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by coldwarrior ( 118 Comments › )
Filed under Open thread at December 4th, 2020 - 7:00 am

Did we win yet?

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  1. coldwarrior
    1 | December 4, 2020 11:08 am

    briskets are coming along nicely…


  2. eaglesoars
    2 | December 4, 2020 1:07 pm

    I predict mass civil disobedience

    In support of the government’s buyback program, i.e., the carrot, Biden has added a gun tax for anyone who wishes to keep their rifles and high-capacity magazines. If you want to avoid the buyback and keep your guns and high-capacity (greater than ten rounds) magazine, you would have to register both under the National Firearms Act, which triggers a $200 tax for each rifle and magazine—the stick. The stick behind the stick is a penalty of up to ten years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine. Registration involves filling out a thirteen-page registration form and providing fingerprints and a photograph of yourself.

    https://mises.org/wire/joe-biden-wants-huge-new-tax-gun-owners


  3. darkwords
    3 | December 4, 2020 2:10 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    That basically implies that you are a felon if you own a gun and are not rich.

    In that scenario gangs would be the last group to be addressed instead of the first.

    The same political psychology applied to election fraud will be applied to gun grabbing. It will be subtle, slow, and designed to place maximum economic and social pressure on individual gun owners. Reduce AMMO, Reduce supply, reduce ownership. Rinse and repeat until only a few Ruby Ridge crazies still own a firearm. Have to nip all that in the bud.


  4. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    4 | December 4, 2020 2:11 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I predict mass civil disobedience

    In support of the government’s buyback program, i.e., the carrot, Biden has added a gun tax for anyone who wishes to keep their rifles and high-capacity magazines. If you want to avoid the buyback and keep your guns and high-capacity (greater than ten rounds) magazine, you would have to register both under the National Firearms Act, which triggers a $200 tax for each rifle and magazine—the stick. The stick behind the stick is a penalty of up to ten years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine. Registration involves filling out a thirteen-page registration form and providing fingerprints and a photograph of yourself.

    https://mises.org/wire/joe-biden-wants-huge-new-tax-gun-owners

    NOt even in office and going full Nazi. I predict pistols get folded in within two years.


  5. darkwords
    5 | December 4, 2020 2:12 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    I think it moves ANTIFA and Proud Boys into common cause.


  6. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    6 | December 4, 2020 2:18 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    I think it moves ANTIFA and Proud Boys into common cause.

    ANTIFA is too stupid to realize they are included. Of course that doesn’t include the ANTIFA thugs that have illegal weaponry. Though many of those goons don’t have guns, don’t forget, their idea of “weaponry” is bike chains and ball bats. That’s why they want us disarmed. THey are afraid of armed citizenry. When their brownshirts come for us they want us to be at a disadvantage.


  7. lobo91
    7 | December 4, 2020 2:18 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    I predict pistols get folded in within two years.

    Of course. That’s the goal of the entire exercise.

    They basically ban AR-15s and similar long guns “for the children.” Even though millions of them have been sold in the last few years, they’re still a tiny portion of the guns out there in circulation.

    After a couple of years, when there’s been absolutely no effect on crime, they’ll move on to handguns.


  8. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    8 | December 4, 2020 2:20 pm

    The lawyer couple in FL proved it. Though their weapon handling was atrocious the ANTIFA and BLM thugs kept their distance and it took an act of state to take their weapons.


  9. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    9 | December 4, 2020 2:22 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    I predict pistols get folded in within two years.

    Of course. That’s the goal of the entire exercise.

    They basically ban AR-15s and similar long guns “for the children.” Even though millions of them have been sold in the last few years, they’re still a tiny portion of the guns out there in circulation.

    After a couple of years, when there’s been absolutely no effect on crime, they’ll move on to handguns.

    The gun owning portion of the left is so f-ing stupid. Their politicians keep saying “we’re not coming for your guns” then every f-ing time the first thing they do is come for the guns. And more aggressively every time. You would think democrat hunters would learn and flip sides. But, I guess you can’t be a democrat if you could learn.


  10. 10 | December 4, 2020 2:34 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:
    They might not show up at your front door ready to confiscate them, but they’re going to use taxes and other means to make it so expensive to own a gun, or a shoot at that nobody can.

    I would hope that there’s some pushback on this, but I don’t expect it. We’ve become a nation of sheeple.


  11. coldwarrior
    11 | December 4, 2020 2:36 pm

    Will Leo’s enforce?


  12. coldwarrior
    12 | December 4, 2020 2:37 pm

    @ right_wing2:
    Hey, where’s your mask and vax card, bub?

    AKA: you’re papers are not in order.


  13. lobo91
    13 | December 4, 2020 2:40 pm

    @ Deplorable Martian Overlord:

    You would think democrat hunters would learn and flip sides. But, I guess you can’t be a democrat if you could learn.

    Why do think the Dems are always saying shit like “Nobody needs 10 rounds to kill a deer!”?

    The Dem hunters buy into it, because A) they don’t own an AR, and B) it’s “their team” backing it. And they’d never lie, would they?


