Quick Hits

Georgia Democrats are not happy that Stacy Abrams has announced her intention to run again for governor, and grift more money, and lose, and then claim she won, and grift more money.

Via FoxNews:

However, AJC's Greg Bluestein reported that several Democrats are not excited at the prospect, writing, "But interviews with more than three dozen Democratic officials, party leaders and activists suggest she may not have the same unified support she enjoyed after her first defeat to Kemp in 2018."
"Like many other Democrats, [Chair of Monroe County's Democratic Party Yvonne] Stuart praised Abrams' work mobilizing voters and laying the groundwork for the party's 2020 gains. But she said she worried that Abrams lost partly because 'she fell into the trap of becoming too much of a celebrity' in between her campaigns," Bluestein wrote.
Stuart said, "I do believe there might be another charismatic Democrat that can take us all the way in 2026."

Remember when the leftwing propaganda media kept running video of "packed" hospitals early in the pandemic? And when people who knew something said that that kind of overflow was routine in hospitals, because they choose to keep themselves understaffed for the sake of profitability? And so that being at 90%+ capacity was quite normal, and in fact their whole business plan?

So who was right?

Well: 15 Days to Stop the Spread, Baby!

EXCLUSIVE: 24 hours of HELL in top NYC hospital: Patients left lying in hallways, urine soaked floors and staff incapable of providing answers for desperate family members - as city's healthcare system is stretched to breaking point
A woman rushed her mother to the Mount Sinai Hospital on Madison Avenue on March 8 because she suspected the 67-year-old was having a stroke
This was ruled out within 10 minutes - but then a nightmarish day for the cancer sufferer and her daughter began as they were left waiting in limbo at the ER
'Every corner was filled with people,' she said, describing trash littering the floor, urine pots kicked over and homeless people seeking treatment left ignored

Amazon is laying off another 9000 people, bringing its layoffs just since the beginning of the year up to 27,000.

The job cuts would mark the second largest round of layoffs in the company's history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January. The company's workforce doubled during the pandemic, however, in the midst of a hiring surge across almost the entire tech sector.

These companies made absurd profits during the lockdowns -- and they hired a lot of people they only needed for that period of lockdown, too.

A lot of people were making $175,000-per-year salaries who would not have made anything like that except for the Regime's decision to lock us all in our houses.

And -- Outrageous! Google is laying off people, and even laying them off while they're on "medical leave"!

Would you believe that Google's mass firings from January are still going on? Google's reported mishandling of its biggest round of layoffs ever has employees up in arms, and they're doing everything from walking out on the job to sending angry letters to management.
First up, European Googlers are just now being laid off due to the January announcement. Reuters reports that more than 200 workers were laid off from the Zürich, Switzerland, branch of the company this week. The employees at that office walked out for a second time in protest of the move and even offered to take pay cuts or reduce working hours to stave off the job cuts. Google's layoffs seem driven by a desire to placate the stock market, though, so it's no surprise that these offers fell on deaf ears.

I think they like when people walk off the job: They're just telling Google "fire me next."

...

Current and former employees feel Google is being cruel in how it's treating employees who were on medical or parental leave during the layoffs. CNBC reports that Google has decided to not honor pre-approved leave for laid-off employees. Some Googlers formed a group called "Laid off on Leave," which is attempting to get Google to honor its previously agreed-to timelines for employees going through major life changes.
Making Google honor its previous leave agreements isn't just about employees getting paid when they have medical or family issues; it's also about having continual medical care when they need it most. ...
While employees' severance packages might come with a few more months of health insurance, being fired means instantly losing access to Google's facilities. If that's where a laid-off Googler's primary care doctor works, that person is out of luck, and some employees told CNBC they lost access to their doctors the second the layoff email arrived. Employees on leave also have a lot to deal with. One former Googler, Kate Howells, said she was let go by Google from her hospital bed shortly after giving birth. She worked at the company for nine years.

So Google is required to keep people on staff just to pay their medical bills?

Why, it's almost as if they're being forced to be a for-profit company, instead of just a Guaranteed-Work Program for minorities, trans people, and the dim-bulb daughters of wealthy upper class families!

Maybe you guy shouldn't have made those "A Day in the Life of a Google Development Person" TikToks you did, in which you advertised to Google's shareholders that there was so little work for you to do that you could literally attend two meetings in a day, and spend the rest of your day in the spa or playing foosball or drinking organic teas.

New York will permanently lower math and reading standards for students, because Democrats are just so devoted to education and just so good at it, too!

From the Times-Union: Stupidity is the "new normal."

New York will make it easier for students to reach "proficiency" on state math and English language arts tests, calling last year's lower scores the "new normal."
A scoring committee that reports to the Board of Regents said Monday that they must take into account the results of last year's tests for students in grades three through eight. Some schools posted shocking results -- in Schenectady, no eighth grader who took the math test scored as proficient. And the scores for the third through eighth grade tests throughout the state were much lower in 2022 than in 2019, a result no doubt of the absence of in-person learning during the first year and beyond of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The committee handles all scoring, not just this year's changes.

And keep in mind: New York's previous standards weren't exactly up there with Japan's or Korea's, either.

And now they're even lower. Because the leadership and main body of our teacher corps just wants to talk about their own pronouns and get validation from children that they're not getting from their fathers, and because they were lazy and status-grubbing and demanded to "teach from home" like the white collar workers they envy.

Jonathan Haidt points out that kids' mental health has really declined. John Sexton at Hot Air:

Jonathan Haidt has a forthcoming book on this topic titled Kids In Space: Why Teen Mental Health is Collapsing which should be out next year. The gist of his argument has two basic parts. The first is that there is lots of evidence showing a growing mental health crisis among teens, especially teen girls. There doesn't seem to be a lot of disagreement on that point. Last month the CDC released data which also found teen girls are having a very tough time.

"If you think about every 10 teen girls that you know, at least one and possibly more has been raped, and that is the highest level we've ever seen," said Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health, who said the rise of sexual violence almost certainly contributed to the glaring spike of depressive symptoms. "We are really alarmed," she said...
Almost 3 in 5 teenage girls reported feeling so persistently sad or hopeless almost every day for at least two weeks in a row during the previous year that they stopped regular activities -- a figure that was double the share of boys and the highest in a decade, CDC data showed.

The other part of Haidt's argument is about the cause. The data seems to suggest that this crisis is relatively new. The numbers indicating mental health problems seem to take off around 2011-2012. That's when indicators of depression and self-harm among teens started to rise. Haidt believes that's because the crisis is tied to the adoption of smartphones and social media.

Sexton quotes the New York Time's viciously partisan Michelle Goldberg, who previously claimed that girls were just committing suicide more because -- get this -- Because Trump, but then finally looked at the actual data and saw that the inflection point for rising suicidality/depression/chronic stress began in the Age of Obama, 2011-2012, and then also realized, Say wait, Trump wasn't on little girls' minds then...

Sexton quotes Matthew Yglesias, who says that this does have something to do with politics: Specifically, the left's embrace of catastrophism (the claim that every negative thing is a catastrophe that will destroy the world or Literally Genocide Trans People, etc.) and permanent victimhood as a status symbol.

I think the discussion around gender and the role of social media is an important one. But I also don't believe that liberal boys are experiencing more depression than conservative girls because they are disproportionately hung up on Instagram-induced body image issues -- I think there's also something specific to politics going on.
Some of it might be selection effect, with progressive politics becoming a more congenial home for people who are miserable. But I think some of it is poor behavior by adult progressives, many of whom now valorize depressive affect as a sign of political commitment.

Sure seems like leftwing people are very, very mentally ill. More than half -- 56% -- of liberal women aged 18-29 report that a medical professional has told them they have a mental illness. That's more than double the rate of conservative women.

Also note that they younger people are, the more mentally ill they are.

Don't blame Trump -- blame Greta Thunberg.

On the pseudo-religion of the climate-apocalypse mongers: https://t.co/cUtuOAU0BE
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 20, 2023

Jordan Peterson veers between being a total cvck and being so based that you worry about him.

He linked the below with his own comment, "prosecute them all" or words to that effect.

Penile inversion vaginoplasty is done on children in the U.S.

Dr. Oren Ganor says they “reconstruct things the way they were supposed to be for that patient.” pic.twitter.com/8xviH0OlpF
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) March 12, 2023

Those professionals medical and psychological who aided and abetted this psychogenic epidemic should face prosecution. https://t.co/Nuxs3fWJWt
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 19, 2023

Narcissistic exploitation of children celebrated by the woke moralists of the pathological left. https://t.co/ycpPhyRipI
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) March 19, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 06:35 PM

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1 That beast has never run.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2023 06:37 PM (OQM6D)

2 Where is everyone?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2023 06:40 PM (OQM6D)

3 >>Those professionals medical and psychological who aided and abetted this psychogenic epidemic should face prosecution.

And by prosecution he means chucked feet first into industrial wood chippers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 20, 2023 06:43 PM (up/3i)

4 What a stupid time to be alive.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 20, 2023 06:43 PM (4I/2K)

5 Where is everyone?
Posted by: Tonypete at March 20, 2023 06:40 PM (OQM6D)
******
Downstairs getting upset.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (NpAcC)

6 I do think that global warmening scares are the main reason for instability. NO young people have a hopeful view of the future, almost all fear some catastrophe or doom. They've been raised that way. Their favorite books and TV are dystopias. They not only do not doubt climate change doom, but are horrified if anyone remotely questions it.

Of course they are mentally unstable. As a GenX'er I'm familiar with growing up under fear of doom of atomic fire. I was past the time most of the cower under your desk drills were done (I remember only one) but I grew up certain Reagan would blow up the world despite my patient and wise mom telling me otherwise. But these kids seem to be in even worse shape.

