They consider themselves overpopulated anyway. It’s going to crush their economy. It’s a PR nightmare (not that they care). It didn’t work the first round.
What’s their end game basically shutting down farming and manufacturing?
Why would China have a zero covid policy?
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Because they can? I have no idea really. I’ve read that their shutdown is to further crash Western supply chains and economies which I don’t think is their original intention, just an added bonus for Xi. I’ve also seen it stated that they view Covid as a bioweapon which makes some sense but based on other countries going for zero covid (New Zealand) and getting burned it makes no real sense as a policy.
Why would China have a zero covid policy?
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This is a great question, mare. I’m glad we thought of it. I haven’t been really following anything lately but I’ll think about it and post some ideas later. I sorta love thinking about all the possibilities, especially since I’ve recently learned that China isn’t really a country the way we are. It’s more of a group of territories held together by fear.
Key points – put together: “For all the folks reading this and assuming some master plan, Xi is facing his third term.
If he fails in his bid to secure that term, he’s a dead man. And if he admits he was wrong about Zero COVID, he looks sufficiently weak he may lose his bid.
There is this myth in the west that the CCP is some forward looking chessplayer able to look far into the future. The reality is they are just as reactive as Western powers – and are more likely to choose wrong due to information isolation.
The logic of dictatorship turns subordinates and advisors into christmas tigers and mires leaders in the sunk cost fallacy.
Which is what we’re seeing here.
COVID isn’t a zombie plague.
Xi isn’t trying to fuck over the world.
He’s trying to stay alive. Literally.”
“Just when we thought the Chinese juggernaut was going to eat everyone’s lunch…”
Well that’s the thing, dictatorships have their advantages. Any right-thinking person recognizes they are outweighed by the disadvantages, but that doesn’t make the advantages go away. And one of the advantages for China is that they really are a juggernaut in some ways. We can recognize that without ignoring the real weaknesses they have (a la Paul Krugman et al.).
I have been on two planes since the beginning of April. I’m glad the mask mandate is gone, but it would have been nice if that happened two weeks earlier.
On the other hand, there is rather a significant amount of people who would be happy to have others run their lives. “Chip in my wrist? Sure, if it makes getting my food easier and makes sure the guy next to me on the plane is vaccinated!”
Comment by leoncaruthers on April 20, 2022 12:03 pm
Harari is a secular jew “married” to a man. He’s worthy of kissing axe handles and tire irons, and not much else.
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Interesting, Leon, I didn’t know that. He does teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Another academic who is completely out of touch.
I found it interesting that Israel was pumping the vaccine/boosters into their citizens as fast as they could. It is impossible to know if it’s safe and effective if there had not been enough testing time. Jews are smart, why jump in headfirst?
There is an incongruency there. Of all nations, you’d think they would be cautious about messing with fertility and general adverse effects.
I was looking up info on a band, and found out they picked a singer who was a runner up on one of those singer shows. That’s how I got there. He’s now in a metalcore band. And has green hair.
When thom York recorded the vocals for that song — when he finished he broke down in tears.
Not sure why. I think it had something to do with him coming to terms with his voice. He used to sort of dislike he didn’t have more of a “rock” hard edged voice.
Just so nobody accuses me of being a bigot, I have many years of experience dealing with and observing the ways people of the jewish persuasion operate.
Are there any individuals who fit outside the tribe? Yes, of course.
Are there any muslims who won’t lie right to your face, and cheat you at every chance they get? Yes, but as a group, that behavior is what you can expect from them in a business deal.
These traits are ingrained in their culture.
Jews for the most part have a hive mind. They stick together, and they subscribe to an us vs. them mentality. In other words if anyone could be described as being a bigot it would be the people of the jewish hive.
Jews like any other X group can be guilty of the tribe mentality. It is the antithesis to being a citizen of the US. To belong to any tribe that gets your first loyalty.
That includes being a liberal.
When you turn off your brain in order to keep your tribe happy – you’re part of the problem, no matter what “tribe” you are identifying with.
Saw a billboard for a fishing charter company, “Impulsive Charters”. I thought it was a bad choice for a company name. “Random Charters”, “Chaotic Charters” we’re some suggestions.
Wrapping up my 48 hour fast now. 46.5 hours. Broken with a little homemade sauerkraut and beef broth to get started. I doubt much autophagy and cancer fighting is happening just in the last 1.5 hours, or that the broth and kraut break the fast significantly.
Felt great the whole time except for my ghrelin/ temporary hunger surge at around 10AM every morning.
