Happy Wednesday peeps! I hope your week is going well so far. Probably better than Trump’s town hall last night….
Now arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor.
Louisville agrees to $12 million payout and policing changes in agreement with family of Breonna Taylor, killed in police raid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/09/15/breonnataylorlouisvillesettlement/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-low_1050a-tues-lousiville%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
“Why can’t we just direct the hurricane over the wildfires?” – Trump, probably
Hurricane Sally sits in the Gulf, but along the coast deadly flood waters are rising.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/09/15/hurricane-sally-biloxi-mobile-floods/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_hurricanesally-7pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans
That bad, eh? Breaking a 175 year tradition.
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden/
Stonks!
(Been saying it for years, Jim Cramer is a hack.)
Yes, it’s late so I’m just giving you a lazy Twitter roundup:
Man, no more WAP for him!
Quack.
This is cute af.
Go show your Wednesday who’s boss.
Oh, shit. I thought tomorrow was Wednesday.
I thought it was Thursday. womp womp
You just made me double check… The struggle is real.
Red Lobster and Mountain Dew have collaborated on a horror:
https://thetakeout.com/mountain-dew-margarita-now-available-at-red-lobster-1845066622
Reminds me of “punch” I drank in college made of six different things from the fridge plus vodka and lite beer and wine coolers.
I was just reading that very same post an hour ago and had to stop. And this is from a guy who used to attend frat parties and ladle a lethal kool-aid/grain alcohol concoction out of whatever the hosts decided to serve it in. At least once it was a lined wastebasket. Whatever, I lived to tell the tale.
Trashcan punch. I’m surprised I didn’t go blind.
We added orange slices to our mixture. Those things were lethal.
Yikes! That sounds awful. My terrible high school mixed drink was Jack 5, Jack Daniels and 5 Alive. It was an abomination!
Because I can’t get enough of my favorite orange buffoon:
Oh, look. Trump stiffed a contractor. Who would have thought? (Answer: Everybody.)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/postal-service-stiffed-dollar20-million-cost-of-delivering-trump-covid-19-mailer?ref=home
Herd mentality? He said “herd mentality”? I mean, I just … my brain is tired and just froze up. But I’m still doing better than Mr. “saved two, maybe two and a half, maybe more than that, lives.” “It’s gonna be herd developed.” What the actual fuck is this imbecile saying?
Anybody who’s worried about Biden debating this clown needs to look at this interview. Sweet jumping Jesus.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/16/1977819/-Trump-says-America-can-get-over-the-virus-without-vaccine-by-developing-herd-mentality
Remember, Trump will simply do his usual crazy shit at the debates and ignore the reality. If Joe thinks he’s going to a debate instead of a street brawl with an insane person, then he’ll get killed.
I don’t think so. This is a pandemic debate conducted over Zoom (or whatever). It’s uniquely suited to showcase Biden and make Trump look like an imbecile:
1. Trump can’t shout over his opponent. His mike will probably be turned off except during his turn to babble incoherently.
2. Trump can’t do his bizarre and creepy serial killer stalk around the stage.
3. Biden can and will speak coherently during his segments, which will be a sharp contrast to Old Yeller’s dementia babble.
4. Biden can and will stand there with his patented “Joe Biden smirk” during the segments when Trump is babbling incoherently. That’s literally all he has to do. Bonus points for inserting the phrase “I have no idea what the president means by …” in his responses.
5. Most importantly, at this point, it doesn’t matter. Polls show less than 5% undecided voters (also known as idiots) even here in Florida (the idiot fatherland). Biden has a commanding lead almost everywhere (including the idiot fatherland). Trump and the GOP have to rely on voter suppression and vote fraud now. It’s their only realistic hope.
…here’s hoping
Don’t get me wrong. These are career criminals who will absolutely be engaging in crimes as hard and as fast as their evil little criminal brains can dream them up. But that’s what we have to worry about now.
Ah, I thought they were still doing the debates on a stage with a moderator in an empty venue. Do we know that the microphones will get muted when one of them isn’t talking? If that’s not actually a thing, then it’ll just be Trump interrupting Biden for the whole thing.
It looks like you’re right and I’m wrong. I thought it would be done virtually (and I’m pretty sure I read an article to that effect but can’t find it), but at this point they’ve announced physical locations. One article said it could change, but I’m not sure how that will play out. One also said there was supposed to be an audience, but I find that highly doubtful. Apparently one venue backed out already, so it may still all change based on conditions.
