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The GOP: It Is A Tale Told By An Idiot, Full Of Sound And Fury, Signifying Nothing.
The GOP (Grand? What a joke...) reminds me of the story about an elephant lounging around the savanna one day and all of a sudden he looks down and to his surprise and amusement, a mouse is busily humping his leg.
The mouse looks up and breathlessly says to the Elephant,"Don't worry, I'll be gentle!" GOP maps Biden probes, prelude to 2024 culture war Does anyone remember a substantive hearing about political malfeasance on the part of the Democrats that actually led to something? I sure don't. I do however remember endless hearings with carefully orchestrated talking points and sound bites and 10 seconds of screen time for the Republican politicians who needed a bump in the polls for their election campaigns. This may be the most significant difference between the Republican party and the Democrat junta...The Democrats do not care about the collegiality of the Senate or the House. They are perfectly content to cast aspersions and charges on their opponents across the aisle, and the veracity of the charges is of no particular importance. And it is smart politics. The Democrats keep the Republican party back on its heels, unable to do much other than respond to often spurious and ridiculous charges. "I Did Not Have Sex With A Goat!" Gee Senator, thanks for that! Lyndon Johnson famously ordered one his aides to start a rumor that one of his opponents f%*&ed pigs. The aide responded "Christ, Lyndon, we can't call the guy a pigf@#&er. It isn't true." To which LBJ replied "Of course it ain't true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it." Until the Republican party as a whole takes the gloves off and admits to itself that it and the country are in an existential war, we will continue to lose most battles, have a few draws, and every once in a while win one...usually on a Friday evening before a holiday. Yes, there are refreshing outliers who relish the battle and are willing to fight hard. Marjorie Taylor Greene comes to mind, and there are a few others. Until the entire party embraces the fight, Greene will be alone in the wilderness, and so will we!
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Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:00 PM (2JoB8)
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Whoa
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2021 12:02 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 12:02 PM (us2H3)
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Marxists definitely have the upper hand with the Propaganda Ministry in full behind them to spread their rumors and Bull.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:03 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 19, 2021 12:04 PM (R/m4+)
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The problem is the belief that the R party is anything other than a willing participant in the Washington pig trough party.
It all starts to make sense, once you realize the game is the game, and you're just the pawn.
It all starts to make sense, once you realize the game is the game, and you're just the pawn.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2021 12:04 PM (4IRFc)
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GOP maps Biden probes, prelude to 2024 culture war
Does anyone remember a substantive hearing about political malfeasance on the part of the Democrats that actually led to something? I sure don't.
Heh, yeah, I *just* read this on Twitter and rolled my eyes and moved on. This is an election year, so all the promises from the GOP to "get tough" are coming out. Anyone who believes this is a fool.
Does anyone remember a substantive hearing about political malfeasance on the part of the Democrats that actually led to something? I sure don't.
Heh, yeah, I *just* read this on Twitter and rolled my eyes and moved on. This is an election year, so all the promises from the GOP to "get tough" are coming out. Anyone who believes this is a fool.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2021 12:04 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: GOPe at December 19, 2021 12:04 PM (7bRMQ)
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They (RNCC) are pretty shameless...if someone talked to me the way I talk to them...I'd never call back...still, they persist.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:05 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 19, 2021 12:06 PM (7X3UV)
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Send $100 ASAP so we can fight for you!!!!
- GOP
- GOP
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:06 PM (3vQN0)
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They (RNCC) are pretty shameless...if someone talked to me the way I talk to them...I'd never call back...still, they persist.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:05 PM (AwYPR)
Whores don't care if you spit on them, they do it for the money.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:05 PM (AwYPR)
Whores don't care if you spit on them, they do it for the money.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 19, 2021 12:06 PM (4IRFc)
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Vote for us and we will repeal Obamacare!!!!!!!
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:06 PM (3vQN0)
Posted by: George Will at December 19, 2021 12:06 PM (rfzsN)
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The new kids must understand that in order to get to the trough they have to fight harder and dirtier. Wont make any difference to us but it'll be entertaining.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:07 PM (axyOa)
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Well hell. I'd of been in the top ten but my autocorrect is messing up.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM (axyOa)
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BOING!
Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM (svrCU)
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And yet we get told that we have to vote for these fucknuts, because giving the Dems complete control is a bridge too far.
I honestly do not understand why supporting a political party that not only will not fight, but will actively collude with and support the left's actions and narratives is somehow 'better' than giving all power to the Democrats and have them destroy the country.
We seem to be arguing over whether it's better to go into the showers today or say, 'no, I'll take the Zyklon-B next week instead.'
I honestly do not understand why supporting a political party that not only will not fight, but will actively collude with and support the left's actions and narratives is somehow 'better' than giving all power to the Democrats and have them destroy the country.
We seem to be arguing over whether it's better to go into the showers today or say, 'no, I'll take the Zyklon-B next week instead.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM (2JVJo)
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In my family, the punch line of that elephant and mouse joke is: "Suffer, bitch!"
Posted by: Just Got Here at December 19, 2021 12:09 PM (BG0RX)
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We keep saying shit like the gop has to get tougher.But is is backwards. The gop is Dem light. You dont get tough with your friends. We the voters have to get tough on the gop. But we never do, it alwaya comes back to team red vs team blue, even though 75% of them red wants blue to win.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:10 PM (3vQN0)
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Straight up telling you they will perform Theatre.
Not reverse destructive policies and laws or reduce spending and the size of government.
Theatre.
Not reverse destructive policies and laws or reduce spending and the size of government.
Theatre.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 12:10 PM (A/QC9)
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Well hell. I'd of been in the top ten but my autocorrect is messing up.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM
Losers whine about their autocorrect.
Winners plant their flag in the top ten, and then go home and ...
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM
Losers whine about their autocorrect.
Winners plant their flag in the top ten, and then go home and ...
Posted by: John Mason at December 19, 2021 12:11 PM (zw26g)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2021 12:12 PM (63Dwl)
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The Judge Smails wing of the GOP needs to go away.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (VwHCD)
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If not the gop then what? I mean that seriously. From where I am sitting there is no alternative. All the talk about voting third party or not voting gave us two brand spanking new democrat Senators in Georgia and handed control of the Senate to the democrats.
I do not see any realistic path forward for getting real conservatives back in DC.
I do not see any realistic path forward for getting real conservatives back in DC.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (bVYXr)
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What has the gop done in the past 20 years that has benefited you personally? For me they put a couple of extra dollars in my pocket via tax cuts. Which were then taken right back by the extra money I have to pay for Obamacare tht they refused to repeal like they promised to do for 6 years.
Everything they promise to do is a fucking lie.
Everything they promise to do is a fucking lie.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (3vQN0)
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"Until the Republican party as a whole takes the gloves off and admits to itself that it and the country are in an existential war, we will continue to lose most battles"
The GOPe prefers to smell the glove...
The GOPe prefers to smell the glove...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (BgMrQ)
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If anyone starts talking books in this thread I'm leaving!!
Posted by: IrishEi at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (0TVNF)
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If you think Covid is so important, why are we not taxing the CHICOMS 25 trillion? If you can't answer that, then take that mask and shove it where the sun don't shine
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (Irn0L)
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George Will did call the 1619 project out as a bunch of crap.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB8)
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Darrell Issa can't wait for the hollow hearings to start. It's his reason for existence.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 19, 2021 12:15 PM (xPl2J)
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Is the purpose of the Republican Party to implement Conservative policies or is it designed to raise money?
I'm not even being sarcastic. A corporation is an organizational tool designed to limit liability and hopefully maximize earnings for owners. If you depend on a corporation to protect the environment or remediate historical injustices, you will be disappointed. It's like washing a window with a hammer. It's the wrong tool for the job.
A union is a tool for maximizing compensation and working conditions for its members. If you depend on a teachers union to educate your kids, or the UAW to make great cars, it will not end well. That's not what that tool does.
Are we using the right tool for the job?
I'm not even being sarcastic. A corporation is an organizational tool designed to limit liability and hopefully maximize earnings for owners. If you depend on a corporation to protect the environment or remediate historical injustices, you will be disappointed. It's like washing a window with a hammer. It's the wrong tool for the job.
A union is a tool for maximizing compensation and working conditions for its members. If you depend on a teachers union to educate your kids, or the UAW to make great cars, it will not end well. That's not what that tool does.
Are we using the right tool for the job?
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2021 12:15 PM (cupoy)
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George Will did call the 1619 project out as a bunch of crap.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB
He said the same thing about the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB
He said the same thing about the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (AwYPR)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:17 PM (kOpft)
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Bilwis, extremely well said - but what is the proper tool?
In a representative republic, political factions or parties are one obvious vehicle for popular will to be translated, with buffers and etc, into public policy.
So what would be the proper tool?
In a representative republic, political factions or parties are one obvious vehicle for popular will to be translated, with buffers and etc, into public policy.
So what would be the proper tool?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (OTzUX)
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I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup
It's seeming more and more like a mental disease at this point.
Posted by: Nevergiveup
It's seeming more and more like a mental disease at this point.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (qpolg)
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Country Club Republicans. An epithet that still applies.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (4I/2K)
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I'd think the goat would be more likely to issue the denial.
"I did not have sex with that Senator, Mrs Klobuchar!"
After all the goat has a reputation to defend.
"I did not have sex with that Senator, Mrs Klobuchar!"
After all the goat has a reputation to defend.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (bzrNB)
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George Will did call the 1619 project out as a bunch of crap.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB
He said the same thing about the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (AwYPR)
and denim
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB
He said the same thing about the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (AwYPR)
and denim
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (xPl2J)
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I Dont Think So
Dr. Fauci Asked If He Ever Thinks Americans Will Be Able to Fly Without Face Masks Again
Dr. Fauci Asked If He Ever Thinks Americans Will Be Able to Fly Without Face Masks Again
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (yrol0)
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What we need to start doing is forgetting about DC. It's been a lost cause for quite some time.
It's time to start building up the power of individual states. That's where my efforts will go.
Those of you in blue states? You be fucked.
It's time to start building up the power of individual states. That's where my efforts will go.
Those of you in blue states? You be fucked.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Fs5vw)
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I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
Yes...a disease so awful that you have to get tested to find out whether you have it.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
Yes...a disease so awful that you have to get tested to find out whether you have it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (yrol0)
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A few (?) Donks will actually kill. Hard to top that as a strategy.
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (taPSh)
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Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Q9lwr)
Hey Santa came by my house today. I guess he did not see the Jew Horns outside?
Hey Santa came by my house today. I guess he did not see the Jew Horns outside?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:20 PM (Irn0L)
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The Judge Smails wing of the GOP needs to go away.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (VwHCD)
Exactalackily.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 19, 2021 12:13 PM (VwHCD)
Exactalackily.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:20 PM (4I/2K)
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43 I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
Yes...a disease so awful that you have to get tested to find out whether you have it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Q9lwr)
NFL abandoned asymptomatic testing yesterday.
And as I wrote this AM that PCR can be to to 50% chance of false positive.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
Yes...a disease so awful that you have to get tested to find out whether you have it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Q9lwr)
NFL abandoned asymptomatic testing yesterday.
And as I wrote this AM that PCR can be to to 50% chance of false positive.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:21 PM (yrol0)
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Heh tht is so true. The mostest worstest disease ever. But you need a test to find out if you have it.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:21 PM (3vQN0)
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"Be a Progressive."
No...
No...
Posted by: Fisht at December 19, 2021 12:21 PM (g5ddn)
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In his defense, the 1619 project is obviously crap
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (2JoB8)
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32 Bilwis
Thank you for a great comment. I think that might be part of the reason Louie Gohmert is running for TX AG. He saw that Ron DeSantis made little to no impact on Congress, but he is making major differences in FL. As a "tool", he was in the wrong scenario.
Thank you for a great comment. I think that might be part of the reason Louie Gohmert is running for TX AG. He saw that Ron DeSantis made little to no impact on Congress, but he is making major differences in FL. As a "tool", he was in the wrong scenario.
Posted by: EveR at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4dsGu)
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I'm accepting support for my 1792 Small Batch project.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
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45 A few (?) Donks will actually kill. Hard to top that as a strategy.
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (taPSh)
Baldwin and Kennedy. Who are the others?
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (taPSh)
Baldwin and Kennedy. Who are the others?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (yrol0)
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Those of you in blue states? You be fucked.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Fs5vw)
Yup.
Our imbecilic legislators and DNC-fellating local 'media' are demanding the governor impose a mask mandate again because of the phony variant.
I would leave MA for America in a heartbeat if I could. But I can't.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (Fs5vw)
Yup.
Our imbecilic legislators and DNC-fellating local 'media' are demanding the governor impose a mask mandate again because of the phony variant.
I would leave MA for America in a heartbeat if I could. But I can't.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (2JVJo)
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I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
People are broken. Oh and I'm sure standing out in the rain and cold when you're sick is super good for you.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
People are broken. Oh and I'm sure standing out in the rain and cold when you're sick is super good for you.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 19, 2021 12:23 PM (qxz9B)
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When Dems win they implement Dem policies. When Reps win they also implement Dem policies.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:23 PM (3vQN0)
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The hysteria will likely fade at some point, the ridiculous unscientific crap will simply slowly disappear (without any accounting or consequences) - but one's view of the country (and much of the world) will never return to what it was, for many.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:23 PM (OTzUX)
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UniParty.
Posted by: 4thewin at December 19, 2021 12:23 PM (GvnUN)
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In a representative republic, political factions or parties are one obvious vehicle for popular will to be translated, with buffers and etc, into public policy.
So what would be the proper tool?
It might help to have a representative republic.
Unfortunately, we don't have time travel, either.
So what would be the proper tool?
It might help to have a representative republic.
Unfortunately, we don't have time travel, either.
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:24 PM (kOpft)
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Most of the GOP have been Uniparty; the Uniparty doesn't understand and can't cope with any who don't believe that Grift isn't the sole purpose of government, which is they the True Believer Progs can run rings around them.
So a big change can only come when we finally purge most of the Uniparty members from our leadership, and that's hard. But getting rid of Cheney and Kinsinger is a nice start.
So a big change can only come when we finally purge most of the Uniparty members from our leadership, and that's hard. But getting rid of Cheney and Kinsinger is a nice start.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 12:26 PM (evAgx)
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Baldwin and Kennedy. Who are the others?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM
-hic-
Baldwin and Kennedy. Who are the others?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM
-hic-
Posted by: The Clintons at December 19, 2021 12:26 PM (DUIap)
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The gop cares about giving ultra wealthy people tax cuts. That is their one and only hill to die on. But dont worry they buy some many yachts with that extra money yacht makes will also benefit. I mean National Review did so NR they never lie.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 12:26 PM (3vQN0)
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A few (?) Donks will actually kill. Hard to top that as a strategy.
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (taPSh)
Baldwin and Kennedy. Who are the others?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (yrol0)
Hiya!
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 12:19 PM (taPSh)
Baldwin and Kennedy. Who are the others?
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (yrol0)
Hiya!
Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood SUV at December 19, 2021 12:27 PM (kOpft)
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Our imbecilic legislators and DNC-fellating local 'media' are demanding the governor impose a mask mandate again because of the phony variant.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (2JVJo)
Our mask mandate never went away. We've had it since July 2020.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (2JVJo)
Our mask mandate never went away. We've had it since July 2020.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 19, 2021 12:27 PM (qxz9B)
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I'm accepting support for my 1792 Small Batch project.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
This is an important cause!
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
This is an important cause!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:28 PM (axyOa)
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Killer Donks? Billiary have a body count named after them, unions, mobs, etc. Certainly not GOP.
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 12:28 PM (taPSh)
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I'm accepting support for my 1792 Small Batch project.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
Liquor?
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
Liquor?
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:28 PM (AwYPR)
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Here in NJ, our jerk off left wing gov just barely got re-elected in what should have been a blue state landslide, so he is being careful and so far has not reinstated any bullshit mask mandates. We will see
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (Irn0L)
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Our mask mandate never went away. We've had it since July 2020.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 19, 2021 12:27 PM (qxz9B)
Yeah. Idiotic.
Was at the store yesterday and it was running about 50-50.
Posted by: Jordan61 at December 19, 2021 12:27 PM (qxz9B)
Yeah. Idiotic.