Wrapping up my fast. Almost 48 hours. Just a little shy of 47 hours, but I started handling food and that started a craving. Broke the fast with a little homemade sauerkraut and beef broth to get the tummy restarted. Got chicken baking in the oven.
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 5:15 pm
Broken Charters
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 5:17 pm
expanding on Jimbro’s charter, Titan Uranus Charters
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 5:24 pm
SMDH. Disney is now contemplating a disclaimer for its Peter Pan movie. Wasn’t Peter played by Sandy Duncan, which should fall squarely in the middle of their “if you’re not trans, you’re not normal” bullshit?
Anyone think that maybe @Jack is just angling to get his old job back?
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 6:33 pm
Charters by Masters Bait, Tackle & pron shop
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 6:35 pm
Angling. I see what you did there.
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 6:46 pm
@Jack, yes, but with qualifications. The guy is a POS, but he surrounded himself with bigger, craftier ones, and just wants a little revenge. Personally, I’m all for Elon taking it over and private. Clean house, expose the macro, get rid of the “blue check” status, free speech but no pornography and predatory actions against minors are forwarded directly to law enforcement without warning.
Sounds to me like Jack is at the absolute end and wants scalps.
Comment by Senor Pendejo on April 20, 2022 6:55 pm
I’ve no thoughts whatsoever on Jack. However, Jill is a decent looking piece of street meat for her age. I probably wouldn’t insult her with a slur like “street meat” except for the fact that she married into the Biden family and, knowing what they’re all about, stayed put.
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 6:58 pm
Holy Crap! unidentified aircraft in the Capitol air space. Given the rabies running rampant in the district it was probably a rabid bat. Anyone seen Pelosi or her broom recently?
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 7:22 pm
SP, Jill stuck around because of Hunters reputation of snorting rotten cheese from the carpet. Just wait. Joe croaks, Hunter lands in a new relationship, gets married to his new girl friend that was also his step mother. Liberals cheer, one of them avoided inbreeding, there’s hope for the party.
Just one look at Joe and one is compelled to ask how many generations of inbreeding did it take to make him.
Comment by Senor Pendejo on April 20, 2022 7:22 pm
My 105 lb wife had 7 beers the other night. This is about 1.5 times her normal max. Her impersonation of Pelosi was spot on.
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 7:31 pm
My guess is Jack sees the writing on the wall, attempting to distance himself from the consequences that will inevitably come to Twitter and eventually facebook and the shit heads within the companies. Time wounds all heels.
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 7:37 pm
Always take the keys to their brooms before they start drinking, otherwise you get TODAY
I count myself proudly among the Netflix cancelees. I told the wife we should for months and she finally agreed.
Along with 199,999 of our best buddies.
Comment by Dave's not here on April 20, 2022 7:53 pm
just now on the news, Putin claims to have a missile that can wipe out an area the size of France.
Who the fuck cares? Wipe the world out over your being a miserable failure as a leader, Vlad. There will be no one left to console you in your loneliness, or make vodka to help you through it.
Personally, I don’t give 1 shit much less 2 if a global nuclear war broke out yesterday. All life is finite, pretending it’s not is a fantasy.
Sometimes I have a hard time believing the fake redhead stuff, so I stare at them really long until I can make it happen.
wakey wakey
all day meeting, so try and behave.
I, for one, commend Roamy for her HHD poats. Imagine the gay she has to go through to get one or two manly guys.
Talk about taking one for the team.
Thank you, Roamy.
OMG its Wednesday
Would you guys help me work this out?
Why would China have a zero covid policy?
They consider themselves overpopulated anyway. It’s going to crush their economy. It’s a PR nightmare (not that they care). It didn’t work the first round.
What’s their end game basically shutting down farming and manufacturing?
Comment by Jay in Ames on April 20, 2022 8:18 am
all day meeting, so try and behave.
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No, as a matter of fact since you’re gone we’re going to trash this place.
OMG its Wednesday
Same reaction here.
Jay, you in my meeting? Actually, I think it’s supposed to be just the morning, then I’m going to go see my dad.
Why would China have a zero covid policy?
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Because they can? I have no idea really. I’ve read that their shutdown is to further crash Western supply chains and economies which I don’t think is their original intention, just an added bonus for Xi. I’ve also seen it stated that they view Covid as a bioweapon which makes some sense but based on other countries going for zero covid (New Zealand) and getting burned it makes no real sense as a policy.
Why would China have a zero covid policy?
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This is a great question, mare. I’m glad we thought of it. I haven’t been really following anything lately but I’ll think about it and post some ideas later. I sorta love thinking about all the possibilities, especially since I’ve recently learned that China isn’t really a country the way we are. It’s more of a group of territories held together by fear.
