Herr Wolf has just tipped his hand.
Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday he is talking with professional sports leagues about holding events in Pennsylvania, but he doesn’t believe residents will be completely comfortable going back to pre-pandemic normalcy until there is a coronavirus vaccine.
“Ultimately, I think what it’s going to take for everybody to feel safe going to a Penn State game or a basketball game is they have some confidence that they’re not going to get sick by being in close contact with somebody else,” he said during a call with reporters.
He said going back to “normal” will hinge on Pennsylvanians feeling fully and truly safe.
“I think that’s what it’s going to take to really get our economy back to normal, and I really think that can’t happen fully, 100%, until we have a vaccine that is foolproof,” Wolf said…“I think what it’s going to take to get people back to big events – indeed, what it’s going to take to get people back to shopping, to work , to school – is going to be, ultimately, a vaccine,” Wolf said. “Some assurance they’re not going to get sick.”
Ummmmm, no. This has gone on entirely to far.
END THE LOCKDOWN: Pennsylvania Has More COVID-19 Deaths Over Age 100 than Under Age 45
This ceased to be about public health/safety very early on. Its a power grab, a way to try to destroy Trump, and a way toward voter fraud. It’s that simple.
Completely useless but interesting statistic: We took 19600 alarm calls last week. Average response time 23 seconds.
I’ve had my first two days on the phone, and things went pretty well. Last couple days in the classroom today and tomorrow, I get a three day weekend, and then work eight days 630 in the morning to 3 PM.
And I’m getting another bout of getting logged out of the site anytime I leave.
Eagles – answering your question from below:
My favorite book is “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
But my favorite movie is still “All About Eve.”
BART better redo the train schedule soon. This morning at 6:00 a.m. there were five people standing on my BART car (you aren’t supposed to share a seat, but standing right over someone is okay, I guess). When they first went to 30-minute intervals, there were maybe five people on the same train.
CW – who is our hosting service here?
I’m getting hammered with paperwork again – but I just wanted to remind everyone about the gestapo state that supposedly can’t happen here. That gym – in NJ, I beleive – that opened – all of a sudden the sewer backed up into the place. No other facility in the mall had that happen. And then the health dept showed up and shut them down.
@ The Barbarian:
I think your blog name should somehow reflect the sentiments of what you found compelling about your favorite book.
@ eaglesoars:
Nothing suspicious about that.
////////
Papers, please…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/449180-experts-say-the-u-s-needs-300000-contact-tracers/#disqus_thread
right_wing2 wrote:
no, not ‘Papers, please’. Learn this
Haben sie ihr Papiere?
and the appropriate response
verpiss dich (I think, I never actually learned the vulgar stuff)
We need to start a contest for the most convenient mishap among one’s enemies or something
Chechen Leader Kadyrov Hospitalized With Coronavirus in Moscow
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/05/21/chechen-leader-kadyrov-hospitalized-with-coronavirus-in-moscow-reports-a70339
because where else would he go?
Pigs are flying. This is from REUTERS of all places
Divided by COVID-19: Democratic U.S. areas hit three times as hard as Republican ones
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-divided/divided-by-covid-19-democratic-u-s-areas-hit-three-times-as-hard-as-republican-ones-idUSKBN22X14I
eaglesoars wrote:
Only in Germany. In Austria we have more fanatasy and a more colorful dialect 😛
“putz di”, “drah di”, “zupf di”, “schleich di”, “schwing di”, “hau di über die Häuser” to quote only some of them…..
@ eaglesoars:
KCRA (Sacramento NBC station) was reporting that Democrats are even fed up with Newsom and the Legislature and their handling of this. Football Savant Offspring had an old friend stop by last night and wanted to talk politics of all things with ME. Said that he was joining the WalkAway movement. The way the media was lying about this epidemic and seeing how Trump wanted to get everyone back and making money and doing well convinced him to join the MAGA ranks.
And Flyboy cracks me up.
“Keep the same name! Just get rid of the cartoon delivery!”
Senate has confirmed Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Tex) as new director of national intelligence. I certainly hope he has plans to keep Grennell in a position to cause the Democrats as much heartburn as possible.
I’m not familiar with Ratcliffe. Anyone have the 4-1-1 on him? Will he keep up the pressure Grennell has been applying?
@ Guggi:
putz di!
That rings a bell! I have no idea where I would have stumbled on it but I have. But ‘Hit the houses’??? That one escapes me.
The Barbarian wrote:
I believe it’s ‘all systems go’ on Ratcliffe.
May I ask how old your son’s friend is?
eaglesoars wrote:
@ eaglesoars:
49. He was formerly a neighbor down the street that my son got to know through another friend. I was pretty impressed.
@ The Barbarian:
49??!!! I thought you were going to say 25 or something! Jesus, he’s way too old to be that dumb.
eaglesoars wrote:
Not “hit the houses” but “shove off! over the houses” 😛
“hau(en)” doesn’t only mean to hit. It can e.g. also mean to put on the clothes (I hau mi ins Gwand) or to go away (also in Germany: hau ab! – go away or Shove off!) or “I hau mi o” (Ich haue mich ab) means laughing with a bit of Schadenfreude.
eaglesoars wrote:
Also brings the lie to what that fraud Wolf is saying in the article at the top of the page. All the areas that are opening up are Republican areas and they are having lower COVID numbers AND are rebounding economically.
People aren’t scared (at least not the sane ones) you open up, people will come back. THey aren’t waiting for Wolf’s miracle vaccine. They want to go back to normal. They are ready to strangle the next person that uses the bullshit buzzword of “new normal”.
Don’t know what happened to the format here. Maybe need to update the WP. Guess it’s the new normal.
hang them
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/21/doj-democrats-paid-pennsylvania-election-officials-to-stuff-ballot-box/
Bunk X wrote:
i have changed nothing and the updates are all done.
dont know what else to do
he can have his yinzer card back if he pulls this off.
https://triblive.com/local/pittsburgh-allegheny/mark-cuban-says-hes-trying-to-buy-the-o-in-oakland/
the ‘dirty o’ is a sacred space.
Bunk X wrote:
It wasn’t the fault of dat dirty dingus, then?
https://twitter.com/DemGovs/status/1263209128748437505
The Left Can’t Meme-meme is really trending! lol
The Bee can meme, though…
https://mobile.twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1263511156167147520
The court of appeals has just told Sullivan to get his act together
the United States Court of Appeals has ruled that Judge Emmet Sullivan must hear the emergency writ of mandamus ordering that he vacate the charges against General Flynn. The order comes from Judges Henderson, Wilkins, and Rao of the D.C. Court of Appeals.
w/in 10 days
https://www.sebgorka.com/breaking-news-flynn-judge-ordered-to-listen-to-mandamus-request/
this should be fun to watch. The mayor of Baltimore just told Trump to stay home because the city is still shut down
Baltimore’s mayor is asking Pres. Trump to reconsider his Memorial Day trip to Fort McHenry as the city remains under a stay-at-home order.
“That Pres. Trump is deciding to pursue non-essential travel send the wrong message to our residents….”
https://twitter.com/ChloeSalsameda/status/1263539830505402368
*snort*
Guggi wrote:
That is the only thing you said that I know. This is the problem with learning a language in just the classroom.
Oh that’s funny – I went for a new Gravatar and it populated over here, too!
coldwarrior wrote:
I haven’t noticed anything different, Bunk. Can someone enlighten me?
oh wow. Here’s the court order re Sullivan. The last line reads: The government is invited to respond
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1263545357318971394
@ eaglesoars:
Gorka has it wrong. The Court of Appeals has told Sullivan he must RESPOND to the Writ. Meaning he needs to file a response in writing justifying his absurd posture on the dismissal of this matter. DoJ, as another party in interest, is also invited to submit a brief. My guess is that one will be short and sweet: “The Department of Justice advises this court that it JOINS the Petitioner in the relief sought in this Emergency Writ of Mandamus.” Sullivan is going to have to justify his preposterous re-writing of the Federal Code of Criminal Procedure. Good luck with that, Sparky.