Was at the store yesterday and it was running about 50-50.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (axyOa)
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Talking head md on fox just said omicron R factor is 8.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (qyH+l)
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"Look, pal, we're too busy getting rich to be concerned with any penny-ante stuff the Democrats are doing. We can't take the time for this. Besides, it might raise uncomfortable questions about us too." - GOPe
"Look, pal, we're too busy getting rich to be concerned with any penny-ante stuff the Democrats are doing. We can't take the time for this. Besides, it might raise uncomfortable questions about us too." - GOPe
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (BnGwu)
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:31 PM (4I/2K)
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How bad is the problem?
Some of the biggest RINO liars are from deep red states. Forget about Rs from NJ or ME.
Graham. SC
Cassidy. LA
Thune SD
Cheney WY
Romney UT
Sasse NE
Cornyn TX
The list is endless.
Some of the biggest RINO liars are from deep red states. Forget about Rs from NJ or ME.
Graham. SC
Cassidy. LA
Thune SD
Cheney WY
Romney UT
Sasse NE
Cornyn TX
The list is endless.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 12:31 PM (ynUFw)
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"Look, pal, we're too busy getting rich to be concerned with any penny-ante stuff the Democrats are doing. We can't take the time for this. Besides, it might raise uncomfortable questions about us too." - GOPe
One of the few little things we have to look forward to on our current path is the looks on their faces when they finally realize that they can't steal fast enough to outpace inflation.
One of the few little things we have to look forward to on our current path is the looks on their faces when they finally realize that they can't steal fast enough to outpace inflation.
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:31 PM (kOpft)
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If anyone starts talking books in this thread I'm leaving!!
Posted by: IrishEi
YOU JUST DID!!
*flounces out*
Posted by: IrishEi
YOU JUST DID!!
*flounces out*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2021 12:32 PM (mD/uy)
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I'm accepting support for my 1792 Small Batch project.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
Liquor?
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:28 PM (AwYPR)
Damn near killed 'er.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4I/2K)
Liquor?
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:28 PM (AwYPR)
Damn near killed 'er.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:32 PM (axyOa)
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Until the entire party embraces the fight, Greene will be alone in the wilderness, and so will we!
That is not and never has been in their "best interests".
That is not and never has been in their "best interests".
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 19, 2021 12:32 PM (Xrfse)
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Thought experiment:
1) scroll through the House GOP caucus.
2) count how many you know about and about whom you have a favorable opinion (if they haven't made a name for themselves as a fighter they are worthless).
3) Scratch them from your #2 count if they:
a) supported the vaccine database
b) supported Biden's infrastructure monstrosity
c) supported expanded gun background checks
How many were left?
My number was
1) scroll through the House GOP caucus.
2) count how many you know about and about whom you have a favorable opinion (if they haven't made a name for themselves as a fighter they are worthless).
3) Scratch them from your #2 count if they:
a) supported the vaccine database
b) supported Biden's infrastructure monstrosity
c) supported expanded gun background checks
How many were left?
My number was
Posted by: Lawrence L at December 19, 2021 12:32 PM (FAuXd)
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:32 PM (kOpft)
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So what would be the proper tool?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (OTzUX)
Thank you for a great comment. I think that might be part of the reason Louie Gohmert is running for TX AG. He saw that Ron DeSantis made little to no impact on Congress, but he is making major differences in FL. As a "tool", he was in the wrong scenario.
Posted by: EveR at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4dsGu)
I'm not sure what the right tool is, but like many people here, the sledge hammer is starting to look pretty tempting to me. I guess we could take a lesson from the Lefties. Soros got some real on the ground change with his targeting of DA races, maybe there is something to making local/small victories add up.
We can't simply cede the Federal issues, however. We are seeing new tools come to bear in the media battle, censorship be damned. Just as there are multiple power centers in our government, we may need multiple tools. The left has foundations who do the lawfare battles that prevent oil pipelines, etc.
So what would be the proper tool?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (OTzUX)
Thank you for a great comment. I think that might be part of the reason Louie Gohmert is running for TX AG. He saw that Ron DeSantis made little to no impact on Congress, but he is making major differences in FL. As a "tool", he was in the wrong scenario.
Posted by: EveR at December 19, 2021 12:22 PM (4dsGu)
I'm not sure what the right tool is, but like many people here, the sledge hammer is starting to look pretty tempting to me. I guess we could take a lesson from the Lefties. Soros got some real on the ground change with his targeting of DA races, maybe there is something to making local/small victories add up.
We can't simply cede the Federal issues, however. We are seeing new tools come to bear in the media battle, censorship be damned. Just as there are multiple power centers in our government, we may need multiple tools. The left has foundations who do the lawfare battles that prevent oil pipelines, etc.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 19, 2021 12:33 PM (cupoy)
82
The vile vegetable's "address" tomorrow (I assume just a brief, weird, recorded thing) could be darkly entertaining.
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:33 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Ed Buck at December 19, 2021 12:33 PM (cTCuP)
84
I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
On line? Whaddya, British or something?
On line? Whaddya, British or something?
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 19, 2021 12:34 PM (ZSK0i)
85
The donks have done to us with covid what PDT did to them
It's all many folks, especially here, talk about. All. Fucking. Day.
It's covid derangement syndrome.
It's all many folks, especially here, talk about. All. Fucking. Day.
It's covid derangement syndrome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 12:34 PM (U2p+3)
86
*launders sock*
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
87
Talking head md on fox just said omicron R factor is 8.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (qyH+l)
That seems high. But it is also far more benign than the earlier variants, so who gives a shit? It's a damned cold for the vast majority of people.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (qyH+l)
That seems high. But it is also far more benign than the earlier variants, so who gives a shit? It's a damned cold for the vast majority of people.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (Q9lwr)
88
37 I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup
It's seeming more and more like a mental disease at this point.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (qpolg)
Went to the pickup window at the drug store and it was 10 cars deep in thy Covid Test lane. The new variant has people spooked.
Posted by: Nevergiveup
It's seeming more and more like a mental disease at this point.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 12:18 PM (qpolg)
Went to the pickup window at the drug store and it was 10 cars deep in thy Covid Test lane. The new variant has people spooked.
Posted by: Javems at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (AmoqO)
89
If anyone starts talking books in this thread I'm leaving!!
Posted by: IrishEi
Did a book skeer ya when ya was little ?
Posted by: IrishEi
Did a book skeer ya when ya was little ?
Posted by: JT at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (arJlL)
90
The choices to resolve the situation are rapidly devolving to voting (peaceful) or violent (pick up the weapon).
Both means have been used in our history, what is the consensus here?
Both means have been used in our history, what is the consensus here?
Posted by: irongrampa at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (KATBx)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (Xrfse)
92
"In line" vs "on line", the first and most jarring regional language difference I recall upon first going east.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (OTzUX)
93
Sunday should be considered a day of rest, one on which we should contemplate the teachings of that day's Holy Mass. We should avoid unnecessary servile work, which includes shopping.
Today I saw the wisdom in why this is taught. Because after going to the grocery store just now I wanted to beat the living daylights out of most of the people there.
Sunday should be considered a day of rest, one on which we should contemplate the teachings of that day's Holy Mass. We should avoid unnecessary servile work, which includes shopping.
Today I saw the wisdom in why this is taught. Because after going to the grocery store just now I wanted to beat the living daylights out of most of the people there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (BnGwu)
94
Talking head md on fox just said omicron R factor is 8.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (qyH+l)
Reposted here 'cause I yammer'd on in the wrong threads yesterday:
Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
https://youtu.be/y1nqQOn6Rbc
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (qyH+l)
Reposted here 'cause I yammer'd on in the wrong threads yesterday:
Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
https://youtu.be/y1nqQOn6Rbc
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (4I/2K)
95
so he is being careful and so far has not reinstated any bullshit mask mandates. We will see
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (Irn0L)
He pivoted to guns.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM (Irn0L)
He pivoted to guns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (Q9lwr)
96
My wife just got back from Los angels and said you wouldn't believe how many people wear masks outdoors.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (I/zBw)
97
The vile vegetable's "address" tomorrow (I assume just a brief, weird, recorded thing) could be darkly entertaining.
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Get your Dark Winter bingo cards ready!
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Get your Dark Winter bingo cards ready!
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (kOpft)
98
They (RNCC) are pretty shameless...if someone talked to me the way I talk to them...I'd never call back...still, they persist.
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:05 PM (AwYPR)
Part of earning their $14.00 the hard way is you get to talk to them as dirty as you want.
Whores gotta ho....
Posted by: BignJames at December 19, 2021 12:05 PM (AwYPR)
Part of earning their $14.00 the hard way is you get to talk to them as dirty as you want.
Whores gotta ho....
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (R/m4+)
99
Yay! More 'rona talk. Never gets old.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (x8Wzq)
100
Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
_______
This is a day ending in Y for me.
Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
_______
This is a day ending in Y for me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (/U27+)
101
Meanwhile
https://tinyurl.com/yc64pax3
...the Arizona study at the center of the CDC's back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. "You can't learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study," Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article.
https://tinyurl.com/yc64pax3
...the Arizona study at the center of the CDC's back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. "You can't learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study," Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (KZzsI)
102
*launders sock*
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
You'll never get the shame out.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
You'll never get the shame out.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (uhPTO)
103
The hysteria will likely fade at some point, the ridiculous unscientific crap will simply slowly disappear
We thought that before delta. We thought that before omicron.
The hysteria will likely fade at some point, the ridiculous unscientific crap will simply slowly disappear
We thought that before delta. We thought that before omicron.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:38 PM (axyOa)
105
It's all many folks, especially here, talk about. All. Fucking. Day.
It's covid derangement syndrome.
Exactly zero people care about the topics I'm trying to fully understand now:
* Insulin Sensitivity and its relationship to various ailments.
* Everything that can be known about the power grid.
The first, because I don't want to be like my friends who have all kinds of medical problems, particularly Type-2 diabetes. The second, because this is really starting to scare the Hell out of me, particularly from the Great Texas Freeze last February, and the current problems NY, CA, UK and Germany are inviting upon themselves with this race to destruction.
It's covid derangement syndrome.
Exactly zero people care about the topics I'm trying to fully understand now:
* Insulin Sensitivity and its relationship to various ailments.
* Everything that can be known about the power grid.
The first, because I don't want to be like my friends who have all kinds of medical problems, particularly Type-2 diabetes. The second, because this is really starting to scare the Hell out of me, particularly from the Great Texas Freeze last February, and the current problems NY, CA, UK and Germany are inviting upon themselves with this race to destruction.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:38 PM (+LCoQ)
106
Maybe I missed something... what exactly has Marjorie Taylor Greene or that other blonde motor mouth, Borebet? actually accomplished other than some mean tweets and fetching upvotes online? I mean if they've actually done some good I'd like to hear about it.
Granted they appear to be more engaged than most of the GOP, but I'm not sure running your mouth as Sandy Cortez is apt to do really counts.
Granted they appear to be more engaged than most of the GOP, but I'm not sure running your mouth as Sandy Cortez is apt to do really counts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2021 12:40 PM (BFigT)
107
I try my best to ignore gov polesmoker.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 12:40 PM (qpolg)
108
Both means have been used in our history, what is the consensus here?
Posted by: irongrampa at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (KATBx)
I've made it pretty clear that I think voting is futile at best and the opium of the masses at worst, the few and far between 'victories' notwithstanding. The last tool we have before the gun is massive, nation-wide, sustained, overwhelming resistance. A national strike, a national boycott, whatever it takes to bring this phony administration and its handmaidens to their knees. A resistance to make January 6 look like the cakewalk it was.
Sadly, I don't see this happening, nor do I see violence from 'our side' happening, either. People's personal economies and lives are too precarious.
Posted by: irongrampa at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (KATBx)
I've made it pretty clear that I think voting is futile at best and the opium of the masses at worst, the few and far between 'victories' notwithstanding. The last tool we have before the gun is massive, nation-wide, sustained, overwhelming resistance. A national strike, a national boycott, whatever it takes to bring this phony administration and its handmaidens to their knees. A resistance to make January 6 look like the cakewalk it was.
Sadly, I don't see this happening, nor do I see violence from 'our side' happening, either. People's personal economies and lives are too precarious.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:40 PM (2JVJo)
109
"Is the purpose of the Republican Party to implement Conservative policies or is it designed to raise money?"
Trump and a few others have won elections while being vastly outspent. That needs to happen more, as people realize the GOPe is serving the donor class (or worse, serving the globalist junta).
But 2020 showed the money that changes elections is not just about campaigns, it is actions like the Zuck spending $400million to "get out the vote" which appeared to include raw printing of fake ballots. The frauds in the machines (not just Dominion) is another avenue to buy elections.
But it does take organizing, community or otherwise. The current clarion call is to purge GOPe of traitors/seditionists that sell us to China, or the highest bidder. They need to hang actually, but they still control the machinery.
Trump and a few others have won elections while being vastly outspent. That needs to happen more, as people realize the GOPe is serving the donor class (or worse, serving the globalist junta).
But 2020 showed the money that changes elections is not just about campaigns, it is actions like the Zuck spending $400million to "get out the vote" which appeared to include raw printing of fake ballots. The frauds in the machines (not just Dominion) is another avenue to buy elections.
But it does take organizing, community or otherwise. The current clarion call is to purge GOPe of traitors/seditionists that sell us to China, or the highest bidder. They need to hang actually, but they still control the machinery.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2021 12:40 PM (Cus5s)
110
He pivoted to guns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (Q9lwr)
Sigh yeah, which is why i am glad I have my little armory already bought and ready to go. But I could always use more ammo
He pivoted to guns.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (Q9lwr)
Sigh yeah, which is why i am glad I have my little armory already bought and ready to go. But I could always use more ammo
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:41 PM (Irn0L)
111
Having been in my own self-imposed blackout for a year on it all, I gather the CDC is trying to use a laughably flawed study on children/schools/masks to claim that 7 decades of research and historical observation are wrong?
And moreover, that a demo unaffected by C19 in any of its variants would somehow benefit from efforts to "limit" its spread?? So when do 10-yr olds start getting their mandatory shingles vaccines, and flu shots, and pneumonia shots?
Oh.
It's the complete collapse of science on the institutional level that is perhaps the most terrifying and astounding thing the last 2 years.
And moreover, that a demo unaffected by C19 in any of its variants would somehow benefit from efforts to "limit" its spread?? So when do 10-yr olds start getting their mandatory shingles vaccines, and flu shots, and pneumonia shots?
Oh.
It's the complete collapse of science on the institutional level that is perhaps the most terrifying and astounding thing the last 2 years.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:41 PM (OTzUX)
112
My wife just got back from Los angels and said you wouldn't believe how many people wear masks outdoors.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (I/zBw)
LA is a big place and some areas are ridiculous with masks. I see it most in the West LA/Santa Monica area.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (I/zBw)
LA is a big place and some areas are ridiculous with masks. I see it most in the West LA/Santa Monica area.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:42 PM (uhPTO)
113
The choices to resolve the situation are rapidly devolving to voting (peaceful) or violent (pick up the weapon).
Both means have been used in our history, what is the consensus here?
The consensus here seems to be that no one really believes elections are a solution, and no one wants to be bothered with the other thing because reasons. If we all wait long enough, we can each die poor and alone seems to be the last remaining goal.
Both means have been used in our history, what is the consensus here?
The consensus here seems to be that no one really believes elections are a solution, and no one wants to be bothered with the other thing because reasons. If we all wait long enough, we can each die poor and alone seems to be the last remaining goal.
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:42 PM (kOpft)
114
Exactly zero people care about the topics I'm trying to fully understand now:
* Insulin Sensitivity and its relationship to various ailments.
* Everything that can be known about the power grid.
The first, because I don't want to be like my friends who have all kinds of medical problems, particularly Type-2 diabetes. The second, because this is really starting to scare the Hell out of me, particularly from the Great Texas Freeze last February, and the current problems NY, CA, UK and Germany are inviting upon themselves with this race to destruction.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:38 PM (+LCoQ)
There is another. Me.
* Insulin Sensitivity and its relationship to various ailments.
* Everything that can be known about the power grid.
The first, because I don't want to be like my friends who have all kinds of medical problems, particularly Type-2 diabetes. The second, because this is really starting to scare the Hell out of me, particularly from the Great Texas Freeze last February, and the current problems NY, CA, UK and Germany are inviting upon themselves with this race to destruction.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:38 PM (+LCoQ)
There is another. Me.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:43 PM (4I/2K)
115
the rule about these pieces, is read the byline, mike allen, defector from politico and the washington post, then the text meh, mostly devoid of details, and then who are the go to people,
Posted by: no 6 at December 19, 2021 12:43 PM (hMlTh)
116
And who do elected Republicans try to destroy?