I was hoping you were right! This doesn’t give me much hope for a fair debate in the VP one either but Harris will still eat Pence’s lunch and shit on him!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/vice-presidential-debate-moderator-hosted-dinner-honoring-pence-prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9/ar-BB18UJyK
The idiocy is strong in the idiot fatherland:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/watch-trump-supporters-storm-florida-target-and-demand-shoppers-stop-wearing-masks/
Christ, these fucking people.
That little Nandie is amazing – I don’t pay much attention to Dave Grohl but he seems like a stand up guy.
The ducks are hysterical.
This is dedicated to that idiot congressman and just an excuse to post some David Byrne.
Those are some great links, especially Grohl. I may have missed this gem on another day but if not, here you go!
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/09/dejoys-sued-brother-hiding-his-mail
That’s rich!
Also left out of the story about the Oregon douchebag is this…
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/09/oregon-state-senator-blames
Actually, if the environmentalists had their way, we would have far fewer wildfires than we do now. We don’t do nearly enough controlled burns in this country–and that science is also settled. Climate change just makes it all so much worse, but if we had a real fire control policy in place very little of this shit would have come to pass.
True but this year it was too hot for them to do too many controlled burns and keep them under control. The dumbest thing about Trump blaming the state’s for the fires is most of them are on federal land not controlled by the states!
https://headtopics.com/us/trump-blames-california-for-fires-he-should-check-to-see-whose-land-they-re-on-15669831
This is also a big deal in the article:
the Trump administration has sent mixed signals to Forest Service leadership regarding what the agency’s management priorities should be. It would seem that reducing fuel loads that contribute to fire risk and improving forest health should be the top priority. But, political leadership in the Department of Agriculture has reinstituted timber targets as a performance measure for Forest Service leaders in addition to improving forest health. In other words, as anxiety rises about fire risk across federal lands, national forest managers are being rewarded for shifting attention and dollars away from the goal of smart maintenance. Meeting timber production goals has little to do with improving the health and resilience of national forest lands. However, it is an easy metric to assess the performance of forest managers as well as a way to satisfy the timber industry.
I forgot to rant about this too, California’s governor is finally changing the law to offer jobs to these guys when they get out of prison but until now they had NO chance of working in the fire dept. even though they risked their lives to help.
https://buzzflash.com/articles/disaster-work-is-often-carried-out-by-prisoners-who-get-paid-as-little-as-14-cents-an-hour-despite-dangers
https://abc7ny.com/inmate-firefighters-california-incarcerated-cdcr-gavin-newsom/6419335/
Hi!
So, not that anyone here actually missed me, but I’m still around. Work has been crazy. The stupid low interest rates have people buying luxury cars like they are going extinct. Which isn’t that far from being true.
I’ve also been ‘promoted’* to start training as a Porsche Pro to handle all the tech support for that brand here at the dealer group. I’m excited to work more closely with Porsche and finally have some corporate support. *There was no discussion of increased compensation for the additional responsibilities. Basically this just makes kosher what I was doing already anyway.
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing well. I’m exhausted and terrified and barely holding it together most days as I incessantly scream internally. To all the PoC and, quote, Others, I cannot fathom how you deal with the unending dread on the daily and I applaud your resolve to keep fighting. You are all better people than me.
Of you’ve read this far, thanks. There isn’t any specific point to this post.
Please enjoy this mind-blowing Essential Mix from Hybrid Minds. I’ve had this stuck on repeat on my phone and in my head for the last two weeks.
https://globaldjmix.com/livedjsets/hybrid-minds-essential-mix-bbc-radio-1-28-august-2020-download-mp3
…sorta congrats on the kinda promotion…& of course we missed you…we might even have said so but I think we’re all barely holding it together so as you say much of the screwing is happening internally?
…well, in my case maybe less so on the days I end up putting the DOT together, I suppose
…best of luck with it all, any road
Blues Brothers was on TV over the weekend. I had forgotten just incredibly excellent that movie is.
…it really is…I probably ought to watch it again, really
“there are some things that make us all the same…you, me, us – them – everybody”
…& one of those ought to be recognising that it’s a cinematic masterpiece
Congrats!
We totally missed you!
Hang in there!
I’m doing my best. It’s hard when I see so many deluded voters with insipid Fascist TP yard signs and Smurf Lives Matter flags.
Wait, there are Smurf Lives Matter flags?!
…Belgians have a funny sense of humor
The “bLuE LiVeS MaTtEr” flags. The only people born blue are either small, fictional woodland creatures, or long-dead European nobility. Pretty sure we fought a war to avoid the second option being a thing in America.
…I just want an honorary mention of the Nac Mac Feegle…also called the Wee Free Men (it’s a Terry Pratchett thing)
…they aren’t technically born blue but they’re little folk that are not so much pixies as pict-sies so there’s a lot of woad & blue tattoos involved?
