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New York Retail Chains Now Abandoning the City, Calling Business There "Unsustainable"
Cities used to be about commerce and industry.
But that's just a #WhitePatriarchy way of thinking. In the #NewParadigm, cities shall be nothing but welfare delivery organazitions and stages for endless grievance rioting. We'll see how that works out for them.In the heart of Manhattan, national chains including J.C. Penney, Kate Spade, Subway and Le Pain Quotidien have shuttered branches for good. Many other large brands, like Victoria’s Secret and the Gap, have their kept high-profile locations closed in Manhattan, while reopening in other states.One of the podcasters I listen to (Cecil Says) pointed out that companies have had a five month experiment in letting people work from home instead of making them come into offices. Offices with very expensive floorspace. This will probably go on for a few more months. If it turns out the loss in productivity is smaller than the savings for not maintaining big office spaces, many companies might permanently abandon the large office. What happens to New York commercial real estate then? Meanwhile, retailers and restauranteurs are fleeing New York. One can imagine Shoppers Havens rising up in outlying towns. New Yorkers will have to take a 90 minute car ride, or two and a half hour bus ride, to go to the stores. Like they do now when they want to go to Ikea. Another pleasure of living in the city -- easy access to all the best stores -- will soon be gone. And what happens to New York residential real estate after that? I spoke to a friend last night who told me that real estate in Rumson, NJ -- a tony suburb of New York -- is a gold rush market as everyone is buying houses to get out of New York City. If many fewer people will be working in New York, and New York remains a diseased, riot-filled hellscape thus obliterating any social/pleasure reason to remain in New York -- what happens then? These people are going to be abandoning the cities -- the cities that they themselves poisoned and killed with their socialist suicide impulse. Unfortunately, they'll be swarming out of the cities to infect areas that aren't -- for now -- so dysfunctional and suicidal. New Yorkers will mostly ruin New Jersey and Connecticut, which are hardly capable of being further ruined. (But give the hard left a chance...) But they'll also be streaming to cities and states which are halfway functional, like Florida. The locusts are coming.
Michael Weinstein, the chief executive of Ark Restaurants, who owns Bryant Park Grill & Cafe and 19 other restaurants, said he will never open another restaurant in New York.
... Even as the city has contained the virus and slowly reopens, there are ominous signs that some national brands are starting to abandon New York.... J.C. Penney and Neiman Marcus, the anchor tenants at two of the largest malls in Manhattan, recently filed for bankruptcy and announced that they would shutter those locations.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 11, 2020 05:46 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 11, 2020 05:46 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (mht8P)
These people are going to be abandoning the cities -- the cities that they themselves poisoned and killed with their socialist suicide impulse.
Unfortunately, they'll be swarming out of the cities to infect areas that aren't -- for now -- so dysfunctional and suicidal.
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I hope this affects the census and New York ends up losing 3 seats in the House.
It would entertain me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Max Power at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Gactory at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (e5wUf)
Posted by: vmom 2020 filling up the waterboarding bucket at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (J8nVw)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (hku12)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, back to no one giving a damn. at August 11, 2020 05:48 PM (2BgZB)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2020 05:48 PM (hku12)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 11, 2020 05:48 PM (G9JMy)
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home. Thanks China &&&& at August 11, 2020 05:48 PM (QG7/0)
Posted by: freaked at August 11, 2020 05:48 PM (Tnijr)
Maybe this in the long run improves New York, but we'll see.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (ejsiI)
Call me Snake.
Posted by: at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Max Power at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (q177U)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (jBMZ9)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - standing in front of my neighborhood with a shotgun at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (luzVb)
#DBTSH = Don't Bring That Shit Here
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Snake Plisken at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (+Gy3b)
after that, NYC will wither and die
Posted by: REDACTED at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (O+AcM)
Call me Snake. Again.
Posted by: at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (cZjDV)
Welfare blue voters left behind to keep those blue cities blue.
This will not end well.
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (NWiLs)
you want: amy pond
you'd settle for: rose tyler
you'll get: yaz
Posted by: Anachronda at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (sGtp+)
"President to New York City: Drop Dead".
Posted by: Joe Mama at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (Z2qFv)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (WEBkv)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (FtO5h)
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Nurse ratched at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (G9JMy)
Posted by: New york at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (XTyi0)
Yeah, I was a weird kid.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (xPl2J)
Call me Snake.
Posted by: at August 11, 2020 05:49 PM (NWiLs)
Nah, it'll be fine. Until the apes show up, and bury the Statute of Liberty in the sand.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (hku12)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: Jmel at August 11, 2020 05:51 PM (4ZYW0)
One of the podcasters I listen to (Cecil Says) pointed out that
companies have had a five month experiment in letting people work from
home instead of making them come into offices.
Offices with very expensive floorspace.
This will probably go on for a few more months.>>
Can confirm. After an initial period of adjustment, Q2 production actually increased 4% when the entire staff was sent to work from home. In addition to all the things you list, Ace is the intangible flexibility that working from home offers, such as late hours or time to finish up projects on the clock where commutes and kids don't have to be planned around.
Company said we would be phased back in to the office in September. Last week we all got an e-mail saying "not until the new year".
Posted by: Defund NeverTrump at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (0jZvB)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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So 'Escape to New York" wasn't far off then.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (Rvt88)
Posted by: Inogame at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (+2xjH)
Anyone who called it take a bow.
Dumb choice though. Recently called Biden racist, former prosecutor and zero appeal to minorities.
First major primary candidate to drop out.
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (Q3ZwH)
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (svbBD)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (FU1zC)
Posted by: Ace at 06:45 PM
It works- relatively- if you move to Austin or Denver. Some place where there is some prosperity. But NYC and Chicago are terminally converged. They are patients dying of woke cancer. When they collapse they will swamp quite a few cities, especially Rumson, NJ.
And I can't FUCKING WAIT to watch.
Posted by: trev006 at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (Wd/c5)
I've lived here all my life. They'll never find their bodies.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (j3npP)
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (XTyi0)
Go long on Champagne Glass Hot Tubs and Round Beds.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (FU1zC)
Posted by: Mayor Beetlejuice at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (o1Bgo)
and who's there to go the theaters and to broadway anymore? Who's going to the musical venues? and as those shut down, there goes the jobs of all of the people who worked there, too.
As this spiral goes down, what are you left with? Baltimore. Welfare queens and drug dealers, and that's about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (Kpl3J)
Come to Chicago it's a great environment for businesses.
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Looting businesses and shake-down rackets, especially.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (FtO5h)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (cZjDV)
Posted by: vrf at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (FL0P4)
Posted by: Defund NeverTrump at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (0jZvB)
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Watch as lawyers scream bloody murder, because sexual harassment lawsuits drop to lows not seen since 1970.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (WEBkv)
It seems "red" residents never flee and flip a blue state.
Posted by: Blago at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (gkdnV)
I've lived here all my life. They'll never find their bodies.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
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The cemetery will be the last place they look. Just say'n.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (Rvt88)
What kind of status symbol is it when your clients have to walk past stinky homeless camps and boarded-up windows to get to your office?
Hahaha ha!
F 'em all-- they voted for this, they funded this, they deserve this.
Posted by: RoyalOil at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (aO8Gd)
after that, NYC will wither and die
Posted by: REDACTED at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (O+AcM)
Move the stock exchange out of NYC but leave the UN where it's at.. or just set the building on fire and let it burn.
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home. Thanks China &&&& at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (QG7/0)
I've lived here all my life. They'll never find their bodies.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (j3npP)
Hah! People will probably end up paying you bounty money for those moronic pricks.
Posted by: trev006 at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (Wd/c5)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (FU1zC)
What chu talkin' about Willis Tower?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (jBMZ9)
Posted by: Angel of Death Cuomo at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (6i2m+)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (FU1zC)
I just watched "The Code" on Prime. It is a 3 episode series about the mathematical underpinnings in the world around us both man made and natural. Anyway, there was a small segment about cities which said that there is a 15% increase in income with each population doubling. The conclusion was that is the reason cities are growing so fast. The series was from 2011. Times have changed recently.
Posted by: DR.WTF at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (AiZBA)
All that stuff was in financial trouble before COVID.
For example, Lincoln Center.
Posted by: attila the annoying at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (w2LAm)
I've lived here all my life. They'll never find their bodies.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 11, 2020 05:52 PM (j3npP)
Please don't kill anyone who looks like an Ewok.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: teh wind at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (fVZkX)
Posted by: REDACTED at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (O+AcM)
We'll see. Nobody is going back into Seattle before the end of the year.
That used to piss me off, before CHAZ shit happened. Now I'm...more ok with it.
Burn, Seattle, burn.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (ifmtJ)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (lgiXo)
This was a NYT reader comment. Trolling or serious?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (krv3H)
Can also confirm. I work in the real estate industry.
Initial predictions from the aftermath of Covid were that the market was going to implode and foreclosures skyrocket (which has happened). But I'm seeing real estate purchases close the same day* they go on the market and for 20% above asking price because the cities are emptying out in a hurry.
*technology has made it possible for docs to be signed and notarized in hours instead of weeks.
Posted by: Defund NeverTrump at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (0jZvB)
They'll come here and tell us everything we're doing wrong.
A sign I saw in the control room of a plant here in Texas: "I Don't Care How You Did Things Up North"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (mht8P)
There's large swathes of NYC, especially the outer boroughs, that didn't ask for any of this; they might vote Democrat (except Staten Island), but they actually live in a fairly conservative manner and have nice neighborhoods with a long history, neighborhoods they don't want to see become Thunderdome. And yet that's what'll happen to a lot of them, while the people who actually caused this move out to NJ or Westchester or Long Island and screw things up there. *sigh*
Posted by: Dr. T at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: USNtakim at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (0OmEj)
New hotness: Now where will I shop? What an=bout my shows -- it's not safe to go out at night.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (bDqIh)
Easy on the flat-out killin', eh?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (FtO5h)
They have to.
It's dominoes, not chess!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (6i2m+)
I live in Massachusetts. They've been here for years.
A lot of these Enwye parasites have homes in the Berkshires (western MA). I expect land out there to be gobbled up very soon.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (2JVJo)
Rear Window
super cute film despite the murder part
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Blago at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (gkdnV)
that is true. the closest to even try it was the Free State Project in New Hampshire. That was a total failure last I heard/
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: Karen Echokunt at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (2X/BM)
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I've been expecting it for several years, really.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (sWM8x)
If it is safe for kids to go back to school, it is safe to open up the economy fully and then, maybe, these cities will see some return to normal.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (sd8p8)
Seriously.