Marjorie Taylor Greene and those very few like her who stand up to the tyrants. The GOP is hopeless, and this is made plain by "leaders" like McConnell and McCarthy, who basically assist the Left with their reticence and cowardice. It truly is up to us.
Marjorie Taylor Greene and those very few like her who stand up to the tyrants. The GOP is hopeless, and this is made plain by "leaders" like McConnell and McCarthy, who basically assist the Left with their reticence and cowardice. It truly is up to us.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at December 19, 2021 12:44 PM (nMx88)
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It's all many folks, especially here, talk about. All. Fucking. Day.
It's covid derangement syndrome.
Its also a proxy for enemedia exposure.
This was a major factor in my proposal to the GSA when they were bidding out measuring CoViD NPI compliance.
Yeah, I could use CV to monitor live public camera feeds and run that through simple data analysis - which would be suitable for measuring results, but forecasting is what they were looking for. In which case I proposed social and news media exposure believing that there is a very high correlation between exposure and compliance.
Several of my high paying clients who were looking for guidance on their office space polices in relation to C19 hysteria saw the high correlation once presented to them.
In short, their policy governing reopening had almost all to do with measuring fear saturation.
It's covid derangement syndrome.
Its also a proxy for enemedia exposure.
This was a major factor in my proposal to the GSA when they were bidding out measuring CoViD NPI compliance.
Yeah, I could use CV to monitor live public camera feeds and run that through simple data analysis - which would be suitable for measuring results, but forecasting is what they were looking for. In which case I proposed social and news media exposure believing that there is a very high correlation between exposure and compliance.
Several of my high paying clients who were looking for guidance on their office space polices in relation to C19 hysteria saw the high correlation once presented to them.
In short, their policy governing reopening had almost all to do with measuring fear saturation.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:44 PM (+LCoQ)
118
You guys talking books?
Posted by: Flounder at December 19, 2021 12:44 PM (4I/2K)
119
"In line" vs "on line", the first and most jarring regional language difference I recall upon first going ^ east.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (OTzUX)
You left out north...
Still trying to get used to it and I'm from SE NC.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:36 PM (OTzUX)
You left out north...
Still trying to get used to it and I'm from SE NC.
Posted by: golfman at December 19, 2021 12:45 PM (hOMhY)
120
Talking head md on fox just said omicron R factor is 8.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM
Oooo! An "R" factor!
Sounds ominous!
I've no idea what that is but it sure sounds like some reporter somewhere is looking for more airtime.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 19, 2021 12:29 PM
Oooo! An "R" factor!
Sounds ominous!
I've no idea what that is but it sure sounds like some reporter somewhere is looking for more airtime.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:45 PM (axyOa)
121
GOP maps Biden probes, prelude to 2024 culture war
Is the GOP stupid enough to believe the bureaus and agencies they're potentially targeting will "retain and preserve" records from *biden's first two years? Of course they are. The Democrats have demonstrated they have nothing but contempt for the rule of law... unless it's their rule.
Those records will be trashed and long gone before the GOP realizes they've been had.
Is the GOP stupid enough to believe the bureaus and agencies they're potentially targeting will "retain and preserve" records from *biden's first two years? Of course they are. The Democrats have demonstrated they have nothing but contempt for the rule of law... unless it's their rule.
Those records will be trashed and long gone before the GOP realizes they've been had.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2021 12:45 PM (BFigT)
122
Today I saw the wisdom in why this is taught. Because after going to the grocery store just now I wanted to beat the living daylights out of most of the people there.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Just one more example of why "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is the second most important Commandment and, for me at least, the hardest to uphold.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Just one more example of why "Love thy neighbor as thyself" is the second most important Commandment and, for me at least, the hardest to uphold.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 19, 2021 12:45 PM (mD/uy)
123
Granted they appear to be more engaged than most of the GOP, but I'm not sure running your mouth as Sandy Cortez is apt to do really counts.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2021 12:40 PM (BFigT)
Low bar for the GOP.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2021 12:40 PM (BFigT)
Low bar for the GOP.
Posted by: golfman at December 19, 2021 12:46 PM (hOMhY)
124
Yay! More 'rona talk. Never gets old.
Well, unfortunately the insane reaction to the Wu is ripping apart what's left of reason and civility. It should come as no surprise that it dominates discourse here, or anywhere else for that matter.
Well, unfortunately the insane reaction to the Wu is ripping apart what's left of reason and civility. It should come as no surprise that it dominates discourse here, or anywhere else for that matter.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 19, 2021 12:46 PM (Xrfse)
125
The Greatest Generation stepped up.
Now it's time for the Boomers to do so.
Heh. I crack myself up.
Now it's time for the Boomers to do so.
Heh. I crack myself up.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (cTCuP)
126
Yay! More 'rona talk. Never gets old.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus
Well, that or talk about how bad and useless Republicans are. Ho-hum
Click, click, click.
Ace of Spades HQ.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus
Well, that or talk about how bad and useless Republicans are. Ho-hum
Click, click, click.
Ace of Spades HQ.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (tjZg/)
127
I am watching idiots standing ON LINE in NYC to get tested? WTF
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
People are broken. Oh and I'm sure standing out in the rain and cold when you're sick is super good for you.
Posted by: Jordan61
That, and they're so scared of getting it, they'll stand in close proximity to other people who might have it too. Fucking doorknob lickers have more sense.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:16 PM (Irn0L)
People are broken. Oh and I'm sure standing out in the rain and cold when you're sick is super good for you.
Posted by: Jordan61
That, and they're so scared of getting it, they'll stand in close proximity to other people who might have it too. Fucking doorknob lickers have more sense.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (z4bSh)
128
This is an MP4 that was highlighted in Bad Cattitude substack: Someone sanitizing a chair with a David Attenborough narration
https://tinyurl.com/2ecupmzb
https://tinyurl.com/2ecupmzb
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (ZMraq)
129
The Greatest Generation stepped up.
Now it's time for the Boomers to do so.
Heh. I crack myself up.
#GodWins
Now it's time for the Boomers to do so.
Heh. I crack myself up.
#GodWins
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:50 PM (kOpft)
130
Well, unfortunately the insane reaction to the Wu is ripping apart what's left of reason and civility. It should come as no surprise that it dominates discourse here, or anywhere else for that matter.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Only if you let it.
Stop talking about it. Stop whinging and yelling and running around with your hair on fire. Ignore it. Ignore people who talk about tit. Walk away from the conversation.
It will go away if starved attention. Folks here should recognize the manipulation and stop engaging.
Be better.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
Only if you let it.
Stop talking about it. Stop whinging and yelling and running around with your hair on fire. Ignore it. Ignore people who talk about tit. Walk away from the conversation.
It will go away if starved attention. Folks here should recognize the manipulation and stop engaging.
Be better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 12:51 PM (U2p+3)
131
Let the Boomer Wars commence...again
Posted by: That guy who always says... at December 19, 2021 12:51 PM (Xrfse)
132
You guys talking books?
Posted by: Flounder at December 19, 2021 12:44 PM (4I/2K)
Not to IrishEi!!!
Posted by: Flounder at December 19, 2021 12:44 PM (4I/2K)
Not to IrishEi!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:51 PM (axyOa)
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The reality is, our GOP representatives, in general, believe we are pig*%#kers.
Or they at least have the same level of contempt for us as they would for a pig*%#ker.
Or they at least have the same level of contempt for us as they would for a pig*%#ker.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 12:53 PM (0jcHs)
134
Top 5 Omicron Infection Symptoms in the UK (so far):
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
This is a day ending in Y for me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh a
IKR? Get back to me when "bleeding out the eyes" or "spontaneous combustion" make the list
1. Runny nose
2. Headache
3. Fatigue
4. Sneezing
5. Sore Throat
This is a day ending in Y for me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh a
IKR? Get back to me when "bleeding out the eyes" or "spontaneous combustion" make the list
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 19, 2021 12:53 PM (z4bSh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 12:53 PM (U2p+3)
136
There is another. Me.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:43 PM (4I/2K)
Cool. As far as the grid, "Shorting the Grid" is a very readable primer on the complexity of the grid, particularly from an administration standpoint.
My day job gives me access to an enormous wealth of data and a powerful platform to model geospatial-temporal data on an interactive globe/time-line control.
During the holiday fortnight, I'm focusing on capturing and modeling the real-time data on energy capacity, generation and consumption to as fine as detail as the data permits. I have wind/solar generation feeds, hourly wind/solar forecasting data, extensive powerline and pipeline data, now trying to get as much pipeline flow data that is possible. Pricing, consumption, temperature history... its going to be some work.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 12:43 PM (4I/2K)
Cool. As far as the grid, "Shorting the Grid" is a very readable primer on the complexity of the grid, particularly from an administration standpoint.
My day job gives me access to an enormous wealth of data and a powerful platform to model geospatial-temporal data on an interactive globe/time-line control.
During the holiday fortnight, I'm focusing on capturing and modeling the real-time data on energy capacity, generation and consumption to as fine as detail as the data permits. I have wind/solar generation feeds, hourly wind/solar forecasting data, extensive powerline and pipeline data, now trying to get as much pipeline flow data that is possible. Pricing, consumption, temperature history... its going to be some work.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:53 PM (+LCoQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (/U27+)
138
Only if you let it.
Stop talking about it. Stop whinging and yelling and running around with your hair on fire. Ignore it. Ignore people who talk about tit. Walk away from the conversation.
Sure, if we pretend there's no problem, it will all just go away.
Meanwhile, in New York, legislation for concentration camps is on the agenda:
https://tinyurl.com/2vx53yk6
Stop talking about it. Stop whinging and yelling and running around with your hair on fire. Ignore it. Ignore people who talk about tit. Walk away from the conversation.
Sure, if we pretend there's no problem, it will all just go away.
Meanwhile, in New York, legislation for concentration camps is on the agenda:
https://tinyurl.com/2vx53yk6
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (Xrfse)
140
Triple-Vaccinated QUEEN Guitarist BRIAN MAY On His COVID-19 Battle: 'It's Like The Worst Flu You Can Imagine'
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (xPl2J)
141
The power grid is a serious problem. Oregon's barely kept up with the demand five years ago, its only getting worse as more and more devices are turned on and people keep pushing electric vehicles.
By the way, that "infrastructure bill" that passed because Republicans liked it? It requires cryptocurrency brokers* to collect personal information on clients, for every transaction now.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8k2fpu
"any person who (for consideration) is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person."
The law takes effect in 2024, which gives people time to maybe try to get that part overturned.
By the way, that "infrastructure bill" that passed because Republicans liked it? It requires cryptocurrency brokers* to collect personal information on clients, for every transaction now.
https://tinyurl.com/2p8k2fpu
"any person who (for consideration) is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person."
The law takes effect in 2024, which gives people time to maybe try to get that part overturned.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (KZzsI)
142
The reality is, our GOP representatives, in general, believe we are pig*%#kers.
Or they at least have the same level of contempt for us as they would for a pig*%#ker.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Sick bastards!
Or they at least have the same level of contempt for us as they would for a pig*%#ker.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Sick bastards!
Posted by: Couchfuckers everywhere at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (z4bSh)
143
One thing to be counted on I see here, no matter the particular, there is always a concatenation of doom and gloom expressed with no proposed solution that isn't derided.
Consistency is to be commended.
Consistency is to be commended.
Posted by: irongrampa at December 19, 2021 12:55 PM (KATBx)
144
125 The Greatest Generation stepped up.
Now it's time for the Boomers to do so.
Heh. I crack myself up.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (cTCuP)
If it wasn't for the boomers, Trump would never have been elected.
Now it's time for the Boomers to do so.
Heh. I crack myself up.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (cTCuP)
If it wasn't for the boomers, Trump would never have been elected.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2021 12:55 PM (Fs5vw)
145
Ace of Spades HQ.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (tjZg/)
Hotair.com has a vibrant comments section, and they get lots done!
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (tjZg/)
Hotair.com has a vibrant comments section, and they get lots done!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:56 PM (Q9lwr)
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LBJ
Would insist that the presstitutes accompany him into the schiffter where he would lecture them while he took loud dumps and make them smell his farts.
He was a top to their bottom.
They haven't changed at all.
Would insist that the presstitutes accompany him into the schiffter where he would lecture them while he took loud dumps and make them smell his farts.
He was a top to their bottom.
They haven't changed at all.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 12:56 PM (WoFHd)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 12:57 PM (Q9lwr)
148
Remember that one Star Trek that had the guy who did that thing?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 12:57 PM (x8Wzq)
149
Ignore people who talk about tit. Walk away from the conversation.
Posted by: Methos
Ignore tit talk? That's not who we are!
Posted by: Methos
Ignore tit talk? That's not who we are!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 19, 2021 12:57 PM (z4bSh)
150
Hiya Nurse !
Posted by: JT at December 19, 2021 12:57 PM (arJlL)
151
The GOP can start with public hearings on the laptop from hell. They won't touch it because 90% of them are feckless.
Posted by: Valiant at December 19, 2021 12:58 PM (3MiF8)
152
It will go away if starved attention. Folks here should recognize the manipulation and stop engaging.
Be better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 12:51 PM (U2p+3)
Ahhhh...what were we talking about?
Be better.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 12:51 PM (U2p+3)
Ahhhh...what were we talking about?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 12:58 PM (axyOa)
153
People are broken. Oh and I'm sure standing out in the rain and cold when you're sick is super good for you.
Posted by: Jordan61
We call Sailors with issues in the Navy, "Broken Toys"
Posted by: Jordan61
We call Sailors with issues in the Navy, "Broken Toys"
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 12:59 PM (Irn0L)
154
Bertram, I hear ya, but a corollary to the basic truth that Inertia Is The Greatest Force In Nature is that people eventually tire of doing things they don't really need to do. I'm assuming this crap will fade away, varying by location, at some point, because the energy to pursue it will fade.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:59 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:00 PM (U2p+3)
156
Anybody who thinks electric power can be created without a lot of petroleum consumed getting there is delusional.
This is the Oil Age. When it's gone in a couple hundred years civilization dies. Maybe the liberals figure that and that's why they're spending us broke... it's not going to make any difference soon.
This is the Oil Age. When it's gone in a couple hundred years civilization dies. Maybe the liberals figure that and that's why they're spending us broke... it's not going to make any difference soon.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (WoFHd)
157
LBJ
Would insist that the presstitutes accompany him into the schiffter where he would lecture them while he took loud dumps and make them smell his farts.
He was a top to their bottom.
They haven't changed at all.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 12:56 PM (WoFHd)
that story amazes me. I can't even use a public men's room if someone else is dropping the kids off at the pool. Except for the rare emergency. Some folks just have no sense of modesty, I guess.
Would insist that the presstitutes accompany him into the schiffter where he would lecture them while he took loud dumps and make them smell his farts.
He was a top to their bottom.
They haven't changed at all.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 12:56 PM (WoFHd)
that story amazes me. I can't even use a public men's room if someone else is dropping the kids off at the pool. Except for the rare emergency. Some folks just have no sense of modesty, I guess.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (x8Wzq)
158
The GOP can start with public hearings on the laptop from hell. They won't touch it because 90% of them are feckless.
That and half of them are in on one kind of that shit or another.
That and half of them are in on one kind of that shit or another.
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (kOpft)
159
They won't touch it because 90% of them are feckless.
Posted by: Valiant at December 19, 2021 12:58 PM (3MiF
________
Hey, I got fecked last week!
They won't touch it because 90% of them are feckless.
Posted by: Valiant at December 19, 2021 12:58 PM (3MiF
________
Hey, I got fecked last week!
Posted by: GOPe Liege at December 19, 2021 01:02 PM (/U27+)
160
Hiya JT!
I gotta go to the liquor store today. I'm filling son #1 stocking with little liquor bottles, snacks and chocolate. Oh. And two pairs of wool socks!
I gotta go to the liquor store today. I'm filling son #1 stocking with little liquor bottles, snacks and chocolate. Oh. And two pairs of wool socks!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:02 PM (U2p+3)
161
148 Remember that one Star Trek that had the guy who did that thing?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 12:57 PM (x8Wzq)
Oh yeah, that thing! and That Guy!!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 12:57 PM (x8Wzq)
Oh yeah, that thing! and That Guy!!!
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:03 PM (evAgx)
162
Hiya JT!
I gotta go to the liquor store today. I'm filling son #1 stocking with little liquor bottles, snacks and chocolate. Oh. And two pairs of wool socks!