  14. lobo91
    14 | December 4, 2020 2:40 pm


  15. coldwarrior
    15 | December 4, 2020 2:43 pm

    And…gun owners are forbidden to have a professional license…


  16. lobo91
    16 | December 4, 2020 2:47 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    And…gun owners are forbidden to have a professional license…

    and banks refuse to loan you money or process your business’s credit card transactions


  17. coldwarrior
    17 | December 4, 2020 2:48 pm

    @ lobo91:
    Yep. I was just gonna type that.


  18. eaglesoars
    18 | December 4, 2020 3:06 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    I would hope that there’s some pushback on this, but I don’t expect it.

    20k people showed up in Virginia. There will be pushback.


  19. coldwarrior
    19 | December 4, 2020 3:13 pm

    Good thing the great Beaver county lahar took out all my guns. So, I don’t have to worry!


  20. eaglesoars
    20 | December 4, 2020 4:31 pm

    I’ve been out so I missed something that happened in Wisconsin (I think) and AZ legislators have called for Maricopa County audit

    https://twitter.com/Rikokokoko/status/1334966989803180032


  21. eaglesoars
    21 | December 4, 2020 4:34 pm

    BLATANT violation of the 14th

    The Seattle City Council will consider legislation to provide blanket immunity to misdemeanor crimes to any person who suffers from poverty, homelessness, addiction, or mental illness.

    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1334931503441006592


  22. Deplorable Bumr50
    22 | December 4, 2020 4:44 pm

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito late Thursday set a deadline for Pennsylvania officials to respond to a request to throw out the state’s mail-in voting results — or possibly the entire election.

    But the date set — Dec. 9 — is the day after the “safe harbor” deadline, the date set by the federal government for states to choose their electors. That means, experts say, that the court is unlikely to upend Pennsylvania’s election results, which declared Joe Biden the winner in the presidential race by more than 80,000 votes.

    https://triblive.com/local/regional/supreme-court-sets-date-for-state-response-in-mike-kelly-election-suit-is-it-a-day-late/

    Well that’s chickensh*t.


  23. eaglesoars
    23 | December 4, 2020 5:09 pm

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    But the date set — Dec. 9 — is the day after the “safe harbor” deadline, the date set by the federal government for states to choose their electors.

    Alito isn’t stupid. I suspect he’s establishing grounds for something or deliberately narrowing options of some kind.


  24. Aussie Infidel
    24 | December 4, 2020 5:38 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:

    But the date set — Dec. 9 — is the day after the “safe harbor” deadline, the date set by the federal government for states to choose their electors.

    Alito isn’t stupid. I suspect he’s establishing grounds for something or deliberately narrowing options of some kind.

    I believe that you are indulging in some wishful thinking there Eagles. Alto is just running out the clock so that the SCOTUS does not have to overthrow an election. Even a single State’s election and certainly not set a precedent for other States either.The longer the ‘lawyering’ drags on and the longer the malefactors have to destroy evidence and cover their tracks the less chance there is for legal challenges and so the Status quo gains strength and legitimacy.

    The whole US electoral law, Justic system and bureaucracy is corrupt. It has been for years, and year on year just keeps getting more corrupt. This year the corruption leaked a little more from around the edges of your social system. The US much touted Constitutional protections are mere historical artefacts. Welcome to the Chinese authoritarian form of governance America. It’s taken you some time to get here but have arrived at last.


  25. eaglesoars
    25 | December 4, 2020 5:41 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    you may be right, but I’ve seen nothing from Alito that would lead me in that direction


  26. Aussie Infidel
    26 | December 4, 2020 6:05 pm

    What’s happening to the United States right now transcends political parties, religious affiliation, gender and race.

    If you love America, you must understand what going to happen to her in 2021. Senator John Kerry (yet another apostate Catholic, the list is getting long) told the World Economic Forum that Joe Biden, if he’s sworn in, will make the Great Reset a top priority. But does Sen. Kerry even understand what that means? Do you?

    And now that the dictatorship of the ‘Health supremos’ has worked so well in turning ‘public health emergencies’ sic into a totalitarian weapon, Biden declares that he is going to force the Green New Deal by linking compliance to the ‘health emergency’.

    There are lots of keyboard warriors ready to spill their ‘ink’, but when push comes to shove in the rapidly growing authoritarian control society that has grown up, will easily crush the opponents by isolating them and destroying them serially.


  27. coldwarrior
    27 | December 4, 2020 6:28 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    It ain’t just happening here. Were just the biggest domino


  28. Aussie Infidel
    28 | December 4, 2020 7:55 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    It ain’t just happening here. Were just the biggest domino

    Yup I realise that but the US of A being the largest domino , you guys fall and we get to be collateral damage. Right now Oz is being monstered by Xi with tariffs and open threats and there is squat that we can do about it. Like your nomenklateure our elitists in ALL parties are busy selling us down the river.


  29. lobo91
    29 | December 4, 2020 8:23 pm

    Fortunately, they’re better musicians than actors:


  30. Possum
    30 | December 4, 2020 9:03 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I am dumb as a rock but to my simple mind why does Australia have to import anything?


