The peasants are revolting!
Day 50 of The Great American Lockdown
by coldwarrior ( 151 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at May 3rd, 2020 - 9:00 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/china-expert-peter-zeihan-says-chinas-collapse-world-stage-coming-within-three-years-provide-support/
an interesting read
@ coldwarrior:
most of that is common knowledge among those of us who have been paying attention, but I have a quibble with this
There simply are not enough people in the area where these massive complexes were built that make enough money to afford living in these communities. It appears that the Chinese communists’ misunderstanding of supply and demand economics may ultimately be their downfall.
missed the point. They were never meant to be occupied, no infrastructure was ever built in (electric, water, etc). It was make-work construction for unemployed males, a way to kick the can down the road.
I just went to our local Smith’s (a Kroger brand).
The meat department looked like the toilet paper aisle did a few weeks ago. Pretty much cleaned out. There was one package of hamburger, and 3 packages of chicken thighs. No pork to speak of.
@ lobo91:
did you get yourself supplied in time?
@ eaglesoars:
I was mostly looking to see if they had anything interesting (which they didn’t)
The town of Houston is asking us to snitch on every business that is out of compliance of the rules of Gov Abbot.
And, the link is broken. Good.
https://form.jotform.com/200845600466048
So tired of this shit.
@ Calo:
LOL you should see my part of Houston. Gunfire every night. Street parties. No sniches here.
@ Possum:
You know I’m gonna get fired soon, right?
I refuse to kick out customers who don’t mask up. Business isn’t that good that we should pick and choose which customers are compliant mask wearers that we accept money from and which we turn away who produce cash but aren’t masked up. And, I’m suppose to kick them out.
Don’t even get me started on the rating of the dust mask coverings we wear to save the world from our asymptomatic covid-19 virus shedding.
Yeah, I’m gonna get fired, soon. I refuse to toe the line.
Calo wrote:
I took 3 flights in the last oh, 36 – 48 hrs or so. Maybe 50% of the people were masked, NONE of the masks were going to do jack. I carried a bunch with me just in the event someone insisted. They’re the masks Dominoes Pizza provided for their employees. Just those blue things that leave gaps around your face. Yeah, fine.
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh you mean the ‘Fashion Statement masks!
🙂
I’m waiting for some wicked Republican to start turning out masks with Trump 2020 and Make America Greater Again!
Then sit back and watch the brains of cognitive dissonance Liberal Progressive Leftists explode out of their eyes!
HEH!
🙂
Calo wrote:
You are going to get snitched on. And fired.
But you are 100% correct. To stop this thing we ALL have to get it.
But what comes next? A Chinese Flu more deadly?
You are going to get snitched on. And fired.
Probably, one of the stores got hassled by the health dept gestapos for leaving a chalk board sidewalk sign on the sidewalk this week, WTF?. Did a whole store exam up the ass, before they were even open to the public.
eaglesoars wrote:
BINGO
Up to 40% of ALL building in China is within the Provincial governments’ 5 year plan targets. There is no infrastructure being built to service these empty housing developments. The average is something like 2.4 buildings per site per decade! It’s good to be in the demolition business in China. This KICKING the CAN down the road on steroids.
Eventually the day dawns when this all has to be paid for with real wealth. Resource wastage is part of the weft and warp of the Chinese economy. Keeping the comrades working and not revolting is the be all and end all of Chinase elitist plans.
Calo wrote:
Welcome to East Germany Peoples Republik complete with its snitches on every corner and Stratsi enforcers.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
True. Also true is that our elites are too stupid to even keep us working.
@ Calo:
If you get fired, I’d sue. I don’t know on what grounds, but the process is the punishment.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I did read somewhere that those are in the works. Like the MAGA hats. But now, there is so much social opprobrium associated with touching other people that pulling masks off is going to be quite the challenge!
eaglesoars wrote:
I should have loaned you my FULL FACE mask with twin filter packs and a exhale one way valve that makes you look like Mickey Mouse. Plus latex gloves and a lightweight nylon over jacket and elasticised hood.
Didn’t even raise and eyebrow in the supermarket.
🙂
I’m going to try going into a bank next, just to check my balance!
🙂
HEH!
eaglesoars wrote:
Damnit!