This is incredibly fast decision by a rather diverse 3-judge panel: Henderson was appointed by Bush 43, Wilkins by Obama and Rao by Trump.
The Barbarian wrote:
Yes, I think Gorka was in a hurry himself.
This is so much fun!
Whitmer is trying to tell Trump he has ‘a legal responsibility to wear a mask while in Michigan’.
One of these days he’s going to slip and say ‘fuck off’ around a hot mic
@ eaglesoars:
So did the AG. She was immediately asked what LAW required wearing a mask.
You’re right – this IS so much fun!!
Hot damn! I got DISQUS to work at the website!
This is promising.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/elections/betting_odds/2020_president/
he is at +8.5 right now. thats a touchdown and a field goal at home.
Reporter: Mr. President, why did you decide not to wear a mask?
Trump: “Well, I did. I had one on before. I wore one in this back area. But I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1263565638712377348
eaglesoars wrote:
i doubt that it would be a slip. this is going to get so much fun over the next 5 months
The Barbarian wrote:
wooohooo!!!!!!
@ coldwarrior:
Hopefully I can figure out how to bring my post here with a referral back here so that you can catch a break and I can get a little traffic…..if not I can always repost.
@ The Barbarian:
oh…you asked who hosts us. its godaddy.
their customer/tech service is really good and they know their stuff
afternoon y’all
@ The Barbarian:
love the new look
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8339837/Government-scientist-says-2m-social-distancing-rule-based-fragile-evidence.html
But the distance may be a non-scientific estimate that just caught on in countries around the world, as top researchers say there is not solid evidence to back it up.
Other nations have cut their rules down to a 1m gap, which advocates say could help businesses get back to work faster and help to kick-start the economy.
@ rain of lead:
People on Twitter, et al. kept mistaking me for a guy. I figured the Cindy Brady braids would give them a clue.
dayum
Flynn’s lawyers sharply criticized Sullivan’s handling of the case.
It accused Sullivan of being “an umpire who has decided to steal public attention from the players and focus it on himself. He wants to pitch, bat, run bases, and play shortstop.”
@ The Barbarian:
this would really confuse em’
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vXkjLIk9cOg/T_ZD-aapmWI/AAAAAAAADZ0/_56dyglmgLE/s1600/whatsoperadoc+(14).jpg
buys popcorn futures
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
THREAD:
This week, in light of discovering that Facebook has granted a former
@CNN
editor of 26 years, “fact-checker” status to censor and ban conservative accounts, I engaged Covington Catholic lawyer
@ToddMcMurtry
to go after
@Facebook
…
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1262512847281668099
test
@ The Barbarian:
Regarding your question about whether Ratcliffe has the cajones – this is a 4 minute beat down of Mueller. It is glorious
https://twitter.com/thebradfordfile/status/1263519806495612928
Minnesota, New Jersey Churches Announce They Will Ignore Fascist Tyrants’ Decrees and Reopen
—Ace
http://ace.mu.nu/
Phil Murphy murdered thousands of elderly citizens by ordering their nursing homes to be filled with people known to be infected with COVID-19 and contagious. And he knew he was deliberately infecting the only group at serious risk of death due to the disease.
So yeah — let’s do all the things this murderous fascist tells us to.
Minnesota churches say, very sensibly, that they will not remained locked down while the state permits malls and casinos to open.
I know I should have known better but Google is playing games again. I made the mistake of using them to search for Trumps letter to WHO. 5 pages in and I hadn’t found a single result from a conservative site, NOR DID I FIND A LINK TO THE ACTUAL TWEET WITH THE LETTER. The law of averages says that it is absolutely impossible taking normal searching into account. They are either using an algorithm or human intervention to weed out results from conservative sites and Trump’s Twitter account.
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
seriously? I got about 479k results including the WH copy of the letter
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Tedros-Letter.pdf
Here is an interesting analysis on the court’s order to Sullivan on the writ of mandamus.
The court ORDERED Sullivan to respond and SULLIVAN personally.
The court could have invited or asked or looked for an amicus but it didn’t.
Bascially, it’s the judicial form of “Get your ass in here and explain yourself NOW
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1263588369918906373.html“
@ lobo91:
48 hr rule on that one.
@ coldwarrior:
Well, poop.
Tried updating my bookmark. Nada.
This is the sweetest thing ever. The look on her face at about the 9 sec mark…
https://twitter.com/QTAnon1/status/1263398549774950400
eaglesoars wrote:
Weird, yeah my first five pages are filled with nothing but the major news agencies, and crap like environmental news and such. Didn’t get any conservative news agencies or the original letter. My search term was “Trump letter to world health”.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
Truly, the next time I see or hear someone use the words “social distancing” I am going to harm someone.
wut?
South Carolina election ballots reportedly found in Maryland this week
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/south-carolina-election-ballots-reportedly-found-in-maryland-this-week
The neighborhood app on my phone is vomiting crap about how we all should vote absentee and we have to apply NOW (this is for primary stuff) and I’m like – fuck you, I’m going to the polling place.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
When this first came out, this was touted as the Satan Bug (interesting book BTW) and the whole idea was to not overwhelm the hospital system. People are now seeing that this is the equivalent of another flu epidemic and not the fourth horseman of the apocalypse and are royally Pi$$ed that the goalposts keep getting moved. After not overwhelming the system, it was flattening the curve, and now it’s “when there is a vaccine”
eaglesoars wrote:
No mayor, that is sending exactly the right message to your
serfsresidents@ AZfederalist:
And who is she to decide what presidential travel is “non-essential”?
eaglesoars wrote:
Oh geez. Haven’t these idiots learned yet that you do not challenge Trump?
lobo91 wrote:
you wouldn’t believe how many karens there are. On my neighborhood app one woman is bitching because she saw 4 boys playing soccer in a field and they were touching the ball and didn’t the HOA send out guidance on this?
I had to control myself. I just hope she has a horrible life and an unexpected death.
@ rain of lead:
her comment about how social media companies are influencing elections is spot on. They are either neutral platforms and therefor public businesses or they are partisan businesses providing in-kind support to one political party. In the latter case, they need to declare that they are and file with the FEC
AZfederalist wrote:
The left feels it now has the perfect “invisible enemy” they can fight until “orange man bad” is removed from office. Then Slow Joe takes over, they open everything up, economy recovers, they take credit, boom, victory for leftist policies and they can use it over and over for all eternity.
eaglesoars wrote:
You got that right. The best way is through total emersion where you learn by doing and listening and putting context to things. The way babies learn except you almost always learn the naughty words first!
Even better way to learn is to fall in love with someone who speaks no English. GUARANTEED to work everytime
‘
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
Not sure I would have your admirable self control Eagles!
🙂
eaglesoars wrote:
STASI Bitch would be a good place to begin and then get REALLY worked up!
HEH!
🙂
@ Aussie Infidel:
I used to wonder how the Holocaust happened. I don’t anymore.
time for Willow’s bedtime meds and I am out.
nite.
eaglesoars wrote:
Apparently there are some people whose personal lives are so drear that they live to lord it over others and to serve as informers because it gives their miserable little lives a spark of meaning.. Then there are some who are true believers who fall for everything the media tells them, they are the ones who freak out when they see people who aren’t doing exactly what the media and government is telling everyone to do. They are the Karens and Karls who are getting in peoples’ faces and going high order when they see someone outside or without a mask.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/21/philadelphia-judge-of-elections-pleads-guilty-to-committing-election-fraud-to-help-democrats/
Biden has apparently asked Sen Amy Klobuchar to undergo vetting as possible VP candidate.
