That was kinda the significance of it all, besides the geography (Japan's inner island defense perimeter). First Japanese territory - and civilians - encountered in the war.

And this was a Marine museum. Sigh.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (OTzUX)

445 442 I liked the novelette/short story "The Menace from Earth" and "By His Bootstraps" is a good story but I was never on the Heinlein train and there were some icky hints in some stories that turned me off.
Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (eoQWY)

==========

"Incest is pretty awesome and safe when you think about it."
-Heinlein, noted weirdo

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

446 359 - Deplorable Jay Guevara

For what it's worth, Fauci is now in a position where NOBODY trusts / likes / believes in him.

Every time he opens his mouth and orders a new dictat, Poopy Joe's administration sinks lower in the 'approve' column.

Posted by: CPT. Charles at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (W+kMI)

447 >>Trump didn't have the ability to fire Fauci.

Thank you. Tried to make this point many times but you said it better.

If Trump is guilty of anything it's making too many people think draining the swamp meant he could fire any bureaucrat he wanted at will. It was never true.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (ZLI7S)

448 Yes, but unfortunate for his readers.
Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:57 PM (9hXN1)

Very, very few writers are good through their full career. It's too bad a lot (or all) of his later stuff is crap...but he still has all that early gold, especially Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (XvPQV)

449 Whoever did run the Solomons better learn Chinese to speak to their overlords real fast.

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (2JoB8)

450 VDH had the solution.

PDT press conference > We thank Dr Fauci for all of his years of service. We wish him well and we applaud him for the time he will be spending with his family...
Posted by: golfman

Too bad he never did that.

If there was one time you were going to deliver on your "drain the swamp" promise.

Trump could have even fired Fauci after the election and I guess never found the time to get around to do that.

Posted by: Cameroom at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (3dm+3)

451 441 409 Kwajalein is quite different, central Pacific.
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Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (sWM8x)

I shipped some stuff to a missile site there.

Posted by: jwest at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (/BlEx)

452 Dang, ace, the dain bramage has ravaged my memory, but I think that title flip was actually used by an economist for something I read a geologic epoch ago. Can't even remember whether it was focused on Veblen's work or not.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (OTzUX)

453 Well my bitch of a supervisor altered some paperwork I had worked on and saved into our shared drive, and tried to say I did it. Too bad I had proof it was her and not me. I just ratted her out to the department director.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (Ez6QX)

454 Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 04:58 PM (eoQWY)

I go back and read 'The Green Hills of Earth' periodically...

Always sends chills up my spine for some reason.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (oHd/0)

455 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is doing for New Years ???

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (otFiP)

456 Meatloaf, mashed garlic potatoes, and cooked cabbage (added a bit of bacon fat),

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (Vxu+H)

457 Oh and I know I've said it before, but The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, for perspective on politicized science. By Kuhn.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (OTzUX)

458 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is doing for New Years ???
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (otFiP)

Skinny rent boys?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (XvPQV)

459 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is doing for New Years ???
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (otFiP)

Blowing some dude?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (Ez6QX)

460 One Heinlein book I think about a lot is "Farnham's Freehold." When I read it years ago I didn't like the tangent it took. I was expecting something far different. But now it feels strangely prescient.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (x8Wzq)

461 Well my bitch of a supervisor altered some paperwork I had worked on and saved into our shared drive, and tried to say I did it. Too bad I had proof it was her and not me. I just ratted her out to the department director.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (Ez6QX)

There are instances where this is required.

This was one.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

462 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is doing for New Years ???
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (otFiP)

Sucking a lot of cock.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 29, 2021 05:02 PM (1OMVO)

463 449 Whoever did run the Solomons better learn Chinese to speak to their overlords real fast.
---
I regularly follow Sky News AU on YouTube. Relations with China are huge there now. If it's true that China is stationing troops in the Solomons, the Aussies will be hot about it.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 05:02 PM (sWM8x)

464 Reminds me, gotta get some books on the coast watchers. Of all the amazing stories out of WWII, one of the most amazing.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (OTzUX)

Father Goose, staring Cary Grant. all you need to know.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 29, 2021 05:02 PM (IJES/)

465 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is doing for New Years ???

Fucking Reggie then having dog for dinner?

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (nxdel)

466 Good for you jordan61.

Kinda hard to fake stuff when every entry has a time and date stamp.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (W2Pud)

467 414 The Leisure of the Theory Class (my favorite sarcastic title-flip).

Posted by: rhomboid

That is pretty much true statement. Theory more or less requires leisure to think and develop. Strenuous job activities tend to be from those that prefer action to thinking.