Posted by: nurse ratched
You're a GREAT Mom , Nurse !
I gotta go to the liquor store today. I'm filling son #1 stocking with little liquor bottles, snacks and chocolate. Oh. And two pairs of wool socks!
Posted by: nurse ratched
You're a GREAT Mom , Nurse !
Posted by: JT at December 19, 2021 01:03 PM (arJlL)
163
If it wasn't for the boomers, Trump would never have been elected.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2021 12:55 PM (Fs5vw)
True. I'm actually the vanguard of Boomers...born 1946. That's my license to criticize them.
They got it right with Trump. He got it wrong with COVID. We are left to pick up the pieces. We don't seem to be having much success at that. Too many Boomers have quit thinking.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 19, 2021 12:55 PM (Fs5vw)
True. I'm actually the vanguard of Boomers...born 1946. That's my license to criticize them.
They got it right with Trump. He got it wrong with COVID. We are left to pick up the pieces. We don't seem to be having much success at that. Too many Boomers have quit thinking.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 01:04 PM (cTCuP)
164
This is the Oil Age. When it's gone in a couple hundred years civilization dies.
Oil can be manufactured. But we'd need to get past the progressive religion's insistence that carbon is bad and batteries solve everything before we consider its widespread use as an artificial energy storage device.
Oil can be manufactured. But we'd need to get past the progressive religion's insistence that carbon is bad and batteries solve everything before we consider its widespread use as an artificial energy storage device.
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 01:05 PM (kOpft)
165
Ace of Spades HQ.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Maybe we could organize a protest in Washington
D.C. ?
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Maybe we could organize a protest in Washington
D.C. ?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 01:05 PM (0jcHs)
166
The Official AoSHQ Classical Music Playlist of White Supremacy (TM) is being increased from 1200 to 1400 pieces. When it's done and if CBD ever has another Music Thread, I'll spring it on you.
The Official AoSHQ Classical Music Playlist of White Supremacy (TM) is being increased from 1200 to 1400 pieces. When it's done and if CBD ever has another Music Thread, I'll spring it on you.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 19, 2021 01:05 PM (/U27+)
167
that story amazes me. I can't even use a public men's room if someone else is dropping the kids off at the pool. Except for the rare emergency. Some folks just have no sense of modesty, I guess.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (x8Wzq)
LBJ was also infamous for dropping his trousers and taking a whiz while he made his SS agents face him and answer questions.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (x8Wzq)
LBJ was also infamous for dropping his trousers and taking a whiz while he made his SS agents face him and answer questions.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:05 PM (evAgx)
168
'Conservatism' has always been a defensive posture, not a real ideology. It changes with the positions it is forced into. It bows to media pressure, as does the population. There is no fight in it, at all.
I have yanked the wheel Hard-Right with the Bible as a guardrail. ...and for those of you 'Churchians' who like to misinterpret the Bible, I have scorn for you, as ordered.
I will find A Hill to Grow On until God decides it is a Hill to Die On. The Amish had it right, all-along. Reject as many of 'their' conveniences as possible. These are offers to join the Beast System.
Yes, I know I'm on the internet. My resistance is building and 'as possible' is a process. I have Faith in Christ, our Lord. I pray to Him. Churches and even saints are not to be prayed-to, let-alone politicians.
-God, not G.O.P.
I have yanked the wheel Hard-Right with the Bible as a guardrail. ...and for those of you 'Churchians' who like to misinterpret the Bible, I have scorn for you, as ordered.
I will find A Hill to Grow On until God decides it is a Hill to Die On. The Amish had it right, all-along. Reject as many of 'their' conveniences as possible. These are offers to join the Beast System.
Yes, I know I'm on the internet. My resistance is building and 'as possible' is a process. I have Faith in Christ, our Lord. I pray to Him. Churches and even saints are not to be prayed-to, let-alone politicians.
-God, not G.O.P.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:06 PM (Ckg4U)
169
Ace of Spades HQ.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Maybe we could organize a protest in Washington
D.C. ?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 01:05 PM (0jcHs)
Only if there's punch and pie.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Maybe we could organize a protest in Washington
D.C. ?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 01:05 PM (0jcHs)
Only if there's punch and pie.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:06 PM (x8Wzq)
170
Don't think I'm a boomer, not sure of the break off point. I just don't seem to fit in any category.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:06 PM (qpolg)
171
Ace of Spades HQ.
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (tjZg/)
Sheesh!
What's the hurry?
What are we going to do? Nothing.
When are we going to do it? Right now.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 19, 2021 12:47 PM (tjZg/)
Sheesh!
What's the hurry?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 01:06 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: The J6 Political Prisoners at December 19, 2021 01:07 PM (Xrfse)
173
LBJ was also infamous for dropping his trousers and taking a whiz while he made his SS agents face him and answer questions.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves
He was a nasty pervert.
Ladybird was a lovely woman, though and there used to be gardens named after her.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves
He was a nasty pervert.
Ladybird was a lovely woman, though and there used to be gardens named after her.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:08 PM (U2p+3)
174
Pricing, consumption, temperature history... its going to be some work.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:53 PM (+LCoQ)
I look forward to wading through your white paper.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 12:53 PM (+LCoQ)
I look forward to wading through your white paper.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Superspreader at December 19, 2021 01:08 PM (4I/2K)
175
The vile vegetable's "address" tomorrow (I assume just a brief, weird, recorded thing) could be darkly entertaining.
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Posted by: rhomboid
drooling Joe = Pant Shitler
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Posted by: rhomboid
drooling Joe = Pant Shitler
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 19, 2021 01:08 PM (z4bSh)
176
I'm at the leading edge of Gen X. Younger brothers and sister are at the tailing edge.
Parents are pre-boomer, 1941 and 42.
Parents are pre-boomer, 1941 and 42.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:09 PM (x8Wzq)
177
(((Slappy!)))
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 01:09 PM (cTCuP)
178
What could possibly go wrong?
Posted by: The J6 Political Prisoners at December 19, 2021 01:07 PM (Xrfse)
I see no downside.
Our GOP representatives would be emboldened by our outcry and fight tooth and nail for us in Congress.
They would loudly proclaim "Now those are patriotic Americans, and we proudly support them!"
Posted by: The J6 Political Prisoners at December 19, 2021 01:07 PM (Xrfse)
I see no downside.
Our GOP representatives would be emboldened by our outcry and fight tooth and nail for us in Congress.
They would loudly proclaim "Now those are patriotic Americans, and we proudly support them!"
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 01:09 PM (0jcHs)
179
Anybody who thinks electric power can be created without a lot of petroleum consumed getting there is delusional. ... This is the Oil Age. When it's gone in a couple hundred years civilization dies.
Back in the day when power generation was more of a vertical industry whereas it has been "deregulated" which means that you have distributors and you have generators, occasionally one company might do both, but they are passed through an RTO that has a bidding process for who is going to get paid for the next five minutes of power generation.
What has happened is that no one is responsible anymore for resiliency. That is what Perry was fighting FERC over during the Trump Era of Plenty. FERC pretty much said Phuque Ewe to the American people because FERC didn't want to Name That Fuel (which obviously would be oil a/o coal).
Natgas comes in a pipe, can't be stored onsite, and generators follow homeowners for dibs on what dribbles through the pipeline during high demand.
Back in the day when power generation was more of a vertical industry whereas it has been "deregulated" which means that you have distributors and you have generators, occasionally one company might do both, but they are passed through an RTO that has a bidding process for who is going to get paid for the next five minutes of power generation.
What has happened is that no one is responsible anymore for resiliency. That is what Perry was fighting FERC over during the Trump Era of Plenty. FERC pretty much said Phuque Ewe to the American people because FERC didn't want to Name That Fuel (which obviously would be oil a/o coal).
Natgas comes in a pipe, can't be stored onsite, and generators follow homeowners for dibs on what dribbles through the pipeline during high demand.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:09 PM (+LCoQ)
180
Hi Slap!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:09 PM (U2p+3)
181
Nice to see you Slap! Hope the kids are well.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (qpolg)
182
Asshole Phil Murphy says "everything is on the table" to fight Omicron, including new lockdowns
Ugh, these assholes will never stop
Part of me thinks that they KNOW that Omicron is feeble, but very contagious, and is Covid's "last stand", and that if they can get a few more million to vaccinate, they can claim victory over the virus as soon as numbers go down.
But i don't know anymore.
Ugh, these assholes will never stop
Part of me thinks that they KNOW that Omicron is feeble, but very contagious, and is Covid's "last stand", and that if they can get a few more million to vaccinate, they can claim victory over the virus as soon as numbers go down.
But i don't know anymore.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (mR6Gs)
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Bitter Clinger do you think we can get some FBI guys to lead us?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (+HRw2)
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One of the reasons that I'm tired of all the whining about abortion (both sides of it) is that this is the wedge issue that RINOs like Mitch The Bitch employ to keep getting re-elected. He knows he can act like a slut in DC because when he comes back to hit the campaign trail, it's all dead babies all the time and his voters will dutifully send him back for another term. Sure, he doesn't actually *do* anything about it, but it's easy to pay lip service to social issues like that because they're so nebulous.
Play unserious games, win unserious prizes.
Play unserious games, win unserious prizes.
Posted by: CppThis at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (UewuT)
185
Meanwhile, in New York, legislation for concentration camps is on the agenda:
https://tinyurl.com/2vx53yk6
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (kOpft
They tried that shit on the west coast back in the 40's. I dont think it wil go like they think this time.
https://tinyurl.com/2vx53yk6
Posted by: Methos at December 19, 2021 12:54 PM (kOpft
They tried that shit on the west coast back in the 40's. I dont think it wil go like they think this time.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 01:11 PM (axyOa)
186
Bitter Clinger do you think we can get some FBI guys to lead us?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (+HRw2)
Undoubtedly! The white hats will lead us, it will be glorious!
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (+HRw2)
Undoubtedly! The white hats will lead us, it will be glorious!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 01:12 PM (0jcHs)
187
As far as the GOP goes, the truth is that big donors run the party and those donors, by and large, only care about economic harm to their interests. They do not care about public education, borders, crime, CRT, the military, social issues, prohibiting abortion, fellow citizens in the republic, etc. They care about money and so the GOP goes. Essentially, it is 'I'm Alright Jack.' Once you understand that, then you understand the essential betrayal of its constituents--they are Lucy holding the football, and their voters are Charlie Brown trying to kick that ball again and again.
However, on the Democrat side, the big donors and the moonbats on the ground are on the same page. Only the financial industry that will take a hit from a depression really cares about fiscal responsibility--the techlords certainly don't.
If you notice, the only Republicans that are not borg like sellouts are those running their own funding--Rand Paul, MTG, Nunes to some extent, etc. Those that rely in packaged financing for them by GOP leadership/campaign finance are drones that will vote as told in order to make themselves rich.
However, on the Democrat side, the big donors and the moonbats on the ground are on the same page. Only the financial industry that will take a hit from a depression really cares about fiscal responsibility--the techlords certainly don't.
If you notice, the only Republicans that are not borg like sellouts are those running their own funding--Rand Paul, MTG, Nunes to some extent, etc. Those that rely in packaged financing for them by GOP leadership/campaign finance are drones that will vote as told in order to make themselves rich.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2021 01:13 PM (9hXN1)
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Don't think I'm a boomer, not sure of the break off point. I just don't seem to fit in any category.
Posted by: Infidel
Wagonette ?
Posted by: Infidel
Wagonette ?
Posted by: JT at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (arJlL)
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179 Anybody who thinks electric power can be created without a lot of petroleum consumed getting there is delusional. ... This is the Oil Age. When it's gone in a couple hundred years civilization dies.
--------
There's that black burny rock that they mine. It might carry us a few more centuries.
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There's that black burny rock that they mine. It might carry us a few more centuries.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (vW9Vw)
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I'm also a bit dismayed that the nominal 'right' ironically seeks to kill any protests in the womb by labeling any organization as 'A Bunch of Feds'.
Walk in the Light. Seek the Honor of the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Let the chips fall where they may. Understand, through Wisdom, when Evil is afoot. Extricate yourself from evil.
If you are not willing to lose everything, how can you even walk in the light of the founding fathers, let-alone Jesus Christ?
I don't believe you can.
Walk in the Light. Seek the Honor of the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Let the chips fall where they may. Understand, through Wisdom, when Evil is afoot. Extricate yourself from evil.
If you are not willing to lose everything, how can you even walk in the light of the founding fathers, let-alone Jesus Christ?
I don't believe you can.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (Ckg4U)
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Reuben I'm also quite interested in the energy part of your research focus, though I'm having some trouble following your comments. Overall, I find the stark utter ignorance about how the modern economy and way of life work, or even are possible, especially WRT energy (among the masses, and people known in meatspace), to be amazing.
This of course provides the "basis" for the absurd make-believe energy schemes and concepts, and for such idiocies as thinking electric cars are somehow "environmentally" desirable (untrue, even when a real-world environmental framework, not an imaginary one, is used).
This of course provides the "basis" for the absurd make-believe energy schemes and concepts, and for such idiocies as thinking electric cars are somehow "environmentally" desirable (untrue, even when a real-world environmental framework, not an imaginary one, is used).
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (OTzUX)
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Furthermore, the auctions aren't just simple "who supplies", but there are all kinds of rewards and punishments, ways on how companies get paid, such where wind/solar has such incentives from tax rebates that they can and often bid zero or negative prices for each MWh - because they get paid through subsidies and through selling Carbon Credits.
it should be no surprise that the biggest investors in wind/solar farms is Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Facebook, and Google. All of these companies can use their social media empires and deep profits to buy politicians, manipulate stupid people and otherwise coerce ratepayers and taxpayers to get raped to give them their tax deductions in exchange for non dispatchable power.
it should be no surprise that the biggest investors in wind/solar farms is Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Facebook, and Google. All of these companies can use their social media empires and deep profits to buy politicians, manipulate stupid people and otherwise coerce ratepayers and taxpayers to get raped to give them their tax deductions in exchange for non dispatchable power.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (+LCoQ)
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102 *launders sock*
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
You'll never get the shame out.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (uhPTO)
Yeah, I know. That was a deeper dive than I'd intended.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
You'll never get the shame out.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (uhPTO)
Yeah, I know. That was a deeper dive than I'd intended.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (cTCuP)
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that story amazes me. I can't even use a public men's room if someone else is dropping the kids off at the pool. Except for the rare emergency. Some folks just have no sense of modesty, I guess.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (x8Wzq)
The flaw in their plan, that they cannot solve, is that the economies of the states that do lockdowns will continue to crumble, while the economies of the states that don't, like Texas and Florida, will continue to boom. If they had true dictatorial control, they could transfer funds from one to the other; but they don't, they are too divided amongst themselves, and they aren't ready to abolish next years elections.
They've run out of time to fix the trap they've set for themselves.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 19, 2021 01:01 PM (x8Wzq)
The flaw in their plan, that they cannot solve, is that the economies of the states that do lockdowns will continue to crumble, while the economies of the states that don't, like Texas and Florida, will continue to boom. If they had true dictatorial control, they could transfer funds from one to the other; but they don't, they are too divided amongst themselves, and they aren't ready to abolish next years elections.
They've run out of time to fix the trap they've set for themselves.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (evAgx)
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Slapweasel, good to see you here.
Hope you're able to be here more often.
Hope you're able to be here more often.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (vW9Vw)
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Right now, the entire leadership of the GOP is captured by people who think the Democrats' goals are admirable and they only disagree as to implementation.
Until there is enough in the party that are willing to say, "their entire platform is un-American and anti-freedom" they're not going to change.
That's why they never hound any Democrat until they are radioactive-- they don't think any part of their goals are evil.
They make the abortion kook in MO the national face of the party while the GOP can't even muster a mild rebuke of the child predator senator from NJ.
Until there is enough in the party that are willing to say, "their entire platform is un-American and anti-freedom" they're not going to change.
That's why they never hound any Democrat until they are radioactive-- they don't think any part of their goals are evil.
They make the abortion kook in MO the national face of the party while the GOP can't even muster a mild rebuke of the child predator senator from NJ.
Posted by: Lrrr at December 19, 2021 01:16 PM (jIL4c)
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:16 PM (qpolg)
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Why haven't they just banned coronavirus?
It works with guns, drugs, and parading in the Capitol Building.
It works with guns, drugs, and parading in the Capitol Building.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:18 PM (WoFHd)
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Seems like the NFL is tired of all the positive tests. They are going to stop testing " vaccinated asymptomatic" players after today
Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2021 01:18 PM (CYnTg)
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197 Wagonette ?