I suspect that it has to do with a lack of structure: they have NOTHING to cling to, nothing to rely on, and nothing to look forward to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (0hOvj)

7 Start spreading the urine
I'm peeing today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York
These littered ER rooms
They are smelling today
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York...

Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (R/m4+)

8 I was in a bad mood until I saw the stories about Big Tech layoffs and then suddenly, I cheered up.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (Is5+x)

9 Looks like leftist men are running about 200% of conservative male mental illness as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (uLr+K)

10 And now they're even lower. Because the leadership and main body of our teacher corps just wants to talk about their own pronouns and get validation from children that they're not getting from their fathers, and because they were lazy and status-grubbing and demanded to "teach from home" like the white collar workers they envy.

Well, that, and the fact that a certain subset of urban blue enclaves simply are not educable due to complete social dysfunction at home and in their communities. Pretending that you can have schools in those places is just that: pretending.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (ppBhU)

11
They thought it would be a good idea for kamala harris to attend the black school's basketball game.

Fake "college" Howard University's basketball team, a diploma-mill for aspiring race-baiters and racist malcontents, was treated to a visit from the imbecilic "vice president," over the weekend, only to be BOOED by the spectators.

But wait, there's Moar!! After Howard's loss, kamala harris was borught into the locker room to say a few a words. lolololololololol..., which was recorded, of course, because it was "historic" and she's being groomed for, get this, higher office.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 06:45 PM (RFhoL)

12 But Tank won the last election but it was stolen from her

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2023 06:45 PM (xhxe8)

13 More than half ... of liberal women aged 18-29 report that a medical professional has told them they have a mental illness.

The solution, of course, is to define away mental illness.

Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2023 06:45 PM (dNNCD)

14 So much mental illness or attention mongering. Nope going with mental illness, it's a better explanation.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at March 20, 2023 06:46 PM (2NHgQ)

15
here's the Post-Loss appearance by camela haris:

https://youtu.be/BUKOpz_gvhM

Imagine listening to this Stupid C----------nt after losing badly?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 06:47 PM (RFhoL)

16 "The solution, of course, is to define away mental illness."

It worked for reducing crime, didn't it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2023 06:47 PM (uLr+K)

17 When we grew up fearing nuclear war, we still had a basically functional culture, stability of parents, and understanding of what happened around us. We had men as men and women as women. We had regular, steady, understandable rules and hedges. We had a clear path of what to do next and how to move ahead into adulthood. We had the vast understanding of the past, all of history to rely on and lean on to know what is what and how to understand it all.

Today? There's no structure to cling to. No path to follow. No rules to understand. no framework to build a society around. Its like being afraid of drowning, and being in the middle of a sea of jello. There are no pieces of the sunken ship to grab, no board clearly large enough for two people to float on. Kids feel lost and hopeless.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:48 PM (0hOvj)

18 Teachers, leave those kids alone

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at March 20, 2023 06:48 PM (u/nTb)

19 This business of kids being in mental illness and despair: where are the parents, and why do they allow this to happen? My assumption is that children raised by crazy people will have issues, but those raised by adults don't have those issues, generally.

Deprogram the crap schools try to teach your kids, or, better, teach 'em yourself. Start with phonics and move up to Western Civ. Calculus optional and mostly for the braniacs.

Also, no sex until marriage, to a member of the opposite sex. Or you don't live under my roof, Skippy.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 20, 2023 06:49 PM (okGHj)

20 This is about pronouns (that they have them and their names) not the ill use, right? I mean they're all 3rd person so would only be used conversationally in xir absence. Weird.

Has a dentist stopped his drill and looked down and said ma'am you're retarded? Kind of a funny thought. Trying to reee with the suction tube and cotton chalk...

Posted by: micky at March 20, 2023 06:49 PM (3byMq)

21 "More than half -- 56% -- of liberal women aged 18-29 report that a medical professional has told them they have a mental illness."

Liberal women are probably more likely to see a "medical professional" for mental issues. And that professional will surely find issues, that is how they retain a new client. But also, liberals are "less based", and have the Karen Syndrome.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (Cus5s)

22 This business of kids being in mental illness and despair: where are the parents, and why do they allow this to happen?

In the same boat, freaking out and drinking all of the water on the first day. They have no structure either, they are just as afraid and lost.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (0hOvj)

23 How about you teach music, bitch? These people should not be allowed around children.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (wpJDK)

24 A mind is a terrible thing to waste. These cretins are going to be shocked at what happens next

Posted by: Ben Had at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (vDgtB)

25 I do think that global warmening scares are the main reason for instability.

Yeah, I don't really buy this either. Environemenal crisis has been a secular tent-revival sermon since I've been alive and almost certainly before. And we also had the nuclear armageddon thing going and the satanic panic when I was growing up. Catastrophism has been around my whole life. Something else is up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (ppBhU)

26 More than half -- 56% -- of liberal women aged 18-29 report that a medical professional has told them they have a mental illness. That's more than double the rate of conservative women.

And the single ones make up the DC dating pool.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (wmDcS)

27 I like that bar graph- I'm all the way over at the right. 4.5
also, my new Rachel Ray Loaf Pan™ arrived today
I'm on a roll

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 06:50 PM (geLO8)

28 The left is now fully a religious cult. They've replaced anyone's god with their own god, that of the state. They demand loyalty, fealty, and your money to support their god. Heretics are cast out and punished. The most zealous and fatalistic doomsayers are celebrated.

Gonna be some real interesting times coming.

Posted by: ballistic at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (oXNqT)

29
Tonypete, I'm tempted to buy a chinese Plasma Cutter.
Please explain to me that I don't need one.

They're selling plasma cutters for under $200. And they supposedly work okay.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (RFhoL)

30 I remember back when NY's education standards were a point of pride.

Not into that kind of pride anymore, I guess.

Posted by: Regular joe at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (nnp+f)

31 But also, liberals are "less based", and have the Karen Syndrome.

I heard a theory that Karens are women who were super cheered, affirmed, praised, and pampered their whole life who get to around 35-40 and suddenly all that went away and they have no idea how to function in the real world with real people being treated as a real person.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (0hOvj)

32 I suspect that it has to do with a lack of structure: they have NOTHING to cling to, nothing to rely on, and nothing to look forward to.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:44 PM (0hOvj)

Haul their asses to confession, and sign them up as altar boys. That'll give 'em focus. Honestly, who ever learned how to live from a public school?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (okGHj)

33 Damnit I just ate supper.

Posted by: Eromero at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (MF3yS)

34 This business of kids being in mental illness and despair: where are the parents, and why do they allow this to happen?

Parent stopped raising their kids. That's why schools, television, and iPads are for. Gotta have a two-income household so you can properly worship Mammon.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (ppBhU)

35 Also note that they younger people are, the more mentally ill they are.

===

Bring Back LOBOTOMY !

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (V13WU)

36 Offered without comment.

https://tinyurl.com/27h6vzfs

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 20, 2023 06:52 PM (uLr+K)

37 And -- Outrageous! Google is laying off people, and even laying them off while they're on "medical leave"!

It.Moved.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 20, 2023 06:52 PM (yQpMk)

38 >Georgia Democrats are not happy that Stacy Abrams has announced her intention to run again

it's a career choice

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 06:52 PM (geLO8)

39 Say, would anyone be interested in a Trump vs. DeSantis thread? We haven't had one of those for awhile now.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (eOEVl)

40 Honestly, who ever learned how to live from a public school?
___

I learned how to survive.

Jesus Christ taught me how to live.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (2Or5V)

41 Today? There's no structure to cling to. No path to follow. No rules to understand. no framework to build a society around. Its like being afraid of drowning, and being in the middle of a sea of jello. There are no pieces of the sunken ship to grab, no board clearly large enough for two people to float on. Kids feel lost and hopeless.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:48 PM (0hOvj)

It's like you're describing Clockwork Orange. And I agree.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (Is5+x)

42 Catastrophism has been around my whole life. Something else is up.

Sure, as I said, its the hysteria without the structure. Its a panic without anything to lean on, no religion, no cultural structure, no rules, no path to the future. They're being treated as if they know all the answers, and they damn well know they do not.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (0hOvj)

43 As harsh as this sounds there is a silver lining in that if these people commence removing themselves from the gene pool all we'll have to do is clean up the mess . It'll be ugly but worth it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (udCMm)

44 skinamarink is a meaningful movie

it's the new Joker (which was also incredibly prescient)

it portrays the nightmare our children are living

and we let demons torment them

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 06:54 PM (w0NJk)

45 Sure, as I said, its the hysteria without the structure. Its a panic without anything to lean on, no religion, no cultural structure, no rules, no path to the future. They're being treated as if they know all the answers, and they damn well know they do not.

exactly Christopher. again, watch Skinamarink

the children are all alone

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 06:54 PM (w0NJk)

46 39 Say, would anyone be interested in a Trump vs. DeSantis thread? We haven't had one of those for awhile now.

ARCHIMEDES!!! you simmer down lol

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (w0NJk)

47 I learned how to survive.

Jesus Christ taught me how to live.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (2Or5V)

Thank you. My point exactly. Love ya, dear.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (okGHj)

48 not gonna do that, sooth; I think everyone should have a plasma cutter!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (QNv15)

49 You laugh about Abrams, but I wouldn't be surprised if she wins. She came close the first time, and Brian Kemp won't be running again, meaning the next Republican won't have the advantage of incumbency.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (wmDcS)

50 It's lemmings and sheep all the way down.

Lemmingsheep the horroring.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (gmo/4)

51 A conservative case for Charter Schools.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (V13WU)

52 not gonna do that, sooth; I think everyone should have a plasma cutter!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - we are being gaslighted 24/365 at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (QNv15)

Plasma rifle.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:56 PM (gmo/4)

53 Looks like liberals beat conservatives in the crazy olympics across the board.

It also means that if you date an 18 - 29 year old lib chick, the chances are more likely than not that she's crazy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 06:56 PM (FVME7)

54 youtube.com/watch?v=e864lW9028w

A San Francisco city supervisor said officials are aware of recent altercations among minors at the Stonestown Mall and will increase security.