It’s an excuse to get the guns out and scare the citizenry before China does another one of those civil war things they are long overdue for.
The best part will be that you won’t even be able to read about Xi in a few decades after they erase history again.
At least, not in China. Since the rest of us started watching they’ve had a harder time setting the year back to 0.
Where are the tits?
Man tits today
I specifically ordered tits for my breakfast.
Hotspur, in the good morning link, per usual.
She’s the actress from Planet of the Apes.
NYT article from 4/18/22:
“To Push Back Russians, Ukrainians Hit a Village With Cluster Munitions”
File under: It’s OK When “We” Do It
She’s the actress from Planet of the Apes.
Whew, for a second there I thought it was Monica Lewinsky.
I specifically ordered tits for my breakfast.
https://tinyurl.com/2v8nzav4
Jimbros link – I think that’s the one – explains what’s going on in China.
Nope the very bottom of Roamy’s
Key points – put together: “For all the folks reading this and assuming some master plan, Xi is facing his third term.
If he fails in his bid to secure that term, he’s a dead man. And if he admits he was wrong about Zero COVID, he looks sufficiently weak he may lose his bid.
There is this myth in the west that the CCP is some forward looking chessplayer able to look far into the future. The reality is they are just as reactive as Western powers – and are more likely to choose wrong due to information isolation.
The logic of dictatorship turns subordinates and advisors into christmas tigers and mires leaders in the sunk cost fallacy.
Which is what we’re seeing here.
COVID isn’t a zombie plague.
Xi isn’t trying to fuck over the world.
He’s trying to stay alive. Literally.”
Just when we thought the Chinese juggernaut was going to eat everyone’s lunch…
“Events, my dear boy, events.”
I didn’t watch Planet of the Apes. I heard it was racist.
“Just when we thought the Chinese juggernaut was going to eat everyone’s lunch…”
Well that’s the thing, dictatorships have their advantages. Any right-thinking person recognizes they are outweighed by the disadvantages, but that doesn’t make the advantages go away. And one of the advantages for China is that they really are a juggernaut in some ways. We can recognize that without ignoring the real weaknesses they have (a la Paul Krugman et al.).
Watching Chuckie spin for Xi is mildly entertaining. He tried to pull out the Covid numbers to prove Chinese superiority. Yea, ok Boomer.
Can you imagine a conversation between Biden, Feinstein, and Pelosi?
I am shocked by this unexpected news
https://nypost.com/2022/04/20/girls-gone-wild-exposed-shocking-rape-abuse-claims/
Biden, Feinstein, and Pelosi
Almost makes me want to see such a thing
Every time I hear this guy I’m convinced he’s from the devil.
https://tinyurl.com/3efpb8cc
I have been on two planes since the beginning of April. I’m glad the mask mandate is gone, but it would have been nice if that happened two weeks earlier.
Yuval Harari saying the quiet part out loud will not bring glory to the Jewish people. IYKWIMAITTYD
Being Schwab’s “right-hand man” will be the equivalent of consorting with Nazis.
I’m not sure if there is a difference at all.
Most of my many flights have been in the 6 hour range. Wearing a mask was horrible. And worse, was the playing along with the idiot theater of it all.
We were “allowed” to take our masks off to eat and drink. That is how stupid mask-wearing was.
Harari is a secular jew “married” to a man. He’s worthy of kissing axe handles and tire irons, and not much else.
On the other hand, there is rather a significant amount of people who would be happy to have others run their lives. “Chip in my wrist? Sure, if it makes getting my food easier and makes sure the guy next to me on the plane is vaccinated!”
Comment by leoncaruthers on April 20, 2022 12:03 pm
Harari is a secular jew “married” to a man. He’s worthy of kissing axe handles and tire irons, and not much else.
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Interesting, Leon, I didn’t know that. He does teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Another academic who is completely out of touch.
I found it interesting that Israel was pumping the vaccine/boosters into their citizens as fast as they could. It is impossible to know if it’s safe and effective if there had not been enough testing time. Jews are smart, why jump in headfirst?
There is an incongruency there. Of all nations, you’d think they would be cautious about messing with fertility and general adverse effects.
It’s open, right there in his wikipedia entry.
Tells me all I need to know about the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
So a gay, Jewish man is going to instruct me about the downfall of mankind.
Sorta ironic.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/04/20/liz-cheney-rakes-in-more-money-from-northern-virginia-than-from-her-home-state-wyoming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=liz-cheney-rakes-in-more-money-from-northern-virginia-than-from-her-home-state-wyoming&utm_term=2022-04-20
How’s everyone celebrating their 4/20 Weed Day?