I just thought of that.
Should have patented it immediately
🙂
HEH!
@ eaglesoars:
How was Nashville?
🙂
Aussie Infidel
and a exhale one way valve
This is what NOBODY gets.
Face masks used in medical settings are not to prevent medical professionals from inhaling nasty bugs but to prevent those medical professionals exhaling/spitting germs onto their patients.
Those masks with inhale filters and exhale valves are not what this is all about.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Haven’t a clue.
I was in Knoxville.
But as long as you asked….I LOVED it. I only had time to tour the area we’re moving to which is Farragut/West Knox, but what is stunning about the place is how serious they are about integrating outdoor space into suburban living. You cannot swing a cat without finding a park with trails. Concord Park, about a mile from our house is HUGE. Boating, fishing, swimming, skating, free-run dog parks…and they are serious about their dogs. Fairfax County Virginia has probably the highest per capita dog ownership in the country but the free run dog parks are few, far between and crap. The parks here are NOTHING compared to what I saw in Knoxville w/in 3 miles of my house. Concord, McFee, Founders. Hell, there is a hiking trail called the Greenway – 60 miles of trail that runs right by our driveway. It’s paved. Walk, bike, dogs. Our back yard is fenced, the lot behind it is one big yard that is conservation protected. It will remain just a pretty yard you can lie down and take a nap in. I don’t know who has been taking care of it, but I took a real time video tour via google and I didn’t see one piece of litter, bottle, nothing. You’d think you were in hippie Oregon or something.
Kingston Pike is one gargantuan shopping strip, but hang a left at the 2nd light and…….
@ Possum:
Almost true, but not quite, masked are used to prevent a viral load from infecting healthcare workers from infection. In the form of a an extubation, when a shitload of mucus comes up from the lungs when the tube is pulled. Masks and face shields are useful, at that time.
But for casual passage between people in a store, probably worthless. I’m too lazy to dig up the studies right now.
@ Possum:
When this is all over and there’s a surplus of virus-blocking burlap masks, may be we could sell them as after-market condoms.
Possum wrote:
Great as it protects you from the outside but NOT SO GREAT if you have Wuhan Flu as it allows you to breath out freely onto everyone else! The mask and jacket with hood are part of a Chemical/Bio/Ionising Radiation set up.
Big window to see through with integrated mask that fits over nose and mouth and 100% sealed with double grommets against your face to prevent leakage. N99 filters.
🙂
Makes you look like an extra from’ Deep Space Nine’!
HEH!
Bunk X wrote:
Better still sell them as ‘hook up’ masks for ugly people
🙂
HEH
@ Aussie Infidel:
My sister was an extra on one episode. On screen for about 10 seconds before she got kilt. I think she was an alien in a salt mine.
Mom mistakenly referred to the show as “Deep Six Nine.”
Bunk X wrote:
classic
Calo wrote:
THAT is exactly what I’m after. I KNOW that I do NOT have Covid 19 and I am determined NOT to get it. Hence the full bio-warfare mask, gloves and hooded jacket.
🙂
Oh Calo, this is for you! I can’t copy/paste the whole thing but it is priceless.
NEIGHBORHOOD KAREN* WANTS HOUSTON AREA RESIDENTS TO SNITCH ON BUSINESSES: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo asking people to report businesses violating Gov. Greg Abbott’s closure order. The result is a pretty staggering Twitter ratio:
And it made the big time at Instapundit
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/370320/
And then there’s this
More than 900 Missouri residents who ‘snitched’ on lockdown rule-breakers fear retaliation after their details are leaked online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8282475/Missourians-tipped-county-lockdown-rule-breakers-fear-retaliation-release.html?login
@ Aussie Infidel:
But, for how long are you gonna go out like that, fully kitted up?
Because, somewhere, another virus is lurking and then what? How is your body suppose to fight if it’s out of shape of fighting off anything infectious?
Knowledgeable Actors Reporting Edict Noncompliance (KAREN)
https://babylonbee.com/news/de-blasio-announces-system-for-reporting-social-distancing-violations-knowledgeable-actors-reporting-edict-noncompliance-karen
Calo wrote:
You never worked in OR for three years.
Masks were for not coughing oral germs into an open wound of an old lady having a hip replaced.