@ rain of lead:
I thought vote fraud was a myth. A conservative lie. And racist.
Joe Biden Beats Trump In The Polls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=eZ4euLAqi-E&feature=emb_logo
Allegheny Health Network officials announced that AHN and two affiliates are laying off about 380 employees, mostly as the result of the covid-19 pandemic.
layoffs in mrs coldwarrior’s hospital system because of the flu…which drives a LACK of patients/customers because of purposeful bad policy. on day one they immediately cancelled all elective procedures and dr visits and then bad mouthed my system for not being on the ship of fools like they were.
my health system, which is run 1000% better has laid off no one because we told the governor to blow it out his ass and continued to do elective procedures.
AZfederalist wrote:
this gives these people a feeling of power and a feeling of control. their personality types strive for this. are there some mental health issues there, yinz bet.
@ coldwarrior:
and i bet next, this poorly run system (owned by highmark bc/bs) will demand a tax payer funded bailout.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/stock-market-rising-us-china-tensions-will-hit-financial-markets.html
Keep an eye on this.
rain of lead wrote:
That’s funny! 😆
coldwarrior wrote:
I think Hong Kong is pretty much gone. But THIS is dangerous, because desperate people are dangerous
While economists say China’s economic data can’t always be trusted, they now have a new dilemma – there is no data.
On Friday, China said it wouldn’t be setting a target for economic growth for this year.
That’s unprecedented – the Chinese government hasn’t done this since it began publishing such goals in 1990.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52754782?at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&at_medium=custom7&at_campaign=64&at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=64CBD136-9C26-11EA-9324-38CCFCA12A29&at_custom2=twitter
rain of lead wrote:
Voter fraud by a Donkey? Say it ain’t so!!
@ rightymouse:
Racist/sexist/homophobic.
Ben Carson said he’s not going to be pushing contact tracing because people:
-don’t trust the gov’t
-don’t trust the science
-consider it an invasion of privacy
Somebody who gets it………..
I just don’t understand why people don’t trust the gov’t or the science
The CDC has new rules for summer camps
** Only children of essential workers
** Staggered drop off
** PPE and Face Masks
** No field trips
** Close the playgrounds
** Close the dining halls
** Keep the children in small groups
I didn’t know the CDC had any jurisdiction over summer camps but……..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/pure-insanity-cdc-announces-new-rules-summer-camps-ppe-facemasks-no-dining-halls-admitting-covid-19-less-deadly-kids-flu/?
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/05/22/joe-biden-you-aint-black-if-you-dont-back-me-over-trump/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-put-yall-back-in-chains/
Note: Chains = Jobs and economic viability.
@ eaglesoars:
Their claims of economic growth have always been lies anyway. They count giant empty malls and office buildings they built as economic activity and growth. They keep their people busy doing pointless building and point to it as growth and development. Meanwhile there are still Chinese farmers using donkey carts and trying to eat dirt. They’re heartless commies that view humans as “problems” to be dealt with. Dead ones are easier than live ones. And outsiders are someone to be manipulated and lied to.
@ Koko:
All true, and they’re really good at racking up the dead ones.
Their debt bomb is huge. The countries they’ve enslaved via OBOR couldn’t help them out if they wanted because China has impoverished them via debt. Their demographics suck, and the only thing they have to offer all those excess males is – military/war. I have no doubt they will be happy to practice on Hong Kong. And, of course, they have zero issues with seeding the enemy with disease, so there’s that. They really are a plague
eaglesoars wrote:
Carson is a wonderful human being.
eaglesoars wrote:
Our NextDoor app is rife with Karens, too. There was a long thread about “dangerous scofflaws” heedlessly ignoring social distancing fiats by walking or jogging too close to people on the sidewalks and paths. I couldn’t stop myself from posting a snide remark about this “scold of Karens,” which garnered several outraged shrieks from the Karens and their hen-pecked hubbies. However, there were about a dozen laughing emojis and thank yous from other people, so we Free People won this round.
@ rightymouse:
yeppers!
rightymouse wrote:
Excellent!
@ rightymouse:
I first saw him at an Amway convention around 25 years ago. He told his life story. Single mom, little brother he felt protective of, scared on the mean urban streets walking home. He realized he could have been just another statistic and came close when his bad temper caused him to attack a friend (ironically) with a knife. Luckily his aim was off. I don’t remember exactly how he ended up in medicine but his hands are a gift from God (if you believe in such things). He has famously separated conjoined twins and saved children operating on their brains. 22 hour operations are just what one does to save lives. Amazing and brilliant person.
Absolutely nobody should be surprised by this
HEY – BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD THE NEW APPLE OPERATING SYSTEM (13.5) READ THIS: YOUR PHONE WILL BECOME AN AUTOMATED CONTACT TRACER. (Yes, you have to opt in. Once.) https://covid19-static.cdn-apple.com/applications/covid19/current/static/contact-tracing/pdf/ExposureNotification-FAQv1.1.pdf
https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1263833728482258948
https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/05/22/joe-biden-you-aint-black-if-you-dont-back-me-over-trump/
@ Breitbart
Biden is so down with the struggle. “If ya can’t figure out if you’re voting for me or Trump ya ain’t black”
He is writing Trump Campaign ads.
Not trying to be a nattering nabob of negativity or anything, I know you guys are dealing with enough already besides some quirky blog nonsense, but just FYI and I’ll shut up about it: the site wouldn’t let me see the last couple of posts and their comments starting last night, and continuing this morning until a few minutes ago. This is on my phone — the laptop works fine. Tried clearing the cache, history and restarting numerous times. Then, as if by magic, it’s working fine now. Mostly, I blame Possum. The cats are doing something on his keyboard. Too many cats.
RIX wrote:
Incredibly racist!!
I like that his campaign advisors are telling him to strongly consider bringing in Lieawatha as his VP choice. They HATE each other, and she’s only popular with a thin slice of maroons who think appropriating Native American lineage to boost your career is fine and dandy. Do it, Sniffy!
uh oh
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS SEE VIRUS DESIGN MANIPULATION:
A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/21/australian-researchers-see-virus-design-manipulati/
@ Octopus:
Yeah because it’s proven jogging paths are a death trap of COVID.
I tend to focus on things I can control. Like wearing a mask as a courtesy to store workers. Having a disinfectant wipe handy, throwing away any bags food comes in, disinfecting everything with warm soapy water before it makes it past the inner garage door, immediately washing all outer clothing worn at stores (garage to washing machine). Other people make their own decisions. As long as they aren’t TRYING to infect me I respect their personal right to decide how to proceed. Masks are a pain in the ass (and fog my glasses) and some I notice dispense with the whole thing. Their choice. It’s the best we can do.
eaglesoars wrote:
Ya think so? I’ve been telling my husband that the virus stinks of bio-warfare.
“Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19: why might they be hazardous?”