  31. AZfederalist
    31 | December 4, 2020 9:15 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    Will Leo’s enforce?

    Given what we’ve seen of enforcement to quarantine and mask rules vs. enforcement of sedition and rioting rules? Yeah, they’ll enforce. Question is will we roll over and comply or are we finally going to realize that the state really is coming for us?


  32. lobo91
    32 | December 4, 2020 9:53 pm

    Larkin Poe is doing a free livestream from the Paste studios starting in about 8 minutes, if anyone is interested:


  33. eaglesoars
    33 | December 4, 2020 9:56 pm

    Does anyone know anything about this? Is this true? A self-charging battery?

    https://thefutureofthings.com/4914-self-charging-battery-developed/


  34. darkwords
    34 | December 4, 2020 9:57 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Long list but here is what they open themselves to.

    A DUI is a misdemeanor except in limited circumstances. Even as a misdemeanor, this conviction can result in a permanent criminal offense on a defendant’s record, as well as mandatory jail time, fines, license suspension, and up to five years of probation.

    Other examples of misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor charges under Washington state law include:

    Assault – 4th degree

    Driving While License Suspended/Revoked (a/k/a “DWLS”)

    Violation of some protection/no-contact orders

    Harassment (unless certain threats are made, or specific prior offenses exists, which renders this a felony)

    Theft – 3rd degree

    Unlawful discharge of a firearm

    Vehicle prowling – 2nd degree

    Criminal trespass – 1st degree

    Criminal trespass – 2nd degree

    Computer trespass – 2nd degree

    Malicious mischief – 3rd degree

    Criminal street gang graffiti

    Sexual misconduct with a minor – 2nd degree

    Custodial sexual misconduct – 2nd degree

    Criminal mistreatment – 3rd degree

    Criminal mistreatment – 4th degree

    Abandonment of dependent person – 3rd degree

    Leaving a child in the care of a sex offender

    Custodial interference – 2nd degree, first offense

    Reckless burning – 2nd degree

    Unlawful discharge of a laser – 2nd degree

    Interference with health care facility

    Unlawful issuance of bank check – below felony value

    Making or possessing motor vehicle theft tools

    Theft of leased property – below felony value

    Possessing stolen property – 3rd degree

    Obscuring identity of a machine

    Theft of subscription television services

    Possession of another’s identification

    Criminal impersonation – 2nd degree

    False certification

    Defrauding a public utility – 3rd degree

    False swearing

    Jury tampering

    Tampering with physical evidence

    Obstructing law enforcement officer

    Refusing to summon aid for a peace officer

    False reporting

    Failure to disperse

    Riot (in limited circumstances)

    Disorderly conduct

    Resisting arrest

    Rendering criminal assistance – 2nd degree

    Rendering criminal assistance – 3rd degree

    Compounding

    Escape – 3rd degree

    Introducing contraband – 3rd degree

    Bail jumping (in limited circumstances)

    Making false or misleading statement to public servant

    Official misconduct

    Indecent exposure

    Prostitution

    Permitting prostitution

    Patronizing a prostitute

    Concealing birth

    Unlawful inhalation

    Abandoning refrigeration equipment

    Tampering with fire alarm

    Soliciting undesired mail

    False representation regarding credit

    False representation concerning title

    Concealed weapon w/o permit, loaded firearm in vehicle

    Unlawful carry/display of dangerous weapon


  35. darkwords
    35 | December 4, 2020 10:00 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    That would make Alito the judge that killed the American Revolution.

    If he doesn’t pull a rabbit out of his hat.


  36. Aussie Infidel
    36 | December 4, 2020 10:01 pm

    Possum wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I am dumb as a rock but to my simple mind why does Australia have to import anything?

    Because it’s better and cheaper to do what you do the best, export that and then import stuff that it’s more expensive to manufacture in Oz because the market is too small at just 25 million.

    It’s called comparative advantage.

    Now OZ can make everything it needs just as the US can do likewise and pretty well actually does. Both Oz and the US are blessed with heaps of everything that they need (multiply that by 100 actually) . Oz has enough of the smarts to make everything it needs.

    Trouble is that IF Oz makes everything then it costs Oz more to make, than buying some things that can be manufactured cheaper overseas, because of market size and efficiencies that flow from that. To pay for those cheaper imports, Oz can grow/manufacture stuff cheaper than anyone else, because of easy to find raw materials, great weather, new technologies and good growing conditions.

    Even little New Zealand with just 5 million people can grow enough really high quality food/ raise protein on the hoof, catch fish in the world’s 4th largest fishery to feed 50+ million people to First world standards. It can and has made cars but it’s cheaper for NZ drivers to import cars and export food. Currently NZ also has a Space Launch capability because it designed the tech itself that made launching satellites servicing 65% of the world market about 7 times cheaper. It also was perfectly placed at the bottom of nowhere to launch satellites into Polar Orbits easier than any else.

    So NZ makes high tech stuff, grows fantastic high quality food, and entertains millions of tourists that enjoy being in a very special place in the world. In return NZ imports manufactured goods that it could and in fact has in the past been manufactured in NZ because it’s cheaper to do it that way… and the NZ consumer is better off , gets more bangs for their bucks and a higher standard of living.