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (+v+zN)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (luzVb)
It seems "red" residents never flee and flip a blue state.
Posted by: Blago at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (gkdnV)
I would love to move from Illinois to Arizona if I could get the wife on board. Not quite sure if Arizona is red enough for my tastes though.
Posted by: Keith at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (jdGlx)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (hku12)
This was a NYT reader comment. Trolling or serious?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (m/Gc2)
Troll. People pining for the old days weren't there.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (wGeit)
This was a NYT reader comment. Trolling or serious?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (m/Gc2)
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I know there are people dumb enough to say that genuinely, but I would bet that's a troll comment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (UWqZJ)
You may want to leave the UN where it is. They can rot together.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (cCxiu)
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (4a9Vv)
Posted by: DR.WTF at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (AiZBA)
Same theory came up during the turn of the century on Africa - one problem not calculated? type of governance matter....bigly.
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (w2LAm)
It would entertain me.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 11, 2020 05:47 PM (UWqZJ)
I had a census taker come to the door a couple of weeks ago who gave me the whole "loss of representation and loss of federal funds" bit.
She was pretty taken aback when I said MA was such a poison to the body politic that we should be stripped of all representation and that Trump should bill the state for all the wasted federal funds it's stolen over the last 50 years.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Pete in Texas at August 11, 2020 05:50 PM (+Gy3b)
Which sucks because I'd rather go there for my clothing. It's cheap, effective, and other than cashiers bugging me to get the JCP card, I don't get hassled by commission-seeking salespeople.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (ejsiI)
Posted by: EveR at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (ZZDMQ)
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (Zz0t1)
And they're still swarming.
3 new arrivals on my street in the past 2 months: 2 from TX and one from IL.
The Texans are NOT conservatives. Neither are the Illini.
Why are they even still coming here, now, of all times? Just for the weed?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (FtO5h)
Who could have foreseen that the self esteem generation were not going to be shoppers but looters? Why all of us who were not progressive educators.
Posted by: Decaf at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (4D+FL)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (XTyi0)
Posted by: USNtakim
yeah CO 's gone
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (WkPC9)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 05:57 PM (2JVJo)
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The funny thing is, you said that before she had said a word. It's just how you greet strangers at the door.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (UWqZJ)
I hope this affects the census and New York ends up losing 3 seats in the House.
It would entertain me.
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Winning:
1) drive thousands out of the cities with virus fears and riots
2) conduct census
3) Trump puts a strict time limit on the census returns
4) Trump shitcans several post office top managers.
What happens next will shock and amaze you!
Posted by: RoyalOil at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (aO8Gd)
Seething, sickening hate.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (ptqGC)
DROP DEAD
Posted by: DJS at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (48zQD)
I think this was #4:
https://tinyurl.com/y3pmrvdn
Posted by: ... at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (uEbPt)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (WkPC9)
Amen - I'm not out of the blast radius depending on the device used!
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (l3+k2)
The UN needs to move out of the US.
Now. Go.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (qpX6U)
I called Rice. Unlike The Fonz, I can say it: I was wrong.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 05:53 PM (FtO5h)
I called Rice too, because Rice would have been a much more dangerous pick for us to fight. Kamala is Loved by Hundreds, Hated by Millions. They went with her???
I'll go so far as to say that Tank Abrams would have been a better pick ! The reason - Tank at least is an *authentic* black candidate, and has some appeal to southern black voters - look how close she came in the Georgia race! Tank is a fighter, Kamala is a fucking joke!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: Shep! at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (luzVb)
You could house all of America's homeless, drug addicted folks in NY with room to spare.
The worlds largest methadone clinic.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (6i2m+)
The UN needs to move out of the US.
Now. Go.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2020 05:59 PM (bDqIh)
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I nominate North Korea.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (m/Gc2)
Oh, it's TOTALLY serious. Bunch of old timers here in Las Vegas earnestly pine for the days when it was run by the mafia.
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (+v+zN)
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (iTXRQ)
For six months now I've been walking around saying, we wouldn't even have elected Polesmoker 20 years ago, let alone put up with this dystopian reign of terror.
It's the Calis and other locusts.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (FtO5h)
DROP DEAD
Posted by: DJS at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (48zQD)
NY Post headline?
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: BurtTC at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (hku12)
Could people please consider putting a lid on the nuking NYC comments and "I'm going to kill them all." It doesn't help Ace's blog.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (WkPC9)
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Would you settle for Yankees fans?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (WkPC9)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (ch6++)
I called Rice. Unlike The Fonz, I can say it: I was wrong.
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Wasn't sure until this morning, when I read an article at Powerline about how the media has just sent out "guidelines" for how journalists are now supposed to cover female VP candidates. One of the "guidelines" said that they shouldn't mention a candidate's ethnic/national background, because that might give rise to speculation that the woman is not authentically American. LOL, that sure sounded like anchor-baby Kamala, the daughter of an Indian ("high caste") mother and Jamaican (descendant of slave-owners) father.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:01 PM (k4dH2)
20 years ago we had an R governor- Bill Owens
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:01 PM (iTXRQ)
Not locusts...pigeons.
Don't forget folks there's a flight back to NY every hour!
Posted by: Cannibal Blob 'let the great unblobbing begin' at August 11, 2020 06:01 PM (csiRd)
Nobody is going to be moving from Manhattan to the burbs or further, it is all going down. Think of it as a huge version of Detroit or sim.
If you are moving out of the city do not stop before ohio.
Posted by: not so at August 11, 2020 06:01 PM (HALdu)
At this point it's an even bet if NYC recovers from the virus along with the exodus of all of the rich people and the riots. I doubt they will.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2020 06:01 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (mht8P)
That's just sports "yakkety-yak" so it's not so bothersome.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 06:01 PM (WkPC9)
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (0ta/n)
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (+v+zN)
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I have to agree. Las Vegas was way better when the mob ran it. NO COMPARISON.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (pw+jk)
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Look at Long Island where all the beautiful New Yorkers fled from the plague. They will need nearby peasant populations to service their manors. Feudalism here we come.
Posted by: Decaf at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (4D+FL)
I thought it would be the gay guy as a pandering move
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: x at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: Karen Echokunt at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (2X/BM)
Flatten the curve can refer to things besides the Wu Flu.
Posted by: JTB at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (7EjX1)
I haven't been to Colorado in 25 years and even in 1995 the writing was already on the wall.
That place is California 2.0
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (3+DoY)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (oVJmc)
So what happens to all the cultural stuff? Do the museums, theaters, and concert halls eventually bug out too?I could see all that going online as virtual/3D experiences. My pocket protector side keeps up with new tech in sound reproduction and there's a new company (Zylia.com) that's come out with a 3D sound app that lets you virtually walk around on a stage to hear individual musicians up close and all-personable-like.https://tinyurl.com/y6yhzyw5
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: dr kill at A
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well, if we just called it what it is ... a civil war, then we could get on with it. Say that Portland, Seattle, NYC, and Chicago are in open rebellion. Don't let them vote, arrest their federal judges. you know, like what the left would do to us.
anyway...the reason why these shit hole cities are blue blue blue is because they stuff ballot boxes and because of illegals. The people leaving are the people with jobs not the welfare seekers.
Posted by: guest myspace user at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (rnk6i)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: ShainS at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (WfkUm)
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Practice! Practice!
Posted by: andycanuck joe/blow 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (an7Mv)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (cZjDV)
Posted by: Cold Cuts at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (U2yGD)
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (m/Gc2)
Even stupid people stumble over the truth now and then.
NYC was great under Giuliani. But then Bloomberg tried to turn it into a sterile Disneyland-by-the-Hudson, and mostly succeeded. de Blasio of course just fucked everything up.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 11, 2020 06:03 PM (xT2tT)
Posted by: Ed Teach, Maritime Reclamation Specialist at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (O6/GO)
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (+v+zN)
This is also true of the old timers in WNY. They miss the Mob days. 75% at least will tell you so. Well, they won't tell you because they were around in those days and know that you don't talk to outsiders. But they think it.
There are WNY historical Faceboook pages where they post on the anniversaries of the deaths of famous Made Guys, and the comments are a hoot Everybody misses the Maggadinos and wants the Mob back!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (FtO5h)
Posted by: Ned Stark at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Just Lily at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: freaked at August 11, 2020 05:48 PM (Tnijr)
Rent is not subject to the free market in NYC. Rent is based upon the prior lease, plus 10% vacancy fee. Rent never goes down in price here -- ever. And once rent controlled apartments have their long-term tenants die or leave, that apartment goes full 'market' value, jumping in price 200% or more.
I think we'll be seeing a lot of residential and commercial real estate companies go tits up. Of course, Kaiser Wilhelm will be happy, he'll use all that vacant commercial real estate for some sort of social justice bullshit.
Posted by: RickZ at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (Y8PSl)
This was a NYT reader comment. Trolling or serious?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 05:54 PM (m/Gc2)
Troll. People pining for the old days weren't there.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 11, 2020 05:56 PM (wGeit)
I've seen people online saying they miss the graffiti covered subway cars because it had "character".
These people are likely lifelong degenerates who somehow haven't died from drugs or AIDS.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (j3npP)
Seething, sickening hate.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 11, 2020 05:58 PM (ptqGC)
Look at it this way, Jane: If Trump does lose, it's probably going to be nationwide anarchy anyway, so you and your friends should have some opportunities to carry out some forced removals.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (Vgw1E)
Time marches on. Hold on tight!
Posted by: eastofsuez at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (U2zca)
I'm looking for a way to get out of Illinois. I'm thinking SD or ND.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Swizle at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (xL3/1)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (oJp6K)
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (Q3ZwH)
They'll come here and tell us everything we're doing wrong.
A sign I saw in the control room of a plant here in Texas: "I Don't Care How You Did Things Up North"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (mht8P)"
This is not new ... I remember seeing that sign on a desk in Texas about 30 years ago.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (CNGys)
Posted by: goodluckduck at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (vMYGz)
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (+v+zN)
I sure miss when the squeegee men came out on the west side hwy in lovely, entertaining clusters and cleaned/dirtied my windshield and then held me up for $50 bucks - aww the Dinkins years - so alive and authentic - so full of life...and death.
Who wouldn't dream of going back to those days!
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (EgshT)
But abandoning law and property isn't going to bring back what was then. You won't get strip bars back in Times Square. Scorcese New York is gone.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (q2K0j)
Depends on which welfare seekers you're talking about.
There are the ones that subsist on welfare.