Normal social mouth living bacteria into a bone is often fatal.
This place needs more cat videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYGyWsZQySU
@ Possum:
animal abuse
Bunk X wrote:
HEH!
Freudian slip there!
🙂
Calo wrote:
I load up each winter with available vaccines. I also get surprised when tutoring some little s-l-o-w ankle biter when he brings his change of seasons cold into the class room.
Grrrr
Bunk X wrote:
Strip club here in Houston opened. Strippers have to wear masks.
Finally ladies with hot bodies and faces like a sack of rocks are getting the tips they deserve.
eaglesoars wrote:
TV abuse. LOL
Kittens have had harnesses on for three hours. They didn’t care, carried on fighting and finally went to sleep.
@ Possum:
harnesses? Are you taking them for a hike?
I’m going to bed. bye.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep. Fully training the K-10s Police cats.
I have to wonder about people wearing masks in their car by themselves.
New job starts today!
right_wing2 wrote:
They eat curry…
More animal abuse from a week ago.
I hate cats, no way should I be allowed near a cat.
I am an abuser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QJVOLyJBn4
Oh, man. Been perusing some audio by Little Isadore & The Inquisitors, and I better stop before I click on “Dry Your Eyes.”
Aussie Infidel wrote:
It’s funny you mentioned that. I am driving to Thüringen this week to visit one of my company’s factories (for the last time actually). We have many older employees and one is the production site manager. He refuses to speak or acknowledge the female safety engineer. It seems her family were Stasi informers and the production Manager had members of his family locked up. He would stare right through her and simply did not acknowledge her existance in any circumstances. One of the older employees let me know that the ghost town where the factory is used to be a thriving place until the Wall came down and the Stasi files were opened— families left en masse in the middle of the night and many families split apart. Not fun times.
Working with “Ossies” in their homeland can be interesting though even if they don’t like Americans much.
right_wing2 wrote:
I passed a guy on the motorway today and he was masked but pulled down with his finger chatting away on his car phone system. Also infecting his finger with which he then massaged his eye!
Madness!
🙂
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
I can imaging the bitterness and the ‘getting even’ that wracked the town after the wall came down. Actually I was in Berlin on those very days. Purchased a hammer and chisel and took 3 hours chipping out a sizeable hunk of concrete suitably graffitied. There were guys selling concrete lumps but I didn’t trust them as there were people ‘manufacturing’ bits of the wall in their basements.
🙂
An army mate to a shot of me pulling a face at a Volkspolitzei through a gap in the wall. Poor bastard just wanted it to all go away. Purchased a 1 day visa to visit the East. Went through Checkpoint Charlie after getting a grilling from the Brit Military Police about not getting into trouble and to report back to them immediately when I got back, because of my security clearance level. Interesting day amongst the Ossies
🙂
I knew that I’d put this away someplace.
When China rolled up the whole CIA in China 2010-2012
https://conservativedailypost.com/cia-china-ops-wiped-out-by-botched-spy-contact-system/
REALLY naive CIA IT operatives bought software from Middle Eastern groups that were full of back doors and the CIA types thought they could walk on water. Bulletproof would be an understatement. Chinese counter-intel operatives cleaned the CIA’s clock, shot 3 agents ad tortured EVERYTHING out of the rest who ended up in Chinese concentration camps for …. forever or until they dies of privations. Oh and the CIA were also sold out by a Chinese double agent as well. The CIA forgot to deploy and fund proper counter-intel assets to protect their agent lines. DUMB . egotistical and plain stupid.
Never underestimate your enemy!
NEVER
🙂
That should have read SHOT 30 agents NOT 3
morning y’all
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/watch-california-police-officers-anti-lockdown-protest-appear-stand-marine-vet-megaphone-challenges-integrity/
may the 4th be with you
@ Aussie Infidel:
Lucky dog.
June 89′ I had a 4 day pass with a platoon dog who suggested we go to Berlin, but then we found out that we needed to get the appropriate paperwork lined up at least a month in advance for the Zug east. So that didn’t happen. We rented a VW Golf and did a road trip which had us ending up in Venice. Fun trip.
I got a piece of the wall somewhere in the attic. A mate of mine was there when it all came down and he grabbed a few pieces.