Posted by: JT
Well, aren't you sweet.
Posted by: Infidel
Goobers and Raisinettes
Posted by: JT
Well, aren't you sweet.
Posted by: Infidel
Goobers and Raisinettes
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:19 PM (U2p+3)
Posted by: JT at December 19, 2021 01:19 PM (arJlL)
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Power grid content:
I'd enact legislation that would force "Green Power" utilities to use solar or wind for their contingency ops. So, if your wind turbine needs a generator for some reason it must be a solar one. If your solar farm needs something similar, it must be a wind turbine.
I doubt the "Green Power" movement would last more than a couple years with that sort of constraint.
Builds on a discussion from this morning about gas pipelines and pumping stations having to switch to electrical power instead of gas.
I'd enact legislation that would force "Green Power" utilities to use solar or wind for their contingency ops. So, if your wind turbine needs a generator for some reason it must be a solar one. If your solar farm needs something similar, it must be a wind turbine.
I doubt the "Green Power" movement would last more than a couple years with that sort of constraint.
Builds on a discussion from this morning about gas pipelines and pumping stations having to switch to electrical power instead of gas.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (BFigT)
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189 179 Anybody who thinks electric power can be created without a lot of petroleum consumed getting there is delusional. ... This is the Oil Age. When it's gone in a couple hundred years civilization dies.
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There's that black burny rock that they mine. It might carry us a few more centuries.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (vW9Vw)
I'm not worried about long term energy production; sooner or later someone will develop room temperature superconductors, which will be a 10X boost on all of our energy sources. BUT the man who will develop that probably hasn't been born yet, so I don't waste time worrying about it happening in my lifetime. And that's just one of a thousand things that can happen by then.
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There's that black burny rock that they mine. It might carry us a few more centuries.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (vW9Vw)
I'm not worried about long term energy production; sooner or later someone will develop room temperature superconductors, which will be a 10X boost on all of our energy sources. BUT the man who will develop that probably hasn't been born yet, so I don't waste time worrying about it happening in my lifetime. And that's just one of a thousand things that can happen by then.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (evAgx)
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The flaw in their plan, that they cannot solve, is that the economies of the states that do lockdowns will continue to crumble, while the economies of the states that don't, like Texas and Florida, will continue to boom. If they had true dictatorial control, they could transfer funds from one to the other; but they don't, they are too divided amongst themselves, and they aren't ready to abolish next years elections.
They've run out of time to fix the trap they've set for themselves.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (evAgx)
You would think that the business communities in these Blue states would speak out against this madness, but I guess they are scared
Or bought off
They've run out of time to fix the trap they've set for themselves.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (evAgx)
You would think that the business communities in these Blue states would speak out against this madness, but I guess they are scared
Or bought off
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (mR6Gs)
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I see it most in the West LA/Santa Monica area.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:42 PM (uhPTO)
I used to live there.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:42 PM (uhPTO)
I used to live there.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (gU91G)
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Right now, the entire leadership of the GOP is captured by people who think the Democrats' goals are admirable and they only disagree as to implementation.
Honestly I'm not even sure they go that far. I think they are disinterested in policy or implementation, except for as far as it harms their chances for power and money. I think their mindset is this: Will opposing this hurt my chances of being elected, going to hot parties with children to molest, and getting piles of cash? Well I can't oppose that then.
They're doing nothing to dissuade me from this perspective, and have not for decades.
Honestly I'm not even sure they go that far. I think they are disinterested in policy or implementation, except for as far as it harms their chances for power and money. I think their mindset is this: Will opposing this hurt my chances of being elected, going to hot parties with children to molest, and getting piles of cash? Well I can't oppose that then.
They're doing nothing to dissuade me from this perspective, and have not for decades.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (KZzsI)
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Ahoy! These issues will be discussed on the next Bulwark Cruise. See you on the Lido Deck!
Posted by: Mister Softee at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (JPtHE)
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about 1/3 of NYC blacks are not jabbed. They need the negative test for flights. I fear that the J&J jab will be dropped, so I may get it sooner than I thought.
The only place I get asked about a mask is Blink. BJ's, Target, Lowes and HD said nothing.
The pcr test for Covid is going away, so, vax passports will be Poopy pants message Tuesday.
The only place I get asked about a mask is Blink. BJ's, Target, Lowes and HD said nothing.
The pcr test for Covid is going away, so, vax passports will be Poopy pants message Tuesday.
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at December 19, 2021 01:21 PM (b+v9B)
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a scathing statement Sunday calling on Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to be true to his word and reconsider his opposition to President Bidens Build Back Better Act after the senator revealed on Fox News that he couldnt support the multitrillion-dollar legislation after months of party negotiations.
Sniff Sniff...I smell panic
Sniff Sniff...I smell panic
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:22 PM (Irn0L)
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Reuben I'm also quite interested in the energy part of your research focus, though I'm having some trouble following your comments.
Most of my knowledge comes from reading papers and legal briefings because energy production/distribution is a profoundly over-regulated, rigged and fluid system that is mind boggling complex.
The book, which I have been whoring here "Shorting The Grid" is without a doubt the best book to at least be considered an introduction to the topic. It is a page-turner for non-fiction. The author could really use an editor, but it is readable, but far more important the book provides the reader with the vocabulary to better grasp the topics of all things relating to the power grid.
It tries very hard to not be political, which is a huge thing given that RTOs try to be resilient, but they are stymied with State policies and cross-border conflicts in policy and who ends up paying for the growing BS and overhead.
Most of my knowledge comes from reading papers and legal briefings because energy production/distribution is a profoundly over-regulated, rigged and fluid system that is mind boggling complex.
The book, which I have been whoring here "Shorting The Grid" is without a doubt the best book to at least be considered an introduction to the topic. It is a page-turner for non-fiction. The author could really use an editor, but it is readable, but far more important the book provides the reader with the vocabulary to better grasp the topics of all things relating to the power grid.
It tries very hard to not be political, which is a huge thing given that RTOs try to be resilient, but they are stymied with State policies and cross-border conflicts in policy and who ends up paying for the growing BS and overhead.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:22 PM (+LCoQ)
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The Bush family infection in GOP remains strong, they will never get over the voters supporting Trump over Jeb and despise the idea of the GOP as a working class/middle class party.
Posted by: Drew in MO at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (cGlgB)
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Reuben, as with everything else, "the ratepayers and taxpayers" put up with this, even cheer it on. As you noted, "stupid people", more accurately uninformed and technically illiterate people who thing "green" and "sustainable" actually mean anything.
I know it's becoming heresy to suggest that all the idiocies and depredations and opportunity costs and self-inflicted damage in our society are anything except the devious schemes of shadowy forces, top-down, imposed on noble innocent citizen-victims, but nah, that's absurd - people in many places are active ongoing participants in all of this.
I know it's becoming heresy to suggest that all the idiocies and depredations and opportunity costs and self-inflicted damage in our society are anything except the devious schemes of shadowy forces, top-down, imposed on noble innocent citizen-victims, but nah, that's absurd - people in many places are active ongoing participants in all of this.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (OTzUX)
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199 Seems like the NFL is tired of all the positive tests. They are going to stop testing " vaccinated asymptomatic" players after today
Posted by: steevy a
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Gentlemen, we were willing to participate with your phoney baloney political theater but we will not kill the golden goose. Enough is enough.
Posted by: steevy a
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Gentlemen, we were willing to participate with your phoney baloney political theater but we will not kill the golden goose. Enough is enough.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (vW9Vw)
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (qpolg)
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In 2016 the GOP held congress and Whitehouse, and had little to show for it.
Meantime, America's Foreign and domestic policy became suicidal; Democrats have trashed countless norms. Amerca's reputation is trashed. Forger the 2020 election, focus on present and future.
Meantime, America's Foreign and domestic policy became suicidal; Democrats have trashed countless norms. Amerca's reputation is trashed. Forger the 2020 election, focus on present and future.
Posted by: JM in Florida at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (L7jyl)
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*launders sock*
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
You'll never get the shame out.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (uhPTO)
Yeah, I know. That was a deeper dive than I'd intended.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (cTCuP)
Sorry, that was just a dumb jerk-sock joke. I prolly should have read the whole thread.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 12:35 PM (cTCuP)
You'll never get the shame out.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 12:37 PM (uhPTO)
Yeah, I know. That was a deeper dive than I'd intended.
Posted by: creeper at December 19, 2021 01:15 PM (cTCuP)
Sorry, that was just a dumb jerk-sock joke. I prolly should have read the whole thread.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (uhPTO)
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a scathing statement Sunday calling on Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to be true to his word and reconsider his opposition to President Bidens Build Back Better Act after the senator revealed on Fox News that he couldnt support the multitrillion-dollar legislation after months of party negotiations.
Sniff Sniff...I smell panic
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:22 PM (Irn0L)
I smell a dead girl or live boy in Mancini's future
Sniff Sniff...I smell panic
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:22 PM (Irn0L)
I smell a dead girl or live boy in Mancini's future
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (mR6Gs)
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I'm also a bit dismayed that the nominal 'right' ironically seeks to kill any protests in the womb by labeling any organization as 'A Bunch of Feds'.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (Ckg4U)
That's total crap.
If something smells like a Fed operation, should we embrace it anyway, just to be pure?
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:14 PM (Ckg4U)
That's total crap.
If something smells like a Fed operation, should we embrace it anyway, just to be pure?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:24 PM (Q9lwr)
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Australia actually has Happy Fun Covid Camps.
Comply or they go after your wealth. And still lock you up.
It's for your own good you ungrateful cur.
Comply or they go after your wealth. And still lock you up.
It's for your own good you ungrateful cur.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:24 PM (WoFHd)
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Gentlemen, we were willing to participate with your phoney baloney political theater but we will not kill the golden goose. Enough is enough.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (vW9Vw)
Craven, but perhaps this is the way to end this nightmare--if other businesses follow suit.
Gentlemen, we were willing to participate with your phoney baloney political theater but we will not kill the golden goose. Enough is enough.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (vW9Vw)
Craven, but perhaps this is the way to end this nightmare--if other businesses follow suit.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (uhPTO)
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Oooo! An "R" factor!
Sounds ominous!
I've no idea what that is but it sure sounds like some reporter somewhere is looking for more airtime.
Posted by: Diogenes
Has to do with transmissibility. R represents the average number of people that will be infected by one infected person with the disease. Seasonal flu has a R about 1.3 or so.
Sounds ominous!
I've no idea what that is but it sure sounds like some reporter somewhere is looking for more airtime.
Posted by: Diogenes
Has to do with transmissibility. R represents the average number of people that will be infected by one infected person with the disease. Seasonal flu has a R about 1.3 or so.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (9hXN1)
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See what happened to businesses that tried to defy the lockdowns in NY and NJ. They got buried.
Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (CYnTg)
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While you are in Happy Fun Covid Camp your neighbors will loot your home.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (WoFHd)
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I'm not here often because I tire of being a Humorist that debates Soap Operas. Also, what I would say, at times, would flout the rules of this Blog.
The Rules are simple here and you can get-away with a shit-ton, but some things are off-limits. They are not asking me to relinquish my First-Born, so I abide by the Rules. Flouting them is egotistical and asinine.
The Rules are simple here and you can get-away with a shit-ton, but some things are off-limits. They are not asking me to relinquish my First-Born, so I abide by the Rules. Flouting them is egotistical and asinine.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (Ckg4U)
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Posted by: Jamaica Queens at December 19, 2021 01:21 PM (b+v9B)
What about restaurants?
Every NYC restaurant I have been in asks for proof of my vaccine status. Some obviously do it just for show, but some are enthusiastic.
What about restaurants?
Every NYC restaurant I have been in asks for proof of my vaccine status. Some obviously do it just for show, but some are enthusiastic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:26 PM (Q9lwr)
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You would think that the business communities in these Blue states would speak out against this madness, but I guess they are scared
Or bought off
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (mR6Gs)
Or they are moving. Last week Gordon Ramsey, who besides being a TV personality also owns a growing chain of restaurants, announced that he was closing down all of his California operations and moving his entire operation to Las Colinas, Texas . (DFW)
Or bought off
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:20 PM (mR6Gs)
Or they are moving. Last week Gordon Ramsey, who besides being a TV personality also owns a growing chain of restaurants, announced that he was closing down all of his California operations and moving his entire operation to Las Colinas, Texas . (DFW)
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:26 PM (evAgx)
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We now have new free states/ slave states divide.
Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2021 01:27 PM (CYnTg)
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Every NYC restaurant I have been in asks for proof of my vaccine status. Some obviously do it just for show, but some are enthusiastic.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:26 PM (Q9lwr)
I have not eaten in a food joint in NYS or NYC in 2 years
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:26 PM (Q9lwr)
I have not eaten in a food joint in NYS or NYC in 2 years
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:27 PM (Irn0L)
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Same.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (uhPTO)
I was near Santa Monica and Bundy.
You?
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:25 PM (uhPTO)
I was near Santa Monica and Bundy.
You?
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 01:27 PM (YImO4)
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I for one *applaud* the NFL's new rules, and I am adopting them for myself. NO tests until *After* I've been admitted to a hospital.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves at December 19, 2021 01:28 PM (evAgx)
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"The Real Anthony Fauci" (author is RFK jr) is for sale on kindle for $2.99.
Richly footnoted (more per page than I've ever read), it is a scorching critique of Fauci, not just as regards C19, but his whole career, during which time every major health hazard in the world became worse in the USA than in other nation.
Cancer, diabetes, TB, autism, birth defects, you name it.
During his watch life expectancy in the US declined, for the first time since records were kept.
And yet, he is the highest paid Federal employee.
Richly footnoted (more per page than I've ever read), it is a scorching critique of Fauci, not just as regards C19, but his whole career, during which time every major health hazard in the world became worse in the USA than in other nation.
Cancer, diabetes, TB, autism, birth defects, you name it.
During his watch life expectancy in the US declined, for the first time since records were kept.
And yet, he is the highest paid Federal employee.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 19, 2021 01:28 PM (jTmQV)
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#222 herd immunity gets R factor below 1.
1918 flu ran about 3 years. Then just went away. Mostly.
They won't let this one go away.
1918 flu ran about 3 years. Then just went away. Mostly.
They won't let this one go away.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:28 PM (WoFHd)
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off sock!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 01:28 PM (evAgx)
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#232 is it true that Fauci prolongs his life transfusing on the blood of infants?
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:30 PM (WoFHd)
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My concern is that ERCOT is going to fail, and many of the popular articles out there after the Great Texas Freeze were food fights over the folly over wind.
But after research, the financial incentives are perverse in such a way that stored fuel energy generators are, in effect, punished for being resilient while the unreliables are given legal preference.
For example CCGT is nearly twice as efficient than simple gas fired generation plants, but because of wind/solar is so unreliable, the less efficient gas fired plants can spin up and deal with the sun/wind fluctuations and failures (CCGT not so much). So it ends up being less efficient than if the damned windmills were not connected to a reliable grid and we relied on CCGT generation.
Of course, nukes are probably the most resilient and best bang for the buck, but between policy and auction pricing schemes, nukes are being discarded because getting paid isn't just by delivering power, but also rate charge categories and distribution cost sharing.
But after research, the financial incentives are perverse in such a way that stored fuel energy generators are, in effect, punished for being resilient while the unreliables are given legal preference.
For example CCGT is nearly twice as efficient than simple gas fired generation plants, but because of wind/solar is so unreliable, the less efficient gas fired plants can spin up and deal with the sun/wind fluctuations and failures (CCGT not so much). So it ends up being less efficient than if the damned windmills were not connected to a reliable grid and we relied on CCGT generation.
Of course, nukes are probably the most resilient and best bang for the buck, but between policy and auction pricing schemes, nukes are being discarded because getting paid isn't just by delivering power, but also rate charge categories and distribution cost sharing.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:31 PM (+LCoQ)
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Don Wolt at_tlowdon
38 days after its C19 vaxx became available to all, Moderna discovers that the virus mutates & that new viral strains are likely to be more transmissible. You'd think they'd employ some virologists there.
Jean Rees at_JeanRees10
The U.S. date that the C19 [vax] was open to all Americans was 4/19/21 (it varied by state -- but that was the official date, that everyone had to be opened).