Then there are the welfare-seekers that seek to extract welfare from other people's pockets. Especially yours.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: Willie Brown. at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (Z2qFv)
Posted by: Seems Legit at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (jUVms)
But why? This deliberate expulsion of the middle classes, mostly but not exclusively White, makes no sense. Is the idea to make the cities become feudal in nature, with a wealthy, largely White gentry and mostly poor non-White peasants? The end game makes no sense.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (puu6v)
"Welcome to Texas, please leave your voting habits at the door."
"Welcome to Texas, please be an ant, not a locust."
"I don't want to hear how you did things in California because the state's stuck on stupid."
Posted by: pookysgirl, marketing guru at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (XKZwp)
Posted by: klaftern at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (RuIsu)
Black people simply don't like her. Putting her at the top of the ticket and saying "She's here!" isn't going to do fcuk all. Like a lot of 'rons and 'ettes, I really thought they were going to pick Orca or Big Mike.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (7Fj9P)
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I think this will happen. Regional hub offices with physical presence, and everyone within a state or two is anchored to it.
And if this happens, it is going to seriously change location dynamics. Suddenly, it doesn't matter where I live. The appeal of the cities is two-fold. On the personal side, you have a better chance of meeting a mate in the dating numbers game, and there are amenities like theaters, variety of restaurants, museums, etc. Those won't change.
On the professional front, though, it's a different story. The need for a massive human network - that is, a city - to drive job opportunities won't be nearly as big a deal. If this becomes normal, the cities will start to leak people. If you already have a mate, especially if kids are involved, moving someplace bigger and cheaper - even if it was economically non-diverse yesterday - will suddenly be appealing. I don't think it will lead to de-urbanization where everyone moves to 40 acres in small enclaves, but I think it could well drive out-migration from big cities and a redistribution to small and medium cities, all of which become much closer to each other in size.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: moviegique at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (CcUfv)
Can't imagine everyone will flee.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (WkPC9)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (oJp6K)
Not really. Who put the turds in charge?
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (o2MD2)
Stuff your masks, Donnie.
Posted by: Guy Smiley
Exactly
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (luzVb)
None of that stuff survives without very rich patrons.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: moviegique at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (CcUfv)
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Yep, they were why I left VA, and my family has lived there since it was a British colony.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (k4dH2)
Fuck off with your mask shit.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: BifBewalski at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (VcFUs)
Posted by: ... at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (uEbPt)
Stay in your shit holes. I repeat, stay in your shit holes.
Your Governor needs you now more than ever!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (Z+IKu)
I went back there later in that decade to a game in the Bronx. The New York fans yelled and mocked the other team incessantly, but with no curse words. I am not a New Yorker, but I would take that place over the city that tried to ban large Cokes.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (o1Bgo)
1. Collapse the system
2. something, something
3. Total control
4. Profit!
Posted by: Some Guy in the Neighborhood at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (7Fj9P)
Posted by: An Observation at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (7zUjo)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (Wm5SB)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (3+DoY)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (DMUuz)
None of that stuff survives without very rich patrons.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (qpX6U)
Those will stay, walled off from the peasantry and kept up by the feudal lords.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (puu6v)
1. Collapse the system
2. something, something
3. Total control
4. Profit!
Posted by: Some Guy in the Neighborhood
I think it's the #3 thingy.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (XTyi0)
Fuck off with your mask shit.
Yep. It's his biggest flaw and it's a big one.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (FtO5h)
Just finished building three facilities with very large Open Work Areas that were meant to accommodate 50 to 100 desks plus offices, every one is working from home.
My integration company just shuttered it's PM and Project Coordinator building since we are now permanently working out of homes.
This op is going to end up causing a complete societal paradigm shift, I'm not quite sure if every aspect of the shift was thought out, but here it. comes.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (xBxJz)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (ejsiI)
2. Donald Trump's Presidency Ends on 1/20/2025;
3. Donald Trump, Jr. and Donald Trump, Sr. Buy ALL of the Available Empty Commercial Real Estate in NYC;
4. The Trumps Rebuild NYC;
5. PROFIT!!
Posted by: Sharkman at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (BM2fS)
Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (EgshT)
1. Collapse the system
2. something, something
3. Total control
4. Profit!
I am simply at a loss. Is all this shit supposed to encourage or discourage our enemies?
Because if I am America's enemy ? I am licking my chops right about now.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (iTXRQ)
/I expect they'll got under by October.
Posted by: shibumi, living in Clown World at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (ZCiJZ)
Posted by: Ed Teach, Maritime Reclamation Specialist at August 11, 2020 06:04 PM (O6/GO)
Cool nic, bro!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (PiwSw)
Heh
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (Q3ZwH)
Makes me wonder how long all of the black supporters are going to keep doing their victory dance on twatter. I know they've got the memory of a mayfly, but one would think more than a few aren't going to feel much like going on that Tuesday if they keep getting their noses rubbed in her record.
Thank goodness the mail in voting will take care of it for them.
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: Governor Stack 'em like Cord-wood at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (7Fj9P)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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It ain't salsa, but Texas Pete is made in NC. May not be Texas, but it ain't NY either.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (830x5)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (XTyi0)
Easy on the flat-out killin', eh?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 05:55 PM (FtO5h)
Well, the way I'm looking at things is this: we're rapidly heading towards moving from a Cold Civil War to a hot one. As far as I'm concerned NYC is a legitimate military target not really any different than Hiroshima. Nothing but money and poison flows from NYC and now the cost of the poison greatly exceeds the benefits of the money.
I'm sorry for the good people who still live in these areas but...these Metropolis Monstrosities are a fucking malignant cancer that is eating the soul of this country. There is no saving them.
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (+v+zN)
But even worse than that are movie theaters, who have HUGE areas of real estate with zero business for six months.
Six months, paying rent, insurance, power, water, everything with zero income. Sure, the costs are lower without being open, but they still exist, and the tax man still wants his cut for your 3 block megaplex and its parking.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (KZzsI)
s-ton of those license plates when commuting to work or out and and
about. Thanks a bunch.
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Yep, they were why I left VA, and my family has lived there since it was a British colony.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (k4dH2)
PA cities too. I always wondered why they left those places where their sports heroes were for The Swamp. You can't go home again but you can take some of it with you.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: ... at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (uEbPt)
1. Collapse the system
2. something, something
3. Total control
4. Profit!
Posted by: Some Guy in the Neighborhood at August 11, 2020 06:08 PM (7Fj9P)
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It makes sense. Perfect sense. It's all in how you define "profit."
If you're after total power and social dominance, where everyone is cowed and you're the cock of the walk as you strut through throngs of serfs while you hold forth from your position of enlightenment and authority and everyone does as you say or is put to death, then this is all just brilliant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (q2K0j)
Yup. But I want Giuliani's NYC back. I'll even add Bloomberg's first term.
Safe, fun, great neighborhoods with character, and people mostly got along, because otherwise the cops were going to take you to jail.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (xT2tT)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 11, 2020 06:12 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2020 06:06 PM (hYcqw)
One of the problems from "distributive" work outside cities and in the home environment is the loss of young, go go workers that come to cities to thrive and met other go go workers. Another type culture will need to take its place. Young people are:
1. Cheap
2, Work long hours - no family yet
3. Motivated - because other young workers and want to make career
If the city is clean, fun, and safe...it works. Otherwise, Skippy is going unloved, unmotivated, and sour in his mommy's basement.
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:12 PM (w2LAm)
Stuff your masks, Donnie.
Posted by: Guy Smiley
Exactly
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (luzVb)
I agree, but I continue to predict that masks are now "the new normal" and your grandchildren will wonder at a time when people didn't wear them because they hated humanity.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 06:12 PM (2JVJo)
Heh
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (Q3ZwH)
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As I mentioned in previous thread, Pence should sit Tulsi in the front row at the VP debate
Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at August 11, 2020 06:12 PM (0ta/n)
Posted by: chicagolurker at August 11, 2020 06:12 PM (G3YV1)
None of that stuff survives without very rich patrons.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:07 PM (qpX6U)
Those will stay, walled off from the peasantry and kept up by the feudal lords.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM
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Kind of like Universities, if the sports go and the alumni close their checkbooks it all falls apart eventually.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2020 06:12 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: idlan at August 11, 2020 06:13 PM (FOOiW)
Posted by: Kensington at August 11, 2020 06:13 PM (IRDr0)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:05 PM (qpX6U)
I would have settled for Wisconsin. But no. I live 4 blocks inside cook county in a northern blue suburb full of woke Karens and Chads.
Good thing though. I was worried about housing prices tanking. Likely still a chance to now get some City transplant money if only I can convince the wife. Somehow, saying "I really fricking hate ever second I spend in this crap hole, ever day, every second..." falls on deaf, unconcerned ears.
Posted by: Keith at August 11, 2020 06:13 PM (jdGlx)
Hoity toity donors can keep the big ones alive and running (plus the more established ones have large foundations to keep them open) but yeah smaller art galleries, off-off-off broadway theaters, etc... not so much.
The thing is this kind of thing doesn't really harm the rich and powerful at all. Its a minor inconvenience. The poor still get their government checks and their stuff is still more or less open, that hasn't changed much.
Its the hated middle class that's being destroyed here. Small businesses, moderately wealthy land owners who rent apartments, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (KZzsI)
Wonder what their gonna do with all those orange shake down buckets used at intermission.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (xsKwf)
Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (OjZpE)
#DBTSH = Don't Bring That Shit Here
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (HaL55)
Watch movies at home. Better at home than at the theater, for about six dozen reasons. Almost all forms of destination entertainment are doomed.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (qpX6U)
2. Eliminate the middle class
3. Total control
4. Profit!
/see how it works?
Posted by: shibumi, living in Clown World at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (ZCiJZ)
Posted by: Wishful Thinking at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (U2yGD)
Posted by: Karen Echokunt at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (2X/BM)
Then by all means continue your mass murder fantasies and hope Ace is cool with it. It ain't my blog, all I can do is ask that you not fantasize aloud about murdering my friends and family.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (FtO5h)
233 Red States should change residency requirements to 2-3 years verifiable residency before allowing the locust to vote.
Posted by: idlan at August 11, 2020 06:13 PM (FOOiW)
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F*ck that noise. Natural born citizens only.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (xsKwf)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (KZzsI)
Heh
Heh, indeed.
Per Ali (https://twitter.com/ali), the way to effectively slam her is hit on her mass incarceration of blacks and that she's not really all that progressive. Progressives hate her, apparently -- think Kim Foxx in Chicago pledging to not prosecute lesser crimes and emptying prisons vs. Kamala's prosecutorial zeal.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Cheri at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (IB1Pj)
Posted by: attila the annoying at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (+v+zN)
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I have to agree. Las Vegas was way better when the mob ran it. NO COMPARISON.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (pw+jk)
Who thinks that the Mob would have let some putz gun down 400 of their customers from a hotel window?