@ Aussie Infidel:
The CIA forgot to deploy and fund proper counter-intel assets to protect their agent lines. DUMB . egotistical and plain stupid.
That’s just things we do know about.
I knew a guy who did that line of work. Oh the stories he would tell about the publicly unknown gaffs from the guys and dolls from Langley. On one said occassion, he got away just an hour before the death squad arrived looking for him in some remote African hole during the Carter administration. Unsecure communications — some were not so fortunate as he.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/lol-antifa-storms-empty-shelter-illegal-immigrant-children-chicago-video/
@ Gateway Pundit
Greetings Comrades . Young Democrats,, uh Antifa celebrate May Day and Glorious Revolution with a futile silly attack on an empty building in Chicago. If they put one foot on the lakefront bike path tho Mayor Lightfoot will have them summarily executed or publicly shamed with noogies and wedgies.
@ RIX:
nothing like solid recon/intel to make the mission 100% successful.
Hubby just told me the House of Reps will not return for a YEAR ‘because that’s what a doctor told Pelosi’. I haven’t heard a news report yet, but somehow I don’t think this is going to reflect well on the Dems.
We used to mess with the Stasi relentlessly.
eaglesoars wrote:
They’re children.
coldwarrior wrote:
What could be more fun than that?
coldwarrior wrote:
jealous
Yeah, once is an accident, twice is coincidence, third time is….
Third Russian doctor plunges from hospital window amid coronavirus outbreak
A third Russian doctor has taken a plunge from a hospital window amid complaints about mounting pressures involved in treating coronavirus patients, according to a report.
Dr. Alexander Shulepov, 37, suffered critical head injuries after appearing in a video in which he claimed he was ordered to work despite testing positive for the deadly disease, East2West reported.
https://nypost.com/2020/05/04/third-russian-doctor-plunges-from-window-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/
RIX wrote:
very, very few activities.
I think Northam has decided to re-open, including haircuts!
eaglesoars wrote:
i shaved my head over a month ago…needs me a new cut.
i usually get a flat top from the old guy in the next town over. but, all of my hair is gonna fall out with chemo/rads…
so i wont bother.
@ eaglesoars:
never mind.
@ RIX:
@ eaglesoars:
2x 1million power Q-beam spotting lights, a 5 series BMW, a us mission berlin plated buick (used by nixon in berlin) two radios, and sidewalk chalk.
enjoy.
eaglesoars wrote:
DENIED!!!!
Remember a week or so ago when I posted stuff on the Senate Intel Comm. report that concluded the Russians interfered to favor Trump? Remember that I pretty much trashed it?
Read this:
CIA Watchdog Sitting on Secret House Report Allegedly Critical of Brennan’s Role in Russian Meddling Assessment
A separate, classified report holed up at the office of the CIA Inspector General (IG) sheds damning light on the role then-CIA Director John Brennan played in the preparation of the report, former National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz learned from House Intelligence Committee staff. A source familiar with the report’s fate would not deny that the report went to the office of the CIA IG.
The report states that Brennan overruled agency analysts who wanted to include strong intelligence in the assessment to show that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Hillary Clinton to win the election, Fleitz says, citing conversations with House Intelligence Committee staffers. Brennan had also rejected analysts who wanted to strike weak intelligence from the report which suggested that Russia favored Trump, Fleitz said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/cia-watchdog-sitting-on-secret-house-report-allegedly-critical-of-brennans-role-in-russian-meddling-assessment_3337863.html
plcb is being bitches and making it too hard to buy booze.
ok, i’ll drive the 12 miles to WVA or OH and buy it there. minght make that a month or 2 trip as there is a really great italian restaurant just across the border….
@ eaglesoars:
when does brennan et al. do the perp wallk?
Meat shortage update in Houston.
There isn’t one.
In fact pork shoulder roasts are on sale here. Unfortunately they are 10 pounds or more in weight and it would take me weeks to eat one.
$1 per pound…..
A 3oz can of kitten food is 82 cents, or $4.37 per pound. So, meat here is currently one quarter the cost of cat food.