But, his point on conspicuous consumption can be considered extrapolation of future Wokeism even though his original example was materialistic consumption of luxury goods.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (9hXN1)

468 Anybody knows what Presdent Obama is doing for New Years ???
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (otFiP)

Love. Reggie Love.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

469 456 Meatloaf, mashed garlic potatoes, and cooked cabbage (added a bit of bacon fat),
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (Vxu+H)

Meatloaf, AGAIN????

Posted by: Audience at a Rocky Horror Picture Show at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (oHd/0)

470 There are instances where this is required.

This was one.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

She lies all the time, but I never have proof. This time I did.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (Ez6QX)

471 Hi, y'all. Off topic, but on an earlier thread (when I was at work and couldn't comment), y'all were talking about Cornell University, and their "Cow College" (which we native U. Of Michigan alums call Michigan State, but whatevs) unit. Well, I don't know if it's part of their Cow College unit or not, but, for you bird lovers (of which I and my wife are two), they have a noted ornithology lab that you can donate to and a get a quarterly magazine for:
www. birds.cornell.edu.home. Interesting and worthwhile for the nature-lovers out there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (14ukD)

472 WTF with the idiots that populate Brattleboro??

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (NM8ko)

473 >>> Posted by: Homer's Donuts at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (BCSAN)

Everything you wrote there was pretty insightful. The left is the entire political spectrum now. Liberals on one end and violent maoists on the other. Everything else is the other and not worth mentioning, criminal even. All other thought has been made anathema.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (mPyRa)

474 Are you guys insinuating Obama is a homosexual?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (5We2S)

475 What they don't understand, and wouldn't care if they did, is the massive social destabilization they're causing. These "saviors" of the world are destroying the good faith and trust that holds free societies together. But of course they despise free societies.

If our presidential candidate in 2024 doesn't call for a manifesto to dismantle the ruling class -- with specifics, not just "drain the swamp" rhetoric -- I have no interest.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (H8QX8)

476 It is "Thorstein" - I left out the i. BTW, he died in Menlo Park shortly before the Great Depression.

One reason why "experts"/technocrats cannot makes things perfect, or anywhere close, is because the Peter Principle is not just a cynical observation, it is an immutable law of human nature. When all the experts have risen to the level of their incompetence, and remain there, we're in deep shit.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (KAi1n)

477 "Incest is pretty awesome and safe when you think about it."
-Heinlein, noted weirdo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

---Also too much Japanese doujinshi, manga and anime

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (XvPQV)

478 Are you guys insinuating Obama is a homosexual?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Well that sucks!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (mD/uy)

479 Are you guys insinuating Obama is a homosexual?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (5We2S)

No. That would be his homosexuality.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

480 >>I regularly follow Sky News AU on YouTube. Relations with China are huge there now. If it's true that China is stationing troops in the Solomons, the Aussies will be hot about it.

As much as we are infiltrated by China throughout our government, media and culture Australia is in much worse shape.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (ZLI7S)

481 >>318
Just got an email saying Covid is ravaging the department again, so we all have to mask up, which as many have said here, is useless.
__________

Ravishing >>> Ravaging
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2021 04:41 PM (iOx8N)

I like the first one better. Fear porn.

Posted by: Caliban at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (HgGBT)

482 Kinda hard to fake stuff when every entry has a time and date stamp.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 05:03 PM (W2Pud)

Exactly!

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (Ez6QX)

483 I shipped some stuff to a missile site there.
Posted by: jwest at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (/BlEx)
---
Yeah, Kwajalein is a pretty important site for missile tests and some other stuff. A lot of their work is managed from here in Huntsville.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (sWM8x)

484 If Trump is guilty of anything it's making too many people think draining the swamp meant he could fire any bureaucrat he wanted at will. It was never true.
Posted by: JackStraw

---

we go round and round on this, but I'm beginning to see that Trump was really a lone man in the fed swamp superstate. Both parties were ready to go full fash under hillary, sort of like what they're doing now with Liz cheney and 1/6. etc.