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (Kpl3J)
DC turned Virginia Blue.
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The District has been there for centuries. Northern Virginia didn't start to become a cesspool of leftist Yankee transplants and illegal aliens until the 80's.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (k4dH2)
/I expect they'll got under by October.
Posted by: shibumi
your client is too stupid to adjust his printer preferences to black and white? yeah, they're toast.
Posted by: x at August 11, 2020 06:16 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:10 PM (iTXRQ)
They've been pushing that and general national park visitors being the domains of whitey. Whitey loves to hike. Whitey loves to camp. Whitey loves to river raft. Whitey loves to ride donkeys in the grand canyon.
No doubt, if we put a few
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:16 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2020 06:16 PM (rLnZe)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:09 PM (3+DoY)
Not in my neck of the woods. The NY/NJ gang did. Bunch of my neighbors are transplants from that area. Back in 2017 they all were putting out their Govie Blackface signs out on the lawns. Not totally blaming them but when I'm in a store and hear the accent and the attitude... I just move on...hopefully soon.
Posted by: Ed Teach, Maritime Reclamation Specialist at August 11, 2020 06:16 PM (O6/GO)
Ft. Worth guy after dropping NY investor at the Dallas Airport "There's no better sight than a Yankee with a gift Stetson in his hand and a confused look on his face walking up the jetway."
Posted by: Meremortal at August 11, 2020 06:16 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: T.J. at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (U2yGD)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Swallow the Rabbit Whole at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: Jean at August 11, 2020 06:16 PM (rLnZe)
++++++++++++
They'll move to wherever their owners move. In a trip that takes 2-3 times longer because you get to cool your jets recharging.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (hYcqw)
My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos, ruined dreams, this wasted land...
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (yQpMk)
The universities, concert halls, theaters, opera companies, orchestras, etc. can all be replaced.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (mht8P)
.....
Sounds like a good reason for Pride Celebration Invoices every month.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (xsKwf)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (qpX6U)
Republicans should be focusing on the fact that Nancy Pelosi is asking for 300 million in the House Stimulus Bill to hire community police.
So everyones federal tax dollars have to go to big cities where the Dem Councils want to feel good about firing or disbanding their police force.
Kamala is a law and order pick to reassure some of the Dems own Karens in big blue cities that are worried about their own safety and businesses in the big blue city bastions that cannot even provide the basic need of safety.
Posted by: Cardi B at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (DpNof)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Edited. It is happening here, they are streaming in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (830x5)
"If big cities do decline, and universities also decline, that's a double blow to the highly functional Blue America that we built since 1990. The material basis of American liberalism will be dramatically eroded.'
"Highly Functional Blue America"
https://is.gd/Q4IPq7
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (OeBYn)
"But even worse than that are movie theaters, who have HUGE areas of real estate with zero business for six months."
Watch movies at home. Better at home than at the theater, for about
six dozen reasons. Almost all forms of destination entertainment are
doomed.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM
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Movie theaters as we know them are dead, at least around here.
$3.00 for a movie and cheap subsidized popcorn just to get people in to generate some income and they ain't coming. The parking lots are empty.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: I Have Questions at
get the fuck out
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:15 PM (KZzsI)
They are already getting the message - rental houses and apartments in LI are skyrocketing, the mass exodus has begun - even Cuomo is on TV now begging people to stay in NYC - but its over.
If you can be looted and burned out in an instant, you ain't staying.
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (w2LAm)
Stew in the shithole of your own making, commie bastards.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Dave at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (KWYbg)
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They had one foot in the grave before the whuflu. What killed movie theaters is Hollywood's shitty movies. I still would rather see a movie on the big screen than at home if there was a descent one to see. I haven't been to a theater in almost 2 years.
Posted by: Pliney at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (nzKWW)
Its the hated middle class that's being destroyed here. Small businesses, moderately wealthy land owners who rent apartments, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:14 PM (KZzsI)
Exactly, Christopher. The Covid overreaction and the race riots were geared toward forcing the middle class to flee. Maybe the neogentry wants to be called "my Lords" and "my Ladies" and "my Xhes," and how what is shaking out differs from what someone sees in Latin America is a distinction without a difference. The gentry and peasantry who remain are Kamala's target audience at a political level. It is a hellscape.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (qpX6U)
Actually there is. I live there. Where you ask? Well, rite heah!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (o2MD2)
I can't believe that city that I recall is dead.
Posted by: attila the annoying at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (w7KSn)
DC turned Virginia Blue.
Posted by: garr
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immigration turned Va, cali, NYC, NV, NM, OR, WA blue
Posted by: guest myspace user at August 11, 2020 06:19 PM (rnk6i)
Posted by: random lurker commenter at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (48RE5)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (r+sAi)
after that, NYC will wither and die
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Screw that! Hellmouth is the perfect place for the UN.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (d6mdH)
"If big cities do decline, and universities also decline, that's a double blow to the highly functional Blue America that we built since 1990. The material basis of American liberalism will be dramatically eroded.'
"Highly Functional Blue America"
https://is.gd/Q4IPq7
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Who is it that said "that which cannot continue, won't"?
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (XTyi0)
target not really any different than Hiroshima.
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:11 PM (+v+zN)
This is idiocy. Are you really that stupid and ignorant and angry and jingoistic and parochial, or are you just pretending for effect?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (xT2tT)
Posted by: Lebron Horowitz at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (UFgOG)
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And paintball arenas!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (+y/Ru)
Like the peaceful protestors, they can't help themselves.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (K2LNV)
her and Joe...just two big crime stoppers!
Posted by: guest myspace user at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (rnk6i)
1. Collapse the system
2. something, something
3. Total control
4. Profit!
I am simply at a loss. Is all this shit supposed to encourage or discourage our enemies?
Because if I am America's enemy ? I am licking my chops right about now.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020
You have to understand who our politicians are working for. 100 percent of the Democrats and 95 percent of the Republicans are being paid directly by Soros, Russia and China to do Soros's and those countries' bidding.
Our politicians don't give a shit about anything but being in power and getting rich, by any means necessary. If Biden is elected, we will never have a fair election ever again in America due to vote fraud.
Neither Russia or China or Soros can invade and destroy America, but it can be destroyed from within. Once we no longer have free elections, the UniParty takes over, and we are slaves working to pay taxes that are stolen wholesale by our politicians.
We're fucked if Biden is elected.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (BM2fS)
Then what is the trickle down effect on other businesses? All those little sandwich shops that cater to the business lunch crowd will be gone since there will be no crowd.
How about clothing? If most people do not need to dress up for work, what will that do?
It will be fascinating to see.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (cZjDV)
Damn socialists ruining the country.
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (VTLGo)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (h+r2H)
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (l3+k2)
Like the peaceful protestors, they can't help themselves.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (K2LNV)'
Please stay in CA, then.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (WkPC9)
Posted by: klaftern at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (xsKwf)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (qpX6U)
I hear ya, but it was the spirit of compromise (that was also ignored). Being big into the 2nd Amendment I figured Wisconsin might be purple, but they love their guns. I'm so tired of that fight. I have been making calls to the tools that represent me and speaking at meetings and trying to help the local groups for too long already.
Also, better opportunities for summer and winter outdoor activities.
Posted by: Keith at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (jdGlx)
"If big cities do decline, and universities also decline, that's a double blow to the highly functional Blue America that we built since 1990. The material basis of American liberalism will be dramatically eroded.'
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I can't be broke, i still have checks in my checkbook!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 11, 2020 06:18 PM (JUOKG)
The last time I went to a movie in NYC, just a few years ago ('Wind River'), it was $15 per, with sports stadium-priced snacks and drinks, two sodas and a container of popcorn for $20.
Posted by: RickZ at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (Y8PSl)
I'm not quite sure if every aspect of the shift was thought out, but
here it. comes.
We've been hearing about how great tele-commuting was supposed to be for at least a decade now, but control-freak bidness owners wouldn't allow it because control-freaks.
Now it's pretty much been forced on them and they have no choice.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: guest myspace user at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (rnk6i)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (yQpMk)
used to be a nice place, relatively conservative
now I hear it is rapidly acquiring Shithole status because of immigration from Wash DC
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (iTXRQ)
Virginia went down because of:
Mass Immigration
An influx of Northerners
The prominence of the deep state. This can not be opposed by most Republicans. If you can't beat them, join them.
And lefty teaching at all levels.
with even all of that said most counties in VA vote red. It is a numbers game and the left has it figured out.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:22 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (w2LAm)
after that, NYC will wither and die
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Screw that! Hellmouth is the perfect place for the UN.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (d6mdH)
The diplomats from Lagos and Bogota will feel right at home.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (puu6v)
Posted by: guest myspace user at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (rnk6i)
We're on it like white on privileged rice. Stay safe.
Posted by: A Scold of Karens at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (EgshT)
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Anything produced by wypipo should be removed for safekeeping.
Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (d6mdH)
DC Policies. Like immigration.
J Street. K Street.
SEIU.
DC is and continues to be the problem.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (K2LNV)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (qpX6U)
If you find it, let me know. If I could, I'd leave MA in a heartbeat.*
*It's a lovebeat, as you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (OjZpE)
Maine in a heart beat just for the weather, but, mom is 80 and wants to avoid assisted living. Chinco's a nice beach town and the area is getting redder every year.
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (4vNgL)
If people abandon cities what will happen to all the electric cars
they will go feral and roam the streets in large packs. there will be sporty moments as the packs vie for ownership of abandoned city blocks. in the end, one will emerge triumphant and unite the city for the advancement of the species. theirs, not ours.
Posted by: Anachronda at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: guest myspace user at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (rnk6i)
Nope
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (w2LAm)
Like the peaceful protestors, they can't help themselves.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (K2LNV)
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This is your projection more than anything else. One jerk is commenting, and you don't know where he's from.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: I Have Questions at August 11, 2020 06:00 PM (+v+zN)
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Las Vegas kept the freak shows behind closed doors when the mob ran the place. Arguably, it was more family friendly.
Yeah, I have been around long enough to see both.
Posted by: blake - goin mobile at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (ZYbHn)
They got Chicago comics.
Earl Geier, the store manager for Graham Crackers Comics, which was hit for a second time Sunday.
The store sustained more damage during looting in June, Mr. Geier said, but on Sunday, the looters cleaned out a case with high-ticket items, including , valued at $3,000. It wasnt a beautiful copy at all,
he said, adding it would have been worth much more if it had been in better condition.
Posted by: DaveA at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (FhXTo)
It's like an inverse broken windows as seen through an economic prism.