    🙂


  37. darkwords
    37 | December 4, 2020 10:02 pm

    @ darkwords:
    An addicted prostitute who writes bad checks has a golden ticket in Seattle.


  38. Aussie Infidel
    38 | December 4, 2020 10:07 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Does anyone know anything about this? Is this true? A self-charging battery?

    https://thefutureofthings.com/4914-self-charging-battery-developed/

    I know that the US army was very much into this tech because the level of power needs / infantryman has increased markedly of the past decade. Rather than hauling heavy batteries a mechanical system moves lithium ions from one side of the cell to the other when the membrane is a good way of making power when you walk.

    Nothing however is for nothing. t’s going to be harder to walk because mechanical energy is being manufactured from one’s muscle power.

    Still better than carrying a heavy battery … especially if it’s dead.

    🙂


  39. eaglesoars
    39 | December 4, 2020 10:07 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    Long list but here is what they open themselves to.

    That’s quite a list – but it’s meaningless w/o a DA willing to prosecute


  40. Possum
    40 | December 4, 2020 10:07 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I totally agree.

    Then one day the place where stuff that could be manufactured ” at home ” decides to stop exporting it to you….


  41. Aussie Infidel
    41 | December 4, 2020 10:28 pm

    Possum wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I totally agree.

    Then one day the place where stuff that could be manufactured ” at home ” decides to stop exporting it to you….

    Go back to manufacturing it yourself and put the price of good food up to pay for the differential

    Actually the US/ Oz and NZs of the world will be the go to places. They have enough tech smarts to make the robots that manufacture to competitive international standards, they can access all of their own raw materials and they STILL have the world’s cleanest high quality food to sell at a premium.

    21st Century … bring it on!

    We’ve lucky to be in a win / win automated high tech situation, and still able to feed ourselves very well and then some, unlike most other places.


  42. Aussie Infidel
    42 | December 4, 2020 10:30 pm

    Possum wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    I totally agree.

    Then one day the place where stuff that could be manufactured ” at home ” decides to stop exporting it to you….

    The Fourth Industrial Revolution is going to be brutal to most of the world


  43. darkwords
    43 | December 4, 2020 10:38 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Election Integrity Watchdog Amistad Project: December 8 Deadline for Selection of Electors Does Not Apply to Disputed States

    https://news.yahoo.com/election-integrity-watchdog-amistad-project-015500068.html

    They are presenting a case to where the deadline is not applicable if there is a dispute.


  44. Possum
    44 | December 4, 2020 10:42 pm

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    Without being an asshole Britain had no choice but to explore the world, colonize and build a vast fleet of ships to bring back raw materials, herbs and spices and fruits that could not be mined or grown in Britain.

    Places like Australia could be self sufficient.


  45. eaglesoars
    45 | December 4, 2020 11:06 pm

    darkwords wrote:

    They are presenting a case to where the deadline is not applicable if there is a dispute.

    AHAHAHAHAHA!

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Alito isn’t stupid. I suspect he’s establishing grounds for something or deliberately narrowing options of some kind.

    As someone once said “The Constitution is not a suicide pact”

    Bed.

    Aussie, I saw your email, but I’m going to bed. Tomorrow. *smooch*


  46. AZfederalist
    46 | December 4, 2020 11:07 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Does anyone know anything about this? Is this true? A self-charging battery?

    Seems to violate some fundamental principles of physics, most especially the preservation of energy


  47. AZfederalist
    47 | December 4, 2020 11:09 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Does anyone know anything about this? Is this true? A self-charging battery?

    https://thefutureofthings.com/4914-self-charging-battery-developed/

    Never mind, I just read the article. It’s not really self-charging, it is harvesting mechanical energy to charge.


  48. Possum
    48 | December 4, 2020 11:17 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    Go see little kids in the mall running around with lights flashing on their shoes.
    OK not direct conversion of mechanical energy to battery storage but it is mechanical energy to electricity ( probably by piezo
    thingies ) that is stored in super capacitators.

    As to generating electricity from human activity great! Get on a bike or treadmill and you can generate about 70 watts for a while.

    Not a lot….


  49. Possum
    49 | December 4, 2020 11:37 pm

    So, back to the topic of why manufacturing by AMERICAN companies went over seas.

    Labour costs?


  50. Possum
    50 | December 4, 2020 11:44 pm

    Possum wrote:

    So, back to the topic of why manufacturing by AMERICAN companies went over seas.

    Labour costs?

    No, many manufacturing processes generate toxic waste. That is why production has gone to China.


  51. darkwords
    51 | December 5, 2020 12:08 am

    @ Possum:
    No OSHA standards in China.

    I visited one. A city block could be laid out like this.

    Family Home
    Store
    Chemical company
    Junk Yard
    Family Home.
    School
    Coal plant
    Sewage

    It was pretty bad. China dumps its toxic waste into the rivers so the waste eventually makes its way back to the US.


  52. Possum
    52 | December 5, 2020 12:10 am

    @ darkwords:

    So you understand. The reason USA manufacturing went overseas is because easy dumping of toxic waste. Not labour costs.