(…)
Verified data from an international registry comprising 671 hospitals in six continents were used to compare patients with COVID-19 who received chloroquine (n=1868), hydroxychloroquine (n=3016), chloroquine with a macrolide (n=3783), or hydroxychloroquine with a macrolide (n=6221) within 48 h of COVID-19 diagnosis, with 81 144 controls who did not receive these drugs. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality and the occurrence of de-novo non-sustained or sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation was also analysed. A Cox proportional hazard model accounting for many confounding variables, including age, sex, ethnicity, comorbidities, other medications, and COVID-19 severity, showed a significant increase in the risk of in-hospital mortality with the four treatment regimens compared with the control group (hazard ratios [HRs] of 1·335 [95% CI 1·223–1·457] to 1·447 [1·368–1·531]). Analyses using propensity score matching by treatment group supported this result. The increased risk of in-hospital mortality was similar in men (1·293 [1·178–1·420] to 1·408 [1·309–1·513]) and women (1·338 [1·169–1·531] to 1·494 [1·334–1·672]). The incidence of repetitive ventricular arrhythmias ranged from 4·3% to 8·1% in patients treated with a 4-aminoquinoline, compared with 0·3% in the control group (p<0·0001)."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31174-0/fulltext
@ rightymouse:
Nice long period between infection and manifestation of symptoms…check.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/22/fact-check-joe-biden-did-not-call-for-country-to-be-shut-down-one-week-earlier/
Aside from his bizarre racist remarks in this same interview with Charlemagne the God (Is this name supposed to be clever? Or just more ignorant hip hop black posturing? Charlemagne was considered the Father of Europe, a king, not a God.) Biden claimed he advised the country be shut down a week earlier than Trump. A complete lie, of course. All of his reasonable suggestions were already done by the Trump/Pence team when he said them. And he’s shown his left wing pandering leads him to bad decisions. Such as accusing Trump of xenophobia and racism for blocking infected Chinese from traveling to the US. And to add insult to injury he claims to have been a major player in the 0bungle admin which left the country unprepared for a pandemic. And everyone really knows Biden was chosen VP so 0bungle could reassure minorities that those scary old white men are really just bumbling old buffoons. Punchlines and the convenient butt of jokes.
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
Yep.
@ rightymouse:
Maybe stinks of bio-weapon experimentation. But gone horribly wrong. They decimated a capital city of one of their provinces. I view their attempts to hide it the real criminal act. Hoping they could contain it with no one noticing. By eschewing outside help they doomed many of their own Chinese citizens. And of course infecting the whole world with it. Crimes against humanity for political and economic concerns. And frankly hoping to avoid loss of face. They talk a big shot game of being a world power, but brought down by either scientific ineptitude or third world dirty food habits. The achilles heel of totalitarian dictatorship. With thugs in charge might makes right. Which is why they steal when others (like say, the Japanese) innovate.
Koko wrote:
Ironic that a highly-skilled neurosurgeon missed with his first knife. Also ironic, and racist, is how the Idiot Left MSM refuses to call him “Dr. Ben Carson, almost every time they refer to him. I mean, they really, really hate him for leaving their plantation.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/22/doctors-push-for-climate-change-to-be-recorded-on-death-certificates/
What? Are they trying to save time on recording the details? Let’s just say the climate killed them. That’s not going to be really helpful health data going forward. But hey! It will get me to shrimp on the barbee (You leave Barbie out of this!) and popping some cold ones with Javeliner and Trevlan.
LOL!!
https://youtu.be/bV3tfauw3vQ
@ Guggi:
I sense a whole bunch of confounding variables
Octopus wrote:
LOL. That’s probably worth a screencap.
Every weekday morning the missus and her friend walk for exercise in a large open park. Yesterday a male Karen walked by and scolded, “Masks, ladies.”
The missus now knows about the meme. Next time it happens they’ll respond in unison, “Thank you, Karen.”
Octopus wrote:
“A scold of Karens” is the perfect description. Kudos to whoever(you?) authored the meme.
@ Bunk X:
That is brilliant
@ Bunk X:
What name is a male Karen?
It has to be something hipster soy
@ coldwarrior:
A Karen may be male, female or other. The descriptive is non-sexist.
Off to our daily WebEx meeting. I just realized that I’ve already completed all the meeting notes for the month of May.
Bunk X wrote:
I was unaware.
http://gomerpedia.org/wiki/Karen_Weaselsnout-Jones
Another Karen. 🙂
Got a rare email from Opilio. He/she says howdy.
@ eaglesoars:
What do you do to opt out?
Guggi wrote:
w/o zinc, it’s total garbage. And given it’s the Lancet, garbage is about what I would expect.
Trump Cautioned on Imposing Oil Tariffs
https://www.rigzone.com/news/trump_cautioned_on_imposing_oil_tariffs-22-may-2020-162172-article/
Perhaps the threat will be enough, but the unwillingness to accept any short term pain is disappointing from so many conservative signatories.
Whether right or wrong in this instance, I fear that the general attitude expressed in the letter can be roughly applied to any other market in efforts to, say, decouple from China regarding, say, electronics or pharmaceuticals.
right_wing2 wrote:
Don’t use an iPhone
coldwarrior wrote:
I thought it was decided on ‘Brad’ for the male version (someone named Brad on twitter said something stupid, I’ve forgotten what)
@ eaglesoars:
Hadn’t heard that. I missed the memo.
Bunk X wrote:
An alternative is, “a whine of Karens.” Wish I had authored those, but I saw them somewhere.
Also, I’ve seen the male-version, as “Karl.”
rightymouse wrote:
Why, I was just on a blog the other day where one of the commenters told me only Republicans commit vote fraud.
/Granted, it was probably a Soros-paid troll, but still …
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, that certainly sounds fun. Is that Summer Camp or Summer Gulag?
@ AZfederalist:
Gulag Archipelago…fun on the CDC islands
A snivel of Karls.
https://issuesinsights.com/2020/05/22/no-matter-who-biden-picks-his-running-mate-will-be-a-karen/
I think Trump just said that if the governors don’t open the churches tomorrow he will.
Octopus wrote:
I like it!
@ eaglesoars:
yep. he did.
…houses of worship are essential and are to open right now, call me with any questions…
he cracks me up
😆
eaglesoars wrote:
Second place was “a caution of Karls.” Because Karl has to watch his ass around Karen.
And then there’s Brad, that sorry sack. A bleat of Brads.
coldwarrior wrote:
You have to love that The Donald has managed to position himself as the God-fearing guy, given all the skirt-chasing he’s done most of his life. The Left can’t possibly get more deranged and apoplectic about him…can they?
Bunk X wrote:
I believe it was Instapundit.
Octopus wrote:
A solitary Karl is a measle.
Oh. My. God.
Today’s Ass Kicking by Kayleigh:
She brings a power point presentation to show them what real journalists would be asking about re Obamagate.
https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1263903579091369986
“Any questions?”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-doctors-say-theyve-seen-more-deaths-from-suicide-than-coronavirus-since-lockdowns
rightymouse wrote:
That’s where I first saw “Karen” being used.
Bunk X wrote:
Just saw that link at Instapundit. Trump has been very vocal about suicide since the shutdown.
Amy Klobuchar’s husband was saved by poison.
https://www.lifezette.com/2020/05/senator-amy-klobuchar-reluctantly-admits-hydroxychloroquine-saved-her-husbands-life/
I would pay money to watch this guy get drop kicked off the Washington monumen
Wray orders internal investigation into whether any *current* FBI employees engaged in misconduct in Michael Flynn probe.
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1263929038902571009
coldwarrior wrote:
Karl
Octopus wrote:
Yes!
@ AZfederalist:
Well, crap WorpedDress was screwing up. That was in response to your “Snivel of Karls” post
@ AZfederalist:
that puts in mind of an old german philosopher guy
kyle, kael, kameron, kade, kaleb….
she is da bomb
https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ive-run-out-of-superlatives-for-kayleigh-mcenany-this-is-incredible/
eaglesoars wrote:
😆
you dont really expect anyone to answer for any of this, do you?
coldwarrior wrote:
Lol!
“ For those who would complain that our editorial is sexist, we counter that with, one, Biden limited himself when he promised to choose a female running mate, so there are no men to criticize, and, two, there are male Karens out there, they just don’t have a name yet. We suggest Barack. “
Our local restaurant/bar we fondly call “Biker Bar” was totally open for business when I drove by this afternoon. The parking lot was crammed. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
rightymouse wrote:
A gal I work with is celebrating her birthday today by driving down to Toledo so she can enjoy a meal and a couple of beers among other humans. I suspect a lot of other Michiganders are going to do likewise this holiday weekend.
Octopus wrote:
Octo – sounds great! DeWine has caught a lot of crap for being such a p**sy. He’s backed down quite a bit.