District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar acknowledged on Twitter Sunday that there have been fights that overwhelmed Stonestown's private security and the San Francisco Police Department. She said these brawls have been posted online.

Melgar noted the incidents have been happening typically during afterschool hours, especially Wednesday, the day that schools end early. "Monitor your kid's social media and follow what they are doing. There is no substitute for parenting," Melgar tweeted.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at March 20, 2023 06:56 PM (MFZ8i)

55 Parent stopped raising their kids. That's why schools, television, and iPads are for. Gotta have a two-income household so you can properly worship Mammon.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 06:51 PM (ppBhU)

Oh FFS. We both work, and we raised our kid. Put them somewhere safe when you can't watch them. Quit letting perfect strangers (who are stranger every day) get anywhere near them. And pay attention.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (okGHj)

56
Do you think this generation of shithead millennials will be able to keep the electric power plants, or windmills or solar panel "farms" operating in 25 years?

hint: no

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (RFhoL)

57 They laid off all of the nurses, except in NY, where they were seemingly hiring unlimited travel nurses at $100/hr. Then, when hospitals wanted to start providing services again, the only nurses they could get were travel nurses. So the nurses they did have all quit to become travel nurses. Hospitals were staffed with $100/hr nurses who had no allegiance to the hospial and did the bare minimum on shift. But now that they want to flush out all the expensive dead weight, they can't because no nurse wants to work for $50/hr anymore.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (O6iwF)

58 note that they younger people are, the more mentally ill they are.

..

65+ group is not only the lowest but genders are at parity.

It's also the group that lived through a traditional lifestyle.

Hmmmm

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (gU+fJ)

59 If you make a living by fighting a problem, all your stats on such are worthless, either due to fraud or bias.

Hell, every plane in WWII had gun cameras because pilot's kill numbers were too high, and even corrected for that the true numbers were still elevated by about 100 pct.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (eoQWY)

60 We be having a We hate Trump party tonites in the Brattleboro Womins Reproducktive Center awateing for Trump's arrest !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (X++p7)

61
I learned how to survive.

Jesus Christ taught me how to live.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (2Or5V)

Amen!!!

Posted by: Moki at March 20, 2023 06:58 PM (JrN/x)

62 This is about pronouns (that they have them and their names) not the ill use, right? I mean they're all 3rd person so would only be used conversationally in xir absence. Weird.

Jimmy don't play that.

Posted by: Jimmy at March 20, 2023 06:58 PM (yQpMk)

63 You laugh about Abrams, but I wouldn't be surprised if she wins. She came close the first time, and Brian Kemp won't be running again, meaning the next Republican won't have the advantage of incumbency.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (wmDcS)

Might have the advantage of being a Republican, though.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (eoQWY)

64
Amazon is laying off another 9000 people, bringing its layoffs just since the beginning of the year up to 27,000.

It moved.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (n+4am)

65 Today? There's no structure to cling to. No path to follow. No rules to understand. no framework to build a society around. Its like being afraid of drowning, and being in the middle of a sea of jello. There are no pieces of the sunken ship to grab, no board clearly large enough for two people to float on. Kids feel lost and hopeless.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 06:48 PM (0hOvj)

This. We used to look at getting a good job and starting a family as signs of a successful life. Now it's just how many likes and followers you have. It's all so meaningless.

Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (VD8D9)

66
I always thought you need a Gas for a plasma torch. These cheap units are operated with air. I've got air. Some of them are even 110V.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (RFhoL)

67 We be having a We hate Trump party tonites in the Brattleboro Womins Reproducktive Center awateing for Trump's arrest !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (X++p7)

Drum sircle!

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (gmo/4)

68 I am retired and receive emails from compies wanting me to apply for positions because the younger generation are not mentally prepared for these high level jobs. looks like the baby Boomer Generation will have to take care of Gen Z !!!!

Posted by: Frank N. Stien at March 20, 2023 07:00 PM (0vFtj)

69 Might have the advantage of being a Republican, though.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (eoQWY)

Don't be so sure. Kemp and the GOP establishment run Georgia. That's why GA got Kelly Loeffler. They'll run another corporatist squish, trying to appeal to suburban white women, and it will backfire bigly.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 07:01 PM (wmDcS)

70 67 We be having a We hate Trump party tonites in the Brattleboro Womins Reproducktive Center awateing for Trump's arrest !!!!

More like a Lesbo and Transgender Circle Jerk !!!!

Posted by: Frank N. Stien at March 20, 2023 07:01 PM (0vFtj)

71
Tonypete, I'm tempted to buy a chinese Plasma Cutter.
Please explain to me that I don't need one.

They're selling plasma cutters for under $200. And they supposedly work okay.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter

There's no reason that you can't use a plasma cutter for non-metallic materials.

I'm just sayin'.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2023 07:01 PM (n+4am)

72 Haul their asses to confession, and sign them up as altar boys. That'll give 'em focus.

This is key. Religion is what gives culture cohesion. Its what gives a civilization the skeleton to build around and grow around. It doesn't really even matter WHICH religion, if your only goal is something to build civilization around -- it might be horrible or great but it builds.

But the religion has to have absolute, fixed goals, rules, restrictions, and beliefs. It has to be a structure you can grab hold of and climb. But the woke religion -- and thank God people are starting to see that it is a religion -- has no such structure. Its rules are contradictory and change constantly. Its rules are incomprehensible and conflicting. Its restrictions are arbitrary and unpredictable. Its beliefs keep changing, and are created on the fly.

The left has succeeded in blowing up the Judeo Christian heritage, but are replacing its strong structure with tapioca pudding.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:01 PM (0hOvj)

73 New York will permanently lower math and reading standards for students,

Rumble link, After Skool. Thomas Sowell from a speech in '99 addressing this.
https://tinyurl.com/5n8u37tp

Posted by: Fool Otto at March 20, 2023 07:01 PM (DB16e)

74 We be having a We hate Trump party tonites in the Brattleboro Womins Reproducktive Center awateing for Trump's arrest !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (X++p7)

Drum sircle!

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM

Did you just assume that drum xircle's gender?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 20, 2023 07:01 PM (Wnv9h)

75 Owning plasma cutter good.
Not owning plasma cutter bad.

Enough said?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 20, 2023 07:02 PM (P5tqd)

76 Start spreading the urine
I'm peeing today
I want to be a part of it
New York, New York
These littered ER rooms
They are smelling today
Right through the very heart of it
New York, New York...
Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra

I
Left
My
Poop
In San Francisco

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 20, 2023 07:02 PM (FVME7)

77 > Tonypete, I'm tempted to buy a chinese Plasma Cutter.
Please explain to me that I don't need one.

A plasma cutter reaches temperatures around 45,000F. Do you really trust your hand to a $200 Chinese piece of crap?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:02 PM (V1QHJ)

78 Plasma rifle.

Just what you see, pal

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:02 PM (0hOvj)

79 Why does anyone live in Brattleboro ???

Posted by: Frank N. Stien at March 20, 2023 07:02 PM (0vFtj)

80 Remember when "Don't ask, Don't Tell" was the end of it. We will not make anymore territorial demands in europe anymore
Sigh

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (EVR4i)

81 I grew up fully expecting to die in nuclear fire and I turned out okay.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (yQpMk)

82 A conservative case for Charter Schools.
Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (V13WU)
---
I would not be surprised to see alternate schools spring up like weeds in the next 10-15 years, despite teachers' unions efforts to prevent them.

Parents are sick and tired of their kids not getting an education.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (BpYfr)

83 Plasma rifle.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:56 PM

Only what you see at the Gun Thread, pal.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (Wnv9h)

84 I hope the Amazon manager who told me to work 65 hours a week and only report 40 hours a week on my time sheet is one of the laid off employees.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (V1QHJ)

85 It's all so meaningless.
Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 06:59 PM (VD8D9)

So Solomon was onto something when he wrote Ecclesiastes?

Posted by: Moki at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (JrN/x)

86 I always thought you need a Gas for a plasma torch. These cheap units are operated with air. I've got air. Some of them are even 110V.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Mine is both 110v and 220v, it just cuts thicker stuff when using 220v.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 20, 2023 07:04 PM (P5tqd)

87 As harsh as this sounds there is a silver lining in that if these people commence removing themselves from the gene pool all we'll have to do is clean up the mess . It'll be ugly but worth it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2023 06:53 PM (udCMm)

Concur. These smooth brained parents are actually doing us a favor, even though the issue of their loins will suffer. Removing the smooth brained genes will pay off down the road.