  53. 53 | December 5, 2020 12:24 am

    Possum wrote:

    So, back to the topic of why manufacturing by AMERICAN companies went over seas.

    Labour costs?

    Prohibitive taxation, fees, licensing and regulations; unsustainable union pensions, an overreaching EPA, excessive tort laws liabilities, insurance premiums and bureaucratic assholes making things better for the children.


  54. Possum
    54 | December 5, 2020 12:33 am

    Bunk X wrote:

    Possum wrote:

    So, back to the topic of why manufacturing by AMERICAN companies went over seas.

    Labour costs?

    Prohibitive taxation, fees, licensing and regulations; unsustainable union pensions, an overreaching EPA, excessive tort laws liabilities, insurance premiums and bureaucratic assholes making things better for the children.

    And two days after China says no more exports to the USA we is fucked.

    Make America make it again.


  55. darkwords
    55 | December 5, 2020 1:30 am

    @ Possum:
    My solution to that is still “let’s trade LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle to China in exchange for Taiwan and Hong Kong. Put some Snake Pliskin walls up around the cities.

    We get better cuisine, the Chinese get a bunch of cry babies.


  56. eaglesoars
    56 | December 5, 2020 9:01 am

    good morning…….

    Pennsylvania – Don’t Assume Alito Giving Until 12/9 To Respond To Emergency Application Means He’s Letting It Die On the Vine

    https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/12/pennsylvania-dont-assume-alito-giving-until-12-9-to-respond-to-emergency-application-means-hes-letting-it-die-on-the-vine/


  57. 4_Sticks
    58 | December 5, 2020 11:15 am

    Woops, wrong link, sorry.


  58. lobo91
    59 | December 5, 2020 12:54 pm


  59. eaglesoars
    60 | December 5, 2020 2:30 pm

    This is the headline in Daily Mail. I’m not sure I’m buying it

    Hospitals have reached breaking point: Rate of COVID patients being admitted is dropping because beds are full and mild cases are being turned away as US reports a third of the world’s new infections and families beg for ICU space on social media

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9021045/Hospitals-admitting-fewer-COVID-patients-beds-run-out.html


  60. Aussie Infidel
    61 | December 5, 2020 4:16 pm

    Possum wrote:

    @ Aussie Infidel:
    Without being an asshole Britain had no choice but to explore the world, colonize and build a vast fleet of ships to bring back raw materials, herbs and spices and fruits that could not be mined or grown in Britain.

    Places like Australia could be self sufficient.

    Places like Australia are self sufficient but choose to trade because that suits them!

    :


  61. Aussie Infidel
    62 | December 5, 2020 4:20 pm

    Possum wrote:

    And two days after China says no more exports to the USA we is fucked.

    Two days after Australia tells China that iron ore has a 300% tariff … China is fucked!
    🙂


  62. AZfederalist
    63 | December 5, 2020 7:22 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    Maybe the number of COVID beds is the limiting factor. Cases are up to 54.8 per 100,000 in the last 7 days. Now, that is cases, not hospitalizations. For the US population, that is 180,840 new cases in the last 7 days out of a population of 330 million. Spread across 50 states, that’s only 3,617 cases per state (I know the distribution is not uniform, but as a back of the envelope calculation it works and one assumes that the larger population states have higher numbers of hospital capacity). Again, this is cases that are positive tests or presumed based upon symptoms, this is not hospitalization numbers. We know that this is 98% survivable, so let’s assume a worst case hospitalization rate of 5%. That means an average of 181 hospitalizations per state. Assuming a 2 week stay, that means each state needs an average of 362 beds. That is overwhelming the system? Maybe CW can provide some better numbers, but this seems like the story doesn’t make sense.


  63. lobo91
    64 | December 5, 2020 7:42 pm

    @ AZfederalist:

    The problem isn’t beds. It’s staff.

    They’re having the same problems we are where i work. 1/3 of our staff was out


  64. rain of lead
    65 | December 5, 2020 7:49 pm

    @ lobo91:

    any place that has employees


  65. rain of lead
    66 | December 5, 2020 7:49 pm

    and weekends are the worst for callouts


  66. Canoe Convoy
    67 | December 5, 2020 8:50 pm

    Submitted for the consideration of the members here: https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com/p/voting-anomalies-2020

    “Significant anomalies for the pre- dawn vote dumps in … four States.”


  67. eaglesoars
    68 | December 5, 2020 9:13 pm

    If you subscribe to Netflix, I STRONGLY advise you to watch The Queen’s Gambit. It’s a 6 hr series but it is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Everything I thought I’d get done today – fail. Don’t care.


  68. eaglesoars
    69 | December 5, 2020 9:19 pm

    @ Canoe Convoy:

    That went up about 5 days ago I think and the debunk narrative is that it’s just large counties coming in.

    And the article is correct is that data analysis cannot ‘prove fraud’. But that’s not the standard, is it?


  69. Deplorable Martian Overlord
    70 | December 5, 2020 9:27 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Canoe Convoy:

    That went up about 5 days ago I think and the debunk narrative is that it’s just large counties coming in.