Don’t forget the blue people of Kentucky!
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/the-blue-people-of-kentucky-2c0fcfea4fd7
I haven’t seen those, but I have seen the DefEnd Your Police signs. Just as stupid.
Good to hear from you, don’t work too hard. You forgot to mention the Deadsplinter Porsche discount. I’m sure that was just because you’re feeling very harried right now. No worries, you can explain it to us next time you have a free moment or two.
Congrats on the recognition of a job well done, I hope they see fit to compensate you financially in the near future.
Yes, I’m in on the discount. Trying to talk my wife into a Tesla but would rather have this…
https://www.porsche.com/usa/aboutporsche/e-performance/models/?#models-taycan
The Taycan is amazing. It feels like driving a car from the movie TRON.
I’ve moved a Model 3 around the lot. It felt like driving a cell-phone. Like a cool bit of tech, but it would become common and lose its sense of novelty after a short time. Similar to how getting a new phone feels after long enough.
The Taycan is exciting in ways I can’t even describe. Driving one is what I imagine driving a space-ship would feel like. If you can honestly afford one, I cannot more highly recommend getting it. The range may not match Tesla. But the Taycan is so fucking cool it almost just doesn’t matter.
My wife would NEVER spend that kind of money on a car even if we could afford it. With her failing eyesight I might be able to eventually convince her on the Tesla 3 but most likely we will sadly remain a multiple Honda/Subaru family.
Thanks. I’m afraid I do not sell cars, so I’m not able to do much about that discount, sadly. Best I can offer is a Hot Wheels Porsche mailed to your door.
And I’m taken care of well enough. I followed the management running my dealership now from my former employer, the local Lexus dealership. While at Lexus I was honored to be considered by Lexus as one of the 9 best at my job of teaching privileged, mostly white, boomers how to use all the tech on their new cars. Lexus even flew me out to Lexus HQ to film me and the others explaining things for dealership staff to learn as well. So lame humblebrag over, my current management was my former management, just now with different brands. So they know me and I’m not complaining about pay for the time being.
Short answer as to why we are at a different dealership is PoundSign Drama. Corporate buyouts can be a blessing and a curse. This one was very much the latter.
Also none of this matters compared to what almost every community, other than straight, white, hetero, males like me are dealing with. And have been dealing with for generations. I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate. Why is it such a problem to let everyone else have the same chances to succeed?
Sigh. That was entirely too much over-share.
I couldn’t afford a Porsche even with a discount, lol. As for letting everyone having access to the same opportunities, I couldn’t agree more. From your keyboard to the Goddess’s ears.
So, as many of you know, I work in the healthcare field. My employer just sent out a company-wide email to remind everyone about the mask policy. Not for us, mind you, but for the FAMILIES OF PATIENTS WHO AREN’T WEARING MASKS. Fucking for godamned Jesus Christ, we’re in a HOSPITAL and you assholes still want to fight us over masks?!
…despite the fierce competition for “dumbest of dumb shit” these days arguing with &/or assaulting the people who are literally trying to improve your health &/or survival prospects has always been right up there for me
…in a sane world hospitals wouldn’t need security personnel or the cops on speed dial…& people.unwilling to don adequate PPE wouldn’t be admitted as anything other than ER patients
…sincerely…good luck.with that…& don’t let the assholes get you down
I’m one of the lucky ones that gets to work from home. If I actually had to deal with these assholes I’d be on the evening news.
It’s okay, herd mentality will protect us.
…ah, yes…the old magical thinking…will wonders never cease?
Herd mentality, eh? You mean like lemmings? I hope so, because the more of these dangerous shitheads that go running themselves off a cliff, the better.
i need to install cctv in my kitchen
left me daughter home alone to go to work again as i figured i could see well enough (this..was not entirely true and my work day sucked)
but more importantly….i came home and found pancake mix around the kettle
this is impressive… as the kettle is on the work surface at the other end and across from where shes making pancakes
she must be one feisty pancake mix mixer
As a model 3 owner I only have one piece of advice:
GO GET ONE.
I’m working on it @Yellowbird , send me good persuasion vibes!
2 yrs, 27k miles, 0 major problems.
2-3 minor issues/learning curve for a new car.
Only complaint is that the head rest feels like a bowling ball. Mrs. Yellowbird doesn’t like it because it rides so smooth it makes her carsick.
Go test drive one.
I’m trying to get the wife to go but I think she knows she will love it so is refusing. She also thinks her patients will think she makes too much money.
Model 3 extended battery, dual motor, 52k. As much as a bmw, Audi, or just about any full size truck.