This one is pathological
DETROIT FREE PRESS: Gov. Gretchen Whitmer extends Michigan stay home order to June 12
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Friday extended her stay-at-home order past its scheduled May 28 expiration to June 12, adding that public venues such as theaters, gyms and casinos would remain closed.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/22/stay-at-home-order-extended-gretchen-whitmer/5245517002/
@ eaglesoars:
Too late.
eaglesoars wrote:
This will hurt Michigan business severely. I smell political retribution in the air. Possibly real street violence.
I need to bring the BP down a little. This crazy skank just ruined my evening.
https://youtu.be/xpNrn0_97LM
Octopus wrote:
which I suspect is what she wants.
I understand she opened the UP because she’s throwing her daughter a party or something. Graduation, I think
Another Larkin Poe video shot in Megan’s spare bedroom:
I just read a heart wrenching post from a woman in Midland Michigan, they are begging governor Whitmer to open up hotels so people can have decent rooms, showers and food while their homes are underwater in ruin. Guess what her answer is NOPE! She said the shelters are just fine.
https://twitter.com/PerspicaciousXY/status/1263943958000029696
eaglesoars wrote:
AAAAARRRGGHHH!!!
People are furious here. She’s punched her ticket. One term governor, which is rare in Michigan.
Ex-Gov Jennifer Granholm: “And you all thought I was a shit governor!”
Octopus wrote:
why should she finish the term? Where is the legislature? She is literally putting people is life-threatening situations. The temp in Midland right now is 68. It’s not warm and there I’m betting the capacity of whatever shelters there are isn’t enough to handle 11k homeless people in one fell swoop.
@ Octopus:
she is doing what she is told so she can move on in her career
So the girl and a couple of friends are having an end of year bonfire burning all their old school papers
https://shop.donaldjtrump.com/products/youaintblack-tee
Joe Biden has destroyed millions of Black American lives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=4hht0HKECNk&feature=emb_logo
rain of lead wrote:
Is she a senior this year?
rain of lead wrote:
Sounds like fun! I wish I could do a bonfire in the backyard, with all my tree branches and yard waste from the past year. Nope! No bonfires or such within the city limits, unless you have five or more acres.
@ eaglesoars:
just ended her Jr year
she will be a senior in the fall…if they even have freakin school
and that on-line crap is some BULLSHIT!!!
eaglesoars wrote:
Lancet has been politicised for over a decade or more. It was one of the leaders in the fake news of dying polar bears due to global warming and supported the graphic of an emaciated polar bear standing on a tiny iceberg.
You will also notice at the beginning of the Lancet paper where they give themselves an escape clause that you could drive a truck through in their admitted sample selection of hospitalised patients with serious and life threatening exposures to Cover -19. They dare not tread anywhere where this mix of drugs … inclyuding Zinc Sulphate is used as a Therapeutic. Tat might give them an answer they were NOT looking for and we can’t have that can we? We need to scare the folks and keep them untreated and scared so that we maintain our newly found power over them
SPIT
@ Octopus:
RECALL IN MI !
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I remember when it gave out civilian death counts in Iraq that were rubbish. They took the 1st Battle of Fallujah and extrapolated over the entire country.
That’s right up the with Neil Ferguson’s ‘model’
rain of lead wrote:
I agree, that on-line crap is not what we pay steep property-taxes for in America. In my incredibly humble opinion, they should just assign a couple of GOOD books per week, to be read and reviewed in 100 words or less, and be done with it. The theorems, chemistry and physics stuff can wait until the brazen overlords tire of their pseudo-hegemony, or get strung up by their balls, whatever comes first. Those who don’t read the books or buy their reviews online, it’s all good, man. Fuck you, stupids.
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I have the makings of a solid rabble in my garage, with lots of torch-making material, a couple of pitchforks, and some shovels. Let’s roll!
@ Octopus:
We all have to say f you in our own way. I’m required to wear a mask at work, and in my setting it’s just for optics and the scolds. So I wear one with a valve. And, I lol through my day.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90496717/what-is-a-mask-valve-and-why-are-cities-banning-them
coldwarrior wrote:
You’re right, sir. Her campaign was funded by the DNC, and she is completely beholden to those shitbirds. At the same time, she is a ferociously-ambitious person, who has her eye on the Big Prize. You’ll be hearing more from Big Gretch, in the coming years.
Okay, so the missus wants me to find a good Netflix series to watch on Saturdays nights. Our taste runs along these lines:
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
Walking Dead
Bloodline
The Norsemen
No GoThrones, Ozark, Peaky Blinders. The Irishman sucked.
Suggestions?
@ Bunk X:
Bosch
Octopus wrote:
Hopefully from the Big House
@ Calo:
It might have been on Primetime though.
Calo wrote:
Hi Calo — Oh, the effin’ masks! I’ve been WFH, and my kids have been doing most of the grocery shopping (we pay for theirs, so we’re “even” on that) so it hasn’t been a thing for me as much, but today I went on an extended shopping trip for hardware and food where I had to employ both the mask and my reading glasses. It was warm and raining, so the humidity was through the roof, and all over my specs. By the time I finally escaped the last store, I was actually feeling faint and completely stressed. I ripped off the mask on my way to the car, and stood bent over in the rain with one hand on the trunk of my vehicle, trying to recover. I wasn’t laughing, but I was in a better mood then than I am now, after Obergruppenfuhrer Vhitmer’s latest tantrum.
My “valve” is pulling the mask away from my face when I’m in an aisle by myself, so I can suck in some oxygen and escape the feeling of hypoxia, imaginary as it may be. Not that imaginary, is my feeling.
eaglesoars wrote:
Nothing would surprise me. She has that look.
So, apparently the ADA has been suspended during the duration of this “crisis”. My disabled nephew has been denied medical services because he cannot wear one of their fraudulent non-effective masks for his ear appointment. This is even with the doctor himself saying it was perfectly fine with him. The administrative staff in charge of allowing entry refused him entry even after the doctor came down and tried to mediate.
The attorney his parents contacted just shrugged and said they have an out by saying that they just have to say he “could be” asymptomatic” and the court will give them a free pass.
Bunk X wrote:
Did you give Ozark a real chance? The series and characters really grow on most people, including the wife and I, and our kids, all of whom have different tastes.
You ever try “The Wire?” They spent a lot converting that classic series to HD, and I’m watching it again on my own — my wife won’t buy in, but I love it. I’m into the second season now, after having watched the original version off Pirate Bay as it was coming out. I’m mesmerized by it, more and more, while She, my wife Karen (I mean, Maria), is made sleepy. I love the way they cover all the different angles of Big City Issues, from the kids slinging dope in the projects to the highest echelons of political power, and also the monkeyshines of the local media whores. It’s great stuff.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
I think that sounds really ‘off’. I think they need a 2nd legal opinion. And they need to talk to that doctor privately and get his take on it.
Other series I binged and enjoyed, were “Dexter” and “Six Feet Under.” The guy who plays Dexter is a very different character in “Six Feet Under,” which was out earlier. Not sure if that matters. Another series the namby-pamby wife eschewed, was “Dexter,” for reasons of blood that you will soon find out. She loved “Six Feet Under,” as did I.
I assume you are familiar with “The Sopranos,” which started all this bingeing business. I bought a couple of seasons of that one off Ebay on VHS, trying to catch up. If you haven’t watched it by now, you need to stop everything you’re doing, including treatment, and get it done. And watch the famous last episode with an open mind, and then shut up about it forever.
@ Octopus:
Yeah, you almost have to go through the first season of Ozark a chance. It’s slow going, but worth the slogging through. Besides, what else are you going to do these evenings?
Ok, don’t answer that, Captain Kirk.
Calo wrote:
Yes! Bosch is great. I read most of the books before I watched the series, which only based the first season on anything contained in the books. Very realistic, for the most part. Bosch is a very believable character, as are most of the other characters in the show. Each season has a plotline, leading toward a climactic final act. Great TV.