    And the article is correct is that data analysis cannot ‘prove fraud’. But that’s not the standard, is it?

    I think what I’m sick of is that they have an answer for everything. It’s starting to make me physically ill. Suitcases of ballots being hauled out from under tables caught on camera…”legal ballots”. Ballot dumps…”Large counties”. Whistleblowers…”Attention seekers”.

    Nothing the democrats EVER DO comes back to bite them NOTHING. Most dem pols could murder someone on live television, shrug, and walk away and the press would tell us the next day it was justifiable self-defense.


  70. coldwarrior
    71 | December 5, 2020 9:30 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    It is what is happening.


  71. coldwarrior
    72 | December 5, 2020 9:31 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ AZfederalist:

    The problem isn’t beds. It’s staff.

    They’re having the same problems we are where i work. 1/3 of our staff was out

    Bingo


  72. Aussie Infidel
    73 | December 5, 2020 9:32 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    @ Canoe Convoy:

    That went up about 5 days ago I think and the debunk narrative is that it’s just large counties coming in.

    And the article is correct is that data analysis cannot ‘prove fraud’. But that’s not the standard, is it?

    Then you can watch this 4 part covering the characters in the British hit Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.

    I didn’t know that Margaret Thatcher was the show’s most ardent fan. She even ‘starred’ in an awards ceremony with Paul and Nigel the actors who played The Minister and his First Secretary the wonderful Sir Humphrey Appleby

    Enjoy

    🙂

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arc-zyK6r5o


  73. eaglesoars
    74 | December 5, 2020 9:38 pm

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister.

    I LOVE those! Thanks!

    I have to get SOMETHING done, the day has been hopeless. Later.


  74. lobo91
    75 | December 5, 2020 9:53 pm

    @ coldwarrior:

    Just like all the BS about ventilators a few months ago.

    Not much use if you don’t have the trained staff to use them


  75. eaglesoars
    76 | December 5, 2020 10:32 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    @ eaglesoars:
    It is what is happening.

    wait, what? I came back because I just realized what you said and I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Are you agreeing w/the Daily Mail article that hospitals are running out of beds?


  76. 77 | December 6, 2020 12:14 am

    @ eaglesoars:
    It’s got this song in it, so I’m gonna watch it.


  77. coldwarrior
    78 | December 6, 2020 12:27 am

    eaglesoars wrote:

    that hospitals are running out of beds?

    they have beds, they dont have staff to staff the beds.


  78. 79 | December 6, 2020 3:35 am

    coldwarrior wrote:

    they have beds, they dont have staff to staff the beds.

    There are other hospitals and facilities to take overloads, yeah?


  79. lobo91
    80 | December 6, 2020 10:36 am

    @ Bunk X:

    All of which are probably in the same boat


  80. lobo91
    81 | December 6, 2020 10:50 am

    And this is why we have to maintain control of the Senate:

    President of Soros’ Open Society Foundations resigns, clearing way for potential Biden Cabinet position

    The president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Patrick Gaspard, will resign, opening the way for him to take a possible position in the Biden administration.

    Gaspard, who has served on the Hungarian-born billionaire’s foundation for three years, announced Friday that he will step down at the end of the year, Open Society said.

    Gaspard previously served as U.S. ambassador to South Africa between 2013 and 2016 in the Obama administration. Before that, he served as director of the White House Office of Political Affairs.

    Axios reported that there is speculation he could join the Biden administration, possibly as Labor secretary. He has previous experience with labor unions — having worked for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU.)

    In a statement, Gaspard said he wishes to re-enter politics to continue “the struggle against oppression everywhere.”


  81. AZfederalist
    82 | December 6, 2020 11:27 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    In a statement, Gaspard said he wishes to re-enter politics to continue “the struggle against oppression everywhere.”

    Isn’t that just the sweetest Marxist statement you’ve ever heard? Bless his heart.


  82. lobo91
    83 | December 6, 2020 11:39 am

    Judge Jeanine is pissed at Barr:


  83. eaglesoars
    84 | December 6, 2020 11:43 am

    Leslie Marshall was on Howie Kurtz. She’s married to a doc, lives in Los Angeles. She said they’re putting tents up in parking lots. Really?

    Look what I found. This is LA county with 100% hospitals reporting thru Dec 4 (I think about 70 hospitals). 2nd set of charts down, avail beds about 500, total ICU beds avail about 76.

    http://file.lacounty.gov/SDSInter/dhs/1070348_DHSCOVID-19Dashboard.pdf

    Maybe her hubby doesn’t practice in LA county, I dunno.


  84. eaglesoars
    85 | December 6, 2020 11:45 am

    lobo91 wrote:

    Judge Jeanine is pissed at Barr:

    It’s a big club


  85. eaglesoars
    86 | December 6, 2020 11:47 am

    https://twitter.com/BruceBartlett/status/1335599676863754240

    There needs to be a public database listing every single person who was ever in the Trump orbit–administration officials, campaign workers, grifters etc. Every person on this list should be blackballed from employment for the rest of their lives.