We'll watch it but I don't know if it will be fun.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (xBxJz)
the time to take a useless stand on masks and give the other side the
ammo they need
Oh of course, of course.
Not The Hill To Die On (tm)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (luzVb)
or
Highly Functional Royal Family > Highly Functional Blue America
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 11, 2020 06:25 PM (+y/Ru)
Why two? One has no winter, the other has a really nice summer. Both have 4 season world-class recreation nearby.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 11, 2020 06:25 PM (3myMJ)
True confession, I've worn the same shirt for a week.
I would just go shirtless but it just doesn't feel like work that way. Pantless sure, but a shirt is required.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 06:25 PM (yQpMk)
They're already here. They're why places like Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach County have turned blue.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 06:25 PM (NWiLs)
oh my.. you want out and I want in. I seriously don't know what we're gonna do.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 11, 2020 06:25 PM (dUJdY)
WYOMING
warning; the weather can be ... dramatic
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: DaveA at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (FhXTo)
I've seen some hilarious Kamala cop themes. Looking forward to more.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (9hauA)
I had an interview today with a firm in Phoenix. I got an offer last week for a job in DC that would be all telework for the moment, and maybe even after the lockdowns are lifted. Right now I'm leaning towards Phoenix, if they make an offer.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (SgjGX)
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If I moved to Phoenix I'd have to do telework, because after arriving in a building with air-conditioning I would never leave again. For even one minute. Coronavirus lockdown is mild compared to what I'd have to impose on myself.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (1YYgA)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (h+r2H)
Damn socialists ruining the country.
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (VTLGo)
Get an RV, go up to Flagstaff, you can probably find a Walmart that will let you park overnight there. Weather's nice, it'll be fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (Kpl3J)
I'm working in a pair of boxers and a white undershirt right now. I've shown up to more than one video conference in this state. I usually comb my hair.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (H5knJ)
I have a sneaking suspicion that Hollywood is going to Harikiri themselves with super woke films when things start to open up again. And the theater owners are going to take it right in the shorts.
How about clothing? If most people do not need to dress up for work, what will that do?
Yeah its a cascading effect we're already seeing. Businesses and business culture is very interdependent and silicon Valley's Star Trekian dream of all online top down culture will destroy the economy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:27 PM (KZzsI)
ignorant and angry and jingoistic and parochial, or are you just
pretending for effect?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 11, 2020 06:20 PM (xT2tT)
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what he said...
Posted by: redc1c4 at August 11, 2020 06:27 PM (kb/by)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 11, 2020 06:24 PM (sWM8x)
Think whatever you want, but a quick perusal of the comments will show the truth, asshole.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:27 PM (K2LNV)
Agree 100%. People focus way too much on states they want to move to instead of cities or towns. Lots of places in CA I could live in and lots of places in TX Id never want to live in for example.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (h+r2H)
WYOMING
warning; the weather can be ... dramatic
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (iTXRQ)
Wyoming is full. Moose out front should have told you.
South Dakota is full too.
Try North Dakota. They also have dramatic weather.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (rw1l7)
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The near-sightedness of the Left/Prog/Lib/Dems is astounding. Completely unable to make correlations, reach rational conclusions.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (830x5)
This is the gaslight campaign. It's all media hype.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (ZLI7S)
and government officials, employees, and contractors
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (iTXRQ)
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It will be over the day after the election
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (wNdGA)
I haven't turned on video since.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (luzVb)
Mohammed Atta. Commenting from Hell.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (MW0rc)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (nFRLh)
Anyone fleeing the Big Road Apple should receive a warm greeting from the Welcome Wagon, and -
a severe beating with a tire iron.
Ju-u-u-ust so they understand we won't be tolerating any of their stupid commie voting antics and them ruining the towns where we live.
To clear the air as it were.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (dWwl8)
I think the Democrats believe that, like with Obama, they can convince blacks that she's all down with the struggle and authentic despite being basically a laughing stock at first. But they have a lot less time and more social media resistance this time around.
Sometimes you gotta say shit to the low-fos to get elected. This isn't the time to take a useless stand on masks and give the other side the ammo they need
Unfortunately, yes. This is part of the job I couldn't do as president. He had a choice between "LOL F-Masks!" and "wear one!"
The former would just make him seem like a heartless bastard who wanted people to die, and the left would have gone absolutely berserk with it.
The latter is annoying but tolerable until this crap washes over.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (h+r2H)
++++++++++
This is true, but not for taxes. There are places in CA that would be fine, but that tax structure is untenable - and it's state wide. Yeah, you might not have the various local taxes, but even the state tax structures in a lot of the deep blue places are completely foul.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (hYcqw)
Posted by: Pliney at August 11, 2020 06:30 PM (nzKWW)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 11, 2020 06:02 PM (pw+jk)
Well ok then. Hey, here's an idea: just let The Mafia run everything! No more elections, no more politicians, no police, no nothing. Just let a few oligarchical families run everything. It'll be like Florence in the Renaissance!
Just kiss the ring and bend the knee peasants.
Posted by: NYC Delenda Est at August 11, 2020 06:30 PM (BvNzB)
but I visited the Tetons once, in June, and it was spectacular
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:30 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (1YYgA)
as some may recall, I've posted that I grew up in Phoenix/Scottsdale and loved it, still have plenty of family there. Everything is air conditioned, so you don't have to be in the heat if you don't want to. Here in Texas, it's been in the upper 90's every day for the last two weeks, and that's with about 90% humidity - so, you get used to it, and stay out of it.
In Phoenix there are so many swimming pools that you can stay in one all the time if you want. Look at new subdivisions from the air and you'll see almost every other house has one. That's how you get through the summer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:30 PM (Kpl3J)
I'd be surprised if it lasts that long. The virus is dying in the southern "hot spots", places we were told 2 weeks ago were the next NYC.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (h+r2H)
Also, she is from a solidly blue state, so she doesn't even bring any potential hometown EC votes.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:27 PM (K2LNV)
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Thanks. I was so hoping I'd get your permission.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (sWM8x)
For tourists, sure. For residents its probably at least as bad now as it was back then.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (KZzsI)
Think whatever you want, but a quick perusal of the comments will show the truth, asshole.
Posted by: garrett
Says the guy who regularly laughs about Sherman burning Atlanta.
Seriously man, that knife cuts both ways. And this is exactly what they want.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (luzVb)
Anyone fleeing the Big Road Apple should receive a warm greeting from the Welcome Wagon, and -
a severe beating with a tire iron.
Ju-u-u-ust so they understand we won't be tolerating any of their stupid commie voting antics and them ruining the towns where we live.
To clear the air as it were.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (dWwl
*stretches*
*cracks knuckles*
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (NWiLs)
It will be fascinating to see.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (GbPPJ)
Honestly, based on what I've seen people wear in the office I doubt it will be that much of a change.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: andycanuck joe/blow 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (an7Mv)
a severe beating with a tire iron.
Ju-u-u-ust so they understand we won't be tolerating any of their stupid commie voting antics and them ruining the towns where we live.
To clear the air as it were.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 11, 2020 06:29
you look good in black. what do you have painted on your shield?
Posted by: not so at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (4vNgL)
Just kiss the ring and bend the knee peasants.
Posted by: NYC Delenda Est at August 11, 2020 06:30 PM (BvNzB)
If this country goes down, I'll choose to join up with the cartels and live under them before I'll live under the soi-boys and the SJW's. At least they know what Men and Women are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (Kpl3J)
Posted by: CUS at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (emtTP)
So, not bad.
Posted by: Ktgreat at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (AD3JT)
Hot weather is hard on virii, when it cools down again and cold season starts up again, it will ramp up again and they can start screaming pandemic again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (KZzsI)
This is the gaslight campaign. It's all media hype.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (ZLI7S)
It is just starting. Wait until the only person out campaigning for Biden is his Veep nominee while he stays in his bunker. It's either a total gaslighting operation or there is something going totally over my head (such as they plan not to acknowledge the results or cheat so much they can claim to have won).
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (puu6v)
on the big screen than at home if there was a descent one to see.
not certain whether typo or demand for movie based on video game.
Posted by: Anachronda at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:27 PM (K2LNV)
......
I'll have to agree with garrett.
I do not welcome lefty locusts from liberal shitholes.
If that makes me the equivalent of AntiFa and BLM, then so be it.
There are worse fates than being thought badly of by leftoids. It really isn't a change from the status quo anyway.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (xsKwf)
isn't the time to take a useless stand on masks and give the other side
the ammo they need
Unfortunately, yes. This is part of the job I couldn't do as president. He had a choice between "LOL F-Masks!" and "wear one!"
The former would just make him seem like a heartless bastard who
wanted people to die, and the left would have gone absolutely berserk
with it.
The former would just make him seem like a heartless bastard who
wanted people to die, and the left would have gone absolutely berserk
with it.
Oh FFS.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (h+r2H)
I would never live in CA just because of the taxes.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (SgjGX)
This is the gaslight campaign. It's all media hype.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2020 06:28 PM (ZLI7S)
Yup - think about this, Jack - the most momentous decision of your campaign - the one the press, who are in your lap, are drooling over - and you're not coming out for the best PR your team will ever get?
Yeah, he's eating tapioca pudding right now with a drool bib around his neck and every fucking person in the press and the US for that matter, knows it. What a farce.
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: CUS
Holy shit. Broadway makes that kind of jack?
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (XTyi0)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (FU1zC)
oh my.. you want out and I want in. I seriously don't know what we're gonna do.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 11, 2020 06:25 PM (dUJdY)
Can't get out if there's nowhere to go. I've hated it here since we moved and I was a kid with no say in the matter. It's hot and dreary and I can't grow cherries. No one likes greenery here. It's all gravel yards unless you're in the don't-even-ask-the-price neighborhoods. A lawn is sneered at by neighbors. Large shade providing trees are cut down the minute a house is sold. My hatred grows the longer I stay and now it gets worse with every minute that I watch my real home and any potential homes get destroyed by leftist politics. The politics here aren't that great. Maybe there's fight left, we'll see. I'll probably die here anyway, so I guess I'll be along for the ride, whether I want it or not.
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (VTLGo)
How do you keep the pool water cool enough to go in?
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (Q3ZwH)
Did you recently move to our red state or city from a blue state or city in which you voted blue, and are fleeing because of what they did to it? If yes, then you cannot vote here. You're lucky we let you move hete, but you definitely don't get to vote here. Sit down and shut up.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (j3jZX)
I like to think my vote here helped put Trump in office.
Most of the locusts/cancer will move to warmer climes.
Come to WI. Help keep it purple/reddish.