Calo wrote:
We had a “Paint And Pour” evening, with the kids and their significant others. I painted a “happy little trees” mountainside with a schweet little cabin, and some sketchy characters out in front of it, around a campfire. It’s a beautiful Rembrandt, by Van Gogh. Or something. I also drank some homebrew beer and had a couple of shots of Wild Turkey. My painting wasn’t the worst of the lot, but it wasn’t the best, either — my wife and kids are kind of artsy, it turns out. My youngest painted a picture of the Sedona Spiritual Vortex that turned out better than this actual photo:
https://1a1i2y4a077t4c87vb2bsvui-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sedona-hiking-az-sedona-lg1.jpg
eaglesoars wrote:
My brother’s opinion is if it was something more than an ear appointment he’d probably push harder, as it is it isn’t worth it. The lawyer basically said that everyone is so paranoid about COVID lawsuits that they don’t really care about this kind. THey’d rather risk this kind of suit than have 100 people claiming that an unmasked kid spread COVID to everyone. Of course all sane people know exactly how likely that scenario is.
eaglesoars wrote:
Is she willing to be a martyr for the cause? Because I think any violence is going to be targeted and not general like the left does.
Octopus wrote:
How is the stay at home order allowed to stand? I thought she was limited to the number of days that emergency powers could be exercised without legislative action?
@ Bunk X:
Both of the Narcos series (the original, set in Colombia, and the Narcos: Mexico spinoff) are good. The only negative is that the Spanish-speaking characters all speak Spanish with subtitles (which is about 75% of the dialogue), so if you don’t speak Spanish, you have to really pay attention all the time.
@ AZfederalist:
She probably got a special dispensation from St. Greta Thunberg, who is apparently the newest COVID-19 expert.
On China’s penetration of the Pacific States
It sums up China’s aggressive stance and assertiveness. There is no doubt they are taking over the South Pacific. I was in Vanuatu in January and was shocked to see the extent to which it had become a Chinese satellite – almost every shop owner was Chinese and almost everything was written in Mandarin. The upshot is that even though people are keen for Chinese investments, everyone acknowledges that Chinese presence is not benign and carries a dark side that should be kept in check. China is simply not liked – even feared. Certainly not the kind of soft power that can allow China to map a serene long term future in the region. Fragile and short-sighted.
Calo wrote:
Apparently that article was written by a bunch of Karens and Karls:
Octopus wrote:
What she is doing now has national attention and not in a good way. How are the general sheeple taking her dictatorial ways?
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Wait…what? Vanuatu is still a thing? The Gorebot said that island would be totally submerged by Teh Warmening years ago. lol
AZfederalist wrote:
Even the normally-libturded readers of the libturd-Freep are writing scathing missives to the paper this evening. Big Gretch is not popular.
@ AZfederalist:
That’s the point, AZ. If the scolds say I have to wear one, what better way than to wear one which does nothing other than to say f* to scolds while looking good. Because, if I’m forced to wear one keep my job, I’m gonna find a loophole.
@ Calo:
Thanx.
@ Octopus:
With Ozark I got to the first gratuitous homo blow job and turned it off.
@ Octopus:
We’ve been watching Mind Hunters, but we’re not really hooked on it.
Chernobyl was excellent.
@ lobo91:
I think we started one of the versions, but reading TV can get tedious. Someone somewhere mentioned Ripper Street, but the missus squelched it without explanation.
This is for Possum. I didn’t name that .gif.
https://bunkstrutts.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/even-for-cats-ball-is-life.gif?w=450
Calo wrote:
I’m totally with you there. I was mocking those who wrote that article. Which, by the way, if everybody is wearing a mask, the the valve shouldn’t matter, right? Because everyone’s mask is protecting them.
Not that it matters all that much anyway. COVID is 125 nm in size. While a mask may protect from droplets dispersing, I believe the mask would be a reasonably good filter medium, and with the force of one’s breath, would propel the virus, stripped from the droplets, into the air. I mean that’s why we use filters for things – to filter out the big stuff and let the small stuff through. Not sure how small a particle microfibers would filter. But then that means you are creating an nice breeding ground right in front of your face
AZfederalist wrote:
Yeah, I sure as hell am not going to wear a mask. I’m highly susceptible to respritory infections. This is a sure way to put me in the hospital where my chances of getting COVID actually INCREASE. Damn leftists. Luckily only complete nutjobs and people who work jobs that give them no choice wear masks in my state. No orders from on high. If a business requires me to wear a mask to go there, it’s simple, I don’t go there. Luckily, my job does not require my wearing one since I work with my nephews. (THough my company did send me surgical masks and handy instructions on how to wear N95 masks, figure that one out.)
@ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
N95 are tricky. They have to be fitted under a hood while reading a paragraph as a saccharin sweet spray is instilled.
They work but require proper fitment.
@ coldwarrior:
morning cw
how ya feeling?
“We were totally stunned at first, and then we were really happy,”
https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/scientists-believe-cannabis-could-help-prevent-treat-coronavirus/
“The key thing is not that any cannabis you would pick up at the store will do the trick,” Olga told CTV, with the study suggesting just a handful of more than 800 varieties of sativa seemed to help.
All were high in anti-inflammatory CBD — but low in THC, the part that produces the cannabis high.
well damn
@ rain of lead:
The chemo has worn off…except now I have ringing and hearing loss in my left ear.
It’s a known side effect. Doc sez it might not go away.
I have no taste at all. The daily rads wiped that out. 5 more weeks of daily rads. Eating is a task to keep weight on and avoid a feeding tube. Medical marijuana helps greatly with that and fatigue.
Other than those, I feel fine but a little tired.
@ rain of lead:
Medical grade CBD is a powerful anti inflammatory. I can tell you that from first hand experience that I replicated and noted.
@ coldwarrior:
you have a good support system
politics is funny, you never know what “thing” will set people off
I think slo joe found his thing with his you ain’t black comment
the ripple effects are still growing
good thing he said it right before a major holiday
https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2020/05/23/joe-bidens-words-cut-deep-this-is-why-n2569340
https://www.domain.com.au/news/this-is-what-the-perfect-post-covid-world-would-look-like-957175/?utm_campaign=strap-masthead&utm_source=smh&utm_medium=link&utm_content=pos5&ref=pos1
Soften the proletariat up, then make them live in the plan.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/joe-biden-apologizes-for-you-aint-black-comments-i-should-not-have-been-so-cavalier
@ rain of lead:
Joe let the truth slip.
@ rain of lead:
@ coldwarrior:
Come on man, joe’s got a lunch bucket in his closet. He is all about his blackish side.
Hey, he said that Obama is clean and well spoken.
Translated ,he does not look ghetto and is not fluent in Ebonics.
Come on man, get with the deal!
Wanna do pushups.?
@ RIX:
he took out cornpop too!
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/05/22/il-gov-pritzker-says-its-not-safe-yet-to-hold-indoor-church-services-but-its-totally-ok-that-construction-workers-travel-to-his-wisconsin-horse-farm-to-build-his-new-house/
@ Twitchy
My Governor Jay Bob Pritzker is a trust fund tyrannical hypocrite.
The initials JB stand for uncles Jay and Bob. True story.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, he told , “come on man, here’s the deal”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-florida-spacex-launch
heh
question.
if a vaccine came out tomorrow, would you take it?
what if it became take it or else
Don’t expect to see any festivals, sporting events or concerts resume anytime soon — likely not until a safe and effective vaccine becomes available, according to Wolf. The statement is in line with prior remarks by Dr. Anthony Fauci of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
this guy is an ass.
rain of lead wrote:
i’m sure my employer will make it mandatory.
flu shots are mandatory as well, not because they actually give crap about health…they get massively re-reimbursed by fedgov to have 100% compliance.
a vax for a certain virus is fine, except for the fact that coronas mutate rapidly, unlike something like polio. rapid mutation renders a vax pointless.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/omg-feckless-clown-dr-fauci-now-says-staying-closed-long-cause-irreparable-damage-using-junk-model-destroy-economy/
@ GP
The irony is palpable here. Dr Fauci now says that continuing the lockdown could cause irreparable harm.