    These scum must be rooted out. If necessary, put them in rooms by themselves with no computer access and no work for 8 hours a day, escorted in and out of the building by security, no contact with any agency employees about anything.

    Bruce writes for the New Republic


  86. lobo91
    87 | December 6, 2020 11:52 am

    @ eaglesoars:

    Leslie Marshall was on Howie Kurtz. She’s married to a doc, lives in Los Angeles. She said they’re putting tents up in parking lots. Really?

    My understanding is that they’re preparing for a mass wave of testing and vaccinations. Also, it’s getting to be winter, even in CA.

    They’re doing that in multiple cities. It’s not for patient treatment.


  87. eaglesoars
    88 | December 6, 2020 12:01 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    It’s not for patient treatment.

    Not to hear Leslie tell it. I almost liked her once upon a time.


  88. 89 | December 6, 2020 12:05 pm

    Just wash your hands.
    Flatten the curve.
    Only 15 days.
    Shut it all down.
    Assume you have it.
    Don’t wear masks.
    Essentials only.
    Here’s $1200.
    Stay home, save lives.
    Six feet apart.
    One way aisles.
    Count the deaths.
    Refrigerator trucks.
    Assume they had it.
    Like a paw paw fruit.
    14 days if positive.
    Wear a mask.
    Ignore co-morbities.
    Squelch talk of lifestyle.
    Forget about good data collection.
    Furlough nurses, furlough doctors.
    Large gatherings spread it.
    But not those ones.
    Listen to the experts.
    But not those ones.
    Just wear a damn mask.
    Project warp speed.
    Cases rising.
    Halt flu data.
    Forget nutrition.
    Count the cases.
    It’s all his fault.
    There’s no Thanksgiving.
    Vaccine coming.
    $1500 to take it.
    Forget about Christmas.
    Guilt the healthy.
    PCR not meant for DX.
    Who cares, just use it.
    Count the cases.
    Cv IDs, just to travel.
    Is this new normal?
    Because I opt out.

    Seen on FB, unknown source.


  89. AZfederalist
    90 | December 6, 2020 12:18 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    Bruce writes for the New Republic

    How Bolshevik of him


  90. eaglesoars
    91 | December 6, 2020 1:07 pm

    I think this is in MI, where forensic analysis of the equipment was permitted by the court

    This is from this morning

    Using sequestered Dominion Equipment, Ware County ran a equal number of Trump votes and Biden votes through the Tabulator and the Tabulator reported a 26% lead for Biden.

    https://twitter.com/robbhurstCPA/status/1335557576587665408

    Interesting thread


  91. eaglesoars
    92 | December 6, 2020 1:12 pm

    eaglesoars wrote:

    I think this is in MI,

    No it’s Georgia


  92. coldwarrior
    94 | December 6, 2020 2:09 pm

    Hospital has 15 open beds, no one to staff them, ever


  93. lobo91
    95 | December 6, 2020 2:53 pm

    Starts in 67 minutes:


  94. eaglesoars
    96 | December 6, 2020 3:31 pm

    coldwarrior wrote:

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alito-moves-deadline-supreme-court-briefing-pennsylvania-case-bringing-within-safe-harbor

    I went thru the comments to get some insight on this move and all I found was blithering anti-semitism


  95. darkwords
    97 | December 6, 2020 4:12 pm

    @ eaglesoars:
    Gab and Parler have that problem also. I tend to think some of it is foreign based. In Egypt and Ethopia, their educational cultures have anti Semitism as a building block. Third world minds have a hard time rising above conspiracy.

    But with our college system we are trying to catch up with the third world.


  96. eaglesoars
    98 | December 6, 2020 4:42 pm

    @ darkwords:

    Which is stupid if you think about it. No Judaism, no western civilization. It’s not all the Greeks and Romans.


  97. 4_Sticks
  98. lobo91
    100 | December 6, 2020 5:12 pm

    Even Elton John likes Larkin Poe:

    https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=634239797193074


  99. eaglesoars
    101 | December 6, 2020 5:17 pm

    Oh ffs. Remember that report I posted about DOJ looking into a bribes-for-pardon scheme w/in the WH? I found the circuit filing for it, too, but it was so heavily redacted it didn’t tell me anything.

    Guess what?

    The Wall Street Journal reported that Diller gave $333,800 to Republican Party accounts in 2016 to help persuade White House officials to recommend a pardon for Baras, who was sentenced to more than two years in prison in 2014 for tax evasion and theft of government property.

    Diller reportedly claimed the pardon was the one favor he requested in exchange for his generous donations to the party.

    Trump was inaugurated in 2017 and the donation was to the RNC, not the Trump Campaign.

    Diller died in 2018. Baras was released in 2019.

    So what is the DOJ supposedly investigating? Anything but election fraud, it looks like

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-investigation-over-possible-bribery-for-presidential-pardon-prompted-by-deceased-california-billionaire


  100. lobo91
    102 | December 6, 2020 6:36 pm

    Biden Picks Xavier Becerra to Lead Health and Human Services

    The selection of Mr. Becerra, the California attorney general, is a surprise. If confirmed, he will face a daunting challenge in leading the department at a critical moment in the pandemic.