@ Possum:
i got a yuge brisket priamal for $2.75/lb
there were 2 packages of fresh chicken products, limited fresh pork, and almost no fresh beef at walmart.
plenty of brisket and fish and frozen meat
whole foods is well stocked tho
Possum wrote:
i could use that to make some fine pulled pork…
@ Possum:
Do you have a freezer?
@ coldwarrior:
I think Dewine banned sales to PA residents in the border counties.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
WV it is
coldwarrior wrote:
When do I win the lottery?
@ coldwarrior:
4 identical bmw 2002s with the same forces plates in ddr at the same time every day of the month that is a prime #
My faves was the Hotel Stat dress green jacket switch a roo.
I know damned well the Stasi had o file on me with saliva samples.
Prolly had some smell samples too.
@ Aussie Infidel:
Your name came through one of my print out lists I’m sure
West rock and roll tshirts dropped in random spots
The American Porsche Club all in East Berlin at the same time
coldwarrior wrote:
That had to piss them off. Did you drive the Porsches over too?
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
A tiny one. It is full of 25 cents a pound turkey. Three left, got six the day after Thanksgiving.
This is dated May 2 but I just caught it
All roads into Gallup, New Mexico, are closed over “uninhibited” COVID-19 spread
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act on Friday to essentially lock down the city of Gallup after its mayor requested that she do so on Thursday. Under the act, all roads leading into Gallup are now closed off “to mitigate the uninhibited spread of COVID-19 in that city.”
.
.
In Grants, New Mexico, a town of around 9,000 people just east of McKinley County, Mayor Martin “Modey” Hicks and a group of supporters rallied Monday to encourage business owners in his community to defy the governor’s lockdown order. Hicks has vowed to allow all small businesses to reopen in Grants, despite warnings from Grisham that such a move could put people at risk.
uh, Lobo?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gallup-new-mexico-riot-control-act-roads-closed-coronavirus/
I think the NYT got a Pulitzer for their fake 1619 Project. Didn’t see an announcement, just reactions.
*snort*
Covington and Burling, Michael Flynn’s old law firm before he fired their asses, had a deadline today to produce documents. Well, they produced some but not all
They provided another 32 pages of handwritten notes and 16 pages of documents with handwritten notations–in addition to the 17,500 new pages produced a week or so ago. #CovingtonBurlingLLP says anything more would be too difficult, too expensive & not required
Too expensive? GOOD! I know people who hired these shysters and they bill you for a new umbrella – from Burberry’s on Connecticutt Ave – if they have to drive thru 3 rain drops.
https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1257403467003502593
@ eaglesoars:
Gallup is a mess, primarily because the Navajo reservation is next door. San Juan County is bad, too.
Here in Grants, most people are shrugging off the mayor. There are no small businesses left her to reopen.
lobo91 wrote:
that is really sad.
Looks like NBC News fired the Pres, Andy Lack.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nbc-news-chairman-andy-lack-step-down-transition-out-company-n1199671
@ eaglesoars:
There are large portions that don’t even have running water
@ lobo91:
I found out more than I wanted to know when I sponsored some Souix girls via what used to be Christian Children’s Fund. It’s all terrible.
so the power went out at my store yesterday
they didn’t get it back on until this afternoon
ALL the cold food and frozen and produce had to be trashed
three other superstores also had outage and lost all their food
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/violent-storms-move-through-nashville/vi-BB13zyH6
Calo wrote:
If you have a chance, that would be appreciated. I had a conversation with someone who works for me who was quoting stats on the order of:
Person Infected Person not Infected Probability of contracing
Mask Mask Virus
Yes No <5%
No Yes <15%
Yes Yes <1%
I merely pointed out that there are all sorts of statistics out right now and it all comes down to which PhD you want to believe.