Poor kids are gonna be super freaks as they get older, with all the horrors old age will bring.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 20, 2023 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

88 Myrna Melgar 🚲🌁🇸🇻
@myrnamelgar
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Celebrating Americans feeding hungry undocumented Europeans; may your family enjoy wonderful food likely harvested by my people, descendents of the colonization. Let's be appropriately grateful, loving, kind.
9:24 AM · Nov 25, 2021 from San Francisco, CA

Michael Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
Progressive San Francisco Supervisor @myrnamelgar has time to tweet about Sondheim, Thanksgiving as colonialism, & the Wakesha massacre as misogyny, but no time to tweet about the gun violence in her political district. Why? To maintain airs of normalcy as SF fails to protect citizens
4:15 PM · Nov 29, 2021

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (MFZ8i)

89 So Solomon was onto something when he wrote Ecclesiastes?

Its one of those books that the older you get, the more true it gets and the more sense it makes. Everything, everywhere, everyone ultimately is empty and meaningless without God. God is the only one you can trust.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (0hOvj)

90 Trump should be arrested tommorrow because his

BREATH STINKS !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (EnsGU)

91
The Conservative Case for owning a plasma cutter.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (n+4am)

92 A plasma cutter reaches temperatures around 45,000F. Do you really trust your hand to a $200 Chinese piece of crap?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:02 PM (V1QHJ)

But a Chinese one would be at the more modest 25000 C.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (eoQWY)

93 Gonna share a joke my son just told me:

A guy's been dating this woman for a few weeks, and one day he comes up to his friend and says "Guess what? I finally got to touch my girlfriend's boobs! All 10 of them!"

His friend says, "Wow! That's great!... wait.... 10?"

The guy says, "Yeah! I finally got to base2"

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (uPgE/)

94 I would not be surprised to see alternate schools spring up like weeds in the next 10-15 years, despite teachers' unions efforts to prevent them.

Parents are sick and tired of their kids not getting an education.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (BpYfr)

I would not be surprised either. Third law of motion and all that.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (V13WU)

95 All is vanity, a chasing after the wind..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 20, 2023 07:06 PM (yQpMk)

96
And you Dorcas should be arrested for being a dumbass.

Posted by: four seasons at March 20, 2023 07:06 PM (ichPI)

97 The guy says, "Yeah! I finally got to base2"
Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 20, 2023 07:06 PM (Wnv9h)

98 Is tomorrow the big Trump arrest day?
I can smell the RNC fundraising emails.

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at March 20, 2023 07:06 PM (gU+fJ)

99 So an African reporter calls out the Press Secretary for failing the First Amendment, gets tossed from the venue and "our" press defends the junta. Welcome to the USSR comrades. Hope these people enjoy their spot against a wall when their "heroes" turn on them. Note to NSA, I am referencing the typical progress of socialist revolutions, not an American reaction.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 20, 2023 07:07 PM (tfPJ6)

100
Mine is both 110v and 220v, it just cuts thicker stuff when using 220v.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Yeah, I'm reading reviews they just keep tripping the 15A breaker; they last a little longer on a 20A.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 07:07 PM (RFhoL)

101 Stacy Abrams is the Dem version of Donald Trump.

They both keep losing and keep saying it's because it's rigged.

But if its rigged, how come a Democrat won the Senate seat, but a Republican won the Governor race in GA?

And if it's rigged, why do they keep running?

Posted by: Harq at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (gywdw)

102 26 More than half -- 56% -- of liberal women aged 18-29 report that a medical professional has told them they have a mental illness. That's more than double the rate of conservative women.

And the single ones make up the DC dating pool.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile
-------------------
Sounds about right. Even when I was there, far too many women chasing far too few available men did not result in dating happiness. That is also the fact that female dating criteria eliminated about half of the remaining eligible men for not meeting social, education, party, and other stds.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (Bmix2)

103 Plasma rifle.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:56 PM

40, 41 watts, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Mr. Mom at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (4I/2K)

104 A devout friend with family worked for Amazon. His boss was hostile about him having a personal life, so he heaped on the work (hoping my friend would quit). My friend churned out the work, but when it was clear nothing would change, he resigned and worked hard to find a new position within weeks. He's very happy where he is now (among colleagues who are also ex-Amazon). ... And he thanks God he left when he did.

Posted by: Coki at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (meTku)

105 > Its one of those books that the older you get, the more true it gets and the more sense it makes.

"The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite."

Ecclesiastes 1:15

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (V1QHJ)

106
Its one of those books that the older you get, the more true it gets and the more sense it makes. Everything, everywhere, everyone ultimately is empty and meaningless without God. God is the only one you can trust.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (0hOvj)

I did not enjoy reading Ecclesiastes for many years. When it came up on my Bible in a Year reading, I admit I skimmed it.

Now, it makes much more sense, especially in the current world circumstances.

Posted by: Moki at March 20, 2023 07:09 PM (JrN/x)

107 I'm so confused. The operations manager forwarded the email about us having to work at the office 3 days a week. No comment on it. Followed by someone else sending out a org chart with me still on it. I would not want to be one of the folks staying.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 20, 2023 07:10 PM (6lj/r)

108 > But a Chinese one would be at the more modest 25000 C.

Heh.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:10 PM (V1QHJ)

109 @101
Posted by: Harq

Griftin', on sea of forgotten heroes
On a lifeboat, sailin' home

-- Jimi

Posted by: micky at March 20, 2023 07:11 PM (3byMq)

110 Mine is both 110v and 220v, it just cuts thicker stuff when using 220v.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Yeah, I'm reading reviews they just keep tripping the 15A breaker; they last a little longer on a 20A.
Posted by: Soothsayer

Sorry, mine was not a 15A cutter so I don't know nuttin.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 20, 2023 07:11 PM (P5tqd)

111 That is also the fact that female dating criteria eliminated about half of the remaining eligible men for not meeting social, education, party, and other stds.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (Bmix2)

Dem women have preferred STDs??? That explains a lot.

( I know what you meant, but that doesn't mean my snark can't be true!)

Posted by: Moki at March 20, 2023 07:12 PM (JrN/x)

112 That is also the fact that female dating criteria eliminated about half of the remaining eligible men for not meeting social, education, party, and other stds.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (Bmix2)

More like 99.99 percent.

On some of these YT red pill shows, they have women give their list of minimum requirements for men - height, job, age range etc. Then they use a program to check that against the government statistics for the population. Common numbers are the criteria only accept .0019 percent of men.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 07:12 PM (eoQWY)

113 Amazon tells me I should get a package today. I think they're lying.

About a month and a half ago I ordered something on Amazon. I hadn't at the time that it was shipping from China, but I was in no great rush to get it, so I waiting. I got a notification that the shipper had picked it up, and then nothing. No further shipping updates, and if I try to look up the shipping number they gave me, it seems not to exist.

Amazon has been faithfully telling me it's going to be delivered today. I'm just wondering when they're going to give me the "your order is running late" message.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 20, 2023 07:12 PM (uPgE/)

114 Plasma rifle.

Posted by: Archer at March 20, 2023 06:56 PM

40, 41 watts, whatever it takes.
Posted by: Mr. Mom at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (4I/2K)
---
I don't think a 40W plasma rifle would burn my toast, let alone my enemies.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (BpYfr)

115 The guy says, "Yeah! I finally got to base2"
Posted by: No One Of Consequence

That should make you a proud father. I don't even have an acquaintance who would understand that joke.

Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (amJF4)

116 Even when I was there, far too many women chasing far too few available men did not result in dating happiness.

Well there are a lot more AVAILABLE men, just not the 1% 6-6-6 Chad or Tyrone they all want. All of them are competing for the same 100 dudes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (0hOvj)

117 I hate this timeline and this world. It can't end soon enough. The commies, perverts, groomers, cockfags, child mutilators, degenerates, traitors, sociopaths, sadists, and authoritarian assholes of all stripes won. They won and we got proper fucked. And the brutally ironic thing is it's largely because we placed being nice and agreeable at the very apex of human virtue when, as it turns out, that just makes you into an easily-rolled pussy.

Posted by: Come on SMOD, help us out here at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (La8Fd)

118 A RANT , ten years ago this perversion was being mainstreamed into public education
Where the fuck were YOU then? Bless the people that are homeschooling their kids for they are the future.
.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (vDgtB)

119 "I say to you, arise" are the very words countless young people need to hear from Jesus today. Far too many young lives are locked in the coffin of pornography and sexual confusion or confined to the casket of approval based on social media "likes." It's a rough way to live, but there is a remedy.

What if we adults made a determined effort to pour the life and love of Jesus Christ into our youth? Mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, aunts and uncles, if we want our young people to be set free and arise, we must give them the instruction and admonishment of the living Word of God.

- Jack Hibbs

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (2Or5V)

120 lotta quick hits.

one day, georgia may just wake up with abrhams.

you guys gotta fix those water mains, jus sayin

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 07:13 PM (MLrvz)

121 NY Schools working on Equality to the lowest common denominator

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (xhxe8)

122 Sure it's 56.3 for liberal white women, but it's still 27.3 for white conservative women. 1-in-4 is not wonderful.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (ppBhU)

123 McCarthy has made Jan 6 videos available to more media outlets.

https://bit.ly/3Z31uLv

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (V1QHJ)

124 Seems we are getting a fair amount of scumbags today

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (EVR4i)

125 Sounds about right. Even when I was there, far too many women chasing far too few available men did not result in dating happiness. That is also the fact that female dating criteria eliminated about half of the remaining eligible men for not meeting social, education, party, and other stds.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (Bmix2)

I'll be honest: I had hopes when I first moved out here that the dating would be better, but I've had absolutely no luck. At this point, I've kind of given up.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (wmDcS)

126 And if it's rigged, why do they keep running?

Posted by: Harq at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (gywdw)

Running and losing is a perfect solution for Stacey. She pockets the money, has more influence than if she won, and can do it all again later.

Actually winning means you have to try and *do the job* which is far harder.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2023 07:15 PM (eoQWY)

127 My thoughts regarding Trump: "I don't even care anymore. And you know what's even better? I don't care that I don't care."