This is the same guy that journos would open a vein for. Will they support this?
rain of lead wrote:
part of the ‘lets see how far we can push the population before they revolt’
@ RIX:
they found out how far they can push, this time.
Octopus wrote:
I mentioned a whine of Karens but I’m sure it came from somewhere else. Another choice could be a bitch of Karens.
coldwarrior wrote:
This after telling us that we just need to “flatten the curve”
Now it’s only when we have a vaccine?
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah they did, and found out that they could govern my executive mandate without legislation.
Whe Governor Murphy said that”The Bill of Rights is above my pay grade” I jus thought enough of this insanity.
@ RIX:
there will be fallout, i just don’t know what it will be yet
coldwarrior wrote:
Starting to see pushback now. People are not wired to live this way.
All of this talk now about “Contact Tracers”., a legion of paid snitches.
That is exactly what Castro did after the revolution.
A lot of people willing to be professional Karen’s.
RIX wrote:
It’s fascinating to watch how they’re trying to do this. It has 2 purposes – to acclimate us to Big Brother – but also, if you look under the covers, the federal monies graft machine is humongous. One of these ‘contact tracers’ isn’t employed by the Feds. There are companies springing up to take grant money and pass some of it around to ‘tracers’ (who they are going to hire from homeless camps) and pocket the rest. It’s a great gig and if you know how the system works and can start one of these companies, you can make a fortune.
Tracing does nothing to inform decisions. Because the snapshot it provides is out of date as soon as its taken. It is worse than useless, it’s making you chase a horse that is out of the barn. Anybody who says it’s necessary is either a liar or a fool.
rain of lead wrote:
No.
coldwarrior wrote:
The rapid mutation of the virus is why I won’t take the vaccine. The one and only time I ever took the flu shot because it was an especially bad year for the flu, I caught it anyway. Then I found out that the flu shot only covers certain flu strains to begin with.
Bunk X wrote:
There isn’t a second one. lol
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2020/05/22/detroit-mayor-kwame-kilpatrick-prison-release/5242907002/
Kwame’s sprung! Hip-hop-hooray! FOR HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW…blecch.
I keep seeing stories that polls in Michigan support Whitmer. I never see the poll(s), I don’t know if it’s multiple stories about the same poll or multiple polls or what. I don’t even know if it’s true.
Anybody know anything about Michigan polls? Because I’m having a hard time believing it
eaglesoars wrote:
I’ve seen similar nonsense about support for DeWine & Dr. Acton here in Ohio. Total crap.
@ rightymouse:
oh yea. And Wolf in PA and whatisname in NJ. I think it’s total crap too
Octopus wrote:
Thank Gaia. 😯
eaglesoars wrote:
wolf has 35% on his wuhan flu policies, it was in the paper the other day
Octopus wrote:
It’s like my Harley-riding buddy told me: “Getting a blowjob from a guy is like riding a Honda motorcycle — it feels good until somebody sees you.”
right_wing2 wrote:
A wrath of Karens, and a churl of Karls. A preach of Brads.
eaglesoars wrote:
Also the Bit** Governor in Maine, Janet Mills. Blech.
eaglesoars wrote:
Pollsters are charlatans. Just ask Shrillary. 😆
Octopus wrote:
and he knows this how?
@ coldwarrior:
well, if it was in the paper…..
@ eaglesoars:
the trib wrote about it, the post-gazzette ignored it
Octopus wrote:
TMI!!! 😯 😯
The coronavirus gave new impetus to San Francisco’s experiment with homeless tent cities. As Breitbart News noted in March, both San Francisco and Los Angeles originally planned to move as many homeless people indoors as possible to prevent the spread of the virus in homeless encampments. However, experts soon learned that the virus spread more easily indoors than outdoors, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised against moving the homeless indoors. San Francisco reversed course and encouraged homeless people to stay in tents during the outbreak….
experts, people. experts!
eaglesoars wrote:
Hmmm…well, he has been married thrice. Not afraid to experiment with new things, that tells me.
Octopus wrote:
his wording leaves me to believe he speaks from experience?
that’s not quite how that expression goes.
not that there is anything wrong with that…
😉
coldwarrior wrote:
Top men! Who have been wrong about the ‘Rona every step of the way, but that just means they’re flexible and always learning. Science is never, ever settled…except in regards to Teh Warmening.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah, I was trying to fit the joke to Bunk’s incredibly homophobic comment. Plus, ‘Mouse is a good woman, who doesn’t need to hear smutty gags all the time, to enjoy life. I apologize to everyone involved.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/49/3c/93/493c935215784996b8676f6826db3987.jpg
All of the Whitmer polls I can find were published 2-3 days ago, when Botox Karen was talking about opening things up, before her little tantrum yesterday. I promise you her numbers are going to take a hit in the next round, even with the pollsters all leaning precipitously Left. People are quite pissed around here.
Octopus wrote:
😆 😆
Chris WAllace is lying again
FNC’s Wallace: ‘No Record of Massive Fraud or Even Serious Fraud’ from Vote-by-Mail
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/22/fncs-wallace-no-record-of-massive-fraud-or-even-serious-fraud-from-vote-by-mail/?
And note that he says when it DOES happen – but it never does – it always benefits Republicans.
Octopus wrote:
There is something quite wrong in the mental department with Governor Karen of Michigan. She’s batty.
eaglesoars wrote:
Wallace is a Democrat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wallace
I did not know that, about him being a Dimocrat. Explains a lot.
rightymouse wrote:
she is perfectly sane. this is what these people look like for real.
she has dutifully punched her ticket by doing exactly what she was told to do and now is available to be upgraded to the next level.
i will say that the dem bench is pretty bad. not one dem governor came out of this undamaged.
https://www.conservativereview.com/news/horowitz-cdc-confirms-remarkably-low-coronavirus-death-rate-media/
rightymouse wrote:
Somebody who follows Michigan politics very closely, and has even run for office (State Senate) and lost before, says the main thing about Whitmer is her burning ambition to rise high in the political game. You can see that very easily, as she pretends to play coy about the chances of her joining the Biden ticket. She’d stomp over her own mother and children to get this chance. All of her actions and pronouncements during the Covid thingy have been tailored to position her as the Anti-Trump.
The Tara Reade story is falling apart. Her lawyer dumped her, she doesn’t have a law degree, no record of passing a bar exam anywhere, etc.
https://twitter.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1263900887933747202
@ eaglesoars:
so this was the set up to inoculate biden from further accusations?
well played dems.
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s difficult to believe that anyone with even a reasonable sense of right/wrong/reality would be as out of control as Whitmer. She even SOUNDS loopy and paranoid. Nazi symbols. Confederate flags.
coldwarrior wrote:
Octopus wrote:
Agreed! But the question is – is it working? I suspect not. A lot of the ease of being anti-Trump is not only does it not cost you anything, it comes with perks. The anti-Trump people are suffering just as much as anybody else. You think those floods from the failed dam discriminated? You think the anti-Trump people don’t have to stay in shelters?
The powers-that-be in a party can do only so much. They don’t usually float people who are guaranteed losers. That’s the Republicans’ job.
@ rightymouse:
anything to advance her career.
there is always some serious underlying psychological scar or mental illness with these people.
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh heck no
coldwarrior wrote:
The tell is that the Dems didn’t try to destroy her. They just let it play out.
eaglesoars wrote:
yep. predictable
Octopus wrote:
Yep.