Given these are surgical masks, I find those stats suspect. Don't hold me to the exact numbers, they were on that order; I wasn't taking notes
@ AZfederalist:
Well crap. The posting software took out all of the spaces that made the above readable. Columns were:
First Column: Person infected wearing mask
Second Column: Person not infected wearing mask
Third column: Probability of non-infected person contracting the disease
Bunk X wrote:
Given your sister’s fate on the show, probably not an unreasonable appellation
Possum wrote:
That’s seriously deranged. Funny, but deranged
rain of lead wrote:
I don’t think you’re out of the woods yet
GOES East shows two large convective complexes – one over Oklahoma, the other over west Tennessee.
https://twitter.com/NWSMemphis/status/1257474908927389697
@ eaglesoars:
oh it’s been storming for a couple of hours here but not nearly as bad as yesterday
72mph straight line winds….geez
right_wing2 wrote:
a) I don’t. i.e, I don’t wonder, I know
b) Good for you — good luck, hope it went well
An interesting piece from Rolling Stone, about something they actually know about (for once):
and this is why all of us out here in flyover love the guy
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/trump-goes-calls-vocal-critic-psycho-joe-scarborough-calls-investigation-former-dead-intern/
@ lobo91:
Ow. That was brutal.
@ coldwarrior:
You should have seen the Daily Mail piece on this today. It was lit. Most people don’t know the background and think Trump is just flat out insane, accusing someone who doesn’t like him of murder. They have no clue that the coroner is dirty, Scarborough has been a sleaze his entire life, etc.
Traffic was heavier today than it has been. Lighter than normal, but heavier than a week ago. Anyone else notice the same? I think people are just DONE.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29132028/dolphins-hall-fame-coach-don-shula-dies-90
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, definitely noticing the same. I agree, this wasn’t the zombie Apocalypse it was touted to be and people are tired of it and cranky.
@ coldwarrior:
massilon tigers
https://www.cantonrep.com/article/20140127/SPORTS/140129450
eaglesoars wrote:
i stayed home and smoked some ribs…and such.
😎
@ coldwarrior:
Bill Belichick is the greatest coach ever? Are you kidding me? The guy cheats.
@ rain of lead:
Kent State Day.
@ coldwarrior:
@ eaglesoars:
1984 is already here folks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLo3e1Pak-Y&feature=youtu.be&mc_cid=8265ae1e8e&mc_eid=d41d6ace67
This is totally Orwellian and needs to be destroyed as soon as possible including any Western company who pushes this technology.
Are you listening Google, Microsoft, et al.
🙁
Evil and totally at odds with Freedom
Well Xi has certainly got up the Krauts’ noses!
🙂
Das BILD
‘You are endangering the world’: German tabloid goes to war with China
20 April 2020,
Could China have done more to prevent the coronavirus pandemic? One tabloid editor in Germany certainly thinks so and an extraordinary bust-up has broken out between the Chinese government and his newspaper as a result. The row kicked off last week when Bild – the best-selling paper in Germany – published an editorial entitled ‘What China owes us’, calling for China to pay reparations of £130 billion for the damage done by the outbreak of the virus.
Later that day, the Chinese embassy in Berlin then responded with an open letter saying ‘we regard the style in which you ‘campaign’ against China in your current report on page two as infamous… Those who do the same as you do with today’s Bild newspaper fuel nationalism, prejudice and xenophobia’.
It’s safe to say Bild editor Julian Reichelt didn’t take the criticism lying down. Reichelt has since retaliated with a no-holds-barred responseto China’s President Xi Jinping, in which he reads the Chinese leadership the riot act:
“You shut down every newspaper and website that is critical of your rule, but not the stalls where bat soup is sold. You are not only monitoring your people, you are endangering them – and with them, the rest of the world…China enriches itself with the inventions of others, instead of inventing on its own. The reason China does not innovate and invent is that you don’t let the young people in your country think freely. China’s greatest export hit (that nobody wanted to have, but which has nevertheless gone around the world) is Corona.
Reichelt doesn’t stop there. He goes on to ask:
“Would you like to explain this to the grieving widows, daughters, sons, husbands, parents of Corona victims all over the world?
Finally, he finishes off by saying:
“Your embassy tells me that I am not living up to the “traditional friendship of our peoples.” I suppose you consider it a great “friendship” when you now generously send masks around the world. This isn’t friendship, I would call it imperialism hidden behind a smile – a Trojan Horse.
“You plan to strengthen China through a plague that you exported. You will not succeed. Corona will be your political end, sooner or later.