Video: twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1637931810519941121

Congress Minutes
@politicongress
Capitol Hill’s police force is preparing for protests ahead of the potential indictment of Donald Trump.
The preparations are in line with their planning for other protests.
1:13 PM · Mar 20, 2023

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at March 20, 2023 07:15 PM (MFZ8i)

128 Watching the new episodes of MST3K on Pluto. The one playing has a very young Jennifer Love-Hewitt. The movie is awful, but that's the point I guess.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 20, 2023 07:15 PM (PYJJG)

129 NY Schools working on Equality to the lowest common denominator
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (xhxe

Ever see the movies idiocracy and escape from NYC at the same time

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2023 07:15 PM (EVR4i)

130 I overheard a temporary teacher tell a trans kid that he used to be closed-minded because he was raised Catholic but he was in the Army and got to meet all sorts of different people. My first thought was that he partook in lots of prostitutes.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 20, 2023 07:16 PM (o3/7Q)

131 Why the heck would tank abrams not run for Governor for a third time? I mean she made serious bank the last two times and the chumps will throw even more $$$$ her way this time. No one had better get in her way as she heads for the grift trough...oink....oink.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 20, 2023 07:16 PM (ncXxy)

132 McCarthy has made Jan 6 videos available to more media outlets.

You could easier bathe a cat in the ocean than make them look at those videos.

Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2023 07:17 PM (e2onP)

133 I would not want to be one of the folks staying.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

I missed this subject.
Sorry to hear.
Hope you find what you want, quickly.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 20, 2023 07:17 PM (P5tqd)

134 Miami Beach declares State of Emergency due to out of control spring break crowds.

https://bit.ly/3LFo4H6

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:18 PM (V1QHJ)

135 Seems we are getting a fair amount of scumbags today
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2023 07:14 PM (EVR4i)

HEY ! whatever did I do to you ???

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 07:18 PM (V13WU)

136 one day, georgia may just wake up with abrhams.

That's where you gnaw your own arm off rather than wake her, yes?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 20, 2023 07:18 PM (yQpMk)

137 >@politicongress
Capitol Hill’s police force is preparing for protests ahead of the potential indictment of Donald Trump.

whose side are they on

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:18 PM (geLO8)

138 NYC's hospitals have problems? Anything to do with unions?

Kurt Adams, husband of Cecile Richards, former head of Planned Parenthood & Pelosi's pal, half of a real Power Couple. Also, dad of Lily Adams, Communications Director for crazy K, and more.

Serves as Executive director at Healthcare Education Project –a lobbying organization run through an unlikely partnership between 1199 SEIU and the Greater New York Hospital Association.

Posted by: Lola - free Jacob Chansley at March 20, 2023 07:18 PM (GshMh)

139 >82 A conservative case for Charter Schools.
Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 06:55 PM (V13WU)
---
I would not be surprised to see alternate schools spring up like weeds in the next 10-15 years, despite teachers' unions efforts to prevent them.

Parents are sick and tired of their kids not getting an education.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (BpYfr)

Parochial schools in my area are rapidly expanding. Sadly, those families still need to pay local property/school taxes.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (gryET)

140 oh the COPS aren't protesting- the peoples is

my bad

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (geLO8)

141 - Jack Hibbs

He's not wrong, you know

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (0hOvj)

142 So Solomon was onto something when he wrote Ecclesiastes?
Posted by: Moki at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (JrN/x)

Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Describes social media to a tee.
I would also suggest that a life lived without a belief in God is a life searching for any belief. We are seeing this now.

Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (VD8D9)

143 Watching the new episodes of MST3K on Pluto. The one playing has a very young Jennifer Love-Hewitt. The movie is awful, but that's the point I guess.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 20, 2023 07:15 PM (PYJJG)

I am a purist. I don't like the new ones. But only because I am old. Kind of like Seth Rogen as Curly. I do like Jonah Ray, though. He's great with the Rifftrax crew.

I'll just hang onto my old MSTs on DVD. (sulks)

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (UQUAY)

144 I'll be honest: I had hopes when I first moved out here that the dating would be better, but I've had absolutely no luck. At this point, I've kind of given up.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Follow the TonyPeteTM recommended dating method, find your local Right To Life chapters and hang out there. Ask him about results the next time he is online. You will be prescreening for interest in families and family values which tends to separate the wheat and the chaff.

LDS also has that preselection thing going for it as do some other churches that nowadays are largely ethnic in nature but if accepted as an outsider, voila--instant extended family.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (Bmix2)

145 Houston has a pretty good hospital system but when I had my kidney stone attack in November I called an ambulance because I thought the ER would see me immediately. I was wrong. They wheeled me in the ambulance entrance , did a quick triage and because I wasn't screaming in pain they wheeled right into the waiting room where I stayed for two hours in pain before I saw a doctor who finally gave me morphine through an IV. That was some good stuff.

Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (+ekwe)

146 > The one playing has a very young Jennifer Love-Hewitt.

She was smoking hot in I Know What You Did Last Summer.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:20 PM (V1QHJ)

147 He's not wrong, you know
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

No, he's not.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at March 20, 2023 07:20 PM (2Or5V)

148 "Remember when the leftwing propaganda media kept running video of "packed" hospitals early in the pandemic? And when people who knew something said that that kind of overflow was routine in hospitals, because they choose to keep themselves understaffed for the sake of profitability? And so that being at 90%+ capacity was quite normal, and in fact their whole business plan?

So who was right?"

The Media intentionally spread panic a year ago by repeatedly showing chaotic scenes in a handful of NYC hospitals. Along with a few scenes played over and over of refrigerated trucks at hospital loading docks to move bodies that were overflowing a hospital's cold body storage space.

If it bleeds it leads, baby.

Ten miles in any direction the hospitals were not in chaos. Nor were hospitals from coast to coast. Who knows how many nurses and hospital staff decided to wear trash bag gowns as a stunt or for grudge reasons about long-standing pay and benefits disputes?

We live in an Empire of Lies.

Posted by: Gref at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (AMIL/)

149 It's okay. I'll be retired. But they don't understand the mess they are creating. We have business where one person knows how their network is set up. They have folks with years of experience bailing on the company. Intetesting to watch.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (6lj/r)

150 Capital Police probably doing Fedsurrection

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (xhxe8)

151 >@politicongress
Capitol Hill’s police force is preparing for protests ahead of the potential indictment of Donald Trump.
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Considering the fate of the J6 protesters, what idiot is going to Capitol Hill to protest? What would that even accomplish other than to get locked up next to J6 folks?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (BpYfr)

152 I'm married, but on the dating/marriage thing, we might mock this, but single people tend to vote Democrat and tend to be VERY socially liberal.

I think it hurts the culture at large in a big way.

At the same time, I totally get it. If I was a younger man, I dont think I'd go near marriage anymore.

Posted by: Blago at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (cOFom)

153 If I was a gazillioner, I would invest time and effort into developing a massive private school system. one not beholden to the government, or school unions.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (V13WU)

154
Is tomorrow the big Trump arrest day?
I can smell the RNC fundraising emails.
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but...

Heard it got moved up to next week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (63Dwl)

155 18 to 29 yo girls at 58.3%... ? ...

Doctors are holding back. They're all nuts at that age.

Posted by: Reforger at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (qdVGc)

156 >Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Describes social media to a tee.
I would also suggest that a life lived without a belief in God is a life searching for any belief. We are seeing this now.

Posted by: Ilene Wright at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (VD8D9)

When you believe in nothing, you'll believe anything.
~G.K. Chesterton

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 20, 2023 07:22 PM (gryET)

157 As for white young women being diagnosed "mentally" ill, why wouldn't they be? They have all the "privilege" issues that white men get stuck with, and then they also have all the deranged white men pretending to be women overshadowing them, hurting them in sports, taking away their privacy, and wanting to be them...

Add the pushing of artificial contraception to this crew, so hormones get artificially out of whack...and that all docs pursue mental diagnoses before physical ones (just happened to a teen I know - she got a depression diagnosis for lack of energy and fatigue, when she actually had a heart vent issue - it took fainting out of the blue to get a relook)...

Who can be surprised...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (exHjb)

158 Capital Police probably doing Fedsurrection

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM

If they wont give us an insurrection, by golly we will make one up!

Posted by: Capitol Police at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (ncXxy)

159 >At the same time, I totally get it. If I was a younger man, I dont think I'd go near marriage anymore.

Posted by: Blago

feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (geLO8)

160 Remember when the leftwing propaganda media kept running video of "packed" hospitals early in the pandemic? And when people who knew something said that that kind of overflow was routine in hospitals, because they choose to keep themselves understaffed for the sake of profitability? And so that being at 90%+ capacity was quite normal, and in fact their whole business plan?
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Here in Cali, the ER is chock-a-block with our minority friends. Some of whom actually speak English (after a fashion).

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (YqDXo)

161 I'll just hang onto my old MSTs on DVD. (sulks)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg

Jonah's great and yes the new series is a bit woke but mostly faithful to old series. Joel even shows up to riff.

Mike, Bill and Kevin are riffing with them on Friday.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (PYJJG)

162 >>Heard it got moved up to next week.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

maybe they 're looking for a way to back out

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:24 PM (geLO8)

163 132 McCarthy has made Jan 6 videos available to more media outlets.

You could easier bathe a cat in the ocean than make them look at those videos.
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And Tucker seemed to have stopped investigating. Is it -
a) nothing else to see in the other 43,999.5 hrs?
b) since no undercover LEOs allowed to be shown, there is no point in showing more
c) Paul Ryan is embarrassed by all this and can't show himself at his own gym any longer
d) Tucker played his audience
e) something else

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2023 07:25 PM (fs1hN)

164 sending angry letters to management.
.......