How do you THINK?
Liz Cheney, much like Hillary Clinton, is a political whore.
Mitt Romney is also a political whore.
Just received the 1000 googly eyes I ordered. Friday at work is going to be fun.
Jews are smart, why jump in headfirst?
The jews are a tribe. Collectively they are not smart. They are a herd.
Individual jews may be intelligent, but almost never are they smart.
Power is still not on.
This sucks.
Would one of you nice people be so kind as to trow up a poat for tomorrow. ?
Posting from the phone is unpleasant.
Thank you in advance nice person.
Musical interlude.
I was looking up info on a band, and found out they picked a singer who was a runner up on one of those singer shows. That’s how I got there. He’s now in a metalcore band. And has green hair.
When thom York recorded the vocals for that song — when he finished he broke down in tears.
Not sure why. I think it had something to do with him coming to terms with his voice. He used to sort of dislike he didn’t have more of a “rock” hard edged voice.
Just so nobody accuses me of being a bigot, I have many years of experience dealing with and observing the ways people of the jewish persuasion operate.
Are there any individuals who fit outside the tribe? Yes, of course.
Are there any muslims who won’t lie right to your face, and cheat you at every chance they get? Yes, but as a group, that behavior is what you can expect from them in a business deal.
These traits are ingrained in their culture.
Jews for the most part have a hive mind. They stick together, and they subscribe to an us vs. them mentality. In other words if anyone could be described as being a bigot it would be the people of the jewish hive.
Just like the democrat hive.
And now I’ll just go get my white hood, noose, and gas can.
Into the rabbit hole I go …
Comment by Hotspur on April 20, 2022 1:57 pm
And now I’ll just go get my white hood, noose, and gas can.
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lol
I have several jewish friends. NOW GOOD DAY SIR.
I agree with Hotspur’s point.
Similarly, have you ever had Russians at your yard sale?
Jews like any other X group can be guilty of the tribe mentality. It is the antithesis to being a citizen of the US. To belong to any tribe that gets your first loyalty.
That includes being a liberal.
When you turn off your brain in order to keep your tribe happy – you’re part of the problem, no matter what “tribe” you are identifying with.
I got bored this morning and was investigating the Jim Jones thing. I didn’t know Harvey Milk was a huge supporter.
I got a little chuckle from that.
Willie Brown too.
Heh.
Home again, home again, jiggety jig.
HOW ARE THE LIZARDS ???
Saw a billboard for a fishing charter company, “Impulsive Charters”. I thought it was a bad choice for a company name. “Random Charters”, “Chaotic Charters” we’re some suggestions.
They were listening to Bon Jovi again while wrestling on my Adirondack chair. Not joking.
Arbitrary Charters
I’ve got about 3/4 of a meme poat I could throw up for powerless monkey, if nobody else wants to step up tomorrow.
Offensive charters
Sacrilegious Charters
Pump & Dump Charters
Dry-hole Charters
Whimsical Charters
Unexpected Charters
Bidenesque Charters
I-Thought-It-Was-Just-A-Fart Charters
Heave Ho Charters
My Debut Album Failed to Charters
Poorly Planned Charters
Hastily Thrown Together Charters
Liability Waiver Charters
Assumption of Risk Charters
Your Mom Charters
Shut your whore mouth Charters
Minivan charters
One Way Charters
Sharter’s Charters
Three Hour Charters
1972 Volkswagen Van Charters
Stowaway “Charters”
Sloppy Fleshlight Charters
Uranus Charters
Ew.
S.S. Minnow Charters
Wrapping up my 48 hour fast now. 46.5 hours. Broken with a little homemade sauerkraut and beef broth to get started. I doubt much autophagy and cancer fighting is happening just in the last 1.5 hours, or that the broth and kraut break the fast significantly.
Felt great the whole time except for my ghrelin/ temporary hunger surge at around 10AM every morning.
Next month my goal is to do one for 72 hours.
Wrapping up my fast. Almost 48 hours. Just a little shy of 47 hours, but I started handling food and that started a craving. Broke the fast with a little homemade sauerkraut and beef broth to get the tummy restarted. Got chicken baking in the oven.
what the Hell? The first one disappeared and I figured I did something wrong.
Charter Solutions™
Spectrum Charters
Solyndra Charters
Flotsam & Jetsam Charters, LLC
Edmund Fitzgerald Charters
I lol’d at Flotsam &Jetsam Charters
ADHD Chart_HEY LOOK A PELICAN!
Quint’s Charters
Poat scheduled for tomorrow!