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (l3+k2)
Six months from now: Oh, I guess we do.
But that recognition probably requires too much self-awareness.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (H8QX8)
This is the gaslight campaign. It's all media hype.
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Reminds me of Carter who wouldn't want to leave the White House to campaign because he "was working hard to release the hostages."
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (4k/Uz)
I haven't turned on video since.
Posted by: deplorable unperson
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I don't even do that, I pasted up a picture of my dog. People don't even ask anymore.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (pK7cg)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (dNzKv)
Enjoy your fall. If you want to scratch your football itch, head on over to CBS or the SEC Network.
Cheers!
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (nu45M)
You'd think they'd be thanking us for stopping all the sister humping and giving them things like indoor plumbing and shoes.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (ZLI7S)
Well, they had it coming.
Truth. And I'm from the south.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (XrCyE)
How do you keep the pool water cool enough to go in?
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (Q3ZwH)
Ice cubes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (aEZVI)
Here are some of the must-have relocation criteria I've cooked up:
Electricity
Heating
Water
Sewer (don't want to mess with septic tank)
Internet
Basement / tornado shelter (if needed)
No flooding
Low taxes
Low maint house
Snow removal (if needed)
Stores within 25 mi
Healthcare and dental within 25 mi
Low crime
Unlikely to turn blue politically
I think cold places are probably better than warm places, to discourage certain demographics from moving there. So maybe ND or SD.
I'd happily settle for a trailer park, if it's in a good loc. I saw a great deal on a new trailer near Huron, SD, but when I google-earthed it, it's clearly sited in a floodplain.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (h+r2H)
Posted by: Old Blue at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (VNmG1)
state. A place that looks and feels and thinks like America did in 1955,
if there are any left.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:17 PM (qpX6U)
If you find it, let me know. If I could, I'd leave MA in a heartbeat.*
*It's a lovebeat, as you know.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 06:23 PM (2JVJo)
Let me know too. As soon as my father and the inlaws, who are all in their 80's go carbon neutral I'm taking a big shit on the welcome to NJ sign, flipping it the bird ,and getting the fuck out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (9Om/r)
Trump: " I believe in the American people and their right to choose what's best for them and their family's health."
Yeah, heartless motherfucker right there.
Gimme a fucking break. But then he did come from a city where they take away your guns and post signs on the street telling you "NO STOPPING". So I guess obeisance to the State comes easier.
Kristi Noem has bigger balls.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (luzVb)
If I moved to Phoenix I'd have to do telework, because after arriving in a building with air-conditioning I would never leave again. For even one minute. Coronavirus lockdown is mild compared to what I'd have to impose on myself.
______________
Eh, you get used to the heat. Besides, the other six months of the year, the weather can't be beat.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: not so at August 11, 2020 06:31 PM (HALdu)
Whaaat?
Did you get whacked on the noggin with a frozen halibut or something?
Posted by: naturalfake at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (dWwl8)
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (3yElv)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (h+r2H)
The weather in Wyoming is not its strongest selling point, but its better than places further north and the place is one of the last few really frontier kind of places with that attitude toward the law and citizen responsibility. Its mostly "take care of yourself" without the One Big City ruining the state.
Missouri for example is a "leave me the hell alone" state but it has two suppurating sores that ruin the state for everyone else.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Eromero at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (XhWtx)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (4k/Uz)
Did you recently move to our red state or city from a blue state or city in which you voted blue, and are fleeing because of what they did to it? If yes, then you cannot vote here. You're lucky we let you move hete, but you definitely don't get to vote here. Sit down and shut up.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (j3jZX)
Earlier today I proposed a ten-year moratorium on such folk being allowed to vote in any city, county or state elections.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (aEZVI)
Posted by: Ben Had at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (MW0rc)
a Walmart that will let you park overnight there. Weather's nice,
it'll be fun.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:26 PM (Kpl3J)
Flag's overrun by protestors, apparently. Also, we have too many animals to just pack up for an overnight. Used to love Flag. Planned to move up there.Not anymore. I want out.
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (VTLGo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:30 PM (Kpl3J)
I had figured as much. Then you ride out into the desert and shot guns. Lots of guns. Lots of ammo through the guns (cleaning up after yourself, of course). Then you go ATVing. Then shoot more guns and camp out under the stars. Then go swimming in your pool.
Or you live in cook county Illinois, where I pay as much in property tax on my modest home as others pay for a place with a pool AND tennis court with a MCMansion attached. And the MC Mansion is cheaper than my house. And everyone wants to tell me how to live and how bad guns are and how we need to live as one big collective where Karen is in charge and Chad (or is it Ken?) is her subordinate he/him partner. And...
Well. Better stop typing and start drinking.
Posted by: Keith at August 11, 2020 06:36 PM (jdGlx)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (SgjGX)
Absolutely not. At best, Harris appeals to White liberals in general and AWFL's in particular, and if Biden doesn't have them nailed down at this point he is in worse shape than it appears.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat (Joe Biden Didn't Kill Himself at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (puu6v)
We all got it coming.
Right, but when you guys get what's coming to you, it's a comedy. When I get what's coming to me, it's a tragedy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: klaftern at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: brak at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (cG+eD)
Posted by: Ripley at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (sGobE)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (4k/Uz)
Well, they had it coming.
Truth. And I'm from the south.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (XrCyE)
Sherman's troops did a lot of burning in Georgia, but it was actually the Confederates themselves who burned Atlanta, to keep Sherman from capturing it intact. (GWTW actually got that part right)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (Kpl3J)
I lived down there for one of the record runs in Tucson. Something like 20 days of 115+.
We rode and climbed every day that summer.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (3yElv)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (dNzKv)
Not a fan of the desert I see. Well, I am. I love it so no problem here.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (dUJdY)
I don't like it either, but they were making serious headway with the "Trump failed to protect us and cares nothing for your family" crap in the Spring. One of the things the president has to do is pointless, stupid political gestures that sooth the hearts and minds of stupid weak people.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: brak at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (cG+eD)
I'll take 105 in El Paso over 95 in Georgia any day.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:32 PM (dNzKv)
Yep, as I've mentioned several times lately, Dems seem to only allow light skinned blacks near the real levers of power. Compare Tim Scott to Obama, Harris, and blue eyed Spartacus. Compare Condit Rice to Susan Rice. Compare our black presidential candidates to theirs.
Wasn't it Harry Reid who said it was nice that Obama was light skinned and did not have a negro accent?
Oh, and Kamala is not nearly half black. Her dad looks like he's at least 50% white and she has slavers in her ancestry.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (h+r2H)
Until the recent upleasantness, yes.
I am retired from it.
Actually I would love to still be working, but events interceded, so I guess I am now retired.
Posted by: attila the annoying at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (w7KSn)
Well, okay. If you love trees then there is probably just room for one more family in South Dakota or Wyoming.
We love trees and grass here too. Neighbors would be HORRIFIED if someone cut a large shade tree down for no reason.
The Wyoming mountain ranges are beautiful and full of trees and other lovely plants.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (VTLGo)
The thing with CA, even if it wasn't as messed up, is the cost of living. Looking at other states, I could cut my living costs in half. I could retire right now. But living in the bay area, a $150k annual salary is borderline poverty. I can sneeze and watch $50k float away.
Right now I'm paying for my mother's assisted living - which is borderline nursing in her condition. It's $6k/month, and that's cheap! A typical nursing home in the area starts around twice that. By the time I get old, I won't have 2 dimes to rub together.
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (8B6Ng)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (aEZVI)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (6i2m+)
Well at least she can take comfort in being Biden's REAL Vice Presidential running mate.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (luzVb)
people to die, and the left would have gone absolutely berserk with it.
Heaven forfend anyone recognize that adults are capable of making their own decisions as to what's best for them.
Masks should have always been strictly voluntary. This mandatory tyranny needs to be stopped.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (HaL55)
I don't mean to get personal, but don't you and JJ live in NYC? Are you guys leaving anytime soon?
Posted by: sassy at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (tUGnI)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:33 PM (XTyi0)
Theater ticket prices are upwards of $150-200 per seat, with 'hot' shows sold out for months in advance.
Posted by: RickZ at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (nFRLh)
Every time I needed to do something with it, the bill was at least $100.
I left it empty.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: dagny, first of her name at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (ySQBZ)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (h+r2H)
You can use them as toilet pools in the Burning Time.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Eromero
I read that as:
https://youtu.be/7t4msQxCG44
Posted by: Sharkman at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (TSNUS)
Definitely true. I live outside Kansas City. I haven't been to the city in 2 years and it was really coming back from the ghost town it was.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2020 06:40 PM (6i2m+)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (HhaYz)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (h+r2H)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (dNzKv)
Young girl serving Tank at Rita's Ice Cream Shoppe right now: "Make it stahp!"
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (w2LAm)
In fact , all the folks from NYC are welcome to it.
No, really you can have it.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (luzVb)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (9hauA)
ID, MO, and WY that intrigue me but they may not be in the cards. With
WV you have a place that will always be Red, and if all else fails, you
are in the mountains, and have the high ground.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: mrp at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (Pqytn)
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Berserker
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Get your motor running
Head out on the highway...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (GBHAb)
My roomate used to bang a girl from Rumson.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (3yElv)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (dNzKv)
Why should she be?After all, she's the real VP pick.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (9hauA)
Six years.
Posted by: BluesFish at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (WQZ1O)
Oh sure, and essentially that's always been his position: its up to you. But he's recommending one action as a political maneuver. One thing you have to do when you become a politician is sell away part of your soul for the job. Its just part of the nature of the beast.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (KZzsI)
Breaking News: Sen. Kamala Harris of California is Joe Biden's pick for vice president. A pragmatic moderate, she is the first Black woman on a major party ticket.
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She's also a pragmatic virgin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (+y/Ru)
She thinks Trump is going to lose and is trying to ingratiate herself with nevertrump so she can have a shot at 24.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (h+r2H)
I'd be happy with a hot tub that I can leave cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (h+r2H)
The meanest (and accurate) things you see posted on Twitter about Harris are done by AA men. They all know her past with Willie Brown, her record, and that she is married to a white guy. They always reference that her husband will be non-existent in her campaigning.
Posted by: Ktgreat at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (AD3JT)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:38 PM (h+r2H)
Pools are awesome! In somebody else's yard. If you don't have kids, they're a money vacuum. My ex insisted on one as she fantasized about all the nieces and nephews coming over to use the pool. Except the iPad is much more interesting. And, if the little shits did come over (usually a birthday party), they'd all pile in the spa instead.
Pools are great to look at, and too damned expensive to keep operational. Some people can't even invest the 30 minutes a week to keep them from turning into swamps. Never. Again.