That'll learn 'em.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 07:25 PM (v0R5T)

165 If I was a gazillioner, I would invest time and effort into developing a massive private school system. one not beholden to the government, or school unions.
Posted by: runner at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM (V13WU)
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One my coworkers was telling me about a Texas billionaire entrepreneur who did just that. His schools are exploding all over the place (in a good way).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:25 PM (BpYfr)

166 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (geLO

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That, and she's probably been marinating in all the ~~lesb~~ ... uh ... feminist and leftist crap and is on the lookout 24/7 for something to be outraged about, because women are acutely sensitive to social pressure.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:25 PM (YqDXo)

167 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat

And has a head full of abject nonsense that she's totally certain is true without having ever even considered the contrary.

Shows like Fresh and Fit or Just Pearly Things or Whatever basically cash in on this: baffling and surprising really dimwitted girls with the education of a newt. They're easy to stump and shock and defeat in a debate because they have no experience even considering a reasonable thought.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:26 PM (0hOvj)

168 He's very happy where he is now (among colleagues who are also ex-Amazon). ... And he thanks God he left when he did.
Posted by: Coki at March 20, 2023 07:08 PM (meTku)

A group of us former Electronic Data Systems (EDS) would hold a "Fallen Eagle " dinner and bad mouth our time working for the company.

EDS was started by Ross Perot and the company motto was the company gathered eagles, hence the Fallen Eagle bit.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 20, 2023 07:26 PM (H4JoC)

169 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB
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Actually, again probably due to social media, Z young 'uns are not having the sex at rates even that Millennials had, let alone Boomers or Gen X.

Plus, when porn and media bullshit about relationships is pervasive, reality does not match the unrealistic fantasies that people have.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:26 PM (Bmix2)

170 I thought Joe was going to send Tank to Ukraine.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 07:26 PM (v0R5T)

171 > Follow the TonyPeteTM recommended dating method, find your local Right To Life chapters and hang out there. Ask him about results the next time he is online. You will be prescreening for interest in families and family values which tends to separate the wheat and the chaff.

When I went to BYU, I thought it would be a dating mecca. Turns out, not so much. A lot of ladies went in with the attitude that they MUST finish their degree and not get sidetracked by marriage. Also, when every guy is 6' tall, an Eagle Scout, intelligent, goal oriented, interested in family, went on a mission, are fairly devoted to the Gospel, etc. all those boxes are checked. The ladies are then free to be a bit shallow and hold out for the hot guys that come from money.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:26 PM (V1QHJ)

172 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB
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How could you possibly want to start a family with some person that's likely had 40-50 sexual partners by the time they're in their 30's?

And that's honestly just a small part of the larger cultural problems.

feminism really seems to me to be the worst thing every to happen to women, it just seems to benefit the worst in male instincts.

Posted by: Blago at March 20, 2023 07:27 PM (cOFom)

173 "I am a purist. I don't like the new ones."

Yeah. It's just not the same since Joel left.

Posted by: fd at March 20, 2023 07:27 PM (iayUP)

174 Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (PYJJG)

I don't want woke. I don't need woke. I will not tolerate woke. Fook it. I have a huge catalog of movies and TV series and books to keep me away from woke for the rest of my life.

*builds fort made of pillows and blankets*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at March 20, 2023 07:27 PM (UQUAY)

175 The Abrams thing is interesting for the way in which both political parties, and organizations in western society in general, have become calcified and stagnant. There's no room for advancement for the successful underlings, and no consequences for failure by leadership. The result is perhaps the worst combination.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 07:27 PM (wmDcS)

176 Actually, again probably due to social media, Z young 'uns are not having the sex at rates even that Millennials had, let alone Boomers or Gen X.

Hot Girl Summer is a Zoomer thing, that kind of outright sluttish, trashy behavior was always shamed in the past, even with millennials. Now its celebrated

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:27 PM (0hOvj)

177 That, and she's probably been marinating in all the lesb ... uh ... feminist and leftist crap and is on the lookout 24/7 for something to be outraged about, because women are acutely sensitive to social pressure.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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You have been at a college too long. Lots of women not at institutions of higher ed that are quite pleasant to be around. Meet them all the time in the medical field or in the flyover states.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:28 PM (Bmix2)

178 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023

And have the videos to prove it.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 20, 2023 07:28 PM (H4JoC)

179 "Remember when the leftwing propaganda media kept running video of "packed" hospitals early in the pandemic?
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Shark Summer 2.0.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:28 PM (YqDXo)

180 I saw a doctor who finally gave me morphine through an IV. That was some good stuff.
Posted by: polynikes at

Demerol. Ask for it by name.

Had a minor skin graft surgery. Never had so much fun.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 20, 2023 07:29 PM (NW9xb)

181 You have been at a college too long. Lots of women not at institutions of higher ed that are quite pleasant to be around. Meet them all the time in the medical field or in the flyover states.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:28 PM (Bmix2)
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That's great news. Thanks for cheering me up!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:29 PM (YqDXo)

182 As an aside, Michelle Williams was really cute in Shutter Island, even for someone with mental illness such that she drowned her three children.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2023 07:29 PM (fs1hN)

183 172 40 or 50? Is that exaggeration? I hope!

Posted by: Piper at March 20, 2023 07:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

184 And you Dorcas should be arrested for being a dumbass.

Posted by: four seasons at March 20, 2023 07:06 PM (ichPI)
.......

But she's OUR dumbass.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 07:30 PM (v0R5T)

185 Having a wife with a history of an alley cat is an interesting view - I grew with Stagecoach and the like, maybe there's redemption in trad life?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 20, 2023 07:30 PM (YGElQ)

186 Remember when the leftwing propaganda media kept running video of "packed" hospitals early in the pandemic?

You mean they weren't stacking them like cordwood in refrigerated trucks behind the hospital?

You mean nurses had time to choreograph dance routines because they were so frigging bored?

You mean people weren't gasping out with their final breath "The vaccine. I'll take it now, anything, just let me live. If only I hadn't listened to dissident commentators......"?

You mean none of that friggin' stuff happened?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 20, 2023 07:30 PM (Stc3i)

187 Actually, again probably due to social media, Z young 'uns are not having the sex at rates even that Millennials had, let alone Boomers or Gen X.
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The kids deprecate Boomers, but we were post-sexual revolution and pre-HIV, so ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:30 PM (YqDXo)

188 Beware of the penile inversion layer! You'll never know what lies underneath until it rears up thru the fog and hits you.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 20, 2023 07:31 PM (Jg7EG)

189 93 Gonna share a joke my son just told me:

A guy's been dating this woman for a few weeks, and one day he comes up to his friend and says "Guess what? I finally got to touch my girlfriend's boobs! All 10 of them!"

His friend says, "Wow! That's great!... wait.... 10?"

The guy says, "Yeah! I finally got to base2"

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at March 20, 2023 07:05 PM (uPgE/)
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Good one. Reminds me of the Oct 31=Dec 25
only IF not = Hex 1F

Posted by: Ciampino - at March 20, 2023 07:31 PM (qfLjt)

190 The doctors have a part of the blame for the crazy. Almost everyone of them were pandemic fear mongers. Not one of them stood up and said this is bull, even though they would say it in private. And why aren't the docs who are giving puberty medication to children without parents permission and cutting off body parts in jail? Or at least have their license yanked.

Posted by: Megthered at March 20, 2023 07:31 PM (4AFRE)

191 Why do I like the comments? Fiber.

Posted by: Holy Crap at March 20, 2023 07:32 PM (glGDV)

192 Ten miles in any direction the hospitals were not in chaos. Nor were hospitals from coast to coast. Who knows how many nurses and hospital staff decided to wear trash bag gowns as a stunt or for grudge reasons about long-standing pay and benefits disputes?

We live in an Empire of Lies.
Posted by: Gref at March 20, 2023 07:21 PM

Our county health department head resigned two years ago. A couple hospitals reported at
"100% full " told local media that they had only 1 or 2 beds dedicated to Covid patients, but plenty of empty beds otherwise. Then mental health providers took digs at County health's panicky messaging scaring away patients. The last straw was when a Catholic school called out misinformation: absolutely none of their students or staff caught Covid; county health reported tests as cases.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 20, 2023 07:32 PM (o3/7Q)

193 And I grew up with two sisters in their teenage years - sad, hopeless, angry, difficult, etc were kind of the go-to modes as I recall. The one older than me is still in that space, the younger recovered thankfully.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at March 20, 2023 07:32 PM (YGElQ)

194 *builds fort made of pillows and blankets*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg

You can see The Mask! It has Jonah! It's in 3-D! *jingles key chain*

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 20, 2023 07:32 PM (PYJJG)

195 Heard it got moved up to next week.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

////////

oh....reallly?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 07:33 PM (MLrvz)

196 Hot Girl Summer is a Zoomer thing, that kind of outright sluttish, trashy behavior was always shamed in the past, even with millennials. Now its celebrated
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

A lot of that shit is media trying to play up to old pervs wanting to be young again.