Trump had no idea he was on war footing from day 1. The list of things to do is endless, the people who he could trust numbered maybe 4. One thing I need to explore is the regulations that obama put in place that basically gave us 5 banks and 6 corporations running things needed to be dynamit4ed.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (ZZK0E)

485 477 "Incest is pretty awesome and safe when you think about it."
-Heinlein, noted weirdo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

---Also too much Japanese doujinshi, manga and anime
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (XvPQV)

=========

How many of those have a father figure scientist explain to a pair of siblings the genetics of incest in order to justify it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (LvTSG)

486 Good for you Jordan61!!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (nxdel)

487 Father Goose, staring Cary Grant. all you need to know.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 29, 2021 05:02 PM (IJES/)

Great film!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (k49Sx)

488 I used to drive an 18-wheeler Pussy Wagon for General Mills during Korea.

honk-honk-hooooonk

Posted by: joey biden at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (UHVv4)

489 Russia already engineered two little Buffer States in the breakaway Ukrainian provinces... if they stay pro Russia this gives him his needed land corridor to Crimea...

An Isolated port in Crimea, cut off by Ukraine, would be worthless for Winter shipping, thus the breakaway Provinces they are trying to stabilize.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 04:55 PM (oHd/0)

So you agree Putin has is port if he cares about it, and he had a pipeline to sell to the West through Ukraine that the Ukrainans used to steal from and now he has several alternative pipelines to cut the Ukranians out of the deal. None of this would be needed if he was just going to invade.

Ukraine should just grow crops and sell hydro electric energy and quit dicking around. The money they spend on that army and bribing biden and EUcrats is wasted

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (eoQWY)

490 "Incest is pretty awesome and safe when you think about it."
-Heinlein, noted weirdo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

It IS the game the whole family can play.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

491 Are you guys insinuating Obama is a homosexual?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

I strongly suspect he is one purely because there was never a single woman that came forward and said anything about an affair.

Every (straight) black guy I know has like 3 women on the side.

Posted by: Cameroom at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (3dm+3)

492 Very, very few writers are good through their full career. It's too bad a lot (or all) of his later stuff is crap...but he still has all that early gold, especially Starship Troopers and Podkayne of Mars.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Podkayne of Mars is a sleeper and far better than his original Puddin stories. Podkayne as a impossibly nice princess in distress distracts you from the true message which is directed at Clark's character development.

Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (9hXN1)

493 477 "Incest is pretty awesome and safe when you think about it."
-Heinlein, noted weirdo
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

That was one of the dumber bits of math anyone has ever published. was that "Time Enough for Love"? Can't remember. hated it.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (mZOHK)

494 >>>Trump could have even fired Fauci after the election and I guess never found the time to get around to do that.

Posted by: Cameroom at December 29, 2021 05:00 PM (3dm+3)
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He left the festering pustule in order to help expose the wound.

Posted by: Braenyard - e0dough at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (7cJE3)

495 Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm baking right now. Not pie but milk chocolate cheescake. Won't be ready till tomorrow though.

Have a houseful of guests coming for the weekend and New Years Eve bash. Planning on fun.

Posted by: Javems at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (AmoqO)

496 Meatloaf, AGAIN????

His name is Robert Paulson.

Posted by: Jack's Broken Heart at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (QU5/8)

497 Dad used to say, "X is an unknown quantity, and spurt is a little drip under pressure." I don't trust most "experts" due to their obfuscation, "If you can't explain it in terms a six-year-old would understand, you probably don't fully understand it yourself.", appeals to authority, and moralizing disguised as science.
I have heard so much sanctimonius bs and namecalling over the WuFlu (as well as other topics) that it is hard to read anything on this topic any longer. Though there is a bit of the namecalling here, I have learned a lot from both the articles and comments here. Thank you all for that!

Posted by: Don at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (Uf4pd)

498 493
That was one of the dumber bits of math anyone has ever published. was that "Time Enough for Love"? Can't remember. hated it.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (mZOHK)

=========

Yeah, I think that was it. I don't think I've read a Heinlein since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (LvTSG)

499 474 Are you guys insinuating Obama is a homosexual?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 05:04 PM (5We2S)

He's a pillow-biting turd-burgling stool-pushing ass bandit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (II3Gr)

500 >>Posted by: nurse ratched

You, madam, are a breath of fresh air on this thread.
Posted by: whig at December 29, 2021 04:39 PM (9hXN1)

She's a nurse. Don't about this madam stuff.

Posted by: Caliban at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (HgGBT)

501 An Isolated port in Crimea

Is there a river there?