38 days later and Moderna is already talking about waning efficacy of their [vax] that was supposed to be 94% effective? https://bit.ly/3J5xBn5
1:07 PM - Dec 19, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3meEUik
38 days after its C19 vaxx became available to all, Moderna discovers that the virus mutates & that new viral strains are likely to be more transmissible. You'd think they'd employ some virologists there.
Jean Rees at_JeanRees10
The U.S. date that the C19 [vax] was open to all Americans was 4/19/21 (it varied by state -- but that was the official date, that everyone had to be opened).
38 days later and Moderna is already talking about waning efficacy of their [vax] that was supposed to be 94% effective? https://bit.ly/3J5xBn5
1:07 PM - Dec 19, 2021 - https://bit.ly/3meEUik
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2021 01:31 PM (Do5/p)
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is it true that Fauci prolongs his life transfusing on the blood of infants?
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:30 PM (WoFHd)
Or female virgins
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:30 PM (WoFHd)
Or female virgins
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:31 PM (Irn0L)
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But i don't know anymore.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (mR6Gs
This is all political now. Sure, the medically compromised should always try to avoid infection, this is not new for them, but it's new to the media and to those who don't have such limitations. They can continue to isolate when needed. IMO, having the rest of us behave like we're compromised when we're not only slows the virus down, but will not stop it. It can't burn out when we keep feeding it more unexposed people in little amounts.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:10 PM (mR6Gs
This is all political now. Sure, the medically compromised should always try to avoid infection, this is not new for them, but it's new to the media and to those who don't have such limitations. They can continue to isolate when needed. IMO, having the rest of us behave like we're compromised when we're not only slows the virus down, but will not stop it. It can't burn out when we keep feeding it more unexposed people in little amounts.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:32 PM (ONvIw)
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I think the designation "Grand Old Party" was originally meant as sarcasm back in the 19th century.
Posted by: moviegique at December 19, 2021 01:32 PM (asXVI)
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Hey, I don't know if either Muldoon or Cat Ass Trophy are still here, but I have a question for something I'm writing.
I'd like to know how many people have been administered Remdesivir over the course of the epidemic, and of that how many recovered, and how many died, over the same time period.
Where could I find that out?
(And just checking, do either of you know that the WHO has basically come out against Remdesivir?)
Hey, I don't know if either Muldoon or Cat Ass Trophy are still here, but I have a question for something I'm writing.
I'd like to know how many people have been administered Remdesivir over the course of the epidemic, and of that how many recovered, and how many died, over the same time period.
Where could I find that out?
(And just checking, do either of you know that the WHO has basically come out against Remdesivir?)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (68A3w)
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"That's total crap.
If something smells like a Fed operation, should we embrace it anyway, just to be pure?"
-Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:24 PM (Q9lwr)
You're reading-into something I did not say. Discernment is just one point in the matter. It has become the immediate reaction to anything organized and it has a smothering effect on anything worthy of cause.
It has become a Smart-Boy game of 'Find the Fed', when it should be an offensive against evil.
If something smells like a Fed operation, should we embrace it anyway, just to be pure?"
-Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:24 PM (Q9lwr)
You're reading-into something I did not say. Discernment is just one point in the matter. It has become the immediate reaction to anything organized and it has a smothering effect on anything worthy of cause.
It has become a Smart-Boy game of 'Find the Fed', when it should be an offensive against evil.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: Valiant at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (3MiF8)
244
well a protest is an easy mark, but when they start suggesting explosives and sniping officials, you might be a fed,
Posted by: no 6 at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (hMlTh)
245
is it true that Fauci prolongs his life transfusing on the blood of infants?
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:30 PM (WoFHd)
Or female virgins
Lol. There are people that actually believe that tin-foil stuff.
Everyone knows it's adrenochrome.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:30 PM (WoFHd)
Or female virgins
Lol. There are people that actually believe that tin-foil stuff.
Everyone knows it's adrenochrome.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (0jcHs)
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This is why the closing of my essay back before Thanksgiving was "Unfortunately, the largest benefactor will be Kevin McCarthy".
The GOP is mostly useless. At least the Democrats will try to do what their voters want (even though what the want will lead to national extinction).
There is some hope, this year we have a record number of candidates who understand that this is war, and they aren't being asked to go to Washington to be collegial.
Also, the base understands more than ever before what a scam the GOP has been.
Unfortunately, next year they will win a majority in the House and Senate. And more than likely they will squander that victory with more failure theater. The only benefit is it keeps the most radical of the leftists from setting legislative policy.
If Trump wins in 2024, I have hope that he will better understand that it is better to fire every political appointee, than allow the backstabbing of his agenda. Because he has been shown to be very weak at personnel decisions.
The GOP is mostly useless. At least the Democrats will try to do what their voters want (even though what the want will lead to national extinction).
There is some hope, this year we have a record number of candidates who understand that this is war, and they aren't being asked to go to Washington to be collegial.
Also, the base understands more than ever before what a scam the GOP has been.
Unfortunately, next year they will win a majority in the House and Senate. And more than likely they will squander that victory with more failure theater. The only benefit is it keeps the most radical of the leftists from setting legislative policy.
If Trump wins in 2024, I have hope that he will better understand that it is better to fire every political appointee, than allow the backstabbing of his agenda. Because he has been shown to be very weak at personnel decisions.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (5p7BC)
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My goal is to be able to model the power grid in such a way that it can be used to set up ad hoc What Ifs so that policy makers can see how destructive their current policies are.
Sure, they can score some sweet campaign cash from Big Tech who are the major investors/sponsors of Green, but it would be great to show how losing a nuke or a few major coal plants will crash the grid and cause rolling blackouts.
One would think that a politician would like to see why their constituents are erecting guillotines.
Sure, they can score some sweet campaign cash from Big Tech who are the major investors/sponsors of Green, but it would be great to show how losing a nuke or a few major coal plants will crash the grid and cause rolling blackouts.
One would think that a politician would like to see why their constituents are erecting guillotines.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (+LCoQ)
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Of course, nukes are probably the most resilient and best bang for the buck
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:31 PM (+LCoQ)
This is exactly why the Republican party sucks. They could use nuclear power as a powerful wedge issue, demanding support for it from the Democrats and insisting on tarring them with being Global Warming deniers because they won't support the best carbon-neutral solution.
But...they suck...and they don't care about anything other than the grift.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:31 PM (+LCoQ)
This is exactly why the Republican party sucks. They could use nuclear power as a powerful wedge issue, demanding support for it from the Democrats and insisting on tarring them with being Global Warming deniers because they won't support the best carbon-neutral solution.
But...they suck...and they don't care about anything other than the grift.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (Q9lwr)
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82 The vile vegetable's "address" tomorrow (I assume just a brief, weird, recorded thing) could be darkly entertaining.
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:33 PM (OTzUX)
The Turnip will not give us his Souped-up Winter COVID Plan until Tuesday, as of now. Some of the Dem-Media Complex clowns are publicly wondering why The Turnip is waiting until Tuesday, if the situation is so ultra-bad.
Good question. It's the Junta's public statement Standard Operating Procedure for any crisis. They always take several days before sending The Turnip out to make a public address. It happened during the Kabul Bug-Out. The Junta needs time to get first-draft feedback from focus groups and key members of the Dem-Media Complex. Then one more edit-feedback cycle. Then the address can be finalized, and talking points for every Dem written and distributed.
Then, The Turnip needs time to do a lot of verbal run-throughs of the address (he's said a number of times this is his public speaking SOP; it is probably why he is always late for his speeches.)
Optics uber all!
What nonsense will he read to "keep the 'skeer on" for the vast multitudes of ignorant, submissive Americans?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 12:33 PM (OTzUX)
The Turnip will not give us his Souped-up Winter COVID Plan until Tuesday, as of now. Some of the Dem-Media Complex clowns are publicly wondering why The Turnip is waiting until Tuesday, if the situation is so ultra-bad.
Good question. It's the Junta's public statement Standard Operating Procedure for any crisis. They always take several days before sending The Turnip out to make a public address. It happened during the Kabul Bug-Out. The Junta needs time to get first-draft feedback from focus groups and key members of the Dem-Media Complex. Then one more edit-feedback cycle. Then the address can be finalized, and talking points for every Dem written and distributed.
Then, The Turnip needs time to do a lot of verbal run-throughs of the address (he's said a number of times this is his public speaking SOP; it is probably why he is always late for his speeches.)
Optics uber all!
Posted by: Gref at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (AMIL/)
250
whitmer does have that elizabeth bathory look,
Posted by: no 6 at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (hMlTh)
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It has become a Smart-Boy game of 'Find the Fed', when it should be an offensive against evil.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (Ckg4U)
An inability to "find the fed" gave us the 1/6 mess. Hard to launch an offensive if you refuse to consider that you have enemies in the ranks.
It has become a Smart-Boy game of 'Find the Fed', when it should be an offensive against evil.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (Ckg4U)
An inability to "find the fed" gave us the 1/6 mess. Hard to launch an offensive if you refuse to consider that you have enemies in the ranks.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (ONvIw)
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In the Axios article, no mention of a Hunter investigation
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (us2H3)
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#236 California used to have waste forest wood burning power plants that produced clean renewable reliable electric power. There's a couple left out of maybe 16 built during Carter era.
Now we just leave that fuel in the forest as chum for mega forest fires.
Now we just leave that fuel in the forest as chum for mega forest fires.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (WoFHd)
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Maybe I missed something... what exactly has Marjorie Taylor Greene or that other blonde motor mouth, Borebet? actually accomplished other than some mean tweets and fetching upvotes online? I mean if they've actually done some good I'd like to hear about it.
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Marjorie and Lauren have stood tall and not taken any guff. What we supposedly all want from our representatives.
There is a (R) Rep from IL, of all places, who actually had the grit to sign the letter about the J6 unlawful detainees. Mary Miller, and I hope that all IL and surrounding areas take note.
'Mean tweets' -- really?
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Marjorie and Lauren have stood tall and not taken any guff. What we supposedly all want from our representatives.
There is a (R) Rep from IL, of all places, who actually had the grit to sign the letter about the J6 unlawful detainees. Mary Miller, and I hope that all IL and surrounding areas take note.
'Mean tweets' -- really?
Posted by: mustbequantum at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (MIKMs)
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CBD, I don't eat in, only take out and they don't ask me. I am curious to see what Blink does 1/1.
Omicron will be used to justify BBB.
GVB is still predicting ADE striking the vaxxed after Omie peaks which may explain the push to destroy the control group. If true, Africa wins the game.
Omicron will be used to justify BBB.
GVB is still predicting ADE striking the vaxxed after Omie peaks which may explain the push to destroy the control group. If true, Africa wins the game.
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at December 19, 2021 01:36 PM (b+v9B)
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It's too much to pray that if the GOP takes the House they'll immediately seek the expulsion of Adam Schiff?
Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2021 01:36 PM (8erNz)
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When I saw the headline, I thought the post was a reaction to Biden's speech to the graduates of South Carolina State. He occasionally screamed at the audience, and at one point, turned around for no particular reason.
Posted by: 40 Miles North at December 19, 2021 01:36 PM (uWF4x)
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If Trump wins in 2024, I have hope that he will better understand that it is better to fire every political appointee, than allow the backstabbing of his agenda. Because he has been shown to be very weak at personnel decisions.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (5p7BC)
I am sure the Biden people will make appointees into careerists, just as Obama did on the way out the door.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (5p7BC)
I am sure the Biden people will make appointees into careerists, just as Obama did on the way out the door.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:36 PM (ONvIw)
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It has become the immediate reaction to anything organized and it has a smothering effect on anything worthy of cause.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (Ckg4U)
Nonsense. Pay attention around here and you will see full-throated support of many people and organizations and events.
But when one is suspicious, then we and many others question its bona fides.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:33 PM (Ckg4U)
Nonsense. Pay attention around here and you will see full-throated support of many people and organizations and events.
But when one is suspicious, then we and many others question its bona fides.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2021 01:37 PM (Q9lwr)
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We already know what he will do. Double down on boosters and strong arming the unvaccinated
Posted by: steevy at December 19, 2021 01:37 PM (CYnTg)
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#254 Out of party representatives can only grandstand.
I'm appreciative of the ones who give Nanxi grief.
I'm appreciative of the ones who give Nanxi grief.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:37 PM (WoFHd)
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"The Real Anthony Fauci"
Buy it today. 461 pps. and a page-turner. Only $2.99.
I recommend the kindle version, because there are another 500 pages of footnotes. I can't imagine navigating those in a paperback.
Buy it today. 461 pps. and a page-turner. Only $2.99.
I recommend the kindle version, because there are another 500 pages of footnotes. I can't imagine navigating those in a paperback.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 19, 2021 01:37 PM (jTmQV)
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In the Axios article, no mention of a Hunter investigation
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (us2H3)
Isn't there supposed to be an independent prosecutor on that one? Have not heard a peep about him in a year
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (us2H3)
Isn't there supposed to be an independent prosecutor on that one? Have not heard a peep about him in a year
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:38 PM (Irn0L)
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" becoming heresy to suggest that all the idiocies and depredations and opportunity costs and self-inflicted damage in our society are anything except the devious schemes of shadowy forces, top-down, imposed on noble innocent citizen-victims"
Much of it is top down globalists taking advantage of the common failures of the masses. Technology and a quadrillion in shadowy derivative markets have given these globalists more leverage than ever, and it is being used to run the current "global coup" against "The West".
Power corrupts, imo there is more "nobility" in the common man than in the Soros/Zuck/Bazos/Gates oligarch. But sure, the masses should have produced more heroes ... should have resisted more 50 years ago. And more deep in government should have fought the DeepState more. ... But if we commoners need a common enemy, it would be the oligarchs/DeepState.
Much of it is top down globalists taking advantage of the common failures of the masses. Technology and a quadrillion in shadowy derivative markets have given these globalists more leverage than ever, and it is being used to run the current "global coup" against "The West".
Power corrupts, imo there is more "nobility" in the common man than in the Soros/Zuck/Bazos/Gates oligarch. But sure, the masses should have produced more heroes ... should have resisted more 50 years ago. And more deep in government should have fought the DeepState more. ... But if we commoners need a common enemy, it would be the oligarchs/DeepState.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 19, 2021 01:38 PM (Cus5s)
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I'm done writing my GOP rep and asking him where TF he is. The GOP can complain about MT-G all they want, but if they'd step up and open their mouths from time to time, they wouldn't have a couple of freshman women filling the void with their inexperience.
Tells you all you need to know, really. They like the status quo. Told my rep I was done with him after voting for that vaccination database crap. He's generally pretty good, but I'm tired of him missing layups. He responded back, even though I specifically selected the box for a non-response.
Tells you all you need to know, really. They like the status quo. Told my rep I was done with him after voting for that vaccination database crap. He's generally pretty good, but I'm tired of him missing layups. He responded back, even though I specifically selected the box for a non-response.
Posted by: McLurkerson at December 19, 2021 01:39 PM (wNDOJ)
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I was near Santa Monica and Bundy.
You?
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 01:27 PM (YImO4)
By Sony Studios/Culver City. I worked in your area, down on Ocean Park.
You?
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 01:27 PM (YImO4)
By Sony Studios/Culver City. I worked in your area, down on Ocean Park.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:39 PM (uhPTO)
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240 I think the designation "Grand Old Party" was originally meant as sarcasm back in the 19th century.
Posted by: moviegique
If I recall properly, it was taken from the Grand Army of the Republic which was a Union army vet group approximately 1880 or so. The GOP used the bloody shirt epithet against the Dems for several decades blaming them for the Civil War.
Ironically, the Dems used the label first pre-Civil War to refer to their own party which might be a clue.
Posted by: moviegique
If I recall properly, it was taken from the Grand Army of the Republic which was a Union army vet group approximately 1880 or so. The GOP used the bloody shirt epithet against the Dems for several decades blaming them for the Civil War.
Ironically, the Dems used the label first pre-Civil War to refer to their own party which might be a clue.
Posted by: whig at December 19, 2021 01:39 PM (9hXN1)
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>> 248 nukes are probably the most resilient and best bang for the buck
My experience enables me to have a different opinion on that question.
My experience enables me to have a different opinion on that question.