Punchy stuff. Mr S is looking forward to seeing how China’s ambassador to Berlin responds…
Aussie Infidel wrote:
And if that copy doesn’t work or has been blocked try this mirror copy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LJZqVlBsIQ
There you go!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I don’t want to be nitpicking but it is “DIE BILD” because originally the tabloid was named “Bild-Zeitung” and “Zeitung” (= newspaper) is always female. Later the name was shortened to “BILD” but it still is “DIE” :-))
If you speak about a picture of a person oder something else you’re right it is: DAS Bild (neuter)
morning everyone, Hey Guggi, how are you?
@ Aussie Infidel:
Isn’t that the paper that demanded reparations from China?
As for facial recognition – I think NYC is working with it. I remember reading a story that it was frustrating for authorities because it doesn’t work very well for people with darker skin. I don’t know if the algorithms uses ears. I understand that they’re as distinctive as fingerprints. In any event, if you wanted to, they should be easy to fool with a bit of practice and some CIA-type alterations that would throw the measurements off. And some shoes that would alter your gait. It’s doable if you plan it. If it’s really comprehensive, tho, it should be looking at hands also. That would make 4 ‘objects’ – face, ears, gait, hands – that someone would have to disguise to get past the system.
The OTHER way to do it tho is simply to alter your personal info in the database. More upfront work, but probably worth it.
Actually, I stopped in this morning to post this: The Dept of Justice is slapping our baby-killing pediatrician governor, Coonman.
Officials on Sunday filed a statement of interest supporting a Virginia church that sued Gov. Ralph Northam for capping congregations at 10 people. It says that unless Northam can prove that his 10-person limit is applicable to all gatherings, then he is violating the First Amendment freedom of speech and religion clauses.
All Northam will do – because he’s a totalitarian thug – is limit everything else to 10 people, effectively keeping the state shut down even as he implements the phases of re-opening.
https://spectator.org/justice-department-calls-church-service-restrictions-unconstitutional/
Pitt researcher studying coronavirus killed in suspected murder-suicide in Ross Township
Bing Liu “was on the verge of making very significant findings” in a SARS-CoV-2 research project at the University of Pittsburgh, his department said.
https://www.wtae.com/article/police-investigating-deaths-of-two-people-in-ross-township/32352957
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Where is Ross Township? I simply can’t recall ever hearing of it.
@ eaglesoars:
North Hills. Rt.19 just outside of the city. (McKnight Road)
My wife’s former boss’s daughter was there when they found the other body in the car.
I just assumed a livers quarrel gone bad when I first heard.
Still could be.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/huh-don-lemon-says-trump-jealous-michelle-obama-better-looking-melania/
@ Gateway Pundit
Good morning. Don Lemon on CNN analyzes tha President’s psyche.
He has determined that Trump is jealous of Obama.
One of the major reasons is thstu…. wait for it. Mechelle is prettier than Melania!
It must be in the eyes of the beholder, huh? I see Melania as a world class beauty an I see Michelle as
a botched lab experiment. But Don Lemon may have a more refined eye.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Oh. That’s why I don’t know it.
RIX wrote:
Don is a homosexual and attracted to men, therefore finding Mooch more attractive than Melania is perfectly logical.
eaglesoars wrote:
I thought that seem thing. Must be the lumberjack arms.
eaglesoars wrote:
🙂
I’m a local that never understood the whole North Hills/South Hills thing. Maybe cause I pretty much grew up way out, or moved around a fair bit.
It’s not really a hatred or rivalry or anything. It’s just that when a resident of one area goes into the other and let’s anyone know, they sort of look at you like you came from outer space or something. Unless it’s a large public event or entertainment destination. Then it’s ok.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I bet I couldn’t even find North Hills. “Oh, turn left on the other side of the bridge”
Ok
Obviously I grew up in South Hills.
@ eaglesoars:
There’s no excuse for the condition some of those reservations are in.
@ right_wing2:
I don’t know what the issues are. For a long time I sponsored children with Christian Children’s Fund. Two boys in Mexico, one after the other, that aged out of the program. Then I took a break and when I went back, I asked for girls and the org was no longer Christian Children’s Fund, but something else. So they gave me a little girl on a Sioux res. By the time I wrote her the first letter, she was gone and I was assigned another little girl. That happened 3 more times and I cut them off. But I saw enough to see that it’s not just simple poverty, it’s chaos at a fundamental level, it’s institutional. With the boys I had in Mexico, both for years, they had relatively stable families, I got to know their moms a bit, etc. and so altho they were poor, it was nothing like the desperation I smelled from those people on the res.
some good news
Smithfield Reopens Illinois Pork Plant After COVID-19 Shutdown
https://www.theepochtimes.com/smithfield-reopens-illinois-pork-plant-after-covid-19-shutdown_3337545.html?__sta=vhg.hhksexHJUYtesbp%7CQBI&__stm_medium=email&__stm_source=smartech
@ eaglesoars:
this all needs to be robots.