Because it'd be cool if there was a Crimea River.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (5We2S)

502 Sorry, I can't paint the whole medical professional with all y'alls brush. I have a great Dr. He's my age, so he's got some vast experience, Conservative and prescribes me Ivermectin. I know alot of Nurse's who have a real passion for what they do. Just like with Trump and revealing the bad guys in Govt, Corporate medicine is being exposed.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (cRbt7)

503 Noooood.

Posted by: Bosk at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (x6uUk)

504 One Heinlein book I think about a lot is "Farnham's Freehold." When I read it years ago I didn't like the tangent it took. I was expecting something far different. But now it feels strangely prescient.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at December 29, 2021 05:01 PM (x8Wzq)

Yeah, it goes off in a weird direction. A few of his 'transition' stories do that (when he quit doing his Juveniles for Scribner), dunno how or why that happened. Same issue in Podkayne, starts off in one narrative direction and then....wham.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 05:08 PM (XvPQV)

505
His name is Robert Paulson.
Posted by: Jack's Broken Heart at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (QU5/

There's a new sheriff in town, and his name....is Reggie Hammond.

Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

506 There is a NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2021 05:08 PM (2JoB8)

507 It IS the game the whole family can play.
Posted by: Sponge - Remembering Tami at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

If she ain't good enough for family...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 29, 2021 05:08 PM (II3Gr)

508 Yeah, I think that was it. I don't think I've read a Heinlein since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, who is too old for this shit at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (LvTSG)

With guilty pleasure, I sometimes re-read Glory Road. (hangs head). It's awful but I loved it.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at December 29, 2021 05:09 PM (mZOHK)

509 The wave is Omicron, Robot In Disguise! Okay, how do we know this, are the samples being genotyped or is this based on types of symptoms? *entire press corp giant shrug*
[ . . . ]
*throws things*
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at December 29, 2021 04:42 PM (GbPPJ)

In my professional life of people lying to me, I finally decided to only judge the results, since that seems to have been the intention all along, or at least what was worked for, and what we have to live with anyways.
Omicron may well have been some lab's attempt at a live virus vaccination, wild spread and hellishly dangerous.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2021 05:09 PM (ZMraq)

510 I thought that certainly he was gone when the bit about the testing on the beagles came out.

But no. Still there. He's like a corn. You can cut if off and it grows right back.

And right now he's steering the nation onto the rocks.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 29, 2021 05:09 PM (6R0HD)

511 Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 05:05 PM (eoQWY)

Yeah, the latest Russia Russia Russia crap was all the Jan Bradey's in DC trying to spin the news cycle.

There is no real Russian strategic reason to invade Ukraine further.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 29, 2021 05:09 PM (oHd/0)

512 I like publius/miley updates - no editorializing but just gathering of far flung papers/studies on the dreaded covid. Pretty much lets you read and come to your own conclusions. My conclusiopn is that has been a giant op and cover-up. Weaponized after the covid/flu bug showed up to rid the world of those who opposed the Great Reset efforts. Tump pulled the curtain back on the great OZ and they didn't like it.

Posted by: free tibet at December 29, 2021 05:10 PM (CL76w)

513 nood

FIRST!!!

Posted by: joey biden at December 29, 2021 05:10 PM (UHVv4)

514 I mean FIRST!!!

nood

Posted by: joey biden at December 29, 2021 05:11 PM (UHVv4)

515 She's a nurse. Don't about this madam stuff.
Posted by: Caliban

BLAM! BLAM!! BLAMMO!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2021 05:11 PM (W2Pud)

516 @gref, don't forget that CDC changed the definition of "vaccine" around that time too, so that a prophylactic treatment qualified.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 29, 2021 05:12 PM (ZtIV1)

517 Is there a spider in your bra, or are you glad to see me ?
Posted by: JT at December 29, 2021 04:10 PM (arJlL)

Nice try, JT. I'm not taking off my shirt!
Posted by: Jordan61

Awww SHUCKS !

Posted by: JT at December 29, 2021 05:13 PM (arJlL)

518 >>> If Trump is guilty of anything it's making too many people think draining the swamp meant he could fire any bureaucrat he wanted at will. It was never true.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2021 04:59 PM (ZLI7S)

Name one bureaucrat that "Biden" couldn't fire if that bureaucrat became unhelpful to "Biden". If that fauci troll became unhelpful he would be gone, unpersoned, and "Biden" would be praised. "Biden" only even exists up to and not beyond the benefit of the party.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2021 05:14 PM (mPyRa)

519 Jordan is taking her shirt off. Huh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 29, 2021 05:19 PM (1OMVO)

520 Sorry, I can't paint the whole medical professional with all y'alls brush. I have a great Dr. He's my age, so he's got some vast experience, Conservative and prescribes me Ivermectin. I know alot of Nurse's who have a real passion for what they do. Just like with Trump and revealing the bad guys in Govt, Corporate medicine is being exposed.
Posted by: Stellastwocents at December 29, 2021 05:07 PM (cRbt7)

Lots of nice branches on the tree with a rotten trunk. Whole thing dies when the core rots out, unless the good people do something about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 29, 2021 05:23 PM (eoQWY)

521 Remember when Fauci told us what the public was "ready to hear" or what they would tolerate about AIDS? That it would spread just as bad in the heterosexual population? Yeah, I remember that. Big lie.