Posted by: Eric Swalwell at December 19, 2021 01:39 PM (uWF4x)
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Sniff Sniff...I smell panic
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:22 PM (Irn0L)
I smell a dead girl or live boy in Mancini's future
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (mR6Gs)
***
Trillion$ at stake. Yeah, he'd better up his security.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:22 PM (Irn0L)
I smell a dead girl or live boy in Mancini's future
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (mR6Gs)
***
Trillion$ at stake. Yeah, he'd better up his security.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 01:40 PM (axyOa)
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Isn't there supposed to be an independent prosecutor on that one? Have not heard a peep about him in a year
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:38 PM (Irn0L)
Hunter is home free unless Jill and Joe have a crisis of conscience and abandon being puppets. They won't so Hunter is very unlikely to face consequences...just as Mitch will not be punished for Chinese gifts, nor will any other uniparty member who plays by the current rules.
Isn't there supposed to be an independent prosecutor on that one? Have not heard a peep about him in a year
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:38 PM (Irn0L)
Hunter is home free unless Jill and Joe have a crisis of conscience and abandon being puppets. They won't so Hunter is very unlikely to face consequences...just as Mitch will not be punished for Chinese gifts, nor will any other uniparty member who plays by the current rules.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:42 PM (ONvIw)
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Adam Schiff?
Is that bug eyed weasel still around?
Is that bug eyed weasel still around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:42 PM (U2p+3)
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I hope the left keeps insulting manchin and he switches parties. OOOOH the howling you would hear. I think it would give me a hardon
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 19, 2021 01:43 PM (Irn0L)
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Unfortunately, next year they will win a majority in the House and Senate. And more than likely they will squander that victory with more failure theater. The only benefit is it keeps the most radical of the leftists from setting legislative policy.
If Trump wins in 2024, I have hope that he will better understand that it is better to fire every political appointee, than allow the backstabbing of his agenda. Because he has been shown to be very weak at personnel decisions.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (5p7BC)
To combine a couple of my posts from the ONT last night, all I want from 2022 - 2024 is a Congress that does *nothing*. Not even confirmations; I want *Nothing*, and I think McConnell and Kevin are the men who can give me that.
And after that - I make no predictions for 2024, or afterwards, because I think so much shit is going to hit the fan over the next three years that our future is completely unknowable.
If Trump wins in 2024, I have hope that he will better understand that it is better to fire every political appointee, than allow the backstabbing of his agenda. Because he has been shown to be very weak at personnel decisions.
Posted by: Dave in Fla (fC3dn) at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM (5p7BC)
To combine a couple of my posts from the ONT last night, all I want from 2022 - 2024 is a Congress that does *nothing*. Not even confirmations; I want *Nothing*, and I think McConnell and Kevin are the men who can give me that.
And after that - I make no predictions for 2024, or afterwards, because I think so much shit is going to hit the fan over the next three years that our future is completely unknowable.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 01:43 PM (evAgx)
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I don't blame Taylor Green or Boebert. They are at least tying. They are outnumbered by about 400.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:43 PM (qpolg)
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By Sony Studios/Culver City. I worked in your area, down on Ocean Park.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:39 PM (uhPTO)
Had a good friend who lived in CC.
WLA is a nice area ruined by too many people.
I left in 03.
Posted by: Grudge Harbor at December 19, 2021 01:39 PM (uhPTO)
Had a good friend who lived in CC.
WLA is a nice area ruined by too many people.
I left in 03.
Posted by: I mean at December 19, 2021 01:43 PM (43PWs)
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271 Adam Schiff?
Is that bug eyed weasel still around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:42 PM (U2p+3)
And still creating "evidence" with no consequences.
Is that bug eyed weasel still around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:42 PM (U2p+3)
And still creating "evidence" with no consequences.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:44 PM (ONvIw)
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Under Speaker Ryan didn't the House pass 160 bills to repeal O Care?
Oh wait...that was before Ryan. My bad.
Oh wait...that was before Ryan. My bad.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:44 PM (WoFHd)
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The Republicans will take Congress, and it's grifting power, without having done a single thing to earn it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 19, 2021 01:45 PM (yQpMk)
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274 I don't blame Taylor Green or Boebert. They are at least tying. They are outnumbered by about 400.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:43 PM (qpolg)
I agree... Green actually went to the gulag where they are holding the Jan. 6th hostages.. She has tried to get the prejudiced Warden removed... Unfortunately no other Reps will stand with her.. At least very few anyway
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:43 PM (qpolg)
I agree... Green actually went to the gulag where they are holding the Jan. 6th hostages.. She has tried to get the prejudiced Warden removed... Unfortunately no other Reps will stand with her.. At least very few anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2021 01:46 PM (TdaKq)
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#276 lawyer's ethical canons prohibit lying. But not for lawyer Schiff.
This is why we can't have nice things.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:46 PM (WoFHd)
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If Trump wins in 2024
Just don't see that happening. Besides, that's light years away considering what is happening in the here and now. We can't possibly endure 2+ more years of this mayhem. On a positive note, maybe we will see a meltdown that might usher in an era of reason. Hate to be a cynic but I think I can be forgiven for that, given what has transpired.
Just don't see that happening. Besides, that's light years away considering what is happening in the here and now. We can't possibly endure 2+ more years of this mayhem. On a positive note, maybe we will see a meltdown that might usher in an era of reason. Hate to be a cynic but I think I can be forgiven for that, given what has transpired.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 19, 2021 01:46 PM (Xrfse)
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You are allowed to lie in Congress.
Sometimes I think it is even encouraged.
Sometimes I think it is even encouraged.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 19, 2021 01:47 PM (jTmQV)
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I agree... Green actually went to the gulag where they are holding the Jan. 6th hostages.. She has tried to get the prejudiced Warden removed... Unfortunately no other Reps will stand with her.. At least very few anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2021 01:46 PM (TdaKq)
The GOP is worse than useless in that matter, they're largely in support of it.
I agree... Green actually went to the gulag where they are holding the Jan. 6th hostages.. She has tried to get the prejudiced Warden removed... Unfortunately no other Reps will stand with her.. At least very few anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2021 01:46 PM (TdaKq)
The GOP is worse than useless in that matter, they're largely in support of it.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:47 PM (ONvIw)
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The congress critters that have been vocal about J-6 and the coof with all it entails are worth more than the ones "I'm bringing forward this legislation..." when it has absolutely zero chances of passing.
Gaetz doesn't take PAC money and promised hearing with results, even calling Gowdy out by name as one that was loud and did nothing.
I'm holding my "let it burn" attitude until we see the results of '22.
With control of the House it only takes a dozen diehards to make the change Americans want.
Gaetz doesn't take PAC money and promised hearing with results, even calling Gowdy out by name as one that was loud and did nothing.
I'm holding my "let it burn" attitude until we see the results of '22.
With control of the House it only takes a dozen diehards to make the change Americans want.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 19, 2021 01:47 PM (DB16e)
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I'd just accuse the Junta of executing the Jan06 protestors. That is the real reason we dont't know anything about what is going on...
But they'd just toss my ass into the gulag too.
But they'd just toss my ass into the gulag too.
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at December 19, 2021 01:47 PM (ZD9pn)
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I smell a dead girl or live boy in Mancini's future
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (mR6Gs)
***
Trillion$ at stake. Yeah, he'd better up his security.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 01:40 PM (axyOa)
Manchin is in the proverbial catbirds seat, and there's nothing any Dem can do about it. (If there had been a single competent person in the dem leadership, they would have seen this coming)
Manchin dies or resigns? The Republican Governor appoints a Republican replacement.
Schumer and Biden and Pelosi attack Manchin viciously and threaten to kick him out of the party? Manchin quits the dems, goes independent and makes McConnell the new majority leader.
Dems suck it up and say, Yes Sir Mr Manchin, whatever you say Mr. Manchin? The progs throw a fit and kill everything out of spite.
These are the only 3 options the Dem leadership has now. Choose the Form of your Destructor, guys.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (mR6Gs)
***
Trillion$ at stake. Yeah, he'd better up his security.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2021 01:40 PM (axyOa)
Manchin is in the proverbial catbirds seat, and there's nothing any Dem can do about it. (If there had been a single competent person in the dem leadership, they would have seen this coming)
Manchin dies or resigns? The Republican Governor appoints a Republican replacement.
Schumer and Biden and Pelosi attack Manchin viciously and threaten to kick him out of the party? Manchin quits the dems, goes independent and makes McConnell the new majority leader.
Dems suck it up and say, Yes Sir Mr Manchin, whatever you say Mr. Manchin? The progs throw a fit and kill everything out of spite.
These are the only 3 options the Dem leadership has now. Choose the Form of your Destructor, guys.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 01:48 PM (evAgx)
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Yup. Uniparty. Dems and democrat light. No difference at all. The gop is dead.
And they wonder why!
And they wonder why!
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at December 19, 2021 01:48 PM (0OmEj)
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I am not aware that any of the "mitigation" measures (virtually all of the policies and "interventions" we're talking about and living through WRT C19) have "slowed" or in any measurable way affected the path of the virus.
That's really the entire point here. Already prevalent, highly infectious respiratory viruses are not appropriate targets for the (still mostly speculative) concept of "mitigation".
Community resistance (herd immunity) is not slowed or otherwise affected by measures that don't in themselves do anything.
That's really the entire point here. Already prevalent, highly infectious respiratory viruses are not appropriate targets for the (still mostly speculative) concept of "mitigation".
Community resistance (herd immunity) is not slowed or otherwise affected by measures that don't in themselves do anything.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (OTzUX)
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253 #236 California used to have waste forest wood burning power plants that produced clean renewable reliable electric power. There's a couple left out of maybe 16 built during Carter era.
Now we just leave that fuel in the forest as chum for mega forest fires.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (WoFHd)
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Which afflict the red (i.e., non Red) areas of the state.
Does that help?
Now we just leave that fuel in the forest as chum for mega forest fires.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:35 PM (WoFHd)
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Which afflict the red (i.e., non Red) areas of the state.
Does that help?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (oD1FF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (EZebt)
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When the movie Men In Black was made it foreshadowed what's going on now.
Schiff bug eyes, Shumer vultching, Pelosi clawing, its all there...
Schiff bug eyes, Shumer vultching, Pelosi clawing, its all there...
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (WoFHd)
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whitmer does have that elizabeth bathory look,
Posted by: no 6 at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM
Her theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaC9EGlkPyU
Stuck in this hole / With the shit and the piss
And it's hard to believe / It could come down to this
Back at the beginning / Sinking / Spinning
And in the end / We still pretend
The time we spend / Not knowing when
You're finally free / And you could be
Posted by: no 6 at December 19, 2021 01:34 PM
Her theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaC9EGlkPyU
Stuck in this hole / With the shit and the piss
And it's hard to believe / It could come down to this
Back at the beginning / Sinking / Spinning
And in the end / We still pretend
The time we spend / Not knowing when
You're finally free / And you could be
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (Do5/p)
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290 McConnell is in bed with the Chinese as much as Biden
Also, McCarthy is in bed with Luntz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (EZebt)
Neither is fit to lead a "conservative" party, both are fit to lead a sham party.
Also, McCarthy is in bed with Luntz.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 19, 2021 01:49 PM (EZebt)
Neither is fit to lead a "conservative" party, both are fit to lead a sham party.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:50 PM (ONvIw)
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#290 Hunter's in bed with crack ho's.
Smartest man he knows.
Smartest man he knows.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:50 PM (WoFHd)
Posted by: 40 Miles North at December 19, 2021 01:50 PM (uWF4x)
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This is exactly why the Republican party sucks. They could use nuclear power as a powerful wedge issue, demanding support for it from the Democrats and insisting on tarring them with being Global Warming deniers because they won't support the best carbon-neutral solution.
The sad thing is that they lost a golden opportunity when the Vermont Yankee plant in your neck of the woods disclosed that they were going to close because there was no money in it (through the complex pricing and auction schemes).
The NE-ISO saw that the closing of this plant crushed their Winter Reliability plan and tried to make all kinds of deals to re-establish it since it won against the legislature to close it for political reasons, and also was recertified.
But because the convoluted pricing schemes and how the plant was going to be penalized under the Peak to Peak distribution contribution racket, they closed anyway.
Again, thanks wind. And thanks for being such a complex subject that the GOP couldn't understand it or build a campaign around it.
The sad thing is that they lost a golden opportunity when the Vermont Yankee plant in your neck of the woods disclosed that they were going to close because there was no money in it (through the complex pricing and auction schemes).
The NE-ISO saw that the closing of this plant crushed their Winter Reliability plan and tried to make all kinds of deals to re-establish it since it won against the legislature to close it for political reasons, and also was recertified.
But because the convoluted pricing schemes and how the plant was going to be penalized under the Peak to Peak distribution contribution racket, they closed anyway.
Again, thanks wind. And thanks for being such a complex subject that the GOP couldn't understand it or build a campaign around it.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (+LCoQ)
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Overlooked in this post is the core issue, which is that the GOP does not represent us, are as a whole not particularly conservative, and have much more in common with progressives. As such they see their role in DC more clearly than we do, which is to be the amiable dunce Washington Generals to the D's Globetrotters.
Never forget that while the D's hate us and want us dead, the GOP holds us in contempt, but only hates us during election time when they have to "pander to the rubes".
Well, that's my .02 on the big differences in the parties
Never forget that while the D's hate us and want us dead, the GOP holds us in contempt, but only hates us during election time when they have to "pander to the rubes".
Well, that's my .02 on the big differences in the parties
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (MFphb)
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my guess if the GOP gets serious about a Hunter investigation,
Hunter will pack his shit and leave the country
but it will have to be a serious one
Hunter will pack his shit and leave the country
but it will have to be a serious one
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (us2H3)
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These are the only 3 options the Dem leadership has now. Choose the Form of your Destructor, guys.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 01:48 PM (evAgx)
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Yep. Same thing with Kamala "Donkey Show Czarina" Harris.
Move her out to SCOTUS? Chance she'll get confirmed? Zero. She'd have a shot if the VP broke the tie, but ... wait ... that's her.
You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 01:48 PM (evAgx)
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Yep. Same thing with Kamala "Donkey Show Czarina" Harris.
Move her out to SCOTUS? Chance she'll get confirmed? Zero. She'd have a shot if the VP broke the tie, but ... wait ... that's her.
You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2021 01:52 PM (Fao6g)
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Sniff Sniff...I smell panic
Posted by: Nevergiveup
I suspect it is all starting to fall apart.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (qpolg)
Walk careful, Jim Jones also panicked when it started falling apart
Posted by: Nevergiveup
I suspect it is all starting to fall apart.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:23 PM (qpolg)
Walk careful, Jim Jones also panicked when it started falling apart
Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2021 01:52 PM (ZMraq)
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Guys... I'm not that bright. I only know my own motivations and want to know the Goodness of the Rules of Engagement when I want to advance an ideology. They may include violence and unjust prison time. I may have to pay for the children to be better-off.
I will make my own discernments based on the Good, the Beautiful and the True. 'Traps are everywhere' is not how I will live my life. I fear only God.
I will make my own discernments based on the Good, the Beautiful and the True. 'Traps are everywhere' is not how I will live my life. I fear only God.
Posted by: Slapweasel (Ckg4U) at December 19, 2021 01:52 PM (Ckg4U)
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You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2021 01:52 PM (Fao6g)
Or cry
You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2021 01:52 PM (Fao6g)
Or cry
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2021 01:52 PM (TdaKq)
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298 my guess if the GOP gets serious about a Hunter investigation,
Hunter will pack his shit and leave the country
but it will have to be a serious one
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (us2H3)
If they investigate Hunter's foreign ties, they'll have to look at Mitch, Mitt, and many others. Hunter is just one of many. They won't pursue it other than a few remarks here and there.
Hunter will pack his shit and leave the country
but it will have to be a serious one
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (us2H3)
If they investigate Hunter's foreign ties, they'll have to look at Mitch, Mitt, and many others. Hunter is just one of many. They won't pursue it other than a few remarks here and there.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:53 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at December 19, 2021 01:53 PM (ZD9pn)
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231 I for one *applaud* the NFL's new rules, and I am adopting them for myself. NO tests until *After* I've been admitted to a hospital.
Posted by: Keanu Reeves
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Better hope you don't need their help.
Stay healthy
Posted by: Keanu Reeves
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Better hope you don't need their help.
Stay healthy
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 01:53 PM (vW9Vw)
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Dims cut deal with Bernie
he gets to be the nominee in 2024 but he has to retire from the Senate
He's leading the dims down a dangerous path and needs to be eliminated
he gets to be the nominee in 2024 but he has to retire from the Senate
He's leading the dims down a dangerous path and needs to be eliminated
Posted by: REDACTED at December 19, 2021 01:55 PM (us2H3)
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"With control of the House it only takes a dozen diehards to make the change Americans want." - Fool Otto
While the rest of your comment is spot-on, I don't think - unfortunately - that this part is correct. Simply a matter of how the intended and legit, and de facto existing, process works at the moment.