    President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has selected Xavier Becerra, a former congressman who is now the Democratic attorney general of California, as his nominee for secretary of health and human services, ending a politically delicate search that brought complaints from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus about a lack of Latinos in the incoming cabinet.

    Mr. Becerra became Mr. Biden’s clear choice only over the last few days, according to people familiar with the transition’s deliberations, and was a surprise. He has carved out a profile more on the issues of criminal justice, immigration and tax policy, and he was long thought to be a candidate for attorney general.

    But as attorney general in California, he led legal efforts on health care, including seeking to protect the Affordable Care Act from being dismantled by Republican attorneys general. He has also been a leading voice in the Democratic Party for women’s health.

    If confirmed, he will immediately face a daunting task in leading the department at a critical moment during a pandemic that has killed more than 281,000 people in the United States — and one that has taken a particularly devastating toll on people of color.

    Coronavirus is racist!!!


  101. rain of lead
    103 | December 6, 2020 6:40 pm

    hey y’all


  102. eaglesoars
    104 | December 6, 2020 6:47 pm

    @ lobo91:

    criminal justice. watch them criminalize health care crap


  103. rain of lead
  104. rain of lead
  105. lobo91
    107 | December 6, 2020 9:06 pm

    @ rain of lead:

    I carry one of these: https://www.kabar.com/products/product.jsp?item=1480


  106. 108 | December 6, 2020 9:14 pm

    Apparently the Moderna coronavirus vaccine only works for about three months.


  107. lobo91
    109 | December 6, 2020 9:21 pm

    right_wing2 wrote:

    Apparently the Moderna coronavirus vaccine only works for about three months.

    That’s being misinterpreted. It’s supposed to be “at least three months.” Why? Because that’s how long the trials have lasted.

    Moderna’s vaccine provides protection against Covid-19 for at least three months, a study finds.

    Encouraging news about Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine was published on Thursday, suggesting that it could protect people for at least three months.

    The finding does not mean that immunity lasts only that long: Three months was just the length of time that people have been studied so far. Research on them will continue.

    Moderna reported on Nov. 30 that its vaccine was 94.1 percent effective, and applied to the Food and Drug Administration and regulators in Europe for emergency approval to begin vaccinating the public. Expert advisers to the F.D.A. will review the application on Dec. 17.


  108. eaglesoars
    110 | December 6, 2020 9:47 pm

    @ lobo91:

    yikes


  109. lobo91
    111 | December 6, 2020 9:54 pm

    @ eaglesoars:

    It’s designed to be worn on the weak side and used by your weak hand (although you can access it with either hand if you need to).

    Basically, it’s a last-ditch way of keeping someone from grabbing your gun. The assumption is that your strong hand will be busy trying to retain the gun, so all that’s left is your weak hand.

    The blade on that knife is made for slashing, rather than stabbing, and the handle is designed so that when it’s in your hand, the edge will be parallel to the ground. You just reach across your body with it and swipe across the top of the assailant’s hand/wrist. It should make them think twice about what they’re doing, and they’ll almost certainly let go of your gun.

    Then you can take a step back, draw, and fire if necessary.


  110. eaglesoars
    112 | December 6, 2020 10:09 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    The blade on that knife is made for slashing

    I noticed that but didn’t understand what it meant for close quarter fights.

    Also, personally, I’d be going for the throat. If I’m in that kind of fight, I’m in it to walk away and the other guy won’t


  111. eaglesoars
    113 | December 6, 2020 10:19 pm

    off to bed. nite.


  112. Aussie Infidel
    114 | December 6, 2020 10:56 pm

    lobo91 wrote:

    @ rain of lead:

    I carry one of these: https://www.kabar.com/products/product.jsp?item=1480

    ALWAYS carry a knife…

    In case there is cake …..

    Or you need to stab someone!

    🙂


  113. coldwarrior
    115 | December 7, 2020 12:44 am

    Aussie Infidel wrote:

    ALWAYS carry a knife…

    In case there is cake …..

    Or you need to stab someone!

    sagacious advice as there is always the possibility of cake.


  114. coldwarrior
    116 | December 7, 2020 12:44 am

    @ Aussie Infidel:

    good to see the all blacks take out their frustration on las pumas.


  115. darkwords
    117 | December 7, 2020 2:04 am

    @johncardillo
    · 11h
    Hey @GOPChairwoman, you raised $200 million to fight voter fraud but you won’t even reimburse lawyers’ gas money or hotels, crying poverty instead.

    Why?

    Where’s that money really going?

    **Concerning if true.


  116. darkwords
    118 | December 7, 2020 2:49 am

    An Unforgiving Meat Retweeted
    soul nate
    @MNateShyamalan
    ·
    Nov 29
    me: this table looks kind of weird. can you make this column a bit wider?

    microsoft word: [spitting on me] i’m gonna fuck your whole life up

    **This one made me laugh

    *** new thread

    https://www.blogmocracy.com/2020/12/07/well-give-you-the-hardware-you-buy-the-software-forever/

    ***


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