@ eaglesoars:
I have done some work with the tribal health plans.
To your point, some of the things going on on the reservations are over the top.
There is over the top cases of diabetes, heart disease, alchoholism and domestic violence.
I concluded that if I were a parent on the reservation I would send my kids off to school and admonis them,
“Don’t come back”
Interesting , physical and mental health are exponentially better where there is a successful casino operation.
The best example is Foxwoods in Connecticut.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/essential-coronavirus-news/2020/5/5/21247748/latest-coronavirus-news-live-updates-chicago-illinois-2020
@ Chicago Sun Times
Northwestern Universywill confer an honorary degree on Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot for her “leadership ”
during the pandemic.
Personally I think that she has been off the rails with reidiculous restrictions and threats.
One example is her shutting down the lakefront bike path and threatening jail time.
If Trump acted this way they would be calling him a Nazi.
RIX wrote:
some self-discipline is required to make money.
my my my
The Imperial College epidemiologist who came up with the crap models that he won’t let anyone peer-review because it’s written in “tens of thousands of lines of C code”
Imperial College scientist Neil Ferguson QUITS his role as top government advisor after ‘breaking lockdown to see his married lover’ despite warning Boris Johnson that 500,000 Britons would DIE if the strict rules were not enforced
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8289921/Scientist-advice-led-lockdown-QUITS-breaking-restrictions-meet-married-lover.html
@ eaglesoars:
If it isn’t peer reviewed it’s worthless
eaglesoars wrote:
Right and there is too much dysfunction on most of the reservations.
YES!!
WASHINGTON(Reuters) – The Trump administration is drafting a legal blueprint for mining on the moon under a new U.S.-sponsored international agreement called the Artemis Accords, people familiar with the proposed pact told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-exploration-moon-mining-exclusi-idUSKBN22H2SB
eaglesoars wrote:
Word of warning, don’t make the mining operations prison colonies. Just ask Heinlein
This is from the AP’s White House reporter about 20 mins ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized with infection.
https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1257832609083789312
Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized at Johns Hopkins with gallbladder infection
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-hospitalized-at-johns-hopkins-with-gallbladder-infection
@ eaglesoars:
very odd diagnosis
@ eaglesoars:
@ coldwarrior:
Oh, she has a choli. Nothing major.
@ coldwarrior:
She’s been thru a lot. Whatever her political proclivities, she’s a woman of remarkable achievement. And Scalia adored her, so…………….
You know, for all the prophecy gurus, astrologers, etc., I don’t think any of them clued in to what a clusterfuck 2020 is turning out to be.
Those ‘murder hornets’.
This is how big they are.
https://twitter.com/MikeOHearn/status/1257793541155065857
Oh HERE it is! Bookmark this. How to make a tuna sandwich. From scratch.
6 months.
How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
about 3 minutes.
I’m out,nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
See above’
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Wasn’t there some suspicion about supply restrictions and price fixing going on ?
LOADS of cheap meat but the slaughter houses had labour supply chain problems, either Covid or man made?
coldwarrior wrote:
Very true. In NZ there is a mix of robots and slaughter men, boners and associated workers. Robots do a great job but you need lots of throughput or they take down time to change from one product to another. That is where humans fit in well. They can change immediately and can do short runs when needed.
There are places for both robots and humans within the meat supply chain.
Best is humans aided slaughter lines. The degree of mechanisation really helps the humans to be VERY productive.
eaglesoars wrote:
Fergie was just trying to ‘do his bit’ …. with his bit on the side…..
You never know when you might need an extra 500,000 replacement humans!
Fergie was just keeping his side up!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
Hmmmm You’ve read that book as well!
🙂
Does NOT end well.