Here is a relative oldie stat from 2017 data released in 2020.
'The CDC estimates that 40 percent of U.S. teens are sexually active -- 42 percent of females and 38 percent of males 15 and 19 years of age -- numbers that have dropped significantly since 1988." Also this has some links to relevant stats,
https://tinyurl.com/4ydjacj7 including number of partners, age at losing virginity, etc. and all of those show Greshams Law effects.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:33 PM (Bmix2)

197 I need to avoid too much social media dopamine shits and the trump thing made me avoid the internet.

more or less.

it's like, why argue law and reason with libs and their ghoulish fash desires?

they want orangeperpwalk. what can you do?

it's not like our side would do anything to make the left feel pain. you know, "don't do that, cause we'll arrest hillary next time she's in florida"

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 07:34 PM (MLrvz)

198 The doctors have a part of the blame for the crazy. Almost everyone of them were pandemic fear mongers. Not one of them stood up and said this is bull, even though they would say it in private.
Posted by: Megthered at March 20, 2023 07:31 PM (4AFRE)
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Initially no one knew what we were up against with the Kung Flu, but I'd have liked to have seen MDs counseling people to be more even-keeled, and not to spread hysteria.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:34 PM (YqDXo)

199 The doctors have a part of the blame for the crazy. Almost everyone of them were pandemic fear mongers. Not one of them stood up and said this is bull, even though they would say it in private. And why aren't the docs who are giving puberty medication to children without parents permission and cutting off body parts in jail? Or at least have their license yanked.
Posted by: Megthered
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+1

Every doctor friend, even conservative leaning ones, really couldn't help themselves about piling on at every opportunity.

it's where they get their power and they do have a god complex.

I miss the days when most doctors were overwhelmingly conservative and afraid of socialized medicine.

Posted by: Blago at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (cOFom)

200 Why is Stacey running again? She's already won twice.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (5xURv)

201 I thought Joe was going to send Tank to Ukraine.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 07:26 PM (v0R5T)

She got stuck in the mud in Poland

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (EVR4i)

202 Here is a relative oldie stat from 2017 data released in 2020.'The CDC estimates that 40 percent of U.S. teens are sexually active -- 42 percent of females and 38 percent of males 15 and 19 years of age -- numbers that have dropped significantly since 1988." Also this has some links to relevant stats,
https://tinyurl.com/4ydjacj7 including number of partners, age at losing virginity, etc. and all of those show Greshams Law effects.

CDC estimates.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (ppBhU)

203 The doctors have a part of the blame for the crazy. Almost everyone of them were pandemic fear mongers.
Posted by: Megthered

At my last physical my doctor asked me if I'd had the clot shot. I said no. He said, "Good. Don't". I ruined it by telling him that his profession did not exactly cover itself in glory over the past two years, although he agreed.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (PYJJG)

204 That's great news. Thanks for cheering me up!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Universities are the new monasteries and abbeys only with teh additional attractions of the Inquisition, paganism of all sorts, and the celebratory burning of witches of a conservative or libertarian hue.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (Bmix2)

205 Dr. Oren Ganor says they “reconstruct things the way they were supposed to be for that patient.”
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They were supposed to have an inverted penis? Does that even occur naturally? Or more likely Dr. Ganor is one really screwed up individual. That does unfortunately occur, more frequently it seems these days.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2023 07:36 PM (fs1hN)

206 The doctors have a part of the blame for the crazy. Almost everyone of them were pandemic fear mongers. Not one of them stood up and said this is bull, even though they would say it in private.

A couple did but they got destroyed for it. Literally ruined, lives and careers wiped out

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:36 PM (0hOvj)

207 I did one minute of legal research and came up with "duh, this is stupid".

trump's biz record is accurate, he paid cohen $150K.

he, as the boss, was aware of it and approved it. he doesn't have to submit it to santa claus for a complete catharsis score. "now, son, do you really think Cohen did a good amount of legal work for this money?"

"no, it's just how I pay for shit"

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 07:36 PM (MLrvz)

208 CDC estimates.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Other stats from other sources show the same along with surveys. The plain fact is that the disincentives are working against yutes having sex more than incentives nowadays are pushing it. Abortions were trending downward and that started in the 90's along with teen births.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:37 PM (Bmix2)

209 Every doctor friend, even conservative leaning ones, really couldn't help themselves about piling on at every opportunity.

it's where they get their power and they do have a god complex.
__________________

I had an appointment with an ENT doc who entered the room like Mussolini and was barking out orders to the nurse, then snapped at me to put my head back so he could examine my nose. Then he harrumphed and strutted off.

I turned to the nurse and said, "He's sure got a lot of attitude for someone who makes his living looking up people's noses." She laughed.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2023 07:37 PM (YqDXo)

210 Other stats from other sources show the same along with surveys.

Social science data says so.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 20, 2023 07:38 PM (ppBhU)

211 Universities are the new monasteries and abbeys only with teh additional attractions of the Inquisition, paganism of all sorts, and the celebratory burning of witches of a conservative or libertarian hue.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2023 07:35 PM (Bmix2)
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We could use more comfy chairs...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2023 07:38 PM (BpYfr)

212 Watch for them to blame Trump for the dollars to pay for 'beefed up security' while also maintaining it as worse than 9/11, etc.

Same fear and govsplaining simultaneously. See they're saving 'merica muh democracy

Posted by: micky at March 20, 2023 07:39 PM (3byMq)

213 Does anyone smell ozone? I thought I saw a Paul comment and then a flash then small particles floating in the air.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 20, 2023 07:39 PM (H4JoC)

214 Parochial schools in my area are rapidly expanding. Sadly, those families still need to pay local property/school taxes.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 20, 2023 07:19 PM (gryET)
==
Hopefully your state is moving toward money following the kid. Then their property taxes are just paying for a societal good, whichever institution provides it (including home schooling), and forcing the public schools to compete for kids. The only advantage public schools have is in well financed school districts in HS - science labs and facilities. The sillier the public schools act in younger grades, the easier to find alternatives.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 07:39 PM (UVyKP)

215 213 Does anyone smell ozone? I thought I saw a Paul comment and then a flash then small particles floating in the air.
Posted by: Beartooth at March 20, 2023 07:39 PM (H4JoC)

Paul is like a quark from the Large Hadron Collider.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 20, 2023 07:40 PM (5xURv)

216 Parochial schools in my area are rapidly expanding. Sadly, those families still need to pay local property/school taxes.

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how many of them doing fash rainbow flags tho. need to find a based private skoolee

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 07:40 PM (MLrvz)

217 You could easier bathe a cat in the ocean than make them look at those videos.
Posted by: t-bird at March 20, 2023 07:17 PM (e2onP)

a) I think that is the point, but

B) they have to figure out how to not show them while explaining they exist, and that they are completely meaningless. Without looking at them.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2023 07:41 PM (xhaym)

218 The end of an era.
Seacliff pier demo begins.

https://tinyurl.com/ysbyvtb6

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2023 07:41 PM (v0R5T)

219 So, is the Civil War starting soon?

Posted by: E. A. Blair at March 20, 2023 07:41 PM (5a2xV)

220 219 So, is the Civil War starting soon?
Posted by: E. A. Blair at March 20, 2023 07:41 PM (5a2xV

It never really ended.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 20, 2023 07:42 PM (5xURv)

221 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (geLO

Probably 2-300 cocks by 30 for a lot of these GenZ chicks. Alley cats have more restraint. And there's a good chance she divorces you later. High price for very very VERY used goods.

Posted by: It's pretty bleak out there if you aren't Chad or Tyrone at March 20, 2023 07:42 PM (La8Fd)

222 Does anyone smell ozone? I thought I saw a Paul comment and then a flash then small particles floating in the air.
Posted by: Beartooth at March 20, 2023 07:39 PM (H4JoC)

Maybe Gwyneth farted

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 20, 2023 07:43 PM (NtVYv)

223 So did the LHC ever find anything?

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:43 PM (geLO8)

224 If the rumor is true that Cohen is going to testify that the payment was to protect Melania then the entire case falls apart and he won't be indicted.

Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023 07:43 PM (+ekwe)

225 Well.... this happened
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
Oh my. I feel this 🔥🔥🔥

https://tinyurl.com/yck4746d

Posted by: redridinghood at March 20, 2023 07:44 PM (NpAcC)

226 223 So did the LHC ever find anything?
Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:43 PM (geLO8

I think they found Uranus.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 20, 2023 07:44 PM (5xURv)

227 Haidt believes that's because the crisis is tied to the adoption of smartphones and social media.

***
Duh. And the Tik Tok freaks have exacerbated it.

Posted by: LASue at March 20, 2023 07:44 PM (Ed8Zd)

228 Probably 2-300 cocks by 30 for a lot of these GenZ chicks. Alley cats have more restraint. And there's a good chance she divorces you later. High price for very very VERY used goods.
Posted by: It's pretty bleak out there if you aren't Chad or Tyrone at March 20, 2023 07:42 PM (La8Fd)

Are you going to show your math, or are you going to just end there showing your prejudices through your slurs and insults?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2023 07:44 PM (xhaym)

229 feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:23 PM (geLO

==
Not as much as you might think. Sexual activity has become much more tame overall - kids date in groups more than couples - not to suggest there aren't wild childs out there!

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 07:45 PM (UVyKP)

230 >how many of them doing fash rainbow flags tho. need to find a based private skoolee

Posted by: sockamster, gator at March 20, 2023 07:40 PM (MLrvz)

Most lean more toward rad trad Catholic. Even the more liberal parishes are nowhere near the grooming factories our public schools have become.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 20, 2023 07:45 PM (gryET)

231 Nood Spring has arrived

Posted by: Beartooth at March 20, 2023 07:46 PM (H4JoC)

232 Run Stacey Run!!!!

Looking forward to that new wardrobe order for your next run for Governor.

Posted by: MACON TENT AND AWNING at March 20, 2023 07:46 PM (jM1wU)

233 here's the Post-Loss appearance by camela haris:

https://youtu.be/BUKOpz_gvhM

Imagine listening to this Stupid C----------nt after losing badly?
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at March 20, 2023 06:47 PM (RFhoL)

the comments are golden!