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (8B6Ng)
It's been 100 or over many days here at stately Casa Backwardio this summer. 100 today with 110 heat index.
Not so long ago, I'da been out playing tennis in this weather. These days it's just 12oz curls on the back stoop.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (HaL55)
Well, they had it coming.
Truth. And I'm from the south.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (XrCyE)
Sherman's troops did a lot of burning in Georgia, but it was
actually the Confederates themselves who burned Atlanta, to keep Sherman
from capturing it intact. (GWTW actually got that part right)
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:37 PM (Kpl3J)
the burning and March to the Sea are overrated. It was what he did before that mattered.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (o1Bgo)
How do you keep the pool water cool enough to go in?
Posted by: Ha at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (Q3ZwH)
Ice cubes.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 11, 2020 06:35 PM (aEZVI)
Actually Evaporation is a great heat transfer, and keeps water cool. But a pool in Phoenix will lose several gallons a day, and that's a cost.
The long runs of high temps are not that unusual for Phoenix, even if people love to publicize it. I remember several of those runs when I lived there, including a notable stretch in the early 70's where not a single ounce of measurable moisture fell for over 6 months. Now THAT was a drought!
and I don't think it was an official temperature, but I think I still have an old picture I took about that time of one of those bank signboards that showed the temp, announcing that it was 124 that day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (Kpl3J)
I think Missouri is the most beautiful state I've visited, but yeah you've got the two nasty cities, and some nasty college towns in the middle. Don't know how long it will stay red.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:34 PM (VTLGo)
Well, okay. If you love trees then there is probably just room for one more family in South Dakota or Wyoming.
We love trees and grass here too. Neighbors would be HORRIFIED if someone cut a large shade tree down for no reason.
The Wyoming mountain ranges are beautiful and full of trees and other lovely plants.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (rw1l7)
I've looked at WY and WV. Want to travel to check them out, but have to wait for the panic/demic to subside. We've wanted to go for a long time, but this year just clinched it.
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (VTLGo)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (6i2m+)
Detroit? Cars.
Los A? Hollywood, Trains, and Airplanes.
New York? Originally trade, then Banks.
Pittsburgh? Steel.
San Francisco? Trade, and Banks for the Gold Rush.
Problem is, that most of the reasons majors cities were built, are no longer valid.
So you have large populations who consume, but don't produce anymore.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (TteTU)
Six years.
Posted by: BluesFish at August 11, 2020 06:42 PM (WQZ1O)
I'm kind of surprised it took that long.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (r+sAi)
It's been 100 or over many days here at stately Casa Backwardio this summer. 100 today with 110 heat index.
Not so long ago, I'da been out playing tennis in this weather. These days it's just 12oz curls on the back stoop.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (HaL55)
but no one would take 100 in Houston. They do, but no one would take that willingly.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (4k/Uz)
And you need insurance and fences in case some kid sneaks in and drowns. And pools impact home resale value. And I can't swim.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (kWopd)
____________
He's white. And he's a New York Jew. And he's a big-firm trial lawyer.
Not exactly a bro from the 'hood.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (k4dH2)
Posted by: deplorable unperson
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I think picking a southern governor was a good idea.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (pK7cg)
My roomate used to bang a girl from Rumson.
Posted by: garrett at August 11, 2020 06:41 PM (3yElv)
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RFH girls were easier than RBC girls. Not by a lot, though.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (HhaYz)
Her response to Kamala? Trump is going to win now. She can't stand Kamala and thinks it was a stupid choice.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: josephistan at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (90Fj5)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (4k/Uz)
Her response to Kamala? Trump is going to win now. She can't stand Kamala and thinks it was a stupid choice.
She's like Hillary!: every man's ex-wife, every woman's backstabbing boss.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (8B6Ng)
I use my pool almost every day, but then, I'm retired and bored.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (NgKpN)
I hope that Darth Saban's record 6th National Championship doesn't get an asterisk.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (luzVb)
These people are like kamakazis, destroying themselves to try to stop OrangeManBad
Posted by: josephistan at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (Izzlo)
Jonestown mass suicide.
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (l3+k2)
One of di Blasio's big campaign issues during his first election and one of the first things he moved on after getting elected was getting rid of the horse drawn cabs in NYC that have been around forever. That was one of his big ideas for God knows what reason other than he hated things that made middle class people happy.
He's a friggin idiot with no idea at all what he's doing.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Kate Spade at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (yTvCJ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: Javems at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (+N0R/)
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:21 PM (VTLGo)
The thing with CA, even if it wasn't as messed up, is the cost of living. Looking at other states, I could cut my living costs in half. I could retire right now. But living in the bay area, a $150k annual salary is borderline poverty. I can sneeze and watch $50k float away.
Right now I'm paying for my mother's assisted living - which is borderline nursing in her condition. It's $6k/month, and that's cheap! A typical nursing home in the area starts around twice that. By the time I get old, I won't have 2 dimes to rub together.
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (8B6Ng)
Yep. That there accounts for about 70% of my anger. It's not affordable to go back and likely will never be, not during my lifetime.
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (VTLGo)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (TteTU)
Posted by: vmom 2020 filling up the waterboarding bucket at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (J8nVw)
All I remember about Wyoming are the bison.
that's sexist, even though refreshingly non heteronormative. should probably go by "bichild".
Posted by: Anachronda at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (4k/Uz)
But he's recommending one action as a political maneuver. One thing
you have to do when you become a politician is sell away part of your
soul for the job. Its just part of the nature of the beast.
Yeah, I know. I guess I should be glad it's about the only thing he's done that I really don't care for.
Still sucks, tho'. No adult likes being treated like a child. It's still not clear those things do any good. And it's release a lot of inner Karens.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (XTyi0)
Posted by: Monty James at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (Zqz9o)
Not saying where it is though too many people moving here as it is.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (h+r2H)
We don't want to hang out in Manhattan anymore.
Posted by: Kate Spade at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (yTvCJ)
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Oooooh, it just got cold in here.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (1YYgA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (kWopd)
Well, he was going to vote democrat anyway....
Posted by: josephistan at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (6hUiM)
"$6000?! It isn't even leathuh."
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (90Fj5)
1970s San Diego.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: Pliney at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (nzKWW)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (o1Bgo)
Sherman did indeed burn plantations from Atlanta to the sea - or Beaufort SC actually - its a fact. It was necessary to break the resistance he felt he would get from the locals, and I think he was right in this as the South had begun to contemplate a guerilla campaign at that point. I always thought that Sherman was the better general for war than Grant - he seemed to understand that breaking the enemy's will and ability to fight matter most - either way - they made for a pretty dynamic duo.
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (w2LAm)
Posted by: Colin at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (cJXul)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: ALH at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (Y0bLv)
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (l3+k2)
Jonestown was mass murder.
Posted by: RickZ at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (Y8PSl)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (NgKpN)
Yeah, that I can see. Especially if you KNOW you're going to get into it, heating is no big deal. But coming back from work some days you just don't feel like it - and it's crazy to pay to heat something if you don't use it. I never felt like forcing myself.
The spa however did get used more often. I suppose if I retire to someplace warmer than Northern CA (it's only "hot" for a few weeks every year at most) I'd reconsider.
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (8B6Ng)
Strong men make good times
Good times make weak men
Weak men make hard times. <--- NYC is here
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (HhaYz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (kWopd)
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: Actual Texan at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (nFRLh)
It's hard to crash just one part of the economy. You crash one and there are tidal waves everywhere.
I met people who up until this weekend assumed everything would remain the same except for going back to the office. That's just not the most likely outcome.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (+Kpte)
Posted by: Asshoes
Where is it?
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (XTyi0)
Breaking News: Sen. Kamala Harris of California is Joe Biden's pick for vice president. A pragmatic moderate, she is the first Black woman on a major party ticket.
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She's also a pragmatic virgin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler
Pragmatic moderate? No such critter exists within the Democrat Party. They are all Jacobin's now.
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (9kSQM)
but no one would take 100 in Houston. They do, but no one would take that willingly.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (o1Bgo)
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You get used to it. Spent three hours today mowing the back acreage. It was in sad shape.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: Skip at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (OjZpE)
Posted by: mr tmz at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (m/Gc2)
Until they decide to politicize it all and kneel during the national anthem.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (SgjGX)
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (90Fj5)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (4k/Uz)
I hope this scares people to death.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (6i2m+)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 11, 2020 06:50 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (VTLGo)
I really am sorry to say this. But I think it will be too late for you. This is why Lot was told to not even spare a backwards glance at Sodom. And the cities of America are far more wicked than they were.
Posted by: trev006 at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (Wd/c5)
Posted by: Boss Moss at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (kWopd)
"Pools are great to look at, and too damned expensive to keep
operational. Some people can't even invest the 30 minutes a week to keep
them from turning into swamps. Never. Again."
And you need insurance and fences in case some kid sneaks in and drowns. And pools impact home resale value. And I can't swim.
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:44 PM (qpX6U)
I figure mine costs about $500.00 a dip
Posted by: Javems at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (+N0R/)
That is why dry heat is better even when it is 110 outside.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (h+r2H)
Posted by: Actual Texan at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (nFRLh)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: mr tmz
Agree. The conferences that opt out are making a yuge mistake.
They will forever be seen as weak sister conferences.
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (XTyi0)
Posted by: Actual Texan at August 11, 2020 06:49 PM (nFRLh)
Fort Bliss versus Fort Benning? I'll take Bliss any day. I liked El Paso; it was cheap to live there, there was plenty to do, and you were at most 12 hours from Denver, LA, all of Texas, etc. so you could take a long weekend and go somewhere.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (SgjGX)
Not exactly a bro from the 'hood.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:45 PM (k4dH2)
And for some reason I don't understand, a lot of AAs do not like Jews. Bad choice all around.
This is what happens when you stupidly limit your choice by race and sex.
Next time around the VP pick will have to be a black native American disabled transexual.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (9hauA)
Posted by: washrivergal at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (T2NR8)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: Hands at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: eleven at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (XTyi0)
Posted by: Kate Spade at August 11, 2020 06:47 PM (yTvCJ)
.___o
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (HhaYz)
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those catholic girls start way too late.
Posted by: BluesFish at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (WQZ1O)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:52 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: davidt at August 11, 2020 06:46 PM (l3+k2)
Jonestown was mass murder.
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It was both. According to survivors, some of the cultists drank the Flavor-ade willingly and knowingly, some of them drank it without knowing it was poisoned, some of them were forced at gunpoint to drink it, and some of them were just shot dead.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (k4dH2)
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It will be over the day after the election
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 11, 2020 06:29 PM (wNdGA)
I'll take that bet. I honestly believe too many people have internalized the "masks save lives" bullshit to turn on a dime.