Remember when they told us swine flu would kill us all and we had to get the vaxx?
F them and the horse they rode in on.

https://tinyurl.com/5ks78a4p

Posted by: pj at December 29, 2021 05:23 PM (G1dq6)

522 188...I'm a bit surprised Tzar Vlad didn't invade on Christmas. I honestly thought he'd go in, then.

He can't keep troops staged as they are forever.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Lawful Good is Not Lawful Perfect at December 29, 2021 04:20 PM (XvPQV)

It was Christmas only for the Catholic west Ukraine.

Orthodox Nativity is old calendar Dec 25 on julian calendar, aka Jan 7 on gregorian calendar.

Posted by: Flyover at December 29, 2021 05:31 PM (Rbu5d)

523 495 Have a cocktail. And a piece of pie.

Posted by: nurse ratched

I'm baking right now. Not pie but milk chocolate cheescake. Won't be ready till tomorrow though.

Have a houseful of guests coming for the weekend and New Years Eve bash. Planning on fun.
Posted by: Javems at December 29, 2021 05:06 PM (AmoqO)

I see I arrived to the thread at the right time!

Posted by: Nova local at December 29, 2021 05:38 PM (exHjb)

524 Yep, cheating

Posted by: Just another at December 29, 2021 05:43 PM (UnQlg)

525 No idea what my pronouns are

Posted by: duck billed qwertypus at December 29, 2021 05:46 PM (UnQlg)

526 Is that why they allowed for all those uncivilized beasts to run loose looting and burning? those Dirty Democrats?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 29, 2021 05:56 PM (FLiOE)

527 I have no doubt that Dr. Fausti was saying what he knew to be true when he dismissed the idea of universal masking in March 2020. He is not dumb, just a career political technocrat with fascist tendencies. However, he truly revealed himself when he reversed himself and said he only downplayed masks in order to protect first responders' access to masks. In that instance, regardless of what he really believed, he announced to the world that he was willing to lie to us about what was best for our health in order to serve whatever other purpose he deemed important/necessary for his political survival. That was Dr. Fausti's "deal with the devil" and should have been game over for him.

Posted by: DougT at December 29, 2021 08:46 PM (Lz18M)

528 "In December, Pfizer purchased Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 billion

IN CASH.

Arena is developing two heart medications.
One, temanogrel, treats damaged smaller blood vessels in the heart. The other, APD 418, improves the heart's ability to pump blood in patients with acute heart failure.

Both are being used in clinical trials and have not yet been approved.

By purchasing Arena, is Pfizer admitting that its mRNA vaccines have dangerous coronary side effects?

If temanogrel and APD 418 receive approval, does Pfizer plan to increase the price to make more profit?"

Posted by: Ju at December 29, 2021 08:57 PM (aTmM/)

529 72 As much as I hate Biden, I can't get passed Trump not flushing this turd down when he had the chance.

Trump trusted Fauci because he HAD to - he could not substitute his medical expertise for Fauci's especially once Fauci had been anointed as the savior by the establishment and the media. I suspect that some of the outrageous turns and twists Fauci pulled off were DESIGNED to get Trump to fire him, ala Comey!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at December 29, 2021 10:06 PM (9EsIa)

530 -"Fauci lied about mask being ineffectual, because he didn't want lowly civilians buying them up and shorting them for medical professionals. (Surprise! He had it right the first time -- they are almost entirely ineffectual, but he didn't know that when he claimed it.)"-

NO. You're looking through the wrong end of the telescope.
Fauci told the medical TRUTH about masks being ineffectual.
He just hadn't gotten his political talking points yet.

The LIE was that Fauci claimed that there weren't enough masks to go around for everyone when there were.
Masks for everyone, were the first markers of control and compliance. When the masks were finally brought out of the warehouses, people were clamoring to get their hands on them.

Posted by: Speller at December 30, 2021 04:58 AM (pSotA)

531 That event stay at home except to go riot was what made me and everyone in my area go mask less every where we wanted to go.

Posted by: obsidian at December 30, 2021 12:23 PM (UBfR9)

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