Posted by: LASue at March 20, 2023 07:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

234 Google "hot girl summer" some time, guys.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2023 07:48 PM (0hOvj)

235 220So, is the Civil War starting soon?
Posted by: E. A. Blair at March 20, 2023 07:41 PM (5a2xV

It never really ended.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 20, 2023 07:42 PM (5xURv)

Good answer.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at March 20, 2023 07:49 PM (5a2xV)

236 >feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat
Posted by: DB

this probably makes no sense
a cat lives, what- 10 years on the streets? Probably has less than half a dozen successful matings, tops
practically virginal for a human female these days

Posted by: DB - reading the instructions at March 20, 2023 07:49 PM (geLO8)

237
Why is Stacey running again? She's already won twice.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Georgia needs term limits.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2023 07:49 PM (63Dwl)

238 Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2023 07:44 PM (xhaym)

My anecdotal info says he's not far from being wrong. This info is directly from the mouths of the 15-30 year olds I know from my tennis club.

Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023 07:49 PM (+ekwe)

239 I hope the Amazon manager who told me to work 65 hours a week and only report 40 hours a week on my time sheet is one of the laid off employees.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 20, 2023 07:03 PM (V1QHJ)

You need a class action lawyer.

Posted by: LASue at March 20, 2023 07:49 PM (Ed8Zd)

240
So, is the Civil War starting soon?
Posted by: E. A. Blair

It never really ended.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Good answer.
Posted by: E. A. Blair

It's on standby, like the Korean war.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2023 07:51 PM (63Dwl)

241 Being right I mean.

Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023 07:51 PM (+ekwe)

242 If the rumor is true that Cohen is going to testify that the payment was to protect Melania then the entire case falls apart and he won't be indicted.
Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023 07:43 PM (+ekwe)

Melania banged Stormy Daniels? Trump might just get a boost in the polls once that gets out!

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 07:52 PM (wmDcS)

243 NYTs - Meet the Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers is #1. June 17, 2022.

Posted by: Lola - free Jacob Chansley at March 20, 2023 07:52 PM (GshMh)

244 The bigger issue is that young women are very mentally unstable - the me-too abuses have scared lots of guys from getting too frisky. And of course with colleges beyond 60-40 female to male, just fewer chances. Women are notorious for looking for the Mrs., even when looking for their own professional status improvement. And they really don't marry down. So, lots of the worst Karens will never marry or be with a man.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 07:53 PM (UVyKP)

245 242

Ok

Comment of the day!

Posted by: Floridachick at March 20, 2023 07:53 PM (/k9DC)

246 What will these Karen's do when Biden takes away their gas stoves?

Posted by: Black JEM at March 20, 2023 07:56 PM (UVyKP)

247 "These cheap units are operated with air. I've got air. Some of them are even 110V.-- Mine is both 110v and 220v, it just cuts thicker stuff when using 220v."

Have looked at them before, was just watching a review ... guy says they will last longer if run on 220V easier on the electronics he says. ... and he puts some filter in to keep moisture out of the air, moisture will quickly destroy the tips he says.

I don't NEED one now, but they might be more expensive if we start having more problems with selling out to China. Just what I need, another tool sitting in a box for a couple years. heh

this is the video ... youtube
https://tinyurl.com/pp92wyej

Posted by: illiniwek at March 20, 2023 07:56 PM (Cus5s)

248 "feel sorry for guys today- your prospective wife probably has the sexual history of an alley cat"

Yeah, it's better for them not to try - those grapes are probably sour anyway.

Screws over the gals that haven't been rode hard, of course. She tells a guy that she's only ever had 0-2 intimate partners, and he - head full of statistics - immediately calls her a liar.

Thus endeth the date, if she has any self-respect.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 20, 2023 07:57 PM (GfgwS)

249 My anecdotal info says he's not far from being wrong. This info is directly from the mouths of the 15-30 year olds I know from my tennis club.
Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023 07:49 PM (+ekwe)

That's because they're all sticking their dicks in the same crazy. I know five pretty junior girls who aren't sexually active who are offset by one classmate who's been sleeping around since age
14. Guess who everyone points to as the "typical" student? Yeah, the skank.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 20, 2023 07:57 PM (o3/7Q)

250 then the entire case falls apart and he won't be indicted.
Posted by: polynikes at March 20, 2023

You think this is about the law?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at March 20, 2023 07:57 PM (gU+fJ)

251 "a cat lives, what- 10 years on the streets? Probably has less than half a dozen successful matings, tops"

Unspayed queens go into heat at least 3 times a year, IIRC.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 20, 2023 07:58 PM (GfgwS)

252 239. Wage and Hour, if fairly recent.

Posted by: Lola - free Jacob Chansley at March 20, 2023 07:59 PM (GshMh)

253 Nood spring

Posted by: FeatherBlade at March 20, 2023 08:00 PM (GfgwS)

254 Are you going to show your math, or are you going to just end there showing your prejudices through your slurs and insults?
Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2023 07:44 PM (xhaym)

Slurs and insults? Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Go watch some of the panel discussions on Aba and Preach, Fresh & Fit, Whatever, Just Pearly Things, and related channels with street interviews of young ladies going to and from clubs and bars. They're running high-double, low triple body counts by their late teens/early 20s. Wake up. This is a huge societal problem.

Posted by: Go get the facts instead of being bitchy at March 20, 2023 08:00 PM (La8Fd)

255 How many gen Now-ers can even be relied upon to do the simplest of things... say gather the correct ingredients, and bake a loaf of bread? So simple even a Medieval peasant could do it.

But now?

Posted by: Sir Joffre of Someplacelongpast at March 20, 2023 08:03 PM (XK/SZ)

256 Slurs and insults? Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. Go watch some of the panel discussions on Aba and Preach, Fresh & Fit, Whatever, Just Pearly Things, and related channels with street interviews of young ladies going to and from clubs and bars. They're running high-double, low triple body counts by their late teens/early 20s. Wake up. This is a huge societal problem.
Posted by: Go get the facts instead of being bitchy at March 20,

Two things: The shows aren't choosing girls who make gardening and canning videos; they're selecting the sorts who would have featured on Jerey Springer back in the day. And who are these
sluts sleeping with? Probably guys who like to stick their dicks in crazy aka me who won't make good husbands.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 20, 2023 08:14 PM (o3/7Q)

257 Disclosure: I have worked for Google in the past (and GTFO'ed years ago) and I'm still in the tech space currently.

"So Google is required to keep people on staff just to pay their medical bills?"

Losing your doc in the middle of something like being several months pregnant or being part way through a multi-step medical procedure is a big fucking deal. They need to step up to the plate and own handling layoffs in a way that is respectful of their people. Or, rather, they need to do it if they want to be seen in a good light by current and prospective employees.

It's also shit-tier corporate behavior to lay people off in the middle of leave they've taken for planned procedures. It won't kill them to put that shit off another couple of weeks. There is a standard of behavior expected from big-name, high-paying tech outfits and Google has failed to meet that standard for a loonnnnng time.

These layoffs aren't because big tech bulked up on pandemic money. It's because the pandemic money papered over fundamental economic problems, and now that money is both gone AND the economy + inflation + costs are in an even worse state.

Posted by: somedood at March 20, 2023 08:14 PM (/z9fK)

258 It's also shit-tier corporate behavior to lay people off in the middle of leave they've taken for planned procedures. It won't kill them to put that shit off another couple of weeks. There is a standard of behavior expected from big-name, high-paying tech outfits and Google has failed to meet that standard for a loonnnnng time.

As others on Twitter have ranted about: corporations long ago abandoned any sense of loyalty towards their employees, and are now shocked that employees returned the favor. Remember, the Great Recession was 15 years ago. Millennials and Gen Z who were younguns back then are now in their late 20s and mid thirties. This attitude is all that they've known.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 20, 2023 08:30 PM (wmDcS)

259 57 They laid off all of the nurses, except in NY, where they were seemingly hiring unlimited travel nurses at $100/hr. Then, when hospitals wanted to start providing services again, the only nurses they could get were travel nurses. So the nurses they did have all quit to become travel nurses. Hospitals were staffed with $100/hr nurses who had no allegiance to the hospial and did the bare minimum on shift. But now that they want to flush out all the expensive dead weight, they can't because no nurse wants to work for $50/hr anymore.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 20, 2023 06:57 PM (O6iwF)
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The layoffs and "invitations to retire" for nurses and hospital staff started before the pandemic. Hospital administrators simply used COVID shutdowns of elective surgery and other planned care as a cover for slashing staff, all to save $$ on salaries. They did much the same with a lot of their contracted MDs; the hospital system my group contracts with dumped their in-hospital internists in early 2021, just after these guys literally dealt with the worst of the initial COVID surges. Thank you very little, f**k you very much!

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at March 20, 2023 10:44 PM (uY1j2)

260 Now those same hospitals are dealing with staffing shortages, exacerbated by the ridiculous bidding wars that have made it VERY lucrative for RNs and MDs to work part time for multiples more than they wanted to pay to retain seasoned staff.

Every time these days I listen to some douche of an administrator complain about this, I think, "You crapped all over your workforce. Enjoy the fallout."

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at March 20, 2023 10:50 PM (uY1j2)

261 And not to pile on - because there is a lot of blame to go around in the world health care - starting with people who want someone else to pay for their healthcare - but the hospitals are the current bad guys, with exploding costs and with non-profit hospitals parking excess revenues into "foundations" so they can expand into further areas of the medical services industry they aren't very efficient in. Do yourself a little aggravating homework, and see how much the not-for-profit hospitals (who are protected from doctor run facilities competing against them) have in these foundations. Which instead of either rebating fees, or reducing prices, go towards more buildings we don't really need, and ever more inefficient bureaucracies with 6 and 7 figure people populating them.

Just strip all their non-profit status away, and tax the crap out of them like every other business.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 21, 2023 12:49 AM (UVyKP)

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