I'd love to be wrong. Don't think I will be.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Max Power at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (q177U)
Posted by: clutch cargo at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (8B6Ng)
And people are leery of the operational costs. I don't know how it is now, but when I was looking for houses last time around the places with a pool were going for less. Buyers don't want to deal with the headaches.
Posted by: Ace's liver at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (wGeit)
This is the important point. Sure, the small things like higher sales tax, stifling zoning, rent control, generous benefits to immigrants, ... those things alone don't destroy the city but they are on the path.
We have to nip this stuff in the bud. That is what the compassionate conservatives never got.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (TteTU)
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Blind squirrel finds an acorn twice a day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 11, 2020 06:39 PM (luzVb)
Secretary of Agriculture! SNAP to it!
Posted by: Gilded Age II at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (BRkq2)
Posted by: soulpile at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (VTLGo)
Be sure to see Yellowstone. It is beautiful. And if you are up there you can check out Montana too. It borders Yellowstone and it is also an amazing and beautiful state. As far as I know, both states are open now. Wyoming for sure. As is South Dakota. So if you can get out of where you are you can see them now. Campgrounds are really full though and you have to reserve spots. Lots of people who have never taken an outdoorsy type vacation are doing that now because it seems safer.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 11, 2020 06:53 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:54 PM (h+r2H)
Posted by: Actual Texan at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (nFRLh)
Okay, if that's your caption, that's fine.
Posted by: Monty James at August 11, 2020 06:54 PM (Zqz9o)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:54 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:43 PM (o1Bgo)
Sherman did indeed burn plantations from Atlanta to the sea - or
Beaufort SC actually - its a fact. It was necessary to break the
resistance he felt he would get from the locals, and I think he was
right in this as the South had begun to contemplate a guerilla campaign
at that point. I always thought that Sherman was the better general for
war than Grant - he seemed to understand that breaking the enemy's will
and ability to fight matter most - either way - they made for a pretty
dynamic duo.
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (w2LAm)
that is true. I am not all in on the guerilla idea but what he did mattered. I said it was overrated because it was mostly unopposed. The tactical battle was over and that part was just doing it.
Looking back, a lot of it fit into Scott's original Anaconda Plan. What Sherman did mattered, there is no doubt there. But the CSA already suffered depredations like they did in the Shenandoah Valley. The key was Lee's army. Lincoln was always right about that.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:55 PM (o1Bgo)
Posted by: Boswell at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (w2LAm)
That's the reason Sherman is still called the Father of Modern Warfare by the US Army.
as far as his Generalship, there's the interesting quote from Sherman himself about the two. He said, to someone interviewing him "Oh, I'm twice the General Grant is, we both know that, but Grant has got 10 times my nerve." Grant was renowned for never showing a hint of emotion no matter how terrible the circumstances were, and for being willing to take risks no other General would take.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 11, 2020 06:55 PM (Kpl3J)
We went to Cabela's. No handgun ammo aside from .25 and some very pricy .45 made out of platinum or something apparently.
The gun display case had little to offer. Some .22s. And anything else was over $550. Way over in a lot of cases.
So we went to an LGS.
The cupboard was bare. Some .22s. And some big caliber guns. And 2 glocks at more than full retail.
Wow.
Posted by: blaster at August 11, 2020 06:55 PM (ZfRYq)
Posted by: Asshoes at August 11, 2020 06:55 PM (h+r2H)
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It depends on whether or not they know that she's married to a white, Jewish man.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 11, 2020 06:55 PM (7Fj9P)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:56 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:56 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:56 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at August 11, 2020 06:57 PM (y5oH4)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 06:57 PM (4k/Uz)
/I expect they'll got under by October.
Posted by: shibumi
For those that don't know, unless you tell your color printer to specifically print in black/white then it will use EVERY color to produce black. Printing black on a color printer uses more of the color ink/toner.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at August 11, 2020 06:57 PM (7yB/U)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:58 PM (qpX6U)
The CSA had one great field commander and they needed six or seven.
Posted by: Quint at August 11, 2020 06:58 PM (o1Bgo)
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It's like that EVERYWHERE. Check out Cheaper than Dirt Guns, or Classic Firearms. I'm having a tough time just finding extra mags for what I own. Even mags are stupid expensive now.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at August 11, 2020 06:58 PM (7Fj9P)
Next time around the VP pick will have to be a black native American disabled transexual.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Queen of Greenland (don't forget that Epstein didn't off hisself) at August 11, 2020 06:51 PM (9hauA)
Realistically though, there was no GOOD choice. The dems are so split and the chasm is too wide for any true crossover candidate to even exist. She is about as close as you can get to having cross appeal (but with tremendous cross unappeal as a result).
Tulsi would have been the most winning choice, even writing off the far left in the process. Though Tulsi is not establishment.
Through see seems to to the worst of a bunch of bad options.
Posted by: Keith at August 11, 2020 06:58 PM (jdGlx)
Or...they could set their printers to black ink only.
Posted by: abbynormal at August 11, 2020 06:58 PM (I849g)
He's going to give a complete historical lecture on the evil DemonRat Party going back to the Civil War and he'll talk about how Blacks have been kept in chains by the Dems' policies, and how 2020 has been the Dems trying to start a second Civil War because they are pissed off at how an election came out, just like the Dems did in 1860.
Heads are going to explode. A second Trump term is the best chance for minorities in America to finally have a chance at real economic and personal freedom.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 11, 2020 06:59 PM (TSNUS)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at August 11, 2020 07:00 PM (4k/Uz)
Rioters and looters have feet and transportation, so the new growth areas just become ripe opportunities, not refuges from the madness.
Cross-state exodus has already ruined Colorado. Arizona and Texas are soon to be gone, especially since Texas is making a point of poaching business from California.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 11, 2020 07:02 PM (z79tQ)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, one step out of the world at August 11, 2020 07:02 PM (4k/Uz)
Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at August 11, 2020 07:03 PM (Tutqo)
Posted by: MrObvious at August 11, 2020 07:03 PM (k+h+d)
Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at August 11, 2020 07:04 PM (y5oH4)
If it turns out the loss in productivity is smaller than the savings for not maintaining big office spaces, many companies might permanently abandon the large office.
What happens to New York commercial real estate then?
What are the chances that DeBolshevik is intentionally tanking the New Yawk City commercial real estate market just to try to crash Trump's holdings?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2020 07:05 PM (EGyGV)
Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at August 11, 2020 07:06 PM (y5oH4)
Posted by: gp at August 11, 2020 06:56 PM (qpX6U)
Do not go to the reservations. You won't need to and they don't want you there. They are "sovereign nations" and have their own tribal police so you just drive on through and you are fine.
That said, most of the actual people on the Rez are wonderful fine people. My beloved SIL is Lakota and a very fine man from a fine family. His family left the Rez when he was a baby and while they go back for family stuff, it can be a toxic place, just like any poverty stricken area.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 11, 2020 07:06 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 11, 2020 07:07 PM (/WAUs)
Posted by: Pliney at August 11, 2020 06:48 PM (nzKWW)
I'm an Angelino and lived there in good times. It was a fun, challenging, enriching place. Sad to think what has happened, what is happening to all the cities.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 11, 2020 07:08 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: oddnot at August 11, 2020 07:11 PM (Xltxe)
The toxic fumes of shuttered industries replaced by the sweet aroma of ten thousand hotel-room meth labs.
Posted by: jbspry at August 11, 2020 07:12 PM (ATe9j)
Posted by: art conysure at August 11, 2020 07:17 PM (vc4+d)
My brother lives near Rumson NJ, in fact he says he ran into Bruce Springstein.
Posted by: art conysure at August 11, 2020 07:17 PM (vc4+d)
Please tell me it was with his F150.
Lie to me if you have to.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 11, 2020 07:24 PM (EGyGV)
Posted by: Sharkman at August 11, 2020 07:25 PM (BM2fS)
Posted by: Keith at August 11, 2020 06:58 PM (jdGlx)
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A think she was first choice for President all along. That's why I picked her 2 years ago as the nominee.
Tulsi temporarily wrecked her, and so we get this rigged ticket; but everyone knows she is the Presidential candidate, in effect.
The big money is behind her.
And no Dem is going to care about what Tulsi said when she is running against a Republican.
Posted by: Gilded Age II at August 11, 2020 07:31 PM (BRkq2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 11, 2020 07:36 PM (yQpMk)
She was born in Oakland. I am not sure why this "she's not a citizen" shit keeps getting repeated.
Posted by: Edina Monsoon at August 11, 2020 07:49 PM (xGZcY)
Posted by: Random Thought Generator at August 11, 2020 07:50 PM (EIz7d)
Posted by: MrObvious at August 11, 2020 07:03 PM (k+h+d)
I'm sure the DNC took care of that first. They checked with that SCOTUS swing vote they seem to be able to call in when they really need it.
Seriously, I'll be surprised if she's challenged other than by bloggers who will be ignored.
Posted by: Meremortal at August 11, 2020 07:56 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: Montesquieu's Big Idea at August 11, 2020 08:01 PM (8FfnY)
or
Highly Functional Royal Family > Highly Functional Blue America
Highly Functional Royal Family > Republican/Democrat parties.
Posted by: potomas at August 11, 2020 08:24 PM (c9T9c)
Posted by: Rbastid at August 11, 2020 08:47 PM (r0SEX)
"But they'll also be streaming to cities and states which are halfway functional, like Florida. The locusts are coming."
Unfortunately, they're already here. Trying to turn us into the hellholes they left up north.
Posted by: Crabby Appleton at August 11, 2020 08:58 PM (NLoPU)
Posted by: projection on steroids at August 11, 2020 09:18 PM (V9NdA)
Posted by: Honesty at August 12, 2020 12:09 AM (6OoFY)
There should be a movie about how this crazy Mayor blew up all the bridges, sank all the boats, destroyed the airfield and imprisoned millions to dine on roaches, mice, rats cats homeless in a dystopian baachanal of socialist fever dreams.
Acid not recommended.
Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2020 01:35 AM (Ja8VT)
It's a net liability to us for them not to dump nukes on it.
Posted by: torabora at August 12, 2020 01:43 AM (Ja8VT)
Posted by: techsan at August 12, 2020 02:12 AM (lYvbB)
I sure as hell don't want progressive city dwellers moving upstate to my nice quiet community and ruining it with their fucked up causes.
Posted by: Ricky Roma at August 12, 2020 05:46 AM (2Ia/C)
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