Congress cannot, in a practical sense, force the executive to follow the laws nor to enforce them. Not in many key areas and in the short term, that is.
Just one example: borders and sovereignty. 98% of what Trump accomplished in this area was without, or over the active opposition and sabotage, of Congress (including "his own" party) - he arguably even went unconstitutionally rogue to get $$$ for the border barrier system. Anything short of veto-proof majorities in both houses - and even that - leaves execution of policy in the administration's hands. And that means continued, complete abandonment of rule of law, and common sense, on borders and immigration.
While the rest of your comment is spot-on, I don't think - unfortunately - that this part is correct. Simply a matter of how the intended and legit, and de facto existing, process works at the moment.
Congress cannot, in a practical sense, force the executive to follow the laws nor to enforce them. Not in many key areas and in the short term, that is.
Just one example: borders and sovereignty. 98% of what Trump accomplished in this area was without, or over the active opposition and sabotage, of Congress (including "his own" party) - he arguably even went unconstitutionally rogue to get $$$ for the border barrier system. Anything short of veto-proof majorities in both houses - and even that - leaves execution of policy in the administration's hands. And that means continued, complete abandonment of rule of law, and common sense, on borders and immigration.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 01:55 PM (OTzUX)
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Always remember Romney was the guy who came up with the original stimulus check last year. Cuz you know severely conservative and stuff.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 01:55 PM (3vQN0)
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George Will did call the 1619 project out as a bunch of crap.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB
A deaf dumb and blind man could do that, and play a mean pinball to boot.
If that's his contribution, he's of little more utility than a pet rock, which could at least be hurled at something.
Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2021 12:14 PM (2JoB
A deaf dumb and blind man could do that, and play a mean pinball to boot.
If that's his contribution, he's of little more utility than a pet rock, which could at least be hurled at something.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2021 01:56 PM (MFphb)
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One of the surviving Queen members got the vid after 2 vax's and the booster... He tells Us good thing he got the vax or he would have been sicker.... He admits to have been sicker than he ever has been for 2 days..... So where is the rationale in that regarding vaxing?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 19, 2021 01:56 PM (TdaKq)
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308 Always remember Romney was the guy who came up with the original stimulus check last year. Cuz you know severely conservative and stuff.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 01:55 PM (3vQN0)
China could pull the rug out from many of our big name pols, including Mitt and the Bush crime family.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 01:55 PM (3vQN0)
China could pull the rug out from many of our big name pols, including Mitt and the Bush crime family.
Posted by: CN...FJB at December 19, 2021 01:56 PM (ONvIw)
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Sadly, nobody on our side will take off the gloves until we are being herded into camps and people actually start shooting to defend their families. And then there won't be any politicians involved, Republican or DemonRat. Or, they will be involved, but not on a way they might think.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 19, 2021 01:57 PM (/7aTk)
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I will make my own discernments based on the Good, the Beautiful and the True. 'Traps are everywhere' is not how I will live my life. I fear only God.
Posted by: Slapweasel
God is the only one I don't fear.
Posted by: Slapweasel
God is the only one I don't fear.
Posted by: Infidel at December 19, 2021 01:57 PM (qpolg)
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 01:57 PM (WoFHd)
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271 Adam Schiff?
Is that bug eyed weasel still around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:42 PM (U2p+3)
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Adam "Short Drop" Schiff? He's already got the bugging eyeballs ...
Is that bug eyed weasel still around?
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 19, 2021 01:42 PM (U2p+3)
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Adam "Short Drop" Schiff? He's already got the bugging eyeballs ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2021 01:58 PM (fA4ZP)
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Hunter could be a lawn jockey for Harris. Have to get that smirk surgically removed.
Posted by: klaftern at December 19, 2021 01:58 PM (taPSh)
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>> 253 California ... just leaves that fuel in the forest as chum for mega forest fires.
[ Trying not to laugh ] Have you seen what I've done to the supply chain?
[ Trying not to laugh ] Have you seen what I've done to the supply chain?
Posted by: Gavin Newsom at December 19, 2021 01:59 PM (uWF4x)
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When Cheney is a Republican in the most conservative state, you know the GOP is a Fucking sum of a party.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 19, 2021 01:59 PM (3vQN0)
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#307 The Take Care Clause in the Constitution is just ignored.
That's the other two branches' fault.
That's the other two branches' fault.
Posted by: torabora at December 19, 2021 02:00 PM (WoFHd)
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We used to send my son care packages when he was deployed. He loved those little fish crackers so we included a bunch of those. The guys in his unit loved the King Cakes around Mardi Gras. I slipped in a disc of photo's I took downtown on Mardi Gras day. They liked those as well.
Posted by: Javems at December 19, 2021 02:00 PM (AmoqO)
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I don't want submissive colleagues. I want a Democratic Senator's heart plucked from his chest, thrust in the air, and crushed as he is evicted from the Capital or better yet, jailed for decades. It will never happen, but I cannot understand why the Republican politicians can completely ignore this sentiment. It's going to take a full out rejection of all Mitch endorsements for several voting cycles as well as purging the grifters and twitter glory hounds and I don't know if America has the patience for that.
Posted by: Downcast at December 19, 2021 02:01 PM (AEMfu)
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But...they suck...and they don't care about anything other than the grift.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at
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They do. However, there is hope, not only will we gain a majority in 2022 the newly elected know that they were elected to fight for their constituents and unlike the T Party grifters will either hold leadership's feet to the fire or oust them.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at
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They do. However, there is hope, not only will we gain a majority in 2022 the newly elected know that they were elected to fight for their constituents and unlike the T Party grifters will either hold leadership's feet to the fire or oust them.
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 02:01 PM (vW9Vw)
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First problem nood
Posted by: Skip guy who says NOOD at December 19, 2021 02:01 PM (2JoB8)
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Being a member in good standing of the gop means never having to say you are sorry or even just disagreeing with a democrat.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at December 19, 2021 02:01 PM (0OmEj)
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Again, thanks wind. And thanks for being such a complex subject that the GOP couldn't understand it or build a campaign around it.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (+LCoQ)
And yet the Dems manage to make every issue no matter how complex into a bumper sticker. Failure theater again.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 19, 2021 01:51 PM (+LCoQ)
And yet the Dems manage to make every issue no matter how complex into a bumper sticker. Failure theater again.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 19, 2021 02:01 PM (MFphb)
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I know that the Covid bullshit has got a lot of people down, and understandably so. But if you want to feel good today, search online and look up what Biden and Psaki are saying about Manchin - they are spitting nails, and the beautiful parts are that a) they never saw this coming, even though anyone who was paying attention saw this day coming years ago, and b) there is not one damn thing they can do about it.
Joe Biden's Presidency has failed. 11 months in, and he's already a lame duck, and his "agenda" is dead.
Joe Biden's Presidency has failed. 11 months in, and he's already a lame duck, and his "agenda" is dead.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 19, 2021 02:02 PM (evAgx)
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Reuben perhaps over-generalization/simplification (but not really), but there is nothing the least bit difficult about establishing and running a power system vastly less costly than the current frankenstein. With some exceptions the earlier iterations of this system of systems worked just fine, and was fairly cost-efficient. It's not rocket science.
Price signals are no less dominant as the only important guiding principle here than they are in any other area of economic activity.
If actually applied now, this would most likely mean lots of clean coal plants, nuke generation/water desalination plants in CA, and natgas as the surge/back-up fuel where coal wasn't as cost-effective. Rejiggering the current mess on the basis of ridiculous fake "costs" and "prices" that are almost entirely regulatory artifacts can only yield less-worse, not much better.
Price signals are no less dominant as the only important guiding principle here than they are in any other area of economic activity.
If actually applied now, this would most likely mean lots of clean coal plants, nuke generation/water desalination plants in CA, and natgas as the surge/back-up fuel where coal wasn't as cost-effective. Rejiggering the current mess on the basis of ridiculous fake "costs" and "prices" that are almost entirely regulatory artifacts can only yield less-worse, not much better.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 02:02 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Braenyard at December 19, 2021 02:07 PM (vW9Vw)
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Price signals are no less dominant as the only important guiding principle here than they are in any other area of economic activity.
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I call price signals "voting with dollars."
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If actually applied now, this would most likely mean lots of clean coal plants, nuke generation/water desalination plants in CA,
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You may know that north SD county now has online a water desalination plant (built at considerable cost, $1 billion), but is still subject to Governor Brylcream's edicts re water conservation.
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I call price signals "voting with dollars."
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If actually applied now, this would most likely mean lots of clean coal plants, nuke generation/water desalination plants in CA,
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You may know that north SD county now has online a water desalination plant (built at considerable cost, $1 billion), but is still subject to Governor Brylcream's edicts re water conservation.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 19, 2021 02:09 PM (fSRlj)
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time every major health hazard in the world became worse in the USA than in other nation.
Cancer, diabetes, TB, autism, birth defects, you name it. Posted by: gourmand du jour
He may be my most hated man right now. So, total agreement he is useless. Still, it is hard to understand how he could influence birth defect numbers, for example. So, here is my point. I wonder if his insistence on testing for/documenting everything accounts for part of this?
As a scientist, it makes sense. Okay, we need to know how much of X is happening, to fight X.
But with Covid, for example, a lot of the hysteria is people getting tested. Instead of just suffering for a couple days and getting back to work.
Cancer, diabetes, TB, autism, birth defects, you name it. Posted by: gourmand du jour
He may be my most hated man right now. So, total agreement he is useless. Still, it is hard to understand how he could influence birth defect numbers, for example. So, here is my point. I wonder if his insistence on testing for/documenting everything accounts for part of this?
As a scientist, it makes sense. Okay, we need to know how much of X is happening, to fight X.
But with Covid, for example, a lot of the hysteria is people getting tested. Instead of just suffering for a couple days and getting back to work.
Posted by: MikeM at December 19, 2021 02:09 PM (X+eRS)
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Posted by: rhomboid at December 19, 2021 01:55 PM
I'm thinking of a dozen that will not bend to the typical GOPe majority tactic that moves garbage forward in the spirit of bi-partisanship and working across the aisle. I agree Trump got a lot done having to go around congress. The same congress that brough forward repealing Ocare 50 times, until they had a majority.
I'm thinking of a dozen that will not bend to the typical GOPe majority tactic that moves garbage forward in the spirit of bi-partisanship and working across the aisle. I agree Trump got a lot done having to go around congress. The same congress that brough forward repealing Ocare 50 times, until they had a majority.
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 19, 2021 02:09 PM (DB16e)
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>>> I know that the Covid bullshit has got a lot of people down,
I think a plurality are waiting for somebody else to flip the switch to "on".
I think a plurality are waiting for somebody else to flip the switch to "on".
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at December 19, 2021 02:10 PM (ZD9pn)
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Nancy Pelosi could walk up to Mancini and shoot him in the face with a shotgun and the DOJ would get bogged down in an investigation for the next 4 years, finding no evidence that a prosecutor would go to court with.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2021 02:10 PM (KZzsI)
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>> Joe Biden's Presidency has failed. 11 months in, and
>> he's already a lame duck, and his "agenda" is dead.
Look, fat! Trunalimunumaprzure!
>> he's already a lame duck, and his "agenda" is dead.
Look, fat! Trunalimunumaprzure!
Posted by: Resident Joseph Biden at December 19, 2021 02:11 PM (uWF4x)
Posted by: Resident Joseph Biden at December 19, 2021 02:13 PM (uWF4x)
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*after Pelosi guns down Mancini on live TV*
"Republicans pounce on Mancini death"
--Legacy Media
"For the sake of our democracy, a replacement must be installed immediately to replace Mancini"
--Pelosi, reloading her shotgun
"Was COVID to blame for Mancini's death?"
--Slate
"How Mancini's tragic death shows the corruption of Trump"
--David French
"Republicans pounce on Mancini death"
--Legacy Media
"For the sake of our democracy, a replacement must be installed immediately to replace Mancini"
--Pelosi, reloading her shotgun
"Was COVID to blame for Mancini's death?"
--Slate
"How Mancini's tragic death shows the corruption of Trump"
--David French
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2021 02:14 PM (KZzsI)
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"Mancini died and American gun culture is to blame. I was almost shot to death that day!"
--AOC
"When Mancini was killed, all I could think of was January 6th and how deadly that day was"
--Chuck Schumer
--AOC
"When Mancini was killed, all I could think of was January 6th and how deadly that day was"
--Chuck Schumer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 19, 2021 02:16 PM (KZzsI)
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For the love of Pete. Henry's Mancini's been dead since 1994.
Now, Joe Manchin, on the other hand...
Now, Joe Manchin, on the other hand...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 19, 2021 02:19 PM (ZSK0i)
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at December 19, 2021 02:28 PM (ZD9pn)
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Hell the circular saw doesn't scare me. The damn jointer planer scares me. It removes fingers in less than a blink of an eye. I have personally witnessed the jointer planer turning fingers into little thin pepperoni slices. Somewhat gross.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 19, 2021 02:29 PM (eJn7u)
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wrong thread.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 19, 2021 02:30 PM (eJn7u)
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wrong thread.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 19, 2021 02:30 PM (eJn7u)
Eventually, every thread is an industrial accident thread.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 19, 2021 02:30 PM (eJn7u)
Eventually, every thread is an industrial accident thread.
Posted by: weirdflunky at December 19, 2021 02:40 PM (cknjq)
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106 Maybe I missed something... what exactly has Marjorie Taylor Greene or that other blonde motor mouth, Borebet? actually accomplished other than some mean tweets and fetching upvotes online? I mean if they've actually done some good I'd like to hear about it.
She's called for roll call votes and following parliamentary procedures which have slowed down Pelosi's agenda and gotten some stuff killed that would have otherwise slipped through.
She's called for roll call votes and following parliamentary procedures which have slowed down Pelosi's agenda and gotten some stuff killed that would have otherwise slipped through.
Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at December 19, 2021 03:27 PM (TEWKg)
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18 And yet we get told that we have to vote for these fucknuts, because giving the Dems complete control is a bridge too far.
I honestly do not understand why supporting a political party that not only will not fight, but will actively collude with and support the left's actions and narratives is somehow 'better' than giving all power to the Democrats and have them destroy the country.
We seem to be arguing over whether it's better to go into the showers today or say, 'no, I'll take the Zyklon-B next week instead.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM (2JVJo)
exactly
I honestly do not understand why supporting a political party that not only will not fight, but will actively collude with and support the left's actions and narratives is somehow 'better' than giving all power to the Democrats and have them destroy the country.
We seem to be arguing over whether it's better to go into the showers today or say, 'no, I'll take the Zyklon-B next week instead.'
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 19, 2021 12:08 PM (2JVJo)
exactly
Posted by: Shoey77 at December 19, 2021 03:49 PM (fcWVN)
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She's called for roll call votes and following parliamentary procedures which have slowed down Pelosi's agenda and gotten some stuff killed that would have otherwise slipped through.
Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at December 19, 2021 03:27 PM (TEWKg)
yay, someone put up a speedbump on the road to hell, we're saved!
Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at December 19, 2021 03:27 PM (TEWKg)
yay, someone put up a speedbump on the road to hell, we're saved!
Posted by: Shoey77 at December 19, 2021 03:53 PM (fcWVN)
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Most Republicans don't fight because it doesn't personally benefit them. Pretend to act as "loyal opposition" to the current regime but don't do any substantial and you might get little something under the table or actually oppose the screwing of America and have all of the Swamp declare war on you and do what it takes see your sorry ass in jail. Which would you choose?
Posted by: Master Delta at December 19, 2021 05:37 PM (K8pjl)
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Majorie Taylor Green. She takes the fight to the commies. Her and Boenert. She makes these nadless GOP bunnies clutch their pearls every day.
Ooo, they kicked her off of some committee. They aren't listening anyway.
GIVE THEM HELL MTG.
Ooo, they kicked her off of some committee. They aren't listening anyway.
GIVE THEM HELL MTG.
Posted by: Minuteman at December 19, 2021 07:52 PM (LaNzR)
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In some circles the GOP is known as the "stupid party."
Posted by: Greg at December 19, 2021 09:51 PM (GVHfS)
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Once you realize that the Dems and GOPs have the same goal -- larger government, more contro over the plebsl, and riches for themselves -- it all makes sense.
Posted by: Bob at December 20, 2021 09:55 AM (d+5Bz)
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