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s what I’ve seen on other blogs as well. Something like 66% support her actions. But, like you, that’s all I’ve seen and nothing linking to the real poll or internals.
Octopus wrote:
I like it
coldwarrior wrote:
Top. Men.
coldwarrior wrote:
Lol, yeah but how is the instructions going to help me put on my two surgical masks that they actually sent me? They didn’t even send N95, just blue tissue masks.
coldwarrior wrote:
So given that, how does one reconcile the CDC report you reference with their recommendations for Summer Gulag and then the even more ridiculous recommendations for opening schools this fall? Mrs. Federalist was telling me about a few of the latter: a) all desks face the same way because apparently getting the virus on the back of your head is OK, b) desks 6 feet apart, c) others equally silly that I don’t remember.
@ AZfederalist:
we are witnessing the bumbling of bureaucracy in real time
eaglesoars wrote:
I really hate it when people post such blatantly true statements. … and historically verifiable: Dole, McLame, Romney. It was going to be Yeb, but Trump screwed that up.
coldwarrior wrote:
Makes them more readily controlled by those wielding the real levers of power
@ coldwarrior:
Yeah, and apparently the bumbling of WordPress as well. I’m glad you got the article to which I was responding and not the JPEG that Octopus posted. I was quoting and replying to your CDC message for those who are scratching their heads over that quote.
Deplorable Martian Overlord wrote:
simulated training!
🙂
AZfederalist wrote:
oh, I think they yanked those earlier today. Nevermind.
coldwarrior wrote:
Not yet. Looks like Michigan and a couple other places are still in the testing phase and pushing further.
eaglesoars wrote:
Interesting….
Going to meet our over-the-road trucker son this evening as he’s swinging through for a delivery tomorrow in Streetsboro. Believe it or not, there are restaurants fully open near his truck stop. Made a reservation and the gal on the other end of the phone was as gleeful as I was when I told her how thrilled I was that they were open. 🙂
rightymouse wrote:
And my favorite restaurant nearby is getting ready to open. They’re working getting staff. It will be heaven when they open again! Best ribeye in the world! 🙂
@ rightymouse:
We’ve been door dash and I’m always working on new recipes
Cant wait to go to a sit down dinner tho.
@ coldwarrior:
I’m making this tonight:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/05/23/eu-food-less-meat-promote-plant-proteins/
Eat bugs, plebians.
@ lobo91:
You get Bug Melt!!!
NO TUNA FOR YOU!
Biden hires Cesar Chavez’s granddaughter as ‘senor advisor’
This is frigging hilarious
coldwarrior wrote:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/p6NrJw5SAxYDzWC3A
@ eaglesoars:
Poles. Some Poles support her.
@ Octopus:
To show how bad the business culture is in CA…
Starkist tuna moved its HQ from San Diego to pgh.
Their building is in the north side by the stadium’s and bars
Great location
@ Octopus:
She needs an exorcism
Octopus wrote:
I’m not scared of fags. I just don’t care to watch homobloblo.
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2011/09/03/sorry-maam-were-all-homos-here/
The missus was watching some show where the Martin Sheen character had a cononoscopy and there was music playing in the lab: “Tunnnel of Love.” The other character responded, “At least it wasn’t ‘Brown-Eyed Girl.'”
eaglesoars wrote:
And he’s working wit AOC and Bernie on the platform. What could go wrong?
RIX wrote:
Their convention is gonna bit lit. Probably literally.
lobo91 wrote:
I just made a really good ‘mexican’ bean salad. 3 beans, corn, peppers, cukes, cilantro, garlic vinegrette and a lot of cumin. And a little sugar.
It’s too hot here (finally!) to ‘cook’ cook
The gov. NJ is seizing that gym. Notice of embargo. He’s already shut off the water, I guess so they couldn’t clean up the sewage back up he caused.
Lamp post
https://twitter.com/sandyaschneider/status/1264136823149920258
@ eaglesoars:
we were offered a house and 2 acres in very south jersey for free from mrs coldwarrior’s family. the taxes would have been higher than my mortgage payment and we would have to deal with NJ laws and taxes.
all taxes and rights being equal, i would have moved in a heartbeat. so, nj loses out on two tax payers with good careers moving into their state.
Given the way the order was written, I don’t know if he can do this. The court ordered Sullivan PERSONALLY to respond to the writ of mandamus.
But it appears he has hired counsel
https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1264301988856111104
Beth Wilkenson.
I know that name. BRB
@ rightymouse:
Streetsboro!
Went to a college party there 1977(?). Walked into the house, heard some awesome music, asked what they were playing. “That’s the Rhythm Section. They’re in the basement.”
So I went downstairs. There was a line of partygoers standing at a long table and banging on a variety of “instruments” – trash cans, bottles, steel pipes, etc. – and the music (and musicians) continually changed.
@ eaglesoars:
Ah. She’s married to David Gregory and was Kavanaugh’s attorney
coldwarrior wrote:
when I was at PSU there were a lot of Philly kids there. Philly is pretty much NJ. I wouldn’t touch either with a barge pole.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/david-forsmark/2020/05/22/ignoring-warnings-mich-ag-sued-to-raise-lake-level-ahead-of-dam-break-to-protect-mussels-n418055
@ eaglesoars:
The only thing I’m cooking inside is the tuna, which takes about 5 minutes to steam
@ Bunk X:
Oh is this the AG who said if Trump didn’t wear a mask, he simply could not be allowed in the state or something?
lobo91 wrote:
Hon, open a can
eaglesoars wrote:
Good. Hopefully they yanked the school opening recommendations as well. Mrs. Federalist was watching an exchange among some of her friends on Fakebook. This kind of thing is not going down well with parochial schools
lobo91 wrote:
eaglesoars wrote:
Open a can, get a fork.
Done.
Octopus wrote:
Wow, the resolution of that photo on my computer makes her look like she’s 40+ years old.
Live (almost) from Megan’s guest bedroom:
AZfederalist wrote:
Well, I threw a little grenade in our section of the Stepford Utopia today. Fairfax County announced new guidelines for parks, etc. but said the pools will remain closed. Some desperate mom chimed in with “The people who make these decisions don’t have small kids”
And she got SLAMMED.
Try raising your own children, etc.
So, I walked away, but I couldn’t let it go. So I piped up that over 50% of my county property taxes go for schools to educate children I chose to not have and why don’t all you people telling this woman to raise her own children pay for all YOUR own children. It’s been quiet for a solid 5 hours except for a smiley face from the desperate mom.
I.
ROCK.
😆
@ eaglesoars:
BBBBOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!
I could get angry. But I will not. Those days are long gone….
We have all seen “news” reports how a certain demographic of the population is being hit hardest by the Chinese Flu. All the percentages of illness and death are broken down by skin colour and how some shades of skin are dis-proportionally stricken.
Here in Houston ( Harris County ) it is mandatory to wear a mask when out of your home. That means in grocery stores.
Guess which vulnerable and at most risk people don’t seem to give a shit?
Tomorrow’s front page NYT
U.S. DEATHS NEAR 100,000, AND INCALCULABLE LOSS
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1264312206914719745
@ eaglesoars:
Trump’s fault.
Possum wrote:
good for them.
I HAVE noticed that in all the statistical breakdowns we’ve seen, somehow there are only 2 genders.
Possum wrote:
yeah, I wanna see ’em do the abortion numbers.
soy boys
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/none-of-the-men-are-wearing-masks-cnn-tracks-down-trump-at-golf-course
@ coldwarrior:
Wait till they try that on Kayleigh M. at the next presser.
Carnage.
^^^FRESH THREAD^^^
Bunk X wrote:
Or anything by the Soggy Bottom Boys.
@ Possum:
LGBTQ?
Bunk X wrote:
where? not seeing it
@ eaglesoars:
https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/05/23/to-the-graduating-class-of-2020/