Farewell and Adieu Ye Fine Spanish Ladies Charters
Moskva Ukrainian Charters
Bonus tour of Chernobyl
Farewell and Adieu Ye Fine Spanish Ladies Charters
(figured since we were repeating things over and over…)
Dragline Charters
Poat scheduled for tomorrow!
Thanks Jay.
Dunkirk Charters.
Bail Faster Charters
Squeal Like A Pig Charters
Broken Charters
expanding on Jimbro’s charter, Titan Uranus Charters
SMDH. Disney is now contemplating a disclaimer for its Peter Pan movie. Wasn’t Peter played by Sandy Duncan, which should fall squarely in the middle of their “if you’re not trans, you’re not normal” bullshit?
Squeal Like A Pig Charters
aka
Deliverance Charters
jimbro gets a cookie
not the computer kind either. I promise I didn’t drop it on the floor.
Either Oar Charters
Long Pig Charters
Christ, an entire hour spent on Depp Vs Hurd. Does anyone, other than Depp & Hurd give a fat rats ass about their problems? Perhaps a poll is needed.
Depp is an asshole who broke rule #1, Heard is a turbocunt in need of a few slaps.
They deserve each other.
They’s a muthafuckin snake on this muthafuckin Charters.
Carter’s Charters. Come see the swimming rabbit attack your boat.
Hotspur is probably the only other one old enough to remember that and Billy beer.
Wisconsin Charters. Come smell my dairy air!
Anyone think that maybe @Jack is just angling to get his old job back?
Charters by Masters Bait, Tackle & pron shop
Angling. I see what you did there.
@Jack, yes, but with qualifications. The guy is a POS, but he surrounded himself with bigger, craftier ones, and just wants a little revenge. Personally, I’m all for Elon taking it over and private. Clean house, expose the macro, get rid of the “blue check” status, free speech but no pornography and predatory actions against minors are forwarded directly to law enforcement without warning.
Sounds to me like Jack is at the absolute end and wants scalps.
I’ve no thoughts whatsoever on Jack. However, Jill is a decent looking piece of street meat for her age. I probably wouldn’t insult her with a slur like “street meat” except for the fact that she married into the Biden family and, knowing what they’re all about, stayed put.
Holy Crap! unidentified aircraft in the Capitol air space. Given the rabies running rampant in the district it was probably a rabid bat. Anyone seen Pelosi or her broom recently?
SP, Jill stuck around because of Hunters reputation of snorting rotten cheese from the carpet. Just wait. Joe croaks, Hunter lands in a new relationship, gets married to his new girl friend that was also his step mother. Liberals cheer, one of them avoided inbreeding, there’s hope for the party.
Just one look at Joe and one is compelled to ask how many generations of inbreeding did it take to make him.
My 105 lb wife had 7 beers the other night. This is about 1.5 times her normal max. Her impersonation of Pelosi was spot on.
My guess is Jack sees the writing on the wall, attempting to distance himself from the consequences that will inevitably come to Twitter and eventually facebook and the shit heads within the companies. Time wounds all heels.
Always take the keys to their brooms before they start drinking, otherwise you get TODAY
I’m actually wondering if Jack really was the free speech zealot he claimed he was, then took a deal with the devils that still run it.
Wouldn’t be the first time state actors acquired a private company as a cutout, or the last.
Flying Dutchman Charters.
I count myself proudly among the Netflix cancelees. I told the wife we should for months and she finally agreed.
Along with 199,999 of our best buddies.
just now on the news, Putin claims to have a missile that can wipe out an area the size of France.
Who the fuck cares? Wipe the world out over your being a miserable failure as a leader, Vlad. There will be no one left to console you in your loneliness, or make vodka to help you through it.
Personally, I don’t give 1 shit much less 2 if a global nuclear war broke out yesterday. All life is finite, pretending it’s not is a fantasy.
This is how I know Zelensky’s just agitating when he calls it “genocide”.
Volod, bubbie, if Vlad wanted no living Ukes, there’d be none by now.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1516851257381642244.html
Here, I wrote a better speech for the Vice Prostitute:
Space is big.
Space is dark.
It’s tough to find
A place to park.
BURMA SHAVE!
Holy crap, I know Azure Standard, they sponsor one of my homesteading channels.
heh, burma shave
Damn, that’s crazy, Laura.
There’s a better than zero chance that I’m drinking.
Ignore most of what come’s next. And shit.
How does an onion plant catch on fire?
Grease fire in the onion ringer, Pendejo.
Slowly and aromatically SP
Ridicule:
Disgusted, Edgar retched profusely.